Yuki Tanada

Yuki Tanada (タナダユキ, Tanada Yuki, born 12 August 1975, in Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Yuki Tanada
Born (1975-08-12) 12 August 1975
Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
OccupationFilm director, screenwriter

Career

Born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Tanada pursued theater in high school before entering the Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image to study filmmaking.[1][2][3][4] Her independently produced film Moru won the grand prize at the 2001 Pia Film Festival.[2] Her next work, Takada Wataru: A Japanese Original, a documentary on a Japanese folk singer, was featured at the 2003 Tokyo International Film Festival.[5] She won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for her 2008 film One Million Yen Girl.[1] She has written the scripts for many of her films as well as contributed the script to Mika Ninagawa's Sakuran.[2] She has also directed for television.[1]

Selected filmography

References
  1. 2008年度 日本映画監督協会新人賞～タナダユキ監督インタビュー (in Japanese). Director's Guild of Japan. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  2. 映画監督タナダユキ. Shigotonin (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  3. "Tanada Yuki". Tokyo Source (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  4. Sharp, Jasper. "Yuki Tanada Interview". Midnight Eye. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  5. "TIFF History: 16th Festival". Tokyo International Film Festival. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.