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Yoji Yamada
Japanese film director 1931-present.
Born September 13, 1931 in Toyonaka, Osaka, is a Japanese film director best known for
Blade and Love and Honor).
Early life
He was born in Osaka, but due to his father's job as an
engineer for the South Manchuria
Railway,
he was brought up
in Dalian, China from the age
of two. Following the end of World War II, he
returned to Japan and
subsequently lived in Yamagata Prefecture.
Carrier
•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.
Notable awards
•His
movies have won the Best Picture award at the Japanese Academy
Awards four times:
•in
1977 for The Yellow
Handkerchief
•in
1991 for My Sons
•
in 1993 for A
Class to Remember and
•
in 2002 for The
Twilight Samurai,
which was nominated for the 76th Academy Awards' Best
Foreign Language Film.
•He
has won the Japan
Academy Prize for Director of the Year three times.
•
His 1984 film Tora-san's Forbidden
Love was nominated
for the Golden Prize at the 14th
Moscow International Film Festival.
•His
2004 film, The
Hidden Blade,
was nominated for sixteen awards and won three.
•In
2010 Yoji Yamada was honored
at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival with a
screening of his latest film Otōto during the
awards ceremony, as well as receiving a Berlinale
Camera award for his
numerous contributions to the festival's program.
Filmography
•Nikai
no Tanin (1961)
•Shitamachi
no Taiyo (1963)
•Baka
Marudashi (1964)
•Iikagen
Baka (1964)
•Baka
ga
Sensha
de Yattekuru (1964)
•Kiri no Hata (1965)
•Un
ga
Yokerya (1966)
•Natsukashii
Fūraibō (1966)
•Kyu-chan no Dekkai Yume (1967)
•Ai
no Sanka (1967)
•Kigeki
Ippatsu
Shobu (1967)
•Hana
Hajime no Ippatsu
Daibōken (1968)
•Fukeba
Tobuyona
Otoko
daga(1968)
•Kigeki
Ippatsu
Daihissho (1969)
•Tora-san's
Sunrise and Sunset (1976)
•Tora's Pure Love (1976)
•Tora-san Meets His
Lordship (1977)
•Tora-san Plays Cupid (1977)
•The Yellow
Handkerchief (1977)
•Stage-Struck
Tora-san (1978)
•Talk of the Town
Tora-san (1978)
•Tora-san, the
Matchmaker (1979)
•Tora-san's Dream of
Spring (1979)
•Tora's Tropical Fever (1980)
•Foster
Daddy, Tora! (1980)
•A Distant Cry
from Spring (1980)
•Tora-san's Love in
Osaka (1981)
•Tora-san's Promise (1981)
•Hearts and
Flowers for Tora-san (1982)
•Tora-san, the Expert (1982)
•Tora-san's Song of
Love (1983)
•Tora-san Goes
Religious? (1983)
•Marriage
Counselor Tora-san (1984)
•Tora-san, the
Go-Between (1985)
•Tora-san's Island
Encounter (1985)
•Tora-san's
Bluebird Fantasy (1986)
•Cinema
no Tenchi (1986)
•Tora-san Goes North (1987)
•Tora-san Plays Daddy (1987)
•Tora-san's
Salad-Day Memorial (1988)
•Hope and Pain (1988)
•Tora-San Goes to
Vienna (1989)
•Tora-san, My Uncle (1989)
•Tora-san Takes a
Vacation (1990)
•My Sons (1991)
•Tora-san Confesses (1991)
•Tora-San Makes Excuses (1992)
•A
Class to Remember (1993)
•Tora-san's Matchmaker (1993)
•Tora-san's Easy Advice (1994)
•Tora-san to the Rescue (1995)
•A Class to Remember
II (1996)
•Niji
wo
Tsukamu
Otoko (1996)
•Niji wo Tsukamu Otoko Nangoku Funtō hen (1997)
•A Class to Remember III (1998)
•A Class to Remember IV (2000)
•Twilight
Samurai (2002)
•The
Hidden Blade (2004)
•Love and Honor (2006)
•Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
•Otōto (2010)
•Tokyo
Family (2013)
•The Little House (2014)
•Nagasaki:
Memories of My Son (2015)
•What a Wonderful
Family! (2016)
•What a Wonderful
Family! 2 (2017)
•What a Wonderful
Family! 3 (2018)
•Tora-san 50 (2019)
•Film making style
•War Memories Influence on His
Film making Style
Kiri no hata (1965)_ BD Films Info |
•Brooting Style
Brooding can also mean you're being extremely thoughtful,
contemplative, meditative,
musing, reflective, or ruminative; those are all
good things. You have to look at the context to
see if someone is brooding in a positive
or negative way.
A Distant Cry from Spring 1980_BD Films Info |
•Comedy
and overacting
What a Wonderful Family! (2016) _BD Films Info |
•Showing
close in long shot &Using Natural light
Tokyo Family (2013)_BD Films Info |
•Using
Artificial light in Medium shot
Tokyo Family (2013)_BD Films Info |
•Using
wide shot in low angle to express the subject tiny
Tokyo Family (2013)_BD Films Info |
•Wide
shot with artificial light at night
Tokyo Family (2013)_BD Films Info |
•Melodrama:
expressing emotion with
background music
•Adapting
Japanese norms and culture in film with