# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yojiro-takita
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:37:13.587Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yojiro-takita"
name: "Yōjirō Takita"
slug: "yojiro-takita"
description: "Yōjirō Takita is a Japanese filmmaker. Takita received an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for his 2008 drama Departures. It marked the first time a Japanese film won the award after the category first became competitive in 1957."
tagline: "Japanese film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Y%C5%8Djir%C5%8D_Takita_20090406.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-12-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.26653333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847690/"
    handle:    "nm0847690"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "يوجيرو تاكيتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3d%C5%BEir%C3%B3_Takita"
    title: "Jódžiró Takita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yōjirō Takita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yōjirō Takita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yōjirō Takita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yōjirō Takita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yōjirō Takita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yōjirō Takita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yōjirō Takita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yōjirō Takita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "滝田洋二郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "다키타 요지로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yōjirō Takita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yojiro Takita"
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    title: "Такита, Ёдзиро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "یوجیرو تاکیتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B3%B7%E7%94%B0%E6%B4%8B%E4%BA%8C%E9%83%8E"
    title: "泷田洋二郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%80%A7%E7%94%B0%E6%B4%8B%E4%BA%8C%E9%83%8E"
    title: "瀧田洋二郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q788070"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump