Famous People with Name Hideo

Hideo Nakata            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideo Nakata: a Japanese filmmaker.Nakata is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on J-Horror films such as Ringu (1998), Ringu 2 (1999) and Dark Water (2002). Ringu was later remade in America as The Ring (2002), Dark Water (2002) as Dark Water (2005), The Ring Two and the The Ring Three.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.

Hideo Kobayashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideo Kobayashi: was a Japanese author, who established literary criticism as an independent art form in Japan.In the early 1930s he was associated with the novelists Yasunari Kawabata and Riichi Yokomitsu and collaborated on articles for the literary journal Bungaku-kai and became editor in 1935. At that time Kobayashi felt literature should be relevant to society, with writers and critics practicing social responsibilities. His editorials covered a wide range from contemporary literature to the classics, philosophy, and the arts. He began to serialize his life of Fyodor Dostoevsky in the magazine. Around this time, he also published Watakushi Shosetsu Ron, an attack on the popular Japanese literary genre of the shishosetsu, the autobiographical novel or I Novel.

Hideo Yokoyama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideo Yokoyama: a Japanese novelist.Yokoyama specialized in mystery novels. He worked constantly during the first three days of 2003 and received a heart attack and subsequent hospitalization on the fourth.[2]

Hideo Yoshino            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideo Yoshino: was a tanka poet in Showa period Japan.In 1926 Yoshino financed the publication of his own first poetry anthology, Tenjo gishi. However, most of his works did not appear in print until after the end of World War II. He developed a unique style of tanka that was independent of the mainstream Araragi verses, and used a tight, succinct style borrowed from the 19th century Buddhist priest-poet, Ryokan. He also was inspired by the ancient classic from Japanese literature, the Man'yoshu. His anthologies include Seiin shu (The Clear and Cloudy Collection, 1967) and Kansen shu (The Autumn Cicada Collection, 1974). Yoshino also wrote a number of essays, including Yawarakana Kokoro (Soft heart) and Korokono Furusato (Home is the heart).

Hideo Fujimoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideo Fujimoto: was a Japanese baseball pitcher. He holds the Japanese records for lowest career ERA (1.90) and seasonal ERA (0.73). At Aomori Stadium, in 1950 he pitched the first perfect game in NPB history.