Daisaku Shirakawa only co-directed two films, both for
Toei--
Alakazam the Great (1960) ("Journey to the
West") and
Doggie March (1963)
("Doggie March"). They were projects of
Osamu Tezuka, and it's possible
that Shirakawa only did "technical directing" tasks in these films.
Later Shirakawa directed several episodes of the TV series
Fujimaru of the Wind (1964),
based in a manga by
Sampei Shirato, and
some of them were exhibited as movies with a new editing shortly after.
His adaptation of the manga by
'Shotarô Ishimori',
Saibogu 009: Kaijû senso (1967)
("Cyborg 009: Underground Duel"), was his last film for Toei.
From 1968 he worked freelance, and was one of the directors of the TV
series based in the
Tetsuya Chiba
manga "Fight!! Pyuta". Finally he joined the Managing Department of
Hakuhodo and from 1993 devoted his time to painting postcard flowers,
holding several exhibitions and writing an illustrated book about
postcard flowers of the world. He is also Superintendent of the
Painting Holiday Club.