Daisuke Kamijo

Daisuke Kamijo (Japanese: 上條大輔) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and playwright. He was born in Kofu, in Yamanashi Prefecture, went to school at Yamanashi Prefectural Kofu First High School and studied at Tama Art University.

He did not start behind his own camera. After a spell at a film and television production company he went freelance as an assistant director, and spent most of a decade on other people’s sets, working under Shinsuke Sato, Izuru Narushima, Keishi Otomo and Masaharu Take. The credit list from those years is a tour of mainstream Japanese cinema: The Restaurant of Love Regained (2010), Bunny Drop (2011), the Rurouni Kenshin films from 2012 onward, Library Wars (2013), I Am a Hero and Sadako vs Kayako (2016). He returned to the Rurouni Kenshin series in 2021 in a directing-support role on both The Final and The Beginning.

His own directing began in 2015 with Hee & She, which he also wrote. In 2017 he directed Hidamari ga Kikoeru, the film adaptation of the Boys’ Love manga known in English as I Hear the Sunspot, and wrote for the second and third HiGH&LOW The Movie films the same year. He is signed to Angle Pictures.

Since then the bulk of his work has been short films that he writes, directs and often edits himself, and they travel. Boku Dake wa Shitteiru (2019) took an excellence award at the Kyoto International Film Festival and its lead won Best Actor at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia. Sono 1/ (2021) won the grand prize at the Shibuya TANPEN Film Festival CLIMAX in Sasebo along with the directing award. Shirohanada (2024) won the grand prize at the Ibusuki Film Festival and the Funakoshi Eiichiro Prize at the Yamagata International Movie Festival. He has kept working on large productions in parallel, in directing-support roles on Galileo: Silent Parade (2023) and 52 Hertz Whales (2024).

For BLGLFLIX he is recorded as the director of the Japanese Boys’ Love title The Journey to Killing You.