Motoyoshi Oda
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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.
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Fotos
Filmes (44)
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
1959 · Director
Otora-san's Business is Booming
1958 · Director
Otora-san's Legal Holiday
1958 · Director
Otora-san's Ghostly Rascals
1958 · Director
Otora-san at His Best
1958 · Director
Tora-san's Home Run
1958 · Director
Otora-san
1957 · Director
Kiss the Moon
1957 · Director
Stubborn Father and Stupid Son
1957 · Director
Stubborn Father and Musical Daughter
1957 · Director
Masurao Dispatchers Men's Group: Especially If You're a Man
1957 · Director
Masurao Dispatchers Men's Group: Take Your Best Shot
1957 · Director
A Texan in Tokyo
1957 · Director
A Town of the Starry Skies
1957 · Director
Sisters at the Hot Springs
1956 · Director
Ohatsu's Unrequited Love
1956 · Director
Employee with the Secret Savings and the Autocrat President: The Autocrat President's Pure Heart
1956 · Director
Employee with the Secret Savings and the Autocrat Company President: The Employee with the Secret Savings Fights Bravely
1956 · Director
Will-o'-the-Wisp
1956 · Director
The Band in Paradise: Acharaka's Big Hit
1956 · Director
Ghost Taxi
1956 · Director
The Band in Paradise: Acharaka Is Born
1956 · Director
Masura no Hashitsu Sequel: It's Hard to Be a Company
1956 · Director
Masura o hashutsu fukai
1956 · Director
Detour to Love
1955 · Director
A Song of Memory
1955 · Director
Godzilla Raids Again
1955 · Director
Invisible Man
1954 · Director
Ghost Man
1954 · Director
Family Affairs: Book of Necho Rinkon
1954 · Director
Family Affairs: The Book of Good Evenings
1954 · Director
Family Affairs — Book of the Saizansus
1954 · Director
Family Affairs: They're Stupid, Aren't They?
1954 · Director
A Young Couple Oversleeps
1954 · Director
The Eagle of the Pacific
1953 · Second Unit Director, Special Effects Supervisor
Secret Mother
1953 · Director
Lady Takarazuka
1951 · Director
Hōmurankyō jidai
1949 · Director
Lady From Hell
1949 · Director
Eleven High School Girls
1946 · Director
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
1942 · Second Unit Director
Mother of the Red Hands
1941 · Director
It's Paradise When One Sings
1941 · Director
Enoken’s Ten Millions
1936 · Third Assistant Director
Séries (0)
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