

Yoji Yamada
Directing
September 13, 1931
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. 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.
The Filmography


Mom, Is That You?!

It's a Flickering Life

Tora-san, Wish You Were Here

Older Brother, Younger Sister

What a Wonderful Family! 3

What a Wonderful Family! 2

Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

The Little House

Tokyo Family

Kyoto Story

About Her Brother

Kabei: Our Mother

Love and Honor

Sea Without Exit

Free and Easy 17

The Hidden Blade

The Twilight Samurai

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
