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Native name
  
山田 洋次

Spouse
  
Yoshie Yamada (m. ?–2008)

Years active
  
1961 - present

Education
  
University of Tokyo


Name
  
Yoji Yamada

Children
  
Aki Yamada

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Born
  
September 13, 1931 (age 93) (
1931-09-13
)
Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

Occupation
  
Film director, screenwriter

Movies
  
The Twilight Samurai, Tokyo Family, The Little House, Love and Honor, The Hidden Blade

Similar People
  
Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Haru Kuroki, Hidetaka Yoshioka

Upcoming movie
  
Kazoku Wa Tsuraiyo

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Yoji Yamada (山田 洋次, Yamada Yōji, born September 13, 1931 in Toyonaka, Osaka) is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade and Love and Honor).

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Biography

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He was born in Osaka, but due to his father's job as an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, he was brought up in Dalian, China. from the age of two. Following the end of World War II, he returned to Japan and subsequently lived in Yamagata Prefecture.

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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.

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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.

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He once served as president of the Directors Guild of Japan, and is currently a guest professor of Ritsumeikan University.

Tora-san series

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Known in Japan under the title Otoko wa Tsurai yo, his Tora-san series features traveling merchant Torajirō, who is always unlucky in love. Since the lead role in every Tora-san movie was played by Kiyoshi Atsumi, his death in 1996 put an end to the series and Yamada moved on to other movies. Although Yamada is known for his long-running series of movies—four films in the A Class to Remember series, 13 in the Free and Easy (Tsuribaka Nisshi) series—none has reached the prolific numbers of the Tora-san series. Over a period of about 25 years, 48 Tora-san films were made, all of them starring Atsumi, and the majority written and directed by Yamada.

Notable awards

His movies have won the Best Picture award at the Japanese Academy Awards four times: in 1977 for The Yellow Handkerchief, in 1991 for My Sons, in 1993 for A Class to Remember, and in 2002 for The Twilight Samurai, which was nominated for the 76th Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Film. He has won the Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year three times. His 1984 film Tora-san's Forbidden Love was nominated for the Golden Prize at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.

His 2004 film, The Hidden Blade, was nominated for sixteen awards and won three.

In 2010 Yoji Yamada was honored at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival with a screening of his latest film Otōto during the awards ceremony, as well as receiving a Berlinale Camera award for his numerous contributions to the festival's program.

Screenplays

  • Castle of Sand (1974)
  • Tsuribaka Nisshi Series (1988–2009)
  • Deguchi no Nai Umi (2006)
  • References

    Yoji Yamada Wikipedia


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