Yuki Tanada

タナダユキ

1975 – Present

Genres
Drama
Topics
Belonging
Region
East Asia
Heritage
Japan
Featured in
Growing Up

Biography

Yuki Tanada (タナダユキ, Tanada Yuki, born 12 August 1975) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Tanada pursued theater in high school before entering the Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image to study filmmaking. Her independently produced film Moru won the grand prize at the 2001 Pia Film Festival. Her next work, Takada Wataru: A Japanese Original, a documentary on a Japanese folk singer, was featured at the 2003 Tokyo International Film Festival. She won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for her 2008 film One Million Yen Girl. She has written the scripts for many of her films as well as contributed the script to Mika Ninagawa's Sakuran. She has also directed for television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yuki Tanada, licensed under CC BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Selected Filmography

Selected Recognition

  1. Winner

    Fantasia International Film Festival · Best Screenplay (Cheval Noir Competition) (2022) · Winner

  1. Winner

    Directors Guild of Japan · New Directors Award (2009) · Winner

  2. Winner

    Udine Far East Film Festival · Audience Award (2009) · Winner

Interview

External Resources