Japanese director Yoji Yamada, who has 90 films to his credit, talks to The Associated Press at a Shochiku office in Tokyo, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. A theater piece he has scripted and directed, based on a storyteller’s classic, is being performed at the Kabukiza theater in Tokyo through the end of this month. Yamada, 92, says all his works deal with the question of what it truly means to be human. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama) OCT. 4, 2023, PHOTO
