Naoko Ogigami
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Naoko Ogigami at the 15th Annual Tama Cinema Forum in 2005.
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| Native name | 荻上 直子 |
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February 15, 1972 Chiba Prefecture, Japan |
| Occupation | Director, screenwriter, cinematographer |
| Years active | 1999–present |
Naoko Ogigami (荻上 直子 Ogigami Naoko?, born 1972 in Chiba Prefecturea) is a Japanese film director. Among her most notable works are her films Kamome Shokudo and Megane. At the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival Megane won the Manfred Salzberger Award, for "broadening the boundaries of cinema today."
Ogigami attended Chiba University's Image Science program. After graduating in 1994, she moved to the United States to study film at the University of Southern California. There she studied for six years, learning English and completing a graduate degree in film production. In 2000, she returned to Japan and later began writing and directing films.
While living in the United States, Ogigami worked on several short films, television shows, and commercials as a cinematographer, camera operator, and production assistant. She also wrote and directed two short films, Ayako (1999) and Hoshino-kun, Yumino-kun (2001). Yumino-kun won 3 different awards at the PIA Film Festival the year it premiered. Her first feature film, Yoshino's Barber Shop premiered at the PIA Film Festival in and the Berlin International Film Festival in 2004 winning awards at both. Her next feature film, Love is Five, Seven, Five! was released a year later in 2005. In 2006 her third film Kamome Diner was given a limited release in Japan. It would later go on to tour a number of festivals, and was awarded the 5th Best Film at the Yokohama Film Festival in 2007.
In 2008 Glasses, her fourth film, was featured at the Berlin International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and San Francisco International Film Festival, though it first premiered a year earlier. At the Berlin International Film Festival, Glasses was nominated for and won the Manfred Salzgeber Award for "broadening the boundaries of cinema today." The film was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic World Cinema, though it lost to Jens Jonssen's The King of Ping Pong.
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