Soichiro Tahara

Soichiro Tahara (田原 総一朗 Tahara Sōichirō, born 15 April 1934) is a Japanese political journalist, best known for hosting TV Asahi's Sunday Project program.

Career

Born in Shiga Prefecture, Tahara attended Waseda University and began his career at Iwanami Productions, a documentary film production company.[1] He later moved to TV Tokyo where he made a series of groundbreaking television documentaries,[2] before turning freelance in 1976.

In 1971, he co-directed with Kunio Suzuki the fiction film Lost Lovers (Arakajime Ushinawareta Koibitotachi yo) for Art Theatre Guild, which starred Renji Ishibashi and Kaori Momoi.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Tahara Sōichirō". Kotobanku. Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Niwa, Yoshiyuki (2007). "Dokyumentarī seishun jidai no shūen". In Hase, Masato; Ōta, Shōichi. Terebi da yo! Zen'in shūgō (in Japanese). Seikyūsha. pp. 80–103. ISBN 4787232800.
  3. ↑ "Art Theatre Guild, an Introduction". Harvard Film Archive. Retrieved 23 August 2015.

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