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name: "Tadashi Tanaka"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tadashi-tanaka"
fi1m_id: "tadashi-tanaka"
tmdb_id: 2005905
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:46:09.635911+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."
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# Tadashi Tanaka

## Identity

Tadashi Tanaka

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tadashi-tanaka
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tadashi-tanaka
- **TMDB ID:** 2005905
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2005905

Cinematographer.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Also known as:** 田中正
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2005905

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Tokyo Olympiad*](https://film.one/film/tokyo-olympiad.md) (88)

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## Biography

Tadashi Tanaka (also credited as 田中正) is a Japanese cinematographer. He worked on Kon Ichikawa’s documentary *Tokyo Olympiad* (1965), one of a team of camera operators that included Kazuo Miyagawa, Shigeo Hayashida and others.

His other credits include the documentary *Dai hyôga o iku* (1959), the short *Horu – munakata shiko no sekai* (1976) and the feature *Honjitsu tadaima tanjô* (1979).

*Sources: criterion.com, imdb.com, img-lib.musabi.ac.jp.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Tokyo Olympiad* (1965), Fi1m 88, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/tokyo-olympiad.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Young Power* (1967), Director of Photography
- *Tokyo Olympiad* (1965), Director of Photography — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/tokyo-olympiad.md)

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