Takashi Yamazaki

Takashi Yamazaki
Takashi Yamazaki
	Yamazaki in 2023
Born	June 12, 1964; Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
Alma mater	Asagaya College of Art and Design
Occupations	Film director; screenwriter; visual effects supervisor;
Years active	1984–present
Notable work	Returner (2002); Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005); Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007); Space Battleship Yamato (2010); The Eternal Zero (2013); Stand by Me Doraemon (2014); Parasyte: Part 1 (2014); Lupin III: The First (2019); Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020); Godzilla Minus One (2023);
Spouse	Shimako Satō (m. 2012)
Awards	Japan Academy Film Prize for Director of the Year; Japan Academy Film Prize for Screenplay of the Year;
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Takashi Yamazaki (山崎貴, Yamazaki Takashi, born June 12, 1964) is a Japanese filmmaker and visual effects supervisor. Known for his blockbusters with advanced visual effects, Yamazaki is considered a leading filmmaker in the Japanese film industry. The recipient of multiple accolades, he has won six Japanese Academy Awards, five Nikkan Sports Film Awards, and two Hochi Film Awards; and been nominated for an Academy Award. His films have collectively grossed over $523 million worldwide.

Yamazaki developed an interest in filmmaking and visual effects after watching Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (both 1977). Starting his career in the industry at Shirogumi in 1986, he later made his feature film debut with Juvenile (2000). After directing Returner (2002), Yamazaki gained recognition with his third film, Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005), which won twelve awards at the 29th Japanese Academy Awards. He then moved onto direct several film adaptations of popular anime, novels, and manga, including Space Battleship Yamato (2010), Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki (2011), The Eternal Zero (2013), and Stand by Me Doraemon (2014) respectively; the latter two films earned a total of nine awards at the 38th Japanese Academy Awards. These were followed by Parasyte (2014), Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate (2016), The Great War of Archimedes (2019), Dragon Quest: Your Story (2019), Lupin III: The First (2019), and Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020), Yokaipedia (2022). Yamazaki's acclaimed latest film, Godzilla Minus One, was released in Japan in November 2023 and in the United States the next month. In 2024, he and his team became the first Japanese production crew ever to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects.

In April 2012, Yamazaki married fellow filmmaker Shimako Satō, whom he had been friends with since his years at Asagaya College of Art and Design.

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