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name: "Yoshikata Yoda"
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born: "15 January 1909"
died: "14 November 1991"
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# Yoshikata Yoda

Screenwriter. Born 15 January 1909 in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Died 14 November 1991.

## Details

- **Work:** Screenwriter
- **Born:** 15 January 1909, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- **Died:** 14 November 1991
- **Also known as:** Ёсиката Ёда

## Biography

Yoshikata Yoda was a Japanese screenwriter. After working at Sumitomo Bank, he joined Nikkatsu's Kyoto studio in 1930 to study screenwriting and wrote his first screenplay in 1931. He later taught screenwriting at Osaka Art College.

He is best known for his long collaboration with director Kenji Mizoguchi, beginning in 1936 with *Osaka Elegy* and *Sisters of the Gion* and continuing until 1955. His screenplays for Mizoguchi include *The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum* (1939), *The Life of Oharu* (1952), *Ugetsu* (1953), *Sansho the Bailiff* (1954) and *Princess Yang Kwei-fei* (1955). He wrote more than 130 screenplays between 1931 and 1989, including for *Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai* (1963), which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, encyclopedia.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sansho the Bailiff* (1954), Fi1m 92, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/sansho-the-bailiff.md)

## Also known for

- *Ugetsu* (1953), Screenplay
- *The Life of Oharu* (1952), Writer
- *Chikamatsu Monogatari* (1954), Screenplay
- *The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum* (1939), Screenplay
- *Sisters of the Gion* (1936), Writer
- *The 47 Ronin* (1941), Screenplay
- *Princess Yang Kwei-fei* (1955), Screenplay
- *Osaka Elegy* (1936), Screenplay

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