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Yoshishige Yoshida
Fukui, Japan
Yoshishige Yoshida (吉田 喜重 Yoshida Yoshishige), also known as Kijū Yoshida, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Graduating from Tokyo University, Yoshida entered the Sh…
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Yoshishige Yoshida (吉田 喜重 Yoshida Yoshishige), 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.
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2022
Wuthering Heights: Love, Hate and Vengeance
Movie Self
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2008
Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
Movie Self
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2008
Yoshida …or: The Explosion of the Story
Movie Self
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2004
Welcome to São Paulo
Movie Director
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2003
Women in the Mirror
Movie Director
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1997
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
Movie Director
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1995
Lumière & Company
Movie Director
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1995
Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1994
The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida
Movie Self
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1988
Wuthering Heights
Movie Director
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1986
A Human Promise
Movie Director
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1978
Cinématon
Movie N°789
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1977
The Story of Big 1: Sadaharu Oh
Movie Director
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1974
Beauty of Beauty
TV show Himself/Narrator
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1973
Coup d'Etat
Movie Director
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1971
Confessions Among Actresses
Movie Director
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1970
Heroic Purgatory
Movie Director
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1969
Eros + Massacre
Movie Director
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1968
Farewell to the Summer Light
Movie Writer
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1968
Affair in the Snow
Movie Director
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1967
Impasse
Movie Director
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1967
The Affair
Movie Director
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1966
Woman of the Lake
Movie Director
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1965
A Story Written with Water
Movie Director
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1964
Escape from Japan
Movie Director
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1963
18 Roughs
Movie Director
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1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
Movie Director
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1961
Immortal Love
Movie Assistant Director
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1961
Bitter End of a Sweet Night
Movie Director
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1960
Blood Is Dry
Movie Director
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1960
Good-for-Nothing
Movie Director
