Hideo Nakata

DirectorActorWriterProducerCrew Jul 19 (age 64) Konkō, Okayama, Japan 1985–2026 (41 year career)

5.9 avg rating

Biography

Hideo Nakata (中田秀夫 Nakata Hideo, born July 19, 1961) is a Japanese filmmaker.

Known For

Film

Ring

Director

Film

The Ring Two

Director

Film

Dark Water

Director

Film

THE DAYS

Director

Film

Ring 2

Director

Film

Death Note: L Change the WorLd

Director

Film

Chatroom

Director

Film

Sadako

Director

Filmography

Acting (7)

Movies (7)

Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts

2023

as Himself

Hideo Nakata: Ghosts, Rings and Water

2016

Foreign Filmmakers' Guide to Hollywood

2009

True Asian Horror

2007

as Self

Gore from Outer Space

2001

6.0

Sadistic and Masochistic

Tokyo Fair Weather

Crew (68)

Movies (56)

Stigmatized Properties: Possession

2025

Director

6.8

Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker

2024

Director

4.8

The Supernatural Sweet Shop: The Movie

Director

The Forbidden Play

Director

Usogui

Director

It's in the Woods

Director

Stigmatized Properties

Director

Stolen Identity 2

Director

Remotely Killed: Behind the Scenes of Murder

Director

Remotely Killed

Director

Sadako

Director

The Woman Who Keeps a Murderer

Director

Stolen Identity

Director

Life in Overtime

Director

White Lily

Director

Somewhere in Kamakura

2016

Director

Beautiful 2016

2016

Director

Ghost Theater

Director

Ghost Theater

Original Film Writer

Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Autumn Special: Film Directors Collection

Director

Words with Gods

Director

Words with Gods

Writer

Monsterz

Director

The Complex

Director

The Complex

Writer

Chatroom

Director

The Incite Mill

Director

Foreign Filmmakers' Guide to Hollywood

2009

Director

Don't Look Up

Original Film Writer

Don't Look Up

Story

Death Note: L Change the WorLd

2008

Director

6.0

The Man who was Made a Fool by L the Most - Detective Matsuda's Case File

2007

Director

Kaidan

Director

The Ring Two

Director

Dark Water

Director

Dark Water

Screenplay

Last Scene

Director

Sadistic and Masochistic

2001

Cinematography

6.5

Sadistic and Masochistic

Director

Sleeping Bride

Director

Chaos

Director

Curse. Death. Ling Gaiden 2. A scary story that really happened Cursed Spirit Gaiden 2

2000

Director

Take It

2000

Director

Ring 2

Director

Ring

Director

Joseph Losey: The Man with Four Names

1998

Director

The Cursed Tape (from Ring)

1998

Director

School Ghost Story F

1997

Director

1.0

(Ura) Tôsatsu nanpa-dô

1996

Director

Don't Look Up

Director

Don't Look Up

Story

Female Teacher Diary: Forbidden Sex

1995

Director

4.8

Female Teacher Diary: Forbidden Sex

1995

Screenplay

4.8

Curse, Death & Spirit

1992

Director

5.6

Rinbu

1988

Assistant Director

Woman in a Box: Virgin Sacrifice

1985

Assistant Director

4.2

Television (12)

The Consultant

2026 Upcoming

Director

Jun 7

THE DAYS

Director

Shōtai

Director

嘘喰い -鞍馬蘭子篇／梶隆臣篇-

Director

Fear Newspaper

2020

Director

7.5

Lovers in the Attic

2017

Director

Like a Girl Playing House

2016

Director

Ghost Theater

Director

Shinigami-kun

Director

The Complex: Prologue

2013

Director

4.8

The Complex: Prologue

2013

Executive Producer

4.8

Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File

2007

Director

8.0