Tizuka Yamasaki
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1949-05-12 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Also known As
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Tizuka Yamasaki
Biography
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 Cinema Novo by increasing both the representation of women and the awareness of issues affecting women in Brazilian society. Her film style focuses on historical subjects and she uses the genre of melodrama to reconstruct Brazilian politics, history and c...
Acting
2020
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Production
1990
as Director
2010
as Director
1999
as Director
1997
as Director
1980
as Director
1983
as Director
1980
as Production Director
2014
as Director
1981
as Director
2005
as Director
2005
as Screenplay
2005
as Producer
2009
1984
as Executive Producer
1998
as Director
2000
as Director
1983
as Screenplay
2017
as Director
1977
as Set Designer
2017
as Director
1980
as Writer
1985
as Director
2015
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