吉田 喜重 - Yoshishige Yoshida. In Memoriam

Several Japanese websites report the death of the film director 吉田 喜重 (Yoshishige Yoshida) (1933-2022) (also known as Kijû Yoshida). He was one of the enfants terribles (with Nagisa Oshima, Shohei Imamura, Masahiro Shinoda, Seijun Suzuki, and several others) of the Japanese cinema who entered the industry in the sixties and seventies. 

Akitsu Spring (1962), Eros+Massacre (1969), Coup d'État (1973), A Promise (1986) or Women in the Mirror (2002) are probably his most well-known films. But the reason of being remembered on this blog is his brutal, uncompromising, very heavily mediated through Georges Bataille's Literature and Evil and consequently disturbing take on Wuthering Heights: 嵐が丘, Arashi ga Oka (1988) (also known as Onimaru). Or as Saviour Catania wrote in The Brontë Sisters in Other Wor(l)ds:

The result is a Wuthering Heights reconceived as a kind of mugen or fantasmal Noh tragedy where Bataille’s shamanic reveries blazing through Inner Experience and Guilty spectrally gleam into Brontë’s intimations of immortality. 

The film was one of the contenders for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival of 1988.

EDIT: Obituaries published in La Vanguardia (Spain), Les inrockuptibles (France), Sentirse Selvaggi (Italy)...