
Directing
Born April 14, 1901 · Hiroshima, Japan
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.

Scrap Collectors
1968

Koto—The Lake of Tears
1966

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
1965

The Sharks
1964

A House in the Quarter
1963

A Carpenter and Children
1962

Run, Genta, Run!
1961

Shinran, Part II
1960

Shinran
1960

The Stream of Youth
1959

A Slope in the Sun
1958

This Day's Life
1957

The Baby Carriage
1956

The Maid's Kid
1955

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1952

Yukiwarisō
1951

Victory Song
1945

Navy
1943
Mother and Child Grass
1942

君と僕
1941

Mud and Soldiers
1939

Explosion!
1939

A Pebble by the Wayside
1938

Five Scouts
1938

Tsuki yori no shisha
1934
Daughter and Springtime
1932
Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
1932

Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1931

Behold This Mother
1930
Town of Love
1928

Kekkon nijuso: zenpen
1928
Hero of Alishan
1927