Hideo Nakata

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Hideo Nakata 中田 秀夫
Born	July 19, 1961 Okayama, Japan
Other name(s)	Nakada Hideo
Occupation	film director

Hideo Nakata (中田 秀夫 Nakata Hideo, born July 19, 1961, in Okayama, Japan) is a Japanese film director.

Contents 1 Career 2 Filmography 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Career

Nakata is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on J-Horror films such as Ringu (1998), Ringu 2 (1999) and Dark Water (2002). Ringu was later remade in America as The Ring (2002) and Dark Water (2002) as Dark Water (2005).

Nakata was scheduled to make his English-language debut with True Believers, but later pulled out. He was later offered by DreamWorks to direct the movie The Ring Two (2005), which he accepted, making his English-language debut with a sequel to a remake of his own film.

Nakata made his initial breakthrough into film with Ghost Actress (1996). Although failing to attain any large-scale success, the film was responsible for leading to his directing of Ringu.

Other Nakata films include Sleeping Bride (2000); Curse, Death and Spirit; and Chaos (2000). He has now completed a Japanese ghost story, Kaidan. He is currently working on Hearn, which is about the life of Lafcadio Hearn who wrote Kwaidan.

Hideo Nakata is represented by United Talent Agency.

[edit] Filmography

• The Ring Three - Director 2009
• L: Change the World (Death Note spinoff) - Director 2007
• Kaidan - Director 2007
• Dark Water (USA) - Writer 2005
• The Ring Two - Director 2005
• Last Scene - Director, Producer 2002
• Dark Water - Director, Writer (screenplay) 2002
• Chi wo suu uchuu - Actor 2001
• Sotohiro - Director 2000
• Chaos - Director 2000
• Sleeping Bride (Garasu no nou) - Director 2000
• Sadistic and Masochistic (documentary) - Director, Himself 2000
• Ring 2 - Director, Writer 1999
• Joseph Losey: The Man with Four Names (documentary) - Director, Writer 1998
• Ringu - Director 1998
• Tokyo biyori - Actor 1997
• Don't Look Up - Director, Writer (story) 1996
• Curse, Death & Spirit (video) - Director

[edit] See also

• J-Horror

[edit] External links

• Hideo Nakata at the Internet Movie Database
• Nakata's JMDb Listing (in Japanese)

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