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.

KNOWN FOR

Departures
2008
Time Adventure: 5 Seconds Til Climax
1986
Sexy Timetrip Ninjas
1984
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979
Molester's Tour Bus
1985
When the Last Sword Is Drawn
2003
Ashura
2005
Exposed School Swimsuits
1986
Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl
1984
The Last Recipe
2017
Secret
1999
Le Secret
1999

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
4
Directing
64
Writing
4
2009
Making of "Departures"
as Himself
1992
Rikon-zuma kaikan onanie
1984
Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio
as Passenger on train
1978
Groper's Last Train
as Kan'ichiro Ozu, a groper