Tomotaka Tasaka

Birthday: April 14th, 1901 Date of Death: October 17th, 1974 Place of Birth: Hiroshima, Japan

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.