Masashi Yamamoto
Director, Writer, Actor, Producer
January 24, 1956 (70 years)
Born in Ōita Prefecture, Yamamoto attended Meiji University but left early to concentrate on making independent 8mm films. His Carnival in the Night was screened at the 1983 Berlin Film Festival, and Robinson's Garden was given the Zitty Award at the 1987 edition of the Berlinale. The latter film also earned him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. In 1998 he was given a research fellowship from Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs to study in New York, during which time he set up screenings of his film Junk Food in America. Often filming those living on the margins of Japanese society, his film Limousine Drive was actually filmed in the United States. He has also acted in some films.
Known For
Filmography
| 2020 | Wonderful Paradise · as Screenplay |
| 2014 | |
| 2011 | |
| 2006 | Man, Woman and the Wall · as Screenplay |
| 2006 | |
| 2000 | |
| 1997 | |
| 1990 | What's Up Connection · as Screenplay |
| 1987 | Robinson's Garden · as Screenplay |
| 1981 | Carnival in the Night · as Screenplay |
| 2016 | |
| 2009 | |
| 2005 | The Whispering of the Gods · as Brother Akabane |
| 2002 | The Private Detective Mike Hama · as Yamamoto |
| 2002 | Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name · as Yamamoto |
| 1995 | |
| 1991 | March Comes in Like a Lion · as Ramen Man |
| 2017 | The Good-for-Nothings · as Associate Producer |
| 2013 | |
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| 1990 | |
| 1981 |