New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

FILM DIRECTOR

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

1973 - Today

Photo of Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Icon of person Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Hiromasa Yonebayashi (米林 宏昌, Yonebayashi Hiromasa, born July 10, 1973 in Nonoichi, Ishikawa, Japan), nicknamed Maro (麻呂), is a Japanese animator and director, formerly for Studio Ghibli. After his directorial debut with Studio Ghibli (The Secret World of Arrietty), he became the youngest director of a theatrical film produced by the studio. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiromasa Yonebayashi has received more than 488,060 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hiromasa Yonebayashi is the 1,253rd most popular film director (down from 1,135th in 2019), the 1,358th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,228th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Japanese Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 490k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Hiromasa Yonebayashis by language


Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Hiromasa Yonebayashi ranks 1,253 out of 1,581Before him are George Abbott, Lev Kulidzhanov, Leigh Whannell, Phil Alden Robinson, Yılmaz Erdoğan, and Steve Miner. After him are Lee Unkrich, Clifford Odets, Kirill Serebrennikov, Joe Roth, Tarsem Singh, and Julia Ducournau.

Most Popular Film Directors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Hiromasa Yonebayashi ranks 229Before him are Rob Morgan, Omar Epps, Dave Chappelle, Nanako Matsushima, Dennis Gansel, and Katsuyuki Konishi. After him are James Foley, Jared Borgetti, Laura Codruța Kövesi, Kouta Hirano, Isabel dos Santos, and Jesse Marsch.

Others Born in 1973

Go to all Rankings

In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiromasa Yonebayashi ranks 1,358 out of 6,048Before him are Shinobu Ikeda (1962), Katsuyuki Konishi (1973), Moyoco Anno (1971), Yoshinobu Miyake (1939), Kenta Hasegawa (1965), and Noriko Hidaka (1962). After him are Nobuko Jashima (1959), Kouta Hirano (1973), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Kono Yasui (1880), Tooru Fujisawa (1967), and Nana Mizuki (1980).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Hiromasa Yonebayashi ranks 48Before him are Shinya Tsukamoto (1960), Hideo Nakata (1961), Ryusuke Hamaguchi (1978), Noriyuki Abe (1961), Naomi Kawase (1969), and Yōjirō Takita (1955). After him are Takashi Shimizu (1972), Yasuhiro Takemoto (1972), Tatsuya Ishihara (1966), Byron Howard (1968), and Naoko Yamada (1984).

Twitter Activity

Filmography