Tomotaka Tasaka

from Hiroshima, Japan

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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.

Timeline

1968Aged 67

  • Poster for Scrap Collectors

    Director

1966Aged 65

  • Poster for Koto—The Lake of Tears

    Director

1965Aged 64

  • Poster for Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

    Director

1964Aged 63

  • Poster for The Sharks

    Director

1963Aged 62

  • Poster for A House in the Quarter

    Screenplay

1962Aged 61

  • Poster for A Carpenter and Children

    Screenplay

1961Aged 60

  • Poster for Run, Genta, Run!

    Director

1960Aged 59

  • Poster for Shinran

    Director

  • Poster for Shinran, Part II

    Director

1959Aged 58

  • Poster for The Stream of Youth

    Screenplay

1958Aged 57

  • Poster for A Slope in the Sun

    Screenplay

1957Aged 56

  • Poster for This Day's Life

    Writer

1956Aged 55

  • Poster for The Baby Carriage

    Director

1955Aged 54

  • Poster for The Maid's Kid

    Screenplay

1952Aged 51

  • Poster for Eternal Song of Nagasaki

    Writer

1951Aged 50

  • Poster for Yukiwarisō

    Director

1949Aged 48

  • Poster for Doburoku no Tatsu

    Director

1945Aged 44

  • Poster for Victory Song

    Director

1943Aged 42

  • Poster for Navy

    Writer

1942Aged 41

1941Aged 40

  • Poster for You and I

    Director

1939Aged 38

  • Poster for Explosion!

    Director

  • Poster for Mud and Soldiers

    Director

1938Aged 37

  • Poster for Five Scouts

    Original Story

  • Poster for A Pebble by the Wayside

    Director

1934Aged 33

  • Poster for Tsuki yori no shisha

    Director

1932Aged 31

1931Aged 30

  • Poster for Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen

    Director

1930Aged 29

  • Poster for Behold This Mother

    Director

1928Aged 27

1927Aged 26