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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 7, 2023 · 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...
Yoji Yamada and Tora-san: The resurrection of a Japanese film institution. The last active director who came up in the Japanese film industry's 1950s and 1960s Golden Age, Yoji Yamada...
Feb 9, 2014 · Through a career that has spanned six decades and more than 60 movies, Yoji Yamada has gone from being regarded as a journeyman director cranking out formulaic comedies to an internationally...
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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.