Yûichirô Sakashita

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Yûichirô Sakashita

Born June 10, 1986 · Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan (age 40)

Yûichirô Sakashita is a Japanese film writer and director.

Known For

The Sunday RunoffThe Sunday Runoff · 2022
The Sunday Runoff
7.02022
MovieComedyDrama
A comedy about how the world of politics really works! Tsutomu is a secretary for a member of the Japanese Parliament. After the latter suffers a heart attack, his daughter Yumi is chosen to fill his place in the next election because she seems easy to control. However, her unpredictable behavior soon throws the campaign out of control.
BlondeBlonde · 2025
Blonde
6.42025
MovieDrama
A middle school teacher's life is thrown into turmoil when dozens of students dye their hair gold and his girlfriend suddenly proposes marriage, triggering a media frenzy and government intervention, forcing him to team up with the student mastermind behind the hair trend to navigate the chaos and confront his own journey from a jaded, reluctant adult to a mature, responsible one.
Can't Cry with Your FaceCan't Cry with Your Face · 2025
Can't Cry with Your Face
7.02025
MovieDramaFantasy
In their first year of high school, a girl named Mizumura and a boy named Sakahira fell into a swimming pool and mysteriously switched bodies. They live out each other's lives for 15 years, all through high school, college and beyond, and frequently exchange information about what's going on in their lives. Then, all of a sudden, Mizumura tells Sakahira that she might have found a way for them to switch back. But do they even want to do that at that point?
ExtrandExtrand · 2017
Extrand
2017
Movie
The Tokyo Wind OrchestraThe Tokyo Wind Orchestra · 2016
The Tokyo Wind Orchestra
7.02016
MovieDramaComedy
Shiori Higuchi works at a town hall in Yakushima Island. She is in charge of a plan to hold a concert for the famous Tokyo Wind Orchestra. 10 members of the orchestra from Tokyo arrive on Yakushima Island, but they are not from the famous Tokyo Wind Orchestra.
Go to see PinkertonGo to see Pinkerton · 2018
Go to see Pinkerton
6.02018
MovieComedyDrama
Yuko, a former leader of the five-member idol group Pinkerton, with the help of man named Matsumoto, tries to reunite the now-disbanded group.
ReveriesReveries · 2015
Reveries
2015
MovieFantasyMystery
Kazuya Naruse, an obedient programer falls for a girl "Rumi", whom he gets to know through chat rooms. Naruse lost himself in this love, as if he lives in another world. Rumi has a mentally ill husband. Spending time with these two, the illusion of love in Naruse gradually changes to uneasiness and insanity.
Kid Mon: Real Name UnknownKid Mon: Real Name Unknown · 2016
Kid Mon: Real Name Unknown
6.02016
MovieDrama
In a small town with a big red bridge, a run-down apartment, which everyone calls a haunted house, stands still. A few days before the summer break begins, two high school girls, Kaede and Azusa, find a boy living in the abandoned place by himself. Naming him "Mon", they take care of him without being noticed by anyone.

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OutsourcingOutsourcing · 2021
Outsourcing
2021
Movie
Are you an employer or a job hunter? Whatever the case may be, watch this film and get introduced to new ways of hiring talent. Or should that be confused? In what starts out like a slickly-produced infomercial, we watch HR rep Miyagawa (Mqeno Tomoya) of JobLink Inc. show the benefits of outsourcing the task of hiring new employees to a recruitment agency but after his neat little infomercial finishes, a neat twist happens and we are left wondering who is hiring and who is being hired! Just in time for the job hunting season comes the latest work from satire specialist Sakashita Yuichiro whose gentle but merciless twist on the interview process will leave anyone who has Linkedin, Zoomed, or dealt with HR to say Hello to Work with a wry smile.

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