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Yoji Yamada
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…
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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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2025
Tokyo Taxi
Movie Director
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2025
Home Sweet Home
Movie Writer
- 2024
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2023
Mom, Is That You?!
Movie Director
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2022
The Call of a Faraway Mountain
Movie Screenplay
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2021
It's a Flickering Life
Movie Screenplay
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2020
戦争童画集 ～75年目のショートストーリー～
Movie Director
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2019
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Movie Director
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2019
Seijo Story: 60 Years of Making Films
Movie Self
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2019
Shounen Torajirou
TV show Original Story
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2018
A Distant Cry from Spring
Movie Writer
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2018
Older Brother, Younger Sister
Movie Screenplay
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2018
What a Wonderful Family! 3
Movie Director
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2017
What a Wonderful Family! 2
Movie Director
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2016
Ken San
Movie
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2016
What a Wonderful Family!
Movie Director
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2015
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Movie Director
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2015
700 Days with Ryuichi Sakamoto
Movie Self
- 2015
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2014
The Little House
Movie Director
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2013
Tokyo Family
Movie Director
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2011
The Yellow Handkerchief
Movie Writer
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2010
Kyoto Story
Movie Screenplay
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2010
About Her Brother
Movie Director
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2010
Shinema Kabuki: Renjishi
Movie Director
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2009
Free and Easy 20: Final
Movie Screenplay
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2009
The Yellow Handkerchief
Movie Original Film Writer
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2008
Kabei: Our Mother
Movie Director
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2006
Love and Honor
Movie Director
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2006
Sea Without Exit
Movie Screenplay
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2006
Free and Easy 17
Movie Screenplay
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2005
Free and Easy 16
Movie Writer
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2004
The Hidden Blade
Movie Director
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2003
Free and Easy 14
Movie Writer
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2002
The Twilight Samurai
Movie Director
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2002
Free and Easy 13
Movie Writer
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2001
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Movie Writer
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2000
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
Movie Director
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1998
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
Movie Writer
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1998
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Movie Director
