Born in Tokyo in 1912 and dying in 1991, Tadashi Imai was a socially engaged Japanese director, a leftist who lost his job in the Red Purge of the 1950s. His postwar films include Rice (Kome, 1957), Darkness at Noon (1956) on a wrongful conviction, and Story of Pure Love (1957). Bushido, Samurai Saga (Bushido zankoku monogatari, 1963), seven stories over 400 years of a family bound by a code of honour, won the Golden Bear in Berlin in 1963.
Filmography
- Muddy Waters (1953)
- Darkness at Noon (1956)
- Night Drum (1958)
- Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)