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Yoji Yamada (山田 洋次, Yamada Yōji, born 13 September 1931) 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).
Yôji Yamada. Writer: The Twilight Samurai. Yamada Yoji graduated Tokyo University in 1954, the year he joined Shochiku as an assistant director. In 1969, he launched the popular "Tora-san" series, the world's longest theatrical film series.
Name: Yoji Yamada Japanese: 山田洋次 （やまだ ようじ) Birthdate: September 13, 1931 Birthplace: Osaka, Japan Director. Mom, Is That You?! | Konnichiha, Kasan (2023) Tora-san, Wish You Were Here | Otoko wa tsuraiyo Okaeri Torasan (2019) What A Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life | Tsumayo Baranoyouni Kazoku wa Tsuraiyo III (2018)
Feb 1, 2023 · The Otoko wa Tsurai yo film series by Director Yoji Yamada has long been loved in Japan for over 50 years. The journalist, Claude Leblanc commemorates the screening of all 50 films in the series held at the Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris and writes about what makes the films so captivating.
Yoji Yamada and Tora-san: The resurrection of a Japanese film institution. The last active director who came up in the Japanese film industry's 1950s and 1960s Golden Age, 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.
Oct 27, 2019 · Yoji Yamada wants to keep the cameras rolling till he is 100 years old. He is enjoying another revival with the 49th "Tora-san" film.
Yoji Yamada is a Japanese film director known outside his country mainly for his “Samurai trilogy”: The Twilight Samurai ( Tasogare Seibei, 2002), The Hidden Blade ( Kakushi ken oni no tsume, 2004), and Love and Honour ( Bushi no ichibun, 2006).
Oct 7, 2023 · TOKYO (AP) — Yoji Yamada has directed 90 films, including “Tora-san,” which tops the Guinness World Records for the longest-running movie series starring the same actor. In each of the 48 installments, beginning in 1969, the hero peddler with a heart of gold falls in love but doesn’t get the girl.
Yôji Yamada. Writer: The Twilight Samurai. Yamada Yoji graduated Tokyo University in 1954, the year he joined Shochiku as an assistant director. In 1969, he launched the popular "Tora-san" series, the world's longest theatrical film series.
