(13 May 1885 – 5 May 1949) was a poet and playwright in

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. He also was a scriptwriter. Born in

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, Nagata was the son of a

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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

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'' ("Bright Star"). He later turned his creative talents to the modern theater, and then to the relatively new medium of cinema.HIdeo Nagata
. DBcult.com. Accessed 20 October 2012. He died in 1949, and his grave is at the Somei Cemetery in

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, Tokyo.

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1885 births 1949 deaths Writers from Tokyo 20th-century Japanese poets 20th-century Japanese screenwriters {{japan-writer-stub