Known For
Directing
Born
Feb 16, 1933
Died
Dec 08, 2022
Place of Birth
Fukui, Japan
Credits
31 titles
Yoshishige Yoshida
Biography
Yoshishige Yoshida (吉田 喜重 Yoshida Yoshishige; 16 February 1933 - 8 December 2022), also known as Kijū Yoshida, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Graduating from Tokyo University, Yoshida entered the Shōchiku studio in 1955 and debuted as a director in 1960 with Rokudenashi. He was a central member of what came to be called the "Shōchiku Nouvelle Vague" along with Nagisa Oshima and Masahiro Shinoda, and his works have been studied under the larger rubric of the Japanese New Wave. Like many of his New Wave cohorts, he felt restricted under the studio system and left Shōchiku in 1964 to start his own production company where he directed such films as Eros + Massacre. He has directed more than 20 films between 1960 and 2004. He has also written a number of philosophical books about his work and the cinema, including an award-winning study of Yasujirō Ozu.
Known For
Filmography
Wuthering Heights: Love, Hate and Vengeance
Self
Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
Self
Yoshida …or: The Explosion of the Story
Self
Welcome to São Paulo
Director
Women in the Mirror
Director
知の解放 知の冒険 知の祝祭 東京大学 学問の過去・現在・未来
Director
Lumière & Company
Director
Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema
Narrator (voice)
The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida
Self
Wuthering Heights
Director
A Human Promise
Director
Cinématon
N°789
The Story of Big 1: Sadaharu Oh
Director
Beauty of Beauty
Himself/Narrator
Coup d'Etat
Director
Confessions Among Actresses
Director
Heroic Purgatory
Director
Eros + Massacre
Director
Farewell to the Summer Light
Writer
Affair in the Snow
Director
Impasse
Director
The Affair
Director
Woman of the Lake
Director
A Story Written with Water
Director
Escape from Japan
Director
18 Roughs
Director
Akitsu Hot Springs
Director
Immortal Love
Assistant Director
Bitter End of a Sweet Night
Director
Blood Is Dry
Director
Good-for-Nothing
Director