Directing
Yoji Yamada
JA, EN cinema · 166 credits
Born
13 September 1931 (age 95)
Birthplace
Osaka, Japan
Also known as 山田 洋次 · یوجی یامادا
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, Screenplay
Mom, Is That You?!
Director, Screenplay
It's a Flickering Life
Screenplay, Director
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Director, Screenplay
What a Wonderful Family! 3
Director, Screenplay
What a Wonderful Family! 2
Director, Screenplay
Ken San
Actor
What a Wonderful Family!
Director, Screenplay
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Director, Screenplay
The Little House
Director, Screenplay
Tokyo Family
Screenplay, Director
Kyoto Story
Screenplay, Story, Director
About Her Brother
Director, Screenplay
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
The Hidden Blade
Director, Screenplay
The Twilight Samurai
Director, Screenplay
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
Director, Screenplay
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Director, Screenplay, Story
Free and Easy 10
Screenplay
Shin Salaryman Senka
Screenplay
The Rainbow Seeker 2
Director, Writer
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Director, Writer
A Class to Remember II
Director, Screenplay
The Rainbow Seeker
Director, Writer
Tora-san to the Rescue
Director, Writer
Toki no kagayaki
Screenplay
Salaryman Senka
Screenplay
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Director, Writer
A Class to Remember
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Director, Screenplay
My Sons
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san Confesses
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Director, Writer
Tora-san, My Uncle
Writer, Director
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Director, Writer
Downtown Heroes
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san Goes North
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Director, Writer
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Director, Writer, Original Story
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
I Lived, But...
as Self
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Writer, Director, Original Story
Itoshi no Lahaina
Original Story
Tora-san's Song of Love
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san, the Expert
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Tora-san's Promise
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
A Distant Cry from Spring
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Writer, Director
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Director, Writer
Our Symphony
Original Story
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Director, Writer
Stage-Struck Tora-san
Writer, Director
Talk of the Town Tora-san
Director, Writer
The Yellow Handkerchief
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Director, Writer
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Director, Writer
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Director, Writer
Tora-san's Pure Love
Director, Writer
Two Iida
Co-Writer
Oretachi no toki
Original Story
The Village
Director, Writer
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Director, Writer
Tora-san's Lovesick
Director, Writer
Tora-san's Lullaby
Writer, Director
Center of Tokyo
Screenplay
The Castle of Sand
Screenplay
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Writer, Director
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Home from the Sea
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Tora-san's Love Call
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Follow the Girls
Screenplay
Tora-san's Runaway
Director, Screenplay
Where Spring Comes Late
Director, Screenplay, Story
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Original Story, Screenplay
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Vagabond Schemer
Director, Writer
Women Can't Be Beaten
Original Story
The Million Dollar Pursuit
Screenplay, Director
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
Adaptation, Original Story
The Shy Deceiver
Director, Writer
The Greatest Challenge of All
Screenplay, Director
Song of Love
Screenplay, Director
Let's Have A Dream
Director, Writer
Onna no issho
Screenplay
The Lovable Tramp
Director, Screenplay
Gamblers' Luck
Director, Screenplay
Ohana han
Screenplay
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
Screenplay
A Trap
Director
The Irresponsible Fool
Director, Screenplay
The Honest Fool
Director, Screenplay
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Director, Screenplay
The Sunshine Girl
Director, Screenplay
Kyū-chan ondo
Screenplay
The Strangers Upstairs
Director, Writer
Zero Focus
Screenplay
Koi no gashū
Screenplay
One-Way Ticket to Love
Assistant Director
Yellow Cherries
Screenplay
Akatsuki no chiheisen
Screenplay
Hachi no ko
Screenplay