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name: "Teruhisa Yamamoto"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1981"
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# Teruhisa Yamamoto

Producer. Born 1 January 1981 in Hyōgo Prefecture.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1981, Hyōgo Prefecture
- **Also known as:** 山本 晃久, やまもと てるひさ
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110953287, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6167249/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2047034

## Biography

Teruhisa Yamamoto is a Japanese film and television producer. He graduated from the Japan Film School in 2003 and began working in the industry at C&I Entertainment before joining Walt Disney Japan. He later established Chiaroscuro Co., Ltd. as an independent production company.

Yamamoto has produced several notable films, including *Birds Without Names* (2017), *Asako I & II* (2018), *Wife of a Spy* (2020) and *Drive My Car* (2021), the last of which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture—the first for a Japanese producer in that category. His television credits include *The Naked Director* (2019) and *Gannibal* (2022). He has received producer awards including the Shindo Kaneto Producer Award.

*Sources: imdb.com, ja.wikipedia.org, variety.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Drive My Car* (2021), Fi1m 88, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/drive-my-car.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

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

- *White Flowers and Fruits* (2025), Producer
- *After the Quake* (2025), Producer
- *My Fave, the Killer* (2025), series, Producer
- *After the Quake* (2025), series, Production Supervisor
- *The Unknown Me* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Land of Tanabata* (2024), series, Producer
- *After the Fever* (2024), Producer
- *Dragons of Wonderhatch* (2023), series, Producer
- *A Town Without Seasons* (2023), series, Producer
- *Gannibal* (2022), series, Producer
- *Because We Forget Everything* (2022), series, Producer
- *Lost Man Found* (2022), series, Producer
- *Down the Road: The Making of Drive My Car* (2022), Producer, Director
- *We Couldn't Become Adults* (2021), Producer
- *Kinnikuman: The Lost Legend* (2021), series, Producer
- *Miss Osaka* (2021), Co-Producer
- *Drive My Car* (2021), Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/drive-my-car.md)
- *The Cinderella Addiction* (2021), Co-Producer
- *Wife of a Spy* (2020), Producer
- *PIPLE: My Married Life with an AI* (2020), series, Producer
- *The Naked Director* (2019), series, Producer
- *このマンガがすごい！* (2018), series, Producer
- *Love and Fortune* (2018), series, Producer
- *Asako I & II* (2018), Producer
- *School Lawyer* (2018), series, Producer
- *The Game of Business Card* (2017), series, Producer
- *Birds Without Names* (2017), Producer
- *Takayuki Yamada in 3D* (2017), Producer
- *Takayuki Yamada at Cannes Film Festival* (2017), series, Producer
- *Sono “Okodawari”, Watashi ni mo Kure yo!!* (2016), series, Producer
- *Around 30 Chan* (2014), series, Producer
- *Our Apprenticeship*, Producer
- *I Hear You*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2022: Best Picture (nominated), for *Drive My Car*

### Other awards — 3 won

- Elan d'or Association Award 2021: Elan d'or Association Award (won), for *Wife of a Spy*
- Fujimoto Prize 2021: Fujimoto Prize (won), for *Drive My Car*
- Kaneto Shindō Award 2020: Kaneto Shindō Award (won)

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

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