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Name
  
Mipo O


Role
  
Film director

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Born
  
March 14, 1977 (age 46) (
1977-03-14
)
Iga, Mie, Japan

Occupation
  
Film director, screenwriter

Movies
  
The Light Shines Only There, Here Comes the Bride - My, Quirky Guys And Gals, The Sakais` Happiness, Being Good

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Mipo O (오미보, 吳美保, O Mipo) (born March 3, 1977 in Iga, Mie, Japan) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and commercial director. Her name is also romanized Mipo Oh.

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Career

After graduating from the Osaka University of Arts Visual Concept Planning Department, O began working as a screenwriter under director Nobuhiko Obayashi. 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 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. She won the best director award at the Montreal World Film Festival for The Light Shines Only There, which was also nominated to be Japan's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Her next film, You Are a Good Kid, for which she teamed up again 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.

Family

She is a third generation Korean-Japanese.

Filmography

  • Here Comes the Bride, My Mom! (2010)
  • The Light Shines Only There (2014)
  • References

    Mipo O Wikipedia