Yoji Yamada
Directing
Born 1931-09-13
Osaka, Japan
167 credits
Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay 5
Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director 2
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director 2
Golden Arrow Award 1
Awards
Won 5 Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay Awards
Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay 5 won
- 2000 Best Screenplay Won
- 1978 Best Screenplay Won The Yellow Handkerchief
- 1975 Best Screenplay Won Castle of Sand
- 1974 Best Screenplay Won Tora-san's Forget Me Not
- 1971 Best Screenplay Won Tora-san's Runaway
Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director 2 won
- 2002 Best Director Won The Twilight Samurai
- 1991 Best Director Won My Sons
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director 2 won
- 1978 Best Director Won The Yellow Handkerchief
- 1967 Best Director Won Gamblers' Luck
Golden Arrow Award 1 won
- — Golden Arrow Award Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Directing
46 credits
The Twilight Samurai
Tokyo Taxi
My Sons
Love and Honor
Tora-san's Matchmaker
The Yellow Handkerchief
Tokyo Family
What a Wonderful Family! 2
The Little House
Kabei: Our Mother
The Lovable Tramp
It's a Flickering Life
What a Wonderful Family!
Mom, Is That You?!
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
About Her Brother
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
What a Wonderful Family! 3
Tora-san Goes Religious?
A Distant Cry from Spring
Tora-san's Pure Love
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Tora-san, My Uncle
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Tora-san Confesses
A Trap
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
A Class to Remember
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
A Class to Remember II
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Tora-san Goes North
Tora-san's Song of Love
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Tora-san's Runaway
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
The Hidden Blade
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Writing
58 credits
The Twilight Samurai
Tokyo Taxi
It's Tough Being a Man
Women Can't Be Beaten
My Sons
Love and Honor
Tora-san's Matchmaker
The Yellow Handkerchief
Tokyo Family
Fuusen no Doratarou
The Castle of Sand
What a Wonderful Family! 2
The Little House
Kabei: Our Mother
The Lovable Tramp
It's a Flickering Life
What a Wonderful Family!
Mom, Is That You?!
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
About Her Brother
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Older Brother, Younger Sister
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
What a Wonderful Family! 3
Tora-san Goes Religious?
A Distant Cry from Spring
Zero Focus
Tora-san's Pure Love
Warm Current
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Tora-san, My Uncle
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Tora-san Confesses
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Shounen Torajirou
Sea Without Exit
A Class to Remember
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
A Class to Remember II
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Tora-san Goes North
Tora-san's Song of Love
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Tora-san's Runaway
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Tora-san, His Tender Love
The Hidden Blade
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
I, the Executioner
Acting
2 credits
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