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.
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Midnight Diner 2
Midnight Diner
Twinkle
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Snow Prince
Phantom of the Toilet
Farewell, Kuro
Lesbian Harem
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Swimming Upstream
Quartet for Two
Double Trouble
Acacia Walk
THE RURAL RULE
March
いとしの配偶者39 credits on file
Television 5
Midnight Diner
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
When I Was Born Next Time
The Old One
Sugu Shinun DakaraAwards 1
Connected to Joji 6
About this person
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.
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