Hitoshi Iwamoto (Directing)
Little is known about Hitoshi Iwamoto, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
What Day of the Week Were You Born?
Due to an event, Kurome Sui has been living as a hikikomori for the past 10 years since the age of 18. However, her life begins to change after she receives an invitation to a high school reunion and meets popular novelist Kumon Ryuen.
Release Date:2023-08-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:1
Private Tutor Torako
Torako is a mysterious, but excellent private tutor. She has big ambitions and works to achieve her goal. She takes private tutoring jobs from kids of rich families and makes connections, while saving money. She currently has 3 students. Her 3 students and their mothers hope to have the students enter prestigious schools, while they must deal with their own unique problems.
Release Date:2022-07-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:2
Rasen no Meikyu: DNA Kagaku Sosa
In Tokyo, a murderer leaves his signature, an `X`on the dead body. When found, the mark appears eerily similar to that of the one seen on the body of the dead wife of Detective Genji Ando. Banned from the investigation, he secretly reaches out to Jin Jinbo, an associate professor at the medical school`s genome analysis lab. Who better than a DNA expert to identify this potential serial killer?
Release Date:2021-10-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:7
Vote Count:2
Love Deeply!
Nagisa Mio, an oceanographer at Shibaura University of Marine Science and Technology, is very interested in fishes and loves the sea. Despite her cheerful smile and kind, good-natured personality, she is reticent about her family and past. Hasuda Rintaro, the second son of a wealthy family, is feared by the people around him as he comes across as someone who is hard to approach. But beneath that armour is a young man with a pure heart and no airs. He has returned to Japan due to his father’s poor health and is put in charge of a marine resort development project. While Mio wants to protect the ocean and opposes the resort’s development, Rintaro is staking his life on it. These two people who seem as if they live in different worlds, meet each other over the project and eventually fall in love. However, theirs is a forbidden romance because Mio has a secret that will shock everyone.
Release Date:2021-04-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:6
Babysitter Gin!
Babysitter Gin Shimochiai's wish is to deliver love to children and parents! Gin, a man dressed as an English maiden inspired by her childhood nanny and the story of Mary Poppins, established a babysitting agency solving the problems of parents from different families in his own way.
Release Date:2019-06-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:3
Diary
Miyata Ayaka (Renbutsu Misako), an office worker, sees her world collapse around her when her mother Miyata Harumi (Kikuchi Momoko) collapses due to illness and is left in a coma because of it. She then discovers that her mother kept a secret diary that she writes with her high school friends and that the lies she has told her have become evident, with nothing to lose. Ayaka will travel to Kaga, in Ishikawa Prefecture, her mother's hometown, to try to clarify the truth of the lie in her mother's secret diary.
Release Date:2018-09-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
With next year's university entrance exams looming, high school senior Yoshiyama Mihane is beginning to feel the blues. She recently joined the school's photography club. As she walks by the science lab one day after school, she smells the aroma of lavender. From that moment on, she acquires the ability to leap freely through time and the days ahead are marked with bizarre occurrences...
Release Date:2016-07-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:5
Akagi
Akagi Shigeru is a young, white-haired mahjong genius. One summer in 1965, he ends up facing off against Washizu Iwao, Japan’s King of Darkness who has amassed enormous fortune and power, at the request of his acquaintance, the rogue detective Yasuoka. As the observer, Ogi Takeshi, a leader of the henchmen of Inada-gumi watches over them, mahjong with special rules called Washizu Mahjong begins. It is a life or death struggle with Akagi’s fresh blood and Washizu’s entire fortune at stake.
Release Date:2015-07-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:2
Forbidden Practices
Saburo works at a medical office on The Izu Islands, which has seen its population dwindle over the years. Even though Saburo doesn't have a medical license, he performs operations under the instructions of Dr. Muraki. Because of his gifted dexterity and sincerity, people call him the Young Doctor. Saburo becomes conflicted over his position, but he convinces himself that what he is doing is helping people. Saburo becomes is also loved by nurse Akiko Suzuki and Akiko Tasaka, who is the daughter of the director of a general hospital in Tokyo. ~~ Based on the novel "Kumo no Kaidan" by Junichi Watanabe.
Release Date:2013-04-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:2
Left-Eye Detective
Tanaka Ainosuke was born with a weak left eye. Then one day, his older brother Yumehito dies mysteriously, allowing Ainosuke to receive a cornea transplant from him. After the surgery, whenever there is a shock to his left eye he sees strange images. Ainosuke assumes that the images might be clues to his brother's death and starts an investigation with the help of his junior high school nurse Sayama Hitomi. But just when their probe begins, an unidentified criminal organization appears to disrupt their investigation...
Release Date:2010-01-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:4
Gyne
Set in the Obstetrics and Gynecology department of a university hospital. Hiragi Nachi is a reserved obstetrician, who is in her fifth year of working as a C-section surgeon in the maternity ward of the hospital. Because of a traumatic incident, she follows a philosophy of preserving life and would never abandon her patients even if it means taking on high risks. One night, while working the graveyard shift, Nachi performs a risky emergency cesarean section. However, when the patient dies from severe blood loss, the woman's family files a lawsuit against Nachi claiming malpractice.
Release Date:2009-10-14
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
MW
A live-action adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s mature manga masterpiece MW (pronounced “moo,” like a cow), created to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Tezuka. When a top secret chemical compound called MW infects an island near Okinawa, the military is sent in to kill all the victims and cover up the incident. A survivor named Michio Yuki (Hiroshi Tamaki) grows up to become a highly-successful banker, but he is slowly being driven mad by the effects of MW. After committing a series of ruthless crimes to get revenge against the people responsible for the cover-up, he decides that the only way to truly get revenge is to unleash MW on the world and exterminate the entire human race. Takayuki Yamada stars as Father Garai, a priest desperately trying to save Michios soul—and possibly his own in the process—but not necessarily doing much to stop the crime spree.
Release Date:2009-07-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:27
MW: The Devil's Game
The main character is a man named Takashi Morioka, who has lost his job and his home due to a recession. He ends up falling into a trap set by the diabolical Yuki Michio, who happened to survive by chance an incident on an island 16 years ago where all the inhabitants were killed, and which caused him to become evil. In order to protect the things important to him, Takashi Morioka (Sato Takeru) is forced to stain his hands in evil.
Release Date:2009-06-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Just One Love
In Yokohama a modern port city, Hiroto Kanzaki works hard in a ship repair factory, supporting his sick mother and younger brother. Tsukioka Nao is the rich daughter of a jewelry shop owner, and studies at an upscale college. This drama is about their love, and all he obstacles they encounter because of their different social backgrounds.
Release Date:2006-10-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:5
Gal Circle
Kitajima Shinnosuke, a cowboy from the USA who goes to Shibuya to find a group of girls to dance Para-Para. Along the way, he becomes a new type of hero, helping to solve problems that afflict Shibuya-Gals.
Release Date:2006-04-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:4
Producing Nobuta
A popular high schooler and his oddball friend help a shy girl get rid of her bullies by attempting to make her the most popular girl in school.
Release Date:2005-10-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:40
Hakusen Nagashi - Yume Miru Goro wo Sugitemo
This is the concluding story of Hakusen Nagashi, a TV drama series which started in January 1996, focusing on the growth, loves and dreams of five friends.
Release Date:2005-10-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Hakusen Nagashi~Yume Miro Goro Sugitemo
Release Date:2005-10-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
The Queen's Classroom
The Queen's Classroom is a live-action Japanese television drama about Maya Akutsu, a new teacher at Hanzaki Elementary School who strives for perfection and punishes her students in unorthodox manners. A 12 year old student, Kazumi Kanda, has been able to withstand her strange punishments so far but the other 23 students begin to fold under the pressure. A South Korean remake of the same title starring Go Hyun-jung in the lead role, was produced in 2013.
Release Date:2005-07-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:13
Last Present
Hiraki Asuka is diagnosed with cancer with three months left. She returns to her daughter and former husband, both of whom she had abandoned before, in order to spend her last days, especially with her daughter and to regain her love. Asuka, an architect, had deserted her family, former husband Satoshi and daughter Ayumi as she could not tolerate raising children.
Release Date:2004-07-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:2
Hakusen Nagashi - Ni Juu Go Sai
TV special which follows Hakusen Nagashi - Tabidachi no Shi (2001) and precedes Hakusen Nagashi - Yume Miru Goro wo Sugitemo (2005)
Release Date:2003-09-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
ぼくの魔法使い
Release Date:2003-04-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:1
There's Always Tomorrow - The Movie
Office drama wherein a mediocre salaryman struggling hard to face a dream.
Release Date:2002-10-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Hakusen Nagashi - Tabidachi no Shi
TV special which follows Hakusen Nagashi - Juu sai no Kaze (1999) and precedes Hakusen Nagashi - Ni Juu Go Sai (2003)
Release Date:2001-10-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
There's Always Tomorrow, We Have Tomorrow
Ashita Ga Arusa is a Japanese television drama series first aired on NTV in 2001.
Release Date:2001-04-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:2
Hakusen Nagashi - Juu sai no Kaze
TV special which follows Hakusen Nagashi 19 no Haru (1997) and precedes Hakusen Nagashi - Tabidachi no Shi (2001)
Release Date:1999-01-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Emergency Room 24 Hours
Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things from the patient’s side. Although once retired from his profession, he one day discovers someone in need of help, who he treats and rushes to the Kohoku Medical University Emergency Center. This incident encourages him to once again work as an ER doctor. Confrontation erupts between female doctor Tamaki, and Shindo, now a just-arrived ER doctor. While this human drama depicts the relationships among doctors and nurses, it appeals emotionally to viewers on the subject of life.
Release Date:1999-01-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:6
Precious Time
Masaki is fond of a music producer named Keigo, to get to his concert she ends up selling her body. She end up meeting him after the concert and fall in love with him, and he is interested in her. How ever Masaki has gotten HIV during the time she sold her body... How will this affect her relationship with Keigo?
Release Date:1998-07-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:4
Hakusen Nagashi 19 no Haru
This TV special takes place one year after the events depicted in the 1996 series Hakusen Nagashi, following the same group of friends.
Release Date:1997-08-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku
A program that uses a script written by Koki Mitani and is produced by a different cast and crew each time. As the narration at the beginning of the show says: "If you think you can create the same work with the same script, you don't know drama". This is a drama that clearly shows how the atmosphere of a work changes depending on the direction, making it ideal for those who aspire to become directors.
Release Date:1996-10-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Leave It to the Nurses
The drama follows Asakura who is training to be a nurse and believes that nursing is the only profession for her, even after repeated failures.
Release Date:1996-07-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:4
Hakusen Nagashi
Sonoko Nanakura is a straight A student, daughter of a doctor. She meets Wataru Okochi, a tall orphan guy working in a factory, who attends school at night. Her parents warn her not to get involved, and a smart boy Yusuke Hasebe also seems interested in her.
Release Date:1996-01-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:3
Natsuko no Sake
Natsuko, who was a copywriter, starts to cultivate rice called Tatsunishiki, which is a phantom kind and it is very difficult to grow. She does it to make her dead brother's dream come true. His dream was to make the...
Release Date:1994-01-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:1