Hideo Ōba (大庭 秀雄, Ōba Hideo, 28 February 1910 – 10 March 1997) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Hideo Ōba | |
Image Caption: | Hideo Ōba in 1953 on Asahi Camera |
Birth Date: | 1910 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Aoyama, Akasaka-ku, Tokyo |
Nationality: | Japanese |
Occupation: | Film director |
Years Active: | 1935–1969 |
Ōba was born on 28 February 1910, in Aoyama, Akasaka-ku, Tokyo.
After graduating from Keio University's Department of Japanese Studies, Ōba started working at Shochiku. There he became an assistant director to film director Yasushi Sasaki, and made his debut as a director in 1939 with the film Otto no kachi. A year before his directorial debut, he wrote Ai yori Ai he as a screenwriter.[1]
In 1953, Ōba made Kazuo Kikuta's radio drama Kimi no na ha aired on NHK into a movie, which became a major hit. Kimi no na ha continued as a movie trilogy until 1954.
In his later years, he taught at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.[2]
Ōba died on 10 March 1997, at the age of 87.