YOJIRO TAKITA

DIRECTING

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.