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).