Joji Matsuoka
Jōji Matsuoka is a Japanese film director. After studying filmmaking in the College of Art at Nihon University, he won an award for his independent short Inaka no hōsoku at the Pia Film Festival in 1984. He directed his first commercial feature, Bataashi kingyo, in 1990 and received a number of awards for best new director, including the Hochi Film Award.
Joji Matsuoka
- Name
- Jōji Matsuoka
- Born
- 7 November 1961
- Birthplace
- Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
- Occupation
- Film director
- Nationality
- Japan
- Education
- Nihon University
- Honours
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Newcomer
- Languages
- Japanese
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He won the Japan Academy Prize for best director for his film Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad. Matsuoka is known for his delicate depictions of complicated romantic and familial relationships, including a homosexual triangle in Kirakira Hikaru, a daughter caring for an abusive but now senile mother in Akashia no Michi, and a son caring for a cancer-stricken mother in Tokyo Tower. He has also shot many television commercials. His best known and most successful TV show is Midnight Diner.
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• Name — Jōji Matsuoka • Born — 7 November 1961 • Birthplace — Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan • Occupation — Film director
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Joji Matsuoka (born 7 November 1961) is described as a film director in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Joji Matsuoka was born on 7 November 1961.
TV Dramas
TV Dramas
• Midnight Diner (2009 - 2019)
Films
• Swimming Upstream (1990) • Kirakira Hikaru (1992) • Toire no Hanako-san (1995) • Akashia no Michi (2001) • Sayonara, Kuro (2003) • Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007) • Kanki no Uta (2008) • Snow Prince (2009) • Midnight Diner (2014) • Midnight Diner 2 (2016)
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- 1.Nouvelles trajectoires - MCJP
- 2.La Cantine de Minuit Vol.1 - Le Lézard noir
- 3.Poisson en herbe : titre français du film lors de sa projection le à la Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
- 4.La Cantine de minuit (2015) - MCJP
- 5.La Cantine de minuit 2 (2016) - MCJP
- 6.Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories - Netflix
- 7.Palmarès de l'édition 1984 du Pia Film Festival - site du PFF
- 8.Hōchi Film Awards.
- 9.cérémonie des prix du film Mainichi - (1990年). mainichi.jp.
- 10.cérémonie des Japan Academy Prize - (2008年). www.japan-academy-prize.jp.
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