Eizo Tanaka

Directing

Eizo Tanaka

Born 1886-11-03 Chūō, Tokyo, Japan 8 films

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 Movem…

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Filmography

8 films
The Wild Geese poster

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling i…

The Wild Geese

★ 6.7 1953

Stray Dog poster

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowde…

Stray Dog

★ 7.6 1949