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Takashi Yamazaki
Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
Takashi Yamazaki (山崎 貴, Yamazaki Takashi, born June 12, 1964) is a Japanese filmmaker and visual effects supervisor. Known for his blockbusters featuring advanced visual effects,…
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Takashi Yamazaki (山崎 貴, Yamazaki Takashi, born June 12, 1964) is a Japanese filmmaker and visual effects supervisor. Known for his blockbusters featuring advanced visual effects, he is considered a leading figure in the Japanese film industry. Yamazaki receives multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, eight Japanese Academy Awards, five Nikkan Sports Film Awards, two Hochi Film Awards, and an Asian Film Award. His films have collectively grossed over $523 million worldwide. Yamazaki found employment at the visual effects and animation studio Shirogumi in 1986 and has remained there throughout his career. His first directorial features were the science fiction films Juvenile(2000) and Returner (2002), for which he became known as the "Japanese James Cameron". He later gained further notice in Japan by directing film adaptations of popular anime, novels, and manga, including Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005), Space Battleship Yamato (2010), The Eternal Zero (2013), and Stand by Me Doraemon (2014); the latter two films both earned a total of nine awards at the 38th Japan Academy Film Prize. Yamazaki's career advanced with The Great War of Archimedes, Dragon Quest: Your Story, Lupin III: The First (2019), and Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020). His 2023 kaiju epic, Godzilla Minus One, became the most successful Japanese Godzilla film of all time and one of his highest-grossing films. Yamazaki and the visual effects team also became the first Japanese crew to receive the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. In 2024, Yamazaki was included in Gold House's annual list of 100 Most Impactful Asians. Description above from the Wikipedia article Takashi Yamazaki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2028
Grandgear
Movie Director
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2026
Godzilla Minus Zero
Movie Director
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2024
Foodlosslla
Movie Director
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2023
Godzilla Minus One
Movie Director
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2022
Ghost Book
Movie Writer
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2021
It's a Flickering Life
Movie VFX Supervisor
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2020
Stand by Me Doraemon 2
Movie Screenplay
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2019
Lupin III: The First
Movie Writer
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2019
Dragon Quest: Your Story
Movie General Manager
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2019
The Great War of Archimedes
Movie Director
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2017
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
Movie Director
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2016
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
Movie Director
- 2015
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2015
Parasyte: Part 2
Movie Screenplay
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2014
Parasyte: Part 1
Movie Screenplay
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2014
Stand by Me Doraemon
Movie Director
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2013
The Eternal Zero
Movie Director
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2012
Always: Sunset on Third Street '64
Movie Director
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2011
Friends: Naki on Monster Island
Movie Director
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2010
Space Battleship Yamato
Movie Director
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2009
Ballad
Movie Director
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2008
K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Movie Visual Effects Supervisor
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2007
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
Movie Director
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2006
The iDol
Movie Cameraman
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2005
Always - Sunset on Third Street
Movie Director
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2005
Aquarion
TV show Storyboard
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2002
Heat Guy J
TV show Director
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2002
Returner
Movie Screenplay
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2000
Juvenile
Movie Writer
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1996
Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of the Wizard
Movie Special Effects
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1995
Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness
Movie Special Effects Supervisor
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1994
Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie - Poltergeist Report
Movie Key Animation
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1992
Yu Yu Hakusho
TV show Key Animation
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1992
Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still
TV show Key Animation
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1990
Marina the Manga Artist Goes to Camelot
Movie Key Animation
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1981
Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan
TV show Worker
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1953
The Oscars
TV show Self
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Nue
Movie Director
