Director
Yojiro Takita
December 4, 1955 · Toyama, Japan
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Yukijiro Hotaru
9 titles together
Ashura, Time Adventure: 5 Seconds Til Climax, Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl
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Yutaka Ikejima
7 titles together
Time Adventure: 5 Seconds Til Climax, Sexy Timetrip Ninjas, The Yen Family
Hideaki Ito
4 titles together
When the Last Sword Is Drawn, Onmyoji, Secret
Kiichi Nakai
3 titles together
When the Last Sword Is Drawn, Onmyoji II, Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
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Yuka Takemura
3 titles together
Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl, Sexy Timetrip Ninjas, The Serial Rape Murderer
Ryoko Hirosue
2 titles together
Departures, Secret
Full filmography · 48
Silence of Smoke
Director
2023
Sakura Guardian in the North
Director
2018
The Last Recipe
Director
20176.9
Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
Director
2012
Sanpei the Fisher Boy
Director
2009
Departures
Director
20087.8
The Battery
Director
2007
Ashura
Director
20055.3
Onmyoji II
Director
20036
When the Last Sword Is Drawn
Director
20037.4
Onmyoji
Director
20016.3
Le Secret
Director
1999