Yoji Yamada

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.

Writing

2025

Tokyo Taxi
Movie

Screenplay

2014

2013

2010

2006

2006

2006

2004

1998

1995

1995

1995

1991

My Sons
Movie

Screenplay

1988

1987

1987

1982

1981

1981

Fuusen no Doratarou
Tv

Original Story

1980

1971

1968

1966

1961

Zero Focus
Movie

Screenplay

1960

Directing

2025

2013

2010

1991

My Sons
Movie

Director

1975

1965

A Trap
Movie

Director

Crew

Acting

Infos

Full Name
Yoji Yamada
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
9/13/1931
Website
http://www.katsushika-kanko.com/yamada-yoji-museum/
Also Known As

山田 洋次

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