Yasushi Inoue

Novelist.

Works

Samurai Banners

Fūrin Kazan was the 46th NHK Taiga drama beginning on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007. The four characters from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. It means "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain."

Release Date2007-01-07

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count50

Vote Count5

Animated Classics of Japanese Literature

A brilliant collection of beautifully animated episodes based on selected masterpieces of Japanese modern literature. The aim of this series is to appeal to the viewer at large and to give him or her some idea of the variety and individuality which Japanese literature has developed over the last hundred years. The authors range from Higuchi Ichiyou (Takekurabe), Mori Ougai (The Dancing Girl) and Natsume Souseki (Botchan) to Kawabata Yasunari (The Izu Dancer), Nobel laureate of 1968, and Mishima Yukio (The Sound of Waves).

Release Date1986-04-25

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Three Young Samurai

During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When they next meet they have all joined opposing sides.

Release Date1961-02-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count6

Hyōheki

Yasushi Inoue's masterpiece is set in modern times and depicted as a love suspense film full of scale. Just below the summit of K2, one of the world's most difficult peaks, his best friend Zail's partner mysteriously slips to his death. A married woman who drove her best friend to death appears before a man chasing the truth. Are you really an enemy or an ally? A thrilling depiction of the beautiful but sad love story of a mountain man and a woman who falls in love with him, intertwining the friendships, conflicts, and intentions of a large company that is betting on the survival of the mountain-possessed men.

Release Date2006-01-14

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count6

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according to his own desires. Against all the odds, he manages to push through his business idea – the foundation of an airline. At the same time, his ex-girlfriend refuses to accept their separation and attempts to force her way back into his life by any means possible. He in turn feels attracted to a young woman, who turns out to be the wife of one of his airline investors and who has herself had a secret lover for several years.

Release Date1954-06-15

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

When a Woman Loves

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

Release Date1960-01-03

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

The Black Current

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead.

Release Date1954-08-31

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count1

Hunting Rifle

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.

Release Date1961-01-03

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count2

Fossil

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to imagine her as the personification of his impending fate. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he meets the living woman, the template for his fantasy, and together, they tour rural churches. Gradually, he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges that profoundly test the lessons he has learned.

Release Date1972-01-31

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count8

Koya Choken-bou oboegaki

Release Date1993-12-04

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count1

The Silk Road

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu Wangli. While sacking a fortress, Xingde discovers Tsurpia, princess of the Uighur. He hides her; they fall in love. When he's sent away to study Xixian, he leaves Tsurpia in Zhu's care, but returns to find her engaged to Li. Tragedy follows, and he and Zhu enter a pact to take revenge when Li arrives at Dun-Huang, the region's seat of learning and culture. Against overwhelming odds, they find a surprising way to leave a monument to their life and love.

Release Date1988-06-25

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count11

Nukata no Ōkimi

A historical romance about the life of Princess Nukata, a Manyo poetess who was loved by two brothers, Emperor Tenji and Emperor Tenmu, and the formation of an ancient nation.

Release Date1980-03-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count2

Chronicle of My Mother

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.

Release Date2012-04-28

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count17

The Ice Wall

Two mountaineers fall in love with the same woman. When one of the men plunges to his death, suspicion falls on the survivor.

Release Date2006-01-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count6

Samurai Banners

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?

Release Date1969-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count28

Hana to hatō

Release Date1954-02-10

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Death of a Tea Master

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

Release Date1989-10-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count14

The Warrior and the Wolf

Set during China's the Warring States Period (476-221 BC), benevolent warrior Chenkang Lu (Joe Odagiri) enters into a torrid love affair with a woman (Maggie Q) from the nomadic Harran tribe. Their relationship sends the warrior to a place where humans were once wolves...

Release Date2009-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count14

The Fossil

Release Date1975-10-04

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count12

Sword for Hire

Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.

Release Date1952-05-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count10

The Dream of Russia

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.

Release Date1992-06-25

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count11

Chacha: The Princess of Heaven

Chacha, the woman of the blood of Nobunaga, who loved with Hideyoshi, and feared Tokugawa.

Release Date2007-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

Till We Meet Again

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...

Release Date1955-05-29

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count5

Madame Aki

A Film By Shiro Toyoda

Release Date1963-01-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Children of Izu

Release Date1962-11-21

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Shiroi Kiba

Release Date1960-06-17

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Kiriko no unmei

1962 Japanese movie

Release Date1962-05-27

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Shotgun

The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.

Release Date1966-07-11

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

The Estuary

Release Date1961-07-26

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Love and Fascination

1961 Japanese movie

Release Date1961-02-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

White Blaze

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.

Release Date1958-03-04

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

The Precipice

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.

Release Date1958-03-18

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count1

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

Release Date1955-10-05

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Early Autumn

As summer gives way to autumn, Matsubara Tatsuhira (played by Yakusho Koji), who runs a wine specialty store in Nagano, feels a mix of emotions as he sends his daughter off to her wedding. Since his wife passed away 20 years ago, Matsubara has dedicated himself to raising his daughter, even sacrificing another chance at love. However, his daughter's marriage seems to have left this strong man feeling a sense of emotional loss and loneliness. Afterward, he temporarily sets aside his work and travels to Kyoto to visit his old friend, the writer Shigeo Shuzuki (played by Iwasaki Ryō), and also reunites with his high school friend Yamabe Kōsuke (played by Ten Ten). At Yamabe's request, Matsubara went to a nightclub to investigate the other man's daughter—who was also Matsubara's daughter's friend—Reiko (played by Nakagawa Noriko). Reiko had secretly loved Matsubara since childhood, and the hidden emotions in this middle-aged man seemed to be awakening once again...

Release Date2011-10-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Uzu

1961 Japanese movie

Release Date1961-01-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

流轉

In the eleventh year of the Tenpō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement for a new production of "Kanjinchō" by Naritaya, featuring music by the master Kineya Rokusaburō. However, Naritaya's requests to change some of Rokusaburō's most painstakingly crafted parts of the composition angered his disciple, Shinjirō, leading to a conflict and Shinjirō's abandonment of the shamisen. One day, Shinjirō was captivated by the mysteriously beautiful dance of Oaki, a traveling performer's daughter, who seemed to be channeling her art into a form of revenge.

Release Date1956-04-25

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story