Known For
Directing
Born
Sep 13, 1931
Place of Birth
Osaka, Japan
Credits
168 titles
Yoji Yamada
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Tokyo Taxi
Director
Home Sweet Home
Writer
55th anniversary performance of Tora-San: Rakugo, Talk and Tora Jiro Returns
Mom, Is That You?!
Director
The Call of a Faraway Mountain
Screenplay
It's a Flickering Life
Screenplay
戦争童画集 ～75年目のショートストーリー～
Director
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Director
Seijo Story: 60 Years of Making Films
Self
Shounen Torajirou
Original Story
A Distant Cry from Spring
Writer
Older Brother, Younger Sister
Screenplay
What a Wonderful Family! 3
Director
What a Wonderful Family! 2
Director
Ken San
What a Wonderful Family!
Director
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Director
700 Days with Ryuichi Sakamoto
Self
Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki
Self
The Little House
Director
Tokyo Family
Director
The Yellow Handkerchief
Writer
Kyoto Story
Story
About Her Brother
Director
Shinema Kabuki: Renjishi
Director
Free and Easy 20: Final
Screenplay
The Yellow Handkerchief
Original Film Writer
Kabei: Our Mother
Director
Love and Honor
Director
Sea Without Exit
Screenplay
Free and Easy 17
Screenplay
Free and Easy 16
Writer
The Hidden Blade
Director
Free and Easy 14
Writer
The Twilight Samurai
Screenplay
Free and Easy 13
Writer
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Writer
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
Director
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
Writer
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Director
Free and Easy 10
Screenplay
Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirou Wasurenagusa
Creator
The Rainbow Seeker 2
Director
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Director
Shin Salaryman Senka
Screenplay
The Rainbow Seeker
Director
Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
Screenplay
A Class to Remember II
Director
Free and Easy 8
Writer
Tora-san to the Rescue
Director