Biography
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 th...
Known For
Complete Filmography
My Broken Mariko
2022
Director, Screenplay
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 Mari...
Cinematic Liars of Asahi-za
2021
Director, Screenplay
Movie theater Asahiza has existed for almost a 100 years in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture. Unlike other theaters, Asahiza plays old films and doesn...
Romance Doll
2020
Director, Screenplay, Novel
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. We...
My Dad and Mr. Ito
2016
Director
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 howev...
Round Trip Heart
2015
Director, Screenplay
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...
Mourning Recipe
2013
Director
A widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man's wife.
The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
2012
Director
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 ...
Ain't No Tomorrows
2008
Director
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, ...
One Million Yen Girl
2008
Director, Writer
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 ...
Sixteen
2007
A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.
Hatsuko's World
2007
Director, Screenplay
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 t...
Sakuran
2006
Writer
Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while try...
Have a Nice Day
2006
Director
Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuk...
Moon and Cherry
2004
Director, Writer
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 in...
Takada Wataru Teki
2004
Director
Folk singer Wataru Takada has been performing for over 35 years. This feature-length documentary follows him closely over the course of five months, c...
Guinea
2002
as Yukari Nishihara
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 ju...
Guinea
2002
Director, Writer
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 ju...