Yoji Yamada

Known for DirectingBorn 1931-09-13 (age 94)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Tora-san's Pure Love

Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirou Wasurenagusa

Shin Salaryman Senka

Tora-san's Matchmaker

Tora-san Goes North

Tora-san's Love in Osaka

Our Symphony

The Donkey Comes on a Tank

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

Free and Easy 2

Tora-san Goes to Vienna

Tora-san Meets His Lordship

Tora-san, the Expert

Tora-san's Promise

Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version

Tora-san, the Matchmaker

Tora-san's Easy Advice

Downtown Heroes

Tora-san Confesses

Free and Easy 4

Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

Tora-san Plays Daddy

Tora-san, Wish You Were Here

Tora-san's Island Encounter

Tora-san's Song of Love

Tora-san, My Uncle

Tora-san's Love Call

Tora-san's Tropical Fever

Tora-san Loves an Artist

Tora-san's Forget Me Not

Tora-san's Dear Old Home

Free and Easy 16

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

Stage-Struck Tora-san

Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again

Tora-san, the Intellectual

Tokyo Taxi

Tora-san Makes Excuses

Tora-san's Forbidden Love

Marriage Counselor Tora-san

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

The Twilight Samurai

Foster Daddy, Tora!

Free and Easy 5

Free and Easy 20: Final

Talk of the Town Tora-san

What a Wonderful Family! 3