Tasaka skillfully awakened Yoshiko SAKUMA to acting in "Goban-cho Yugiri-ro" (Evening Mist Tower of the Fifth Town) and "Mizuumi no Koto" (The Strings Cleansed at the Lake), and similarly awakened Yoshiko MITA to acting in "Same" (The Shark) and "Hiyameshi to Osan to Chan" (Cold Rice, Osan, Chan) in which she co-starred with Kinnosuke NAKAMURA.
そして、佐久間良子を『五番町夕霧楼』『湖の琴』で、三田佳子を中村錦之助とのW主演作『鮫』『冷飯とおさんとちゃん』で見事に演技開眼させる。