is a Japanese
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
.
Career
Born in
Aichi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectur ...
, Yamashita attended
Osaka University of Arts where he worked on Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's ''
Kichiku Dai Enkai
is a 1997 Japanese film. It was written and directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri.
Story
In the year 1972 a small group of left-wing students are living at a dingy Tokyo apartment in the mountain village of Karuizawa in Nagano-ken, Japan. While the g ...
''.
His graduation film ''Hazy Life'', took the Off Theatre Competition Grand Prize at the 2000
Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. He also won the award for Best Director at the 32nd
Hochi Film Award in 2007 for ''
A Gentle Breeze in the Village'' and ''
The Matsugane Potshot Affair''. He often works with the screenwriter Kōsuke Mukai.
Filmography
Film
* (1999)
* (2003)
* (2003)
* (2004)
* ''
Linda Linda Linda
is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita. It stars Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yu Kashii, and Shiori Sekine (of the band Base Ball Bear) as teenagers who form a band to cover songs by the Japanese punk rock band the Blue Hearts; the ...
'' (2005)
* (2006) ominbus
* ''
The Matsugane Potshot Affair'' (2006)
* ''
A Gentle Breeze in the Village'' (2007)
* ''
My Back Page is a 2011 Japanese film directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita, director of '' Linda Linda Linda''. It is based on Saburo Kawamoto's true life account.
The film was featured at the 2011 (30th) Vancouver International Film Festival, the 2011 (16th) Busan ...
'' (2011)
* ''
The Drudgery Train'' (2012)
* ''
Tamako in Moratorium
is a 2013 Japanese film directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita and starring former AKB48 member Atsuko Maeda. The film had its world premiere at the 2013 Busan International Film Festival and was released in Japan on 23 November 2013.
Plot
Tamako is ...
'' (2013)
* ''
La La La at Rock Bottom'' (2015)
*
''Over the Fence'' (2016)
* (2016)
* (2018)
* ''
Let's Go Karaoke!
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yama Wayama. The series follows a yakuza lieutenant who seeks instruction in karaoke from the head of a high school choir. It was originally published as a (self-published manga) in 2019 ...
'' (2023)
* ''My Missing Valentine'' (2023)
TV
*''
Midnight Diner'' (2009–2006)
* ''Modern Love Tokyo'' (2022, episode 3)
References
External links
*
*
Fukugan no eizō- Conversation between Yamashita and Mukai,
Directors Guild of Japan
The is a trade union created to represent the interests of film directors in the film industry in Japan. It was founded in 1936, with Minoru Murata serving as the first president, and has continued to this day apart from a period between 1943 and ...
website (in Japanese)
1976 births
Living people
Japanese film directors
People from Aichi Prefecture
Osaka University of Arts alumni
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