Yuki Tanada

Yuki Tanada (タナダユキ, Tanada Yuki, born 12 August 1975) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Tanada pursued theater in high school before entering the Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image to study filmmaking. Her independently produced film Moru won the grand prize at the 2001 Pia Film Festival. Her next work, Takada Wataru: A Japanese Original, a documentary on a Japanese folk singer, was featured at the 2003 Tokyo International Film Festival. She won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for her 2008 film One Million Yen Girl. She has written the scripts for many of her films as well as contributed the script to Mika Ninagawa's Sakuran. She has also directed for television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yuki Tanada, licensed under CC BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Guinea

Yukari Nishihara, 25, earns her living as an art model and aspires to become an actress. One day, while she was out, she saw “a man's face about to jump off the roof of a building”, and since then she has been suffering from a peculiar constitution: she sees a suicide while on her period, faints, and develops a fever. The goddess of love does not smile on Yukari, who is unable to become a sweet girl with a nice boyfriend. The only things that can save Yukari now are her best friend Hana, who has a keen intuition, and a suppository that can break a fever in one shot. On the day of an important audition, Yukari has decided that this is her last chance. However, Yukari realizes that she has forgotten her antipyretic suppositories, and her eyes meet those of another soon-to-be suicide victim. She is in a desperate situation. What does Yukari do?

Release Date2002-03-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Yukari Nishihara

Vote Count1

My Husband Won't Fit

Kumiko and Kenichi meet in college and build a happy marriage together. But over time, an unusual problem threatens to destroy their relationship.

Release Date2019-03-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count21

Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage

The series consists of four 3-episode chapters, each handled by a different director. The directors were given freedom in their stories, but they all share a common theme: lies. --Tokyograph

Release Date2008-01-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count1

Rent a Person Who Does Nothing

The main character provides a highly unusual service by offering his companionship in exchange for the humble fee of covered transportation costs and payment of his food and beverage tab. Joining others to file legal papers, enjoy a denied icy treat, or to ride a train’s entire loop just for the fun of it, are typical of the requests he takes on. He is blessed with a young son and an extremely supportive wife. Interestingly enough, this person who does nothing, save for answering the simplest of questions, manages to warm the hearts of the people he meets.

Release Date2020-04-09

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Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Sakuran

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while trying to cling to the man she loves.

Release Date2006-12-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count66

Romance Doll

It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then. Well, perhaps not. Each holds a secret that even the binds of matrimony cannot untie.

Release Date2020-01-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count48

Tokyo Girl

The story follows Aya from the time she moves to Tokyo at age 23 up until she turns 40. Aya has to adjust to the different values and perceptions of the big city as she struggles with challenging situations. We get to follow Aya’s move from one neighborhood to another as she maneuvers her career and love life.

Release Date2016-12-16

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Episode Count11

Vote Count19

One Million Yen Girl

A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.

Release Date2008-07-19

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JobDirector

Vote Count55

The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself and his senile grandmother — whose intersecting lives yield both sorrow and a fragile, yet enduring, hope for a brighter future. (TIFF)

Release Date2012-09-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count19

Weekly Yoko Maki

A 13-episode series where Maki Yoko plays the lead role in stand alone episodes. She plays a wife, a hostess, a student. Not only does each episode have a different story, but the styles vary widely from comedy to gangster drama.

Release Date2008-04-02

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JobDirector

Episode Count13

Vote Count2

My Broken Mariko

Shiino one day finds out that her best friend Mariko has committed suicide. After snatching Mariko's urn from her abusive father, Shiino heads to Marigaoka Cape, a place Mariko always wanted to go.

Release Date2022-09-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count33

My Dad and Mr. Ito

He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house to her apartment. The father has other ideas however and shows up unannounced at her doorstep with his belongings. She has little space, a boyfriend she lives with it and does not need a cranky father.

Release Date2016-10-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Prism

Maejima Satsuki works part-time at a garden centre in Tokyo. While her aspiration is to be a voice talent, she is on the verge of giving up. Satsuki has never been serious about what she does. It is the same with romance. However, she meets Morishita Riku, who is a garden designer. After a terrarium that she made captured his attention, Satsuki ends up helping out with a garden project he has undertaken. Before long, the two of them become a couple. Then, the gardener, Shiraishi Yuma, joins the project, and Riku is greatly shaken. Satsuki is unaware of their reunion. The feelings of the three of them intertwine as they focus on completing the garden. Satsuki eventually makes a choice.

Release Date2022-07-13

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JobDirector

Episode Count9

Vote Count1

Hatsuko's World

Hatsuko, who is poor and has no friends, finds emotional support in Mishima, a boy in her class, who helps her with her study to go to a high school together. However, Hatsuko's brother causes trouble at the factory and gets the sack. Hatsuko gives up her dream of going to high school.

Release Date2007-05-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Have a Nice Day

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.

Release Date2006-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Moon and Cherry

When an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and mouse with a naïve college student. As they venture into more and more unpredictable territory in the bedroom, he begins to think she might be using him as a test subject for her fiction more than anything else.

Release Date2004-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

Mourning Recipe

A widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man's wife.

Release Date2013-11-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Round Trip Heart

26-year-old Hachiko Hojo works as a train attendant, selling items on a cart. She's good at her job, but she lacks self confidence. One day, she meets a movie producer. They decide to visit tourist attractions in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Hachiko Hojo looks back upon her life along the way.

Release Date2015-08-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Ain't No Tomorrows

17 year-old Hiruma is desperate to get laid and takes out his sexual urges on Anpai, a fat boy who has "boobs." His classmate Tomono, a sickly loner, is in a serious relationship with their married teacher.

Release Date2008-11-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

Cinematic Liars of Asahi-za

Movie theater Asahiza has existed for almost a 100 years in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture. Unlike other theaters, Asahiza plays old films and doesn't get a lot of customers. The manger of Asahiza, Yasuzo Morita, finally decides to close down the theater. When he is about to burn the old 35 mm films, a young woman named Rika Motegi suddenly appears and tries to stop him. Rika Motegi came to Minamisoma from Tokyo to save Asahiza.

Release Date2021-09-10

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Vote Count2

Kaiki Daisakusen: Mystery File

Second modern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen tv show.

Release Date2013-10-05

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JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Tokyo Bachelors

Three Japanese men in their thirties and forties are professionals working in law, dentistry and banking. These three men are close friends and they enjoy their lives as single men, but they begin to wonder about the merits or necessity for marriage.

Release Date2019-04-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count4

Takada Wataru Teki

Folk singer Wataru Takada has been performing for over 35 years. This feature-length documentary follows him closely over the course of five months, covering his live shows, private life and capturing his mysterious charm.

Release Date2004-04-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Innocent

Release Date2012-03-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Hama no Asahi no Utsotsuki Domoto

Release Date2020-10-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Sixteen

A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.

Release Date2007-05-26

Raid on a Ghostly Snack Bar!

Yuki, the hostess of a bar who has killed a gang member and is currently serving time in prison, makes a deal with the law to avoid retaliation. Meanwhile, Yuki is in danger after getting too close to the yakuza, when a wanderer who shared her husband's cell appears before her. Furthermore, three ghosts who haunt the bar also join them...

Release Date2006-01-21