Eizo Tanaka
Age: N/A | From: Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
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Movie Involvements: 17
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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 actors) in female roles, including in his masterpiece Kyōya eirimise, a melodrama about a merchant's destructive love for a geisha. He used actresses for the first time in Dokuro no mai, a story of a monk reminiscing about his youth and early loves.
Most Famous Work
The Lapel Shop
(1922) Writer
Namiko
(1932) Director
The Living Corpse
(1918) Director
Skull Dance
(1923) Screenplay
Before the Morning Sun Shines
(1921) Director
Woman in the Stream
(1921) Director
Scent of the White Lily
(1921) Director
Akatsuki
(1918) DirectorActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Zenkichi | |
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| 1950 | N/A | |
| Hardware dealer | ||
| 1949 | Old Doctor | |
| Principal Takeda | ||
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1932 | Director | |
| 1923 | Director | |
| 1922 | Director | |
| 1921 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| Director | ||
| 1918 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1927 | Original Story | |
| Screenplay | ||
| 1926 | Screenplay | |
| 1923 | Screenplay | |
| 1922 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
