- Born
Mana Yasuda
Japanese movie director, screenwriter. A member of Japan Writers Guild.
Started her career making 8mm films at the Kobe University Cinema Club.
After graduated from Kobe University, YASUDA worked for Panasonic for 10years. In 2006, YASUDA directed and scripted her first commercial film; “The Switch to Happiness”, in which Juri Ueno and Kenji Sawada played the main roles. On this film, YASUDA received;
– Special woman Director Award at the 16th Japanese Movie Critics Award
– Best Script Award at the 2nd Osaka Cinema Festival.
After giving birth to a baby boy in 2006, YASUDA has mainly worked on scriptwriting. During these years, many dramas with YASUDA’s script, for example;
As director
Noodle Doodle
Kojirasete Okujou
Parent's Day
Tuna Girl
Cultivating the Seas: History and Future of the Full-Cycle Cultured Kindai Tuna
Slight Fever
Switch of Happiness
Bella Grazie
All Right
Just a Drop of Magic
something interesting
Harenochi zakuzaku
Kizuoto
Japanese-style Paella
The Forgotten Papers
Old Man Rhapsody
Waya burabô!
Hito-Chigai
Bochibochi no orera
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