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    Yoji Yamada (山田 洋次, Yamada Yōji, born 13 September 1931) is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai...
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  • Yamada (山田, lit. 'mountain rice field') is the 12th most common Japanese surname. Akari Yamada (山田 朱莉, born 1996), Japanese model, actress and idol Aki...
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  • Love and Honor (2006 film) (category Films with screenplays by Yôji Yamada)
    Actress - Kaori Momoi Nomination - Best Director - Yōji Yamada Nomination - Best Screenplay - Yōji Yamada, Emiko Hiramatsu, and Ichirō Yamamoto Nomination...
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    1969 until 1995. In addition, she has acted in many films directed by Yōji Yamada since the 1960s. She won the award for Best Actress at the 5th Hochi...
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    include Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Yōji Yamada. It has also produced films by highly regarded independent and "loner"...
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    Yōji, Yoji, Youji, or Yohji is a common masculine Japanese given name Yōji can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: 洋二, "ocean, second"...
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  • Otoko wa Tsurai yo (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    3 (Azuma Morisaki) and 4 (Shun'ichi Kobayashi [jp]) were directed by Yōji Yamada, who also wrote (or co-wrote) all the screenplays. Each film featured...
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  • Tokyo Family (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    Family (東京家族, Tōkyō Kazoku) is a 2013 Japanese drama film directed by Yōji Yamada. It is a remake of the Japanese film Tokyo Story. The film is set in...
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  • The Hidden Blade (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    "Hidden Blade: Oni's Claw") is a 2004 film set in 1860s Japan, directed by Yoji Yamada. The plot revolves around several samurai during a time of change in...
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    Misumi Kihachi Okamoto Kaneto Shindo Masahiro Shinoda Takeshi Kitano Yoji Yamada Sadao Yamanaka Tokuzō Tanaka Kazuo Ikehiro Kimiyoshi Yasuda Kazuo Mori...
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  • My Sons (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    My Sons (息子, Musuko) is a 1991 Japanese film directed by Yōji Yamada. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. The children of...
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  • Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    Tora-san, Bluebird of Happiness is a 1986 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Etsuko Shihomi...
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  • Castle of Sand (category Films with screenplays by Yôji Yamada)
    Shin 1975 Kinema Junpo Award Best Screenplay (Shinobu Hashimoto and Yōji Yamada) Readers' Choice Award Best Japanese Film Director (Yoshitaro Nomura)...
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  • It's Tough Being a Man (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    (Tora-san Our Lovable Tramp) is a 1969 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada and starring Kiyoshi Atsumi. It is the first entry in the popular, long-running...
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    (1997) Takeshi Kitano (1998) Yuji Nakae (2000) Hayao Miyazaki (2001) Yoji Yamada (2002) Hideo Onchi (2003) Yoichi Sai (2004) Kenji Uchida (2005) Kichitaro...
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  • A Class to Remember (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    to Remember (学校, Gakkō, "School") is a 1993 Japanese film directed by Yōji Yamada. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. One...
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    v t e Japan Academy Film Prize for Director of the Year Yoji Yamada (1978) Yoshitarō Nomura (1979) Shohei Imamura (1980) Seijun Suzuki (1981) Kōhei Oguri...
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  • A Distant Cry from Spring (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    Hepburn: Harukanaru yama no Yobigoe) is a 1980 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. Ken Takakura as Kōsaku Tajima Chieko Baisho as Tamiko Kazami Hidetaka...
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  • directed by Tai Kato, who co-wrote the screenplay with Haruhiko Mimura and Yoji Yamada, based on a story by Tadashi Hiromi. The film stars Makoto Satō as a...
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  • The Twilight Samurai (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    is a 2002 Japanese historical drama film co-written and directed by Yoji Yamada and starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Rie Miyazawa. Set in mid-19th century...
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  • The Little House (film) (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    House (小さいおうち, Chiisai Ouchi) is a 2014 Japanese drama film directed by Yoji Yamada and based on a novel by Kyoko Nakajima. It was released in Japan on 25...
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    2008 film Cherry Blossoms, which follows a similar storyline. In 2013 Yōji Yamada remade the film as Tōkyō Kazoku. The film was restored and released on...
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  • Kabei: Our Mother (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    Kābē) is a 2008 Japanese film starring Sayuri Yoshinaga and directed by Yoji Yamada. The film was based on the autobiographical novel by Teruyo Nogami, who...
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  • Where Spring Comes Late (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    Where Spring Comes Late (家族, Kazoku) is a 1970 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. The Kazami family live on the island of Iōjima, Nagasaki, where Seiichi...
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  • kiiroi hankachi, lit. The yellow handkerchief of happiness) directed by Yoji Yamada. Set in the present-day American South, The Yellow Handkerchief stars...
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    v t e Japan Academy Film Prize for Director of the Year Yoji Yamada (1978) Yoshitarō Nomura (1979) Shohei Imamura (1980) Seijun Suzuki (1981) Kōhei Oguri...
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  • divorced in 1987. Tanaka and Sawada married in November 1989. When director Yōji Yamada reworked a script from his popular Otoko wa Tsurai yo film series after...
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  • Japanese title Director(s) 1st (1977) The Yellow Handkerchief 幸福の黄色いハンカチ Yoji Yamada 2nd (1978) The Incident 事件 Yoshitaro Nomura 3rd (1979) Vengeance Is Mine...
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  • Tora-san, Wish You Were Here (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    Otoko wa Tsurai yo Okaeri Torasan) is a 2019 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. It is the fiftieth entry in the popular and long-running Otoko wa Tsurai...
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  • What a Wonderful Family! (category Films directed by Yoji Yamada)
    (家族はつらいよ, Kazoku wa Tsurai yo) is a 2016 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada and starring Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura, Yui...
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