Masashi Yamamoto

Directing · Acting · Writing · Production

Born January 24, 1956, Oita Prefecture, Japan

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.

Filmography

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