Kunihiko Yuyama
Highest Rated: 44% Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution (2019)
Lowest Rated: 0% Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns (2000)
Birthday: Oct 15, 1952
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Admirers of anime films and television series will certainly be, whether knowingly or unknowingly, familiar with the work of director Kunihiko Yuyama. Yuyama got his start in the late 1970s and early 1980s, working on multiple episodes of such popular Japanese animated television series as "Josephina the Whale" and "Mahô no purinsesu Minkî Momo." By the middle of the 1990s, Yuyama began scoring big within the anime genre with such popular works for younger children as "Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning" and "Wedding Peach," both of which are far from the violent and sexually charged material that those unfamiliar with the style first think of as anime. By the end of the decade, he landed his best known work via an association with the "Pokémon" franchise. Eventually, this included a string of "Pokémon"-related videos and films with such titles as "Pokémon: The Movie 2000," "Pokémon 3: The Movie," "Pokémon 4: The Movie," etc. Additionally, Yuyama has been known to work as a storyboard artist on films he directs, an unusual doubling of responsibilities that gives him a greater control over the final product.
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Kunihiko Yuyama
Filmography
Movies
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44% |
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Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution | Director | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution | Director | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution | Director | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution | Director | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! | Director | - | 2017 |
33% |
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Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! | Director | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel | Director | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel | Director | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rudolf the Black Cat | Director | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rudolf the Black Cat | Director | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages | Director | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages | Director | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon the Movie XY | Director | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Pikachu and the Pokémon Music Squad | Director | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction | Director | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction | Director | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Pikachu, What's This Key? | Director | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened | Director | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened | Director | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon The Movie: Genesect And The Legend Awakened | Director | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Eevee & Friends | Director | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice | Director | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice | Director | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon The Movie: Kyurem vs The Sword Of Justice | Director | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Meloetta's Moonlight Serenade | Director | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom | Director | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon the Movie: Black - Victini and Reshiram | Director | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon The Movie: Black-Victini And Reshiram | Director | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon the Movie: White -- Victini and Zekrom | Director | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon the Movie: Black -- Victini and Reshiram | Director | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions | Director | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions | Director | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life | Director | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior | Director | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior | Director | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai | Director | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai | Director | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai | Director | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: The Rise Of Darkrai | Director | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea | Director | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew | Director | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon Ranger And The Temple Of The Sea | Director | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew | Director | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew | Director | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea | Director | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Lucario And The Mystery Of Mew | Director | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys | Director | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys | Director | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon: Jirachi - Wish Maker | Director | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Gotta Dance!! | Director | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Jirachi-Wish Maker | Director | - | 2003 |
16% |
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Pokémon 4Ever | Director | $1.7M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Camp Pikachu | Director | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon 4Ever | Director | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon Heroes: Latios and Latias | Director | - | 2002 |
20% |
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Pokémon 3: The Movie | Director | $17.1M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pikachu's PikaBoo | Director | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon 4Ever | Director | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon 3: The Movie | Director | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon the Movie 2000 | Director | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns | Director | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon 3: The Movie | Director | - | 2000 |
0% |
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Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns | Director | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon the Movie 2000: The Power of One | Director | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokemon: Pikachu's Rescue Adventure | Director | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Pokémon: The First Movie | Director | - | 1999 |
16% |
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Pokémon: The First Movie | Director | $85.7M | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pikachu's Vacation | Director | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pokémon: The First Movie | Director | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning | Director | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Apfelland Monogatari | Director | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Three Musketeers: Aramis the Adventure | Director | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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Once Upon a Time | Director | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | GoShogun | Director | - | 1982 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 75% | Pokémon the Series | Director | 2009 |