Yoji Yamada
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.
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
Related Movies:
- A Distant Cry from Spring [Haruka naru yama no yobigoe, January 21, 1980]
- Final Take [Kinema no tenchi, January 21, 1986]
- Home from the Sea [Furusato, January 21, 1972]
- The Yellow Handkerchief [Shiawase no kiiroi hankachi, January 21, 1977]
- Tora’s Dream of Spring [Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajirô haru no yume, January 21, 1979]
- Tora-San [Otoko wa tsurai yo: Kuchibue wo fuku Torajirô, January 21, 1983]
- Tora-san Goes to Vienna [Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro kokoro no tabiji, January 21, 1989]
- Tora-San’s Many-splintered love [Otoko wa tsurai yo: Naniwa no koi no Torajirô, January 21, 1981]
- Twilight Samurai [Tasogare Seibei, January 21, 2002]
- Where Spring Comes Late [Kazoku, January 21, 1970]