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Yoji Yamada
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.
As director
Tokyo Taxi
Mom, Is That You?!
It's a Flickering Life
戦争童画集 ～75年目のショートストーリー～
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
What a Wonderful Family! 3
What a Wonderful Family! 2
What a Wonderful Family!
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
The Little House
Tokyo Family
About Her Brother
Kyoto Story
Kabei: Our Mother
Love and Honor
The Hidden Blade
The Twilight Samurai
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
The Rainbow Seeker 2
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
A Class to Remember II
The Rainbow Seeker
Tora-san to the Rescue
Tora-san's Easy Advice
A Class to Remember
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Tora-san Makes Excuses
My Sons
Tora-san Confesses
