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)
1997
- Sharan-Q no enka no hanamichi ... (Director)
1994
- Nettai rakuen kurabu ... (Director)
1993
- We Are Not Alone ... (Director)
- The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark ... (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)
- No More Comics! ... (Director)
- Exposed School Swimsuits ... (Director)
- Molester's Delivery Service ... (Director)
- Za mania: Kaikan seitai jikken ... (Director)
1985
- Pink Physical Examination ... (Director)
- Molester's Tour Bus ... (Director)
- Molester's Train: One Shot on the Train ... (Director)
- Molester's Train: 1 Centimeter From The Wall ... (Director)
- Molester's Train: Seiko's Ass ... (Director)
- Zetsukin gyaru: Yaruki munmun ... (Director)
1984
- Sexy Timetrip Ninjas ... (Director)
- Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio as Passenger on train
- Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl ... (Director)
- Molester's School Infirmary ... (Director)
- The Bondage ... (Director)
- Goodbye Boy ... (Director)
- OL 24 Ji: Bishôjo ... (Director)
- High Noon Ripper ... (Director)
1983
- The Serial Rape Murderer ... (Director)
- Wet Kimono ... (Assistant Director)
- Bondage: Angel in White ... (First Assistant Director)
- Jitsuroku: Chikan kyôshi ... (Assistant Director)
- Molester's Train: Keiko's Hips ... (Director)
- Newlywed's Midday Assault ... (First Assistant Director)
- Molester's Train: Momoe's Ass ... (Director)
- Molester's Train: Rumiko's Ass ... (Director)
- The True Story of the Element ... (Assistant Director)
1982
- Groper Train: Continue ... (Director)
- Molester Train: Searching for Beans ... (Director)
- College Girl Business Trip to Tukey ... (First Assistant Director)
1981
- Molester and the Female Teacher ... (Director)
- Tattooed Slave Wife ... (Assistant Director)
1980
- Seijo jigoku ezu ... (First Assistant Director)
1979
- Savaged and Ravaged ... (Second Assistant Director)
- Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again ... (Assistant Director)
- Night Visitors: Sex Hunt ... (Assistant Director)
- Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie ... (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)