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name: "Shizuo Yamanouchi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shizuo-yamanouchi"
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imdb_id: "nm0945567"
tmdb_id: 552000
wikidata_id: "Q11466508"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "13 June 1925"
died: "15 August 2021"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T14:29:05.393264+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Shizuo Yamanouchi

## Identity

Shizuo Yamanouchi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shizuo-yamanouchi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shizuo-yamanouchi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0945567
- **TMDB ID:** 552000
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11466508
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11466508, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945567/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552000

Producer. Born 13 June 1925 in Kamakura, Japon. Died 15 August 2021.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 13 June 1925, Kamakura, Japon
- **Died:** 15 August 2021
- **Also known as:** 山内静夫
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11466508, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945567/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552000

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*An Autumn Afternoon*](https://film.one/film/an-autumn-afternoon.md) (86)

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## Biography

Shizuo Yamanouchi (山内静夫) was a Japanese film producer. Born on 13 June 1925 in Kamakura, he died on 15 August 2021. After graduating from Keio University in 1948 he joined Shochiku’s Ofuna studio and worked in production.

He produced several of Yasujirō Ozu’s late films for Shochiku, including *Early Spring* (1956), *Equinox Flower* (1958), *Late Autumn* (1960) and *An Autumn Afternoon* (1962). He also produced *Assassination* (1964) and *Samurai Spy* (1965).

Yamanouchi later became a Shochiku executive and served as director of the Kamakura Bungakukan literary museum. He received the Japan Academy Prize for Excellent Work for *Rikyu* (1989) and the Fujimoto Prize Special Award.

*Sources: ja.wikipedia.org, yomiuri.co.jp, asahi.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *An Autumn Afternoon* (1962), Fi1m 86, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/an-autumn-afternoon.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *In Search of Ozu* (2018), Actor
- *Ozu's Films from Behind the Scenes* (2004), Actor
- *Talking with Ozu* (1993), Executive Producer
- *Downtown Heroes* (1988), Executive Producer
- *Guys Who Never Learn* (1987), Executive Producer
- *Children on the Island* (1987), Producer
- *I Lived, But...* (1983), Executive Producer
- *Samurai Spy* (1965), Producer
- *Snow Country* (1965), Executive Producer
- *Haigo no hito* (1965), Producer
- *Assassination* (1964), Producer
- *The House Where Flowers Bloom* (1963), Producer
- *An Autumn Afternoon* (1962), Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/an-autumn-afternoon.md)
- *Glory on the Summit* (1962), Executive Producer
- *Our Marriage* (1962), Executive Producer
- *Noren to hanayome* (1961), Producer
- *Furimuita hanayome* (1961), Executive Producer
- *Late Autumn* (1960), Producer
- *Storm on the Silvery Peaks* (1960), Producer
- *Tokyo Omnibus* (1959), Associate Producer
- *Good Morning* (1959), Producer
- *Equinox Flower* (1958), Producer
- *Her Hoodlum Lover* (1957), Producer
- *Tokyo Twilight* (1957), Producer
- *Early Spring* (1956), Producer
- *Dancing Girls of Izu* (1954), Producer

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