People

Eizo Tanaka

  • Name: Eizo Tanaka
  • Birthday: 1886-11-03
  • Place of birth: Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
  • Popularity: 0.783
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
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