About Tadashi Sawashima
Lived 1926 – 2018 (aged 91). Tadashi Sawashima was a Japanese film director and impresario.
(19 May 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Japanese film director and theatre director . He worked as a film director from the 1950s to the 1970s. He died on 27 January 2018 at the age of 91 from multiple organ failure.
Career Sawashima was born in Kotō, Shiga, Japan. He joined the Toei Studio in 1950, where he worked as an assistant director under Masahiro Makino and Kunio Watanabe before making his directional debut in 1957 with Torawakamaru the Koga Ninja.
Partial filmography He directed 49 films and wrote nine screenplays:
As director (partial filmography) Torawakamaru the Koga Ninja (忍術御前試合 Ninjutsu gozen-jiai) (1957) Drunken Sword (1962) Jinsei gekijo: Hishakaku (Theater of Life: Hishakaku) (1963) Jinsei gekijo: Zoku Hishakaku (Theater of Life: Return of Hishakaku) (1963) Jinsei gekijo: Shin Hishakaku (Theater of Life: New Hishakaku Story) (1964) Cry of the Mountain (1968) Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1969) Boruneo taisho: Akamichi ni tokero (1969) Akō Rōshi (1979) (TV series) (episodes 1, 2, 12, 13, 33 and 34)
screenplays:
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Japanese film director
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Tadashi Sawashima was born on 19 May 1926 in Shiga Prefecture.
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Tadashi Sawashima died on 27 January 2018 in Tokyo.
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