Izumi Takahashi (Writer)
Details about Izumi Takahashi are limited at this time. With a growing presence in Writer, more information may emerge as their career progresses.
Works
Sayonara, Sayonara
Johane, the only survivor of a mass suicide, invites people on a bulletin board to die with him.
Release Date2004-07-03
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
Charactersd
Go, Masao!
Go, Masao! describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Hideki Matsumoto and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected to appear on the travel corner segment of a TV animal program. Until Hideki Matsumoto and the labrador retriever Masao become popular, they help each other.
Release Date2012-06-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Discord
Based on the novel by Daimon Takeaki about brothers who were separated after the death of their father and reunited as police detective and prosecutor.
Release Date2020-03-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 2: Bloody Halloween - Final Battle
Driven by a single-minded determination to protect his friends and save Hinata, Takemichi Hanagaki enters a gang war with the hope of altering the course of fate and creating a better future for everyone.
Release Date2023-06-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count23
Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 1: Bloody Halloween - Destiny
Hinata is murdered again by the Tokyo Manjikai Gang in front of Takemichi. In order to save Hinata, Takemichi travels 10 years back in time again. Takemichi has to change a key case that can save Hinata. The key case involves a sad incident that occurred to 6 men, who later formed the Tokyo Manjikai Gang.
Release Date2023-04-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count28
Kamen Rider Black Sun
The year is 2022. It is an era of chaos, half a century after the government announced the coexistence of humans and kaijins. Aoi Izumi, a young human rights activist calling for the elimination of discrimination, meets a man named Kotaro Minami, the one called "Black Sun," who is a candidate for the next Creation King.
Release Date2022-10-28
DepartmentCrew
JobSeries Writer
Episode Count10
Vote Count59
Crying 100 Times - Every Raindrop Falls
Shuichi had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi has a fateful meeting with Yoshimi. They enjoy happy times together and Shuichi thinks about marrying Yoshimi. Then Yoshimi becomes sick. A sad truth is hidden in the lost memory of Shuichi.
Release Date2013-07-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
Sunny
It has been 14 years since the murder of an elementary school student by a classmate. At the time, Akari was deified by the name Sunny, "the cutest murderer in criminal history". Two men, abduct Akari. Holding her captive, they upload pictures and video of her on the internet. Meanwhile, Akari makes every effort to escape from her prison.
Release Date2018-02-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Solanin
Meiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have his band become professional.
Release Date2010-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count25
My Girlfriend Is a Serial Killer
Etsuro Kurosu faills getting into a university and becomes a hikikomori. One day, he tries to hang himself from a hook on the wall in his apartment. He fails, but his attempt leaves a hole in the wall. Through the hole wall, Etsuro Kurosu can now see Rio Miyaichi. He becomes fascinated with the girl that lives next door. Later, while peeping at her through the wall, Etsuro Kurosu sees her in the process of brutally murdering someone. He screams and is caught by her. Etsuro Kurosu confesses that he loves her and they start to date. Etsuro Kurosu feels happiness in his life, but what will happen to him? Will he be murdered by Rio Miyaichi?
Release Date2019-11-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count28
Fourteen
Sensitive and refined drama in which experiences from the puberty of a female teacher and a piano student reflected in the world of the younger generation they have contact with.
Release Date2007-01-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count5
Museum
In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own family is connected to the crimes.
Release Date2016-11-12
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count85
True Mothers
After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband and son. The family lives a peaceful existence until the arrival of a stranger.
Release Date2020-10-23
DepartmentWriting
JobCo-Writer
Vote Count83
Kids on the Slope
Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—form a friendship through their love of jazz music.
Release Date2018-03-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count31
Tokyo Revengers
An unemployed man learns that his ex-girlfriend was murdered. He suddenly finds himself travelling through time to his middle school years and has chance to change the future and save the girl. He aims to rise to the top of the most brutal delinquent gang.
Release Date2021-07-09
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count233
Tori Girl!
Toriyama Yukina is finally in at the university of her choice to major in science. She studied hard to get in. The school is not exactly as she had imagined however. She has a crush on Kei and is motivated to join the man-flight club as a result, which competes in the contest of that same name. Obviously Yukina wants to buddy up with Kei, alas it may not be happening.
Release Date2017-09-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count20
Zebra
Dora (Ryo Ryusei) and associates runs a badger game scheme to extort victims out of money. One day though, their target looks like an ordinary guy, but he turns out to be a yakuza. Dora and his associates fall into a far darker world. Dora steps into a business that offers to take revenge on others by any means necessary.
Release Date2016-05-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count5
Take Me
Release Date2024-07-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Under the Big Onion
Release Date2025-02-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
One Night
A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago.
Release Date2019-11-08
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count23
The Devil's Path
Death-row inmate Sudo sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii. In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura, also known as "teacher," committed numerous murders for insurance money. While checking out the story, based on Sudo's tip, Fuji becomes convinced that the letter is correct. But, a lot of time has passed from the incidents and Sudo's testimony isn't clear. Due to the persistance of Sudo, who is a former yakuza, and Fuji, the police begin to move.
Release Date2013-09-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count42
Insomniacs After School
To keep using their school's abandoned observatory as a refuge, two sleepless high school students decide to revive the defunct astronomy club.
Release Date2023-06-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count4
Vanished
Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon discover that mistakes may cost them more than even their dreams could tell.
Release Date2006-08-26
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count7
Ougon No Toki - Kintaro Hattori Story
Release Date2024-03-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Lost Paradise in Tokyo
Mikio and his older brother Saneo, who is mentally handicapped, live together and have just buried their father. One day, Mikio hires a hooker named Marin for his brother. Marin is an underground singer who goes by the name Fala. A video producer who is filming Fala's documentary finds out about her double life, and proposes to film her and Saneo's sex life. Dreaming about leaving Tokyo with Saneo with a huge sum of money from the film, Mikio and Marin agree to the offer.
Release Date2010-09-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
To Give a Dream
The Abe family consists of French Toma, his Japanese wife Mikiko and their beautiful daughter Yuko. They appear like the perfect family. However, things start to change when Mikiko manages to get her daughter in show business.
Release Date2015-05-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count4
Vote Count7
Startup Girls
A young female founder runs in to societal barriers during her drive to create startup projects, in a Japanese society that hasn't traditionally accepted entrepreneurs . She finds herself, and maturity along the way.
Release Date2019-09-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Zutaboro
When friends graduate from junior high school and are enrolled in high school Koichi and Yakko join a motorcycle gang. They make new friends, have fights and flirt with girls. Yakko, however, is not having an easy time of it. Koichi stands up for his friend and joins the yakuza, which brings its own problems with it.
Release Date2015-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Pretenders
In Osaka, Shiromiya will soon turn 40 years old and he is unemployed. He lives with his daughter Yoyoko who is 5-years-old. Yoyoko has a secret. One day, Shiromiya's childhood friend Machi appears in front of them. Machi is a police officer. She looks at Yoyoko with suspicion...
Release Date2018-10-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Top Secret: Murder in Mind
Set in the late 21st century, an MRI scanner is introduced at the National Research Institute of Police Science's 9th Forensics Laboratory. The machine is able to scan the memories from even the deceased. As ethical questions arise over the machine's use, the 9th Forensics Laboratory members, including rookie Ikko Aoki and Chief Tsuyoshi Maki, struggle to solve cases.
Release Date2016-08-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count13
Keishichou Outsider
Kagawa Eiji is a detective who looks more like a gangster. He previously worked at the Metropolitan Police Department investigating organized crime groups, but he was recently demoted to the Sakuramachi Chuo Police Station without being given a reason why. Kagawa Eiji desires to return to the Metropolitan Police Department to get answers. Meanwhile, he works with Detective Hasumi Kosuke at the Sakuramachi Chuo Police Station. Detective Hasumi Kosuke carries a big secret that has never been revealed. A case comes up, where a housekeeper, working at a professor's house, is stabbed to death. At that time, a rookie detective, Mizuki Nao, begins to work with them. Kagawa Eiji and Hasumi Kosuke are bothered by her. She is the daughter of the assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan Police Department. They begin to work together.
Release Date2023-01-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count9
Vote Count11
The Lump in my Heart
The film delicately portrays a young girl who struggles with the sudden discovery of juvenile breast cancer and her complicated relationship with her mother.
Release Date2023-01-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Kaede
A twin secretly replaces his deceased brother to stay with his lover, hiding the truth while falling for her and navigating suspicions and her hidden secret.
Release Date2025-12-19
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Memory's Technique
Karen is an ordinary high school student in Tokyo, but she sometimes recalls pieces of her childhood memories that she did not know before. During the process of getting her passport for a school trip, Karen views her family register. She learns that she had an older sister Yukari, who died at the age of 4. Karen also learns that her parents are not her biological parents and that she was adopted. Karen now wants to learn about herself. She lies to her parents and tells them that she is leaving on the school trip. Instead, she travels to Fukuoka where she was born. Her classmate Satoi Hogari accompanies her.
Release Date2020-11-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Musunde hiraite
Release Date2007-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Yuhinata ni ochiru koe
Drama about a man with communication problems
Release Date2007-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
It's Raining, It's the End
Release Date2024-10-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Dari Marusan
Traditional Japanese wooden Daruma dolls have no ears. The classmates of this film’s hearing impaired heroine gave her the nickname ‘Dari Marusan’ in reference to such dolls. While Dari has now adopted the name as her own, she hasn’t got over the hurt.
Release Date2014-11-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Women Does Not Allow That
31-year-old Urara Iwasaki (Kyoko Fukada) makes an error during her first trial as an attorney which hurts her client. Urara Iwasaki thinks law isn't right for her and she quits her job. She now has a debt of 4 million yen and earns a living by doing part-time work. Meanwhile, Rinka Ebisawa (Shinobu Terajima) is a competent lawyer, but its revealed she used excessive ways in her cases and is dismissed from her law firm and disbarred. She can't work as a lawyer anymore. By chance, Rinka meets Urara.
Release Date2014-10-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count10
Vote Count1
Swimming in the Dark
Yuji Tomioka is a 38-year-old single man who has never dated a woman. He works the night shift as a security guard at a supermarket. He experiences loneliness during this time. One night, during a shooting star, he wishes to have friend. A mysterious neighbor, Azusa Hada, appears in front of him. They fall in love, but Yuji's life changes.
Release Date2017-07-19
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Episode Count10
Vote Count3
Why Did She Let the Monkeys Loose?
Release Date2024-02-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Child in the Distance
Miyako participates in a 1 night and 2 days hiking tour of Mount Fuji. Ryoichi Nozawa is the guide for the hiking tour team of Miyako, Shintaro Kondo, Someno Aoyama and Ai Mitsuke. While hiking through Mount Fuji, Someno looks back and sees Miyako is crouced down and has her hands covering her face. Ryoichi tries to talk to Miyako, but she is frozen. Miyako sees the faint shape of person. Miyako realizes that she has a daughter named Natsuki.
Release Date2013-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count4
Sakura Blooms
The story is about a gentle and easygoing girl who likes reading. One day, a piece of paper comes out of a book at the library. It is a beautiful letter called "Sakurasaku". That's when she starts a correspondence with a complete stranger. But who is he?
Release Date2016-03-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
The Soup, One Morning
"The Soup, One Morning" depicts the gradual dissolution of a relationship caused by mental illness. Kitagawa and Shizu are lovers and roommates. Suffering from a panic disorder, Kitawgawa estranges himself from the world and entraps himself in the claustrophobic confines of the apartment. He leaves only to attend his new seminar. Initially heartened by his interest in this new venture, Shizu senses something fishy when he shows up with a strange amulet and begins to fill their place with unfamiliar furniture. When he commences rambling about the karmic life, she realizes that the man she cares for has become a complete stranger.
Release Date2005-07-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Lost Hum
Intense and unheimische digital film by the illustrious duo Takahashi Izumi and Hirosue Hiromasa. A woman kidnapped her sister's murderer and uses her website to attract strange visitors to the apartment where she is holding him.
Release Date2006-01-26