is a Japanese

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, and commercial director. Her name is also romanized Mipo Oh.

Career

After graduating from the

Osaka University of Arts is a private arts university located in Kanan, Osaka, Kanan, Minamikawachi District, Osaka, Minamikawachi District, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The university was founded in 1945 as , changing its name to in 1957, and then to in 1964. The univers ...

Visual Concept Planning Department, O began working as a screenwriter under director

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. She soon expanded to directing, and her third short film ''Eye'' won a prize at the Short Shorts Film Festival in 2002, while her short film ''Grandmother'' won the grand prize in the Digital Shorts category of Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2005, she wrote her first feature-length screenplay, ''The Sakai’s Happiness'', which won the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award, and the following year, she directed her first feature-length film based on this screenplay. In 2010, she wrote and directed '' Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!'', which played at the

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and took the grand prize for the Kaneto Shindo Awards, awarded to promising directors by a committee of Japanese producers. She won the best director award at the

Montreal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF (although the Toronto Internat ...

for '' The Light Shines Only There'', which was also nominated to be Japan's entry for the

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. Her next film, ''You Are a Good Kid'', for which she teamed up again with the producer and screenwriter of ''The Light Shines Only There'', will be released in 2015. In addition to films, she also writes and directs commercials and episodes for television.

Family

She is a third generation Korean-Japanese.

Filmography

*'' Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!'' (2010) *'' The Light Shines Only There'' (2014)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:O, Mipo Japanese film directors 1977 births Osaka University of Arts alumni Zainichi Korean people Living people Japanese women film directors