Yojiro Takita

...the Director of U.S. Theatrical Distribution and Marketing. Current films include the Academy Award winner Departures '' by director Yojiro Takita, the stop-action puppetry animation award contender "$9.99" starring Geoffrey Rush and...

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...the same as the deposit on our house!" Revelation of the week: Yojiro Takita, the Japanese director who last month lifted the best foreign film Oscar for Departures, has a controversial past. His debut film, in 1981, was a soft porn...

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...won Best Foreign pic TOKYO -- Yojiro Takita was hardly expecting an Oscar for "Departures," his film about a cellist-turned-apprentice undertaker that scooped foreign language film honors at the 81st Academy Awards. "I heard that we had the...

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...selects Eric Khoo's 'My Magic' TOKYO - The Motion Picture Producers' Association of Japan (Eiren) has selected the Yojiro Takita helmed drama "Okuribito" (Departures) as Japan's contender for the foreign language Oscar, the pic's...

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...IINKAI Funereal flick out to reap Japan an Oscar Yojiro Takita talks about his funereal drama 'Okuribito' ('Departures'), Japan's big hope at this weekend's Academy Awards The Japanese film industry now turns out about 400 titles...

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...dramedy "Departures" has its moments but is ultimately overlong and too melodramatic. Director Yojiro Takita and writer Kundo Koyama begin with an intriguing premise: After the symphony orchestra he plays for disbands, cellist Daigo...

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...Departures is to be believed, it's also a profession viewed with disdain and disgust. Much of the drama of Yojiro Takita's Departures, the surprise Best Foreign Language winner at this year's Oscars, comes from the way everyone around...

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...SM Sashinsu. In May 1995 she had also appeared in director Yutaka Ikejima's pink film , part of the long-running Molester's Train series produced by Shintoho and started by Academy Award-winning director Yojiro Takita in 1982. After almost...

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...Motoki) struggles with the loss of a dream job as a musician. This year's surprise Oscar winner for best foreign-language film, Yojiro Takita's "Departures" is the kind of emotional art-house movie (think "Cinema Paradiso" or "Forbidden...

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