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Shigeru Wakatsuki was a Japanese film producer and journalist who served as the representative director and president of Ninjin Club. His film credits included the epic war trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961), The Inheritance, Love Under the Crucifix, Pale Flower, Kwaidan, and Empire of Passion (1978). Wakatsuki also worked for several publications prior to his film career, and was arrested and tortured in 1944 as a suspected communist in connection with the Yokohama incident.