Yasuhiro Yoshida (Writing)

Like a Dragon: Yakuza

Set in the fictional town of Kamurocho, the story unfolds across two intersecting timelines—1995 and 2005. In 1995, four friends eager to escape their restrictive lives in an orphanage dive into the yakuza-controlled underworld of 1995 Kamurocho. Meanwhile, in 2005, their friendship is deteriorated, as tensions between the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance are at a boiling point.

Release Date:2024-10-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:36

Double Cheat: Itsuwari no Keikan

A crime entertainment drama produced by TV Tokyo and WOWOW, which deals with various scams that have increased in recent years with the spread of the Internet.

Release Date:2024-04-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:16

Vote Count:1

Ozu

Commemorating the 120th anniversary of Ozu Yasujiro's birth, six up-and-coming filmmakers remade six of his early silent films as a contemporary mini-series.

Release Date:2023-11-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Omokage

Release Date:2023-03-27

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

In Hand

Tetsu Himokura is a parasitologist. He enjoys researching the lives of parasites at his home laboratory and he barely leaves his home. He also has assistant Haruma Takaie to help him. Tetsu Himokura's right hand is a robotic prosthetic hand. He is very smart, but blunt to others.

Release Date:2019-04-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:3

Our Departures

Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.

Release Date:2018-11-30

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:15

Plage -Share House for Losers-

A humorous suspense drama starring Gen Hoshino, currently Japan's most popular actor. The story is set in a shared house for people with various complicated pasts who have no place to go. Once rejected by society, the residents help each other as they try to get back on their feet.

Release Date:2017-08-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:1

Birthday Card

Noriko lost her mother Yoshie when she was only 10-years-old. Yoshie knew she would not be able to live long enough to see her children grow up and wrote birthday cards to her children in the future. Agonizing over relationships with friends, love and marriage, Noriko grows up with hints and thoughts hidden on birthday cards which are sent from her mother every year.

Release Date:2016-10-22

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:3

Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~

Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Release Date:2016-10-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:12

The Summer of Whales

Chuya, who spends his days in a local city without any purpose or dream, suddenly decides to go to Tokyo. His best friends: J, Gizmo, and Machida, from high school try to hold a big farewell party on the last day that Chuya spends locally, but Chuya remembers the past. It seems that he is clinging and hesitating to move. There, the three make a proposal for Chuya, but Yumiko, a longing senior who should be active as an entertainer in Tokyo, appears, and Chuya's heart shakes even more.

Release Date:2014-05-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

埋もれる

Release Date:2014-03-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Enoshima Prism

Shuta (Sota Fukushi), Saku (Shuhei Nomura) and Michiru (Tsubasa Honda) have been best friends since they were kids. Tragedy strikes the friends when during the winter of 2010, Saku dies from a heart attack. After Saku's death, Shuta and Michiru become more distant. On the third year anniversary of Saku's death, Shuta boards a train in the Enoshima subway. Somehow, Shuta travels back in time to 2010, before Saku died from a heart attack. Although Shuta is confused by the time change, he attempts to save Saku by changing the past.

Release Date:2013-08-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

Leaving on the 15th Spring

Junior high school student Yuna lives with her father Toshiharu. Her mother Akemi moved to Naha when her older sister entered high school, and Yuna is worried about her father's life after she leaves.

Release Date:2013-04-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

Fly with the Gold

Kota hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa, a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold bar sits in the basement of the HQ of Sumita Bank. Helping Kota and Kitagawa are bank security employee Noda, a North Korean spy pretending to be a college student, Kitagawa's younger brother Haruki and a former elevator engineer. These 6 men are about to carry the boldest of schemes to bypass the bank's high-tech defense system.

Release Date:2012-11-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

Cursed Spiritual Infection: I Am Possessed - 24-Year-Old Office Lady Yuki's Case

This is the third in a series of films based on horror stories. In a building where women who are supposed to be at the peak of their happiness jump to their deaths one after another. Yuki, who works at a general store in the building, receives a gift of an engagement ring from her long-time lover. But then a strange feeling begins to hover around her...

Release Date:2010-06-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Hero Show

Two men, a freeter (played by Shusuke Fukutoku) and a man who used to be a non-combat solider (played by Junpei Goto), becomes involved in a cruel crime.

Release Date:2010-05-29

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Kitokito!

Coming of age story about a boy and his mother.

Release Date:2007-03-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer