Shirô Toyoda

director, writer, second unit director or assistant director

Shirô Toyoda was born on Jan 03, 1906 in Japan. Shirô Toyoda's big-screen debut came with Gan directed by Shirô Toyoda in 1953. Shirô Toyoda is known for Jigokuhen directed by Shirô Toyoda, Hideyo Amamoto stars as and Yôko Naitô as Yoshika. Shirô Toyoda has got 3 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Shirô Toyoda achieved is Berlin International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Shirô Toyoda plays is Jigokuhen which will be released on Nov 18, 1969.

After bypassing university studies to join Shochiku in 1924, Shiro Toyoda began directing at a relatively young age, starting out with silent films in his native Kyoto in 1929. In 1937, Toyoda moved to Tokyo, where he scored his first major success with Wakai hito (Young Person). After joining Toho, he accepted a number of different kinds of assignments, but remained best known for stately literary adaptations such as Yukiguni (1957). Like many Toho directors, he also turned his hand to special effects extravaganza (Byaku fugin no yoren, 1956) and the occasional ghost story (Yotsuya Kaidan, 1968).