Yoji Yamada

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-09-13 (94 years old)

Place of Birth

Osaka, Japan

Yoji Yamada

Biography

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 ...

Production

2006

Love and Honor

as Director

2008

2008

2002

2002

2010

Kyoto Story

as Story

2010

Kyoto Story

as Screenplay

2004

The Hidden Blade

as Director

2004

The Hidden Blade

as Screenplay

1976

The Village

as Director

2010

2006

Sea Without Exit

as Screenplay

2002

2003

1968

1969

2009

1988

Free and Easy

as Writer

1993

1972

2010

Kyoto Story

as Director

2013

Tokyo Family

as Director

2013

Tokyo Family

as Screenplay

1970

1970

1971

1965

A Trap

as Director

1974

1974

2014

The Little House

as Director

1991

My Sons

as Director

1974

1974

1988

Downtown Heroes

as Director

1972

Home from the Sea

as Screenplay

1962

1962

Kyū-chan ondo

as Screenplay

1976

1996

1977

1989

2021

1989

1989

1996

1992

1978

2014

The Little House

as Screenplay

1973

Tora-san's Forget Me Not

as Original Story

1973

1979

Our Symphony

as Original Story

1974

1976

Two Iida

as Co-Writer

1960

One Way Ticket to Love

as Assistant Director

1966

1989

1991

1983

Itoshi no Lahaina

as Original Story

1987

1980

1981

1982

1987

1993

1994

1995

1977

1993

1976

The Village

as Writer

2023

1980

1995

Toki no kagayaki

as Screenplay

1998

Free and Easy 10

as Screenplay

1976

Oretachi no toki

as Original Story

1991

1992

1994

1996

2005

1995

Salaryman Senka

as Screenplay

1997

1963

1996

1997

1961

1963

The Sunshine Girl

as Screenplay

1966

The Lovable Tramp

as Screenplay

1970

Tora-san's Grand Scheme

as Original Story

1970

1988

Downtown Heroes

as Screenplay

1971

Follow the Girls

as Screenplay

1964

1992

1970

2009

The Yellow Handkerchief

as Original Film Writer

1993

A Class to Remember

as Screenplay

1967

Song of Love

as Screenplay

1961

Zero Focus

as Screenplay

1966

Gamblers' Luck

as Director

1966

Gamblers' Luck

as Screenplay

1971

1970

Tora-san, His Tender Love

as Original Story

1970

1969

1964

The Honest Fool

as Director

1968

The Shy Deceiver

as Director

1969

Vagabond Schemer

as Director

1967

1967

Song of Love

as Director

2010

About Her Brother

as Screenplay

1964

The Honest Fool

as Screenplay

1969

1980

Foster Daddy, Tora!

as Screenplay

1980

Foster Daddy, Tora!

as Original Story

1982

1981

Tora-san's Promise

as Screenplay

1981

Tora-san's Promise

as Original Story

1982

1982

Tora-san, the Expert

as Original Story

1981

1981

Tora-san's Love in Osaka

as Original Story

1972

1972

Tora-san's Dear Old Home

as Original Story

1971

Tora-san's Love Call

as Original Story

1971

1971

1983

1983

Tora-san's Song of Love

as Original Story

1983

Tora-san Goes Religious?

as Original Story

1984

1984

Tora-san's Forbidden Love

as Original Story

1985

1985

Tora-san, the Go-Between

as Original Story

1985

1986

1987

Tora-san Goes North

as Screenplay

1987

Tora-san Goes North

as Original Story

1987

1987

Tora-san Plays Daddy

as Original Story

1988

2016

2021

1967

1969

1968

1966

Warm Current

as Writer

1972

1991

My Sons

as Screenplay

2023

Mom, Is That You?!

as Screenplay

1996

2025

TOKYO Taxi

as Director

2025

TOKYO Taxi

as Screenplay

2006

Love and Honor

as Screenplay

2025

1967

Onna no issho

as Screenplay

1991

Tora-san Confesses

as Screenplay

1959

1960

Yellow Cherries

as Screenplay

1961

Koi no gashū

as Screenplay

1966

Ohana han

as Screenplay

1966

1974

Tokyo do mannaka

as Screenplay

1969

Women Can't Be Beaten

as Original Story

1964

2006

Free and Easy 17

as Screenplay

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