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Akio Yoshida

Director · Born October 6, 1951

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Biography

Akio Yoshida (born October 6, 1951) is a Japanese television and film director. A graduate of Gakushuin University’s Faculty of Law, he has directed numerous television dramas, including Papa wa News Caster (1987), Mama wa Idol! (1987), Double Kitchen (1993), and High School Chorus (2015). His film directing credits include Intern! (2016) and The Grapes of Joy (2021). In 1994, he shared the Television Drama Academy Award for Best Director for Ningen Shikkaku.

Directed 44

2010s

  1. 2017

    Grade A Reversal

    Director

  2. 2016

    Intern

    Director

  3. 2012

    Resident: Story of 5 Interns

    Director

  4. 2011

    Being Born.

    Director

  5. Rooftop Apartment

    Director

  6. 2010

    Girls College Terror

    Director

  7. Bad Boy and Good Girl

    Director

2000s

  1. 2007

    Long Wedding Road! Tokyo vs. Osaka Wakeari Kon Monogatari

    Director

  2. Wives Make the World Go Round

    Director

  3. Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 3, Part 2

    Director

  4. 2006

    Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Go Ya

    Director

  5. Tales of Terror: Final Night 1

    Director

  6. Tales of Terror: Final Night 2

    Director

  7. 2005

    Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment

    Director

    62

  8. Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: San Nin Kuru zo-hen

    Director

  9. Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Yon Ya

    Director

  10. 2004

    Bewitched in Tokyo SP

    Director

  11. Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie

    Director

  12. Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 2

    Director

  13. Bewitched In Tokyo

    Director

  14. 2003

    Tales Of Terror: Only the Two of Us

    Director

  15. Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Ni Ya

    Director

  16. Always Smiling

    Director

  17. Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 1

    Director

  18. 2002

    Kamaitachi no Yoru

    Director

  19. Pretty Girls

    Director

  20. 2000

    Oyaji

    Director

1990s

  1. 1999

    Scary Fairy Tales: Cinderella

    Director

  2. Living Alone

    Director

  3. 1998

    Who Do You Think You Are?

    Director

  4. 1997

    Middle-aged Bachelors

    Director

  5. 1996

    Dear Woman

    Director

  6. Kimi to Deatte kara

    Director

  7. 1994

    The Loss of Humanity

    Director

  8. Rampo - Bewitching Women

    Director

  9. 1990

    Prep School Boogie

    Director

  10. Graduation

    Director

  11. Defeat the Devil!

    Director

1980s

  1. 1989

    Oshare dorobō

    Director

  2. 1987

    Manatsu Girl

    Director

  3. Mama Is an Idol

    Director

  4. Daddy, the Newscaster

    Director

  5. 1983

    Ao ga Chiru

    Director

Produced 1

1990s

  1. 1990

    Defeat the Devil!

    Producer