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- Yoshishige Yoshida was born on February 16, 1933 in Fukui, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for A Promise (1986), Akitsu Springs (1962) and Wuthering Heights (1988). He was married to Mariko Okada. He died on December 8, 2022 in Japan.
- SpouseMariko Okada(1964 - November 8, 2022) (his death)
- As a young man, worked with legendary Japanese Film Director Yasujiro Ozu. Yoshida later wrote a book about these experiences and about Ozu's films and personal life.
- Fluent in French.
- One of the luminaries of the Japanese New Wave during the 1960s.
- Retrospective in 2003 at the 27th São Paulo International Film Festival
- Retrospective in 2008 (March 26 to May 19) at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg) in Paris.
- Defining a commercial film? It's a movie where you know everything. So, it's a film you soon forget.
- Since I'm a man, very naturally the most important subject for me to describe is women, because they are an enigma for me. So most of the time my protagonists are women. I don't really want my films to be categorized as women's films, because for me my films are about the most important enigma for me in my life, which is women. And I can stress that point not only because I'm a man and a male filmmaker but because Japan still today is predominantly a male society. Men are still the main characters. We've never had a woman prime minister. Women are oppressed, discriminated against, and rejected; they are outside the thinking of the society or the state. So the only way really to look objectively at that male-oriented society is to take the side of women, who are rejected outside that society.
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