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Daihachi Yoshida
Filmmaker

Daihachi Yoshida

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Directing The Kirishima Thing and Pale Moon.

Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! · Pale Moon

Born
1963
Birthplace
Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

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Daihachi Yoshida

Daihachi Yoshida is a Japanese film director whose features include social dramas and offbeat literary adaptations.

Early life

University and advertising

Studied at Waseda University and directed award-winning commercials before moving into feature films.

Career

  1. 2007

    Feature breakthrough

    Received Yokohama’s new-director award.

  2. 2012

    School drama

    Directed The Kirishima Thing.

  3. 2025

    Later feature

    Released Teki Cometh.

Selected work

Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!

His award-winning early feature.

Pale Moon

A later feature film.

Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction

A publishing-world film.

Beyond work

Awards

Recognised by the Yokohama Film Festival for his early directing work.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical data and references ↗Nippon Connection: director biography ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan. CC BY 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.