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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.
- January 1, 1
- Yôji Yamada
- Osaka, Japan
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...
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 is a Japanese film director most known for his Tora-san series consisting of 50 films shot over 25 years, making it the longest theatrical film series.
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 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).
