Yoji Yamada has directed 90 films, including “Tora-san,” which tops the Guinness World...
TOKYO — Yoji Yamada has directed 90 films, including “Tora-san,” which tops the Guinness World Records for the longest-running movie series starring the same actor. In each of the 48 installments, beginning in 1969, the hero peddler with a heart of gold falls in love but doesn’t get the girl. He has just finished directing a Kabuki play, a Japanese musical theater form dating back four centuries, except re-scripted and directed Yamada-style.
It’s a heart-warming story about how even a loser can have heroic moments and do the right thing. The classic, originally scripted by Encho Sanyutei, an Edo-style “rakugo” storyteller, and performed countless times by Kabuki legends, has the audience laughing, clapping and crying. Yamada’s version resonates with the same human story he’s told so many times with his films.
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