Hideo Onchi Explained

Hideo Onchi
Birth Date:	1933 1, df=yes
Birth Place:	Tokyo, Japan
Occupation:	Film director

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). 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.^[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

• Wakai ōkami (1961)
• Izu no odoriko (1967)
• Toward the Terra (1980)
• Warabi no kō (2003)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Oguro. Yūichirō. Onchi Hideko kantoku gekijōban Tera e o kataru. Web anime sutairu. Studio You. 28 June 2011.
2. Web site: A (Kind of Brief) Lecture of Japanese Film . New York-Tokyo . 28 June 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120313033459/http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/2008/09/19/an-kind-of-brief-history-of-japanese-film/ . 13 March 2012 .
3. Web site: http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/2003/. ja:報知映画賞ヒストリー. 2010-01-13. Japanese. Cinema Hochi. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090131124928/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/2003/. 2009-01-31.
4. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/pickup/6417038 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