Yoji Yamada

Yōji Yamada
Yōji Yamada
山田洋次
	Yoji Yamada at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2019
Born	13 September 1931 (age 92); Toyonaka, Japan
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1961–present
Japanese name
Hiragana	やまだようじ
Katakana	ヤマダヨウジ
Romanization
Transcriptions
Romanization	Yamada Yōji

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 Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade and Love and Honor).