# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joji-matsuoka
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:36:58.853Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joji-matsuoka"
name: "Joji Matsuoka"
slug: "joji-matsuoka"
description: "Jōji Matsuoka  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 Midnight Diner."
tagline: "Japanese film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/83X2N5tmZNHZlFRkjzA3JTlrThh.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1961-11-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.16
  momentum:             0.802139037433155
  historical:           8.099750666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559629/"
    handle:    "nm0559629"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E5%86%88%E9%94%AD%E5%8F%B8"
    title: "松冈锭司"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چوچى ماتسوكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joji_Matsuoka"
    title: "Joji Matsuoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوجی ماتسواوکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dji_Matsuoka"
    title: "Jōji Matsuoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joji_Matsuoka"
    title: "Joji Matsuoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E5%B2%A1%E9%8C%A0%E5%8F%B8"
    title: "松岡錠司"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%93%B0%EC%98%A4%EC%B9%B4_%EC%A1%B0%EC%A7%80"
    title: "마쓰오카 조지"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q871515"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/123738"
    title: "Jōji Matsuoka"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump