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Yoji Yamada
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13 September 1931
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Yoji Yamada is a film director, actor and screenwriter. Yoji studied at the University of Tokyo in 1954, when he began working as an assistant film director with Shochiku. In 1961, Yamada managed to shoot his debut film “Stranger from the second floor”, and three years later he began to shoot a rather famous television serial film “Tora-san”. Subsequently, forty-eight episodes of this series were filmed. In 2002, a painting was taken. Gloomy Samurai The film became the pinnacle of Yoji’s career:
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Yoji Yamada is a film director, actor and screenwriter.
Yoji studied at the University of Tokyo in 1954, when he began working as an assistant film director with Shochiku. In 1961, Yamada managed to shoot his debut film “Stranger from the second floor”, and three years later he began to shoot a rather famous television serial film “Tora-san”. Subsequently, forty-eight episodes of this series were filmed.
In 2002, a painting was taken.
Gloomy Samurai The film became the pinnacle of Yoji’s career: the film enjoyed incredible success not only in Japan, but also abroad. This film was nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Foreign Language Film" in the framework of the seventy-eighth awards ceremony of the American Film Academy in 2004.
Among other works were such as “Homeland”, “Family”, “Brother”, and also received in addition to the award for directing the award in five other nominations in the first ceremony of awarding prizes of the Japanese Film Academy film film.
"Yellow handkerchief of happiness" .
Yamada has also worked on films such as The Cinema Universe, The Call of Faraway Mountains, Heroes of Shopping Districts and Son. Special mention deserves his work “School”, which won the main award of the Japanese Film Academy in the category “Best Film”.
Yoji was the winner of many prestigious awards, including the Mainichi Prize, the Minister of Education Award “For Contribution to Art”, the Kikuchi Kan estate award, the award “for best director’s work” in the framework of the Mainichi Eiga Film Festival, the Fumiko Yamamiti Film Award, the prize of the fourth festival “Revival of Japanese cinema”.
In 1996, the director was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal, and in 2002 he was awarded the Small Order of the Rising Sun of the fourth degree.