Yojiro Takita

Directing

December 4, 1955

Toyama, Japan

4 movies

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.

🎬 Yojiro Takita's Filmography

4 movies sorted by popularity

5.0

Pink film distributed by Shintoho Pictures.

Rikon-zuma kaikan onanie

1992

3.8

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!

Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio

1984

2.0

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..

Groper's Last Train

1978

A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)

Making of "Departures"

2009