Shunsaku Kawake

Shunsaku Kawake (Japanese: 河毛俊作) is a Japanese television and film director born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1952.

Directing Career

Kawake has directed numerous television drama series, television films, and theatrical motion pictures, primarily collaborating with major Japanese broadcasting networks such as Fuji Television and WOWOW.

Filmography

• Shining Boy & Little Randy (2005) - Feature film
• Sayonara Noir (Fuji TV, 2026)
• Shinjuku Field Hospital (Fuji TV, 2024)
• Pandora IV: AI War (WOWOW, 2018)
• Natsuko Kira (Fuji TV, 2016)
• Gokuaku Ganbo (Fuji TV, 2014)
• Thursday Theater Keigo Higashino Mystery (Fuji TV, 2012)
• Gold (Fuji TV, 2010)
• Emergency Room 24 Hours 4 (Fuji TV, 2009)
• Pandora (WOWOW, 2008)
• Proof of the Man (Fuji TV, 2004)
• Love 2000 (Fuji TV, 2000)

TV Movies

• Castle of Sand (Fuji TV, 2019)
• Shin Naniwa Kinyudo (Fuji TV, 2015)
• Pandora - Eien no Inochi (WOWOW, 2014)
• Dakishimetai! Forever (Fuji TV, 2013)
• Kurobe no Taiyo (Fuji TV, 2009)
• Niji wo Kakeru Ouhi (Fuji TV, 2006)

Screenwriting

In addition to his work behind the camera as a director, Kawake served as a screenwriter for the television movie Pandora - Eien no Inochi, broadcast by WOWOW in 2014.