Daisuke Yamamoto (Directing)

Yakusoku 16Nenme no Shinjitsu

Release Date:2024-04-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Ossan's Love Returns

Haruta Soichi and Maki Ryota, who returned from Singapore, started living together as newlyweds. However, work and housework become too much for the couple, so they try housekeeping services to make their domestic life easier. But the person who appears at the door turns out to be the retired Kurosawa Musashi! Will the love triangle between them happen again?

Release Date:2024-01-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:2

My Home Hero

A humble office worker's peaceful family life comes to an end after he makes a grave decision for the sake of his family.

Release Date:2023-10-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

Hayabusa Fire Brigade

Mima Taro is a writer who has hit a slump. Tired of city life, he moves into the house he inherited from his father in the mountainous Hayabusa. When he joins the fire brigade, he becomes involved in a series of arson cases and suspicious incidents. As Taro searches for the truth, a huge conspiracy comes to the surface.

Release Date:2023-07-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:6

Sister

After moving in with her older sister Saho, Nagisa runs into her first love Yo (short for Yosuke) at work. Saho invites Nagisa to dinner to meet her fiancé, who turns out to be Yosuke.

Release Date:2022-10-20

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Rental a Girlfriend

In today’s Japan, “rental” services can deliver an afternoon with a “friend,” a “parent,” even a fake girlfriend! After a staggering betrayal by his girlfriend, hapless freshman Kazuya gets just desperate enough to give it a try. But he quickly discovers how complicated it can be to “rent” an emotional connection, and his new “girlfriend,” who’s trying to keep her side hustle secret, will panic when she finds out her real life and Kazuya’s are intertwined in surprising ways! Family, school, and life all start to go wrong, too… It’s sweet but naïve boy meets cute but ruthless girl.

Release Date:2022-07-02

Department:Directing

Job:Series Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:6

Evil God's Balance Public Security Analysis Team

Takano has been transferred to the Public Security Department, which is considered to be an elite among the Japanese police. A murder of a ruling party tycoon occurred near the scene of a bombing that occurred. An organ was removed from the body, and a balance with a heart and wings was left in the vicinity. Takano, who attended the scene of the bizarre incident, felt uncomfortable with the killing method that imitated ancient Egyptian mythology, and even though he began to tell the story, his colleague Himuro dismissed it.

Release Date:2022-02-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Man Drifting Ashore

When 3 female high school students walk along the sea shore, they find a naked man laying down. They film him with their smartphones and the man says "Winner Take Nothing" before losing consciousness. The man is soon sent to the hospital, where he is diagnosed with having memory loss and he also drowned after swimming for an extended length of time. The man doesn't have any kind of identification. The only clue to his identity is a tattoo on his left ankle. The 3 high school students who found him uploads a video they filmed of him to social media. Due to the video, the man becomes famous.

Release Date:2021-07-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:1

Fishmans

The words I promised to Kin-ichi Motegi, 'This is the first and last. I tell you everything about Fishmans without telling a lie.' The friends who made the sound of Fishmans devoted their lives to music. Shinji Sato's way of life is packed in this movie for nearly three hours.

Release Date:2021-07-09

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:2

So Close! Detective Oshii 2

The case files of a most unfortunate detective Detective Oshii is brilliant. His flair for seeing through the mystery is unequaled. And yet… at the very last minute, his finger points to the wrong culprit! Always so close to the truth, and yet so far—. While the credit goes to everyone else but him, there never seems to be a shortage of cases for the "great" Detective Oshii!

Release Date:2021-03-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

Youkai Sharehouse

Mio Meguro is a timid person. She is afraid of being hated by others, and this causes her to refrain from saying what she really wants to say. She doesn't have any specific things she wants to do. She got a job and eventually dated a man from her workplace. Mio Meguro wanted to marry the man, but he turns out to be a bad guy. Because of him, she becomes penniless and unemployed. Her life descends into a bottomless pit. Mio Meguro then happens to get a sharehouse, where the mysterious creatures known as yōkai live. The yōkai try to solve her problems in radical ways.

Release Date:2020-08-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:9

Wasteful Days of High School Girls

Tanaka Nozomu is one of the three high school students. People call her "Baka" ("Idiot"). She isn't timid and she can't read between the lines. Her friends are Kikuchi Akane and Saginomiya Shiori . Akane enjoys anime and manga. Shiori is extremely smart, but her emotions have dried up. These three girls are also classmates. Their homeroom teacher is Sawatari Masataka.

Release Date:2020-01-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:8

Evil's Wave

In 2014, a series of murders targeting women takes place in Kawasaki City. All the victims have been killed as if they had hanged and these are dubbed the "Hanging Murders" in public. The police investigation runs into difficulties without clues on the murderer. However, Detective Iguchi from the First Investigation Division has his eye on a man whom he suspects to kill for pleasure. This man is Naoya Nogi. He lies about his identity, erases his traces in public, and lives as if he is holding his breath. Nogi is actually Masato Yaginuma, the victim in the sensational Akishima mother and son kidnapping case. He gets his neighbor, Yoshika, involved as he tries to escape the police dragnet but comes to realize some facts. What is his true motive?

Release Date:2019-10-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

So Close! Detective Oshii

Takashi Oshii is a detective with excellent reasoning power. Unfortunately, he usually misses the criminal in front of him and other detectives get recognition for the capture. He is transferred to the Utobashi Police Station. Takashi Oshii goes to a record company CEO's house. The CEO's third son was burned to death. The police are set to conclude that his death was an accident, but Takashi Oshii thinks otherwise. Takashi Oshii begins to investigate.

Release Date:2019-08-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:4

Ossan's Love

Haruta Soichi is a 33-years-old single man who isn't popular with women. He works at a real estate office and lives with his parents. However, one day, his mother walks away from him and he has to live independently. Soichi doesn't know basic things such as cooking or washing his clothes. He then decides to live with Maki Ryota, a coworker who is good at housekeeping. One day, Ryota and Kurosawa Musashi, a gay coworker, both confess their feelings to Soichi.

Release Date:2018-04-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:17

Mourou o ikiru

This documentary follows the daily lives of blind and deaf people: deaf-blind people living alone on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture; a man in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, who chose to live in his community despite the earthquake and tsunami; a young man in Hiroshima who wants to be independent so that he can marry while continuing to practice judo; Professor Satoshi Fukushima of the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology who became the first deaf-blind person to teach full-time at a university in the world.

Release Date:2017-08-26

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Starting Over

Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana confronts them in her yearning for love, but the world does not give it to her. With her whole life ahead of her, Nana struggles, suffers, and begins a search for the true meaning of love.

Release Date:2014-10-26

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:6

Midorigawa

There are a boy and a girl: they're called names such as "fag" and "transman" by their classmates. Their real names are Mikio and Tokiko. One day, Tokiko moves and leaves the school. Ten years later, she comes back to the town and meets Mikio again. Their reunion re-starts their time, which had been at a standstill and the story goes toward the end of their past.

Release Date:2008-12-10

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

A Girl in the Sunset

Based on four early novellas by Noble Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, this omnibus of four short films are by emerging directors from the second graduating class of the new Graduate School of Film and New Media at Japan’s top art school, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), where famed directors Takeshi Kitano and Kiyoshi Kurosawa teach.

Release Date:2008-01-26

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Come Over by bicycle

Shoutaro suddenly says he might quit university and take over his family's bicycle shop, and returns to his hometown. Shoutaro's best friend, Yosuke, and his girlfriend, Kyoko, are at a loss as to what to do. The film is a fresh take on an ordinary scene in Tokyo. The fuzzy pain of a man and a woman who have lost their best friend and their lover is expressed in a refreshing and poignant way. The director's skill in giving life to the bicycle as a prop and letting it tell the story of Shotaro's existence and the delicate relationship between Kyoko and Yosuke shines through.

Release Date:1990-01-01

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography