Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tokyo International Film Festival's TIFF Lounge series of talks and masterclasses featured a conversation between Yamada Yoji, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tokyo Film Festival will present a Lifetime Achievement Award to veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada. Japanese actress ...

Born in 1931 in Osaka, Yoji Yamada entered the Shochiku studio 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” ...

Veteran Japanese filmmaker Yoji Yamada is to receive the lifetime achievement award at the 38 th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). The filmmaker will also take part in an on-stage discussion ...

Veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada will begin shooting the family drama "Otouto" in mid-January, with stars Tsurube Shofukutei as the "otouto" or younger brother and Sayuri Yoshinaga as his older ...

Australian production company Titantale Film is mid-shoot on “Tanabata: The Evening of the Seventh,” a supernatural romance drama starring Japanese actor Yamada Takayuki. The project, fully funded out ...

The Tokyo Film Festival will present a Lifetime Achievement Award to veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada. Yamada’s latest work Tokyo Taxi, based on the 2023 French film Driving Madeleine, has been ...

The Tokyo Film Festival will present a Lifetime Achievement Award to veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada. Japanese actress Yoshinaga Sayuri, who has collaborated with Yamada on many films, will also ...

With 91 films over 64 years — including the beloved 'Tora-san' series and Oscar-nominated 'The Twilight Samurai' — Yamada will be celebrated for his tireless contributions to Japan's cinematic ...