Yoshishige Yoshida
February 16, 1933 · 93 years old
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 call…
Known For
10 titles
Eros + Massacre
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.
Akitsu Springs
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
Heroic Purgatory
An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and rea...
Woman of the Lake
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
Coup d'Etat
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
Good-for-Nothing
A bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friend's father. She senses some good in him and tries to make him discard his aimless lifestyle.
Amai yoru no hate
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
Wuthering Heights
A retelling of Emily Bronte's tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan.
Chi wa kawaiteru
An insurance company employee threatens suicide after a massive layoff is announced by the management. The company takes advantage of his threat by turning it into an advertising campaign.
Flame and Women
A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination, after which she starts nourishing a strong desire for the child's biological father.