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. He worked at Kyoto Animation for almost his entire animation career after joining the company in 1996 until his death in 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Yasuhiro Takemoto is the 1,701st most popular film director (down from 1,532nd in 2024), the 2,243rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,688th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yasuhiro Takemoto ranks 1,701 out of 2,041. Before him are Jeffrey Lieber, Nimród Antal, Axel Braun, Rupert Sanders, Malik Bendjelloul, and Mani Ratnam. After him are Errol Morris, Hal Hartley, Claudia Llosa, Ken Hughes, Dan Laustsen, and Ramanand Sagar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Yasuhiro Takemoto ranks 511. Before him are Paolo Negro, Sonya Smith, Rodrigo Pessoa, Angela Little, Hadiqa Kiani, and Naoki Mori. After him are Chikayuki Mochizuki, Yiğit Özşener, Guillaume Soro, Arif Erdem, Eugene Hütz, and Karan Johar. Among people deceased in 2019, Yasuhiro Takemoto ranks 562. Before him are Alan Rollinson, Ulf Bengtsson, James Frawley, Dave Bartholomew, Fay McKenzie, and Werner von Moltke. After him are Dorothy Masuka, Marieke Vervoort, John Conyers, Fernando Ricksen, Les Murray, and Georgia Engel.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasuhiro Takemoto ranks 2,243 out of 6,245. Before him are Masaya Onosaka (1964), Shunichi Ikenoue (1967), Naoki Mori (1972), Tetsurō Araki (1976), Kazuko Sawamatsu (1951), and Mayumi Iizuka (1977). After him are Kōji Yusa (1968), Rie Kimura (1971), Chikayuki Mochizuki (1972), Hiroki Ito (1999), Shigetoshi Hasebe (1971), and Jun Yanagisawa (1987).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Yasuhiro Takemoto ranks 61. Before him are Ryusuke Hamaguchi (1978), Hiroyuki Imaishi (1971), Hiroyuki Morita (1964), Noriyuki Abe (1961), Kazuya Tsurumaki (1966), and Mahiro Maeda (1963). After him are Mari Okada (1976), Byron Howard (1968), Ryuhei Kitamura (1969), Tatsuya Ishihara (1966), Naoko Yamada (1984), and Shinji Aoyama (1964).

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