---
name: "Tatsuo Hamada"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tatsuo-hamada"
fi1m_id: "tatsuo-hamada"
imdb_id: "nm0357270"
tmdb_id: 552003
wikidata_id: "Q106559088"
roles: ["Art direction"]
died: "22 November 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 90
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-26T14:25:07.443096+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."
---

# Tatsuo Hamada

## Identity

Tatsuo Hamada

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tatsuo-hamada
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tatsuo-hamada
- **IMDb ID:** nm0357270
- **TMDB ID:** 552003
- **Wikidata ID:** Q106559088
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106559088, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357270/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552003

Art direction. Died 22 November 1983.

## Details

- **Work:** Art direction
- **Died:** 22 November 1983
- **Active:** 1949–1962
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 92 (1), 1950s 92 (1), 1960s 86 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 90 to 88 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106559088, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357270/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552003

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Tokyo Story*](https://film.one/film/tokyo-story.md) (92)

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## Biography

Tatsuo Hamada was a Japanese production designer and art director. He worked extensively with director Yasujirō Ozu from the 1930s onwards, contributing to many of the director’s films in art department roles.

His credits include production design on *Tokyo Story* (1953) and *Good Morning* (1959), and art direction on *Late Spring* (1949), *Early Summer* (1951), *Equinox Flower* (1958), *Late Autumn* (1960) and *An Autumn Afternoon* (1962). He died on 22 November 1983.

*Sources: imdb.com, moviewiser.com, sinefil.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *An Autumn Afternoon* (1962), Fi1m 86, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/an-autumn-afternoon.md)
- *Tokyo Story* (1953), Fi1m 92, Production design, Production Design, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/tokyo-story.md)
- *Late Spring* (1949), Fi1m 92, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/late-spring.md)

## Complete filmography (62)

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

- *Rebellion of Japan* (1967), as Art Direction
- *Nagisa o kakeru onna* (1964), as Art Direction
- *A Million Girls* (1963), Production Design
- *An Autumn Afternoon* (1962), as Art Direction — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/an-autumn-afternoon.md)
- *Akitsu Hot Springs* (1962), as Art Direction
- *Drunkard's Paradise* (1962), as Art Direction
- *Love New and Old* (1961), as Art Direction
- *A Good Man, A Good Day* (1961), as Art Direction
- *Late Autumn* (1960), as Art Direction
- *Good Morning* (1959), Production Design, Art Direction
- *Equinox Flower* (1958), as Art Direction
- *Gendai Mushuku* (1958), as Art Direction
- *Whirlpool of Flowers* (1958), as Art Direction
- *The Unbalanced Wheel* (1957), as Art Direction
- *Tokyo Twilight* (1957), as Art Direction
- *The Time of Angels* (1957), as Art Direction
- *A Case of Honor* (1957), as Art Direction
- *Early Spring* (1956), as Art Direction
- *Ejima and Ikushima* (1955), as Art Direction
- *A Woman's Life* (1955), Production Design
- *Always in My Heart Part 3* (1954), as Art Direction
- *Always in My Heart Part 2* (1953), as Art Direction
- *Tokyo Story* (1953), Production Design, Art Direction — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/tokyo-story.md)
- *Aiyoku no sabaki* (1953), Production Design
- *Sisters* (1953), as Art Direction
- *Carmen's Innocent Love* (1952), Production Design
- *The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice* (1952), as Art Direction
- *Kyōshū* (1952), as Art Direction
- *Doctor's Day Off* (1952), as Art Direction
- *Fireworks Over the Sea* (1951), as Art Direction
- *Early Summer* (1951), as Art Direction
- *Pure White Nights* (1951), Production Designer, Art Direction
- *Boyhood* (1951), as Art Direction
- *Freedom School* (1951), Production Design
- *The Good Fairy* (1951), as Art Direction
- *Zac Zac Girl* (1951), as Art Direction
- *Rumba of Passion* (1950), as Art Direction
- *Homecoming* (1950), Production Design
- *Scandal* (1950), as Art Direction
- *Yume o meshimase* (1950), as Art Direction
- *First Love Questions and Answers* (1950), as Art Direction
- *Late Spring* (1949), as Art Direction — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/late-spring.md)
- *The Most Beautiful Day of My Life* (1948), as Art Direction
- *A Hen in the Wind* (1948), as Art Direction
- *Komadori fujin* (1948), as Art Direction
- *The Man of Rumor* (1948), as Art Direction
- *The Ball at the Anjo House* (1947), as Art Direction
- *Newlywed League Match* (1947), as Art Direction
- *Record of a Tenement Gentleman* (1947), as Art Direction
- *Marriage* (1947), as Art Direction
- *Yurusareta ichiya* (1946), as Art Direction
- *Dancing with a Mask* (1943), as Art Direction
- *There Was a Father* (1942), as Art Direction
- *Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family* (1941), as Art Direction
- *Kinuyo's First Love* (1940), as Art Direction
- *Half Virgin* (1938), as Art Direction
- *The Lights of Asakusa* (1937), as Art Direction
- *Don't Tell Your Wife About It* (1937), as Art Direction
- *An Inn in Tokyo* (1935), as Art Direction
- *A Story of Floating Weeds* (1934), as Art Direction
- *Every-Night Dreams* (1933), as Art Direction
- *Apart from You* (1933), as Art Direction

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