was a Japanese film and television director.

Career

Born in

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, Onchi graduated from Keio University and joined the

Toho is a Japanese film, theatre production and distribution company. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Outside of Japan, it is best known as the producer ...

studios. He debuted as a director with '' Wakai ōkami'' (1961), and first made a name for himself directing youth films such as ''

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'' (1967). After turning freelance, he also worked in

Japanese television Television in Japan was introduced in 1939. However, experiments date back to the 1920s, with Kenjiro Takayanagi's pioneering experiments in electronic television. Television broadcasting was halted by World War II, after which regular televisio ...

, serving for instance as the main director for '' Kizu darake no tenshi'', an influential

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from the 1970s. Onchi won the award for Best Director at the 28th

Hochi Film Award The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun , previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. ...

for ''

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''. He died from lung cancer on 20 January 2022, at the age of 88.映画監督の恩地日出夫さん死去　88歳　「傷だらけの天使」演出

Filmography

*'' Wakai ōkami'' (1961) *''

'' (1967) * ''

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'' (1980) * ''

'' (2003)

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References

* * 1933 births 2022 deaths Japanese film directors Japanese television directors Japanese screenwriters Keio University alumni People from Tokyo {{Japan-film-director-stub