Yoji Yamada
Directing
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…
Filmography
80
Tokyo Taxi
2025
Home Sweet Home
2025
55th anniversary performance of Tora-San: Rakugo, Talk and Tora Jiro Returns
2024
Mom, Is That You?!
2023
The Call of a Faraway Mountain
2022
It's a Flickering Life
2021
戦争童画集 ～75年目のショートストーリー～
2020
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
2019
Shounen Torajirou
2019
A Distant Cry from Spring
2018
Older Brother, Younger Sister
2018
What a Wonderful Family! 3
2018
What a Wonderful Family! 2
2017
Ken San
2016
What a Wonderful Family!
2016
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
2015
The Little House
2014
Tokyo Family
2013
The Yellow Handkerchief
2011
Kyoto Story
2010
About Her Brother
2010
Free and Easy 20: Final
2009
The Yellow Handkerchief
2009
Kabei: Our Mother
2008
Love and Honor
2006
Sea Without Exit
2006
Free and Easy 17
2006
Free and Easy 16
2005
The Hidden Blade
2004
Free and Easy 14
2003
The Twilight Samurai
2002
Free and Easy 13
2002
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
2001
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
2000
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
1998
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
1998
Free and Easy 10
1998
Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirou Wasurenagusa
1998
The Rainbow Seeker 2
1997
Shin Salaryman Senka
1997
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
1997
The Rainbow Seeker
1996
Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
1996
A Class to Remember II
1996
Free and Easy 8
1996
Tora-san to the Rescue
1995
Salaryman Senka
1995
Toki no kagayaki
1995
Tora-san's Easy Advice
1994
Free and Easy 7
1994
Free and Easy Special
1994
Tora-san's Matchmaker
1993
Free and Easy 6
1993
A Class to Remember
1993
Tora-san Makes Excuses
1992
Free and Easy 5
1992
Tora-san Confesses
1991
Free and Easy 4
1991
My Sons
1991
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
1990
Tora-san, My Uncle
1989
Free and Easy 2
1989
Days with Harasu
1989
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1989
Free and Easy
1988
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1988
Downtown Heroes
1988
Lady Camellia
1988
Tora-san Plays Daddy
1987
Tora-san Goes North
1987
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
1986
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986
Tora-san's Island Encounter
1985
Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
1984
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
1984
Tora-san Goes Religious?
1983
Itoshi no Lahaina
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
Tora-san, the Expert
1982