(13 May 1885 - 5 May 1949) was a poet and playwright in Showa period Japan
. He also was a scriptwriter.
Born in
Tokyo
, Nagata was the son of a Shinto priest at the Kikuchi Jinja. Interested
in literature and poetry from an early age, he developed his own
style of modern poetry and was ranked alongside
Kitahara Hakushu and
Kinoshita Mokutaro by the
literary magazine Myōjō ("Bright Star"). He later turned
his creative talents to the modern theater, and then to the
relatively new medium of
cinema.
He died in 1949, and his grave is at the Somei Cemetery in
Sugamo, Tokyo.
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