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Tomotaka Tasaka (田坂 具隆, Tasaka Tomotaka, 14 April 1902 – 17 October 1974) was a Japanese film director.
Tomotaka was a director and writer, known for Five Scouts (1938), Hi no ataru sakamichi (1958) and Ubaguruma (1956). Tomotaka was married to Hisako Takibana. Tomotaka died on 17 October 1974.
- Tomotaka Tasaka
- October 17, 1974
- April 14, 1901
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.
Jan 24, 2018 · Tomotaka Tasaka’s Five Scouts (五人の斥候兵, Gonin no Sekkohei) is often thought to be the first true Japanese war film, shot on location in Manchuria and trying to put a patriotic spin on its not entirely inspiring central narrative.
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 … more. More details at TMDb. Remove Ads.
Nov 22, 2022 · Shooting on location in China, Tomotaka Tasaka presents a low-key but stirring account of the day-to-day travails and camaraderie of Japanese soldiers, swapping individual heroics for devotion to the group spirit.
Aug 31, 2017 · Tomotaka Tasaka’s A Slope in the Sun (陽のあたる坂道, Hi no Ataru Sakamichi), adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, is a much less frenetic affair than Nakahira’s famously intense youth drama, but retains the Sun Tribe’s world of purposeless youth whose inherited wealth has driven them to a life of listless ennui.
