
Yugo Sakamoto
Directing
Biography
Yugo Sakamoto (born January 18, 1996) is a Japanese film director. He was born in Kyoto Prefecture. While studying at Kyoto University of Art and Design (currently Kyoto University of Arts), he won the 2016 Grand Prix at the Cruel Student Film Festival, receiving the "Promising New Director" award. He made his commercial film debut with " Family☆Wars ". His films are notable for their action and violence, with a style and pacing influenced by manga and anime. His philosophy about his filmmaking is "Weekly Shonen Jump, not Hollywood."
Known For

Two socially awkward young women live a seemingly laid-back life in a shared house with others - when they're not working as elite assassins.
Baby Assassins Everyday!

Ryo, a college student who is about to drop out of college and is scolded by his father at home, spends his days in depression. One day, he plans a cannabis thief with a group of three bad friends.
Unfinished

After being possessed by the ghost of vengeful hitman Kudo, college student Fumika Matsuoka agrees to help him finish his quest for revenge from beyond the grave.
Ghost Killer

Two high school girls who are about to graduate also happen to be highly-skilled assassins. When the organization they work for orders them to share a room, their relationship quickly sours. But when they become targets of the yakuza, the girls realize they'll have to work together to survive.
Baby Assassins

Chisato and Mahiro must pay four years of overdue fees or lose their membership in their assassin guild. They take part-time jobs, but find themselves in the middle of an armed robbery and being hunted by other assassins.
Baby Assassins: 2 Babies

Teenage assassins Mahiro and Chisato visit the coastal city of Miyazaki for a contract and a vacation, but they unexpectedly cross paths with a legendary, bloodthirsty assassin looking to add to his kill count.
Baby Assassins: Nice Days

Fukami is a high school janitor whose father was a gangster. He works at the school as a janitor instead of belonging to the gang so he can watch out for Yui, the daughter of his deceased father's brother Majima Yoshiki. One day, a gang feud erupts and Yoshiki is killed. Yui becomes the next target.
A Janitor

A behind-the-scenes look at the production of Baby Assassins: Nice Days.
Documentary of Baby Assassins

The story centers on the daily life of college dorm roommates Yumi Irisu and Ruka Kujirai. Ruka, the older of the two, is constantly penniless despite her being active in a band. Irisu works part-time at a second-hand bookstore.
Nemurubaka: Hypnic Jerks

A quiet retro barbershop hides a dangerous side hustle—its unassuming owner and a sharp-tongued new assistant team up to solve clients’ problems with brute force, for a hefty fee.
We Are Bad Barbers

Ordinary college students dropped by a strange village on the way to their camp. Persuaded by a seemingly friendly villager to stay over, but brutal killings start to occur in the following morning.
Yellow Dragon's Village

The yakuza have their best days behind them and are only a shadow of themselves. The old rituals seem out of date and their tattoos make them outcasts of society. The inexperienced student Ryō stumbles into their ranks by chance, and before he knows it, he becomes entangled in dark machinations. He quickly succumbs to the fascination of omnipotence fantasies and hedonistic decadence and sinks deeper and deeper into a parallel world of prostitution, blackmail and violence. However, there is one thing that Ryō has not considered in his naivety: once yakuza, always yakuza!
Unfinished

Yuta, who was fatally wounded for the sake of his favorite child, is bedridden for the rest of his life. At the same time, his childhood friend Yuka has been taking "rustics" she has collected through a matching app to the other world one after another. And then, the evil hand crept up on her...
Grave of Love 2
Baby Assassins (2021)
Baby Assassins

Six girls participate in the boot camp for assassins. The instructor of the boot camp is the legendary hitman, Kunioka. At first, they repel each other, but the girls gradually develop friendships while enduring the hard training. By chance, the girls get involved in a life-threatening battle with a group of anarchist hitmen.
Green Bullet

In this deranged and unpredictable comedy, a passionate aficionado of bread stages a revolution against a tyrannical baker.
Pan.

In 2018, director Sakamoto was working on a script for his new movie "Baby Assassins." He learns of a hitman business network called "Kansai Hitman Association" and applies for interviews as a reference for writing scripts. He is introduced to Masayuki Kunioka, a freelancer who is known as the strongest hitman in Kyoto. Sakamoto decides to follow Kunioka in his day-to-day life. One day, Kunioka kills the wrong person due to miscommunication with the client and is targeted by both the hitmen sent from the furious client and those who are aiming for revenge on behalf of the victim.
Legendary Hit-man, Kunioka

Three years after returning from studying to become a film director at university in Copenhagen, Mizuki Kurotetsu finally begins her first film as a director. Mizuki, who has an unusual obsession with "breaking the existing rules", decides to use social networking to recruit everything she needs for the film, including cast and crew. The announcement, a mixture of lies and facts, quickly spread and became a hot topic. Aoba Hinata, a beautiful, taciturn girl, successfully wins the lead role after a bizarre audition. The hellish location shoot begins, involving Kurotetsu's assistant and assistant director Yuzuru Gokokuji and Dai Nanpei , who was also selected through an audition..
シンデレラ地獄へ行く

This short film follows Zenjiro Kurata (played by Daichi Yamaguchi), a hitman with a 100 million yen bounty, as he faces attack from various assassins.
Heaven's Rush

Second part of the Kunioka Tours series. This time they are in North Osaka and Kyoto.