About Hideo Nagata
Lived 1885 – 1949 (aged 63). Hideo Nagata was a Japanese poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and writer.
(13 May 1885 – 5 May 1949) was a poet and playwright in Shōwa period Japan. He also was a scriptwriter.
Born in Tokyo, Nagata was the son of a Shinto priest at the Kikuchi Jinja. Interested in literature and poetry from an early age, he developed his own style of modern poetry and was ranked alongside Kitahara Hakushu and Kinoshita Mokutaro by the literary magazine Myōjō ("Bright Star"). He later turned his creative talents to the modern theater, and then to the relatively new medium of cinema.
He died in 1949, and his grave is at the Somei Cemetery in Sugamo, Tokyo.
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Who was Hideo Nagata?
Japanese writer (1885–1949)
When was Hideo Nagata born?
Hideo Nagata was born on 13 May 1885 in Tokyo.
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Hideo Nagata died on 5 May 1949.
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Hideo Nagata was a poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and writer.
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Hideo Nagata was Japanese.
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