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Yoshishige Yoshida

Name in Native Language: "吉田喜重" (Japanese/JA)
Film Director / Screenwriter | * 02/16/1933 († 89, 12/08/2022) | Fukui (Japan)
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. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Romance / Love

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A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europ ...

Farewell to the Summer Light

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1968 | 3.9/5 | 1h 36min
Drama, Romance / Love
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Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong w ...

Akitsu Springs

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1962 | 3.4/5 | 1h 53min
Romance / Love, Drama
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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 suffers the fate of any women born near the Sacred Mount ...

Wuthering Heights

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1988 | 3.2/5 | 2h 23min
Drama
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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 her death. ...

A Promise

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1986 | 3.1/5 | 2h 4min
Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Yoshishige Yoshida

Art Encouragement Prizes Officer of Arts and Letters
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Movies with Yoshishige Yoshida as Actor(4)

as himself2008 Yoshida …or: The Explosion of the Story
as himself2008 Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
as himself1994 The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida
as N°7891978 Cinématon

Movies with Yoshishige Yoshida as Crew(48)

Directing/Director2004 Welcome to São Paulo
Directing/Director2003 Women in the Mirror
Editing/Editor2003 Women in the Mirror
Production/Producer2003 Women in the Mirror
Writing/Screenplay2003 Women in the Mirror
Directing/Director1995 Lumière and Company
Directing/Director1994 The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida
Writing/Writer1994 The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida
Directing/Director1988 Wuthering Heights
Writing/Writer1988 Wuthering Heights
Directing/Director1986 A Promise
Writing/Screenplay1986 A Promise
Directing/Director1977 The Story of Big 1: Sadaharu Oh
Directing/Director1973 Coup d'Etat
Production/Producer1973 Coup d'Etat
Directing/Director1971 Confessions Among Actresses
Production/Producer1971 Confessions Among Actresses
Writing/Screenplay1971 Confessions Among Actresses
Directing/Director1970 Heroic Purgatory
Production/Producer1970 Heroic Purgatory
Directing/Director1969 Eros + Massacre
Production/Executive Producer1969 Eros + Massacre
Writing/Writer1969 Eros + Massacre
Directing/Director1968 Affair in the Snow
Writing/Screenplay1968 Affair in the Snow
Directing/Director1968 Farewell to the Summer Light
Writing/Writer1968 Farewell to the Summer Light
Directing/Director1967 The Affair
Writing/Screenplay1967 The Affair
Directing/Director1967 Impasse
Writing/Writer1967 Impasse
Directing/Director1966 Woman of the Lake
Writing/Writer1966 Woman of the Lake
Directing/Director1965 A Story Written with Water
Writing/Screenplay1965 A Story Written with Water
Directing/Director1964 Escape from Japan
Writing/Screenplay1964 Escape from Japan
Directing/Director1963 18 Roughs
Writing/Screenplay1963 18 Roughs
Directing/Director1962 Akitsu Springs
Writing/Screenplay1962 Akitsu Springs
Directing/Assistant Director1961 Immortal Love
Directing/Director1961 Bitter End of a Sweet Night
Writing/Screenplay1961 Bitter End of a Sweet Night
Directing/Director1960 Good-for-Nothing
Writing/Screenplay1960 Good-for-Nothing
Directing/Director1960 Blood Is Dry
Writing/Screenplay1960 Blood Is Dry

Full Name: Yoshishige Yoshida
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Thursday, 02/16 1933 (February) in Fukui (Japan)
Died: Thursday, 12/08 2022 (December) in Shibuya-ku (aged: 89)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: Japanese (JA)
Educated at: University of Tokyo
Employer: Shochiku
Spouses (current/former): Mariko Okada
Other names for Yoshishige Yoshida (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Yoshida Kijū"
"吉田 喜重"
"Yoshida Yoshishige"
"Kijū Yoshida"
"Ёсисигэ Ёсида"
"Кидзю Ёсида"
"よしだ よししげ" (Kana/Japanese)
Yoshishige Yoshida frequently works together with these people:
Mariko Okada (15x, Actress)
Toshi Ichiyanagi (7x, Crew)
Motokichi Hasegawa (6x, Crew)
Gérard Courant (6x, Crew)
Tōichirō Narushima (6x, Crew)
Yoshi Sugihara (5x, Crew)
Masahiro Yamada (5x, Crew)
Akio Tamura (5x, Crew)
Sei Okamura (5x, Crew)
Rentaro Mikuni (4x, Actor)
Yoshio Unno (4x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:492259, Added: 10/04/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024