Yoshihiro Izumi (Writing)

Smiling Matryoshka

Ichiro Seike (Sho Sakurai) is a popular, 43 year old politician. He has gained popularity for his impressive smile and liberal speech and behavior. He is expected to be a future prime minster candidate. He has a secretary, Toshiya Suzuki (Tetsuji Tamayama), who carefully works to guide him to the prime minister position. They look like a perfect match as a politician and his secretary, but Reporter Kanae Michiura (Asami Mizukawa) feels something is off about the relationship of these two. She begins to investigate their past and notices the mysterious deaths that have followed Ichiro Seike during his rise in politics. Her own father's death, who was also a reporter, is somehow connected to the politician's past.

Release Date:2024-06-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:3

ACMA:GAME

It is said that if you collect 99 devil's keys, you can have ‍everything in the world. Driven by desire, players risk their lives in the deadly ACMA:GAME. Desperate to trace down who killed his father, Teruasa must put his brains to the ultimate test as the psychological warfare begins.

Release Date:2024-04-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:1

Alibi Breaker Special

Release Date:2024-04-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

Invisible

A detective obsessed with justice receives a surprising offer of help from a mysterious figure in the criminal underworld known as "Invisible."

Release Date:2022-04-15

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:6

Alibi Breaker

In a local shopping street in Nano prefecture, far from the metropole, young Tokino Mitani runs a clocksmith that she inherited from her grandfather all by herself. Her main job is to repair watches and clocks, but she is about to start a side business, a service to break alibis for a fee of 5000 yen per case with a guarantee that the fee is billed only when the alibi is broken. . One day, Tokino meets Yoshiyuki Saji, a detective who is newly assigned to the prefectural police department. Saji cannot break a very solid alibi at a case he is working on and secretly asks Tokino to break it. The case is very challenging, but will Tokino lead him to solve the case!?

Release Date:2020-02-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:6

Everyone’s Demoted!!

Hiroshi Kataoka works at a bank. He receives a promotion to manager of the Kamata branch. He is also informed that the Kamata branch will be shut down and he does not have to work hard. After the branch's shutdown, he will work again at the bank's headquarters. Hiroshi Kataoka is embarrassed by the situation. He sees the branch employees work hard and they do not know the branch will close. Hiroshi Kataoka is conflicted between his job and his employees.

Release Date:2019-04-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:1

Yuukai Houtei: Seven Days

39-year-old Meiko Amabuki (Nanako Matsushima) works as an attorney. She is married to Goro Aizawa, but they are separated. They have one daughter. Meiko Amabuki decides to file for divorce. They battle over custody of their daughter. One day, Meiko Amabuki's daughter is kidnapped. The kidnapper demands that a suspect in a murder case Eiji Kunimitsu receive a not guilty judgement. Meiko Amabuki only has 7 days before that trial ends.

Release Date:2018-10-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Kiss that Kills

A mysterious woman appears in front of Otaro Dojima. The mysterious woman has a pale face with red lips. She kisses him and he dies, but the next moment he regains consciousness. He realizes he is now seven days in the past. The mysterious woman also follows him. Due to her kiss, Otaro Dojima dies and goes back to the past over and over again.

Release Date:2018-01-07

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:18

Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High

Teiichi Akaba is a student at a prestigious private male high school known for producing important politicians and bureaucrats. His dream is to become the prime minster and make his own country. To help achieve his dream, he wants to become elected as his school's student council president. The elected student president receives privileges and a better chance for promotions later in the political & bureaucrat world. A power struggle takes place surrounding the student election.

Release Date:2017-04-29

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:25

Brass Dreams

Hikuma Koichi was a saxophone player, but he suffers from the after-effects of an accident. Due to that, he turned his back on music. Hikuma Koichi finds hope in the high school brass band. The band consists of problem students. Koichi struggles to instruct the brass band and to give them hope.

Release Date:2016-07-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:4

AnoHana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Friends grow apart after a tragic accident claims one of their number. Years later, the dead girl appears to them to ask for their help in crossing over to the afterlife.

Release Date:2015-09-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:23

Death Note

Light Yagami is an ordinary university student. One day, he receives a "Death Note", which changes his life. The Death Note awakens his warped sense of justice and genius. He becomes murderer Kira and punishes criminals. L is a well known private detective. L appears in front of Light Yagami. L defines Kira as evil and decides to catch Kira. Then N, who has a beautiful appearance but dangerous existence, appears.

Release Date:2015-07-05

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:214

Kurokouchi

Detective Keita Kurokouchi (Tomoya Nagase) continues to extort money from politicians whom Keita Kurokouchi has information on. By using his information he is able to crack unsolved cases. Rookie Detective Mayo Seike (Ayame Gouriki) is excellent with her job and also a bit naive. She conducts an internal investigation on Detective Keita Kurokouchi, but they become partners and work on cases together..

Release Date:2013-10-11

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:2

Ranma ½

Akane is the youngest of three daughters for Soun Tendo. Her father Soun Tendo runs a dojo for martial arts. Akane hopes to carry on her father's dojo into the distant future. Meanwhile, Akane has been selected to marry Ranma, the son of her father's long time friend Genma. Akane and Ranma's relationship has developed into a love and hate relationship. Also, Ranma isn't your typical boy. While on a training journey Ranma fell into the Spring of the Drowned Girl and now changes into a women whenever cold water is splashed on him. Warm water will allow him to revert back to a male. Problems arise when Akane's father declares that the successor to their dojo must be a male. Now, Akane and Ranma (being a man only half of the time) must find a secret spring that can cure him of his curse.

Release Date:2011-12-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:58

Antarctica

Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in Antarctica. After a year, the exploration team is ordered to withdraw from the Antarctic station due to severe weather conditions. The dogs have to be left behind. The following year, the next team arrives at the Showa Base station and a miraculous reunion occurs between a dog handler accompanying the new tean and two dogs, Taro and Shiro, that are brothers.

Release Date:2011-10-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:5

The Japanese the Japanese Don't Know

Haruko lands a job in a local tutoring establishment and upon showing up for work on the first day, she discovers that she will not be teaching Japanese people, but teaching people Japanese. Her students are all foreigners who live in Japan for several reasons, and she is faced with their many questions on the Japanese Language that she'd never really thought of before.

Release Date:2010-07-15

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:5

Genkai in a Black Company

After the death of this mother, Masao Oneta (Teppei Koike) decides to leave the comfort of his room after years of self isolation and get a job. He lands a position at a small IT firm but doesn't yet realise this company is one of many 'black companies', known for overworking their employees.

Release Date:2009-11-21

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:6

Rookies the Movie: Graduation

Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games. Composed of student delinquents, Futakotamagawa High's new Literature teacher Kawato Koichi inspires the Baseball Club to believe in a dream goal once again. For them, it is to play at the Koshien - Japan's National High School Baseball Championship. But, Kawato Koichi and the newly reformed baseball team run into plenty of obstacles along the way...

Release Date:2009-05-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:7

Anmitsu Hime 2

The second Anmitsu Hime TV-movie.

Release Date:2009-01-11

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Rookies

Led by their fervent teacher, a high school baseball team full of delinquents vows to make it all the way to the national championship tournament.

Release Date:2008-04-19

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:5

Anmitsu Hime

At age 16, a tomboy princess, Princess Anmitsu, has no love interest in her life and worries her parents. Despite their concern, Anmitsu runs away from the castle to venture into the commoners' life. During her daring adventure, she befriends a group of children who make a living by pick-pocketing. At the same time, she finally meets her prince charming Senbei, the leader of the group. However, she soon finds herself in an awkward position when she learns of the children's new plot: they are planning to steal the treasures from her own castle. Will she be able to put a stop to it without revealing her true identity?

Release Date:2008-01-06

Department:Writing

Job:Screenstory

Hanayome to Papa

Ishihara plays a new 20-year-old OL working in the apparel company of her dreams. Her father, played by Tokito, loves his daughter excessively to the point that he compels her to follow his house rules: 7:00pm curfew, no socialising with the opposite sex. Nevertheless, she falls in love with her colleague, played by Taguchi, and begins a mission to "graduate" from her father..

Release Date:2007-04-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:3

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

High school student Hoshi Izumi loses her father suddenly in an accident. One day, Sakuma, the waka gashira of a small and weak Yakuza gang in Asakusa - the Medaka Gumi - pays Izumi a visit along with the gang members. The death of their former kumicho (Boss) puts Medaka Gumi on the verge of a breakup. Therefore, Sakuma begs Izumi, the former boss's only distant relative left, to succeed to the kumicho position. Izumi is taken by surprise and keeps refusing at first. However, she ends up becoming the 8th kumicho of the Medaka Gumi! The police tell her that her father's death may possibly be a homicide case. There's also Mayumi, a mysterious woman staring closely at Izumi's father's photograph at his funeral. The situation becomes complicated when the drug-dealing vicious yakuza, Hamaguchi Gumi, comes into the picture as well as Sandaiji Hajime, a politician whose public stance is to eliminate drugs.

Release Date:2006-10-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:3

Love on Sunday

Akira had to transfer schools upon graduation because of her father's job. She was reluctant to move because of her secret love for Nao...

Release Date:2006-07-22

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:6

Sasori

On her 18th birthday, Nami witnesses the brutal murder of her parents by a man with a burn on his hand. She is then falsely accused of the crime and sent to jail. Sworn to vengeance, Nami battles corrupt officials and cruel inmates to escape prison, only to search through the underbelly of Japanese society to find the man with a burn on his hand, ‘stinging’ anyone in her way.

Release Date:2004-06-19

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:1

Keitai Deka Zenigata Mai

Zenigata Mai is a high school girl who sidelines as a detective. Her father is a high ranking police officer, so her partner Godai Jun is forced to allow her to participate in investigations, often through cellphone conversations.

Release Date:2003-10-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Love Quotient

Release Date:2002-07-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:2

Nama Tamago

Nama Tamago was a 2002 movie featuring Iida Kaori, Yaguchi Mari, Tsuji Nozomi and Goto Maki. The VHS was released in March 15, 2002 and later on DVD format on April 15, 2002. The story centers around four young girls who want to make it as table-tennis players. However, no matter how much each girl practices and tries her hardest, none of them improve, that is until one of the girls suggest they make a wager as to who can become the best, then the competition is on!

Release Date:2002-03-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

Go-Con! Japanese Love Culture

Three friends have become masters of the "Go-Con": Japanese group dating. But after playing the game so long, they begin to wonder if their love lives are going nowhere.

Release Date:2000-03-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1