Yoji Yamada — Director (41)
cover

Movie

It's A Flickering Life (2021)
キネマの神様 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Yoji Yamada actor: 泽田研二 / 菅田将晖 …
other title: 向影神祈祷 / キネマの神様 …
The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and famous actors. In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the "god of cinema" that Go has worshipped since he was young will transcend time, and work a miracle in the lives of one family.
cover

Movie

The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
幸福の黄色いハンカチ IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Yoji Yamada actor: Ken Takakura / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Les mouchoirs jaunes du bonheur / El pañuelo amarillo de la felicidad …
A convict, newly released from prison for murder, joins two strangers on a road trip through Hokkaido to visit his ex-wife, whom he hasn't seen in four years, knowing that if she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants him back at home.
cover

Movie

Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984)
男はつらいよ　夜霧にむせぶ寅次郎 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Yoji Yamada actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Marions-les / 男はつらいよ　夜霧にむせぶ寅次郎
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.
cover

Movie

It's Tough Being a Man (1969)
男はつらいよ
Yoji Yamada actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: C'est dur d'être un homme / Tora-san. It's Tough Being a Man …
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you.
cover

Movie

My Sons (1991)
息子
Yoji Yamada actor: Masatoshi Nagase / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 息子 / My sons (Mis hijos) …
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.
cover

Movie

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san (1982)
男はつらいよ 寅次郎あじさいの恋 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Yoji Yamada actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: L'indécis / 男はつらいよ 寅次郎あじさいの恋 …
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living National Treasure ceramist. At his home, Tora-san makes a good impression on the old man's maid, who apparently falls in love with Tora-san.
cover

Movie

Stage-Struck Tora-san (1978)
男はつらいよ 寅次郎わが道をゆく WikiData IMDb TMDB
Yoji Yamada actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Tora san entre en scène / 男はつらいよ 寅次郎わが道をゆく …
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up to Tora-san.
cover

Movie

The Hidden Blade (2004)
隠し剣 鬼の爪
Yoji Yamada actor: Masatoshi Nagase / Takako Matsu …
other title: La Servante et le Samouraï / La espada oculta …
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
cover

Movie

Foster Daddy, Tora! (1980)
男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Yoji Yamada actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Un drôle de père / 男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌 …
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.
cover

Movie

Talk of the Town Tora-san (1978)
男はつらいよ 噂の寅次郎 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Yoji Yamada actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Elle court, elle court la rumeur / 男はつらいよ 噂の寅次郎 …
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.
cover

Movie

A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen (2000)
十五才 学校IV IMDb Douban NeoDB
Yoji Yamada actor: Yuta Kanai / Hideakazu Akai …
other title: 十五才 学校IV
Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, including friendly truck driver Sumire and a mysterious mountaineer girl.
cover

Movie

What a Wonderful Family! 3 (2018)
妻よ薔薇のように 家族はつらいよIII IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Yoji Yamada actor: 桥爪功 / Kazuko Yoshiyuki …
other title: What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life / 妻よ薔薇のように 家族はつらいよIII …
At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.
cover

Movie

What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017)
家族はつらいよ2 IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Yoji Yamada actor: 桥爪功 / Kazuko Yoshiyuki …
other title: 家族はつらいよ2 / What a wonderful family ! 2 …
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing. Soon, a new disturbance arises for the Hirata family. Veteran director Yamada Yoji continues his comedy about the “perfect“ Japanese family turned upside down in chaos, laughters and understanding. This time, with an additional taste of death.
cover

Movie

The Twilight Samurai (2002)
たそがれ清兵衛
Yoji Yamada actor: Hiroyuki Sanada / Rie Miyazawa …
other title: Il crepuscolo del samurai / A Sombra do Samurai …
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. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
cover

Movie

A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)
遙かなる山の呼び声
Yoji Yamada actor: Ken Takakura / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Llanto de Primavera / 遙かなる山の呼び声 …
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind.
cover

Movie

The Little House (2014)
小さいおうち
Yoji Yamada actor: Takako Matsu / Haru Kuroki …
other title: The little house / La Maison au toit rouge …
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.