Shirō Toyoda

was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who directed over 60 films during his career which spanned 50 years. He was denoted for his high-quality adaptations of works of many important twentieth-century Japanese writers. he studied scriptwriting under the pioneering film director Eizō Tanaka. they established Toyoda's reputation as an actor's director. and three of his works added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1987.