My Take
Yū Irie is the kind of filmmaker I genuinely respect — a writer-director who insists on controlling the whole story from page to screen, which in the Japanese film industry takes a certain quiet stubbornness. Born in Yokohama in 1979, he came up through Nihon University's arts program and earned the Japan Directors Guild New Directors Award in 2010, which is a real credential, not a consolation prize. What I find compelling is that he doesn't chase the prestige-drama lane or the crowd-pleasing blockbuster lane — he seems to carve out his own lane and just stay in it. The Sagittarius restlessness tracks: he jumps genres, experiments, keeps moving. He's not the loudest name at the festival table, but the quiet ones who keep making films on their own terms tend to outlast everyone else, and I'd bet on him doing exactly that.
Overview
Yū Irie is a Japanese film director and screenwriter born on November 25, 1979, in Yokohama, Kanagawa. He studied at Nihon University and went on to establish himself in independent Japanese cinema as a writer-director. In 2010, he received the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award, recognizing his early work behind the camera. He is known for writing and directing his own projects across a range of genres.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Yū Irie
- Name (Japanese)
- 入江悠
- Reading
- いりえ ゆう
- Born
- November 25, 1979 (age 46)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Sheep (未)
- Origin
- Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Active years
- Unknown
- Occupation
- Film director / Screenwriter
2. Background
- University
- Nihon University
- Debut
- Unknown
Awards & achievements
- 2010 — Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Xhttps://x.com/uirie
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%A5%E6%B1%9F%E6%82%A0
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.