---
name: "Yasuo Ejima"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yasuo-ejima"
fi1m_id: "yasuo-ejima"
imdb_id: "nm2894397"
tmdb_id: 1656434
wikidata_id: "Q138359649"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T19:51:15.429523+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Yasuo Ejima

## Identity

Yasuo Ejima

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yasuo-ejima
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yasuo-ejima
- **IMDb ID:** nm2894397
- **TMDB ID:** 1656434
- **Wikidata ID:** Q138359649
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138359649, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2894397/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1656434

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2012–2019
- **Also known as:** Ejima Yasuo, 江島 泰男
- **Frequently works with:** [Hitomi Ezoe](https://film.one/person/hitomi-ezoe.md), [Kensho Ono](https://film.one/person/kensho-ono.md), [Shingo Uchida](https://film.one/person/shingo-uchida.md), [Takashi Ando](https://film.one/person/takashi-ando.md), [Tomoko Hiramuki](https://film.one/person/tomoko-hiramuki.md), [Yusuke Sunouchi](https://film.one/person/yusuke-sunouchi.md), Shigatsu Yoshikawa, Tadahito Matsubayashi
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138359649, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2894397/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1656434

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Haikyu!!*](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Yasuo Ejima, also credited as Ejima Yasuo or 江島 泰男, is a Japanese anime director and storyboard artist. He has worked as an episode director on numerous television series, including *Haikyu!!* (2014), *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* (2012), *Vinland Saga* (2019), *Kill la Kill* (2013), *Psycho-Pass* (2012) and *Horimiya* (2021).

*Sources: imdb.com, myanimelist.net, anime-planet.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Haikyu!!* (2014), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Anne Shirley* (2025), series, Director
- *Mission: Yozakura Family* (2024), series, Director
- *Tonbo!* (2024), series, Director
- *Dark Gathering* (2023), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Horimiya: The Missing Pieces* (2023), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer* (2022), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody* (2022), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *Horimiya* (2021), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Heaven's Design Team* (2021), series, Director
- *Iwa Kakeru! Sport Climbing Girls* (2020), series, Director
- *Vinland Saga* (2019), series, Director
- *Kokkoku: Moment by Moment* (2018), series, Director
- *Our Love Has Always Been 10 Centimeters Apart.* (2017), series, Director
- *When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace* (2014), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Haikyu!!* (2014), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md)
- *Inari Kon Kon* (2014), series, Director
- *Kill la Kill* (2013), series, Director
- *Psycho-Pass* (2012), series, Director
- *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* (2012), series, Director
- *Umineko: When They Cry* (2009), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Toward the Terra* (2007), series, Director
- *Onegai My Melody* (2005), series, Director
- *MoonPhase* (2004), series, Director, Co-Director
- *Kino's Journey* (2003), series, Director
- *Initial D* (1998), series, Director

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