Ryoha Hatanaka

Hatanaka Ryoha

  • Name: Hatanaka Ryoha
  • Native name: 畑中蓼坡
  • Also Known as: Hatanaka Ryouha
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: May 21, 1877
  • Died: March 1, 1959
Primarily associated with the stage, Hatanaka trained as an actor in New York before returning to Japan in 1918, where he joined the theatrical company of actress Sumako Matsui, a pioneer of Western-style shingeki theater in Japan. After her suicide, he continued to work in shingeki, appearing in such plays as Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. His output as a filmmaker was limited, comprising only four films. Of these the most famous today is WinterCamellias (Kantsubaki, 1921), a melodrama, extremely well-acted by Masao Inoue and Yaeko Mizutani, about an elderly miller who kills his daughter’s disreputable suitor when he plans to rob her employers. In this film, Hatanaka combined Western and Japanese elements: the lyrical landscape shots were indebted to the American cinema of the teens, but the plot was rooted in the native traditions of shinpa, while long, static dialogue scenes were clearly conceived for the benshi to explain.
Hatanaka’s next film as director, Children of the Street (Chimata no ko, 1924), was a socially conscious account of urban child poverty; though also extant, it lacks the fame of its predecessor. After co-directing Easygoing Dad (Nonkina tōsan, 1925) with Tokuji Ozawa, Hatanaka returned to the theater. His postwar career included acting roles in some noteworthy Nikkatsu films, such as Tomotaka Tasaka’s The Pram.

(Source: A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors) Edit Biography
Director
Year Title Type Rating
1924 Machi no Ko
Movie
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1921 Kantsubaki
Movie
0.0
Movie
Year Title Role Rating
1957 Kunin no Shikeishu
Japanese Movie, 1957,
Muraoka Akira (Support Role)
Muraoka Akira
Support Role
0.0
1956 Okinawa no Tami
Japanese Movie, 1956,
[Old man in the graveyard] (Bit part)
[Old man in the graveyard]
Bit part
0.0
1956 The Baby Carriage
Japanese Movie, 1956,
[Elder] (Unknown)
[Elder]
Unknown
0.0
1929 Aa Gyokuhai ni Hana Ukete
Japanese Movie, 1929,
(Unknown)
Unknown
0.0
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  • First Name: Ryoha
  • Family Name: Hatanaka
  • Native name: 畑中蓼坡
  • Also Known as: Hatanaka Ryouha
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: May 21, 1877
  • Died: March 1, 1959

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