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name: "Masaichi Nagata"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "21 January 1906"
died: "24 October 1985"
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updated: "2026-09-16T12:44:23.884295+00:00"
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# Masaichi Nagata

Producer. Born 21 January 1906 in Kyoto City, Japan. Died 24 October 1985.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 21 January 1906, Kyoto City, Japan
- **Died:** 24 October 1985

## Biography

Masaichi Nagata was a Japanese film producer and studio executive. He joined Nikkatsu studio in 1925, worked as a location manager and rose to head of production at its Kyoto studio. He left in 1934 to help form Daiichi Eiga and later played a key role in establishing Daiei Motion Picture Company, serving as its president from 1947 until 1971 (apart from a brief period during the Allied Occupation).

Nagata produced or executive-produced numerous films for Daiei, including Akira Kurosawa's *Rashomon* (1950), Kenji Mizoguchi's *Ugetsu* (1953) and *Sansho the Bailiff* (1954), and Teinosuke Kinugasa's *Gate of Hell* (1953). Under his leadership Daiei also produced series such as Zatoichi and the Gamera kaiju films. He was additionally involved in baseball as owner of the Daiei Stars team.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, wikizilla.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sansho the Bailiff* (1954), Fi1m 92, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/sansho-the-bailiff.md)

## Also known for

- *Rashomon* (1950), Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/rashomon.md)
- *Ugetsu* (1953), Producer
- *Floating Weeds* (1959), Producer
- *Chikamatsu Monogatari* (1954), Producer
- *Street of Shame* (1956), Producer
- *Gamera, the Giant Monster* (1965), Executive Producer
- *Fires on the Plain* (1959), Producer
- *Gamera vs. Guiron* (1969), Executive Producer

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