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name: "Yoshinori Ota"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yoshinori-ota"
fi1m_id: "yoshinori-ota"
imdb_id: "nm0649025"
tmdb_id: 4999
wikidata_id: "Q11444385"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:17:01.306581+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Yoshinori Ota

## Identity

Yoshinori Ota

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yoshinori-ota
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yoshinori-ota
- **IMDb ID:** nm0649025
- **TMDB ID:** 4999
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11444385
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11444385, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0649025/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4999

Editor. Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Also known as:** Yoshinori Ohta
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11444385, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0649025/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4999

## Coming up

- *RYUJI ⻯⼆* (2026-10-30), Editor

## Biography

Yoshinori Ota is a Japanese film editor, also credited as Yoshinori Ohta. He has worked extensively with director Takeshi Kitano, serving as editor or co-editor on many of his films from the 1990s onwards.

His credits include *Fireworks* (1997), *Kikujiro* (1999), *Brother* (2000), *Dolls* (2002), *Zatoichi* (2003), *Outrage* (2010) and its sequels, and *Kubi* (2023). He received the Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for *Zatoichi* and was nominated for the same award for *Fireworks*.

*Sources: imdb.com, film.nu, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fireworks* (1997), Fi1m 88, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/fireworks.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *RYUJI ⻯⼆* (2026), Editor
- *Broken Rage* (2024), Editor
- *Kubi* (2023), Editor
- *Arc* (2021), Editor
- *Mio's Cookbook* (2020), Editor
- *The Manga Master* (2019), Editor
- *Listen to the Universe* (2019), Editor
- *Haruko's Doll* (2018), Editor
- *Cherry Boys* (2018), Editor
- *Outrage Coda* (2017), Editor
- *Traces of Sin* (2017), Editor
- *Yoko the Cherry Blossom* (2015), Editor
- *The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War* (2015), Editor
- *Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen* (2015), Editor
- *Riding the Breeze* (2014), Editor
- *Court of Zeus* (2014), Editor
- *My Little Sweet Pea* (2013), Editor
- *The Boy Inside* (2012), Editor
- *Beyond Outrage* (2012), Editor
- *Outrage* (2010), Editor
- *We'll Keep Walking, That's All* (2009), Editor
- *Teke Teke* (2009), Editor
- *Teke Teke 2* (2009), Editor
- *Bokura no Houteishiki* (2008), Editor
- *Achilles and the Tortoise* (2008), Editor
- *Glory to the Filmmaker!* (2007), Editor
- *Takeshis'* (2005), Editor
- *Innocent Seven* (2005), Editor
- *HEAT -Incandescence- PART II* (2004), Editor
- *Zatoichi* (2003), Editor
- *Dolls* (2002), Editor
- *A True Record: The Last Sōkaiya* (2001), Editor
- *Brother* (2000), Editor
- *Kikujiro* (1999), Editor
- *Chaka: The Lonely Hitman* (1998), Editor
- *Suicide Bus* (1998), Editor
- *Fireworks* (1997), Editor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/fireworks.md)
- *The Messiah from the Future* (1997), Editor
- *Kids Return* (1996), Editor
- *Kagerô 2* (1996), Editor
- *Adiós Desperado* (1996), Editor
- *Teito Monogatari Gaiden* (1995), Editor
- *Getting Any?* (1995), Editor
- *Sonatine* (1993), Assistant Editor
- *Usureyuku kioku no nakade* (1992), Editor
- *A Scene at the Sea* (1991), Assistant Editor
- *Anxious Virgin: One More Time, I Love You* (1990), Assistant Editor
- *Only 5 Grams* (1988), Assistant Editor

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