Hideo Onchi

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

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

References
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