Luis Llosa

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.

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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)

Origin

Lima, Lima Department, Peru

Occupation

film director / film producer / screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit

University

Markham College

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20Llosa
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719821

Tags

• Lima Department
• film director
• film producer
• screenwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.