Biography
Yoshishige (Kiju) Yoshida (b. 1933, Fukui), the least conspicuous artist of the Japanese New Wave, studied French at Tokyo University, and the influence of French cinematography was distinctly evident in his pictures. In 1955, he won a competition to become a director's assistant, and graduated from the school of the renowned director Kinoshita, like his predecessor Masaki Kobayashi. When the Shochiku studio decided to give young directors a chance, Yoshida found himself, along with Oshima and Shinoda, at the epicentre of events. His films dealing with alienation and isolation and pervaded by sex and senseless violence, however, soon deprived him of the goodwill of the studio's chiefs. In 1964 he set up his own independent production company, which created one of the milestones of Japanese cinematography at the turn of the 1960s – the controversial and multilayered Eros Plus Massacre (Erosu purasu gyakusatsu, 1969).
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Director
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2002 |
Women in the Mirror |
1988 |
Wuthering Heights |
1986 |
Promise, A |
1973 |
Coup D'Etat |
1971 |
Confessions Among Actresses |
1970 |
Heroic Purgatory |
1969 |
Eros + Massacre |
1968 |
Affair in the Snow |
Farewell to the Summer Light |
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1967 |
Flame and Women |
The Affair |
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1966 |
Woman of the Lake |
1965 |
A Story Written with Water |
1964 |
Escape from Japan |
1963 |
18 Who Cause a Storm |
1962 |
Akitsu Springs |
1961 |
Bitter End of a Sweet Night |
1960 |
Blood Is Dry |
Good-for-Nothing |
Documentaries | |
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2004 |
Welcome to São Paulo |
1995 |
Lumière and Company |
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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2002 |
Women in the Mirror |
1988 |
Wuthering Heights |
1986 |
Promise, A |
1971 |
Confessions Among Actresses |
1969 |
Eros + Massacre |
1968 |
Affair in the Snow |
Farewell to the Summer Light |
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1967 |
Flame and Women |
The Affair |
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1966 |
Woman of the Lake |
1965 |
A Story Written with Water |
1964 |
Escape from Japan |
1963 |
18 Who Cause a Storm |
1962 |
Akitsu Springs |
1961 |
Bitter End of a Sweet Night |
1960 |
Blood Is Dry |
Good-for-Nothing |
Producer
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1971 |
Confessions Among Actresses |
1970 |
Heroic Purgatory |
Editor
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2002 |
Women in the Mirror |