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Hideo Onchi

おんち ひでお

Onchi Hideo

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1933-01-23 (Tokyo (now Setagaya-ku), Japan)
Died
2022-01-20 (Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan) age 88
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Film director, Television director, TV host
Active Years
1960-2022
Memberships
Masukomi Kujō no Kai (Mascommi Article 9 Group, organizer)

Education

Tokyo Metropolitan Chitose High School (now Roka High School)
Country: Japan
Keio University
Faculty of Economics
Country: Japan
Graduated from the Faculty of Economics

Awards

Japanese Movie Critics Award (Best Film)
2003
Work: Warabino-yuki
Category: 作品賞
Organization: Japanese Film Critics Award
Result: winner
Art Encouragement Prize (Minister of Education Award)
Work: Warabino-yuki
Organization: Art Encouragement Prize (Japan)
Result: winner
Hochi Film Award (Best Director)
2003
Work: Warabino-yuki
Category: 監督賞
Organization: Hochi Shimbun
Result: winner
Japan Arts Festival Award (Excellence Award)
1979
Work: The Greatest Postwar Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu Case (TV)
Category: 優秀賞
Organization: Arts Festival (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Result: winner
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays
2005
Organization: Government of Japan
Result: recipient

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Young Wolf

1961 Youth film

Debut feature at Toho, portraying youthful sensibilities as part of the studio's nouvelle vague.

youthcoming of age

The Dancing Girl of Izu

1967 Youth film

A delicate adaptation of the Kawabata story focusing on a young man's encounter with a traveling girl.

romancenostalgia

Want to Live Again: The Shinjuku Bus Arson Case

1985 Social-issue drama (film)

A socially conscious film based on victims' memoirs from the Shinjuku bus arson incident.

crimevictim perspective

Shimanto River

1991 Family drama

A lyrical portrayal of children growing up in a 1950s rural village.

nostalgiacoming of age

Warabino-yuki

2003 Drama

Film adaptation of a Kiyoko Murata novel; praised for its visual beauty and mature direction.

human dramalocal community

Bibliography

  • Young Wolf (1961)
  • The Dancing Girl of Izu (1967)
  • Want to Live Again: The Shinjuku Bus Arson Case (1985)
  • Shimanto River (1991)
  • Warabino-yuki (2003)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
fresh visual sensibilitylyrical portrayals of youth
Recurring Motifs
youthnostalgiarural childhood

Health

  • lung cancer
    2022
    Died in 2022 due to lung cancer

Legacy

A director who shaped an era of youth films and television dramas, noted for visual beauty and lyricism; left influence on directing and iconic TV opening sequences.

Trivia

  • His wife was art director Keiko Hoshino.
  • Received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays in 2005.
  • Famous for directing the opening sequence of the TV drama 'Kizudarake no Tenshi'.