Education
University of Tokyo.
吉田 喜重
University of Tokyo.
Graduating from Tokyo University, Yoshida entered the Shōchiku studio in 1955 and debuted as a director in 1960 with Rokudenashi. 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.
His film A Promise was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
Two years later his film Wuthering Heights would compete for the Golden Palm at the 1988 Festival. He returned with Women in the Mirror, his first feature film in 14 years, in 2002.
He has also written a number of philosophical books about his work and the cinema, including an award-winning study of Yasujirō Ozu.