Yoshishige Yoshida

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.

Directed

1. Lumière & Company (1995) — Director
2. Eros + Massacre (1969) — Director
3. Heroic Purgatory (1970) — Director
4. Woman of the Lake (1966) — Director
5. Akitsu Hot Springs (1962) — Director
6. Coup d'Etat (1973) — Director
7. The Affair (1967) — Director
8. A Story Written with Water (1965) — Director
9. Farewell to the Summer Light (1968) — Director
10. Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961) — Director
11. Good-for-Nothing (1960) — Director
12. Affair in the Snow (1968) — Director
13. Impasse (1967) — Director
14. Blood Is Dry (1960) — Director
15. Wuthering Heights (1988) — Director
16. Confessions Among Actresses (1971) — Director
17. Escape from Japan (1964) — Director
18. A Human Promise (1986) — Director
19. Women in the Mirror (2003) — Director
20. 18 Roughs (1963) — Director
21. Welcome to São Paulo (2004) — Director
22. Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema (1995) — Director
23. The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida (1994) — Director
24. The Story of Big 1: Sadaharu Oh (1977) — Director
25. 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 (1997) — Director
26. Beauty of Beauty (1974) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Cinématon (1978) — N°789
2. Wuthering Heights: Love, Hate and Vengeance (2022) — Self
3. Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker? (2008) — Self
4. Yoshida …or: The Explosion of the Story (2008) — Self
5. Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema (1995) — Narrator (voice)
6. The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida (1994) — Self
7. Beauty of Beauty (1974) — Himself/Narrator