Mipo Oh

Mipo Oh

director, writer

Mipo Oh was born on Mar 14, 1977 in Japan. Mipo Oh's big-screen debut came with Okan no yomeiri directed by Mipo Oh in 2010. Mipo Oh is known for Being Good directed by Mipo Oh, Kengo Kôra stars as Tadashi Ono and Machiko Ono as Masami Mizuki. Mipo Oh has got 15 awards and 7 nominations so far. The most recent award Mipo Oh achieved is Vesoul Asian Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Mipo Oh plays is Tell It Like a Woman which will be released on Feb 17, 2023.

Born 1977 in Mie, Japan. After graduating from the Osaka University of Arts Visual Concept Planning Department, O began working as a screenwriter under prolific film director Nobuhiko Oobayashi (House). She soon expanded to directing, and her third short film Eye won a prize at the Short Shorts Film Festival in 2002, while her short film Grandmother won the grand prize in the Digital Shorts category of Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2005, she wrote her first feature-length screenplay, The Sakai's Happiness, which won the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award, and the following year, she directed her first feature-length film, The Sakai's Happiness, based on this screenplay. In 2010, she wrote and directed Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!, which played at the Busan International Film Festival and took the grand prize for the Kaneto Shindo Awards, awarded to promising directors by a committee of Japanese producers. Her latest film, You Are a Good Kid, for which she re-teamed with the producer and screenwriter of The Light Shines Only There, will be released in 2015. In addition to films, she also writes and directs commercials and episodes for television.

  • Birthday

    Mar 14, 1977
  • Place of Birth

    Iga, Mie, Japan

Known For

Awards

15 wins & 7 nominations

Vesoul Asian Film Festival
2016
Kimi wa iiko (2015)
Winner - Critics Jury Award
2016
Kimi wa iiko (2015)
Winner - Critics Jury Award
2016
Feature
Winner - Critics Jury Award
2016
Kimi wa iiko (2015)
Winner - Critics Jury Award
Blue Ribbon Awards
2015
Best Director
Winner - Blue Ribbon Award
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