Joji Matsuoka

Matsuoka Joji

  • Name: Matsuoka Joji
  • Native name: 松岡錠司
  • Also Known as: まつおか じょうじ, Matsuoka Jōji
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: November 7, 1961
  • Age: 63
Matsuoka Jōji is a Japanese film director. After studying filmmaking in the College of Art at Nihon University, he won an award for his independent short Inaka no hōsoku at the Pia Film Festival in 1984. He directed his first commercial feature, Bataashi kingyo, in 1990 and received a number of awards for best new director, including the Hochi Film Award. He won the Japan Academy Prize for best director for his film Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad. Matsuoka is known for his delicate depictions of complicated romantic and familial relationships, including a homosexual triangle in Kirakira Hikaru, a daughter caring for an abusive but now senile mother in Akashia no Michi, and a son caring for a cancer-stricken mother in Tokyo Tower. He has also shot many television commercials. His best known and most successful TV show is the Midnight Diner - Tokyo Stories.
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Director
Year Title Type Rating
2022 Kondo Umaretara
Drama
7.3
2019 Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories Season 2
Drama
8.1
2016 Midnight Diner 2
Movie
7.9
2016 Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Drama
8.2
2015 Midnight Diner
Movie
8.0
2014 Midnight Diner Season 3
Drama
8.0
2011 Midnight Diner Season 2
Drama
8.2
2009 Snow Prince
Movie
7.6
2009 Midnight Diner
Drama
8.3
2007 Tokyo Tower: Mom & Me, and Sometimes Dad
Movie
7.6
1997 Watashitachi Ga Suki Datta Koto
Movie
10.0
Screenwriter & Director
Year Title Type Rating
2008 Double Trouble
Movie
6.0
2003 Sayonara, Kuro
Movie
7.2
1995 Toire no Hanako-san
Movie
6.6
1992 Kira Kira Hikaru
Movie
6.7
1990 Bataashi Kingyo
Movie
6.9
Movie
Year Title Role Rating
2001 Quartet for Two
Japanese Movie, 2001,
Cook (Bit part)
Cook
Bit part
6.9
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  • First Name: Joji
  • Family Name: Matsuoka
  • Native name: 松岡錠司
  • Also Known as: まつおか じょうじ, Matsuoka Jōji
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: November 7, 1961
  • Age: 63

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