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Yoshishige Yoshida (å‰ç”° å–œé‡ Yoshida Yoshishige), also known as KijÅ« Yoshida, is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Graduating from Tokyo University, Yoshida entered the ShÅchiku studio in 1955 and debuted as a director in 1960 with Rokudenashi. He was a central member of what came to be called the “ShÅchiku 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 ShÅchiku 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 YasujirÅ Ozu.
Yoshishige Yoshida Biography / Wiki
| Name | Yoshishige Yoshida |
| Also Know | Yoshida KijÅ«, å‰ç”° å–œé‡, Yoshida Yoshishige, KijÅ« Yoshida, ÐÑиÑÐ¸Ð³Ñ ÐÑида, Кидзю ÐÑида |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Fukui, Japan |
| Date of Birth | 1933-02-16 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 89 |
| Deathday |
Yoshishige Yoshida Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker? | Self | 2008-04-09 | An overview of the life and work of legendary Japanese filmmaker Kijû Yoshida, a notable figure of the Japanese New Wave…. |
| Yoshida …or: The Explosion of the Story | Self | 2008-03-28 | A documentary about Yoshishige (Kijû) Yoshida’s creative process for his most significant film, the 1969 avantgarde tour-de-force Eros + Massacre (19… |
| Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema | Narrator (voice) | 1995-08-14 | A documentary about cinematographer Gabriel Veyre’s adventures introducing cinema to Japan and South America. Veyre was a traveling cameraman for the … |
| The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida | Himself | 1994-11-18 | Yoshida grew close to Ozu Yasujiro during his time at Shochiku, where he was able to observe the legendary master at work. Although Yoshida and his ge… |
| Cinématon | N°789 | 1978-12-20 | Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36… |
Yoshishige Yoshida Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Akitsu Springs | Director | 1962-06-15 | Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attracti… |
| Eros + Massacre | Director | 1969-03-13 | Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second cen… |
| Bitter End of a Sweet Night | Director | 1961-02-14 | An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder…. |
| Good-for-Nothing | Director | 1960-07-05 | Yoshida’s first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a “good-fo… |
| Heroic Purgatory | Director | 1970-09-26 | Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pret… |
| Woman of the Lake | Director | 1966-08-27 | A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple…. |
| Coup d’Etat | Director | 1973-07-07 | A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936…. |
| Farewell to the Summer Light | Director | 1968-12-31 | A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic … |
| Affair in the Snow | Director | 1968-01-31 | In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had pl… |
| A Story Written with Water | Director | 1965-11-23 | Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the l… |
| Confessions Among Actresses | Director | 1971-11-17 | In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid b… |
| Escape from Japan | Director | 1964-07-03 | As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a ro… |
| Wuthering Heights | Director | 1988-05-28 | Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffer… |
| The Affair | Director | 1967-05-13 | As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds herse… |
| A Promise | Director | 1986-09-13 | An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to… |
| Impasse | Director | 1967-12-01 | Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by a… |
| Blood Is Dry | Director | 1960-10-09 | An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own ad… |
| Women in the Mirror | Director | 2003-04-02 | Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together…. |
| 18 Roughs | Director | 1963-09-11 | Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its run… |
| Welcome to São Paulo | Director | 2004-07-16 | All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso’s voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the… |
| Lumière and Company | Director | 1995-12-20 | 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditio… |
| Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema | Director | 1995-08-14 | A documentary about cinematographer Gabriel Veyre’s adventures introducing cinema to Japan and South America. Veyre was a traveling cameraman for the … |
| Immortal Love | Assistant Director | 1961-09-16 | The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner’s son, who has returned from the war with a… |
| The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida | Director | 1994-11-18 | Yoshida grew close to Ozu Yasujiro during his time at Shochiku, where he was able to observe the legendary master at work. Although Yoshida and his ge… |
| The Story of Big 1: Sadaharu Oh | Director | 1977-12-01 | A Documentary on the Japanese baseball player Sadaharu Oh… |
| Director | Documentary series about art. Yoshida’s camera documents the history of painting and artistic expression with delicate intimacy…. | ||
Yoshishige Yoshida Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Heroic Purgatory | Producer | 1970-09-26 | Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pret… |
| Eros + Massacre | Executive Producer | 1969-03-13 | Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second cen… |
| Confessions Among Actresses | Producer | 1971-11-17 | In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid b… |
| Coup d’Etat | Producer | 1973-07-07 | A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936…. |
| Women in the Mirror | Producer | 2003-04-02 | Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Eros + Massacre | Writer | 1969-03-13 | Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second cen… |
| Bitter End of a Sweet Night | Screenplay | 1961-02-14 | An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder…. |
| Farewell to the Summer Light | Writer | 1968-12-31 | A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic … |
| Wuthering Heights | Writer | 1988-05-28 | Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffer… |
| Woman of the Lake | Writer | 1966-08-27 | A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple…. |
| Good-for-Nothing | Screenplay | 1960-07-05 | Yoshida’s first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a “good-fo… |
| Akitsu Springs | Screenplay | 1962-06-15 | Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attracti… |
| Impasse | Writer | 1967-12-01 | Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by a… |
| Escape from Japan | Screenplay | 1964-07-03 | As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a ro… |
| Blood Is Dry | Screenplay | 1960-10-09 | An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own ad… |
| Confessions Among Actresses | Screenplay | 1971-11-17 | In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid b… |
| 18 Roughs | Screenplay | 1963-09-11 | Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its run… |
| The Affair | Screenplay | 1967-05-13 | As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds herse… |
| A Promise | Screenplay | 1986-09-13 | An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to… |
| A Story Written with Water | Screenplay | 1965-11-23 | Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the l… |
| Women in the Mirror | Screenplay | 2003-04-02 | Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together…. |
| Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema | Writer | 1995-08-14 | A documentary about cinematographer Gabriel Veyre’s adventures introducing cinema to Japan and South America. Veyre was a traveling cameraman for the … |
| The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida | Writer | 1994-11-18 | Yoshida grew close to Ozu Yasujiro during his time at Shochiku, where he was able to observe the legendary master at work. Although Yoshida and his ge… |
| Affair in the Snow | Screenplay | 1968-01-31 | In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had pl… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Women in the Mirror | Editor | 2003-04-02 | Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together…. |
| Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema | Editor | 1995-08-14 | A documentary about cinematographer Gabriel Veyre’s adventures introducing cinema to Japan and South America. Veyre was a traveling cameraman for the … |
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