Sadaji Yoshida
Cinematographer · Died October 28, 2018 · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Japanese cinematographer. Born 1918.
Biography from TMDB.
- October 28, 2018
- Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
- Cinematographer
- 10 on MovieCove · 85 credits in all
Known for
What are Sadaji Yoshida's films like?
Across their 10 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Power.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 10
Light 0 · Serious 0 · Dark 10
Grounded 2 · Stylized 6 · Heightened 2
Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 8
Steady 0 · Shifting 6 · Whiplash 4
Straight-faced 7 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 0
Slow burn 0 · Even-paced 7 · Relentless 3
Casual 1 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 6
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 6 · Heavy 4
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 5 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet6
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Sadaji Yoshida's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Sadaji Yoshida's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
85 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
Final Episode(1974)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Police Tactics(1974)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Proxy War(1973)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Hiroshima Death Match(1973)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Informal Dress (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1972)
A Yakuza Has His Way (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1972)
Lullaby for a Tough Guy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1972)
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1972)
Trials of an Okinawa Village (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1971)
A Scarred Life (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1971)
The Domain: Rising Dragon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
Brothers of Capones (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
House of Gamblers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
Gambler's Legacy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1969)
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1969)
Daring Girls (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1969)
Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1969)
Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1969)
Orgies of Edo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1969)
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1968)
Hot Springs Geisha (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1968)
Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1968)
Human Torpedoes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1968)
Eleven Samurai(1967)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
The Shogun and His Mistresses (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1967)
Samurai Wolf II (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1967)
The Gambler's Law (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1967)
Samurai Wolf(1966)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Rub Out the Past (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1966)
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1966)
The Actress vs. the Greedy Sharks (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1966)
Expelled from the Kanto Mob (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1965)
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1965)
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1965)
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1965)
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
Blind Monk Swordsman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1963)
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1963)
Tattoo of Love (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1963)
A Revengeful Raid (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1962)
Yakuza Official (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1962)
Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow(1962)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
The Princess and the Bearded Lord (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1962)
The Red Shadow (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1961)
Case of Umon: Woman of the Magic Lantern (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1961)
Fine Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1961)
Mask of the Moon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1961)
Edo Purebreed (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1961)
Flowers on the Road (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1961)
Wild Palanquin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
Castle of Flames (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
Hero of the Red Light District (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
Unwieldy Brothers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
The Samurai Markets (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
Lord of Red Banner (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
Glorious Firefighter’s Standard (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)
Echo in the Mountains (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)
Mission to Hell (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)
Bride of Peacock Castle (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)
Tange Sazen: Mystery of the Twin Dragons (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)
The Black Hooded Man 5 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)
Fireball Magistrate (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)
Her Son Came Back (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)
直八子供旅 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)
The Scroll’s Secret (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)
Sasaki Kojiro, Part 2 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)
Sasaki Kojiro (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)
Lord Mito (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)
The Horse Boy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)
Rebellion from Below (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
Scramble for Fortune (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
The Kuroda Affair (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
Goblin of Rashomon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)
Minamoto Yoshitsune (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1955)
The Black Hooded Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1955)
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1955)
The Crimson Peacock (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)
The Bloody Cherry Blossom Magistrate (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)
Lice Are Scary (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1943)
Career shape
A full career of 85 titles from 1943 to 1980.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Sadaji Yoshida's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 88th percentile, the median of all 10; across their 10 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 85th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up8
- 50th to 74th2
Shape of the crowd
None of their 10 titles divides audiences: 10 are Crowd Pleasers.
- Crowd Pleaser10
Reviewers score the cinematography 80/100 in their films, across 8 reviewed titles; fans 83, detractors 58. The element that speaks to their work as a cinematographer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Sadaji Yoshida work with?
People who share at least 2 of Sadaji Yoshida's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Toshiaki Tsushima shares the most, 8.
Directors
- Kinji FukasakuShared titles: Final Episode (1974), New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974), Police Tactics (1974), Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), Hiroshima Death Match (1973), Proxy War (1973)See all 6 shared titles with Kinji Fukasaku
Writers
- Koichi IiboshiShared titles: Final Episode (1974), New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974), Police Tactics (1974), Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), Hiroshima Death Match (1973), Proxy War (1973)See all 6 shared titles with Koichi Iiboshi
- Kazuo KasaharaShared titles: Police Tactics (1974), Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), Hiroshima Death Match (1973), Proxy War (1973)See all 4 shared titles with Kazuo Kasahara
- Kôji TakadaShared titles: Final Episode (1974), Return of the Street Fighter (1974)See all 2 shared titles with Kôji Takada
- Kei TasakaShared titles: Eleven Samurai (1967), Samurai Wolf (1966)See all 2 shared titles with Kei Tasaka
Actors
- Bunta SugawaraShared titles: Final Episode (1974), New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974), Police Tactics (1974), Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), Hiroshima Death Match (1973), Proxy War (1973)See all 6 shared titles with Bunta Sugawara
- Kunie TanakaShared titles: Final Episode (1974), New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974), Police Tactics (1974), Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), Proxy War (1973)See all 5 shared titles with Kunie Tanaka
- Shingo YamashiroShared titles: Final Episode (1974), Police Tactics (1974), Return of the Street Fighter (1974), Hiroshima Death Match (1973), Proxy War (1973)See all 5 shared titles with Shingo Yamashiro
- Nobuo KanekoShared titles: Final Episode (1974), New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974), Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), Proxy War (1973)See all 4 shared titles with Nobuo Kaneko
Composers and editors
- Toshiaki TsushimaShared titles: Final Episode (1974), New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974), Police Tactics (1974), Return of the Street Fighter (1974), Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), Hiroshima Death Match (1973), Proxy War (1973), Samurai Wolf (1966)See all 8 shared titles with Toshiaki Tsushima
- Shintarô MiyamotoShared titles: Police Tactics (1974), Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), Hiroshima Death Match (1973), Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow (1962)See all 4 shared titles with Shintarô Miyamoto
- Kōzō HoriikeShared titles: Return of the Street Fighter (1974), Proxy War (1973), Samurai Wolf (1966)See all 3 shared titles with Kōzō Horiike
Producers
- Gorô KusakabeShared titles: Police Tactics (1974), Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)See all 2 shared titles with Gorô Kusakabe
- Norimichi MatsudairaShared titles: Return of the Street Fighter (1974), Samurai Wolf (1966)See all 2 shared titles with Norimichi Matsudaira