As Director, As Writer
Wonderful Paradise
2020
6.7
Masashi Yamamoto
Acting
Birth date
January 24, 1956
Birth place
Oita Prefecture, Japan
Biography
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.
Featured in
As Director, As Writer
The Voice of Water
2014
6.0
As Actor
A Crowd of Three
2010
4.9
As Director, As Writer
Man, Woman & the Wall
2006
6.5
As Actor
The Whispering of the Gods
2005
5.3
As Director, As Writer
Junk Food
1997
5.0
As Actor
March Comes In Like a Lion
1991
6.7
As Director, As Writer
What's Up Connection
1990
6.0
As Director, As Writer
Robinson's Garden
1987
6.3
As Director, As Writer
Carnival in the Night
1981
5.4