Isamu Nakae (Director)
Little is known about Isamu Nakae, a figure with a modest footprint in Director. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Release Date1990-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count2
Dr. Coto's Clinic
Dr. Goto Kensuke transfers to a remote island clinic after an incident at his Tokyo hospital. His first task: winning over the wary locals.
Release Date2003-07-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count22
Vote Count5
Tokyo Love Story
Nagao Kanji who comes from Ehime Prefecture joins Heartsports company located in Tokyo, where he met lovely and sunny Akana Rika. The love story begins.
Release Date1991-01-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Episode Count11
Vote Count28
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
The mystery of how Kazama Kimichika became so ruthless and unmatched will be revealed. Kyojo Zero depicts the time before he was assigned to the police academy, when he was working as an instructor in charge of training new detectives...
Release Date2023-04-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count5
Pride
Haru Satonaka is the captain of an ice-hockey team, a star athlete who stakes everything on hockey but can only consider love as a game. Aki Murase is a woman who has been waiting for her lover who went abroad two years ago. These two persons start a relationship while frankly admitting to each other that it is only a love game. …The result is the unfolding of a drama of people with their respective pasts and with their pride as individuals.
Release Date2004-01-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count25
Kyojo
Kimichika Kazama is an instructor at a police academy. He is keenly observant and watches over his students. He is calm as an instructor and has charisma, but strict. Students with various backgrounds attend the police academy with their own reasons of becoming police officers. They feel pressure having to follow the strict rules and have anxiety about getting kicked out of the academy. How many students will graduate among the 90 students? What is the real purpose of Kimichika Kazama giving hardship to the students?
Release Date2020-01-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count9
Welcome to Our Home
Kenta Kurata (Masaki Aiba) lives with his father, Taichi (Akira Terao), his mother, Keiko (Kaho Minami), and his younger sister, Nana (Kasumi Arimura) in an isolated home in the suburbs. He works as an unpopular commercial designer. Kenta Kurata possesses a timid personality, which he picked up from his father. Kenta doesn't like his father. One day, while waiting for the train, Kenta warns a man who pushed a woman and cut in line. Kenta is surprised that he spoke out with his normally timid personality. After that incident, Kenta's family home is targeted by an unknown person with flowers from their garden being pulled out and the seat of a bicycle being torn. Also, Kenta's younger sister Nana is stalked by her ex-boyfriend. Kenta and his family try to find out who is responsible.
Release Date2015-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Dr. Coto's Clinic
In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more than six hours from the Japanese main islands, the young physician Kensuke Goto arrives at the island and has to deal with the island's inhabitants, not eager to accept him, at a clinic lacking sufficient medical equipment. Here's a human drama showing how Dr. Coto values the dignity of human life while unflinchingly facing disease with a serious attitude.
Release Date2022-12-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
In the Name of Love
Seven good buddies left school and stepped into society. Each then finds life out there not as carefree as it used to be. Their courage, optimism and confidence are also worn off slowly by the cunning reality. After a series of hurdles, they get a deeper understanding of their friendship and treasure it even more. --DramaWiki
Release Date1992-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count6
A Sleeping Forest
Nemureru Mori is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from 8 October 1998 to 24 December 1998. It is written by Nozawa Hisashi, starring Miho Nakayama and Takuya Kimura, and features music by Mariya Takeuchi and U2.
Release Date1998-10-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
Gift
An unconscious young man is found inside the closet of a missing billionaire. Amnesiac, he is given the name Yukio and kept close to Naomi—the woman who was supposed to disappear alongside the billionaire, Shibata—in case he ever recovers his memories of the night he was rescued and the whereabouts of Shibata and his fortune.
Release Date1997-04-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count1
Tales of the Bizarre: 1997 Spring Special
Tales of the Bizarre: 1997 Spring Special is a special edition of Tales of the Bizarre that aired on Fuji Television on March 31, 1997.
Release Date1997-03-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Clinic on the Sea
Sezaki Kota is a young doctor who runs a boat clinic, Kaishinmaru, that plies the Seto Inland Sea islands. Kota is a very capable doctor, but he has one big flaw... he falls for women easily. He romances each island's madonna when they come to him seeking treatment. However, his efforts at romancing them seem to fail each time, and thus with tears streaming, he sets off for the next island; Ever in search of a true love.
Release Date2013-10-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count2
Love 2000
Yuri Maroev is a secret agent and assassin from the Ural Republic sent along with his brother on a mission to Japan. Once in Japan, he meets systems analyst Mashiro Rieru and uses her high-level security access to get top-secret information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His pretense of romance turns into genuine feelings of love, as Rieru falls deeper into the intricacies of Yuri's fateful covert operations.
Release Date2000-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count1
Between Calmness and Passion
An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after 10 years.
Release Date2001-11-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Chain of Flowers
Based upon the novel by Minato Kanae. The story is about three women who all live in the same countryside town but who never interact with one another even though they are all tied by the same tragedy. While newly-unemployed Rika tries to get her ailing grandmother to take a needed surgery, she also struggles to come up with the money to pay for it. A mysterious benefactor known to her only as "K" might be able to help, but her grandmother is steadfast in telling her to decline it. As Rika searches for clues as to who this "K" is, she increasingly finds that she and two other women are linked not only by a tragedy but a chain of flowers as well.
Release Date2013-09-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
One Million Stars Falling from the Sky
The down-and-out detective Kanzo Dojima (Sanma Akashiya) is thinking about hanging up his job. A mysterious man named Ryo Katase (Takuya Kimura). No one seems to know what's going on in the heart of this lonely guy, what he believes in, what he really loves. Then these two men meet by chance one day. The story takes an unexpected turn of events concerning a murder case. Maybe the two of them should never have met. And then there's Kanzo's sister Yuko (Eri Fukatsu). What will the relationship between her and Ryo be like?
Release Date2002-04-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count10
Sugar & Spice
Recently graduated from high school, 17-year-old Shiro decides to put off college and work at a gas station instead. Shy and introspective, Shiro understands he is at a turning point of his life, but is unsure of what lies ahead. Though his parents disapprove of his decision, he has the support of his flower child grandmother who declares that a gas station is a romantic place for life's drifters. Surely enough, soon a new co-worker, college student Noriko, drifts into Shiro's life. He falls headfirst into a bittersweet first love that ushers him into the world of adulthood.
Release Date2006-09-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
A summer with you
Three young people, Irie, Sugiya and Asami, decide to share a room together one summer. All three of them experience sadness, love and friendship as they fall in and out of love. They all become a vital part of each other's life, but at the end of summer vacation, they go their separate ways. Sugiya returns home, Asami leaves Tokyo and returns to the country and Irie remains in the room they had shared, as if nothing had happened over the last 40 days during summer.
Release Date1994-07-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
The End of the World
Maria is in need of money. Because her day-time job doesn't pay enough, she works at night at a cabaret. She needs the money so that she can pay for her sister, Nana's eyes operation. When both Maria and Nana were younger, Maria burned down the home, causing her sister's blindness and killing their father (mother survived.) Shiro is a famous concert pianist. However, he isn't happy with his marriage or his life in general. Maria and Shiro are united through a traffic accident, causing Shiro to be hospitalized. Faking amnesia and his identity, he stays at Maria's place and eventually starts to work at the cabaret as a piano player. As you will find out later on, life was not meant for Maria and Shiro to find one another.
Release Date1994-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count2
Bokura ni Ai wo!
Harumi is now an ex-salary man who is in need of a job. Living in a lodging house along with his cousin and socially-challenged tenants, he is forced to take over the cooking and cleaning when his grandmother is suddenly hospitalized because of a heart attack. One day, ANA Airways purchases a dormitory that sits right behind the lodge. And suddenly, dozens of gorgeous 1990s-fashioned OL-looking flight attendants move in. It is a fantasy come true for these men. Although Harumi can't stand heights and flying, ironically he falls in love with one of the flight attendants. But, he has some competition - including his ex co-worker, a business man in Paris, and even a 10-year old cooking genius. Can Harumi gain enough courage on his own to win her love? Or, does he need the aid of bottled milk to give him the energy?
Release Date1995-04-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Flower Shop Without Rose
Single father Eiji runs a flower shop. A blind woman passing by changes his life forever, but their relationship quickly turns complicated.
Release Date2008-01-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count6
Promise at 20 years
On approaching her 20th birthday, Yuki happily returns to Japan to see her penpal, Junpei. However, Junpei doesn't want to see her as he is the one who had caused her brother's death three years ago. Though the truth reveals one day, Yuki still loves him. The couple finally decides to get married despite the strong objection from Yuki's father and aunt. And just two days before their wedding bells ring, Junpei gets stabbed by his ex-accomplice. To keep his promise, Junpei bears the pain and completes the wedding ceremony with Yuki
Release Date1992-12-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Pure
Release Date1996-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Rock: Wanko no Shima
A boy, Shin, and his family are forced to evacuate the island of Miyakejima, when it erupts in 2000. Shin's dog, Rock, is mistakenly left behind.
Release Date2011-07-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Days
DAYS takes a look at the lives of six 20-year-olds struggling to maintain their dreams in a society that has already classified and ranked them. Yabe Tetsuya is an alienated but sincere, inherently honest young man trying to overcome a background that has given him few advantages beyond his own inner strength.
Release Date1998-01-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Always the two of us
26-year-old Tanimachi Mizuho (Matsu Takako) moves to Tokyo hoping to become a successful author, but finds that Tokyo isn't so welcoming. There she meets a popular variety show writer, Morinaga Kenta (Sakaguchi Kenji), who happens to have been a childhood friend. But whether or not they fall in love is uncertain.
Release Date2003-01-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Platonic Sex
Aoki, a naive, gullible young girl, strays towards the party life instead of taking her school work seriously.
Release Date2001-09-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Love Still Hasn't Begun
Release Date1995-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
The World is Made Up of 3
Tells the story of three young people living in the after corona and wis corona worlds. When a lost salaried worker, Mochizuki Yuto, who had lived all over the world, wanted to quit his job, an emergency declaration was issued due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection. The work environment of Yuto, such as telework and online meetings, has changed completely. Then, one day after the declaration was lifted, the eldest brother, Taito and his younger brother, Mitsuo, who had been thinking about him, visited Yuto.
Release Date2020-06-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
教場III
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector