Hideo Nakata
Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Template:Nihongo is a Japanese filmmaker.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Life and career
Nakata was born in Okayama, Japan.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on Japanese horror films such as Ring (1998), Ring 2 (1999) and Dark Water (2002).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Several of these were remade in English as The Ring (2002), Dark Water (2005), and The Ring Two.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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 a.k.a. Don't Look Up (1996). Although failing to attain any large-scale success, the film was responsible for leading to his directing of Ring.
Other Nakata films include Sleeping Bride (2000); Curse, Death & Spirit; and Chaos (2000). He directed the psychological thriller The Incite Mill which premiered on 16 October 2010 in Japan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He has now completed a Japanese ghost story, Kaidan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Nakata is currently working on Hearn, which is about the life of Lafcadio Hearn who wrote Kwaidan.
He is represented by United Talent Agency. His film Chatroom, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.<ref name="hollywoodreporter">Template:Cite news</ref>
Filmography
Film
- Curse, Death & Spirit (1992)
- Don't Look Up (1996) – also writer (story)
- Ring (1998)
- Joseph Losey: The Man with Four Names (1998)
- Ring 2 (1999)
- Sleeping Bride (1999)
- Take It (2000)
- Chaos (2000)
- Dark Water (2002)
- The Ring Two (2005)
- Kaidan (2007)
- L: Change the World (2008)
- Foreign Filmmakers' Guide to Hollywood (2009)
- Chatroom (2010)
- The Incite Mill (2010)
- The Complex (2013)
- Life After 3.11 (2013)
- Monsterz (2014)
- Words With Gods (2014) – segment "Sufferings"
- Ghost Theater (2015)
- Somewhere in Kakamura (2016 short)
- White Lily (2016)
- Life in Overtime (2018)
- Stolen Identity (2018)
- The Woman Who Keeps a Murderer (2019)
- Sadako (2019)
- Stigmatized Properties (2020)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Stolen Identity 2 (2020)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Usogui: Lie Eater (2022)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- It's in the Woods (2022)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- The Forbidden Play (2023)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Stolen Identity: Final Hacking Game (2024)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Fushigi Dagashiya Zenitendō (2024)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Stigmatized Properties: Possession (2025)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Television
- Gakkô no kaidan F (1997) (story "Hoken-shitsu", story "Rei Video")
- Shinigami-kun (2014) – 1 episode
- Yo ni mo Kimyô na Monogatari: Eiga kantoku-hen (2015)
- Magamoto (2016) – 8-part miniseries
- Remote de Korosareru (2020)
- Kyoufu Shinbun (2020)
- The Days (2023) – with Masaki Nishiura<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>