FILM DIRECTOR

Yoshiyuki Tomino

1941 - Today

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Yoshiyuki Tomino (富野 由悠季, Tomino Yoshiyuki, born 富野 喜幸; November 5, 1941) is a Japanese anime director, screenwriter, songwriter and novelist best known for creating the Gundam anime franchise. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoshiyuki Tomino has received more than 693,783 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yoshiyuki Tomino is the 461st most popular film director (down from 434th in 2019), the 699th most popular biography from Japan (down from 648th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Japanese Film Director.

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  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yoshiyuki Tomino ranks 461 out of 2,041Before him are Umberto Lenzi, Jacques Deray, Delbert Mann, Glauber Rocha, Lung Chien, and John Lasseter. After him are Hiroshi Teshigahara, Nadine Trintignant, Tom Holland, Patricio Guzmán, Mauro Bolognini, and André Cayatte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Yoshiyuki Tomino ranks 178Before him are Mariangela Melato, Federico Faggin, Jaan Kaplinski, İdil Biret, Leon Russom, and Amir Pnueli. After him are Ghena Dimitrova, Peter Cullen, Patricio Guzmán, Charles Whitman, Fred West, and Umberto Bossi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshiyuki Tomino ranks 699 out of 6,245Before him are Fujiwara no Teika (1162), Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628), Kenzo Ohashi (1934), Naoko Takeuchi (1967), Shō Shin (1465), and Takako Shimazu (1939). After him are Keisai Eisen (1790), Prince Morikuni (1301), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), Yoshinobu Ishii (1939), Setsu Sawagata (null), and Norio Yoshimizu (1946).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Yoshiyuki Tomino ranks 22Before him are Mikio Naruse (1905), Kinji Fukasaku (1930), Ishirō Honda (1911), Kaneto Shindo (1912), Kon Ichikawa (1915), and Takashi Miike (1960). After him are Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), Seijun Suzuki (1923), Gorō Miyazaki (1967), and Osamu Dezaki (1943).

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