Tizuka Yamasaki

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Personal Info

Known for

Directing

From

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Born

5/12/1949

Age

76

Credit(s)

3

Biography

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 d ...Show More