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 710,113 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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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yoshiyuki Tomino ranks 461 out of 2,041. Before 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 178. Before 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 6,245. Before 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).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Yoshiyuki Tomino ranks 22. Before 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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Filmography

Mobile Suit Gundam I
Director
In the year Universal Century 0079, humans have colonized the area of space lying in between the Earth and the moon. However, the ambitious Zabi family, rulers of the Duchy of Zeon, the grouping of colonies furthest from the earth, has sparked a war.
Mar 14o 19816.833 / 10
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
Director
In UC 0093, the Federation has recovered from its defeat and has created a new anti-colonial special forces unit to deal with rebel forces: Londo Bell. Elsewhere in space, Char Aznable reappears out of self-imposed hiding with a declaration that he now commands his own Neo-Zeon movement, and intends to force the emigration of Earth's inhabitants to space by bringing about an apocalypse.
Mar 12o 19887.1 / 10
Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow
Director
After surviving attacks by Zeon's Char Aznable and Garma Zabi, the crew of Federation warship White Base and its mobile suits must battle Zeon forces through Asia, Europe, and the Atlantic Ocean if they are to reach Earth Federation's headquarters alive. During that process, many of its crewmembers must overcome their fears, losses, immaturities, and insecurities in order to persevere.
Jul 11o 19817.3 / 10