1931 - Today
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). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoji Yamada has received more than 184,007 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Yoji Yamada is the 516th most popular film director (down from 416th in 2019), the 753rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 650th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Japanese Film Director.
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Among film directors, Yoji Yamada ranks 516 out of 1,581. Before him are Peter Yates, John Badham, Lee Chang-dong, Im Kwon-taek, Tom Holland, and Mamoru Hosoda. After him are Alain Corneau, Ferdinand Zecca, Don Bluth, Max Fleischer, Anthony Asquith, and Ladislao Vajda.
1929 - 2011
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 510
1939 - Present
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 511
1954 - Present
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 512
1936 - Present
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 513
1943 - Present
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 514
1967 - Present
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 515
1931 - Present
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 516
1943 - 2010
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 517
1864 - 1947
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 518
1937 - Present
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 519
1883 - 1972
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 520
1902 - 1968
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 521
1906 - 1965
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 522
Among people born in 1931, Yoji Yamada ranks 171. Before him are Norberto Boggio, Fred Brooks, Lisbeth Palme, Moshé Mizrahi, Reizo Fukuhara, and Manolo Escobar. After him are Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, Ola Ullsten, Carmen Dell'Orefice, Takashi Mizuno, Mwai Kibaki, and Krzysztof Komeda.
1931 - 2021
HPI: 53.40
Rank: 165
1931 - 2022
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 166
1931 - 2018
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 167
1931 - 2018
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 168
1931 - 1970
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 169
1931 - 2013
HPI: 53.20
Rank: 170
1931 - Present
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 171
1931 - 2021
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 172
1931 - 2018
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 173
1931 - Present
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 174
1931 - Present
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 175
1931 - 2022
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 176
1931 - 1969
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 177
Among people born in Japan, Yoji Yamada ranks 753 out of 6,048. Before him are Kōichi Kido (1889), Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Reizo Fukuhara (1931), Yutaka Taniyama (1927), and Mamoru Hosoda (1967). After him are Kiko, Princess Akishino (1966), Takiji Kobayashi (1903), Motoo Tatsuhara (1913), Prince Koreyasu (1264), Sawao Kato (1946), and Tadao Horie (1913).
1889 - 1977
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 747
1933 - Present
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 748
1934 - Present
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 749
1931 - 1970
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 750
1927 - 1958
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 751
1967 - Present
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 752
1931 - Present
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 753
1966 - Present
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 754
1903 - 1933
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 755
1913 - 1984
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 756
1264 - 1326
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 757
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 758
1913 - 2003
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 759
Among film directors born in Japan, Yoji Yamada ranks 28. Before him are Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941), Takashi Miike (1960), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), Seijun Suzuki (1923), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), and Mamoru Hosoda (1967). After him are Osamu Dezaki (1943), Juzo Itami (1933), Keisuke Kinoshita (1912), Yasuzo Masumura (1924), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950), and Gorō Miyazaki (1967).
1941 - Present
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 22
1960 - Present
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 23
1927 - 2001
HPI: 54.05
Rank: 24
1923 - 2017
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 25
1955 - Present
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 26
1967 - Present
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 27
1931 - Present
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 28
1943 - 2011
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 29
1933 - 1997
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 30
1912 - 1998
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 31
1924 - 1986
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 32
1950 - Present
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 33
1967 - Present
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 34