Yoji Yamada
- Directing
- September 13, 1931 · Osaka, Japan
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
- Yamazaki Riverside - Over an Actor's Shoulder - · Self
- Tokyo Taxi · Director, Screenplay
- Home Sweet Home · Writer
- 55th anniversary performance of Tora-San: Rakugo, Talk and Tora Jiro Returns
- Mom, Is That You?! · Director, Screenplay
- The Call of a Faraway Mountain · Screenplay
- It's a Flickering Life · Screenplay, Director
- 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, Screenplay
- Seijo Story: 60 Years of Making Films · Self
- Shounen Torajirou · Story
- A Distant Cry from Spring · Writer
- Older Brother, Younger Sister · Screenplay
- What a Wonderful Family! 3 · Director, Screenplay
- What a Wonderful Family! 2 · Director, Screenplay
- Ken San
- What a Wonderful Family! · Director, Screenplay
- Nagasaki: Memories of My Son · Director, Screenplay
- 700 Days with Ryuichi Sakamoto · Self
- Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki · Self
- The Little House · Director, Screenplay
- Tokyo Family · Director, Screenplay
- The Yellow Handkerchief · Writer
- Kyoto Story · Screenplay, Story
- About Her Brother · Director, Screenplay
- Shinema Kabuki: Renjishi · Director
- Free and Easy 20: Final · Screenplay
- The Yellow Handkerchief · Original Film Writer
- Kabei: Our Mother · Director, Screenplay
- Love and Honor · Director, Screenplay
- Sea Without Exit · Screenplay
- Free and Easy 17 · Screenplay
- Free and Easy 16 · Writer
- The Hidden Blade · Director, Screenplay
- Free and Easy 14 · Writer
- The Twilight Samurai · Director, Screenplay
- Free and Easy 13 · Writer
- Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project · Writer
- A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen · Director, Screenplay
- Free and Easy: Samurai Edition · Writer
- A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage · Director, Screenplay
- Free and Easy 10 · Screenplay
- Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirou Wasurenagusa · Creator
- The Rainbow Seeker 2 · Director, Writer
- Shin Salaryman Senka · Screenplay
- Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version · Director, Writer
- The Rainbow Seeker · Director, Writer
- Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin · Screenplay
- A Class to Remember II · Director, Screenplay
- Free and Easy 8 · Writer
- Tora-san to the Rescue · Director, Writer
- Salaryman Senka · Screenplay
- Toki no kagayaki · Screenplay
- Tora-san's Easy Advice · Director, Writer
- Free and Easy 7 · Writer
- Free and Easy Special · Writer
- Tora-san's Matchmaker · Director, Screenplay
- Free and Easy 6 · Writer
- A Class to Remember · Director, Screenplay
- Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto · Self
- Tora-san Makes Excuses · Director, Screenplay
- Free and Easy 5 · Writer
- Tora-san Confesses · Director, Screenplay
- Free and Easy 4 · Writer
- My Sons · Director, Screenplay
- Tora-san Takes a Vacation · Director, Writer
- Tora-san, My Uncle · Writer, Director
- Free and Easy 2 · Writer
- Days with Harasu · Writer
- Tora-san Goes to Vienna · Director, Writer
- Free and Easy · Writer
- Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial · Director, Screenplay
- Downtown Heroes · Director, Screenplay
- Lady Camellia · Script
- Tora-san Plays Daddy · Director, Screenplay
- Tora-san Goes North · Director, Screenplay
- Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy · Director, Screenplay
- Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies · Director, Writer
- Tora-san's Island Encounter · Director, Screenplay
- Tora-san, the Go-Between · Director, Screenplay