Tomotaka Tasaka

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Birthday

April 14, 1901

Place of Birth

Hiroshima, Japan

Died

October 17, 1974

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.