Tomotaka Tasaka
Directing
April 14, 1901
Died at age 73
October 17, 1974
Date of Death
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.