Yoshishige Yoshida

Yoshishige Yoshida ( Japanese 吉田 喜 重 , Yoshida Yoshishige often read Yoshida Kijū ; born February 16, 1933 in Fukui , Fukui Prefecture ) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter .

Life path

Yoshida began his film career after studying at the University of Tokyo in the late 1950s at the Shōchiku Studios . With Nagisa Ōshima and Masahiro Shinoda he shot the film Rokudenashi (Good for Nothing) there in 1960 . This was followed by Arashi o Yobu Juhachinin (Eighteen Who Cause a Storm, 1963) and Nihon Dasshutsu (Escape from Japan, 1964).

He then started his own production company, Gendai Eigasha , where some of his most important films were made, including Hono to Onna (Impasse, 1966) and Joen (The Affair, 1967). The film Eros + Gyakusatsu (Eros + Massacre) was made in 1970 in collaboration with the Art Theater Guild . Main roles in these films mostly played his wife, the actress Mariko Okada .

After Kaigenrei (Coup d'Etat, 1973), Yoshida paused more than ten years as a director. In 1986 he returned with Ningen no Yakusoku (The Promise, 1986), a film on the subject of euthanasia, the Arashigaoka (Wuthering Heights, 1988). After another hiatus, he made his last film to date with Kagami no Onnatachi (Women in the Mirror, 2002).

Yoshida also wrote the scripts for most of his films. In addition, he has written numerous essays on film topics and film reviews since the 1950s. For the production Ozu Yasujirō no Han Eiga (1988; English: Ozu's Anti-Cinema) he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Individual evidence

• Midnigheye - Yoshishige Yoshida
• Harvard Film Archive - Art Cinema, Counter-Cinema: The Cinema of Kiju Yoshida and Mariko Okada
• Yoshishige Yoshida in the Internet Movie Database (English)