Yoji Yamada
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Directing · Born 1931-09-13 · age 94 · Osaka, Japan
Yoji Yamada (山田 洋次 Yamada Yōji, born September 13, 1931 in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films. He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the age of 2 he was brought up in Manchuria. Following the end of World War II, he came back to Japan and subsequently he lived in Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture. After receiving his degree from Tokyo University in 1954, he entered Shochiku and worked under Yoshitaro Nomura as a scriptwriter or as an assistant director. He has won many awards throughout his lengthy career and is well respected in Japan and by critics throughout the world. He wrote his first screenplay in 1958, and directed his first movie in 1961. Yamada continues to make movies to this day. He once served as president of the Directors Guild of Japan, and is currently a guest professor of Ritsumeikan University.
Titles
The Twilight Samurai
The Yellow Handkerchief
The Hidden Blade
Love and Honor
Tokyo Family
The Castle of Sand
The Little House
Kabei: Our Mother
What a Wonderful Family!
The Yellow Handkerchief
A Distant Cry from Spring
What a Wonderful Family! 2
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
I, the Executioner
Zero Focus
Tokyo Taxi
About Her Brother
Where Spring Comes Late
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
What a Wonderful Family! 3
A Trap
My Sons
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Mom, Is That You?!
The Village
It's a Flickering Life
Downtown Heroes
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Home from the Sea
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Tora-san's Runaway
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
A Class to Remember II
One Way Ticket to Love
Tora-san's Love Call
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Tora-san's Lullaby
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
A Class to Remember
Kyoto Story
Sea Without Exit
Free and Easy 17
The Sunshine Girl
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Tora-san's Lovesick
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Free and Easy 10
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Tora-san's Pure Love
Tora-san Goes North
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Tora-san, My Uncle