was a Japanese film and television director.
Career
Born in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
, Onchi graduated from
Keio University and joined the
Toho
is a Japanese film, theatre production and distribution company. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Outside of Japan, it is best known as the producer ...
studios.
He debuted as a director with ''
Wakai ōkami'' (1961), and first made a name for himself directing
youth films such as ''
Izu no odoriko
is a novel by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata first published in 1926.
Plot
The narrator, a twenty-year-old student from Tokyo, travels the Izu Peninsula during the last days of the summer holidays, a journey which he ...
'' (1967).
After turning freelance, he also worked in
Japanese television
Television in Japan was introduced in 1939. However, experiments date back to the 1920s, with Kenjiro Takayanagi's pioneering experiments in electronic television. Television broadcasting was halted by World War II, after which regular televisio ...
, serving for instance as the main director for ''
Kizu darake no tenshi'', an influential
TV drama
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-ge ...
from the 1970s.
Onchi won the award for Best Director at the 28th
Hochi Film Award
The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun
, previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day.
It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''.
...
for ''
Warabi no kō
is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Hideo Onchi.
Awards and nominations
28th Hochi Film Award
The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun
, previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it h ...
''. He died from lung cancer on 20 January 2022, at the age of 88.
映画監督の恩地日出夫さん死去 88歳 「傷だらけの天使」演出
Filmography
*'' Wakai ōkami'' (1961)
*''Izu no odoriko
is a novel by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata first published in 1926.
Plot
The narrator, a twenty-year-old student from Tokyo, travels the Izu Peninsula during the last days of the summer holidays, a journey which he ...
'' (1967)
* ''Toward the Terra
is a Japanese science fiction manga series by Keiko Takemiya. It was originally serialized in Asahi Sonorama's ''Gekkan Manga Shōnen'' magazine, between January 1977 and May 1980. In 1978, it won the first Seiun Award for manga, and ...
'' (1980)
* ''Warabi no kō
is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Hideo Onchi.
Awards and nominations
28th Hochi Film Award
The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun
, previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it h ...
'' (2003)
Notes
References
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1933 births
2022 deaths
Japanese film directors
Japanese television directors
Japanese screenwriters
Keio University alumni
People from Tokyo
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