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Manoj Shyamalan ( born 6 August 1970), known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an Indian-American film director, screenwriter, producer and occasional actor known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots. His major films include the supernatural thriller ''The Sixth Sense'' (1999), the neo-noir superhero drama thriller ''Unbreakable'' (2000), the science fiction thriller ''Signs'' (2002), the psychological thriller ''The Village'' (2004), the fantasy thriller ''Lady in the Water'' (2006), the natural horror thriller ''The Happening'' (2008), the fantasy adventure film ''The Last Airbender'' (2010), the sci-fi action-adventure film ''After Earth'' (2013) and the horror film ''The Visit'' (2015). He is also known for filming and setting his films in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised, and for including plot twists in most of his works. Most of Shyamalan's commercially successful films were co-produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios' Touchstone and Hollywood film imprints. In 2008, Shyamalan was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India.〔(Padma Shri Awardees — Padma Awards ).〕 ==Early life== Shyamalan was born in Mahe, Pondicherry in South Western India to South Indian parents.〔Bamberger, Michael. ''The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale''.(Gotham Books, New York, 2006), p. 150.〕 His father, Nelliate C. Shyamalan, is a Malayali from Mahé and graduated with a medical degree from JIPMER.〔http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-nelliate-shyamalan-ywdmy〕 His mother, Jayalakshmi, is a Tamilian obstetrician and gynecologist by profession.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chennai Online )〕 In the 1960s, after medical school (at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research in Pondicherry) and the birth of their first child, Veena, his parents moved to the United States. His mother returned to India to spend the last five months of her second pregnancy at her parents' home in Chennai. Shyamalan spent his first six weeks in Puducherry, and then was raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, an affluent suburb of Philadelphia. Shyamalan was raised Hindu.〔http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2001008,00.html〕 He attended the private Roman Catholic grammar school Waldron Mercy Academy, followed by the Episcopal Academy, a private Episcopal high school located at the time in Merion, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan earned the New York University Merit Scholarship in 1988. Shyamalan is an alumnus of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, in Manhattan,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=about.tisch.nyu.edu )〕 graduating in 1992. It was while studying there that he adopted "Night" as his second name. Shyamalan had an early desire to be a filmmaker when he was given a Super 8 camera at a young age. Though his father wanted him to follow in the family practice of medicine, his mother encouraged him to follow his passion.〔(NNDB ) -Manoj Shyamalan.〕 By the time he was seventeen, the Steven Spielberg fan had made forty-five home movies. On each DVD release of his films (beginning with ''The Sixth Sense'' and with the exception of ''Lady in the Water''), he has included a scene from one of these childhood movies, which he feels represents his first attempt at the same kind of film. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「M. Night Shyamalan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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