Hitoshi Yazaki, a highly acclaimed and respected Japanese director and writer, made his entrance into the world on November 11, 1956.
Yazaki's journey to becoming a director was marked by a period of meticulous skill-building, during which he had the privilege of collaborating with two highly respected and accomplished professionals in the industry, Nagasaki Shunichi and Ishii Sogo.
Yazaki's inaugural feature film, Kazetachi no gogo/Afternoon Breezes, made a resounding entrance onto the cinematic scene in 1980, garnering widespread critical acclaim and recognition at prestigious film festivals such as the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Montreal World Film Festival, and the New York Gay Film Festival, where its excellence was feted and celebrated.
Notably, beyond his outstanding contributions to the realm of feature filmmaking, Takayuki Yazaki has concurrently achieved a substantial measure of success in the realm of television, particularly with the critically acclaimed anime series March Comes in Like a Lion, which has garnered widespread recognition and acclaim for its thought-provoking storytelling and masterful execution.
