1. Tazuko Sakane was Japan's first female director, followed by Kinuyo Tanaka.
24 Facts About Tazuko Sakane
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Tazuko Sakane's only known surviving film is Brides on the Frontier.
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Tazuko Sakane graduated from Nikkatsu Uzumaki Girls' School in 1929.
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Tazuko Sakane was born on December 7,1904, as the eldest daughter of six siblings between her father, Seiichi Sakane and her mother, Shige, in the Kamigyo-ku section of Kyoto.
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The family was wealthy because her father made an invention, and Tazuko Sakane progressed from Imadegawa Kindergarten to Nakadachiuri Elementary School and Kyoto Prefectural First Girls' High School.
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In line with the marriage recommended by her late mother, Tazuko Sakane met with an obstetrician and gynecologist named Takaoka and married in 1925 at the age of 21.
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Tazuko Sakane left the house and returned to her parents' home.
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Therefore, replacing her predecessor Mitsue Goda, Tazuko Sakane worked for the director Kenji Mizoguchi, and obtained the friendship of Mrs Kenji and Chieko.
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Since then, Tazuko Sakane became involved in making movies as a member of Mizoguchi group, and had learned practical matters.
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When Mizoguchi left Nikkatsu in 1932 and moved to the Shinko Kinema, Tazuko Sakane was invited to move to the company.
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In 1934, Mizoguchi moved to Tokyo with Tazuko Sakane and joined Nikkatsu Tamagawa Photo Studio.
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Around this time, Tazuko Sakane asked again for the promotion of the director, but the reaction of the staff was so cold that it was not realized.
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Tazuko Sakane disappointedly returned to Kyoto on the invitation by Mizoguchi, and joined the first movie he was making.
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Around this time, Tazuko Sakane began to feel the distance to Mizoguchi, she wanted to do the directing again, and received Mizoguchi's recommendation and joined Riken Kagaku Film Co.
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Around this time, Mizoguchi's wife Chieko, who had a close relationship with Tazuko Sakane, had a mental disorder and was admitted to Kyoto Prefectural Hospital.
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In 1942, Tazuko Sakane joined the Keimin Movie Club of Manchu Film Association in Manchuria as an immediate action.
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Tazuko Sakane was allowed to return to Japan in August 1946, and on October 21 of the same year, she and 50 other Japanese stepped through Japan from Shinkyo to Jinzhou.
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However, Tazuko Sakane was unable to join as director assistant due to the struggle of power in Shochiku, and was hired as a recording staff in the editorial department.
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Tazuko Sakane died of myeloid leukemia on August 24,1956.
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Under his patronage, Tazuko Sakane became Japan's first and only female film director in the prewar period.
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Tazuko Sakane's surviving production memos, scripts, and correspondence were donated to the Museum of Kyoto in 2004 in commemoration of the centennial of her birth.
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Tazuko Sakane never allowed political affiliations or war to affect how she filmed or role within these topics as a filmmaker.
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Tazuko Sakane merely used these situations as a means of establishing herself as a filmmaker.
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Tazuko Sakane directed a total of one feature film and 14 nonfiction films, including:.