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Yōji Yamada
Sign in to saveAlso known as Yamada Yōji, Yamada Yoji, Yoji Yamada, Youji Yamada
Japanese film director and screenwriter
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- Works
- 10
Top works
- 息子・家族
- Nihonjin to ningen kankei
- 満鉄とは何だったのか
- Ritsumeikan Daigaku, Yamadajuku no kiseki, eiga o tsukuru
- Migeru Ritin Kantoku to kangen-reika Chiri sennyūki
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Film & TV
Osaka, Japan
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…
Known for
- 55th anniversary performance of Tora-San: Rakugo, Talk and Tora Jiro Returns2024
- Seijo Story: 60 Years of Making Films — Self2019
- Ken San2016
- Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki — Self2015
- 700 Days with Ryuichi Sakamoto — Self2015
- Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto — Self1993
- I Lived, But... — Self1983
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Toyonaka
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- Ritsumeikan University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- Japanese
- Notable work
- The Twilight Samurai
- Image
- Yamada Yoji from "Tora-san, Wish You Were Here" at Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2019 (49014012331).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1931-09-13
- name in kana
- やまだ ようじ
- name in native language
- 山田洋次
- start of work period
- 1961-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Yoji Yamada
- ethnic group
- Japanese people
- writing language
- Japanese
- Commons category
- Yōji Yamada
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