There was a time when Japanese filmmaker Kijū Yoshida was a cinephile’s mark of exquisite taste. While not entirely obscure, his work has been less-discussed than those of contemporaries Ōshima, Imamura, and Suzuki, even if he’s always been grouped among them as a key author of the Japanese New Wave. In the early years of
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Along with Nagisa Oshima and Masahiro Shinoda, Yoshishige Yoshida – later known as Kiju Yoshida – was among the younger directors pushing Japanese cinema in radical new directions in the 1960s.