Hideo Onchi

Hideo Onchi
Born	(1933-01-23)23 January 1933 Tokyo, Japan
Died	20 January 2022(2022-01-20) (aged 88)
Occupation	Film director

Hideo Onchi (恩地日出夫, Onchi Hideo, 23 January 1933 – 20 January 2022) was a Japanese film and television director.

Born in Tokyo, Onchi graduated from Keio University and joined the Toho studios.^[1] He debuted as a director with Wakai ōkami (1961), and first made a name for himself directing youth films such as Izu no odoriko (1967).^[1] After turning freelance, he also worked in Japanese television, serving for instance as the main director for Kizu darake no tenshi, an influential TV drama from the 1970s.^[1][2]

Onchi won the award for Best Director at the 28th Hochi Film Award for Warabi no kō.^[3] He died from lung cancer on 20 January 2022, at the age of 88.^[4]

• Wakai ōkami (1961)
• Izu no odoriko (1967)
• Toward the Terra (1980)
• Warabi no kō (2003)

• Hideo Onchi at IMDb
• Onchi Hideo at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

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