Tizuka Yamasaki

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Tizuka Yamasaki

Born May 12, 1949 · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (age 77)

Tizuka Yamasaki (born May 12, 1949) is a Brazilian film director. Daughter of Japanese immigrants, Yamasaki was one of the first women filmmakers in Brazil to achieve a successful and longstanding career. She and her peers learned filmmaking by working on the sets of well-established Cinema Novo directors such as Glauber Rocha and Nelson Pereira dos Santos. Yamasaki challenged the norms of Cinem…

Known For

Xuxa PopstarXuxa Popstar · 2000
Xuxa Popstar
3.32000
MovieRomanceComedy
Nick, a famous fashion model, decides to retire and goes back to her home country Brazil, after a briliant international career. She becomes the head executive of Popstar, the modeling agency where she started her career, and has to deal with intrigues, fashion faux pas and a budding online romance with Sunshine, a mysterious online friend.
Xuxa RequebraXuxa Requebra · 1999
Xuxa Requebra
3.61999
MovieMusicFamily
Nena, a journalist and former student of the Two Hearts dance academy, tries to stop the school from being sold to a group of drug dealers. She trains a group to win the Requebra dance contest that would give them the necessary money to carry their plans.
PatriamadaPatriamada · 1985
Patriamada
5.71985
MovieDrama
Xuxa and the Mystery of the Little Ugly PrincessXuxa and the Mystery of the Little Ugly Princess · 2009
Xuxa and the Mystery of the Little Ugly Princess
5.02009
MovieFamilyFantasy
Based on the book O Fantástico Mistério de Feiurinha, the story combines real world and fantasy, dream and determination, with a surprising end, even for a fairy tale. The movie shows the fight of the fairy tale characters, now adults, who come together to recover the fable of the Little Ugly Princess, a beautiful Princess with a strange name, which only makes sense for those who know her story. The problem is that children and adults have forgotten the story of the Little Ugly Princess, which is as wonderful as other major fables for children. Cinderella brings together other fairy tale characters to meet the writer who keeps, lost in a small notebook, the Little Ugly Princess story.
The Age of the EarthThe Age of the Earth · 1980
The Age of the Earth
6.01980
MovieDramaFantasy
Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during the late 1970s. At its core, the story revolves around four distinctive embodiments of Christ's image: a black man, a soldier, an Indian, and a guerrilla fighter. These courageous individuals, hailed as the harbingers of doom in the tupiniquim lands, valiantly combat the insatiable avarice and oppressive "civilizing" brutality propagated by the formidable John Brahms—a foreign exploiter devoid of morals.
O Noviço RebeldeO Noviço Rebelde · 1997
O Noviço Rebelde
5.41997
MovieComedyFamily
The troubled adventures of a country novice who goes to the big city to work as a nanny, taking care of the young and rebel sons of a widow businessman.
Crystal MoonCrystal Moon · 1990
Crystal Moon
5.41990
MovieRomanceComedy
The fairy tale story of Maria da Graça, a small town girl with big time dreams of becoming a singer, who moves to Rio de Janeiro to pursue her ambitions.
Gaijin 2: Love Me as I AmGaijin 2: Love Me as I Am · 2005
Gaijin 2: Love Me as I Am
7.92005
MovieRomanceDrama
In 1908, Titoe leaves her home country of Japan to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years, but life has other plans for her.

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Xuxa and the Mystery of the Little Ugly PrincessXuxa and the Mystery of the Little Ugly Princess · 2009
Xuxa and the Mystery of the Little Ugly Princess
5.02009
MovieFamilyFantasy
Based on the book O Fantástico Mistério de Feiurinha, the story combines real world and fantasy, dream and determination, with a surprising end, even for a fairy tale. The movie shows the fight of the fairy tale characters, now adults, who come together to recover the fable of the Little Ugly Princess, a beautiful Princess with a strange name, which only makes sense for those who know her story. The problem is that children and adults have forgotten the story of the Little Ugly Princess, which is as wonderful as other major fables for children. Cinderella brings together other fairy tale characters to meet the writer who keeps, lost in a small notebook, the Little Ugly Princess story.

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