Hideo Ōba (大庭 秀雄, ''Ōba Hideo'', 28 February 1910 – 10 March 1997) was a Japanese
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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.
Life
Ōba was born on 28 February 1910, in Aoyama, Akasaka-ku,
Tokyo.
After graduating from
Keio University
, mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword
, type = Private research coeducational higher education institution
, established = 1858
, founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa
, endowmen ...
's Department of Japanese Studies, Ōba started working at
Shochiku. There he became an assistant director to film director
Yasushi Sasaki
(25 January 1908 – 13 September 1993), aka Kō Sasaki, was a Japanese film director. He directed films from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Filmography
Director
He directed 182 films:
* (1945)
* (踊る龍宮城 ''Odoru ryū kyūjō'', literall ...
, and made his debut as a director in 1939 with the film ''Otto no kachi''. A year before his directorial debut, he wrote ''Ai yori Ai he'' as a screenwriter.
In 1953, Ōba made
Kazuo Kikuta
Kazuo (カズオ, かずお) is a masculine Japanese given name.
Possible spellings
It has several written forms, and the meaning depends on the characters used (usually kanji, but sometimes hiragana). Common forms include:
* 一雄: first son, ...
's radio drama ''Kimi no na ha'' aired on
NHK into a movie, which became a major hit. ''Kimi no na ha'' continued as a movie
trilogy until 1954.
In his later years, he taught at the
Japan Institute of the Moving Image
The , formerly known as the Yokohama Broadcasting Technical School, is a Japanese film school and university. It was founded in 1975 by film director Shohei Imamura.
While a student at this school, director Takashi Miike was given his first film ...
.
Ōba died on 10 March 1997, at the age of 87.
Selected filmography
* ''Otto no kachi'' (1939)
* ''Hana ha itsuwarazu'' (1941)
* ''Musume'' (1943)
* ''Kikyo'' (1950)
* ''Nagasaki no kane'' (1950)
* ''Kimi no na ha'' trilogy (1953-1954)
* ''Anata to tomoni'' (1955)
* ''Ejima ikushima'' (1955)
* ''Me no kabe'' (1958)
* A''ru rakujitsu'' (1959)
* ''Zangiku monogatari'' (1963)
* ''Yukiguni'' (1965)
* ''Yokoborigawa'' (1966)
* ''Haru biyori'' (1967)
References
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1910 births
1997 deaths
Japanese film directors