Direction: Yoshimasa Hiraike

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Yoshimasa Hiraike. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Aria the Natural (TV Series)

2006 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Junichi Sato · Daisuke Tsukushi · Ken Ando · Kenichi Takeshita

Plot In a continuation of the last series, Akari Mizunashi continues her job as a gondolier along with her friends from the other two rival companies, Aika and Alice. As they...

7.0

25 votes

7.0

25 votes

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii (TV Series)

2018 · Series · 22 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimasa Hiraike

Plot TV Series (2018). 11 Episodes. Narumi is a female office worker who hides her fujoshi lifestyle, and Hirotaka is a handsome and capable company man who is secretly a game...

6.6

129 votes

6.6

129 votes

Working!! (TV Series)

2010 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimasa Hiraike

Plot TV Series (2010). 13 Episodes. Set in a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16 year old high school student Takanashi Souta works part-time along with his...

6.6

118 votes

6.6

118 votes

Black Summoner (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 23 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimasa Hiraike

Plot TV Series (2022). 12 Episodes. Waking up in a strange new place with no memory of his past life, Kelvin learns that he's bartered away those very memories in exchange...

6.6

30 votes

6.6

30 votes

She, The Ultimate Weapon (SaiKano) (TV Series)

2002 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuko Kase · Akihiko Nishiyama · Hirokazu Yamada · Hiroshi Haraguchi

Plot Shuji and Chise are two Hokkaido high school students barely starting a relationship with each other. Then, with no warning, a squadron of bombers from an unknown country destroy the...

6.4

352 votes

6.4

352 votes

Amagami SS (TV Series)

2010 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimasa Hiraike

Plot TV Series (2010). 26 Episodes. A second-year high school boy finds himself uneasy during Christmas time due to an experience in the past. However, this year at Christmas, he gets...

6.4

66 votes

6.4

66 votes

Excel Saga (TV Series)

1999 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Shinichi Watanabe · Akihiko Nishiyama · Hiroshi Kurimoto · Jun Fukuda

Plot Hyperactive Excel does anything and everything to try to please her lord, Ilpalazzo, who wants to take over the planet. Excel's misadventures takes her and her partner, the ever-dying Hyatt,...

6.3

477 votes

6.3

477 votes

Gugure! Kokkuri-san (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimasa Hiraike

Plot A little girl named Kohina ends up summoning a Kokkuri-san, a lower-ranking ghost in Japanese folklore. The Kokkuri-san she calls ends up being a white-haired handsome, young man. Although he...

6.3

38 votes

6.3

38 votes

Kaleido Star (TV Series)

2003 · Series · 23 min. · Japan

Direction Junichi Sato · Yoshimasa Hiraike

Plot Sora, a young girl from Japan, comes to America in search of her dream. She wants, with all her heart, to be a member of the famous Kaleido Stage, a...

6.3

25 votes

6.3

25 votes

Solty Rei (TV Series)

2005 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimasa Hiraike

Plot In a future-based disaster-ridden city with an enormous gap between the rich and the poor, it is hard to tell which humans are walking around with cybernetic body parts. This...

6.1

54 votes

6.1

54 votes

Lime-Colored History of War (TV Series)

2003 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Suzuki · Iku Suzuki · Yoshimasa Hiraike · Yûsuke Kamada

Plot Around the the 37th year of the Meiji Era (1904) in the midst of the Russo-Japanese war, the small Japanese army, in need of assistance, uses its special flying (thanks...

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Sketchbook ~full color's~ (TV Series)

2007 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimasa Hiraike

Plot Sora Kajiwara is a shy girl who enjoys drawing in her sketchbook. She joins the Art Club at her school, and meets many colorful and eccentric people.

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AKB0048 (TV Series)

2012 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimasa Hiraike

Plot At the start of the 21st century, an interplanetary war broke out. Earth's ecosystem was damaged, and humanity was forced to flee the planet. In this new society, things that...

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Kaleido Star: Legend of Phoenix - Layla Hamilton Story

2005 · Movie · 55 min. · Japan

Direction Junichi Sato · Yoshimasa Hiraike

Plot Layla is going to perform “Phoenix” in Broadway. Playing this important role, she sets out on a journey by bicycle alone without leaving any message in order to find out...

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Nyanko Days (TV Series)

2017 · Series · 2 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimasa Hiraike

Plot TV Series (2017). 1 season. 12 episodes. High school girl Tomoko Konagai is very shy and has few friends to talk with at school; she always thinks about her three...

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Momokuri (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 12 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimasa Hiraike

Cast Ai Kakuma · Nobuhiko Okamoto · Naomi Ohzora · Rena Maeda

Plot Momokuri starts of with a girl who sends a letter co fearing her love to Momo-kun. Momo says yes seeing that see is a beautiful girl. But what he doesn't...

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