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Yojiro Takita

Director, Writer, Additional Credits
Born December 4, 1955 (68 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.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Departures
Known For
  • Departures
  • When the Last Sword Is Drawn
  • Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
  • The Last Recipe: Memory of Giraffe's Tongue
  • Himitsu
  • Ashura-jô no hitomi
  • Onmyoji 2
  • Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
  • Groper Train: The Search for the Black Pearl
  • The Battery
  • The Yen Family
  • Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio
  • Sexy Timetrip Ninjas
  • Sanpei the Fisher Boy
  • Ojuken
  • Sakura Guardian in the North
  • Made in Japan
  • Byôin e ikô

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