Yoji Yamada

Director

Born: September 13, 1931 (age 94)
From: 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…

Filmography (99)

Tokyo Taxi (2025)
Director
55th anniversary performance of Tora-San: Rakugo, Talk and Tora Jiro Returns (2024)
Mom, Is That You?! (2023)
Director
It's a Flickering Life (2021)
Director
戦争童画集～75年目のショートストーリー～
戦争童画集～75年目のショートストーリー～ (2020)
Director
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here (2019)
Director
Seijo Story: 60 Years of Making Films (2019)
Self
What a Wonderful Family! 3 (2018)
Director
What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017)
Director
Ken San (2016)
What a Wonderful Family! (2016)
Director
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son (2015)
Director
700 Days with Ryuichi Sakamoto (2015)
Self
Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki (2015)
Self
The Little House (2014)
Director
Tokyo Family (2013)
Director
Kyoto Story (2010)
Director
About Her Brother (2010)
Director
Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
Director
Love and Honor (2006)
Director
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Director
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Director
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen (2000)
Director
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage (1998)
Director
The Rainbow Seeker 2 (1997)
Director
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version (1997)
Director
The Rainbow Seeker (1996)
Director
A Class to Remember II (1996)
Director
Tora-san to the Rescue (1995)
Director
Tora-san's Easy Advice (1994)
Director