---
name: "Minoru Esaka"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/minoru-esaka"
fi1m_id: "minoru-esaka"
imdb_id: "nm0260056"
tmdb_id: 1154620
wikidata_id: "Q113366568"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:46:25.439311+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Minoru Esaka

## Identity

Minoru Esaka

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/minoru-esaka
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** minoru-esaka
- **IMDb ID:** nm0260056
- **TMDB ID:** 1154620
- **Wikidata ID:** Q113366568
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113366568, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260056/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1154620

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Also known as:** Esaka Minoru, 江坂実
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113366568, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260056/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1154620

## Biography

Minoru Esaka is a Japanese production designer and art director. He is credited on numerous Japanese films from the 1930s to the 1960s, including as production designer on *Anma to onna* (1938), *Four Seasons of Children* (1939), *Nobuko* (1940) and *The Angry Street* (1950), and as art director on titles such as *Sayon no kane* (1943) and *Teikô no nenrei* (1961).

*Sources: imdb.com, tvguide.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hiroshima Mon Amour* (1959), Fi1m 87, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/hiroshima-mon-amour.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Hiroshima Mon Amour* (1959), Production Design — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/hiroshima-mon-amour.md)
- *The Stand in Hakone* (1952), Production Design
- *The Angry Street* (1950), as Art Direction
- *Middle-Aged Man* (1943), as Art Direction
- *Sayon's Bell* (1943), as Art Direction
- *Flowers of Patriotism* (1942), as Art Direction
- *Dawn Chorus* (1941), as Art Direction
- *Acorns & Chestnuts* (1941), as Art Direction
- *Notes of an Itinerant Performer* (1941), as Art Direction
- *Introspection Tower* (1941), as Art Direction
- *Utsukushiki Rinjin* (1940), as Art Direction
- *Nobuko* (1940), Production Design
- *Family Diary* (1938), as Art Direction
- *The Masseurs and a Woman* (1938), Production Design
- *Mother and Child* (1938), as Art Direction
- *Children in the Wind* (1937), Production Design
- *A Star Athlete* (1937), as Set Decoration

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