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Yōichi Higashi (東陽一, Higashi Yōichi) is a Japanese film director. He began his career working on documentaries at Iwanami Productions but, after going independent, turned to fiction film.
Yōichi Higashi (東陽一 Higashi Yōichi) is a Japanese film director. He began his career working on documentaries at Iwanami Productions but, after going independent, turned to fiction film.
Yōichi Higashi (東陽一 Higashi Yōichi) is a Japanese film director. He began his career working on documentaries at Iwanami Productions but, after going independent, turned to fiction film.
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Name:Yoichi HigashiKanji:東陽一Hiragana:ひがし よういちBorn:November 14, 1934Yôichi Higashi was born on 14 November 1934 in Wakayama, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Village of Dreams (1996), Third Base (1978) and The River with No Bridge (1992).
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- November 14, 1934
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Higashi Yoichi was born in Wakayama Prefecture in 1934. He graduated from Waseda University’s Department of Literature. Higashi went freelance after working at Iwanami Film Production Company. His first feature film was a documentary, Okinawa retto ( The Okinawa Islands, 1969).
Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.
