Masanobu Deme (出目昌伸, Deme Masanobu, 2 October 1932 – 13 March 2016) was a Japanese film director.
Born in Shiga Prefecture, Deme graduated from Waseda University before joining the Tōhō studio in 1957.
[1] After serving as an assistant director under such directors as Akira Kurosawa, Shūe Matsubayashi, Hiromichi Horikawa, and Kengo Furusawa, he made his directorial debut in 1968 with Toshigoro[1] and earned a New Directors Citation from the Directors Guild of Japan in 1969 for his unusual youth film Oretachi no kōya.
[2] He also directed over 80 dramas on television.
[3] He died on 13 March 2016 of pancreatic cancer in a Tokyo hospital.