Yu Irie

{{short description|Japanese film director / screenwriter (born 1979)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|11|25}}

| birth_place = Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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{{nihongo|Yu Irie|入江 悠|Irie Yū|born November 25, 1979}} is a Japanese film director / screenwriter who was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, and grew up in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture.

After a number of short films, including Obsession and Seven Drives which were screened at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in 2003 and 2004,{{cite web|url=http://yubarifanta.com/2009/views.php?id=302&langue=21002|title=SR SAITAMA'S RAPPER / 8000miles(International Title)|publisher=Yubari Fanta |access-date=2010-06-28}} Irie directed two softcore erotic V-Cinema videos in 2007, Cream Lemon 7 and Swimsuit Spy - SPY GIRLS. The latter video, an erotic comedy, starred AV Idol Mihiro.{{cite web|url=https://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=759476|script-title=ja:入江悠|publisher=All Cinema|access-date=2010-06-27|language=ja}}

In 2009 the second feature film he directed, {{nihongo|8000 Miles|SR サイタマノラッパー|SR: Saitama no Rapper}}, won the grand prize in the Off Theatre Competition at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118000724.html?categoryid=13&cs=1|title=Japan's Yubari fest honors 'Rapper'|publisher=Variety |access-date=2009-07-16 | first=Mark | last=Schilling | date=2009-03-02}} It also earned Irie the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.dgj.or.jp/feature/2010/0929.html|title=2009 nendo Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai Shinjinshō tokushū|publisher=Directors Guild of Japan|language=ja|access-date=11 December 2010}} The film follows four friends from suburban Fukuya (punned on Fukaya) who dream of becoming rap stars. The mostly amateur cast also included adult video actress Mihiro.{{cite web|url=http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/8000-miles.shtml|title=8000 Miles|publisher= Midnight Eye|access-date=2010-06-28|last=Mes|first=Tom|date=July 13, 2009}}