Yukisada is a Japanese director and screenwriter who supposedly decided to become a film director after seeing Shinji Sômaiji’s film Taifű kurabu (Typhoon Club, 1985). He worked as assistant director on TV films by Kamoshita Shinichi and Oyama Katsumi. Also important was his collaboration with Iwai Shunji on feature films Love Letter (1995), Swallowtail (1996) and Shigatsu monogatari (April Story, 1998). His first successful film was the drama Himawari (Sunflower, 2000), after which he made the award winning Go (2001), Kyô no dekigoto (A Day on the Planet, 2004), Sekai no chűshin de, ai o sakebu (Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World, 2004), Kita no zeronen (Year One in the North, 2005) and Haru no yuki (Spring Snow, 2005). His last film Tôku no sora ni kieta (2007) is currently in post-production.