People
Eizo Tanaka
Biography:
Tanaka initially trained as a stage actor in the shingeki movement under Kaoru Osanai, but eventually joined the Nikkatsu film studio in 1917. He debuted as a director in 1918 but mostly had to work with shinpa stories, not the shingeki techniques he was used to although two early films, The Living Corpse (Ikeru shikabane) and The Cherry Orchard (Sakura no sono) were based on Tolstoy and Chekhov respectively.[3] Working in parallel with the Pure Film Movement, Tanaka made two films, Kyōya eirimise (1922) and Dokuro no mai (1923), based on his own screenplays, that were highly praised for their cinematic technique.[1] He remained a rather conservative filmmaker and still used oyama (male... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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The Wild Geese as Zenkichi | 1953-09-15 |
Tower of Lilies | 1953-01-09 |
Till We Meet Again | 1950-03-21 |
Street of Violence as Hardware dealer | 1950-02-26 |
Stray Dog as Old Doctor | 1949-10-17 |
The Blue Mountains: Part I as Principal Takeda | 1949-07-19 |
A Woman's Life | 1949-01-25 |