山田洋次
Director
162
Movies
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TV Shows
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.
Behind the Camera
男はつらいよ
Original Story, Adaptation
フーセンのドラ太郎
Original Story
El ocaso del samurái
Director, Guionista
TOKYOタクシー
Director, Guionista
少年寅次郎
Original Story
The Yellow Handkerchief
Original Film Writer
Love and Honor
Director, Guionista
幸福の黄色いハンカチ
Director, Guionista
息子
Director, Guionista
砂の器
Guionista
母べえ
Director, Guionista
東京家族
Director, Guionista
おとうと
Director, Guionista
家族はつらいよ
Director, Guionista
キネマの神様
Guionista, Director
男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋愛塾
Director, Guionista, Original Story
男はつらいよ ぼくの伯父さん
Escritor, Director
小さいおうち
Director, Guionista
家族はつらいよ2
Director, Guionista
霧の旗
Director
家族
Director, Historia, Guionista
遙かなる山の呼び声
Director, Guionista
母と暮せば
Director, Guionista
釣りバカ日誌8
Escritor
キネマの天地
Director, Escritor
男はつらいよ 夜霧にむせぶ寅次郎
Director, Guionista, Original Story
釣りバカ日誌16 浜崎は今日もダメだった♪♪
Escritor
男はつらいよ 寅次郎子守唄
Escritor, Director
男はつらいよ
Director, Guionista
男はつらいよ 浪花の恋の寅次郎
Director, Original Story, Guionista