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Yōjirō Takita

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Yojiro Takita, born in Takaoka, Toyama, on 4 December 1955, is a Japanese filmmaker. He received an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for his 2008 drama Departures, which marked the first time a Japanese film won the award after the category was first established. Within this atlas Yōjirō Takita is credited as the director of D. These details are drawn from the English Wikipedia article Yōjirō Takita, which this entry cites as its source.

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Departures (Japanese: おくりびと, Hepburn: Okuribito; "one who sends off") is a 2008 Japanese drama film directed by Yōjirō Takita and starring Masahiro Motoki, Ryōko Hirosue, and Tsutomu Yamazaki.
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