Yojiro Takita
Personal information
- Known for
- Directing
- Known credits
- 66
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- December 4, 1955
- Place of birth
- Toyama, Japan
- Also known as
- Yôjirô Takita Yōjirō Takita小津貫一郎
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.
