Yamamoto Junichi

Name: Yamamoto Junichi
Native name: 山本淳一
Also Known as: やまもとじゅんいち, Jun'ichi Yamamoto
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Born: July 24, 1970
Age: 56

At the age of four, he watched "Enter the Dragon " and "Darebolica" at a movie theater and aspired to become a movie director. After graduating from Toei Gakuen Vocational School, after working as an assistant director at Kyoto Taihata Photo Studio, he made an independent film. Each of the independent films produced will be released to theaters. Debuted as a commercial movie with the self-remake "MEATBALL MACHINE".

Although he suffered from cerebral hemorrhage in 2014, after a year of rehabilitation, the TV Setouchi 30th anniversary drama "Ganbare! In "White Peaches", he was in charge of the director and screenplay, and returned to the scene. Since then, he has been energetically shooting theater films.

Since 2003, he has also been a lecturer at Toho Gakuen Sound College Edit Biography

Year	Title	Type	Rating
2018	Magical Michiko	Movie	7.0
2014	Hoso Dekinai Kindan Re Eizo: Gekijoban	Movie	0.0
2012	Musashino-sen no Shimai	Movie	8.0
2012	BUTAKARI: Vengeance BOX	Movie	6.0
2010	Shiawase ni Narenai Kanashi Hana: Noroi no Drive	Movie	0.0
2005	Meatball Machine	Movie	6.2

Year	Title	Type	Rating
2008	Run3/Twilight File V	Movie	4.0
2003	68 Films	Drama	6.0

Year	Title	#	Role	Rating
1991	Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari Series 2 Japanese Drama, 1991, 39 eps {Jikan yo Tomare} (Ep. 2) (Main Role)	39	{Jikan yo Tomare} (Ep. 2) Main Role	7.0

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