Motoyoshi Oda
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 21, 1909
- Died
- October 21, 1973 (aged 64)
- Birthplace
- Moji, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
Movie · Director
Tora-san's Home Run
Movie · Director
Otora-san's Business is Booming
Movie · Director
Otora-san's Legal Holiday
Movie · Director
Otora-san's Ghostly Rascals
Movie · Director
Otora-san at His Best
Movie · Director
A Texan in Tokyo
Movie · Director
A Town of the Starry Skies
Movie · Director
Masurao Dispatchers Men's Group: Take Your Best Shot
Movie · Director
Kiss the Moon
Movie · Director
Otora-san
Movie · Director
Stubborn Father and Stupid Son
Movie · Director
Stubborn Father and Musical Daughter
Movie · Director
Masurao Dispatchers Men's Group: Especially If You're a Man
Movie · Director
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Movie · Director
Masura o hashutsu fukai
Movie · Director
Ghost Taxi
Movie · Director
Ohatsu's Unrequited Love
Movie · Director
The Band in Paradise: Acharaka's Big Hit
Movie · Director
Sisters at the Hot Springs
Movie · Director
Employee with the Secret Savings and the Autocrat President: The Autocrat President's Pure Heart
Movie · Director
Employee with the Secret Savings and the Autocrat Company President: The Employee with the Secret Savings Fights Bravely
Movie · Director
The Band in Paradise: Acharaka Is Born
Movie · Director
Masura no Hashitsu Sequel: It's Hard to Be a Company
Movie · Director
Godzilla Raids Again
Movie · Director
Detour to Love
Movie · Director
A Song of Memory
Movie · Director
Invisible Man
Movie · Director
Ghost Man
Movie · Director
A Young Couple Oversleeps
Movie · Director
Family Affairs: They're Stupid, Aren't They?
Movie · Director
Family Affairs — Book of the Saizansus
Movie · Director
Family Affairs: The Book of Good Evenings
Movie · Director
Family Affairs: Book of Necho Rinkon
Movie · Director
The Eagle of the Pacific
Movie · Second Unit Director
Secret Mother
Movie · Director
Lady Takarazuka
Movie · Director
Lady From Hell
Movie · Director
Hōmurankyō jidai
Movie · Director
Eleven High School Girls
Movie · Director
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
Movie · Second Unit Director
Mother of the Red Hands
Movie · Director
It's Paradise When One Sings
Movie · Director
Enoken’s Ten Millions
Movie · Third Assistant Director