Actor

Kaori Oda

Directing

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Movies: 29Series: 1Crew credits: 30

TMDB ID: 1526752

IMDb ID: nm4733973

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2012 - 2026

Years active: 15

Average TMDB rating: 7.74

Wikidata: Q96104294

Other jobs

Director (19)Cinematography (4)Editor (4)Camera Operator (1)Director of Photography (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Kaori Oda, born in Osaka, Japan in 1987, is a filmmaker and artist. In 2016, she completed a Doctor of Liberal Arts in filmmaking in Sarajevo, supervised by Béla Tarr. Aragane (2015), shot in a Bosnian coal mine, premiered at Yamagata International Film Festival. Toward a Common Tenderness (2017) had its world premiere at DOK Leipzig and TS’ONOT / Cenote (2019), shot in underwater caves in Yucatán, premiered in Rotterdam. GAMA (2023) screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight and Cinéma du Réel. Oda received the Nagisa Oshima Prize in 2020 and the New Face Award of the Japanese Education Minister in 2021.