Yoji Yamada

Directing

Born: 1931-09-13
From: Osaka, Japan
Gender: Male
Popularity: 1

Also Known As

山田 洋次یوجی یامادا

Biography

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.

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Awards & Nominations18 won · 0 nominated

🏆 Won

Order of Culture

2012
🏆 Won

Person of Cultural Merit

2004
🏆 Won

Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director

The Twilight Samurai

2002
🏆 Won

Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class

2002
🏆 Won

Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay

2000
🏆 Won

Asahi Prize

1996
🏆 Won

Medal with Purple Ribbon

1996
🏆 Won

Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director

My Sons

1991
🏆 Won

Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay

The Yellow Handkerchief

1978
🏆 Won

Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director

The Yellow Handkerchief

1978
🏆 Won

Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay

Castle of Sand

1975
🏆 Won

Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay

Tora-san's Forget Me Not

1974
🏆 Won

Kikuchi Kan Prize

1972
🏆 Won

Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay

Tora-san's Runaway

1971
🏆 Won

Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay

Kazoku

1971
🏆 Won

Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director

Gamblers' Luck

1967
🏆 Won

Mainichi Film Award for Best Director

🏆 Won

Golden Arrow Award

Acting7 titles

Directing93 titles

Writing155 titles

Crew2 titles