Ryôsuke Fukuda (Director)

Outer Man

For 50 years, "Outer Man" has been a cultural icon in Japan, a superhero TV series as ingrained in the national psyche as Ultraman. Generations have grown up watching the heroic Outer Man defend Earth from the monstrous Sylvie Seijin. But the line between fiction and reality blurs when a giant alien, identical to Outer Man, descends upon Tokyo.

Release Date2015-12-05

Charactersd Hiroshi Aono

Vote Count4

Eye Love You

Sparks begin to fly when a telepathic woman who'd given up on love meets a kindhearted Korean student who thinks in a language she can't understand.

Release Date2024-01-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count25

Then You Try Making It!

A woman loses herself by playing the "perfect girlfriend," cooking elaborate meals for her partner, while her old-fashioned boyfriend assumes women should cook. After a smooth college romance and cohabitation, they break up right after his proposal. Through cooking, they rethink stereotypes and rebuild their love in this rom-com.

Release Date2025-10-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count3

Who Saw the Peacock Dance in the Jungle?

After her ex-cop father is murdered on Christmas Eve, Komugi finds a letter hinting at a dark conspiracy and teams up with a lawyer to uncover the truth.

Release Date2025-01-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count11

I Will Not Work Overtime, Period!

Higashiyama Yui works as a director at Net Heroes, a web production company. Due to her workaholic father and bad experiences in the past, she loathes working overtime. Even 2 years ago, she broke off her engagement to Taneda Kotaro because he was a workaholic. At her job, Higashiyama Yui always leaves at the end of the regular working day and never works overtime. She tries to be as efficient as possible and productive during her normal working hours. After she leaves her office, Higashiyama Yui normally drinks beer at her regular Chinese restaurant. Her peaceful days begin to change after a new department head arrives at work.

Release Date2019-05-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count11

Sleepeeer Hit!

Kokoro Kurosawa used to be a contender for the Olympic Judo Team, but she had to give up on her dream due to an injury. In the end, she ends up working at weekly manga magazine "Vibes." The publishing industry is going through a turbulent time due to ebooks. Members of the editorial department struggle to come up with ways to sell more manga books. She learns about editing from her senior editors and becomes fascinated with the edition world, interacting with manga writers, and discovering new manga artists. But what surprises her the most is that in a competitive world such as manga publishing, not all dreams come true, and even when they do, they come with a price...

Release Date2016-04-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count20

The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea

Set on Hashima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture during the coal industry's rise in 1955, this story follows themes of family, friendship, and love. It contrasts the post-war era, where people had little but were full of dreams, with present-day Tokyo, where abundance prevails, but young people struggle to find their dreams.

Release Date2024-10-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count7

Let's Get Divorced

A mediatised married couple who no longer love each other is highly optimistic about getting a divorce. However, external circumstances will get in their way and they will have no other choice but to work hand in hand to reach their ultimate goal: getting a divorce.

Release Date2023-06-22

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count18

Public Affairs Office in the Sky

Rika Inaba is a beautiful and strong-headed director at the Teito Television Broadcasting Company. Ever since she was young, she had dreamed of becoming the best news reporter in the business, but on into her fifth year with the TV station, she finds to her dismay she's been transferred to a lighter fare, information program where she is assigned to report on the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Meanwhile, Daisuke Sorai had just reached his long-sought goal of becoming an aerobatics pilot only to injure his leg, crushing his chances at ever becoming a member of the elite Blue Impulse flying team. He gets assigned to the force's public relations desk and subsequently finds himself attached to Rika in the role of attendant. Sorai and Rika differ on just about everything; their views, their mindset. But they share one thing: their childhood dreams have been shattered and they've hit a wall in life. From there, a mutual understanding begins to germinate, drawing them toward each other and toward the discovery of a new dream.

Release Date2013-04-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count5

Story of My Family!!!

An aging pro wrestler returns to fight for his inheritance when his father — a respected Noh actor — threatens to leave his fortune to his caregiver.

Release Date2021-01-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count18

Prison Princesses

While in prison, five women team up with a guard to seek revenge against a corrupt COE, helping to expose the truth of his crimes.

Release Date2017-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count5

We Are Rockets!

Wakaba is a 2nd grade high school student in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. When Wakaba was little, she admired the cheerleading club "JETS” from Fukui Chuo High School in Fukui Prefecture. She dreamed of joining the "JETS,” but she thought it was impossible for her to join and enrolled at another high school. One day, a transfer student from Tokyo talks to Wakaba and proposes "let's do cheer dance together."

Release Date2018-07-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count2

Brass Dreams

Hikuma Koichi was a saxophone player, but he suffers from the after-effects of an accident. Due to that, he turned his back on music. Hikuma Koichi finds hope in the high school brass band. The band consists of problem students. Koichi struggles to instruct the brass band and to give them hope.

Release Date2016-07-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count4

18/40: Unbreakable Bond of Dreams

Nakagawa Arisu is in the 3rd grade of high school and 18 years old. Her mother died when she was 11 years old. She has since lived with her father, who works as a firefighter. Having been influenced by her mother, Nakagawa Arisu has dreamed of becoming a curator who travels abroad often for work. But her life changes when she learns she is pregnant. Meanwhile, Naruse Toko is about to turn 40 years old soon. She works in the art world as someone who connects art and business. Naruse Toko is dedicated to her work and she hasn't been in a romantic relationship for 10 years. Nakagawa Arisu and Naruse Toko, who are totally different people, happen to meet and their encounter changes their lives.

Release Date2023-07-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count6

Love Will Still Last Forever

A spin-off special drama series from "Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Doko Made mo", this show is set in the bar where nurse Nanase and her workmates often go for drinks after work. The bar is known for a good-looking waiter who has fortune-telling skills, they say that those who have worries or troubles with their love life ought to ask him

Release Date2020-01-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count2

Mother Game

Kanbara Kiko is a divorcee and raises her 5-year-old son alone. To open a box lunch food store, she moves to her grandfather's house. She tries to enroll her son Haruto into nursery school there, but a person in charge of the district office tells her Haruto can't attend immediately. Kiko, busy to open her box lunch food store by next month, finds herself in a predicament with her son not having supervision by then. At this time, a director of a kindergarten school, Fune Naraoka, talks to Kiko.

Release Date2015-04-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

Shirato Osamu No Jikenbo

Release Date2012-01-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10