Tomotaka Tasaka

Known for Directing

Tomotaka Tasaka's portrait

Details

Birthday: April 14, 1901

Deathday: 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.