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Tizuka Yamasaki
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Place of Birth Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Born 1949-05-12
Known For 2 Works
Tizuka Yamasaki (born May 12, 1949) is a Brazilian film director. Daughter of Japanese immigrants, Yamasaki was one of the first women filmmakers in Brazil to achieve a successful and longstanding career. She and her peers learned filmmaking by working on the sets of well-established Cinema Novo directors such as Glauber Rocha and Nelson Pereira dos Santos. Yamasaki challenged the...