(27 March 1903 - 17 May 1976) was a Japanese

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

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. Born in

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...

, he attended

Meiji University , abbreviated as Meiji (明治) or Meidai (明大'')'', is a private research university located in Chiyoda City, the heart of Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1881 as Meiji Law School (明治法律学校, ''Meiji Hōritsu Gakkō'') by three Meiji-er ...

but left before graduating. He worked at the Zenshinza theater troupe before joining the

Toho is a Japanese film, theatre production and distribution company. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Outside of Japan, it is best known as the producer an ...

studio in 1937. He debuted as a director in 1940 and was known for a series of live action films starring the

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character

Sazae-san is a Japanese yonkoma manga series written and illustrated by Machiko Hasegawa. It was first published in Hasegawa's local paper, the , on April 22, 1946. When the ''Asahi Shimbun'' wished to have Hasegawa draw the four-panel comic for thei ...

. He also helped produce the ''

Mito Komon Mito may refer to: Places *Mito, Ibaraki, capital city of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan *Mito, Aichi, a Japanese town *Mito, Shimane, a Japanese town * Mitō, Yamaguchi, a Japanese town * Mito District, a district in the province of Concepción, Per ...

'' series on

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Filmography

* 1938: Producer of ''

Makiba monogatari Makiba is an administrative ward in the Meru District of the Arusha Region of Tanzania. The ward is bordered by Mererani ward located in Manyara Region which is the only source of Tanzanite Tanzanite is the blue and violet variety of the min ...

'' (), "Tale of a Pasture"''Cultural Nippon,'' Vol. 6, No. 3 (Nov. 1938), pl. IX-X, S. iii-iv * 1943: ''

World of Love In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...

'' (''Ai no sekai: Yamaneko Tomi no hanashi'') * 1956: ''

'' * 1957: ''

Ikiteiru koheiji aka ''The Living Koheiji'' is a 1957 black-and-white musical Japanese film directed by Nobuo Aoyagi. Cast * Nakamura Senjaku II as Koheiji *Kaoru Yachigusa was a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. From 1947 to 1957 she was a member of th ...

'' * 1957: Sazae's Youth (''Sazae-san no seishun'')

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