Daisuke Yamamoto

TV Asahi

Nine years ago, a shocking terrorist attack caused Prime Minister Taizan Muto (Kenichi Endo) to swap bodies with his university student son. While things started off rocky, father and son were able to use their fresh perspectives to ultimately better the nation. Now, the former prime minister is getting ready to retire from his career in politics, until his political party, plagued by low approval ratings, begs him to return. Although initially hesitant, Taizan accepts the proposition. However, during a television appearance, Taizan loses consciousness – and finds that he's swapped bodies with someone else once again! Can Taizan and his cabinet figure out who's behind this new plot while he embarks on his new political journey? This is the sequel to 2015's "Wise and Foolish."

Wise and Foolish (2024)

Suzu Yukimiya (Yuriko Yoshitaka) is a 35-year-old woman who works as an obstetrician and gynecologist. She had to put every ounce of her heart into her studies – only for everything to end in disappointment. She was forced to leave her first big job at a major hospital because of a lawsuit. Now she has come to a small seaside town to work in a local clinic. Her days quickly become mundane, and she becomes frustrated with her life.

To escape the drudgery, one day she decides to go camping – alone. She is enjoying drinking alone and looking at the stars in the night sky when she notices a handsome young man named Issei Hiiragi (Takumi Kitamura). The man takes pictures of her, drinks her sake – and then kisses her. She later learns that Issei Hiiragi is deaf, and they part. But fate brings them together again a few days later. Could love bloom between this despondent doctor and a man 10 years her junior?

“On A Starry Night” is a 2023 Japanese drama series that was directed by Fukagawa Yoshihiro and Yamamoto Daisuke.

On A Starry Night

🌠 Sounds of Love 🌠

With the bright and sunny Mami Nanami (Shiori Akita) by his side, Kazuya Kinoshita (Ryusei Onishi) thought that his life as a twenty-something college student was nothing short of perfect. Utterly convinced he had the world’s best girlfriend, Kazuya lived in a blissful world full of sunshine and rainbows. At least he did until one day, without warning, Mami walked out of his life forever.

Left heartbroken and alone, Kazuya has no idea how he will ever find a way to carry on. Desperate to soothe the pain of his wounded heart, Kazuya turns to the vast resources of the internet for help. Finding an app that offers rental girlfriends for hire, Kazuya orders the services of Chizuru Mizuhara (Hiyori Sakurada), an unparalleled beauty whose cute demeanor quickly eases the pain in Kazuya’s heart. Unfortunately, the comfort he finds in Chizuru’s company is short-lived, as he allows his good opinion of her to be tainted by the online reviews of others.

Infuriated by Kazuya’s easily swayed opinion, Chizuru tries to stand up for herself but all her plans are waylaid by a sudden act of fate. Finding herself forced to play the part of Kazuya’s lover once more, Chizuru has no choice but to keep up the ruse. But with Kazuya’s heart still clearly yearning for another woman, how long can this imposter couple last?

Adapted from the manga series “Borrow a Girlfriend” by Reiji Miyajima, “Rental A Girlfriend” is a 2022 Japanese romantic comedy drama directed by Daisuke Yamamoto.

Rental A Girlfriend

Murai (Ryubi Miyase) is a high schooler who has long dark hair. He is incredibly clever and regularly gets top grades in his class. He is also madly in love with his famously cold and aloof homeroom teacher Tanaka (Hikaru Takahashi). One day, Murai asks the students to fill in a form explaining what they want to do when they leave school. Murai writes “Marry Teacher Tanaka” on his form. Tanaka scolds him and tears the paper into shreds – telling him that she dislikes men with long, dark hair.

But Tanaka hides a secret that she shares with nobody. She is madly in love with a video game character named Hitotose, from an “otome” (female-targetted) video game named “Feudal Era Love Scroll.” The day after she rejects Murai, however, Tanaka gets a shock – Murai turns up at school looking every inch like Hitotose, replete with the very same bleached blonde hair as her video game crush. Will she be able to resist his charms now?

This drama was based on a hit 2018-2022 manga series of the same name by Junta Shima.

“MURAI in LOVE” is a 2022 Japanese drama series that was directed by Yamamoto Daisuke and Matsuki Aya.

MURAI in LOVE

🎏We all love MURAI 💝

Soichi Haruta (Tanaka Kei) is a 35-year-old former high school basketball player who has been working at a sportswear company for several years. The company is in financial trouble, however, so he leaves his job and decides to switch careers. He eventually finds work as a flight attendant at Tenku Peach Airlines. He is somewhat awkward and bumbling, but appears to have found a protective mentor in the experienced Captain Kurosawa Musashi (Kotaro Yoshida).

But one day, Soichi Haruta discovers the reason why Kurosawa Musashi seems so keen to help him: The Captain has drawn pictures of him that he keeps hidden in his locker – and appears to be in love with his young subordinate! And to compound the confusion, he is drawn into a love triangle that also comprises a mechanic by the name of Shinomiya Kaname (Totsugi Shigeyuki) and an amorous young co-pilot called Ryu Naruse (Yudai Chiba). Will any of them end up winning Soichi Haruta’s heart?

“Ossan’s Love S2” is a 2019 Japanese drama series that was directed by Yuki Saito, Ruto Toichiro, and Yamamoto Daisuke.

Ossan’s Love: in The Sky

Love Found Team

Koga Madoka (Fumika Baba) is a young woman who has never had a sexual encounter, but has had her fair share of boyfriends. Despite her apparent innocence, she will never let herself be pushed around by a man – and if a potential partner gets too forceful, she is happy to give him a fierce scolding in public. Fukuma Chiyo (Hisamatsu Ikumi) is a hopeless romantic: She spends her free time reading romance-themed manga novels – and dreams of meeting a man who might come straight from the pages of one of these books. And Chidori Sawako (Hinako Sano) always seems to fall for men who would make second-rate boyfriends...or horrible husbands!

These three women are also best friends. And they love to do nothing more at night than to meet up over some cold beers and tell each other about some of the dreadful dates they have been on, and the mismatched men who they have had romantic encounters with! From an overly forward businessman with nothing but sex on his mind to a handsome gentleman with a hair loss problem, there seems to be no shortage of bad men out there – and this trio seems to have dated them all!

“Encyclopedia of Hopeless Love” is a 2018 Japanese drama series that was directed by Yamamoto Daisuke.

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