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Luis Llosa

ルイス・ロッサ　/　るいす・ろっさ

Film director from Peru

April 18, 1951 (age 75)　・　Lima, Lima Department, Peru

Lima Department
film director
film producer
screenwriter

My Take

Luis Llosa is a name I always associate with a very specific era of 1990s genre cinema. Sniper, The Specialist, and Anaconda are not films critics fawn over, but they were the kind of glossy, high-tension thrillers that defined video-store shelves for me. What I find genuinely notable is that a Peruvian director from Lima broke into that Hollywood studio machine at all. Anaconda in particular became a guilty-pleasure staple. I would not call him an auteur, but he understood pace and spectacle, and there is a craftsmanship in delivering reliable, watchable popcorn movies that I think gets undervalued. He carved a real lane internationally.

Overview

Luis Llosa Urquidi (born 1951) is a Peruvian film director. He is best known for his feature films Sniper (1993), The Specialist (1994), and Anaconda (1997).

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Luis Llosa
Name (Japanese): ルイス・ロッサ
Reading: るいす・ろっさ
Born: April 18, 1951 (age 75)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Rabbit
Origin: Lima, Lima Department, Peru
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: film director / film producer / screenwriter

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Markham College

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	Sniper	—
Notable work	The Specialist	—
Notable work	Anaconda	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%82%B5

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