Takashi Yamazaki

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Takashi Yamazaki

Born June 12, 1964 · Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan (age 62)

Takashi Yamazaki (山崎 貴, Yamazaki Takashi, born June 12, 1964) is a Japanese filmmaker and visual effects supervisor. Known for his blockbusters featuring advanced visual effects, he is considered a leading figure in the Japanese film industry. Yamazaki receives multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, eight Japanese Academy Awards, five Nikkan Sports Film Awards, two Hochi Film Awards, and …

Known For

Godzilla Minus OneGodzilla Minus One · 2023
Godzilla Minus One
★ 7.62023
MovieScience FictionHorror
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.
Godzilla Minus Zero
Nov 3, 2026
Godzilla Minus Zero · 2026
Godzilla Minus Zero
2026
MovieScience FictionHorror
War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally reclaim its daily life. Just as humanity managed to cling to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant.
Stand by Me DoraemonStand by Me Doraemon · 2014
Stand by Me Doraemon
★ 7.52014
MovieAnimationAdventure
Sewashi and Doraemon find themselves way back in time and meet Nobita. It is up to Doraemon to take care of Nobita or else he will not return to the present.
Lupin III: The FirstLupin III: The First · 2019
Lupin III: The First
★ 7.32019
MovieAdventureAnimation
The iconic "gentleman thief" Lupin III returns in an action-packed, continent-spanning adventure, as Lupin III and his colorful underworld companions race to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Bresson Diary, before it falls into the hands of a dark cabal that will stop at nothing to resurrect the Third Reich.
Space Battleship YamatoSpace Battleship Yamato · 2010
Space Battleship Yamato
★ 6.42010
MovieScience FictionAction
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
Stand by Me Doraemon 2Stand by Me Doraemon 2 · 2020
Stand by Me Doraemon 2
★ 7.82020
MovieAnimationAdventure
Nobita travels to the future to show his beloved grandma his bride, but adult Nobita has fled his own wedding.
The Eternal ZeroThe Eternal Zero · 2013
The Eternal Zero
★ 7.02013
MovieWarDrama
A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflicting accounts from his former comrades about his character and how he joined his squadron.
The Great War of ArchimedesThe Great War of Archimedes · 2019
The Great War of Archimedes
★ 6.72019
MovieWarAction
It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.

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Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of DarknessEko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness · 1995
Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness
★ 5.61995
MovieHorror
Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who's behind the supernatural attack, Misa also has to deal with assumptions by her fellow classmates that believe she is the one behind it all. Misa and twelve other students are kept late after school hours one day to retake an exam. Then, after sunset, the entire school is deserted, and the students find themselves trapped inside and their teacher no where to be found. One by one, the thirteen students are picked up and disposed of in horrific and graphic fashion. It is up to Misa to try and gain the trust of her fellow students so that she can protect them and stop the evil before it's too late.

Special Effects Supervisor

K-20: The Fiend with Twenty FacesK-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces · 2008
K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
★ 6.12008
MovieActionAdventure
In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.

Writer

Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate" · 2016
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
★ 7.82016
MovieDramaHistory
In a time when the main source of energy was still coal, there was a man who saw the future in oil. Young Tetsuzo Kunioka who hails from Moji, Kitakyushu, rides out into the oil business, but is faced with numerous challenges and competitors who stand in his way, including domestic suppliers and major western oil companies, or the "oil majors". But Tetsuzo never gave up, however despairing the situation was. He always found a way and paved a new road with his unconventional ideas, eccentric actions, and most of all, his caring heart toward his own men. That style of Tetsuzo's was not something that would ever change, even when the tides were against him in a war-lost Japan.

Director