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name: "Takamasa Ōe"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/takamasa-oe"
roles: ["Assistant director"]
born: "6 January 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-20T08:23:18.287012+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Takamasa Ōe

Assistant director. Born 6 January 1981 in Ikeda.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant director
- **Born:** 6 January 1981, Ikeda
- **Also known as:** Takamasa Oe, Takamasa Ohe, Takamasa Ooe, 大江 崇允
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takamasa_Oe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107594962, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5087531/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2287273

## Biography

Takamasa Ōe (大江 崇允) is a Japanese screenwriter and film director. Born on 6 January 1981 in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, he graduated from Kindai University with a degree in stage arts.

Ōe co-wrote the screenplay for *Drive My Car* (2021) with Ryūsuke Hamaguchi and served as assistant director on the film. The pair shared the Best Screenplay award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and the Japan Academy Prize for Best Screenplay; the film received Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for adapted screenplay. He also wrote for the series *Gannibal* (2022).

His other credits include directing *Whale Bones* (2023) and writing for series such as *Dragons of Wonderhatch* (2023) and *Land of Tanabata* (2024).

*Sources: ja.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Drive My Car* (2021), Fi1m 88, Screenplay, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/drive-my-car.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *White Flowers and Fruits* (2025), Co-Writer
- *After the Quake* (2025), Screenplay
- *After the Quake* (2025), series, Screenplay, Creator
- *Lust in the Rain* (2024), Screenplay
- *Cha-Cha* (2024), Screenplay
- *Land of Tanabata* (2024), series, Script Supervisor
- *Dragons of Wonderhatch* (2023), series, Creator
- *Whale Bones* (2023), Director, Writer
- *Gannibal* (2022), series, Screenplay, Writer
- *Because We Forget Everything* (2022), series, Director, Screenplay
- *Drive My Car* (2021), Screenplay, Assistant Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/drive-my-car.md)
- *Athlete* (2019), Director
- *Scary True Stories: Night 30* (2014), Director
- *Scary True Stories: Night 29* (2014), Director
- *Nice to Meet You* (2012), Director, Writer
- *Utsukushii sube* (2009), Director, Writer
- *Hina Is Beautiful*, Screenplay
- *I Hear You*, Director, Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2022: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Drive My Car*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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