Yoji Yamada
Directing
1931-09-13 · Osaka, Japan
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. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the age of 2 he was brought up in Manchuria. Following the end of World War II, he came back to Japan and subsequently he lived in Ube in Yamaguchi 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.
Filmography
Tokyo Taxi
2025 · Movie
Home Sweet Home
2025 · Movie
55th anniversary performance of Tora-San: Rakugo, Talk and Tora Jiro Returns
2024 · Movie
Mom, Is That You?!
2023 · Movie
The Call of a Faraway Mountain
2022 · Movie
It's a Flickering Life
2021 · Movie
戦争童画集 ～75年目のショートストーリー～
2020 · Movie
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
2019 · Movie
Seijo Story: 60 Years of Making Films
2019 · Movie
Shounen Torajirou
2019 · Series
A Distant Cry from Spring
2018 · Movie
Older Brother, Younger Sister
2018 · Movie
What a Wonderful Family! 3
2018 · Movie
What a Wonderful Family! 2
2017 · Movie
Ken San
2016 · Movie
What a Wonderful Family!
2016 · Movie
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
2015 · Movie
700 Days with Ryuichi Sakamoto
2015 · Movie
Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki
2015 · Movie
The Little House
2014 · Movie
Tokyo Family
2013 · Movie
The Yellow Handkerchief
2011 · Movie
Kyoto Story
2010 · Movie
About Her Brother
2010 · Movie
Free and Easy 20: Final
2009 · Movie
The Yellow Handkerchief
2009 · Movie
Kabei: Our Mother
2008 · Movie
Love and Honor
2006 · Movie
Sea Without Exit
2006 · Movie
Free and Easy 17
2006 · Movie
Free and Easy 16
2005 · Movie
The Hidden Blade
2004 · Movie
Free and Easy 14
2003 · Movie
The Twilight Samurai
2002 · Movie
Free and Easy 13
2002 · Movie
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
2001 · Movie
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
2000 · Movie
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
1998 · Movie
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
1998 · Movie
Free and Easy 10
1998 · Movie
Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirou Wasurenagusa
1998 · Movie
The Rainbow Seeker 2
1997 · Movie
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
1997 · Movie
Shin Salaryman Senka
1997 · Movie
Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
1996 · Movie
The Rainbow Seeker
1996 · Movie
A Class to Remember II
1996 · Movie
Free and Easy 8
1996 · Movie
Tora-san to the Rescue
1995 · Movie
Salaryman Senka
1995 · Movie
Toki no kagayaki
1995 · Movie
Tora-san's Easy Advice
1994 · Movie
Free and Easy 7
1994 · Movie
Free and Easy Special
1994 · Movie
Tora-san's Matchmaker
1993 · Movie
Free and Easy 6
1993 · Movie
A Class to Remember
1993 · Movie
Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto
1993 · Movie
Tora-san Makes Excuses
1992 · Movie
Free and Easy 5
1992 · Movie
Tora-san Confesses
1991 · Movie
Free and Easy 4
1991 · Movie
My Sons
1991 · Movie
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
1990 · Movie
Free and Easy 2
1989 · Movie
Tora-san, My Uncle
1989 · Movie
Days with Harasu
1989 · Movie
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989 · Movie
Free and Easy
1988 · Movie
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1988 · Movie
Downtown Heroes
1988 · Movie
Lady Camellia
1988 · Movie
Tora-san Plays Daddy
1987 · Movie
Tora-san Goes North
1987 · Movie
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
1986 · Movie
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986 · Movie
Tora-san's Island Encounter
1985 · Movie
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985 · Movie
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
1984 · Movie
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
1984 · Movie
Tora-san Goes Religious?
1983 · Movie
I Lived, But...
1983 · Movie
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983 · Movie
Itoshi no Lahaina
1983 · Movie
Tora-san, the Expert
1982 · Movie
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982 · Movie
Tora-san's Promise
1981 · Movie
Xiongmao Monogatari TaoTao
1981 · Movie
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
1981 · Movie
Fuusen no Doratarou
1981 · Series
Foster Daddy, Tora!
1980 · Movie
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
1980 · Movie
A Distant Cry from Spring
1980 · Movie
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979 · Movie
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
1979 · Movie
Our Symphony
1979 · Movie
Talk of the Town Tora-san
1978 · Movie
Ore wa Ueno no puresurī
1978 · Movie
Ore wa inaka no puresurī
1978 · Movie
Stage-Struck Tora-san
1978 · Movie
Tora-san Plays Cupid
1977 · Movie
The Yellow Handkerchief
1977 · Movie
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
1977 · Movie
Tora-san's Pure Love
1976 · Movie
Oretachi no toki
1976 · Movie
Two Iida
1976 · Movie
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
1976 · Movie
Tora-san, the Intellectual
1975 · Movie
The Village
1975 · Movie
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
1975 · Movie
Tora-san's Lullaby
1974 · Movie
The Castle of Sand
1974 · Movie
Tora-san's Lovesick
1974 · Movie
Center of Tokyo
1974 · Movie
Tora-san Loves an Artist
1973 · Movie
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
1973 · Movie
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
1972 · Movie
Home from the Sea
1972 · Movie
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
1972 · Movie
Tora-san's Love Call
1971 · Movie
Follow the Girls
1971 · Movie
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
1971 · Movie
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
1971 · Movie
Where Spring Comes Late
1970 · Movie
Tora-san's Runaway
1970 · Movie
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
1970 · Movie
Tora-san, His Tender Love
1970 · Movie
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969 · Movie
Women Can't Be Beaten
1969 · Movie
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
1969 · Movie
Vagabond Schemer
1969 · Movie
It's Tough Being a Man
1968 · Series
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
1968 · Movie
The Shy Deceiver
1968 · Movie
I, the Executioner
1968 · Movie
The Million Dollar Pursuit
1968 · Movie
Onna no issho
1967 · Movie
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967 · Movie
Song of Love
1967 · Movie
Let's Have A Dream
1967 · Movie
The Lovable Tramp
1966 · Movie
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
1966 · Movie
Ohana han
1966 · Movie
Warm Current
1966 · Movie
Gamblers' Luck
1966 · Movie
A Trap
1965 · Movie
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1964 · Movie
The Irresponsible Fool
1964 · Movie
The Honest Fool
1964 · Movie
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
1964 · Movie
At the Side of the Bridge 4
1963 · Movie
The Sunshine Girl
1963 · Movie
At the Side of the Bridge 3
1963 · Movie
At the Side of the Bridge 2
1962 · Movie
Kyū-chan ondo
1962 · Movie
At the Side of the Bridge
1962 · Movie
Kanbi no ware koso wa ittō shain
1962 · Movie
The Strangers Upstairs
1961 · Movie
Koi no gashū
1961 · Movie
Zero Focus
1961 · Movie
One-Way Ticket to Love
1960 · Movie
Yellow Cherries
1960 · Movie
Akatsuki no chiheisen
1959 · Movie
The Girl Who Creates Tomorrow
1958 · Movie
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
1958 · Movie
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
1958 · Movie
Hachi no ko
1957 · Movie