Film Director

Yoji Yamada

Japanese film director and screenwriter

1931 - today

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His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Yoji Yamada is the 718th most popular film director (down from 612th in 2024), the 1,051st most popular biography from Japan (down from 895th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Yoji Yamada's biography spans 19 Wikipedia language editions and earns a Historical Popularity Index of 58.89.

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Among Film Directors

Among film directors, Yoji Yamada ranks 718 out of 2,296. Before him are Benoît Jacquot, Andrew Niccol, Brad Bird, Karel Lamač, Nana Jorjadze, and Alberto Cavalcanti. After him are Terence Fisher, Barry Sonnenfeld, David O. Russell, Rajko Grlić, Ivan Pyryev, and Pasquale Festa Campanile.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Yoji Yamada ranks 267. Before him are Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar, Duško Gojković, Nílton de Sordi, Vance D. Brand, Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, and Tab Hunter. After him are William Goldman, Rogelio Domínguez, Georgy Grechko, Ram Dass, Ibrahim Biogradlić, and Mustafa Dağıstanlı.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoji Yamada ranks 1,051 out of 6,943. Before him are Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), Takeo Arishima (1878), Joseph Asajiro Satowaki (1904), Masayuki Uemura (1943), Takeshi Obata (1969), and Tetsuya Nishiwaki (1977). After him are Masae Suzuki (1957), Kuroda Seiki (1866), Kijirō Nambu (1869), Saburō Kawabuchi (1936), Kuroki Tamemoto (1844), and Yasuhiro Yamashita (1957).

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Among Film Directors In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Yoji Yamada ranks 31. Before him are Gorō Miyazaki (1967), Osamu Dezaki (1943), Seijun Suzuki (1923), Kaneto Shindo (1912), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950), and Keisuke Kinoshita (1912). After him are Jun'ichi Kōuchi (1886), Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910), Rintaro (1941), Mamoru Hosoda (1967), Shinichirō Watanabe (1965), and Shinobu Hashimoto (1918).

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