Yoshida Kiju
Overview of films
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The Affair at Akitsu
Yoshida Kiju | 112' | Japan | None
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction -
Coup d’état
Yoshida Kiju | 110' | Japan | None
This film, considered to be the completion of Yoshida’s style, focuses on Kita Ikki, the prewar ideological leader of Japanese rightist terrorism and -
The Eighteen Who Stirred up a Storm
Yoshida Kiju | 108' | Japan | None
Too outlandish or ahead of its time? This realistic depiction of a group of young contract labourers at the bottom of society was neglected at… -
Eros + Massacre
Yoshida Kiju | 168' | Japan | None
Yoshida’s masterpiece is a daring analysis of sex, politics, revolution and art in modern Japan that shifts back and forth between the 1910s and 1960s -
A Story Written on Water
Yoshida Kiju | 120' | Japan | None
Yoshida’s first independent production and the first of six stylistically dazzling ‘anti-melodramas’, all starring Okada Mariko. The erotic compulsion -
The Women in the Mirror
Yoshida Kiju | 129' | Japan | None
Yoshida’s return to form after a fifteen-year interval takes on the important theme of the atomic bomb. Three generations of women question their iden