Yojiro Takita
Biography
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.
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Passenger on train
The world’s greatest detective, Ippei Kuroda, is back and this time hired by a politician to find his estranged daughter. When the daughter is found dead, the mystery deepens. Meanwhile, Kuroda’s assistant tries to stop her arranged marriage to a country hick by shacking-up with a composer who writes symphonies on his calculator — when he’s not groping women on the Tokyo trains!
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Kan'ichiro Ozu, a groper
A female student moves from the countryside to Tokyo and starts attending a cram school in Tokyo. She becomes so enthusiastic about her studies that she decides to take the last train. As expected of the glamorous city of Tokyo, the last train is packed. There, she is molested. At first she didn't want to, but..
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Himself
A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)