---
name: "Takashi Yamazaki"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/takashi-yamazaki"
fi1m_id: "takashi-yamazaki"
imdb_id: "nm0945724"
tmdb_id: 43652
wikidata_id: "Q1052320"
roles: ["Director","Writer"]
born: "12 June 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-22T04:20:12.314130+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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# Takashi Yamazaki

## Identity

Takashi Yamazaki

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/takashi-yamazaki
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** takashi-yamazaki
- **IMDb ID:** nm0945724
- **TMDB ID:** 43652
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1052320
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Yamazaki, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1052320, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945724/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43652

Director and writer. Born 12 June 1964 in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer
- **Born:** 12 June 1964, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
- **Active:** 2023–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Go Abe](https://film.one/person/go-abe.md), [Kazuaki Kishida](https://film.one/person/kazuaki-kishida.md), [Keichiiro Moriya](https://film.one/person/keichiiro-moriya.md), [Minami Hamabe](https://film.one/person/minami-hamabe.md), [Ryunosuke Kamiki](https://film.one/person/ryunosuke-kamiki.md), [Yuki Yamada](https://film.one/person/yuki-yamada.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Yamazaki, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1052320, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945724/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43652

## Coming up

- *Godzilla Minus Zero* (2026-11-03), Director — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-minus-zero.md)
- *Grandgear* (2028-02-17), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Godzilla Minus One*](https://film.one/film/godzilla-minus-one.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Takashi Yamazaki is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and visual effects supervisor. Born on 12 June 1964 in Matsumoto, Nagano, he graduated from Asagaya College of Art and Design and joined the visual effects studio Shirogumi in 1986, where he has remained throughout his career.

His early directorial features include the science fiction films *Juvenile* (2000) and *Returner* (2002). He later directed adaptations such as *Always: Sunset on Third Street* (2005), *Space Battleship Yamato* (2010), *The Eternal Zero* (2013), *Stand by Me Doraemon* (2014) and *Lupin III: The First* (2019). Yamazaki wrote and directed *Godzilla Minus One* (2023), for which he also supervised the visual effects; the film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. He has received multiple Japan Academy Awards and other honours. He has been married to screenwriter and director Shimako Sato since 2012.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, asiasociety.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Godzilla Minus One* (2023), Fi1m 81, Screenplay, Director, Visual Effects Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-minus-one.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

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

- *Grandgear* (2028), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *Godzilla Minus Zero* (2026), Director, Visual Effects, Writer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-minus-zero.md)
- *Foodlosslla* (2024), Director
- *Godzilla Minus One* (2023), Director, Visual Effects Supervisor, Screenplay, Creature Design — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-minus-one.md)
- *Ghost Book* (2022), Writer, Director
- *It's a Flickering Life* (2021), VFX Supervisor
- *Stand by Me Doraemon 2* (2020), Screenplay, Director
- *Lupin III: The First* (2019), Writer, Director
- *Dragon Quest: Your Story* (2019), General Manager, Screenplay, Director
- *The Great War of Archimedes* (2019), Director, Screenplay
- *Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura* (2017), Director, Screenplay, Visual Effects Supervisor
- *Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"* (2016), Director, Screenplay
- *Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Autumn Special: Film Directors Collection* (2015), Director
- *Parasyte: Part 2* (2015), Screenplay, Director, Visual Effects Supervisor
- *Parasyte: Part 1* (2014), Screenplay, Director, Visual Effects Supervisor
- *Stand by Me Doraemon* (2014), Director, Screenplay
- *The Eternal Zero* (2013), Director, Visual Effects Supervisor, Screenplay
- *Always: Sunset on Third Street '64* (2012), Director, Screenplay, Visual Effects Supervisor
- *Friends: Naki on Monster Island* (2011), Director, Screenplay
- *Space Battleship Yamato* (2010), Director, Visual Effects Supervisor
- *Ballad* (2009), Director, Screenplay, Visual Effects
- *K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces* (2008), Visual Effects Supervisor, Writer
- *Always: Sunset on Third Street 2* (2007), Director, Screenplay, Visual Effects Supervisor
- *The iDol* (2006), Cameraman, Writer, Visual Effects
- *Always - Sunset on Third Street* (2005), Director, Screenplay
- *Aquarion* (2005), series, Storyboard
- *Heat Guy J* (2002), series, Director
- *Returner* (2002), Screenplay, Director
- *Juvenile* (2000), Writer, Director
- *Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of the Wizard* (1996), Special Effects
- *Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness* (1995), Special Effects Supervisor
- *Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie - Poltergeist Report* (1994), Key Animation
- *Yu Yu Hakusho* (1992), series, Key Animation
- *Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still* (1992), series, Key Animation
- *Marina the Manga Artist Goes to Camelot* (1990), Key Animation
- *Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan* (1981), series, as Worker
- *Nue*, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Takashi Yamazaki](https://film.one/media/person/15030/gallery-e24ac349e29f.jpg) Takashi Yamazaki — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Yamazaki_Takashi_from_%22Godzilla_Minus_One%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2023_%2853348355520%29_%28cropped%29_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Yamazaki_Takashi_from_%22Godzilla_Minus_One%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2023_%2853348355520%29_%28cropped%29_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![第27回 東京国際映画祭 山崎貴 (寄生獣) (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/15030/gallery-d3d3a82753ba.jpg) 第27回 東京国際映画祭 山崎貴 (寄生獣) (2014) — Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/27th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival-_Yamazaki_Takashi_from_Parasyte_%2815017720854%29.jpg/1280px-27th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival-_Yamazaki_Takashi_from_Parasyte_%2815017720854%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![第27回 東京国際映画祭 橋本愛 山崎貴 (寄生獣) (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/15030/gallery-a121be32e4b4.jpg) 第27回 東京国際映画祭 橋本愛 山崎貴 (寄生獣) (2014) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/27th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_Hashimoto_Ai_%26_Yamazaki_Takashi_from_Parasyte_%2815635799901%29.jpg/1280px-27th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_Hashimoto_Ai_%26_Yamazaki_Takashi_from_Parasyte_%2815635799901%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![27th Tokyo International Film Festival: Yamazaki Takashi from Parasyte (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/15030/gallery-620623639c87.jpg) 27th Tokyo International Film Festival: Yamazaki Takashi from Parasyte (2014) — Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/27th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_Takashi_Yamazaki_from_Parasyte.jpg/1280px-27th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_Takashi_Yamazaki_from_Parasyte.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Takashi Yamazaki](https://film.one/media/person/15030/gallery-dde6d8837927.jpg) Takashi Yamazaki — Image via TMDB
- ![​令和６年９月９日、岸田総理は、総理大臣官邸で合同開催された第１回コンテンツ産業官民協議会・第１回映画戦略企画委員会に出席しました。 (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/15030/gallery-a65b54081904.jpg) ​令和６年９月９日、岸田総理は、総理大臣官邸で合同開催された第１回コンテンツ産業官民協議会・第１回映画戦略企画委員会に出席しました。 (2024) — 内閣官房内閣広報室, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Contents20240909_6.jpg/1280px-Contents20240909_6.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![​令和６年９月９日、岸田総理は、総理大臣官邸で合同開催された第１回コンテンツ産業官民協議会・第１回映画戦略企画委員会に出席しました。 (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/15030/gallery-6b219b201216.jpg) ​令和６年９月９日、岸田総理は、総理大臣官邸で合同開催された第１回コンテンツ産業官民協議会・第１回映画戦略企画委員会に出席しました。 (2024) — 内閣官房内閣広報室, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Contents20240909_7.jpg/1280px-Contents20240909_7.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 2024: Best Visual Effects (won), for *Godzilla Minus One*

### Other awards — 4 won, 4 nominated

- Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director 2014: Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director (won)
- Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year 2013: Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year (nominated), for *Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki*
- Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year 2008: Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year (nominated), for *Always Zoku Sanchōme no Yūhi*
- Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year 2008: Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year (nominated), for *Always Zoku Sanchōme no Yūhi*
- Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year 2008: Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year (nominated), for *Always Zoku Sanchōme no Yūhi*
- Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year 2006: Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year (won), for *Always Sanchōme no Yūhi*
- Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year 2006: Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year (won), for *Always Sanchōme no Yūhi*
- Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year 2006: Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year (won), for *Always Sanchōme no Yūhi*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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