Tomotaka Tasaka

Director

Born: April 14, 1901 (73 years old)

Died: October 17, 1974

Place of birth: Hiroshima, Japan

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.

Filmography (4)

• Five Scouts (1938, ★ 5.9)
• A Slope in the Sun (1958, ★ 5.5)
• Cold Rice, Osan, Chan (1965, ★ 6.4)
• A House in the Quarter (1963, ★ 6)