Mitsutoshi Tanaka is a Japanese film and commercial director.
11 Facts About Mitsutoshi Tanaka
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Mitsutoshi Tanaka is president and CEO of Osaka-based film production firm Creators' Union and widely known for award-winning feature films such as Godai - The Wunderkind, 125 Years Memory, Blossoms Bloom and Ask This of Rikyu.
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Mitsutoshi Tanaka has received numerous awards, including the Kinema Junpo Best Ten Readers' Choice Award for Best Japanese Director for his period drama Godai - The Wunderkind and the Japan Academy Film Prize as Excellent Director for the Japanese-Turkish co-production 125 Years Memory.
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Mitsutoshi Tanaka established Osaka-based film production firm Creators' Union in 1984 and has served as the company's president and CEO since that time.
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Mitsutoshi Tanaka was appointed Dean of the Osaka University of Arts Department of Visual Concept Planning in 2022 where he has been teaching as a professor since 2014.
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Mitsutoshi Tanaka has been a visiting fellow with the Wakayama University Center for Tourism Research since 2017.
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Mitsutoshi Tanaka's works include tourism promotion videos for Awara and Mihama municipalities, TV commercials for Honda Motor and Panasonic and music videos for Yi-Fang Wu and The Pipettes.
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Mitsutoshi Tanaka has directed several TV dramas, most notably the 1993 Japanese-Chinese co-production The Land of the Three Kingdoms for TV Osaka.
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Mitsutoshi Tanaka became widely known for award-winning works such as Godai - The Wunderkind, 125 Years Memory, Blossoms Bloom, Ask This of Rikyu and Castle under Fiery Skies.
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Mitsutoshi Tanaka has received numerous awards, including the 94th Kinema Junpo Best Ten Readers' Choice Award for Best Japanese Director for his film Godai - The Wunderkind, the 39th Japan Academy Film Prize as Excellent Director for 125 Years Memory, the Best Director Award at the 1st Asia International Film Festival in Taipei for Blossoms Bloom and the Best Director Award at the 2014 Osaka Cinema Festival for Ask This of Rikyu.
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Mitsutoshi Tanaka was appointed as Tourism Ambassador of his hometown Urakawa, Hokkaido in 2010, Honorary Director of the Kushimoto Turkish Museum in 2016 and Tourism Ambassador of Awara, Fukui in 2017.