Research On Director Yoji Yamada’s Films

Yoji Yamada, a movie master who can understand the Japanese heart, and knownby "Comedy Yamada","Common People Director",and also known as the "Japanesespirit". However, relative to Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu in the Shochiku filmfactory, and Nagisa Oshima in the Japanese film tide, Yoji Yamada’s movie art havebeen neglected by domestic and foreign theories, and lack of relevant research articlesand books. But in fact, Yoji Yamada movies works are more win support among thepeople than any other Japanese masters.From1960s, Yoji Yamada cut a striking figure with comedy film男はつらいよ,and the film is into one of the longest movie series in the Japanese history and shot upto48sets, and became very popular. In1980s, Yoji Yamada made The YellowHandkerchief of Happiness, A Distant Cry from Spring and other classical love card forthe vast number of well-known Chinese audience. In the new century after the launch ofsamurai Trilogy The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade and Bushi no ichibun whichopened up the samurai movies in the new era, the world’s major film festivalaward-winning. In2010, Yoji Yamada, who was78years old awarded the lifetimeachievement award at the sixtieth Berlin International Film Festival, and write down hisown page in the world movie history.Therefore, this paper tries to study the creation of the film through Yoji Yamada’sworks, on Yoji Yamada creation form a whole summary, combined with Japan’seconomic, political, social and cultural factors, the works carried out in-depth analysisand interpretation, and to summarize Yoji Yamada film style and artistic characteristic,and finally puts forward and establishment of Yoji Yamada director in the Japanese filmhistory, the Asian film history, the world’s film history.In addition, researching the Yoji Yamada’s films, is also to get some nutrients tonourish our Chinese film.