FILM DIRECTOR

Yasuhiro Takemoto

1972 - 2019

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Yasuhiro Takemoto (Japanese: 武本 康弘, Hepburn: Takemoto Yasuhiro, April 5, 1972 – July 18, 2019) was a Japanese animator and television and film director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yasuhiro Takemoto has received more than 624,436 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yasuhiro Takemoto is the 1,530th most popular film director (down from 1,425th in 2019), the 1,686th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,546th in 2019) and the 58th most popular Japanese Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yasuhiro Takemoto ranks 1,530 out of 2,041. Before him are Christophe Honoré, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Cristina Comencini, David Trueba, Deepa Mehta, and Zaza Urushadze. After him are Elmer Clifton, Alice Rohrwacher, Steven Lisberger, Nikolai Ekk, Dick Richards, and Samuel Maoz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Yasuhiro Takemoto ranks 338. Before him are A-Mei, Matt Schulze, Jani Soininen, Reiko Aylesworth, Rory Cochrane, and Léa Drucker. After him are Abel Korzeniowski, Johan Walem, Miguel de Icaza, Anna Belknap, Andrew Holness, and Andreas Goldberger. Among people deceased in 2019, Yasuhiro Takemoto ranks 505. Before him are W. Morgan Sheppard, Andrea Pollack, Elwyn Berlekamp, Sergey Dorenko, Djimrangar Dadnadji, and Zaza Urushadze. After him are Arun Jaitley, Harald Nickel, Atli Eðvaldsson, Giovanni Bramucci, Borka Pavićević, and Lothar Kobluhn.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasuhiro Takemoto ranks 1,686 out of 6,245. Before him are Brian Tee (1977), Jushin Liger (1964), Tomokazu Sugita (1980), Shiro Hashizume (1928), Pata (1965), and Shigemitsu Sudo (1956). After him are Tomomi Inada (1959), Rei Sakuma (1965), Yuji Sugano (1961), Ritsu Doan (1998), Tadahiro Nomura (1974), and Kyoko Fukada (1982).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Yasuhiro Takemoto ranks 58. Before him are Ryusuke Hamaguchi (1978), Hiromasa Yonebayashi (1973), Takashi Shimizu (1972), Jun'ichi Kōuchi (1886), Hiroyuki Imaishi (1971), and Noriyuki Abe (1961). After him are Byron Howard (1968), Mari Okada (1976), Tatsuya Ishihara (1966), and Naoko Yamada (1984).

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Filmography

小林さんちのメイドラゴン
Director
Kobayashi lives alone in an apartment, until one day, Tohru appeared and they ended up living together. Tooru looks down on humans as inferior and foolish, but having been saved by Kobayashi-san, she does everything she can to repay the debt and help her with various things, although not everything goes according to plan. A mythical everyday life comedy about a hard working office lady living with a dragon girl.
8.363 / 10
ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン
Director
The war is over, and Violet Evergarden needs a job. Scarred and emotionless, she takes a job as a letter writer to understand herself and her past.
8.492 / 10
CLANNAD
Director
Tomoya Okazaki is a third year high school student resentful of his life. His mother passed away from a car accident when he was younger, causing his father to resort to alcohol and cigarettes. This results in fights between the two until Tomoya's shoulder is injured in a fight. Since then, Tomoya has had distant relationships with his father, causing him to become a delinquent over time. While on a walk to school, he meets a strange girl named Nagisa Furukawa who is a year older, but is repeating due to illness. Due to this, she is often alone as most of her friends have moved on. The two begin hanging out and slowly, as time goes by, Tomoya finds his life shifting in a new direction.
8.324 / 10