Yoji Yamada Trailers
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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 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 once served as president of the Directors Guild of Japan, and is currently a guest professor of Ritsumeikan University.
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19 November 2009
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
24 November 2018
A Distant Cry from Spring (TV Movies). After Tamiko Kazami 's husband passes away, she works their dairy farm.
29 December 1971
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
06 August 1988
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
18 August 2001
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing.
16 March 2016
A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present.
15 January 1971
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura.
26 February 1970
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag.
26 December 1992
Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his love interest or "Madonna".
06 November 1993
A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.
06 August 1983
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event.
04 January 1973
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
03 August 1985
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking.
19 August 1975
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.
19 October 1996
The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.
14 November 1969
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
28 May 1965
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother.
26 January 2008
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist.
23 December 1995
Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.
25 June 2018
The Akazas are a blue-collar family living in a working-class neighborhood of Tokyo. Older brother Inosuke is a carpenter who works for his father Shinobu's construction business.
10 August 1974
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.
25 December 1993
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there.
28 December 1996
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town.
06 November 1976
Japanese youth film.
20 December 1986
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died.
15 August 1987
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.
17 October 1998
A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications.
10 October 2011
Set in Hokkaido, revolving around an ex-convict named Shima Yusaku (Abe) who has just been released from prison.
24 December 1988
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
05 August 1967
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.
08 August 1998
Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.
24 December 1988
Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office.
23 December 1991
Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.
19 May 1971
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
18 April 1963
A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
02 August 1980
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
29 December 1972
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room.
23 December 1995
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.
28 December 1983
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise.
15 January 1970
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
27 December 1980
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.
02 November 2002
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother.
10 August 1996
When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.
25 December 1973
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling for his artist sister.
27 December 1989
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
26 December 1992
Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.
23 December 1994
Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister.
05 August 1989
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
28 December 1984
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears.
26 August 1970
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.
22 December 1990
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in Oita.
23 July 1976
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed.
01 January 1964
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier.
04 August 1984
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province.
15 April 1960
The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
06 November 1976
Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
04 August 1979
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
