Taijiro Tamura
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.