Yoshishige Yoshida
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 16, 1933
- Died
- December 8, 2022 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- Fukui, Japan
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.
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Filmography
Welcome to São Paulo
Movie · Director
Women in the Mirror
Movie · 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
Movie · Director
Lumière & Company
Movie · Director
Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema
Movie · Director
The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida
Movie · Director
Wuthering Heights
Movie · Director
A Human Promise
Movie · Director
The Story of Big 1: Sadaharu Oh
Movie · Director
Beauty of Beauty
TV · Director · 21 eps
Coup d'Etat
Movie · Director
Confessions Among Actresses
Movie · Director
Heroic Purgatory
Movie · Director
Eros + Massacre
Movie · Director
Farewell to the Summer Light
Movie · Director
Affair in the Snow
Movie · Director
The Affair
Movie · Director
Impasse
Movie · Director
Woman of the Lake
Movie · Director
A Story Written with Water
Movie · Director
Escape from Japan
Movie · Director
18 Roughs
Movie · Director
Akitsu Hot Springs
Movie · Director
Bitter End of a Sweet Night
Movie · Director
Immortal Love
Movie · Assistant Director
Good-for-Nothing
Movie · Director
Blood Is Dry
Movie · Director