Eisuke Naito

Eisuke Naito, born in Aichi Prefecture in 1982, graduated from the Film School of Tokyo and subsequently began directing independent movies while working as a teacher at a special education school. His short film THE PRINCE OF MILK (2008) was invited to Nippon Connection in 2010 and also to many other international film festivals. LET’S-MAKE-THE-TEACHER-HAVE-A-MISCARRIAGE CLUB (2011 / NC ’11), NAITOs feature length debut, sparked controversy, not only due to its title. Recently, with LITCHI HIKARI CLUB (2016) and LIVERLEAF (2018), he also directed manga adaptations. FORGIVEN CHILDREN (2020) is his latest release.

Works

Welcome to the Village

Release Date:2025-01-24

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

A Suffocatingly Lonely Death
8.2

A Suffocatingly Lonely Death

The suspense story begins when Jin Saeki, a policeman in Yamanashi Prefecture, arrives at a prominent estate residence in response to a tip, and finds the skeletal remains of 13 children, as well as a mysterious marking. Jūzō Haikawa, the long-missing owner of the estate, immediately becomes the prime suspect. Saeki collaborates with a woman named Kanon Hasumi, who has a connection to Haikawa, and together they search for the truth behind the case. In a parallel story set in Tokyo seven years after the case, a girl with a connection to the mark left on the Haikawa estate runs away from home.

Release Date:2024-07-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:4

5.0

Toxic Daughter

Hagino, her husband Atsuhiro and her teenage stepdaughter Moeka move into a new house. For someone who was not blessed with a warm affectionate family, this was what she had always dreamed of. However, one day while Hagino is out, she receives a call from Moeka asking for her help. She rushes home and finds her house turned upside down, Moeka's clothes torn to shreds and a strange young girl is standing over her, with a pair of scissors in her hand.

Release Date:2024-04-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Halation Love
7.0

Halation Love

Miyama Akari is a university student who manages a photography shop with her mother that was left behind by her late father. One day, she receives a request from a male customer to develop a roll of film and discovers something within the photos which she had seen before. Meanwhile, she reunites with her old childhood friend for the first time in fifteen years. Soon after, a series of strange incidents start to occur within the town.

Release Date:2023-08-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:3

Doronjo
8.0

Doronjo

Nao Dorokawa lives in a poor and harsh environment. The only place where she can prove herself is where she has intense and serious physical fights. She keeps overusing her body as a tool in her fights. Due to this, she experiences shocking tragedies on her body, one after another.

Release Date:2022-10-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:5

Takane no Hana-san
10.0

Takane no Hana-san

Takamine Hana is a super ace employee at a traditional confectionary company. Despite her elite look and high performance, Hana only has love skills of a fifth grader. Hana has recently fell in love with Yowaki Tsuyoshi, a young employee who always gets scolded. Can Hana make Tsuyoshi like her back? Will a love bloom between the two?

Release Date:2021-04-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:1

6.0

Homunculus

A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.

Release Date:2021-04-02

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:112

The Way of the Househusband
7.8

The Way of the Househusband

An infamous yakuza sets out to master the Way of the Househusband! "The Immortal Dragon"—an infamous and feared yakuza who has left behind countless legends in the underworld—has decided to wash his hands of his dark past and become… a "househusband"! Under the watchful eye of the neighborhood, the yakuza, and the police, witness this gangster-turned-husband's style of "justice and family love." A thrilling slapstick drama where the ultimate househusband faces struggles from every side! Can Tatsu protect his beloved family and neighborhood when they are caught up in an incident?

Release Date:2020-10-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:10

6.5

Forgiven Children

While fooling around with a self-made crossbow, Kira accidentally kills his classmate Itsuki. For lack of evidence, the young student is found innocent. However, his trial is widely covered by the mass media, and the following uproar from society won’t leave his family untouched.

Release Date:2020-06-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Namonaki Fukushuusha ZEGEN
8.0

Namonaki Fukushuusha ZEGEN

Release Date:2019-08-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:1

Masked Reunion

Masked Reunion

Release Date:2019-06-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

6.5

Liverleaf

The story follows Nozaki Haruka, a middle school student who transfers to a new school in a small town because of her father's work. Unfortunately, she becomes a victim of horrific bullying, but since the school will be closing in 2 months after graduation, no one is willing to help her.

Release Date:2018-04-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:60

IMPOSSIBILITY DEFENSE
7.0

IMPOSSIBILITY DEFENSE

Tadashi Usobuki is a mysterious man with red eyes. He wears black suits with a wine-red shirt and possesses a special power which will drive people to their death through methods such as curses and brainwashing. However, it is impossible for his crimes to be proven in court, thus Usobuki cannot be taken to justice for the killings he did on behalf of his clients. Meanwhile, there is Tomoko Tada, a police detective and the only person who cannot be controlled by Usobuki.

Release Date:2017-12-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:1

Cinema Capriccio

Documentary about the crazy cinephile Atsushi Tsuboi, vice president of the Nagoya art theatre "cinemaskhole".

Release Date:2017-11-14

Character:Self

Dorome: Boys' Side

Drama clubs from an all boys high school and an all girls high school hold a joint training camp. The schools are set to merge the following year. At the training camp, horrific and unusual events take place. Soon, the students learn that Dorome an old mountain legend is responsible.

Release Date:2016-03-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

6.0

Dorome: Girls' Side

Drama clubs from an all boys high school and an all girls high school hold a joint training camp. The schools are set to merge the following year. At the training camp, horrific and unusual events take place. Soon, the students learn that Dorome an old mountain legend is responsible.

Release Date:2016-03-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

5.7

Litchi Hikari Club

The year is 2XXX and Keiko Town is an over-industrialized stretch of blackened factories pumping out thick layers of smoke that cast it in a perpetual state of semi-darkness. The citizens of Keiko Town fare no better and walk around their dilapidated town in a stupor of hopeless despair. In an abandoned factory in an obscure corner of town lies the secret base of Hikari Club. The teenage boys of Hikari Club despise the adults of their community and have taken it upon themselves to eradicate what they perceive to be the evil and filth of the grown-up world. To accomplish this, they build a machine with artificial intelligence and dub it “Litchi”. However, with the boys on the cusp of puberty and turning into adults themselves, their own world has begun to collapse around them.

Release Date:2016-02-13

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:7

6.1

Kidan Piece of Darkness

Based on Fuyumi Ono's best-selling books, these 10 tales of spookiness by six Japanese horror directors are designed to chill viewers to the bone.

Release Date:2016-01-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:7

The Chasing World: Rising

The Chasing World: Rising

Teruo, Keigo, and Soryu, three curious elementary school children, encounter Mr. Sato, a wanted "child murderer" who has snuck into the abandoned school where they are playing to look for a time capsule.

Release Date:2015-07-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

6.5

Sharing

Memories can be blocked, but they can also be invented. Psychology professor Eiko works with people who were traumatized by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. But the topic affects her more personally than she wants to admit. Narrative structures begin to intertwine, reality becomes ambiguous. Like a surgeon, SHINOZAKI dissects the human mind in this complex yet moving film.

Release Date:2014-10-11

Vote Count:4

6.8

Puzzle

High school student Azusa jumps off from the rooftop of a school building, but she survives. One month later, the school is taken over by group of people wearing bizarre masks. A pregnant teacher is imprisoned, while the head director of the school and male students disappear. Azusa then finds pieces of a puzzle in an envelope given to her by classmate Shigeo. The puzzle pieces holds the key to solve the case. Azusa chases after Shigeo and she sees something which is unimaginable.

Release Date:2014-03-08

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:30

4.4

The Crone

Ayane, Nanami, and Mayuko are members of a new 3-member idol group called “Jersey Girl”. One day they’re invited to appear on a television show about the paranormal where they’ll visit an abandoned nursing home in the mountains to see which one of them is the bravest and document their experiences. However, as soon as the girls arrive, they begin to have strange paranormal experiences. Before long, they begin to turn on each other as the stress of the situation overtakes them.

Release Date:2013-07-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

Demon Ward
7.0

Demon Ward

Set within a hospital, located on the outskirts of town, mysterious phenomenons occur in sequence around a nurse. The nurse is suspected as the cause for some horrible cases and finds herself in danger.

Release Date:2013-07-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2

4.3

Let's Make the Teacher Have a Miscarriage Club

The mini budget psycho drama, somewhat based on true story, follows a bunch of adorable high school girls whose casual pastime includes throwing small animals in the air – and not catching them on the way down. The leader of the sweethearts is Mizuki (Kaori Kobayashi), who loses whatever traces of sense she might have possessed when her teacher turns up knocked up! The girls form a “miscarriage club” to kill the unborn baby in order to show the insolent adult who calls the shots.

Release Date:2012-05-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

3.0

Tales of Terror: 100 Stories

TV anthology movie

Release Date:2010-05-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

6.2

Yatterman

Gan and his girlfriend Ai are mild-mannered toy shop owners by day but, when evil lurks, they transform into superheroes Yatterman 1 & 2. With the help of a dog-shaped robot, Yatterwoof, they take on the Doronbow gang, lead by the sexy Lady Doronjo. Together, they must stop the evil gang from finding the four magical skull pieces that will allow them to control the world!

Release Date:2009-02-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:82

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