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Tazuko Sakane (December 7, 1904 – September 2, 1975) was a Japanese film director.〔https://sites.google.com/site/japanesewomenbehindthescenes/directors/sakane-tazuko〕 She was Japan's first female director, followed by Kinuyo Tanaka. While growing up, her father, a wealthy businessman, often took her to the cinema.〔 She graduated from Nikkatsu Uzumaki girls school in 1929.〔 ==Career== Tazuko Sakane was introduced to Kenji Mizoguchi by her father. Impressed by Sakane's sensible character, Mizoguchi hired her as a script girl. Under Mizoguchi's patronage, Sakane became Japan's first and only female film director in the prewar period. Denied work after the war (on the ground that she had to have a college degree to be a director), she was forced, at age forty-two, to return to Mizoguchi as a script girl.〔 She further moved to Manchuria to work as a director at the Manchuria Film Association (Manshu eiga kyokai). During the war, she went to Manchuria for three years where she made 10 documentary films about the conditions in war torn Northeastern China. Only one of these films is known to be extant.〔 Her desire to direct films was made possible during the war, when she identified herself with the policies of colonialism. The social norms of women’s professions and creativity were so limiting that reinforcing colonial discourse was one of few ways for Tazuko to stay in the industry.〔 Going back to Japan in 1946, she was hired to an assistant position of continuity keeping and editing at Shochiku studio, where she remained until she retired in 1962.〔 She was 46 years old when she retired.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tazuko Sakane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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