Yoshishige Yoshida

Yoshishige Yoshida, who also signs Kijū, was born on 16 February 1933 in Fukui. A graduate in French literature from the University of Tokyo, he joined Shōchiku in 1955 as an assistant and was counted among the young directors of the studio's new wave. He left it in the mid-sixties, after one of his films was re-edited without him, and founded an independent company with the actress Okada Mariko, whom he had married. An essayist, he died in Tokyo on 8 December 2022.

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• CinemaAkitsu Springs秋津温泉Yoshishige Yoshida · 1962Cinema