was a Japanese
film director.
Career
Born in
Shiga Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,412,916 (1 October 2015) and has a geographic area of . Shiga Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the north, Gifu Prefecture to the north ...
, Deme graduated from
Waseda University
, mottoeng = Independence of scholarship
, established = 21 October 1882
, type = Private
, endowment =
, president = Aiji Tanaka
, city = Shinjuku
, state = Tokyo
, country = Japan
, students = 47,959
, undergrad = 39,382
, postgrad ...
before joining the
Tōhō studio in 1957.
After serving as an assistant director under such directors as
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...
,
Shūe Matsubayashi
(born July 7, 1920 - August 15, 2009, Shimane Prefecture, Japan) was a Japanese film director. He is best known for films in the comedy and war
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary ...
,
Hiromichi Horikawa, and
Kengo Furusawa, he made his directorial debut in 1968 with ''
Toshigoro''
and earned a
New Directors Citation from the
Directors Guild of Japan in 1969 for his unusual youth film ''
Oretachi no kōya''.
He also directed over 80 dramas on television.
He died on 13 March 2016 of pancreatic cancer in a Tokyo hospital.
Selected filmography
* ''
Toshigoro'' (年ごろ) (1968)
* ''
Oretachi no kōya'' (俺たちの荒野, Oretachi no kōya) (1969)
* ''
Long Journey into Love
is a 1973 Japanese film directed by Masanobu Deme. It received a theatrical release in Japan on 7 July 1973 where it was distributed by Toho. The film received the award for Best Art Direction (Shinobu Muraki) at the Mainichi Film Concours.
...
'' (1973)
* ''
Station to Heaven'' (天国の駅, Tengoku no eki) (1984)
* ''
The Meridian In A Mist'' (霧の子午線, Kiri no Shigosen) (1996)
* ''
Baruto no Gakuen
or ''Ode to Joy'' is a Japanese film released in 2006 and based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Nar ...
'' (バルトの楽園) (2006)
References
External links
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1932 births
2016 deaths
Japanese film directors
People from Shiga Prefecture
Waseda University alumni
Deaths from cancer in Japan
Deaths from pancreatic cancer