Hideo Ōba

Ōba was born on 28 February 1910, in Aoyama, Akasaka-ku, Tokyo.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[1]

Ōba died on 10 March 1997, at the age of 87.^[2]

• Otto no kachi (1939)
• Hana ha itsuwarazu (1941)
• Musume (1943)
• Kikyo (1950)
• Nagasaki no kane (1950)
• Kimi no na ha trilogy (1953-1954)
• Anata to tomoni (1955)
• Ejima ikushima (1955)
• Me no kabe (1958)
• Aru rakujitsu (1959)
• Zangiku monogatari (1963)
• Yukiguni (1965)
• Yokoborigawa (1966)
• Haru biyori (1967)