Yoshishige Yoshida

Yoshishige Yoshida 吉田 喜重 Yoshida Yoshishige also known as Kijū Yoshida was a Japanese film director and screenwriter Graduating from Tokyo University Yoshida entered the Shōchiku studio in 1955 and debuted as a director in 1960 with Rokudenashi He was a central member of what came to be called the Shōchiku Nouvelle Vague along with Nagisa Oshima and Masahiro Shinoda and his works have been studied under the larger rubric of the Japanese New Wave Like many of his New Wave cohorts he felt restricted under the studio system and left Shōchiku in 1964 to start his own production company where he directed such films as Eros Massacre He has directed more than 20 films between 1960 and 2004 He has also written a number of philosophical books about his work and the cinema including an awardwinning study of Yasujirō Ozu