FILM DIRECTOR

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

1973 - Today

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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 531,668 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Hiromasa Yonebayashi is the 1,349th most popular film director (down from 1,250th in 2019), the 1,492nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,355th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Japanese Film Director.

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  • 530k

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  • 52.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Hiromasa Yonebayashi ranks 1,349 out of 2,041. Before him are Guillermo Navarro, Howard Deutch, Michael Caton-Jones, Dennis Gansel, Scott Derrickson, and Mark Sandrich. After him are Lucrecia Martel, Tommy Lee Wallace, Stanley Tong, Carlo Vanzina, Alexander Hall, and Tim Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Hiromasa Yonebayashi ranks 252. Before him are Airat Ichmouratov, T. R. Knight, Cathy Freeman, Élodie Bouchez, Dennis Gansel, and Eva Röse. After him are Jorge Garcia, Tara Strong, Gabriel Popescu, Kim Sun-a, Umaga, and Michel Pensée.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiromasa Yonebayashi ranks 1,492 out of 6,245. Before him are Junichi Inamoto (1979), Tomoyasu Hotei (1962), Toru Kamikawa (1963), Naoji Ito (1959), Tokiharu Abe (1911), and Hikaru Nakamura (1987). After him are Toshiaki Imai (1954), Nikka Costa (1972), Hikaru Midorikawa (1968), Lynn Okamoto (1970), Mitsuko Horie (1957), and Haruki Uemura (1951).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Hiromasa Yonebayashi ranks 53. Before him are Kihachi Okamoto (1924), Naomi Kawase (1969), Shunji Iwai (1963), Shinichirō Watanabe (1965), Yōjirō Takita (1955), and Ryusuke Hamaguchi (1978). After him are Takashi Shimizu (1972), Jun'ichi Kōuchi (1886), Hiroyuki Imaishi (1971), Noriyuki Abe (1961), Yasuhiro Takemoto (1972), and Byron Howard (1968).

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