Yojiro Takita

Yojiro Takita

Yōjirō 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.

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Movies Made by Yojiro Takita (49)

Bondage: Angel in White (1983)

First Assistant Director

Wet Kimono (1983)

Assistant Director

Savaged and Ravaged (1979)

Second Assistant Director

Movies starring Yojiro Takita (1)

Same first name: Yôjirô

Same surname: Takita