Tamura Taijiro

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Taijiro Tamura (田村泰次郎, Tamura Taijirō, 30 November 1911 - 2 November 1983) was a Japanese novelist. He was born in Yokkaichi, Mie, and was educated at Waseda University in Tokyo where he studied literature. His most famous work is Gate of Flesh, which has been made into a movie four times and most recently in 2008 as a television series.

Films

Gate of Flesh (Nikutai no mon) was first adapted by directors Masahiro Makino and Masafusa Ozaki in 1948, just one year after the publication of the novel. Later adaptions were by directors Seijun Suzuki (1964), Shōgorō Nishimura (1977), and Hideo Gosha (1988, as Carmen 1945).

Director Senkichi Taniguchi adapted another novel of Tamura in his film Escape at Dawn in 1950, which was remade by Seijun Suzuki as Story of a Prostitute in 1965.

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Name	Tamura, Taijiro
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Short description	Japanese writer
Date of birth	30 November 1911
Place of birth
Date of death	2 November 1983
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