Yojiro Takita
                    
                    Dec 04, 1955 (69 years old) in Toyama, Japan
                
                
                    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. He also won the 2009 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year, among other accolades, for the film.
                
Known For
 
                        
                        
                            Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio
                            
                    
                                Passenger on train
                            
                         
                        
                        
                            Groper's Last Train
                            
                    
                                Kan'ichiro Ozu, a groper
                            
                         
                        
                        
                            Making of "Departures"
                            
                    
                                Himself
                            
                         
                 
                             
                            