Masanobu Deme

Japanese film director

Masanobu Deme 出目昌伸
Born	(1932-10-02)2 October 1932 Higashiōmi, Shiga, Japan
Died	13 March 2016(2016-03-13) (aged 83) Tokyo
Occupation	film director

Masanobu Deme (出目昌伸, Deme Masanobu, 2 October 1932 – 13 March 2016) was a Japanese film director.

Career

Born in Shiga Prefecture, Deme graduated from Waseda University before joining the Tōhō studio in 1957.^[1] After serving as an assistant director under such directors as Akira Kurosawa, Shūe Matsubayashi, Hiromichi Horikawa, and Kengo Furusawa, he made his directorial debut in 1968 with Toshigoro^[1] and earned a New Directors Citation from the Directors Guild of Japan in 1969 for his unusual youth film Oretachi no kōya.^[2] He also directed over 80 dramas on television.^[3]

He died on 13 March 2016 of pancreatic cancer in a Tokyo hospital.^[4]

Selected filmography

Toshigoro (年ごろ) (1968)
Oretachi no kōya (俺たちの荒野, Oretachi no kōya) (1969)
Long Journey into Love (1973)
Station to Heaven (天国の駅, Tengoku no eki) (1984)
The Meridian In A Mist (霧の子午線, Kiri no Shigosen) (1996)
Baruto no Gakuen (バルトの楽園) (2006)

References

^ ^a ^b "Deme Masanobu-san". Ōmi no hito (in Japanese). Shiga Prefecture. October 2009. Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
^ "Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai Shinjinshō" (in Japanese). Directors Guild of Japan. Archived from the original on 22 November 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
^ "Deme Masanobu". Terebi dorama dētabēsu (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 December 2010.
^ 映画監督の出目昌伸さんが死去. Sports Hochi (in Japanese). Hochi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.