Hideo Onchi

Hideo Onchi
Born(1933-01-23)23 January 1933
Tokyo, Japan
Died20 January 2022(2022-01-20) (aged 88)
OccupationFilm director

Hideo Onchi (恩地日出夫, Onchi Hideo, 23 January 1933 – 20 January 2022) was a Japanese film and television director.

Career

Born in Tokyo, Onchi graduated from Keio University and joined the Toho studios.[1] He debuted as a director with Wakai ōkami (1961), and first made a name for himself directing youth films such as Izu no odoriko (1967).[1] After turning freelance, he also worked in Japanese television, serving for instance as the main director for Kizu darake no tenshi, an influential TV drama from the 1970s.[1][2]

Onchi won the award for Best Director at the 28th Hochi Film Award for Warabi no kō.[3] He died from lung cancer on 20 January 2022, at the age of 88.[4]

Filmography

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Oguro, Yūichirō. "Onchi Hideko kantoku gekijōban Tera e o kataru". Web anime sutairu. Studio You. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  2. ^ "A (Kind of Brief) Lecture of Japanese Film". New York-Tokyo. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  3. ^ 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 31 January 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
  4. ^ 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 Archived 3 February 2022 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)

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