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Yojiro Takita

Director, Writer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn December 4, 1955 (70 years)
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

  • Departures
  • When the Last Sword Is Drawn
  • Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
  • The Last Recipe: Memory of Giraffe's Tongue
  • Himitsu
  • Blood Gets in Your Eyes
  • Onmyoji 2
  • Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
  • The Battery
  • Time Escapade: 5 Seconds Til Climax
  • The Yen Family
  • Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio
  • Sexy Timetrip Ninjas
  • Sanpei the Fisher Boy
  • Ojuken
  • Sakura Guardian in the North
  • Made in Japan
  • Silence of Smoke
  • Let's Go to the Hospital
  • Pink Physical Examination
  • Zetsurin gal: Yaruki mun mun

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