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Yoko Taro

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Yoko Taro

Born Jun 6, 1970 · 56 years28 titles 25 movies · 3 TV
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Biography

Yoko Taro is a Japanese video game director and scenario writer. Starting his career at the now-defunct game company Cavia, his best-known work was on the action role-playing video game series Drakengard, and its spin-offs, NieR and NieR:Automata.

Also known as

ヨコオタロウ

Born

Jun 6, 1970

Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

2

Acting credits

8

Directing

25

Writing

8

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

By release / first air year · movie & TV merged

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2014 1 title(s)

2015 1 title(s)

2016 1 title(s)

2017 1 title(s)

2018 4 title(s)

2019 2 title(s)

2020 3 title(s)

2021 2 title(s)

2022 2 title(s)

2023 4 title(s)

2024 3 title(s)

2025 1 title(s)

2026 2 title(s)

Undated 1 title(s)