Yoshida Kiju
Overview of films
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A Story Written on Water
Yoshida’s first independent production and the first of six stylistically dazzling ‘anti-melodramas’, all starring Okada Mariko. The erotic compuls
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The Women in the Mirror
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 i
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The Affair at Akitsu
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attract
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Eros + Massacre
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 19
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The Eighteen Who Stirred up a Storm
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 the
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Coup d’état
This film, considered to be the completion of Yoshida’s style, focuses on Kita Ikki, the prewar ideological leader of Japanese rightist terrorism a