Tizuka Yamasaki

Tizuka Yamasaki was born on 12 May 1949 in Porto Alegre, into a family of Japanese immigrants who soon after settled in Atibaia, in the interior of São Paulo state. She studied cinema in Brasília and then in Rio and learned the trade as an assistant to Nelson Pereira dos Santos, and to Glauber Rocha. She founded her own production company in the seventies. She then also worked for television, where she directed serials and series, and made commercial comedies. She received the Order of Cultural Merit in 2000, according to Portal Tela.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaGaijin: Roads to FreedomGaijin, os caminhos da liberdadeTizuka Yamasaki · 1980Cinema