Arisa Kaneko

Kaneko Arisa is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist from Tokyo. She graduated from Nihon University College of Art, Department of Film, and is a lecturer at the same department. In 1995, at the age of 22, she won the grand prize for "Tokiwa Saien no Fuyu" at the 8th Fuji Television Young Scenario Awards.

Works

9Border
7.0

9Border

A woman’s teens, 20s and 30s - each decade brings its own level of expectations and anxieties. These watershed life moments tend to highlight issues of employment, love, marriage, childbirth, and parenting, with the added pressure of perceived time limits. Three so-called “9-border” sisters - aged 19, 29, and 39 - gather under one roof after their father's sudden disappearance struggle with love, life, and time issues in this melodrama about finding happiness and moving forward in life.

Release Date:2024-04-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:2

24-hour Love Guard

24-hour Love Guard

Kitazawa Tatsunosuke works as an elite bodyguard for a small bodyguard protection company. He is the ace of the company, with excellent athletic abilities, and is always able to see two or three steps ahead of a situation. When he takes action, he usually manages to stay calm and collected with his judgment. His father, who was a police officer, was stabbed to death. Tatsunosuke, who is currently trying to pursue the killer, receives a request from the law firm to protect a new client. The client happens to be Kishimura Rika, a lawyer who is potentially being targeted due to a grudge against her in regard to a case she was in charge of. Because of this, she has to be under strict security 24 hours a day. Tatsunosuke, who is serious and stoic in nature, is largely inflexible and, naturally, not a good match for Rika, who hates being restricted. However, as they start to live together, their feelings toward each other begin to change.

Release Date:2024-01-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:9

Burn the House Down
7.3

Burn the House Down

After her mother took the blame for a tragic fire 13 years ago, Anzu plots revenge by working as a housekeeper under a pseudonym for her icy stepmother.

Release Date:2023-07-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:51

Pending Train
6.7

Pending Train

Riders on a commuter train get an earthquake warning on their cellphones. Cars lurch as electric sparks fly, people are thrown about and the lights go out. Train 5 passengers awake to find that they are no longer in a tunnel, and overgrown brush can be seen through the windows. People slide open the doors and find that the train tracks end suddenly ahead and behind the car. People's reactions to losing the modern world vary from confusion to alarm to indifference. Where or when are they? Can they survive in this wilderness?

Release Date:2023-04-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:7

4.3

Tang

Ken Kasugai has been deserted by his wife, because he was absorbed in a game. One day, missing child robot Tang appears in front of him.

Release Date:2022-08-11

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:6

Why I Dress Up for Love
6.6

Why I Dress Up for Love

Mashiba Karumi is a young woman who loves dressing up. She works as a PR for interior maker "el Arco Iris" and has nearly 100,000 followers on her social media, which she uses to promote her company. She hopes to work hard and become the "longing existence" to Hayama Shogo, the president of her company who she secretly likes. However, Kurumi suddenly got forced out of her apartment after forgetting to renew her contract. She ended up moving into a shared apartment in Omotesando with four other people. Kurumi begins to learn living with different people and she starts to spend more time with Fujino Shun, one of the occupant who is a chef and lives a simple life unlike her.

Release Date:2021-04-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:12

An Incurable Case of Love
7.7

An Incurable Case of Love

Nanase fell in love with Dr. Tendo five years ago. Now she's a nurse and ready to meet him again. But he's nothing like the nice guy she thought he was!

Release Date:2020-01-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:46

Tokyo Bachelors
6.2

Tokyo Bachelors

Three Japanese men in their thirties and forties are professionals working in law, dentistry and banking. These three men are close friends and they enjoy their lives as single men, but they begin to wonder about the merits or necessity for marriage.

Release Date:2019-04-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:4

Meet Me After School
7.9

Meet Me After School

Emotions resurface when a school teacher and her former student reconnect three years after sharing a forbidden attraction that scarred them both.

Release Date:2018-10-09

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:16

6.3

The Forest of Wool and Steel

High school student Naoki Tomura grew up in a remote area in Hokkaido. He meets piano tuner Soichiro Itadori in school and eventually decides to work at Itadori’s musical instrument store. Tomura gradually grows as a piano tuner through his interactions with the other tuners and musician clients

Release Date:2018-06-08

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:3

7.6

My Little Monster

Problem student Haru Yoshida sits next to the cold and studious Shizuku Mizutani in class. Without any other friends to turn to, both of them start to get to know each other and grow closer. Haru eventually develop feelings for Shizuku and confesses his feelings to her. Will Haru and Shizuku get their happily ever after?

Release Date:2018-04-27

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:83

Final Cut

Final Cut

When Keisuke Nakamura was a high school student, his mother was accused of killing a girl and then his mother committed suicide. 12 years later, Keisuke Nakamura tries to find the girl's real killer and also take revenge upon those responsible for his mother's suicide. He targets people from the media who covered the case and he crosses paths with sisters who hold a key to what happened. Keisuke Nakamura falls in love with one of the sisters.

Release Date:2018-01-09

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

巨悪は眠らせない 特捜検事の標的

Release Date:2017-10-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Ties: A Miraculous Colt

Ties: A Miraculous Colt

Based on novel "Kizuna ~ Aru Jinba no Monogatari~” by Akihiro Shimada (published from June, 2012 to December, 2012 in horse racing portal site ‘netkeiba.com’).

Release Date:2017-03-23

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:2

5.0

Will You Marry My Wife?

Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He decides to concentrate on the future of his beloved family. Shuji Mimura's final plan is to find the best man to marry his wife Ayako.

Release Date:2016-11-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

7.0

Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor

Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tokyo district prosecutors' office. He is currently busy with a case involving suspicious donations to powerful politician Yohei Tachibana. Shinichi then receives a mysterious message from his friend Samon Kondo. His friend is in charge of space development at The The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The message talks about a scandal related to space development. Samon soon goes missing after sending the message. Shinichi begins to see a connection between the two cases.

Release Date:2016-10-05

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

7.5

The Kodai Family Special

The three brothers of the Kodai family possess telepathy, and this has led to many nerve-wracking incidents. Their aunt Anne narrates an episode from the past. 30 years ago, Yuko, a fourth-year student at a prestigious private university, learns about the existence of Kodai Shigemasa, who has been admitted from Oxford. One day, Yuko’s friend Nao and Masao start dating. Yuko congratulates her but detects Masao’s unfaithfulness immediately after that. Although Yuko meditates and tries to make the two of them reconcile, they break up in a just one week. Masao then promptly confesses his feelings for Yuko

Release Date:2016-06-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

6.5

The Kodai Family

Kie Hirano is an ordinary OL who often daydreams. Mitsumasa Kodai at the same company as Kie Hirano, but he is an elite salaryman. He is the eldest son in the Kodai family and he is also telepathic. Mitsumasa Kodai got his special ability to read other people's mind from his British grandmother. Mitsumasa becomes attracted to Kie's warm heart and her dreamy temperament. They begin to date and enjoy their days together, but Mitsumasa Kodai's mother calls.

Release Date:2016-06-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:16

It's Not That I Can't Get Married, I Just Don't Do It
7.0

It's Not That I Can't Get Married, I Just Don't Do It

Tachibana Miyabi is 39-years-old and she hasn't had a boyfriend in 5 years. She enjoys her life as a single woman. She is a doctor and runs her own beauty dermatology clinic. Miyabi is pretty and confident, but at her school reunion, she finds herself being pitied by others for still being single. After the school reunion, she attends a gourmet meeting at a restaurant. There, she talks about her school reunion. At that time, Seiji, the owner of the restaurant, makes a biting remark that she isn't the type popular with men. She becomes upset by the remark, but she accepts his advice.

Release Date:2016-04-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:3

7.3

Orange

A girl mysteriously receives advice from her future self and as a result her group of friends, along with a newly arrived, troubled classmate, learn how to be better friends and a better community.

Release Date:2015-12-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:97

A Sinner's Lie
8.0

A Sinner's Lie

Serious legal thriller starring Hideaki Ito which depicts the glory and the darkness of an infamous and highly paid lawyer.

Release Date:2014-08-31

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:2

6.7

Helter Skelter

Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to retain her perfect image, Lilico descends into a world of nightmares and makes those around her miserable.

Release Date:2012-07-14

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:141

7.8

Welcome Home, Hayabusa

Kento Ohashi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is a novice ion engine developer working on a team that is launching the unmanned Hayabusa spacecraft into outerspace. His father Isao (Tomokazu Miura) was the leader of a previously failed space probe named Nozomi. Now, Kento pursues his dreams and his father's while experiencing the unexpected surprises that comes with the Hayabusa's 7 year odyssey.

Release Date:2012-03-10

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2

Ueno Juri and the Five Bags

Ueno Juri and the Five Bags

The series features Ueno taking on five roles in five episodes. As the title suggests, each episode involves a bag of some kind, such as a guitar case or a mysterious delivery package.

Release Date:2009-09-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:1

Arigato, Okan

Hanako is a mother, who was not enthusiastic when her husband took in two foster children some years ago. He died not long afterward, leaving her alone to care for the youngsters, Koya and Torataro, a task that she rose to with a passion. As the two boys graduate from high school, Hanako has become not only a devoted parent but the neighborhood's most reliable mother in the Osaka style: strong, responsible, irreverent. After the two boys leave school they also leave home, though Torataro continues to work in the family factory. Koya secures employment at a restaurant, where he is forced to put up with the bullying of an older colleague. Unable to take it any more, he runs away, and Hanako and Torataro look for him. They eventually find him pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician.

Release Date:2008-10-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

7.0

Flowers in the Shadow

Shinya is in debt as a result of his gambling habit. He attempts to defraud an old woman with a bank transfer scam, but the woman reminds him of his late mother and they start to relate to each other. Meanwhile, Shinya meets a girl called Hisako in town, and ends up helping her to find out the whereabouts of an unsuccessful comedian, Raita, whom her mother was in love with in her youth. Shinya's father, Ryutaro, is disowned by his son after his wife's death. When Ryutaro meets a homeless man called Moses, he starts living on the street as well. One day when the old woman dies, Moses comes to the deceased and confesses his past. Subsequently Shinya resumes communicating with his father Ryutaro.

Release Date:2008-01-26

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2

3.2

Christmas on July 24th Avenue

Sayuri Honda (Miki Nakatani) claims she has no interests in love affairs. She refuses to take things as they are for she fancies her harbor town of Nagasaki as Lisbon, Portugal. But on Christmas, encouraged by the season of romance, she tries to materialize her once-in-a-lifetime love with the man of her dreams.

Release Date:2006-11-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:4

Suppli
7.7

Suppli

Minami is a 27-year-old female office worker in an advertisement agency. Though she has a boyfriend, she spends the majority of her time working and appears to feel ambivalent about the relationship at best. When the boyfriend finally breaks up with her, it's the push she needs to start a social life with her co-workers. In-office romances soon follow. Much of the story is told through Minami's thoughts, which are full of self-doubt.

Release Date:2006-07-10

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:3

Wish Upon a Star

Japanese TV film

Release Date:2005-08-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

6.3

Train Man

The purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku ultimately started dating with her and chronicled his event and his dates with the woman (who became known as "Hermès") on the Japanese mega-BBS 2channel.

Release Date:2005-06-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:27

It was sudden, like a storm...

It was sudden, like a storm...

Kozue Ogawa is a housewife and has been married to Hideo for seven years. They don't have any children, but as they live with her parents at their flower shop, every day is still lively. She is happy with her life and her husband, but she wonders if it is enough. From time to time, she is gripped by this doubt that she cannot raise with anyone. Kozue starts a part-time job in the editing department of the magazine where she used to work. Her former colleague is now working hard as the editor-in-chief. One rainy day, Kozue meets a young man. He is Takuma Fukazawa, a high school student. He seems somehow shrouded in sadness. He is a dance teacher. In the dance studio, there is just the two of them. Takuma curls his hands around Kozue's body, and his dance instruction begins. Their unexpected closeness causes Kozue to hesitate. With her heart pounding, she pushes Takuma's hands away and runs home. But the throbbing in her chest continues. It can't be. But what is this feeling?

Release Date:2004-01-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

Stand Up!!
6.5

Stand Up!!

Stand Up!! is a Japanese television drama which ran weekly for three months in 2003. The drama, which stars Kazunari Ninomiya of Arashi and Tomohisa Yamashita of NEWS, centers around the lives of the last four virgins left in their highschool as they struggle to lose their virginity over their final high school summer vacation. A 6-DVD Box Set featuring all eleven episodes, as well as six individual volumes were released in Japan on December 18, 2003.

Release Date:2003-07-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:11

Number One

Kubozuka plays Araki Ryunosuke who starts working at a host club called "club NO.1" to pay his debt.

Release Date:2001-12-27

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Santa Claus Dreaming

Santa Claus Dreaming

Koshiba Seijuro is the assisstant to some influential figure whose daughter was all messed up, and who comes to the psychiatrist Koizumi Santa and asks him to counsel the daughter without her knowledge. Since Santa is a compulsive gambler he's hard up for money and takes the job even though he's queasy about the ethics. Turns out that she's the same girl he took to the hospital nine months earlier when she had passed out drunk on a roof preparing to jump. As it happens she woke up in the hospital and saw Santa's best friend Kusanagi Shunsuke (a surgeon) holding the Santa Claus hat Santa had been wearing (it was Christmas Eve), and it turns into a very complicated love triangle.

Release Date:1997-10-16

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:10

Mokuyou no Kaidan'97: Akuryou Gakuen

Haruka Renkoji is a bright and innocent high school girl. However, she is actually the descendant of an exorcist who has exorcised evil spirits for generations. She unwillingly gets involved in various ghost incidents and exorcises evil spirits that are unable to rest in peace and wander around.

Release Date:1997-05-01

Department:Crew

Job:Script

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