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The Tokyo Film Festival will present a Lifetime Achievement Award to veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada.<\/p>\n
Yamada\u2019s latest work Tokyo Taxi, based on the 2023 French film Driving Madeleine, has been selected as this year\u2019s TIFF Centerpiece film. He will also participate in the TIFF Lounge series of talks through a conversation with Kokuho director Lee Sang-il.<\/p>\n
More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Japanese actress Yoshinaga Sayuri, who has collaborated with Yamada on many films, will also receive TIFF\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award. She also stars in the festival\u2019s opening film, Junji Sakamoto\u2019s Climbing For Life, a biopic of Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s Tokyo festival runs October 27-November 5.<\/p>\n Yamada has directed 91 films over the course of his career, starting with his debut The Strangers Upstairs (Nikai no tanin) in 1961 and also including 50 films in the Tora-san series, which entered the Guinness World Records as the world\u2019s longest-running film franchise and became a national institution in Japan.<\/p>\n From the 2000s onward, Yamada ventured into new territory with period films such as The Twilight Samurai (2002), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars; and The Hidden Blade (2004), which played in competition at Berlin International Film Festival.<\/p>\n On announcing the award TIFF chairman Ando Hiroyasu said: \u201cYoji Yamada has long observed the realities of Japanese society with a discerning yet compassionate eye, crystallizing them into numerous cinematic masterpieces over the decades. Above all, he possesses a profound love of cinema and has consistently maintained a wide-ranging interest in films from both Japan and abroad, past and present, while demonstrating a deep commitment to the future of the medium.<\/p>\n \u201cHe has also devoted himself to nurturing younger generations of filmmakers. His outstanding contributions to the advancement of cinematic art have earned him the highest admiration and respect.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Tokyo Film Festival will present a Lifetime Achievement Award to veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada. Yamada\u2019s latest work Tokyo Taxi, based on the 2023 French film Driving Madeleine, has been selected as this year\u2019s TIFF Centerpiece film. He will also participate in the TIFF Lounge series of talks through a conversation with Kokuho director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2107453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[398930,348779,398928,398894,398929],"class_list":["post-2107452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-a-lifetime-achievement-award","tag-lifetime-achievement-award","tag-tokyo-film-festival","tag-yoji-yamada","tag-yoshinaga-sayuri"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tokyo-Film-Festival-To-Present-Lifetime-Achievement-Award-To-Yoji.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107454,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107452\/revisions\/2107454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2107453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}