- Born
- April 14, 1901
- Died
- October 17, 1974 (aged 73)
- Place of birth
- Hiroshima, Japan
- Also known as
- Томотака Тасака, Томотака Тадзака
Biography
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.