Koto Nagata

Born in 1971. Graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University majored in Business and Commerce. While in university, Koto Nagata participated and devoted her passion in study and cheerleading. Taking advantage of experiences in dance lessons in New York, she worked on directing and planning stages and choreography for her team. And naturally, she started to have an interest in filmmaking for her career. And she joined WILCO　corporation soon after she graduated from school in 1995. As she began her career, soon she started to develop her gift. She worked on many productions of films, TV dramas, P.V, and CF being an assistant director. Many of them involved with leading directors and producers such as Shunji Iwai, Kenki Saegusa, and Christopher Doyle. In the meantime, she worked as a director for the first time under a head director of Ten Shimoyama which was a TV- drama series (TV Tokyo) called “Jelly in the Merry-go-round”, a mega hit comics by Moyoco Anno.

Works

My Pheromone Boyfriend Who Won't Do It

Mizukawa Rei is a 30-year-old office lady who decides to quit her job at a real estate company and start an "art subscription company" with a friend. Around the same time, Rei meets a handsome young freelance photographer named Arima Shuto, and they start dating. Rei is very excited with her life as she is experiencing a new job and a new romance. However, after two months into the relationship, Rei notices that Shuto never initiates kisses nor want to have sex with her, which throws Rei into a confused state of "Why won't he want to do it with me even though we're dating?"

Release Date:2022-11-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:2

48 Nichi go ni Kekkon Shimasu

Keiichi is due to marry his girlfriend in 48 days when she returns from her business trip to China. However, before that happens, Keiichi ends up sharing his apartment with 3 other women and tries to hide this from Kano who happens to return home earlier than expected.

Release Date:2021-05-13

Department:Directing

Job:Series Director

Episode Count:50

Go! Go! Stupid Woman!

Student Yuko is a vain person who appears to be carefree and aggressive on the outside, but her personal life is reserved and simple. One day she meets Setsuko, who wears the same clothes as her. At first, Yuko and Setsuko treat each other as rivals, but after finding out that they are similar, a friendship develops.

Release Date:2021-01-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Tokyo Love Story

Nagao Kanji works for an advertising agency in his hometown of Ehime Prefecture. He is assigned to the Tokyo sales department where his colleague Akana Rika takes care of his work. One day, Kanji is invited to drinks by Mikami Kenichi, a former classmate from his hometown who is now in Tokyo, and he is also reunited with Sekiguchi Satomi who has feelings for him. However, Rika ends up joining them when she delivers Kanji’s wallet which he had left in office. On the way back, Rika tells him, “Kanchi, shall we kiss?” and he is rattled. There have been rumours in office that Rika is in a relationship with their boss Waga Natsuki - JDrama Weblog

Release Date:2020-04-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:2

Unrequited Love

At a university football team reunion, former team manager Mitsuki Hiura confesses that she killed a person to quarterback Tetsuro Nishiwaki. She also reveals that as a result of a gender identity disorder, she is now living as a man. Tetsuro and his friends were puzzled by the events leading to her behaviour. They try to protect their old friend as they gradually discover the truth.

Release Date:2017-10-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:22

Vote Count:4

My Cactus

My Cactus is a film from writer/director Koto Nagata that tells the story of unrequited love between its two main characters.

Release Date:2017-07-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Color of Us

Yuri, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, moves to Taiwan after her father's remarriage and job transfer. Because of the language barrier, living with her new Taiwanese mother has been stressful,but they start to build a new relationship after something happens......

Release Date:2016-07-15

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Unrequited Love

Childhood best friends. Cousins. Housemates. Coworkers. Eight stories of unrequited love, eight sets of people who weren't meant to be together. Several short films put together under the common theme of One Sided Love: ***My Nickname is Butatchi ***Something Blue ***Asahan no Yuge ***Kataomoi Supairaru ***Usotsuki no Koi ***Ibu no Okurimono ***Radio Personality ***Boku no Sabotin

Release Date:2016-07-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Shanti Days: 365 Days, Happy Breath

21-year-old Misora Honzawa went to Tokyo from Aomori. Misora Honzawa happens to see Kumi on TV who is a yoga Instructor and model. By chance, the two women begin to live together. At first Misora Honzawa, who is easygoing, and Kumi, who is high maintenance, do not get along with each other. Because they share interests in yoga they eventually become closer and think about happiness and life.

Release Date:2014-10-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

Transformation

Somebody’s brain is living inside of me. Medical thriller based on the novel by Keigo Higashino which has sold over 1,250,000 copies.

Release Date:2014-07-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:3

Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo

At a high school entrance ceremony, high school student Kotoko Aihara, who isn't that smart, notices pretty boy Naoki Irie. She falls in love with him immediately. Kotoko initially doesn't express her feelings to him, but finally has a chance to tell him how she feels. Unfortunately, Naoki turns Kotoko down, saying "I don't like dumb women." One day, Kotoko Aihara's house is severely damaged by an earthquake. Until the house is rebuilt, Kotoko Aihara and her father decide to live with her father's friend. When Kotoko Aihara moves to her new temporary house, she is surprised to learn that Naoki Irie lives there as well.

Release Date:2013-03-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:25

Vote Count:37

Doppleganger

Two women (both played by Nagasawa Masami), who look identical, search for the secret behind their births and, in the process, discover about forbidden medical technologies and the mystery of life.

Release Date:2012-02-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:4

Bukatsudo

Release Date:2010-04-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Paranoid Sisters

The story centers around three sisters living together, though they have very different personalities, leading them to believe they have different mothers. One day, they each receive a letter from their dead father, with each indicating the title of an erotic novel. Believing that the letters are hints about their mothers, they begin reading the books, and before they know it, they start imagining themselves as the novels' heroines.

Release Date:2009-01-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:11

Little DJ

Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...

Release Date:2007-12-15

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2

Shibuya Maruyama Story

Two love stories set in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Release Date:2007-03-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Have a Nice Day

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.

Release Date:2006-10-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Tokyo University Story

Murakami Naoki is the most intelligent student at his high school, but he can't stop obsessing over a girl named Mizuno Haruka. He finally asks her out, and to his surprise, she accepts. After several months of a loving yet obviously doomed romance, it comes time for them to take the entrance exams for Tokyo University. What will happen to their relationship if only one of them is accepted?

Release Date:2006-02-25

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

Filming H&A

Behind the scenes documentary about the filming of "Hana & Alice", which began as a series of shorts promoting Kit Kat

Release Date:2005-02-01

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

A Perfect Day for Love Letters

Release Date:2004-12-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

All About "All About Lily Chou-Chou"

The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS

Release Date:2002-06-28

Vote Count:3

Gift of the Magi

Christmas-themed omnibus TV movie: Hotdog Express; Documentarytic; 祭典の日

Release Date:2001-12-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

All About Lily Chou-Chou

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

Release Date:2001-10-06

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:237

The Hole

Yoriko, a lonely housewife, spies on her neighbors through a hole in the wall of her kitchen.

Release Date:2001-07-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

The Boys Wanted to See Fireworks from the Side

A documentary looking back on the making of Shunji Iwai's TV play Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom?.

Release Date:1999-08-07

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:2