Yūdai Yamaguchi
| Yūdai Yamaguchi | |
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| Born | 1971 (age 45–46) Japan |
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Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1999 – |
Yūdai Yamaguchi (山口 雄大 Yamaguchi Yūdai?, born 1971) is a Japanese film director who has worked mainly in the comedy and horror genres. He has "made a name for himself by mixing goofy gore with manga-esque escapades and plain utter weirdness".
Yamaguchi was born in 1971 and attended the Japan Academy of Moving Images (日本映画学校 Nihon Eiga Gakkō?). After graduation he won a number of awards at independent film festivals. In 2000 he co-wrote (with director Ryuhei Kitamura) the action-horror film Versus (VERSUS ヴァーサス) starring Tak Sakaguchi. Yamaguchi was also a second-unit director on the movie.
He made his debut as a feature film director with Battlefield Baseball released theatrically in July 2003. This horror-sports-comedy again starred Tak Sakaguchi and the film won the Grand Prize at the 14th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival held in February 2003. Yamaguchi was a guest at the festival. He followed this in 2004 with Babaa Zone, a compilation of five short skits in collaboration with manga artist Gatarō Man. In late 2004, Yamaguchi was one of the directors of Takashi Shimizu's comedy-horror TV series The Great Horror Family (怪奇大家族 Kaiki daikazoku?).
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