Sada Abe
Nagata is best known for his semi-factual work on the Great Kantō earthquake, "Daichi wa furu" ("The Earth Shakes", 1923) and for numerous works on the Gion district of Kyoto. He later turned to scriptwriting and directed a theatrical troupe. In 1947, he staged a play called "Shōwa Ichidai Onna" ("A Woman of the Shōwa period"), which starred the notorious Sada Abe, who had been released from prison shortly before, in a one-act dramatization of her crime.