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name: "Yutaka Yamazaki"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yutaka-yamazaki"
fi1m_id: "yutaka-yamazaki"
imdb_id: "nm0945594"
tmdb_id: 25646
wikidata_id: "Q11468209"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "1 January 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T22:10:51.325308+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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# Yutaka Yamazaki

## Identity

Yutaka Yamazaki

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yutaka-yamazaki
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yutaka-yamazaki
- **IMDb ID:** nm0945594
- **TMDB ID:** 25646
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11468209
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11468209, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945594/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25646

Cinematographer. Born 1 January 1940 in Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 1 January 1940, Tokyo, Japan
- **Also known as:** Yutaka Yamasaki
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11468209, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945594/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25646

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Nobody Knows*](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md) (87)

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## Biography

Yutaka Yamazaki is a Japanese cinematographer, also credited as Yutaka Yamasaki. Born in Tokyo in 1940, he graduated from the Film Department of Nihon University College of Art in 1963. He began working as a cameraman in the mid-1960s on documentaries and television productions.

Yamazaki has collaborated extensively with director Hirokazu Kore-eda, serving as cinematographer on *After Life* (1998), *Distance* (2001), *Nobody Knows* (2004), *Hana* (2006), *Still Walking* (2008), *I Wish* (2011) and *Still the Water* (2014). His other credits include *Shara* (2003), *Canary* (2005) and the documentary *Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine* (2015). He has also directed and produced films, including *Torso* (2009).

*Sources: imdb.com, wikidata.org, asianwiki.com, shotonwhat.com, nhk.or.jp.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nobody Knows* (2004), Fi1m 87, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

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

- *The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat* (2026), Director of Photography
- *Escape* (2025), Director of Photography
- *Great Absence* (2024), Cinematography
- *ゆめのまにまに* (2022), Director of Photography
- *Thousand and One Nights* (2022), Director of Photography
- *The Witches of the Orient* (2021), Director of Photography
- *The Goldfish: Dreaming of the Sea* (2021), Cinematography
- *The Wolves of the East* (2020), Director of Photography
- *Complicity* (2020), Director of Photography
- *Crystal Frog* (2019), Cinematography
- *Godot of the Emotos* (2019), Director
- *Yakiniku Dragon* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Bruno & Bettina* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Sound of Waves* (2017), Director of Photography
- *The Long Excuse* (2016), Director of Photography
- *FAKE* (2016), Cinematography
- *After the Storm* (2016), Cinematography
- *Artist of Fasting* (2016), Director of Photography
- *Ryuichi Hirokawa: Human Battlefield* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Ishibumi* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Nuclear Nation II* (2014), Director of Photography
- *Still the Water* (2014), Director of Photography
- *JUKAI: Mount Fuji Suicide Forest* (2013), Director of Photography
- *Going My Home* (2012), series, Director of Photography
- *Things Left Behind* (2012), Director of Photography
- *Japan Lies: The Photojournalism of Kikujiro Fukushima, Age 90* (2012), Director of Photography, Producer
- *Nuclear Nation* (2012), Director of Photography
- *I Wish* (2011), Director of Photography
- *ANPO: Art X War* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Kaidan Horror Classics* (2010), series, Director of Photography
- *Torso* (2009), Director, Screenplay, Producer, Director of Photography
- *So I Can Be Alright: Cocco's Endless Journey* (2008), Cinematography
- *Ain't No Tomorrows* (2008), Director of Photography
- *Then Summer Came* (2008), Director of Photography
- *Still Walking* (2008), Director of Photography
- *Tokyo Serendipity* (2007), Director of Photography
- *Hana* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Canary* (2005), Director of Photography
- *Nobody Knows* (2004), Director of Photography — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md)
- *Shara* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Tampen* (2001), Director of Photography
- *Distance* (2001), Director of Photography
- *Der Ausflug* (2000), Cinematography
- *After Life* (1999), Director of Photography
- *Dancers* (1978), Director
- *A.K.A. Serial Killer* (1975), Cinematography

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