Masanobu Deme

Masanobu Deme
出目昌伸
Born (1932-10-02)October 2, 1932
Higashiōmi, Shiga, Japan
Died March 13, 2016(2016-03-13) (aged 83)
Tokyo
Occupation film director

Masanobu Deme (出目昌伸 Deme Masanobu, 2 October 1932 – 13 March 2016) was a Japanese film director.

Career

Born in Shiga Prefecture, Deme graduated from Waseda University before joining the Tōhō studio in 1957.[1] After serving as an assistant director under such directors as Akira Kurosawa, Shūe Matsubayashi, Hiromichi Horikawa, and Kengo Furusawa, he made his directorial debut in 1968 with Toshigoro[1] and earned a New Directors Citation from the Directors Guild of Japan in 1969 for his unusual youth film Oretachi no kōya.[2] He also directed over 80 dramas on television.[3]

He died on 13 March 2016 of pancreatic cancer in a Tokyo hospital.[4]

Selected filmography

References

  1. 1 2 "Deme Masanobu-san". Ōmi no hito (in Japanese). Shiga Prefecture. October 2009. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  2. "Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai Shinjinshō" (in Japanese). Directors Guild of Japan. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  3. "Deme Masanobu". Terebi dorama dētabēsu (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  4. "映画監督の出目昌伸さんが死去". Sports Hochi (in Japanese). Hochi Shimbun. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
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