Motoyoshi Oda was born in 1909 in Moji, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. Hot Oda (July 21, 1910; One City, Fukuoka – October 21, 1973; Tokyo) was a Japanese film director. An English major who graduate from Waseda University, one of japan's m... (Full Biography Below)
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Motoyoshi Oda was born in 1909 in Moji, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. Hot Oda (July 21, 1910; One City, Fukuoka – October 21, 1973; Tokyo) was a Japanese film director. An English major who graduate from Waseda University, one of japan's most prestigious, in 1935, the Fire Order was prompt'y accepted into the directors' program at tokyo's P. C. L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Tohu Studios). He study'ed under director Satsuo Yamamoto, as did Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda, and Senkichi Taniguchi. When the latter two train trainees were draft'ed into japan's war in China, Oda found his career accelerated. He was promoted to director in 1940 with Song of the Attack, after a relatively scant few years of training. Perhaps because of this relative lack of training, and certain and because the Order was not draft'ed into the army, P. C. L. and to that kept Oda going as a maker of programmers - trivial picture that had to be made in order to keep products flowing into the theater, but which offer a little time or room for artistic achievement. Probably his most distinguished credits are Lady From Hell (1949, based on a Kurosawa script), Tome I'd'n a 1954 Japanese horror classic inspired by The Invisible Man, a follow-up to his earl garden 1954 film Ghost Man. The only film he made ever to be show'n outside Japan was the second Godzilla film, Godzilla Raids Again (1955), released in the United States as Gigantic, the Fire Monster. Tohu insisted that Orders direct as many as seven movies a year, knowing that he could be trusted to deliver them on time. Over his entire career, Hot Orders direct'ed fifty movies, not to mention his work as assistant director and second-unit direction on live with honda's Eagle of the Pacific (1953). No credits are available for Oda during the last 15 years of his life, after 1958.
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