山田洋次
Director
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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
TOKYOタクシー
Director, Guionista
幸福の黄色いハンカチ
Director, Guionista
El ocaso del samurái
Director, Guionista
フーセンのドラ太郎
Original Story
こんにちは、母さん
Director, Guionista
男はつらいよ
Original Story, Adaptation
Love and Honor
Director, Guionista
東京家族
Guionista, Director
息子
Director, Guionista
家族はつらいよ2
Director, Guionista
砂の器
Guionista
母べえ
Director, Guionista
遙かなる山の呼び声
Director, Guionista
家族はつらいよ
Director, Guionista
少年寅次郎
Original Story
みな殺しの霊歌
Escritor
釣りバカ日誌16 浜崎は今日もダメだった♪♪
Escritor
The Yellow Handkerchief
Original Film Writer
男はつらいよ 浪花の恋の寅次郎
Director, Original Story, Guionista
隠し剣 鬼の爪
Director, Guionista
男はつらいよ 寅次郎真実一路
Director, Escritor, Original Story
男はつらいよ お帰り 寅さん
Director, Guionista
虹をつかむ男
Director, Escritor
小さいおうち
Director, Guionista
男はつらいよ 知床慕情
Director, Guionista, Original Story
月給13,000円
Guionista
釣りバカ日誌8
Escritor
男はつらいよ 口笛を吹く寅次郎
Escritor, Director, Original Story
釣りバカ日誌6
Escritor
いとしのラハイナ
Original Story