Sadao Yamanaka
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1909-11-07 (29 years old)
Deathday
1938-09-17
Place of Birth
Higashiyama, Kyōto, Japan
Also known As
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Sadao Yamanaka
Biography
Sadao Yamanaka (山中 貞雄, Yamanaka Sadao, November 7, 1909 – September 17, 1938) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who directed 26 films between 1932 and 1938. He was a contemporary of Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Kenji Mizoguchi and one of the primary figures in the development of the jidaigeki, or historical film. Yamanaka began his career in the Japanese film industry at the age of 20 as a writer and assistant director for the Makino company. In 1932, he began working for Kanjuro Productions, a small, independent film company similar to many others founded during the same period as it was centered around a popular jidaigeki fi...
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1934
as Screenplay
1937
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1935
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1934
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1935
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1935
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1939
as Story
1933
as Screenplay
1929
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1956
as Original Story
1932
as Director
1933
as Director
1932
as Screenplay
1959
as Screenplay
1933
as Director
1933
as Screenplay
1934
as Director
1934
as Writer
1933
as Director
1933
as Screenplay
1933
as Screenplay
1937
as Director
1935
as Screenplay
1937
as Screenplay
1933
as Director
1935
as Director
1933
as Director
1933
as Screenplay
1930
as Writer
1932
as Director
1932
as Screenplay
1935
as Director
1935
as Story
1963
as Original Story
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