Yoshihiro Fukagawa (Director)
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Works
Dear My Love
Too shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses lie between each and every couple, when they look back the distance created during the long years in which they took each other for granted... Love Letters sent from husbands to wives and from wives to husbands, quietly voice their unspoken appreciation for each other over the years that they have shared. The original idea comes from the postcard project "Love Letters at Sixty" which has brought a wave of sympathy to the precious emotions shared by many married couples.
Release Date2009-05-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Chart of Love
Dr. Ichito works at Honjo Hospital. His longtime friend Dr. Tatsuya Shindo, who comes from Tokyo, begins working at Honjo Hospital. In their university days, Tatsuya was referred to as "the conscience of the medical school". Ichito notices a difference in Tatsuya now, as he leaves work on time. Then, Ichito's senior colleague Dr. Nukita collapses.
Release Date2014-03-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Fake Marriage
45-year-old Hiro Kamon works as a librarian because she loves books. Although she is worshiped as the "aloof beauty" and "ideal female" for her beautiful, gentle smile and amiability, she actually dislikes people. Hiro has been hurt countless times, and Chōji, the only guy she loved wholeheartedly in university, also fled in one night. She has become a person who no longer believes in love and has decided to live alone for life. But she ends up acting as a "fake married couple" with Chōji, whom she happens to meet again, for the sake of his mother, Teruno, who has been given a short time to live.
Release Date2015-10-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count8
Into the White Night
A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji. As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji ...
Release Date2011-01-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count18
Brighter Days
Saho Takahashi, capable but a disillusioned nurse, has lost all motivation for her job working at Sumidaku Sakuraoka General Hospital. She seeks solace in the company of her bed-ridden patient, former Honorary Head Nurse, Sae Yukino. As she opens up about her despair, a sudden earthquake sends Saho into the depths of a strange, unfamiliar jungle.
Release Date2025-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Looking Up at the Half-Moon
Two 17 year old teens are hospitalized for different reasons. Ezaki suffers from Hepatitis A, while Akiba is due to a weak heart. The relationship between these two hospital patients soon blossoms into romance.
Release Date2010-04-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Patisserie Coin De Rue
A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aiming to become a high-calibre pastry chef, she is determined to overcome both her past and the challenges ahead. Pastry critic Tomura is a frequent visitor to Coin de Rue. Moved by Natsume's persistence, he slowly begins to confront his own painful past aided, of course, by mouthfuls of tasty pastries.
Release Date2011-02-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Twilight: Saya in Sasara
A drama about a struggling young widow with a baby whose dead husband returns to the world of the living to help her.
Release Date2014-11-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Restaurant from the Sky
Wataru, his woman Kotoe and daughter Shiori are ranchers and dairy farmers in Hokkaido in northern Japan. He is following in his father's footsteps. A visiting chef cooks an unforgettable meal with his ingredients, which prompts the family to open their own restaurant and reproduce the magic.
Release Date2019-01-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Teacher and Stray Cat
Following the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat called Mii, who was being fed by his wife, not only continues to drop by, but also seems to be visiting the altar Kyoichi has set up for his deceased wife. While uncomfortable with the cat and its visits, he nonetheless takes up a search when Mii goes missing. The endeavour connects him with the town's folk and reveals that he is not alone.
Release Date2015-01-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
The Innocent Game
Kiyoyoshi Kuga attends law school, aiming to work in the legal field as a lawyer. His childhood friend Mirei Orimoto also attends the same law school. One day, a leaflet is distributed by an anonymous person at their law school. The leaflet makes accusations about the past of Kiyoyoshi Kuga and Mirei Orimoto. Soon, unpleasant cases takes place around them. Kiyoyoshi Kuga talks to Kaoru Yuki, who is an extremely smart classmate and in charge of the mock trials. These three people chase after the truth, but they face an unexpected situation.
Release Date2023-11-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Sagrada Reset Part 2
In the town of Sakurada, where about half of the residents have special abilities, high schooler Kei Asai is able to remember everything. His classmate Misora Haruki has the power to reset the world by three days. If they combine their powers, they can go back in time by three days and retain their memory.
Release Date2017-05-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Prison Break
One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. Although Sakuma is a dangerous person who had also broken out of jail in Aomori, he submits to Urata who is the only person who had treated him kindly in the past. However, three months after escaping from jail, Sakuma shows up at Urata’s house. He has come to complain about the inhumane Akita prison officers. But he is locked up again after Urata notifies the police during an unguarded moment. A year later, Sakuma is sent to Abashiri Prison and Urata is also ordered to transfer as the prison’s chief warden.
Release Date2017-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
In His Chart
There is a degree of realism when a professional in the field writes about his vocation and such is the case here. Adopted from a novel written by a doctor and set in Nagano, doctor Kuriharai is overwhelmed by the number and variety of patients he has to see due to a shortage of physicians where he practices. He aspires to work somewhere more convenient, specialize and see more of his wife, but faces a dilemma many other doctors experience.
Release Date2011-08-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Peeping Tom
Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was his own death.
Release Date2008-10-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women
This is an omnibus of six short films by six different directors, whose lead characters are unconventional women. They are "Hijoshi," females who live true to themselves and their desires.
Release Date2009-05-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Four Women Living in That House
A mother, daughter and two of their friends live in an old Western-style house in Suginami. As secrets are revealed, they face challenges together.
Release Date2019-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Girl
"Girls" follows four beautiful women and depicts the troubles found in their love lives and work place. Yukiko Takigawa (Karina) works at a big advertising firm and has a good looking boyfriend. Seiko Takeda is married and has no children. She works at a large real estate company. Yoko Kosaka is a single woman working at a historic stationary company. Takako Hirai is a single mother who works for a car manufacturer.
Release Date2012-05-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Gymnasium Baby
Jun, the ace in his swimming team, lost against his rival, Naoki, at the summer college tournament. But since then there is a special feeling between them...
Release Date2008-05-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Sagrada Reset Part 1
In the town of Sakurada, where about half of the residents have special abilities, high schooler Kei Asai is able to remember everything. His classmate Misora Haruki has the power to reset the world by three days. If they combine their powers, they can go back in time by three days and retain their memory.
Release Date2017-03-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Don't Lose Heart
Depicts the life of best-selling Japanese poet Toyo Shibata. Toyo Shibata first began writing poems at the age of 92 and published her first collection of poems "Kujikenaide" (″Don't lose heart″) in 2009, which sold over 1.5 million copies.
Release Date2013-11-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Movie box-ing
"Movie Box-ing" is a Japanese film from 2003. It is an omnibus-style film consisting of three short stories: "Run-ing", "The Spinning Boy" and "The Policeman and the Summer Clothes" "Run-ing": Four men and women, each with their own unique circumstances and backgrounds, find themselves running after hearing the gunshot of an assassin targeting a man who stole a bag from an organization. The story follows what happens when they reach the finish line. "The Spinning Boy": Yoshio loves to spin around. Despite a class goal to make him stop spinning, he continues. One day, his father gets injured, and Yoshio declares, "I won't spin anymore." "The Policeman and the Summer Clothes": On the eve of a summer festival, Shingo, a policeman in a small coastal town, is involved in a case. While his girlfriend, Chizuru, is job hunting in Tokyo, Shingo questions Mariko, a university entrance exam candidate, about breaking a shop window.
Release Date2004-10-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Way of The Prison Guard
This mystery TV movie depicts hope and rebirth through the lives of inmates with different circumstances and the prison guards who strive to rehabilitate them.
Release Date2025-06-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The Letters
The hero is the the younger brother of the criminal suffers discrimination and prejudice of the people surrounding him, he will draw carefully through the brother's letter exchanged in the movie, the path of his own his family. ~~ Adapted from the novel “Letters” by Higashino Keiko.
Release Date2018-12-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
3 Beautiful Lies
Release Date2016-01-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Wolf Girl
When a new, smart and sweet Tokyo girl, Rumiko, starts at a rural elementary school, Akira finds himself smitten, like every other male pupil. Newcomer's popularity is contrasted with the less-tolerant treatment of scruffy Hideko, who, thanks to the arrival of a carnival freak-show in town, is nicknamed the Wolf Girl. Teachers and parents snootily consider the carny off-limits, but Akira is determined to find out whether Hideko really is a wolf girl.
Release Date2005-12-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Love Like the Falling Petals
Haruto Asakura falls in love with hairdresser Misaki Ariake and asks her out. Watching Misaki Ariake work hard to achieve what she wants, Haruto Asakura, who almost gave up his dream to become a photographer, begins to pursue his dream again, but Misaki Ariake is diagnosed with a disease that ages her 10x faster than normal.
Release Date2022-03-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count97
Classmates
A romance occurs via email, between Jun Shibahara, the ace in his swimming team, and an ill girl.
Release Date2008-05-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Kidnapping Day
To secure his daughter’s heart surgery funds, Masamune Shinjo, urged by his wife, attempts to kidnap heiress Rin Nanase. When Rin loses memory, he pretends to be her father—only to become a murder suspect after her parents are killed. Forced to flee with the genius girl, he must unravel the truth behind the crimes.
Release Date2025-07-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
Island Times
Fifteen-year-old Masaharu lives on the small island of Aogashima, which has a population of 197. On the island, life is simple and facilities are spare. As there are no high schools on the island, Masaharu, in his final year of junior high, will be leaving for Tokyo after he graduates. He is the editor of Blue Island Times, the local newspaper he started with a friend, who has hit on hard times in Tokyo. One day, Yuki transfers from the city to his island school, and Masaharu is immediately smitten. As the two grow closer, Masaharu discovers his new friend's secret.
Release Date2007-02-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Japanese Style
30-year-old Kakioka Tetsuro returns home for the first time in 10 years to save his family’s traditional inn Niji no Ya after he hears that his father has been hospitalized. But he is lost for words when he sees that it has completely changed. The dignity and service of the inn, which boasts a 100-year heritage, has totally vanished. It has transformed into a haunt where employees who are not easy to deal with linger around. There is Terakado Lucy Kazuko, a flamenco dancer who says a stream of offensive things; Kageshima Shunsaku, a germaphobe manager who hates hot springs; Asatsuki Momoyo, the head waitress who is a single mother devoted to her son Ringoro; Ringoro, a boyish employee who loves his mother and unicycle; Uno Kanata, a chef who has a UNO addiction; and Umekoshi Hifuji, an old-timer who has clung on to the inn for 40 years.
Release Date2022-10-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
Chase
Mikami, a journalist, and Mai, a rookie assistant director of a satellite broadcasting station, close in on the truth of the unsolved serial murders of five little girls which took place 27 years ago. At the time of the murders, DNA analysis dealt a decisive blow and a man was apprehended as the murderer. But there were several contradictory points surrounding this arrest. Mikami and Mai begin re-investigating the cases with doubts about his culpability. They are eventually faced with the chilling truth of false charges and enormous state power. However, they begin to expose the truth which was shrouded in darkness through true journalism.
Release Date2017-12-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Goodbye My Dear
“Who is the last person you would like to see？” When junior high school teacher Sakuraba Ayako wakes up, she sees a man standing there. Calling himself a guide of this mysterious place that extends in front of them, he tells her that this is “goodbye’s other side”. As his words sink in, Ayako recalls that she has died. She lets slip that she had never thought she would die in this manner. Visitors to this other side can meet people of this world one last time within a 24-hour time period. Ayako immediately thinks of her son Yuta and husband Hirotaka. However, the guide says the ones she can meet are only those who still do not know about her death. Ayako goes to the house of her former teacher Ishibashi Nobuyoshi. She is greeted by his daughter Megumi, but Nobuyoshi passed away about two years ago…
Release Date2022-09-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
Things You Can Know by Looking at Them
Momoko Uchida lives in an expensive apartment in Tokyo. She is a manga writer. Momoko Uchida is in her second marriage and has a son attending a university. Her friend Mizuki Tomizawa is the same age her and lives in the same apartment building. One day, a newlywed couple, including wife Rumi Kamoi, move into the same apartment building. The newlywed husband is Momoko Uchida's ex-husband. They divorced 20 years ago.
Release Date2020-01-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
再会～Silent Truth～
A detective must investigate his first love, who is the suspect in a murder committed with a gun that they and their friends secretly buried 23 years ago.
Release Date2026-01-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Rainbow Chart
Kureno Masora is a young doctor who was working happily at a large hospital in Tokyo. However, she found out that she has an illness and decided to continue working as a doctor, while hiding her illness at a clinic located in a small village called "Niji no Mura". Therefore, Masora gets to meet the interesting villagers and gradually learns about facing life enthusiastically.
Release Date2021-01-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count9
Vote Count2
GTO Revival
Onizuka, a former motorcycle gang member turned high-school teacher is assigned to a private academy full of troubled students. The issue at this high school revolves around an exposé-style influencer who has nearly 2 million followers who specializes in exposing and spreading rumors, causing controversies and uproar, regardless of whether the individuals involved are celebrities or ordinary people. Several teachers and students from the academy have been exposed so far, and due to being targeted so frequently, there are rumors circulating within the school that there might be a culprit impersonating the influencer. As a result, students live their school lives while constantly observing each other’s expressions, becoming increasingly suspicious and paranoid.
Release Date2024-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
GIANT CRYBABY
Film by Yoshihiro Fukagawa, 1999.
Release Date1999-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
42-50Nirvana
Yuji is a 50-year-old screenwriter.Kana is a 42-year-old actress.They got married two years ago.She lives with her husband's mother in a house in Tokyo. Recently, Kana has been feeling limited in her acting.Since she has never had a child, "I cannot play the role of a mother well," she says. Yuji were not positive about having a child, but at a family meeting they decided to start fertility treatment.
Release Date2022-07-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Legacy of Dr. Death: Black File
A series of suspicious death cases take place. All the victims were terminal patients. Detective Hayato Inukai (Gou Ayano) and Detective Asuka Takachiho (Keiko Kitagawa) investigate the case. Through their investigation, they learn of a person known as "Dr. Death." He performs euthanasia by request. Meanwhile, Detective Hayato Inukai’s daughter Sayaka requests the help of Dr. Death. Sayaka suffers from a severe kidney disease.
Release Date2020-11-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
それでも夜明けは訪れて
The pendant has disappeared, the shadow has disappeared. What will disappear next? The protagonist feels less and less alive every day. Even though she is a virgin, the only way she can think of to confirm her own life is to try a pregnancy test. To put an end to her boredom and pessimism, she leaves a message on her dial Q2 and meets a man. What does she get in exchange for making a man with a voice fetish cum? Despite the stylish pictures with a French taste, the story deepens from ennui to horror. The first half of the film, "the sense of alienation peculiar to a period when one is not young enough to be called a girl, but young enough to be called a woman", becomes "a scary story in the style of modern folklore" at the end.
Release Date1994-01-01
「アイランドタイムズ」メイキング
Making of Island Times
Release Date2007-02-27