Yoshishige Yoshida
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.
Akitsu Hot Springs
(Director)
Heroic Purgatory
(Director)
Heroic Purgatory
(Producer)
Coup d'Etat
(Director)
Woman of the Lake
(Director)
Bitter End of a Sweet Night
(Director)
Bitter End of a Sweet Night
(Screenplay)
Eros + Massacre
(Director)
Eros + Massacre
(Writer)
Good-for-Nothing
(Director)
Farewell to the Summer Light
(Director)
Farewell to the Summer Light
(Writer)
Affair in the Snow
(Director)
A Story Written with Water
(Director)
Escape from Japan
(Director)
Wuthering Heights
(Director)
Confessions Among Actresses
(Director)
The Affair
(Director)
Women in the Mirror
(Director)
A Human Promise
(Director)
Impasse
(Director)
Blood Is Dry
(Director)
18 Roughs
(Director)
Welcome to São Paulo
(Director)
Lumière & Company
(Director)
Woman of the Lake
(Writer)
Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema
(Director)
Immortal Love
(Assistant Director)
Good-for-Nothing
(Screenplay)
Akitsu Hot Springs
(Screenplay)
Impasse
(Writer)
Escape from Japan
(Screenplay)
Blood Is Dry
(Screenplay)
Confessions Among Actresses
(Screenplay)
The Affair
(Screenplay)
A Human Promise
(Screenplay)
18 Roughs
(Screenplay)
Women in the Mirror
(Screenplay)
Women in the Mirror
(Editor)
A Story Written with Water
(Screenplay)
Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema
(Writer)
Dreams of Tokyo, Dreams of Cinema
(Editor)
Eros + Massacre
(Executive Producer)
Confessions Among Actresses
(Producer)
Coup d'Etat
(Producer)
The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida
(Director)
The Cinema of Ozu According to Kiju Yoshida
(Writer)
Affair in the Snow
(Screenplay)
Women in the Mirror
(Producer)
The Story of Big 1: Sadaharu Oh
(Director)
Wuthering Heights
(Screenplay)
Beauty of Beauty
(Director)
Beauty of Beauty
(Creator)