is a Japanese

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, scriptwriter, video artist, and actor. Born in Japan and partly raised in the United States, Ogata has worked in the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, and the US. He is a graduate of

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and the

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(CAVS) of the

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. Ogata has received funding from ZDF German national public television and the Dutch National Film Fund for his screenplays. His father, was banker Shijuro Ogata and his mother was

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Sadako Ogata. Ogata's short film , which he wrote, directed, and produced, was the only Japanese film to be selected for the New Directors/New Films Festival 2007 in New York at the

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and the

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. It won the Best Short Film Award at the

2007 Bangkok International Film Festival The 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival was held from July 19 to July 29, 2007, at SF Group's SF World Cinema at CentralWorld. The fifth consecutive year for the festival, organizers planned a program of about 100 films, with an emphasis on A ...

in Thailand, the Seahorse Award Best Short Film at the Moondance International Film Festival 2007, and the Indie Soul Best Story Line Award at the Boston International Film Festival 2008. , his feature-film directorial debut Cast Me If You Can was released on October 23, 2010 in Japan.

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Wakiyaku Monogatari
official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Ogata, Atsushi Japanese film directors Japanese screenwriters Living people Harvard College alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Year of birth missing (living people)