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
- Sanpei the Fisher Boy ... (Director)
- Making of "Departures" as Himself
2008
- Departures ... (Director)
2007
- The Battery ... (Director)
2005
- Ashura ... (Director)
2003
- When the Last Sword Is Drawn ... (Director)
- Onmyoji II ... (Director)
2001
- Onmyoji ... (Director)
1994
- Nettai rakuen kurabu ... (Director)
1993
- The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark ... (Director)
- We Are Not Alone ... (Director)
1992
- Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2 ... (Director)
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)
- Molester's Delivery Service ... (Director)
- Za mania: Kaikan seitai jikken ... (Director)
- No More Comics! ... (Director)
1985
- Pink Physical Examination ... (Director)
- Chikan tsûkin-basu ... (Director)
- Groper Train: One Shot on the Train ... (Director)
- Molester Train: Seiko's Ass ... (Director)
- Groper Train: 1 Centimeter From The Wall ... (Director)
- Zetsukin gyaru: Yaruki munmun ... (Director)
1984
- Sexy Timetrip Ninjas ... (Director)
- High Noon Ripper ... (Director)
- Molester's School Infirmary ... (Director)
- Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio as Passenger on train
- OL 24 Ji: Bishôjo ... (Director)
- Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl ... (Director)
- Goodbye Boy ... (Director)
- The Bondage ... (Director)
1983
- The Serial Rape Murderer ... (Director)
- Bondage: Angel in White ... (First Assistant Director)
- Groper Train: Momoe's Ass ... (Director)
- Newlywed's Midday Assault ... (First Assistant Director)
- Groper Train: Keiko's Hips ... (Director)
- Molester Train: Rumiko's Ass ... (Director)
- Wet Kimono ... (Assistant Director)
- The True Story of the Element ... (Assistant Director)
- Jitsuroku: Chikan kyôshi ... (Assistant Director)
1982
- College Girl Business Trip to Tukey ... (First Assistant Director)
- Groper Train: Continue ... (Director)
- Molester Train: Searching for Beans ... (Director)
1981
- Molester and the Female Teacher ... (Director)
- Tattooed Slave Wife ... (Assistant Director)
1980
- Seijo jigoku ezu ... (First Assistant Director)
1979
- Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie ... (Assistant Director)
- Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again ... (Assistant Director)
- Savaged and Ravaged ... (Second Assistant Director)
- Bizarre Rose Makeup ... (Assistant Director)
- Yobai: Dote sagashi ... (Assistant Director)
1978
- Groper's Last Train as Kan'ichiro Ozu, a groper
- Forbidden Technique to Tie a Lady ... (Assistant Director)