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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.
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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)
A series of Samurai films from director Yoji Yamada. Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century.
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...
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 (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.
