Haruo Inoue

Haruo Inoue

Birth : 1963-01-03, Nara Prefecture, Japan

History

Haruo Inoue (井上春生 - born January 3,1963) is a japanese director and writer. Having received his education at Singapore Japanese School in childhood, graduated from Doshisha University in Japan. He started his film works at Toei Kyoto Studio, but he has worked there about 5years, then came to Tokyo as CM & TV director. His works are over 400 and he got several prizes of commercial films, such as Shiseido big cosmetic company. Most recently, Inoue has been developing movies, TV programs, and international projects. In 2007~2008 he created joint movie between Japan and Afghanistan. The title is "The Roots" feature film. Also in spring of 2008, he carried out "Afghanistan Movie Festival in Tokyo". His purpose is the re-construction of culture in a conflict country by making joint movie.His movie "Onpu to Konbu(a quarter note and tangle)"is invited at The 2st Chungmuro International Film Festival In Seoul at September 2008.

Profile

Haruo Inoue

Movies

Vertigo
Producer
Gozo Yoshimasu, a pioneer of Japanese contemporary poetry, pursued the vision of his ally, the late Jonas Mekas in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The time is the end of January 2020, just before the coronavirus strikes NYC, and the trip is just in time. This film depicts the dramatic birth of a poem that could be called a requiem on the first anniversary of the death of Mekas, who was considered a giant of experimental cinema
Vertigo
Director
Gozo Yoshimasu, a pioneer of Japanese contemporary poetry, pursued the vision of his ally, the late Jonas Mekas in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The time is the end of January 2020, just before the coronavirus strikes NYC, and the trip is just in time. This film depicts the dramatic birth of a poem that could be called a requiem on the first anniversary of the death of Mekas, who was considered a giant of experimental cinema
Happy Mail
Editor
An otaku manicurist, an ordinary office lady, a doctor with no love life, and a 30-something still obsessed with an indie idol group all meet through a matchmaking site.
Happy Mail
Director
An otaku manicurist, an ordinary office lady, a doctor with no love life, and a 30-something still obsessed with an indie idol group all meet through a matchmaking site.
Scarecrow and Racket: Aki and Tamako’s Summer Vacation
Director
A 3rd year transfer student from a Tokyo middle school, was emotionally hurt in the soft tennis club she belonged to at her previous school. Unaware of this, Tamako pesters Aki to teach her soft tennis. Together, they go about creating a court on the campus of a closed-down school.
Tooku no Sora
Director
During the 1980 Gwangju uprising in South Korea, a Korean man and a second-generation Korean-Japanese woman meet during the student activist movement. Under the chaos of the time the man and woman fall in love, but the woman disappears. 30 years later, the woman keeps her past a secret and worries that her daughter Mie Matsuki (Rina Uchiyama) may pursue her Korean roots. One day, Mie who already has a fine boyfriend, introduces her mother to a Korean man named Yoo Jung-Bae (Kim Eung-Soo). Yoo Jung-Bae is the man that her mother fell in love with 30 years ago during the Gwangju uprising. During his college days, Yoo Jung-Bae was the leader of the student activist movement. Now he is transferred to an investment company in Tokyo. Mie works at the same investment company. Feeling a bond with Mie, Yoo Jung-Bae walks the streets of Tokyo with Mie every weekend and begins to learn about each other.
The Musical Note and the Seaweed
Director
White Mexico
Editor
On a long-distance bus to Aomori, Sato, on the run after avenging his dead daughter, meets Pastel, a girl travelling to claim her grandfather's biplane, and the two exchange idle conversation. When a detective suddenly boards the bus, Pastel panics and pulls out Sato's gun.
White Mexico
Writer
On a long-distance bus to Aomori, Sato, on the run after avenging his dead daughter, meets Pastel, a girl travelling to claim her grandfather's biplane, and the two exchange idle conversation. When a detective suddenly boards the bus, Pastel panics and pulls out Sato's gun.
White Mexico
Director
On a long-distance bus to Aomori, Sato, on the run after avenging his dead daughter, meets Pastel, a girl travelling to claim her grandfather's biplane, and the two exchange idle conversation. When a detective suddenly boards the bus, Pastel panics and pulls out Sato's gun.
Tokyo-Uso
Editor
A psychology professor at a Tokyo university finds himself drawn to the younger sister of one of his students.
Tokyo-Uso
Writer
A psychology professor at a Tokyo university finds himself drawn to the younger sister of one of his students.
Tokyo-Uso
Director
A psychology professor at a Tokyo university finds himself drawn to the younger sister of one of his students.
Cherry Pie
Writer
When a pastry chef is undergoing a slump and cannot consistently make the store's trademark cherry pie anymore, she begins practicing after hours. Nothing works however. One night she receives a call at the store from a cherry orchard owner who used to be the shop's supplier. The supplier has something he wants to return.
Cherry Pie
Director
When a pastry chef is undergoing a slump and cannot consistently make the store's trademark cherry pie anymore, she begins practicing after hours. Nothing works however. One night she receives a call at the store from a cherry orchard owner who used to be the shop's supplier. The supplier has something he wants to return.
Bird Call
Screenplay
Bird Call
Director
The 47 Ronin
Jûemon Kurusu
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.