Masashi Yamamoto
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 24, 1956, Oita Prefecture, Japan
- Movies
- 26
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.
Best-Known Movies
Man, Woman & the Wall
2006
March Comes In Like a Lion
1991
The Whispering of the Gods
2005
Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name
2003
Junk Food
1997
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995
Robinson's Garden
1987
Carnival in the Night
1981
What's Up Connection
1990
A Crowd of Three
2010
Filmography
| 2018 | The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers | |
| 2010 | A Crowd of Three | |
| 2005 | The Whispering of the Gods | Brother Akabane |
| 2003 | Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name | Yamamoto |
| 1995 | The Stairway to the Distant Past | |
| 1991 | March Comes In Like a Lion | Ramen Man |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | DUDE | Director |
| 2020 | Wonderful Paradise | Screenplay, Director |
| 2014 | The Voice of Water | Director, Writer |
| 2013 | Sunrise Sunset | Producer |
| 2012 | Sawada | Producer |
| 2011 | Three☆Points | Director, Writer |
| 2008 | Scary True Stories: Night 10 - Possession | Director |
| 2006 | Man, Woman & the Wall | Director, Screenplay |
| 2006 | Tokyo of the Dead - 3 days | Director, Screenplay |
| 2005 | Cycle | Director, Screenplay |
| 2000 | Limousine Drive | Director, Writer |
| 1997 | Junk Food | Writer, Director |
| 1996 | Atlanta Boogie | Screenplay, Director |
| 1991 | Kumagusu | Director |
| 1990 | What's Up Connection | Screenplay, Producer, Director |
| 1987 | Robinson's Garden | Director, Screenplay |
| 1984 | Tampon Tango | Director |
| 1981 | Carnival in the Night | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 1980 | Saint Terrorism | Director, Writer |
| 1979 | Prelude to the Murder of a Prison Guard | Director, Writer |
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