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Tizuka Yamasaki

Director

Tizuka Yamasaki

Directing
1990 — present · 5 films
Born
12 May 1949 · age 77
From
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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.

Career Signature

How Tizuka Yamasaki’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they directed.