Tadashi Imai

Director and screenwriter Tadashi Imai

Tadashi Imai (今井正, Imai Tadashi, Tokyo, January 8, 1912 - November 22, 1991) was a Japanese director and screenwriter.

Biography

Imai's father was a priest. During university Imai was arrested twice due to his Communist sympathies. In 1935 he began working in the film industry at Kyoto J.O. studios. Though he maintained a politically safe profile during the war, he became a Communist after the war's conclusion. His best films often show concern for Japan's lower classes. His Bushido: Samurai Saga was a success at the Berlin Film Festival.

Partial ilmography

• [1949-07-19] Aoi sanmyaku
• [1950] Until We Meet Again
• [1953] An Inlet of Muddy Water
• [1955-08-03] Yukiko
• [1956] Mahiru no ankoku
• [1957] Jun'ai monogatari
• [1957-03-01] The Rice People
• [1959] Kiku to Isamu
• [1963] Bushido, Samurai Saga (武士道残酷物語, Bushidō zankoku monogatari)
• [1967-06-10] When the Sugar Cookie Crumbles (砂糖菓子が壊れるとき, Satōgashi ga Kowareru Toki)
• [1976] Brother and Sister (あにいもうと, Ani Imōto (1976))

Bibliography

• Tadashi Imai at the Internet Movie Database
• 今井正 at the Japanese Movie Database
• 今井正 at www.allcinema.net
• 今井正 at Kinema Jumpo