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Home/People/Yojiro Takita
Yojiro Takita profile photo
Born
Dec 4, 1955
Age 70
Place of Birth
Toyama, Japan
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

3
Movies
0
TV Shows
48
Directed
Also Known As
Yôjirô Takita
Yōjirō Takita
小津貫一郎
IMDb ProfileOfficial Website

Yojiro Takita

Directing

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.
Making of "Departures" poster

Making of "Departures"

as Himself
2009
Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio poster

Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio

as Passenger on train
1984
Groper's Last Train poster

Groper's Last Train

as Kan'ichiro Ozu, a groper
1978