Mitsuo Yanagimachi
{{short description|Japanese screenwriter and film director (born 1945)}}
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{{nihongo|Mitsuo Yanagimachi|柳町光男|Yanagimachi Mitsuo|born November 2, 1945}} is a Japanese screenwriter and film director.
Career
Born in Namegata District, Ibaraki, Yanagimachi attended the Faculty of Law at Waseda University but began studying filmmaking.{{cite web|last=Ōba|first=Masaaki|title=Yanagimachi Mitsuo intabyū|url=http://c-cross.cside2.com/html/a20ya002.htm|work=Criss Cross|accessdate=12 May 2011}} Working as a freelance assistant director after graduating, he started his own production company in 1974 and produced the documentary film God Speed You! Black Emperor (1976) about bōsōzoku.{{cite web|title=Yanagimachi Mitsuo|url=http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9F%B3%E7%94%BA%E5%85%89%E7%94%B7|work=Nihon jinmei daijiten + Plus|publisher=Kōdansha|accessdate=12 May 2011}} He made his fiction film debut in 1979 with Jūkyūsai no Chizu. That and the later Himatsuri were based on novels by Kenji Nakagami. His 1982 work Saraba Itoshiki Daichi showed in the Competition at the Berlin Film Festival.{{cite web|title=Programme|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1982/02_programm_1982/02_Programm_1982.html|publisher=Berlinale|accessdate=12 May 2011}} His films have often focused on youth (Who's Camus Anyway?), on ethnic minorities in Japan (Ai ni Tsuite, Tokyo), as well as on Asia (Shadow of China and the documentary Tabisuru Pao-jiang-hu).
Yanagimachi was awarded the Geijutsu Senshō Prize in 1985 by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.{{cite web|title=Geijutsu Senshō rekidai jushōsha|url=http://www.bunka.go.jp/geijutsu_bunka/01geijutsuka/sensho/pdf/rekidai_jushosha.pdf|publisher=Bunkachō|accessdate=12 May 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819174814/http://www.bunka.go.jp/geijutsu_bunka/01geijutsuka/sensho/pdf/rekidai_jushosha.pdf|archivedate=19 August 2012}}
Filmography as director
- God Speed You! Black Emperor (1976; documentary)
- Jūkyūsai no Chizu (A 19-Year-Old's Map) (1979)
- Saraba Itoshiki Daichi (Farewell to the Land) (1982)
- Himatsuri (Fire Festival) (1985)
- Shadow of China (1990)
- Ai ni Tsuite, Tokyo (About Love, Tokyo) (1992)
- Tabisuru Pao-jiang-hu (Travelling Medicine Peddlers) (1995; documentary)
- Who's Camus Anyway? (2005)
Awards
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| Year
! Award ! Film ! Festival |
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| 1980
| Best New Director | Yokohama Film Festival{{Cite web |url=http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/01-1979/01_1979_shou.html |script-title=ja:第1回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９７９年日本映画個人賞|accessdate= 2010-03-29|publisher= Yokohama Film Festival|language=Japanese}} |
| 1985
| Ernest Artaria Award |
| 1986
| Rotterdam Award |
| 1992
| Interfilm Award - Honorable Mention |
| 1992
| Special Jury Prize |
| 2005
| Japanese Eyes: Best Film |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0945847|name=Mitsuo Yanagimachi}}
- [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0366670.htm JMDB entry]
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Category:Japanese film directors
Category:People from Ibaraki Prefecture
Category:Japanese documentary filmmakers