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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…

  • Directing
  • Born 3 November 1886
  • Died 13 June 1968 (age 81)
  • Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
  • 18 credits

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Most-watched Eizo Tanaka films currently: Stray Dog (1949), Town of Violence (1950), Tower of Lilies (1953), The Blue Mountains: Part I (1949), The Wild Geese (1953).

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