Yoshishige Yoshida
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 16, 1933, Fukui, Japan
- Died
- December 8, 2022
- Movies
- 31
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2022 | Wuthering Heights: Love, Hate and Vengeance | Self |
| 2008 | Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker? | Self |
| 2008 | Yoshida …or: The Explosion of the Story | Self |
| 1995 | Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema | Narrator (voice) |
| 1994 | The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida | Self |
| 1978 | Cinématon | N°789 |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2004 | Welcome to São Paulo | Director |
| 2003 | Women in the Mirror | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 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 | Director |
| 1995 | Lumière & Company | Director |
| 1995 | Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema | Director, Writer |
| 1994 | The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida | Director, Writer |
| 1988 | Wuthering Heights | Director, Screenplay |
| 1986 | A Human Promise | Director, Screenplay |
| 1977 | The Story of Big 1: Sadaharu Oh | Director |
| 1973 | Coup d'Etat | Director, Producer |
| 1971 | Confessions Among Actresses | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 1970 | Heroic Purgatory | Director, Producer |
| 1969 | Eros + Massacre | Director, Writer |
| 1968 | Farewell to the Summer Light | Director, Writer |
| 1968 | Affair in the Snow | Director, Screenplay |
| 1967 | Impasse | Director, Writer |
| 1967 | The Affair | Director, Screenplay |
| 1966 | Woman of the Lake | Director, Writer |
| 1965 | A Story Written with Water | Director, Screenplay |
| 1964 | Escape from Japan | Director, Screenplay |
| 1963 | 18 Roughs | Director, Screenplay |
| 1962 | Akitsu Hot Springs | Director, Screenplay |
| 1961 | Bitter End of a Sweet Night | Director, Screenplay |
| 1960 | Blood Is Dry | Director, Screenplay |
| 1960 | Good-for-Nothing | Director, Screenplay |
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