Ataru Oikawa
Ataru Oikawa is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. While working as an editor at Magazine House, he wrote screenplays, and made his debut as a screenwriter with his original scenario DOOR (dir. Later, he quit Magazine House and became a film director.
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Ataru Oikawa
- Name
- Ataru Oikawa
- Born
- 5 September 1957
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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Ataru Oikawa is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. While working as an editor at Magazine House, he wrote screenplays, and made his debut as a screenwriter with his original scenario DOOR (dir. Later, he quit Magazine House and became a film director.
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Ataru Oikawa (born 1957) is a film director and screenwriter, of Japanese nationality. The film director was born in Tokyo. Ataru Oikawa worked for Magazine House. Languages used include Japanese.
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• Name — Ataru Oikawa • Native Name — 及川 中 • Born — 5 September 1957 • Birthplace — Tokyo, Japan • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter
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• Tomie (1999) • Lovers' Kiss (2003) • Einstein Girl (2005) • Tomie: Beginning (2005) • Tomie: Revenge (2005) • Apartment 1303 (2007) • Kisshō Tennyo (2007) • Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (2008) • Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Chikai (2009) • Shojō Sensō (2011)
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1957
Ataru Oikawa was born on 5 September 1957.
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