Yōji 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 Yamagata 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 is a guest professor of Ritsumeikan University. —wikipedia

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Ahmed Nabil

17Oct11

Good intentions. But this doesn't always guarantee the level of the results.

Virginia Thijsen

13Mar11

Dear Mr. Iwao Yamada. I hope that everything is ok with U & your family in Japan, this has been a very shocking News to the World. I'm trying to contact you from Aruba Dutch Antilles since I have lost your Adress and don't know how to contact U or if whom I'm trying to contact is the right Mr. Iwao Yamada from Japan that I got to know in Holland at the Fuji Photo Film Co. a longtime ago when U came to teach us some tricks on how to handle P.S. Plates for the Offset Printing Companies. If this is really U all the best my friend and may God be with U and Your Family alway's. My e-mail adress is skyaruba@yahoo.com , I'm also on Facebook. Take Care, Mrs. Virginia Thijsen-Maduro also called Gina, All the best from Us. My Adress used to be G. M. De Bruiynewijk Savaneta Aruba. If this is not U I'm very sorry to have disturb you Mr. Yamada.