Love and Honor
2007
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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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Yoji Yamada is a Japanese film director known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series and other acclaimed movies. Learn about his life, career, awards, and upcoming projects on The Movie Database.
Oct 23, 2019. The last active director who came up in the Japanese film industry's 1950s and 1960s Golden Age, Yoji Yamada joined the Shochiku studio in 1954, straight out of the University of...
Oct 7, 2023 · TOKYO (AP) — Yoji Yamada has directed 90 films, including “Tora-san,” which tops the Guinness World Records for the longest-running movie series starring the same actor. In each of the 48 installments, beginning in 1969, the hero peddler with a heart of gold falls in love but doesn’t get the girl.
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Yôji Yamada. Highest Rated: 99% The Twilight Samurai (2002) Lowest Rated: 81% Love and Honor (2006) Birthday: Sep 13, 1931. Birthplace: Osaka, Japan.
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.
