Director

Yoshishige Yoshida

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Directed movies: 25Directed series: 1All crew credits: 27

TMDB ID: 110519

IMDb ID: nm0948950

Known for: Directing

Born: February 16, 1933

Died: December 8, 2022

Age: 89

Place of birth: Fukui, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1960 - 2022

Years active: 63

Average TMDB rating: 6.64

Wikidata: Q2476978

Also known as

Yoshida Kijū • 吉田喜重 • Yoshida Yoshishige • Kijū Yoshida • Ёсисигэ Ёсида • Кидзю Ёсида

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Director (25)Assistant Director (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

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.