Akira Ogata (film director) explained

Akira Ogata
Birth Date:	1959
Birth Place:	Saga, Japan
Occupation:	Film director

is a Japanese film director. He was given the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his debut film, Boy's Choir, in 2000,^[1] and then won the award for best director at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for Nonchan Noriben.^[2]

Filmography

• Boy's Choir (2000)
• Itsuka dokusho suruhi (2005)
• Nonchan Noriben (2009)
• Shin Godzilla (2016, as an actor)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai Shinjinshō . Directors Guild of Japan . Japanese . 11 December 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101122022302/http://dgj.or.jp/award_g/ . 22 November 2010 . dead .
2. Web site: http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/31-2009/31_2009_shou.html. ja:第３１回ヨコハマ映画祭 ２００９年日本映画個人賞. 2010-12-11. Japanese. Yokohama Film Festival. https://web.archive.org/web/20110610063354/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/31-2009/31_2009_shou.html. 10 June 2011. dead. dmy-all.