was a Japanese film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

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Career

Born in Kyoto, Toyoda moved to Tokyo in his teens and began studying under the pioneering film director Eizō Tanaka

Eizō Tanaka

was a early Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor.-Life and career:Tanaka initially trained as a stage actor in the shingeki movement under Kaoru Osanai, but eventually joined the Nikkatsu film studio in 1917...

. He joined Shōchiku

Shochiku

is a Japanese movie studio and production company for kabuki. It also produces and distributes anime films. Its best remembered directors include Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Yōji Yamada...

's Kamata

Kamata

- Geography and History :*Kamata, Ōta, Tokyo, a neighborhood in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.*Kamata Kingdom, a former kingdom of the 13th century, Assam, India.- People :*Pedro Kamata, an Angola born Congolese-French footballer.*Tor Kamata, an American-Canadian wrestler....

 studio in 1924 and worked as an assistant director under Yasujirō Shimazu

Yasujirō Shimazu

was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan....

. He debuted as a director in 1929 and moved to the independent Tokyo Hassei studio in 1935, where he scored a hit with Young People and gained a reputation for directing literary adaptations with a humanistic touch. After a slump during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, he became one of the top directors at Toho

Toho

is a Japanese film, theater production, and distribution company. It is headquartered in Yūrakuchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group...

 (into which Tokyo Hassei had merged during the war), famed for his adaptations of literary works by such giants as Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award...

, Kafū Nagai, Naoya Shiga, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Masuji Ibuse

Masuji Ibuse

was a Japanese author.-Life and work:Ibuse was born in 1898 to a landowning family in the village of Kamo which is now part of Fukuyama, Hiroshima.At the age of 19 he started studying at Waseda University in Tokyo...

, and Ango Sakaguchi

Ango Sakaguchi

was a Japanese novelist and essayist. His real name was Heigo Sakaguchi .-History:From Niigata, Sakaguchi was one of a group of young Japanese writers to rise to prominence in the years immediately following Japan's defeat in World War II...

. He was particularly known for portraying weak men and strong women with a humorous touch, such as in films like Meoto zenzai

Meoto zenzai

is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film drama directed by Shirō Toyoda. It is an adaptation of the 1939 novel of the same name by Sakunosuke Oda.- Cast :* Hisaya Morishige* Chikage Awashima* Youko Tsukasa* Chieko Naniwa* Haruo Tanaka* and others...

(1955). His career continued until the 1970s.

Film director

He was the main director for over 65 films:

• (彩られる唇 Irodorareru kuchibiru) (1929)
• (都会を泳ぐ女 Tokai o oyogu onna) (1929)
• (友愛結婚 Yūai kekkon) (1930)
• (心驕れる女 Kokoro ogoreru onna) (1930)
• 愛よ人類と共にあれ　前篇　日本篇 (1931)
• 隣の八重ちゃん (1934)
• 私の兄さん (1934)
• 三人の女性 (1935)
• 春琴抄　お琴と佐助 (1935)
• 東京−大阪特ダネ往来 (1936)
• 大番頭小番頭 (1936)
• 蒲田　大船スタジオの春 (1936)
• 港は浮気風 (1937)
• オヤケアカハチ (1937)
• Young People (若い人 Wakai hito) (1937)
• 十字砲火 (1937)
• Crybaby Apprentice (泣蟲小僧 Nakimushi kozo) (1938)
• (冬の宿 Fuyu no yado) (1938)
• Nightingale (1938 film) (鶯 Uguisu) (1938)
• 奥村五百子 (1940)
• (小島の春 Kojima no haru) (1940)
• (大日向村 Ōhinata-mura) (1940)
• わが愛の記 (1941)
• (若き姿 Wakaki sugata) (1943)
• 檜舞台 (1946)
• Four Love Stories (四つの恋の物語　第一話　初恋 Yottsu no koi no monogatari) (1947)
• わが愛は山の彼方に (1948)
• 白鳥は悲しからずや (1949)
• (女の四季 Onna no shiki) (1950)
• (えりことともに　第一部 Eriko to tomo-ni part 1) (1951)
• (えりことともに　第二部 Eriko to tomo-ni part 2) (1951)
• (せきれいの曲 Sekirei no kyoku) (1951)
• 風ふたゝび (1952)
• (春の囁き Haru no sasayaki) (1952)
• The Mistress (1953 film) (雁 Gan) (1953)
• (或る女 Aru onna) (1954)
• Love Never Fails (1955 film) aka The Grass Whistle (麦笛 Mugibue) (1955)
• (夫婦善哉 Meoto zenzai
  Meoto zenzai
  is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film drama directed by Shirō Toyoda. It is an adaptation of the 1939 novel of the same name by Sakunosuke Oda.- Cast :* Hisaya Morishige* Chikage Awashima* Youko Tsukasa* Chieko Naniwa* Haruo Tanaka* and others...
  
  ) (1955)
• The Legend of the White Serpent (1956 film)
  The Legend of the White Serpent (1956 film)
  aka Madame White Snake is a 1956 color Japanese film directed by Shirō Toyoda. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Honourable Mention award....
  
  (白夫人の妖恋 Byaku fujin no yoren) (1956)
• A Cat, Two Women, and One Man (猫と庄造と二人のをんな Neko to shozo to futari no onna) (1956)
• Snow Country
  Snow Country (film)
  Snow Country is a 1957 black-and-white drama Japanese film directed by Shirō Toyoda based on the novel Snow Country written by the Nobel Prize winning author Kawabata Yasunari between 1937 and 1941. The film was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  (雪国, Yukiguni) (1957)
• (夕凪 Yuunagi) (1957)
• (負ケラレセン勝マデハ Makeraremasen katsumadewa) (1958)
• The Inn in Front of the Train Station (喜劇　駅前旅館 Kigeki ekimae ryokan) (1958)
• (花のれん Hana noren) (1959)
• 男性飼育法 (1959)
• (暗夜行路 Anyakōro) (1959)
• (珍品堂主人 Chinpindō shujin) (1960)
• The Twilight Story (〓東綺譚 Bokuto kidan) (1960)
• The Diplomat's Mansion (東京夜話 Tokyo yawa) (1961)
• Till Tomorrow Comes (明日ある限り Ashita aru kagiri) (1962)
• (如何なる星の下に Ika naru hoshi no moto ni) (1962)
• Madame Aki (憂愁平野 Yushu heiya) (1963)
• The Miad Story (台所太平記 Daidokoro taiheiki) (1963)
• (新・夫婦善哉 Shin meoto zenzai) (1963)
• (喜劇 陽気な未亡人 Kigeki yōki-na mibōjin) (1964)
• Sweet Sweat (甘い汗 Amai ase) (1964)
• (波影 Nami kage) (1965)
• Illusion of Blood (四谷怪談 Yotsuya kaidan) (1965)
• Tale of a Carpenter (大工太平記 Daiku taiheki) (1965)
• River of Forever (千曲川絶唱 Chikumagawa zesshō) (1967)
• (喜劇　駅前百年 Kigeki ekimae hyakku-nen) (1967)
• (喜劇　駅前開運 Kigeki ekimae kaiun) (1968)
• Portrait of Hell
  Portrait of Hell
  is a Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Shiro Toyoda and starring Tatsuya Nakadai and Kinnosuke Nakamura. It is based on the 1918 short story Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.-Plot summary:...
  
  (地獄変, Jigoku-hen) (1969)
• 地獄変 (1969)
• 恍惚の人 (1973)
• 妻と女の間 (1976)

Screenwriter

He was screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

 for over a dozen films:

• 夕の鐘 (1925)
• 愛妻の秘密 (1925)
• 覆面の影 (1926)
• 万公 (1926)
• 恋を拾った男 (1927)
• 弱き人々 (1928)
• 深夜のお客 (1928)
• (彩られる唇 Irodorareru kuchibiru) (1929)
• (都会を泳ぐ女 Tokai o oyogu onna) (1929)
• 友愛結婚 (1930)
• 東京−大阪特ダネ往来 (1936)
• (一本刀土俵入 Yūai kekkon) (1936)
• (春の囁き Haru no sasayaki) (1952)
• Love Never Fails (1955 film) aka The Grass Whistle (麦笛 Mugibue) (1955) (writer)

Assistant director

He was assistant director

Assistant director

The role of an Assistant director include tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, maintaining order on the set. They also have to take care of health and safety of the crew...

 for several films:

• 夕の鐘 (1925)
• 弱き人々 (1928)
• 深夜のお客 (1928)
• 彩られる唇 (1929)
• 都会を泳ぐ女 (1929)
• 東京−大阪特ダネ往来 (1936)

Actor

He played as an actor in at least one film:

• Kin no tamago: Golden girl (金の卵) (1952)

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