Director
Yojiro Takita
70 years · Toyama, Japan · 51 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 51
Silence of Smoke
2023 · Director
On Amasian TV
Sakura Guardian in the North
2018 · Director
The Last Recipe
2017 · Director
Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
2012 · Director, Screenplay
Making of "Departures"
2009 · Himself, Director
Sanpei the Fisher Boy
2009 · Director
Departures
2008 · Director
The Battery
2007 · Director
Ashura
2005 · Director
Onmyoji II
2003 · Director, Screenplay
When the Last Sword Is Drawn
2003 · Director
Onmyoji
2001 · Director
Le Secret
1999 · Director
Secret
1999 · Director
The Exam
1999 · Director
Sharan-Q no enka no hanamichi
1997 · Director
The Tropical People
1994 · Director
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993 · Director
We Are Not Alone
1993 · Director
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992 · Director
Rikon-zuma kaikan onanie
1992 · Actor
Let's Go to the Hospital
1990 · Director
The Yen Family
1988 · Director
The Half Moon
1987 · Director