Yo Kawahara (Director)

Good Morning Call

A high school girl finally gets her own apartment, but she has to share it with the most popular boy in school. No one can know they're living together.

Release Date2016-02-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count27

Vote Count59

Small Bait, Big Love ～Ebiko's Hunt for Her Mr. Right～

A self-doubting woman battles life’s lows while desperately searching for her perfect “big catch” in this heartfelt romantic comedy.

Release Date2025-07-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Dear My Baby

A popular actor stabs his manager!? Behind this shocking news lies a hidden truth that was discovered as a result of a twisted love that went out of control.

Release Date2025-04-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Mr. and Mrs. Igarashi Are Strangers in Disguise

Mahiro Aizawa starts fresh at a new job, only to find her estranged husband, Naoto Igarashi, working at the same company. To avoid awkwardness, they pretend to be strangers, but this complicates their relationship further.

Release Date2025-01-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count12

Vote Count1

Can’t Run Away from Love

Adapted from the manga, “Anyway, I Won’t Run Away” by Kazumi Kazui, “Can’t Run Away From Love” is a 2021 romantic comedy drama directed by Yo Kawahara

Release Date2021-09-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count9

Vote Count7

恋爱喜剧守则 自卑女与年下男

Ruri, who is a beautiful woman and can also work, is thought to have a lot of love experience by the people around her, but in reality she is a beginner in love for 15 years without a boyfriend. Because of such a lapis lazuli, he decided to give a love affair to his junior Ryo, who is "perfect in appearance and content" but continues to be shaken.

Release Date2021-04-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count7

Lucky Day

A wedding is supposed to be the happiest moment in a couple's life. But what if someone among the attendants does not wish success for the newlywed couple? One morning, Takako, a wedding planner, finds a threatening letter sent to the wedding hall that says, "Cancel today's weddings. Otherwise, you will receive divine punishment." There are five weddings scheduled that day, but Takako ignores the letter and decides to duly host the weddings and find out who is behind the threat.

Release Date2012-01-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

My Right Older Brother

Riyo is attracted to Kairi, but isn't Kairi a murderer? A love story of a man and a woman carrying the past.

Release Date2021-10-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count4

Vampire Heaven

Vampires need human blood to survive. Sakurako and her best friend, Komachi, escape from the clutches of an evil baron in the vampire world and come down to the world of humans. They end up working in a café when a handsome aspiring musician, Hayako, comes in. Sakurako falls in love with the young man but must overcome her natural desire to taste his blood that comes with her attraction. Sakurako finds that strumming on a guitar helps her to curb her taste for blood, but her thirst grows stronger as her feelings for Hayako also grows. When Komachi also develops feelings for Hayako, what will the best friends do?

Release Date2013-12-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

聖ラブサバイバーズ

A devoted fan quits her stable job to pursue her dreams and finally marries her rockstar crush, Ouji Kazuhiro. But on their wedding day, she learns their marriage comes with one unexpected condition—a sexless arrangement.

Release Date2026-01-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

The Red Museum of Crime Evidence - The Saeko Hiiro Series

The criminal library, dubbed the “Red Museum”, is a police facility that stores the investigation materials and evidence of major crimes where the statute of limitations has run out. Its director Saeko Hiiro is impassive and not good at communicating with people. One day, Satoshi Terada of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigative Division is assigned to be Saeko’s subordinate. Although he is bewildered by Saeko’s dispassionate demeanor, Terada starts to organize the data which is the primary responsibility of the museum. He encounters a traffic accident on the way to collect evidence. A truck has hit someone. When Terada rushes over, the victim utters the mysterious words “25 years ago... murder swap” and breathes his last. Once Saeko hears this, she declares a reinvestigation.

Release Date2016-08-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Thy Name

He is a young president, who is also good at talent and talent. On the other hand, his younger sister, Hisae (kitanobu), had a true personality with her sister, and she was hiding in the house of Tsuji in the event of broken heart. While Kushi treated Hisae as a good place, Hisae felt joy in establishing the role of Toji, and built a strange coexistence between them. However, the appearance of two people and the appearance of the sisters are reversed by the appearance of a man and a pottery.

Release Date2022-04-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count1

Two Homelands

Kenji Amo is a 2nd generation Japanese-American. He was born in America, but went to school in Japan. He returned to America to study at UCLA. Now, Kenji Amo works as a reporter for a newspaper in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles. Charlie Tamiya also studied at UCLA with Kenji Amo. Charlie Tamiya has feeling for Nagiko who works with Kenji Amo at the same newspaper company. Knowing that, Kenji Amo holds complicated feelings. At this time, Nagiko's friend Emi Hatanaka asks Kenji Amo to marry her. He accepts her proposal, but the Pacific War begins. Circumstances surrounding Kenji Amo changes.

Release Date2019-03-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

I want to say I love you

Centers on a 39-year-old pharmacist. She lives a peaceful life, doing the job she loves. However, the man she has loved for a long time has gotten engaged to another woman. On her way home from a drinking party with her colleagues, a younger man appears in front of her, and somehow, they start to live together out of the blue. Meanwhile, she meets another man who gives her peace of mind with his honesty and kindness. As she starts to realize the true meaning of happiness and the importance of being loved by someone, something begins to change within her… (Source: Drama-Otaku)

Release Date2024-03-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Angel's Ears: Night of the Traffic Police

Adapted from the novel "Tenshi no Mimi" (天使の耳) by Higashino Keigo (東野圭吾).

Release Date2024-04-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Cinderella Date

Makoto, a married senior high school teacher who goes on a vacation with her husband to Jakarta, Indonesia, where she accidentally meets and falls for journalist Ryota. 3 years later when Ryota returns to Japan, he and Makoto reunites and rekindles their romance.

Release Date2014-11-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count39