Directing • AGE 73
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 la...


Scrap Collectors
Director
1968

Koto—The Lake of Tears
Director
1966

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Director
1965

The Sharks
Director
1964

A House in the Quarter
Director
1963

A Carpenter and Children
Director
1962

Run, Genta, Run!
Director
1961

Shinran, Part II
Director
1960

Shinran
Director
1960

The Stream of Youth
Screenplay
1959

A Slope in the Sun
Director
1958

This Day's Life
Writer
1957

The Baby Carriage
Director
1956

The Maid's Kid
Director
1955

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
Director
1952

Yukiwarisō
Director
1951

Victory Song
Director
1945

Navy
Writer
1943

You and I
Director
1941

Mud and Soldiers
Director
1939

Explosion!
Director
1939

A Pebble by the Wayside
Director
1938

Five Scouts
Director
1938

Tsuki yori no shisha
Director
1934

Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
Director
1931

Behold This Mother
Director
1930

Kekkon nijuso: zenpen
Director
1928