Hideo Nagata, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hideo Nagata

Japanese writer

Date of Birth: 13-May-1885

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 05-May-1949

Profession: poet, playwright, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Hideo Nagata (?? ??, Nagata Hideo) (13 May 1885 – 5 May 1949) was a poet and playwright in Showa 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 Myojo ("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.