Yoji Yamada — Director (41)
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It's A Flickering Life (2021) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
キネマの神様
director: 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.
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The Yellow Handkerchief (1977) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
幸福の黄色いハンカチ
director: 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.
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
男はつらいよ　夜霧にむせぶ寅次郎
director: 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.
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It's Tough Being a Man (1969) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
男はつらいよ
director: 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.
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My Sons (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
息子
director: 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.
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
男はつらいよ 寅次郎あじさいの恋
director: 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.
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Stage-Struck Tora-san (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
男はつらいよ 寅次郎わが道をゆく
director: 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.
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The Hidden Blade (2004) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb Skybridge WikiData TMDB
隠し剣 鬼の爪
director: 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.
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Foster Daddy, Tora! (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
男はつらいよ 寅次郎かもめ歌
director: 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.
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Talk of the Town Tora-san (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
男はつらいよ 噂の寅次郎
director: 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.
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A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen (2000) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb
十五才 学校IV
director: 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.
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What a Wonderful Family! 3 (2018) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
妻よ薔薇のように 家族はつらいよIII
director: 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.
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What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
家族はつらいよ2
director: 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.
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What a Wonderful Family! (2016) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
家族はつらいよ
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Isao Hashizume / Kazuko Yoshiyuki …
other title: What a wonderful family! / Maravillosa familia de Tokio …
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. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos.
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The Twilight Samurai (2002) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
たそがれ清兵衛
director: 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?
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A Distant Cry from Spring (1980) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
遙かなる山の呼び声
director: 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.
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The Little House (2014) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
小さいおうち
director: 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.