Born on Dec. 3rd, 1976 in Okayama, Japan.
Specialized in project planning, directing .
Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan University with BA of Architecture.
Started working in Kinoshita Production in 1999.Left the company in 2013, and currently working as a freelance director/producer in a field of both TV drama and film.
In 2015, theatrical feature film directorial debut, “Udagawacho de matteteyo (Wait in Udagawacho.)” is screened (nationwide public at Shibuya HUMAX cinemas, etc.). Energetically Noriko Yuasa directed short film works such as “Looking for my Sunflowers”. “Girl, Wavering” got 17 crowns together domestically and abroad. Currently this film continues to be screened overseas, and as of August 2017 it reaches 30 areas.And in March, 2018 She was officially selected as a jury of the 6th Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival and participated.
Noriko Yuasa aims for further step up with the aim of a film director able to advance abroad while advocating and practicing "parallel career" in drama and films, as of 2018, theatrical release feature film planning. Her new film project got awarded the Grand Prix at the "MPA / DHU / TIFFCOM Pitching Contest" held at Japan 2018. She participated the 2019 LATC and American film market.
Unique traits: A Director with a background in production and project planning, Noriko Yuasa adapts architectural skills gained whilst completing a BA Course in Architecture at Tokyo Metropolitan University, to film making. This results in care and attention to detail, and effective and exploratory works of art.
Performing Kaoru's funeral Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy ⋄ Drama Performing Kaoru’s Funeral confronts the ironic limits of hatred and love at the instance of our deaths. A darkly comic family drama, Performing Kaoru’s Funeral welcomes the complexity of passions at the heart of inventive family life.
Coming Back Sunny
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Film (short)
by Noriko Yuasa
Director A parallel love story that depicts the "Destiny" delicately and shockingly.
A girl understands "COLOR", and fallin love.
This film is the way she pursues Romeo for herself.
CHEAT: Sagishi No Minasan Gochui Kudasai
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TV Series
(Comedy and Drama)
Director
Nihon wo Yukkuri Hashitte Mita yo
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TV Series
Director
GENKAIDANCHI
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TV Serie
Director
Ordinary Everyday
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Film (short)
(Drama, Family, Horror and Thriller)
Director A psycho-suspense drama portrayed a two-faced family who leads a very ordinary life.
Not everything you see is true. This family is real or not real?
Higanbana: Keishichô Sôsa 7-ka
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TV Series
Producer,Director
Udagawachô de matteteyo
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Film
Director
Girl, Wavering
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Film (short)
(Drama and Short)
Director A girl who couldn't feel the meaning to live was assigned to help an old man commit suicide.
Knowing "death" makes her climb the stairs of growth.
Looking for my lost sunflowers
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Film
(Drama, Family and Short)
Director A story in which a man who has forgotten to lose his dream returns to his hometown,
finds the "seed" of his dream in the past and finds his own way again.
Higanbana: Onnatachi no Hanzai File
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TV Movie
Producer
Hana no zubora meshi
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TV Series
Director
Shima shima
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TV Series
Director
BA Course in Architecture at Tokyo Metropolitan University
(1994-1998)