Yojiro Takita
Director | Screenplay
Yōjirō 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yōjirō Takita, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wiki...
Place of Birth: Toyama, Japan
Date of Birth: Dec 4, 1955
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