Yoji Yamada Goes To The Movies …

Posted by Todd Brown at 1:08pm.

Posted in Trailer Alerts , Drama, Asia, Going To The Movies, indiefilmcafe.

Japanese director Yoji Yamada has risen to great international acclaim in recent years thanks to his much loved samurai trilogy (Twilight Samurai, Hidden Blade, Love and Honor) but many of his recent fans are unaware that the man is a well established veteran of the Japanese industry who has been honing his craft for decades and has a very extensive back catalog of films that are largely unavailable outside of his own country. We can’t do much about the complete films but Twitch reader Fabool has just uploaded trailers for a solid handful of more obscure Yamada titles and I just couldn’t resist the opportunity to bundle them all together for your perusal. You’ll find ‘em after the break!

Some of his more current stuff in there, too, so browse around!

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fabool 11/18/2007 @ 3:21pm

Thanks for the recognition

I hope distributors are reading twitch and take notice that there’s interest in Yamada’s older work. I’d love to see a nice box of them using these recent prints with subs thrown into the mix. I believe there’s an older R3 box available, but it’s not using these transfers.
I’m not sure if it’s apparent from the compressed trailers, but the source trailers on the DVD (Hidden blade R2J) were extremely sharp and all around excellent, which surprised me a bit, as I’m used to seeing many muddy transfers of old Japanese movies. Wouldn’t mind having a quality Tora-san set either…

Great director.