Kiju Yoshida

16.02.1933, Fukui, Japan

 

Director
Yoshida is a Japanese director and screenwriter. He studied French literature and in 1955 joined the Shochiku production house as assistant director to Keisuke Kinoshitu. He made his first film Rokudenashi (Good-for-nothing) in 1960, and attracted critical attention with his films Akitsu onsen (An Affair at Akitsu, 1962), Mizu de kakareta monogatari (A Story Written with Water, 1965), Joen (The Affair, 1967), Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu (Eros plus massacre, 1970) and Rengoku eroica (Heroic Purgatory, 1970). After his film Kaigenrei (Coup D'Etat, 1973) he started making TV and feature documentaries, and returned to feature films in 1986 with the films Ningen no yakusoku (A Promise). Afterwards he made the feature films Arashi ga oka (Wuthering Heights, 1988), an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Kagami no onnatachi (Women in the Mirror, 2002).

Filmography


Films by this director

Women in the Mirror

(Kagami no onnatachi, 2002)

Directed by: Kiju Yoshida
PHOTOGRAPHY: Masao Nakabori
Synopsis:

Natsuki lives in Tokyo with her grandmother Ai Kawase. She has never seen her mother, who abandoned her immediately after giving birth to her in the hospital. A woman called Masako, who suffers from amnesia, is caught because she stole a child. Soon, we find out that she is in fact Natsuko’s mother…

color, 35 mm, 129 min

Akitsu Hot Springs

(Akitsu onsen, 1962.)

Directed by: Kiju Yoshida
PHOTOGRAPHY: Toichiro Narushima
Synopsis:

Shusaku is a student who came to the Akitsu hot springs to die. He suffers from a highly dangerous form of tuberculosis, and in fact he has lost all will to live. Shinko, whose mother owns the hot springs, slowly returns him to life with her warmth, love and will to live. They fall in love but after finding out that Japan has lost WW II, they attempt suicide together.

color, 113 min
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