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13 September 1931 (age 92) Toyonaka, Japan. Occupation (s) Film director, screenwriter. Years active. 1961–present. 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 ...
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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- Osaka, Japan
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. "The Twilight Samurai" (The Twilight Samurai (2002)) marks his 77th film as well as his 41th year as a director since his first film in 1961: Nikai no ...
Oct 7, 2023 · Japan auteur Yamada sticks to exploring the human condition after 90 films. Japanese director Yoji Yamada, who has 90 films to his credit, talks to The Associated Press at a Shochiku office in Tokyo, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. A theater piece he has scripted and directed, based on a storyteller’s classic, is being performed at the Kabukiza in ...
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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 ...
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 27, 2019 · Yoji Yamada Wants to Keep the Cameras Rolling Until He’s 100 Years Old. Born in 1931 in Osaka, Yoji Yamada entered the Shochiku studio in 1954 at the height of Japanese cinema’s postwar Golden ...
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