Eizo Tanaka

Personal Info

Known for

Directing

From

Chūō, Tokyo, Japan

Born

11/3/1886

Age

138

Credit(s)

7

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 (S ...Show More