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Welcome to São Paulo
2004
5.6
Yoshishige Yoshida
Directing
Birth Date
February 16, 1933
Place of Birth
Fukui, Japan
Date of Death
December 8, 2022
Biography
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.
Complete Filmography
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Women in the Mirror
2003
7.7
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Wuthering Heights
1988
6.2
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A Human Promise
1986
6.5
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Coup d'Etat
1973
6.6
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Confessions Among Actresses
1971
6.1
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Heroic Purgatory
1970
7.0
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Eros + Massacre
1969
7.5
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Farewell to the Summer Light
1968
7.0
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Affair in the Snow
1968
7.0
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Impasse
1967
6.4
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The Affair
1967
6.6
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Woman of the Lake
1966
7.0
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A Story Written with Water
1965
6.5
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Escape from Japan
1964
5.9
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18 Roughs
1963
6.6
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Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
6.5
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Bitter End of a Sweet Night
1961
5.8
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Blood Is Dry
1960
6.3
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Good-for-Nothing
1960
6.8