Yoji Yamada
Directing
- Born
- September 13, 1931 (age 95) · 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.
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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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Known for
Behind the camera158
- 2025Tokyo Taxi Director, Screenplay
- 2025Home Sweet Home Writer
- 2023Mom, Is That You?! Director, Screenplay
- 2022The Call of a Faraway Mountain Screenplay
- 2021It's a Flickering Life Screenplay, Director
- 2020戦争童画集 ～75年目のショートストーリー～ Director
- 2019Tora-san, Wish You Were Here Director, Screenplay
- 2018A Distant Cry from Spring Writer
- 2018Older Brother, Younger Sister Screenplay
- 2018
