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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.
As director
Welcome to São Paulo
Women in the Mirror
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
Lumière & Company
Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema
The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida
Wuthering Heights
A Human Promise
The Story of Big 1: Sadaharu Oh
Coup d'Etat
Confessions Among Actresses
Heroic Purgatory
Eros + Massacre
Farewell to the Summer Light
Affair in the Snow
The Affair
Impasse
Woman of the Lake
A Story Written with Water
Escape from Japan
18 Roughs
Akitsu Hot Springs
Bitter End of a Sweet Night
Good-for-Nothing
Blood Is Dry
