Yojiro Takita

Director · Born 4 December 1955 in Toyama, Japan · 1 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

1 of Yojiro Takita’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 1 on Cineasterna. Highest rated available: Departures (2008) ★ 8.0.

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.

Directing

• Departures (2008)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2003)
• Onmyoji (2001)
• Secret (1999)
• The Last Recipe (2017)
• Ashura (2005)
• Onmyoji II (2003)
• Time Adventure: 5 Seconds Til Climax (1986)
• Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl (1984)
• Sexy Timetrip Ninjas (1984)
• The Yen Family (1988)
• Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer (2012)
• High Noon Ripper (1984)