Motoyoshi Oda

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 Invi…

Directed

1. Godzilla Raids Again (1955) — Director
2. Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959) — Director
3. Invisible Man (1954) — Director
4. Ghost Man (1954) — Director
5. Tora-san's Home Run (1958) — Director
6. Will-o'-the-Wisp (1956) — Director
7. Masura o hashutsu fukai (1956) — Director
8. Eleven High School Girls (1946) — Director
9. Lady From Hell (1949) — Director
10. A Texan in Tokyo (1957) — Director
11. Mother of the Red Hands (1941) — Director
12. Lady Takarazuka (1951) — Director
13. It's Paradise When One Sings (1941) — Director
14. Detour to Love (1955) — Director
15. Ghost Taxi (1956) — Director
16. A Young Couple Oversleeps (1954) — Director
17. Secret Mother (1953) — Director
18. Hōmurankyō jidai (1949) — Director
19. Family Affairs — They're Stupid, Aren't They? (1954) — Director
20. Family Affairs — Book of the Saizansus (1954) — Director
21. Family Affairs — The Book of Good Evenings (1954) — Director
22. Family Affairs — Book of Necho Rinkon (1954) — Director