Yojiro Takita
Born: 1955-12-04 in Toyama, Japan
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2023
- Silence of Smoke ... (Director)
2018
- Sakura Guardian in the North ... (Director)
2017
- The Last Recipe ... (Director)
2012
- Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer ... (Director)
2009
- Making of "Departures" as Himself
- Sanpei the Fisher Boy ... (Director)
2008
- Departures ... (Director)
2007
- The Battery ... (Director)
2005
- Ashura ... (Director)
2003
- When the Last Sword Is Drawn ... (Director)
- Onmyoji II ... (Director)
2001
- Onmyoji ... (Director)
1997
- Sharan-Q no enka no hanamichi ... (Director)
1994
- The Tropical People ... (Director)
1993
- The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark ... (Director)
- We Are Not Alone ... (Director)
1992
- Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2 ... (Director)
- Rikon-zuma kaikan onanie
1990
- Let's Go to the Hospital ... (Director)
1988
- The Yen Family ... (Director)
1987
- The Half Moon ... (Director)
1986
- Time Adventure: 5 Seconds Til Climax ... (Director)
- Exposed School Swimsuits ... (Director)
- Za mania: Kaikan seitai jikken ... (Director)
- No More Comics! ... (Director)
- Molester's Delivery Service ... (Director)
1985
- Molester's Tour Bus ... (Director)
- Pink Physical Examination ... (Director)
- Molester's Train: 1 Centimeter From The Wall ... (Director)
- Molester's Train: Seiko's Ass ... (Director)
- Zetsukin gyaru: Yaruki munmun ... (Director)
- Molester's Train: One Shot on the Train ... (Director)
1984
- Sexy Timetrip Ninjas ... (Director)
- Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl ... (Director)
- Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio as Passenger on train
- Molester's School Infirmary ... (Director)
- High Noon Ripper ... (Director)
- The Bondage ... (Director)
- OL 24 Ji: Bishôjo ... (Director)
- Goodbye Boy ... (Director)
1983
- Wet Kimono ... (Assistant Director)
- The Serial Rape Murderer ... (Director)
- Molester's Train: Momoe's Ass ... (Director)
- Newlywed's Midday Assault ... (First Assistant Director)
- Bondage: Angel in White ... (First Assistant Director)
- The True Story of the Element ... (Assistant Director)
- Molester's Train: Keiko's Hips ... (Director)
- Jitsuroku: Chikan kyôshi ... (Assistant Director)
- Molester's Train: Rumiko's Ass ... (Director)
1982
- Molester Train: Searching for Beans ... (Director)
- College Girl Business Trip to Tukey ... (First Assistant Director)
- Groper Train: Continue ... (Director)
1981
- Molester and the Female Teacher ... (Director)
- Tattooed Slave Wife ... (Assistant Director)
1980
- Seijo jigoku ezu ... (First Assistant Director)
1979
- Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again ... (Assistant Director)
- Savaged and Ravaged ... (Second Assistant Director)
- Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie ... (Assistant Director)
- Night Visitors: Sex Hunt ... (Assistant Director)
- Bizarre Rose Makeup ... (Assistant Director)
1978
- Groper's Last Train as Kan'ichiro Ozu, a groper
- Forbidden Technique to Tie a Lady ... (Assistant Director)