Yoshishige Yoshida
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.
Acting
Movie
Cinématon
as N°789
1978
Movie
Wuthering Heights: Love, Hate and Vengeance
as Self
2022
Movie
Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
as Self
2008
Movie
Yoshida …or: The Explosion of the Story
as Self
2008
Movie
Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
1995
Movie
The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida
as Self
1994
TV
Beauty of Beauty
as Himself/Narrator
1974
Crew
Movie
Lumière & Company
Director
1995
Movie
Eros + Massacre
Director
1969
Movie
Heroic Purgatory
Director
1970
Movie
Woman of the Lake
Director
1966
Movie
Akitsu Hot Springs
Director
1962
Movie
Coup d'Etat
Director
1973
Movie
The Affair
Director
1967
Movie
A Story Written with Water
Director
1965
Movie
Immortal Love
Assistant Director
1961
Movie
Farewell to the Summer Light
Writer
1968
Movie
Bitter End of a Sweet Night
Director
1961
Movie
Good-for-Nothing
Director
1960