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Yoshishige Yoshida
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| Born | 16 February 1933 |
| Died | 8 December 2022 (aged 89) Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
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| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, writer |
| Years active | 1960–2004 |
Yoshishige Yoshida (born 16 February 1933 – died 8 December 2022), also known as Kijū Yoshida, was a famous Japanese film director and screenwriter. He made many movies and wrote scripts for them.
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Life and Career of Yoshishige Yoshida
Yoshishige Yoshida went to the University of Tokyo where he studied French literature. In 1955, he started working at a film studio called Shōchiku. He worked as an assistant to a director named Keisuke Kinoshita.
Yoshida directed his first movie, Rokudenashi, in 1960. He became an important part of a new style of filmmaking at Shōchiku studio. This style was sometimes called the "Shōchiku New Wave." He worked with other famous directors like Nagisa Oshima. His movies were also seen as part of a bigger movement called the Japanese New Wave. However, Yoshida himself did not like being grouped with this movement.
Like many directors of his time, he felt limited by the studio system. After Shōchiku studio changed his film Escape from Japan (1964), he decided to leave. He started his own company to make movies. There, he directed films such as Eros + Massacre.
Yoshida's Films and Achievements
Between 1960 and 2004, Yoshida directed more than 20 films. His wife, actress Mariko Okada, starred in some of his movies. After a break from filmmaking after his 1973 movie Coup d'État, he returned with A Promise. This film was shown at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival in a special section called Un Certain Regard.
Two years later, his film Wuthering Heights competed for the top award, the Golden Palm, at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. In 2002, he made Women in the Mirror after another long break of 14 years. Besides his movies for cinemas, Yoshida also directed many documentaries for Japanese TV.
Influences and Writings
Yoshida said that European movies greatly influenced his work. He especially admired directors like Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. He also liked French films made before World War II, such as those by Jean Renoir.
Yoshida also wrote several books about cinema. One book was about his own movies. Another book was an analysis of the films made by Yasujirō Ozu.
Yoshida passed away from pneumonia in a hospital in Shibuya, Tokyo, on 8 December 2022. He was 89 years old.
Selected Filmography
Movies Directed by Yoshida
- Good-for-Nothing (1960)
- Blood is Dry (1960)
- Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961)
- Akitsu Springs (1962)
- 18 Who Cause a Storm (1963)
- Escape from Japan (1964)
- A Story Written with Water (1965)
- Woman of the Lake (1966)
- The Affair (1967)
- Impasse (also known as Flame and Women) (1967)
- Affair in the Snow (1968)
- Farewell to the Summer Light (1968)
- Eros + Massacre (1969)
- Heroic Purgatory (1970)
- Confessions Among Actresses (1971)
- Coup d'État (1973)
- A Promise (1986)
- Wuthering Heights (1988)
- Lumière and Company (a short part, 1995)
- Women in the Mirror (2002)
- Welcome to São Paulo (a short part, 2004)
Television Works
- The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida (1993)
See also
In Spanish: Yoshishige Yoshida para niños
