Yoji yamada biography of christopher

  • He is haunted by the fact that he was born out of his father's illicit relationship with a geisha.
  • For decades, he has been directing the Tora-san movies, about an ordinary fellow who is the black sheep of his family and who is forever in.
  • A 2015 Japanese drama film directed by Yoji Yamada and starring Sayuri Yoshinaga and Kazunari Ninomiya.

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    Born in 1931 in Osaka, Yoji Yamada entered the Shochikustudio in 1954 at the height of Japanese cinema’s postwar Golden Age. He debuted as a director in 1961 with the comedy “The Strangers Upstairs” and thereafter specialized in the genre, though he found hits hard to come by.

    In 1969 his fortunes began to change with the first of what were to be 48 films in a series of comedies about a wandering peddler named Torajiro Kuruma, but universally known as Tora-san. Based on a 1968-1969 TV series that Yamada had scripted and directed, the Tora-san films were set in the hero’s home of Shibamata, a neighborhood in Tokyo’s shitamachi (“old downtown”) district. Played by Kiyoshi Atsumi, Tora-san was a voluble, excitable type around family and neighbors, including his long-suffering half-sister Sakura (Chieko Baisho), but shy and awkward around the women he met and wooed in every episode.

    Though a perennial loser at romance,...

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    Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

    2015 film

    Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

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    Directed byYoji Yamada
    Written byYoji Yamada
    Emiko Hiramatsu
    Produced byEnoki Nozomi
    StarringSayuri Yoshinaga
    Kazunari Ninomiya
    CinematographyMasashi Chikamori
    Edited byIwao Ishii
    Music byRyuichi Sakamoto
    Distributed byShochiku

    Release date

    • 12 December 2015 (2015-12-12)

    Running time

    		130 minutes
    CountryJapan
    LanguageJapanese
    Box office¥1,720,074,869 ($14,484,841)[1]

    Nagasaki: Memories of My Son (Japanese: 母と暮せば, Hepburn: Haha to Kuraseba, "Living with my mother") is a 2015 Japanese drama film directed by Yoji Yamada and starring Sayuri Yoshinaga and Kazunari Ninomiya. It was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.[2]

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    Midwife Nobuko Fukuhara lost her husband and eldest son during World War II and lost her youngest son, Koji, as a result of the bombing of Nagasaki. Following the war, she has been living alone with only work to keep her occupied. However, one day she is visited by an apparition of Koji. The mother and son begin to spend much time together, reminiscing and catching

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