Birthday
1933/02/16
Day of death
2022/12/08 (89 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Fukui, Japan
Also know as
Yoshida Kijū, 吉田 喜重, Yoshida Yoshishige, Kijū Yoshida, Ёсисигэ Ёсида, Кидзю Ёсида
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 ...Read more
(2008) Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
as Self
(2008) Yoshida …or: The Explosion of the Story
as Self
(1995) Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
(1994) The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida
as Self
(1978) Cinématon
as N°789
(1974) Beauty of Beauty
as Himself/Narrator