Personal Info
Birthday
April 14, 1901
Place of Birth
Hiroshima, Japan
Known For
Directing
Tomotaka Tasaka
Biography
Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, he began working at Nikkatsu's Kyoto studio in 1924 and eventually came to prominence for a series of realist, humanist films made at Nikkatsu's Tamagawa studio in the late 1930s such as Robō no ishi and Mud and Soldiers, both of which starred Isamu Kosugi.
Directed Movies (28)
No Backdrop
8.0
Scrap Collectors
Movie1968
7.2
Koto—The Lake of Tears
Movie1966
7.0
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Movie1965
9.0
The Sharks
Movie1964
6.4
A House in the Quarter
Movie1963
7.5
A Carpenter and Children
Movie1962
No Backdrop
8.3
Run, Genta, Run!
Movie1961
9.0
Shinran, Part II
Movie1960
10.0
Shinran
Movie1960
No Backdrop
0.0
The Stream of Youth
Movie1959
5.7
A Slope in the Sun
Movie1958
8.0
This Day's Life
Movie1957
8.0
The Baby Carriage
Movie1956
No Backdrop
8.3
The Maid's Kid
Movie1955
No Backdrop
0.0
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
Movie1952
No Backdrop
0.0
Yukiwarisō
Movie1951
0.0
Doburoku no Tatsu
Movie1949
No Backdrop
6.0
Victory Song
Movie1945
No Backdrop
8.0
Navy
Movie1943
No Backdrop
7.0
You and I
Movie1941
7.0
Mud and Soldiers
Movie1939
No Backdrop
6.5
Explosion!
Movie1939
No Backdrop
6.3
A Pebble by the Wayside
Movie1938
6.0
Five Scouts
Movie1938
No Backdrop
0.0
Tsuki yori no shisha
Movie1934
No Backdrop
7.0
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
Movie1931
No Backdrop
9.0
Behold This Mother
Movie1930
No Backdrop
0.0
Kekkon nijuso: zenpen
Movie1928