Yojiro Takita

Biography

Yojiro Takita (滝田 洋二郎 Takita Yōjirō, born December 4, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker. His 2008 film Departures (おくりびと Okuribito) won the Best Foreign Language Film at the U.S. 81st Academy Awards, in an upset over the Israeli Animated documentary, Waltz with Bashir. He also won the 2009 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year, among other accolades, for the film.

Directed

1. Departures (2008) — Director
2. When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2003) — Director
3. Onmyoji (2001) — Director
4. Secret (1999) — Director
5. The Last Recipe (2017) — Director
6. Ashura (2005) — Director
7. Onmyoji II (2003) — Director
8. Time Adventure: 5 Seconds Til Climax (1986) — Director
9. Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl (1984) — Director
10. Sexy Timetrip Ninjas (1984) — Director
11. The Yen Family (1988) — Director
12. Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer (2012) — Director
13. High Noon Ripper (1984) — Director
14. No More Comics! (1986) — Director
15. We Are Not Alone (1993) — Director
16. The Battery (2007) — Director
17. Exposed School Swimsuits (1986) — Director
18. The Serial Rape Murderer (1983) — Director
19. Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio (1984) — Director
20. Molester's Tour Bus (1985) — Director
21. Za mania: Kaikan seitai jikken (1986) — Director
22. Sakura Guardian in the North (2018) — Director
23. Goodbye Boy (1984) — Director
24. OL 24 Ji: Bishôjo (1984) — Director
25. Molester's Train: Seiko's Ass (1985) — Director
26. Sanpei the Fisher Boy (2009) — Director
27. The Half Moon (1987) — Director
28. Molester Train: Searching for Beans (1982) — Director
29. Molester's Train: 1 Centimeter From The Wall (1985) — Director
30. Molester's School Infirmary (1984) — Director
31. Molester's Delivery Service (1986) — Director
32. Zetsukin gyaru: Yaruki munmun (1985) — Director
33. Silence of Smoke (2023) — Director
34. Pink Physical Examination (1985) — Director
35. Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2 (1992) — Director
36. Let's Go to the Hospital (1990) — Director
37. Molester's Train: Rumiko's Ass (1983) — Director
38. Groper Train: Continue (1982) — Director
39. Molester's Train: One Shot on the Train (1985) — Director
40. The Exam (1999) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio (1984) — Passenger on train
2. Rikon-zuma kaikan onanie (1992)
3. Groper's Last Train (1978) — Kan'ichiro Ozu, a groper
4. Making of "Departures" (2009) — Himself