Yasushi Inoue
Novelist.
Works
猟銃
Release Date:2023-03-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Chronicle of My Mother
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.
Release Date:2012-04-28
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:17
The Warrior and the Wolf
Set during China's the Warring States Period (476-221 BC), benevolent warrior Chenkang Lu (Joe Odagiri) enters into a torrid love affair with a woman (Maggie Q) from the nomadic Harran tribe. Their relationship sends the warrior to a place where humans were once wolves...
Release Date:2009-10-02
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:12
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
Chacha, the woman of the blood of Nobunaga, who loved with Hideyoshi, and feared Tokugawa.
Release Date:2007-12-22
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
The Ice Wall
Two mountaineers fall in love with the same woman. When one of the men plunges to his death, suspicion falls on the survivor.
Release Date:2006-01-14
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Episode Count:6
Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
Release Date:1993-12-04
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
The Dream of Russia
Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.
Release Date:1992-06-25
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:9
Death of a Tea Master
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
Release Date:1989-10-07
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:11
The Silk Road
In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu Wangli. While sacking a fortress, Xingde discovers Tsurpia, princess of the Uighur. He hides her; they fall in love. When he's sent away to study Xixian, he leaves Tsurpia in Zhu's care, but returns to find her engaged to Li. Tragedy follows, and he and Zhu enter a pact to take revenge when Li arrives at Dun-Huang, the region's seat of learning and culture. Against overwhelming odds, they find a surprising way to leave a monument to their life and love.
Release Date:1988-06-25
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:10
Animated Classics of Japanese Literature
A brilliant collection of beautifully animated episodes based on selected masterpieces of Japanese modern literature. The aim of this series is to appeal to the viewer at large and to give him or her some idea of the variety and individuality which Japanese literature has developed over the last hundred years. The authors range from Higuchi Ichiyou (Takekurabe), Mori Ougai (The Dancing Girl) and Natsume Souseki (Botchan) to Kawabata Yasunari (The Izu Dancer), Nobel laureate of 1968, and Mishima Yukio (The Sound of Waves).
Release Date:1986-04-25
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Nukata no Ōkimi
A historical romance about the life of Princess Nukata, a Manyo poetess who was loved by two brothers, Emperor Tenji and Emperor Tenmu, and the formation of an ancient nation.
Release Date:1980-03-14
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Episode Count:2
The Fossil
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is the template for his fantasy, and together they tour rural churches. Gradually he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges which profoundly test the lessons he has learned.
Release Date:1974-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:11
Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?
Release Date:1969-03-01
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:18
Shotgun
The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.
Release Date:1966-07-11
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
The Sun is Calling You
A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as a fisherman.
Release Date:1963-09-29
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Children of Izu
Release Date:1962-11-21
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Kiriko no unmei
1962 Japanese movie
Release Date:1962-05-27
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
The Estuary
Release Date:1961-07-26
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Three Young Samurai
During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When they next meet they have all joined opposing sides.
Release Date:1961-02-22
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:5
Uzu
1961 Japanese movie
Release Date:1961-01-15
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Hunting Rifle
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.
Release Date:1961-01-03
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Vote Count:1
When a Woman Loves
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
Release Date:1959-09-24
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
White Blaze
A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
Release Date:1958-03-04
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
流轉
In the eleventh year of the Tempō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement for a new production of "Kanjinchō" by Naritaya, featuring music by the master Kineya Rokusaburō. However, Naritaya's requests to change some of Rokusaburō's most painstakingly crafted parts of the composition angered his disciple, Shinjirō, leading to a conflict and Shinjirō's abandonment of the shamisen. One day, Shinjirō was captivated by the mysteriously beautiful dance of Oaki, a traveling performer's daughter, who seemed to be channeling her art into a form of revenge.
Release Date:1956-04-25
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
春のみづうみ
Release Date:1956-03-11
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Release Date:1955-10-05
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Till We Meet Again
Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...
Release Date:1955-05-29
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:4
The Black Current
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead.
Release Date:1954-08-31
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according to his own desires. Against all the odds, he manages to push through his business idea – the foundation of an airline. At the same time, his ex-girlfriend refuses to accept their separation and attempts to force her way back into his life by any means possible. He in turn feels attracted to a young woman, who turns out to be the wife of one of his airline investors and who has herself had a secret lover for several years.
Release Date:1954-06-15
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.
Release Date:1952-05-22
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:8