Motoyoshi Oda

Motoyoshi Oda

Nacimiento : 1910-07-21, Fukuoka, Japan

Muerte : 1973-10-21

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Motoyoshi Oda (July 21, 1910; Moji City, Fukuoka – October 21, 1973; Tokyo) was a Japanese film director. An English major who graduated from Waseda University, one of Japan's most prestigious, in 1935, Motoyoshi Oda was promptly accepted into the directors' program at Tokyo's P.C.L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Toho Studios). He studied under director Satsuo Yamamoto, as did Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda, and Senkichi Taniguchi. When the latter two trainees were drafted into Japan's war in China, Oda found his career accelerated. He was promoted to director in 1940 with Song of Kunya, after a relatively scant few years of training. Perhaps because of this relative lack of training, and certainly because Oda was not drafted into the army, P.C.L. and Toho kept Oda going as a maker of programmers - trivial pictures that had to be made in order to keep product flowing into the theaters, but which offered little time or room for artistic achievement. Probably his most distinguished credits are Lady From Hell (1949, based on a Kurosawa script), Tomei Ningen a 1954 Japanese horror classic inspired by The Invisible Man, a follow-up to his earlier 1954 film Ghost Man. The only film he made ever to be shown outside Japan was the second Godzilla film, Godzilla Raids Again (1955), released in the United States as Gigantis, the Fire Monster. Toho insisted that Oda direct as many as seven movies a year, knowing that he could be trusted to deliver them on time. Over his entire career, Motoyoshi Oda directed fifty movies, not to mention his work as assistant director and second-unit direction on Ishiro Honda's Eagle of the Pacific (1953). No credits are available for Oda during the last 15 years of his life, after 1958. Description above from the Wikipedia article Motoyoshi Oda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Motoyoshi Oda

Películas

Gigantis: The Fire Monster
Director
The altered American release of Godzilla Raids Again. Originally meant to be known as the The Volcano Monsters, the film was eventually released as "Gigantis."
Tora-san's Home Run
Director
The second Tora-San feature.
A Texan in Tokyo
Director
A Texan visiting Tokyo takes medicine that gives him strength.
Masura o hashutsu fukai
Director
Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.
Godzilla contraataca
Director
Godzilla, resucitada por arte de magia tras su muerte al final del primer título, se enfrenta esta vez a un nuevo monstruo, Anguilas, un extraño gigante cuadrúpedo acorazado, y tras destruir parcialmente la ciudad de Osaka, acaba enterrada en el hielo de una pequeña isla a causa de los bombardeos de los aviones del ejército japonés. Segunda película de la saga Godzilla.
Invisible Man
Director
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
Ghost Man
Director
A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.
Lady From Hell
Director
Three and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is in love with a girl called Mibu, and the two are against the T-Men organization. Mibu whats to kill all of the T-Men one-by-one.
Eleven High School Girls
Director
Mother of the Red Hands
Director
The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone in a fishermen's village. She is a strong-minded girl and very popular among young children. I guess that this story is one of the origins of girl's manga in the 1950s in which I belonged to the first generation of Japanese story manga.
Enoken's The Millionaire, Part 1
Third Assistant Director
Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song.