Yojiro Takita

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Yojiro Takita (?? ??? Takita Yojiro, born December 4, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker. His 2008 film Departures (????? 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yojiro Takita, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.