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.
Cast
Crew
Love and Honor
Director, Screenplay
The Yellow Handkerchief
Director, Screenplay
Kabei: Our Mother
Director, Writer
The Twilight Samurai
Director, Screenplay
Kyoto Story
Screenplay, Story, Director
The Hidden Blade
Director, Screenplay
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Screenplay
The Yellow Handkerchief
Writer
The Village
Director, Writer
About Her Brother
Director, Screenplay
Sea Without Exit
Screenplay
Free and Easy 13
Writer
Free and Easy 14
Writer
I, the Executioner
Writer
It's Tough Being a Man
Director, Screenplay
Free and Easy 20: Final
Screenplay
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Writer
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Writer, Director
Free and Easy
Writer
A Class to Remember
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Director, Writer
Home from the Sea
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Writer, Director
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tokyo Family
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Director, Writer
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Writer, Director, Original Story
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Writer, Director
Tora-san's Runaway
Writer, Director
Tora-san's Love Call
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
A Trap
Director
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Writer, Director, Original Story
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Tora-san's Lovesick
Writer, Director
The Little House
Director, Screenplay
My Sons
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san's Lullaby
Writer, Director
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Writer, Director
Where Spring Comes Late
Director, Story, Screenplay
Downtown Heroes
Director, Screenplay
The Greatest Challenge of All
Screenplay, Director
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Writer, Director
At the Side of the Bridge
Screenplay
Kyū-chan ondo
Screenplay
Tora-san's Pure Love
Director, Writer
A Distant Cry from Spring
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Director, Writer
A Class to Remember II
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Director, Writer
Days with Harasu
Writer
It's a Flickering Life
Screenplay, Director
Tora-san, My Uncle
Writer, Director
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Director, Screenplay
The Rainbow Seeker
Director, Writer
Stage-Struck Tora-san
Writer, Director
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Writer, Director
Free and Easy Special
Writer
The Million Dollar Pursuit
Screenplay, Director
Talk of the Town Tora-san
Writer, Director
Our Symphony
Original Story
The Castle of Sand
Writer
Two Iida
Co-Writer
One Way Ticket to Love
Assistant Director
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Director, Writer
The Lovable Tramp
Director, Screenplay
At the Side of the Bridge 2
Screenplay
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
Original Story, Adaptation
Free and Easy 2
Writer
Tora-san Confesses
Director, Screenplay
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
Director
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Director, Screenplay
What a Wonderful Family!
Director, Screenplay
The Call of a Faraway Mountain
Screenplay
Itoshi no Lahaina
Original Story
Tora-san Goes North
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Director
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san, the Expert
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san's Song of Love
Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Director
Tora-san's Promise
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Director
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Director
Tora-san to the Rescue
Director
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Director, Original Story, Screenplay
Ore wa inaka no puresurī
Story
Xiongmao Monogatari TaoTao
Story
Ore wa Ueno no puresurī
Story
Free and Easy 6
Writer
Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirou Wasurenagusa
Creator
What a Wonderful Family! 2
Director, Writer
Kanbi no ware koso wa ittō shain
Screenplay
Mom, Is That You?!
Director, Screenplay
Toki no kagayaki
Screenplay
Free and Easy 10
Screenplay
Oretachi no toki
Original Story
Free and Easy 7
Writer
Free and Easy 5
Writer
Free and Easy 8
Writer
Free and Easy 4
Writer
Free and Easy 16
Writer
Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
Screenplay
Salaryman Senka
Screenplay
Shin Salaryman Senka
Screenplay
The Sunshine Girl
Director, Screenplay
The Rainbow Seeker 2
Director, Writer
What a Wonderful Family! 3
Director, Screenplay
The Strangers Upstairs
Director
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Original Story, Screenplay
Follow the Girls
Screenplay
The Irresponsible Fool
Director, Screenplay
Song of Love
Screenplay, Director
Zero Focus
Screenplay
Gamblers' Luck
Screenplay, Director
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Screenplay, Original Story
A Distant Cry from Spring
Writer
Older Brother, Younger Sister
Screenplay
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Director, Screenplay
The Honest Fool
Director, Screenplay
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Director, Writer
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Director, Screenplay
Vagabond Schemer
Director, Writer
The Shy Deceiver
Director, Writer
Let's Have A Dream
Director, Writer
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
Writer
Warm Current
Writer
At the Side of the Bridge 3
Screenplay
At the Side of the Bridge 4
Screenplay
Tokyo Taxi
Director, Screenplay
Home Sweet Home
Writer
Onna no issho
Screenplay
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Screenplay
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
Screenplay
The Girl Who Creates Tomorrow
Screenplay
Akatsuki no chiheisen
Screenplay
Yellow Cherries
Screenplay
Koi no gashū
Screenplay
Ohana han
Screenplay
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
Screenplay
Tokyo do mannaka
Screenplay
Women Can't Be Beaten
Original Story
Free and Easy 17
Screenplay
椿姫
Script