Yoji Yamada
Directing • AGE 94
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 be...
Filmography
Tokyo Taxi
Director
2025
Home Sweet Home
Writer
2025
55th anniversary performance of Tora-San: Rakugo, Talk and Tora Jiro Returns
2024
Mom, Is That You?!
Director
2023
The Call of a Faraway Mountain
Screenplay
2022
It's a Flickering Life
Screenplay
2021
戦争童画集 ～75年目のショートストーリー～
Director
2020
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Director
2019
Seijo Story: 60 Years of Making Films
Self
2019
Shounen Torajirou
Original Story
2019
A Distant Cry from Spring
Writer
2018
Older Brother, Younger Sister
Screenplay
2018
What a Wonderful Family! 3
Director
2018
What a Wonderful Family! 2
Director
2017
Ken San
2016
What a Wonderful Family!
Director
2016
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Director
2015
700 Days with Ryuichi Sakamoto
Self
2015
Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki
Self
2015
The Little House
Director
2014
Tokyo Family
Director
2013
The Yellow Handkerchief
Writer
2011
Kyoto Story
Story
2010
About Her Brother
Director
2010
Free and Easy 20: Final
Screenplay
2009
The Yellow Handkerchief
Original Film Writer
2009
Kabei: Our Mother
Director
2008
Love and Honor
Director
2006
Sea Without Exit
Screenplay
2006
Free and Easy 17
Screenplay
2006
Free and Easy 16
Writer
2005
The Hidden Blade
Director
2004
Free and Easy 14
Writer
2003
The Twilight Samurai
Screenplay
2002
Free and Easy 13
Writer
2002
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Writer
2001
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
Director
2000
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
Writer
1998
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Director
1998
Free and Easy 10
Screenplay
1998
Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirou Wasurenagusa
Creator
1998
The Rainbow Seeker 2
Director
1997
Shin Salaryman Senka
Screenplay
1997
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Director
1997
The Rainbow Seeker
Director
1996
Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
Screenplay
1996
A Class to Remember II
Director
1996
Free and Easy 8
Writer
1996
Tora-san to the Rescue
Director
1995
Salaryman Senka
Screenplay
1995
Toki no kagayaki
Screenplay
1995
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Director
1994
Free and Easy 7
Writer
1994
Free and Easy Special
Writer
1994
Tora-san's Matchmaker
Director
1993
Free and Easy 6
Writer
1993
A Class to Remember
Director
1993
Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto
Self
1993
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Director
1992
Free and Easy 5
Writer
1992
Tora-san Confesses
Director
1991
Free and Easy 4
Writer
1991
My Sons
Director
1991
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Director
1990
Tora-san, My Uncle
Director
1989
Free and Easy 2
Writer
1989
Days with Harasu
Writer
1989
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Director
1989
Free and Easy
Writer
1988
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Director
1988
Downtown Heroes
Director
1988
Lady Camellia
Script
1988
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Director
1987
Tora-san Goes North
Director
1987
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Director
1986
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Director
1986
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Director
1985
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Director
1985
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Director
1984
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Director
1984
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Director
1983
I Lived, But...
Self
1983
Itoshi no Lahaina
Original Story
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
Director
1983
Tora-san, the Expert
Director
1982
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Director
1982
Tora-san's Promise
Director
1981
Xiongmao Monogatari TaoTao
Story
1981
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Director
1981
Fuusen no Doratarou
Original Story
1981
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Director
1980
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Director
1980
A Distant Cry from Spring
Director
1980
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Director
1979
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Director
1979
Our Symphony
Original Story
1979
Talk of the Town Tora-san
Director
1978
Ore wa Ueno no puresurī
Story
1978
Stage-Struck Tora-san
Director
1978
Ore wa inaka no puresurī
Story
1978
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Director
1977
The Yellow Handkerchief
Director
1977
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Director
1977
Tora-san's Pure Love
Director
1976
Two Iida
Co-Writer
1976
Oretachi no toki
Original Story
1976
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Director
1976
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Director
1975
The Village
Director
1975
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Director
1975
Tora-san's Lullaby
Director
1974
The Castle of Sand
Screenplay
1974
Tora-san's Lovesick
Director
1974
Center of Tokyo
Screenplay
1974
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Director
1973
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Director
1973
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Director
1972
Home from the Sea
Director
1972
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Director
1972
Tora-san's Love Call
Director
1971
Follow the Girls
Screenplay
1971
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Director
1971
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Director
1971
Where Spring Comes Late
Director
1970
Tora-san's Runaway
Director
1970
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Original Story
1970
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Original Story
1970
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Director
1969
Women Can't Be Beaten
Original Story
1969
Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
Director
1969
Vagabond Schemer
Director
1969
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
Original Story
1968
It's Tough Being a Man
Adaptation
1968
The Shy Deceiver
Director
1968
I, the Executioner
Writer
1968
The Million Dollar Pursuit
Screenplay
1968
Onna no issho
Screenplay
1967
The Greatest Challenge of All
Screenplay
1967
Song of Love
Screenplay
1967
Let's Have A Dream
Director
1967
The Lovable Tramp
Director
1966
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
Screenplay
1966
Ohana han
Screenplay
1966
Warm Current
Writer
1966
Gamblers' Luck
Director
1966
A Trap
Director
1965
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Director
1964
The Irresponsible Fool
Director
1964
The Honest Fool
Director
1964
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Screenplay
1964
At the Side of the Bridge 4
Screenplay
1963
The Sunshine Girl
Director
1963
At the Side of the Bridge 3
Screenplay
1963
At the Side of the Bridge 2
Screenplay
1962
At the Side of the Bridge
Screenplay
1962
Kyū-chan ondo
Screenplay
1962
Kanbi no ware koso wa ittō shain
Screenplay
1962
The Strangers Upstairs
Director
1961
Koi no gashū
Screenplay
1961
Zero Focus
Screenplay
1961
One Way Ticket to Love
Assistant Director
1960
Yellow Cherries
Screenplay
1960
Akatsuki no chiheisen
Screenplay
1959
The Girl Who Creates Tomorrow
Screenplay
1958
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
Screenplay
1958
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Screenplay
1958
Hachi no ko
Screenplay
1957