Motoyoshi Oda

Motoyoshi Oda (Born: Motoyoshi Oda, 1909 Died: July 21 - 1973 October 21 ) was a Japanese film director known for Science Fiction.

## Life

Born in Moji City, Fukuoka Prefecture (currently Moji Ward , Kitakyushu City ). After graduating from Waseda University Faculty of Letters, Department of English , joined PCL (currently Toho ) in 1935 . After working as an assistant director for Kajiro Yamamoto , he made his debut as a director in 1940 with "Kunyan's Triumph".

Initially, he directed a lyrical female film , but in his third film, " Utaheba Heaven" ( co- directed with Satsuo Yamamoto ), he responded to the request of Roppa Furukawa , who starred in "I want to do a fool once a year." Te slapstick comedy challenge. Since then, he has become good at this field as well.

After the war, Japanese film was formed in world trade union affiliated to-date Utsu演(Japan movie theater trade unions). When the Toho dispute began in 1948, he was listed as one of the proponents of the "Japanese Film Protection Association" formed by film directors and screenwriters (other advocates were Kajiro Yamamoto, Sadanosuke Kinugasa , and Hei Gosho. Nosuke , Akira Kurosawa , Eisuke Takizawa , Kiyohiko Ushihara , Yasuki Chiba , Toshio Yasumi , Yasutaro Yagi ). He is also a member of the Directors Guild of Japan, which was re-established in the same year , and participates in activities to seek copyright attribution to film directors.

After the dispute remains on the Toho, new Toho was traded to Matsuo Kishi becomes estranged also with allies from before the war, such as mass-produced the supervision work in Toho and independent professional, surprised the surroundings also take a movie in the new Toho. In addition, he tries to supervise Kinoshita's script by interacting with Keisuke Kinoshita, but this plan fails. The script was later made into a movie under the title of " Japanese Tragedy " by Kinoshita himself, and became one of Kinoshita's masterpieces.

In the 1950s, it was incorporated into the frame of Toho's program picture , but in the "Family Circumstances" series starring Tony Tani , the honorable mention "Idiot Janakaroka" where the commuter train runs by dividing the house of the newlyweds Volume ”directed. He showed off his favorite slapstick comedy by making full use of the large-scale gimmicks that are possible only because of set shooting . Also, in the movie adaptation of Seishi Yokomizo's original " Ghost Man " and the first in the transformation human series "The Invisible Avenger ", a surreal mystery was created by making use of set shooting and special effects, and in 1955, " Godzilla Raids Against " I was appointed as a director. He finally retired from the front line after working on the entire comedy series "Otora-san", which was made into a movie of the role of Kingorō Yanagiya , and after that he sporadically worked on TV dramas and the Ministry of Home Affairs until his later years. He directs a PR movie (currently the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications ). He died on October 21, 1973. He died at the age of 64.

He loves liquor but has a gentle personality that keeps smiling and is loved by young staff, and was nicknamed "Odabutsu-san".

## Films

### Director

* Mother-in-law's Triumph ( 1940 )
* The island is sunset ( 1941 )
* Song Heaven (1941) \* Co-directed with Satsuo Yamamoto
* Red Hand of Ulster (1941)
* Eleven schoolgirls ( 1946 )
* Music Five Men ( 1947 )
* Raccoon gentleman appeared ( 1948 )
* Lady of Hell (1949)
* Home run madness (1949)
* Singing Maboroshi Palace (1949)
* Bad girl ( 1950 )
* Red Two Handgun (1950)
* Schoolgirl group (1950)
* Great marriage proposal (1950)
* Mrs. Takarazuka ( 1951 )
* Virgin with a scalpel (1951)
* Yume Yozuko ( 1952 )
* Isobushi Jyowa Tears of Love Chidori (1952)
* Jouenkyo (1952)
* Mita and Chiyonoyama (1952)
* Fireworks dance (1952)
* Hidden Mother ( 1953 )
* Pacific Eagle (1953) \* Support Director
* The young couple overslept in the morning ( 1954 )
* Family Circumstances Idiot Volume (1954)
* Sequel Family Circumstances Volume of Saizansu (1954)
* Family circumstances Okonbanwa no Maki (1954)
* Family Circumstances Necho Rincon Volume (1954)
* Ghost man (1954)
* Invisible Avenger (1954)
* Godzilla Raids Against ( 1955 )
* If the red canna flowers bloom (1955)
* Eventually the blue sky (1955)
* Masurao dispatch tournament ( 1956 )
* Masurao dispatch tournament It's hard to accompany you (1956)
* The first paradise Acharaka was born (1956)
* Ghost taxi (1956)
* Hesokuri President and One-Man President Hesokuri President Fights (1956)
* Hesokuri President and One-Man President Hesokuri President Junjou (1956)
* First Katakoi (1956)
* Ideyu sisters (1956)
* City of the Starry Sky ( 1957 )
* Texas in Tokyo (1957)
* Masurao smashing tournament (1957)
* Masurao Sending Tournament Man (1957)
* Stubborn relatives and Doremiha daughter (1957)
* Stubborn relatives and out-of-focus son (1957)
* Tsuki To Seppun (1957)
* Tora-san (1957)
* Tora-san's Home Run ( 1958 )
* Hanazakari Otora (1958)
* The ghost riot of the tiger (1958)
* Tora-san's public holiday (1958)
* Great tiger prosperity (1958)