Kentaro Otani (Director)
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Works
Avec mon Mari
Mitsuko has a prestigious job as an editor at a publishing company, while her husband Tomatsu works as a freelance photographer, but he spends all of his time taking care of housework. One day, Mitsuko suspects Tomatsu is having an affair with Mayu, a model, and immediately throws him out. With no place to go, he moves in with Mayu, disrupting her affair with Nakazaki, who happens to work with Mitsuko.
Release Date1999-03-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Mitsuko's brother
Blue Green
Momoko and Kentaro are lovers. During the summer holiday, Momoko invites Kentaro on a trip, but he is not sure. Then, a small incident occurs, and their relationship becomes stormy. Momoko decides to go on a trip by herself, and Kentaro follows in her footsteps... The film is a documentary-style depiction of the feelings of two lovers who are embittered, sulking and wavering over trivial matters. It's a documentary-style film, and it really gets to the heart of what it means to be in love. It's so real!
Release Date1988-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Charactersd
My Ex-Lover and I
Noboru and Mika are former lovers. They have never seen each other since Noboru broke up with her because of his infidelity, but after a dispute over a debt, they decide to meet again for the first time in six months. As they spend the night alone, their intentions become intertwined, and the subtle interplay of truth and lies in their conversations reveals more and more of the unrequited feelings of their former lovers... In this vivid romantic drama, the psychology of a man and a woman who have parted ways, but in their hearts have not yet become strangers, is portrayed more realistically than in reality, using documentary techniques. In the latter half of the film, the conflict between the two men's hearts is clearly revealed through their conversations alone, and the film is brilliantly directed.
Release Date1991-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Nana 2
Two girls with the same name but very different personalities share an apartment in this sequel to Nana. The rising fame of Nana Osaki's band, the Black Stones, is beginning to take a toll on the best friends' relationship. Meanwhile, Nana Komatsu struggles to make sense of her love triangle with Black Stones' guitarist Nobu and rival group Trapnest's bassist Takumi.
Release Date2006-12-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count45
Nana
Two girls named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo. Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O. hopes to make it big in the music business. Despite their differences, the pair hit it off and become roommates.
Release Date2005-09-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count102
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die: The Movie
Release Date2023-05-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Black Butler
Set in the year 2020, following her supposed death, a young woman returns as the son of her noble family to precede the family's prestigious company, with a demon at her side to avenge her parent's murder.
Release Date2014-01-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count123
You Are Brilliant Like a Spica
A high school girl, Sei Saotome, unexpectedly is transferred to an elite high school in Nagano prefecture due to her parents' house-moving. One day, she meets Mizuki and Taiyo, and is invited to join astronomy club with them. The personalities of two boys are completely opposite from each other. Sei, Mizuki and Taiyo struggle with sorrowful and impatient love-triangle...
Release Date2019-04-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Gene Waltz
Doctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in a challenging environment with clinics shutting down due to lack of doctors and the system itself breaking down. Dr. Rie then helps an infertile woman conceive with a surrogate mother which is prohibited in Japan...
Release Date2011-02-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Mystery Trilogy Special
This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
Release Date2015-11-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Haru-san – The Bride's Father is a Great Detective
Dollmaker Haruhiko Kasukabe, nicknamed Haru-san, lost his wife Ruriko in an airplane crash 22 years ago and has been living with his only daughter Furi since then. It is the day of Furi's wedding. However, Furi only told Haruhiko about the wedding a month before. Since the bridegroom had some trouble at his overseas job, he was only able to return to Japan the day of the wedding, so Haruhiko has not met him even once. What kind of man did Furi choose to marry, and why did she hide such an important thing for so long...!? Haruhiko, worrying over all this, shuts himself in his room and decides not to go to the wedding... then, something completely unexpected happens to him. His late wife Ruriko appears before him. The truth is, she has appeared at Haruhiko's side many times before. What could be Ruriko's goal...
Release Date2017-12-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Travail
Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both are also unsatisfied with their partners — Asami is in a slump and is danger of slipping into the C League and she blames her husband Kazuya, and Rina is tired of her boyfriend Hiroki, an unsuccessful musician.
Release Date2002-03-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Rough
A diver on the university team must decide which of her two childhood friends she loves, and they're both on the swim team. High school diver Ami and swimmer Keisuke don't exactly get along. Their parents run rival sweets shops and Ami is long-time friends, and maybe more, with Keisuke's freestyle rival Hiroki. Over time, however, hostile words give way to hesitant attraction, leaving Ami torn between Keisuke and Hiroki. With the national championship coming up, the young swimmers are competing for more than the title, but also their hearts.
Release Date2006-08-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
This Mystery is Excellent! ~ Challenge from Bestseller Writer
Kashiopea no Endo Roru A murder takes place on a luxury overnight train which runs from Sapporo to Ueno, Tokyo. The victim is a film director. The suspects are 4 women. Nokosareta Senritsu After a pianist concludes her best performance to date, she dies mysteriously in the waiting room. The cause of her death is potassium cyanide that was laced in her coffee. Kuroi Pan Teru A man works as a supervisor for a construction company. 30 years ago, he was a popular actor who played a hero character on TV. Now, he has a wife and a 20-year-old daughter. One day, the man learns that his daughter is kidnapped. Daiyamondo Dasuto A cold wave hits Tokyo. Two men, working for the same company, are unable to avoid overtime work that night. The snow storm then causes electrical outages. The two men must face difficult life or death decisions.
Release Date2014-12-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Young Black Jack
On Christmas day, a bomb explodes in a shopping mall. The explosion was perpetrated by a serial bomber. A 9-year-old boy Kuro Hazama and his mother Mitsuko (Naho Toda) are seriously and transfered to a university hospital. With the elite skills of surgeon Dr. Jontaro Honma (Masachika Ichimura), Kuro survives, but is shocked to learn his mother is in a coma. Dr. Honma tells Tokio that when medical science advances, Michiko might one day awake. Tokio decides then to become a doctor. 15 years later, 24-year-old Kuro is a medical student and his mother is still in a coma. Kuro researches ways to awaken his mother whilst practising medicine without a licence.
Release Date2011-04-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Runway Beat
Transfer student Biito “Beat” Mizorogi, talented in fashion design, bring classmates together to stage a fashion show for the school's annual festival.
Release Date2011-03-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Tea for Three
In Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, a ronin student named Keiya leads a listless life. One day, pianist Rika arrives in Mimasaka. Keiya starts to develop a faint romantic feeling for her. However, Rika has a reason she must come to this place at all costs...
Release Date2024-06-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Gajimaru Restaurant's Love
Mizuho takes over a restaurant in Nago, Okinawa, which was left to her by her grandmother. She single-handedly runs “Gajimaru Diner”, named after the large, deeply-rooted Gajimaru (banyan) tree in the area. Eventually, circumstances lead to her being brought together with an unknown traveler named Hayato, her ex-boyfriend Shota who returns after living in Tokyo for the past seven years, and a woman named Riko who shares something with both of them. As they work at the diner together, their relationships reveal themselves differently than what they had in mind.
Release Date2014-09-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Thirty Lies or So
Takarada, a member of a group of swindlers which has reunited to pull off a big caper involving down comforters, shoddy encyclopedias, and a panda suit. However, the actual scam they’re about to run takes a back seat to the trust issues between the group.
Release Date2004-12-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Flower and the Beast
Kumi (Yurika Nakamura) is a transfer student at a prestigious high school. She meets Hyo (Yosuke Sugino) who is handsome and kind. Kumi falls in love with him and has her first kiss with him, but Hyo is famous for being a womanizer at school. After she discovers his true side, she gets hurts, but her feelings for him doesn't go away.
Release Date2017-10-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count15
Vote Count2
My Graduation Vol. 1
Release Date2020-02-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The Great Haruko
Release Date2021-04-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Amateur Lovers Never Give Up!
The story centers on Misa, a career-minded woman who works in the sales department of her company. She works hard, and often puts in an effort to make herself look beautiful. But she actually has no experience in romance. She can’t act cute, she’s bad at inviting people to outings, and she’s too prideful. All the men she meets end up backing away from her. Her roommate and close friend Chihiro is a department store receptionist. She is good with kids, likes housework, and is passionate about her volunteer work; the exact opposite of Misa. They live together like sisters. But a change is coming to their lives when Misa meets the man of her dreams. Meanwhile, Chihiro is apparently having an affair behind her long-time fiancé’s back.
Release Date2017-04-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count1
Every Precious Moment
Release Date2023-10-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count9
Fukuyadou Honpo: Kyoto Love Story
Fukuyadou Honpo is a traditional Kyoto sweet shop with 450 years of history. This romantic drama depicts the careers, love lives and dreams of three sisters.
Release Date2016-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count4
Happy Marriage!?
A rich, handsome businessman, Hokuto, proposes marriage to Chiwa, whose father has a large debt. Hokuto apparently has a secret reason for marrying Chiwa. Will this marriage work out?
Release Date2016-06-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count8
If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die
Eripiyo is initially a woman leading a normal life until it is turned upside down after watching a performance of the minor idol group ChamJam, which leads her to becoming obsessed with one of its members, Maina Ichii. Despite Eripiyo's enthusiasm towards her, Maina is consistently the least popular member of the group, leaving Eripiyo to take it upon herself to buy a lot of Maina's merchandise, which mainly involves singles.
Release Date2022-10-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count6
Kami Tunes: Narase! DTM Joshi
Six students from Ebisu Private Junior High School are recruited to create Desktop Music (DTM).
Release Date2019-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Love Song in August
A Korean pop star and a Japanese housewife meet and start developing feelings for each other. How will things evolve from now on?
Release Date2011-08-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
A Message Sent to You
A drama about young adults and the importance of text messaging on their love lives. In the drama, Han Seung Ho is a Korean foreign student who moves in with, Miu, his friend. Han Seung Ho wants to send a message to his first love in Japanese, but because his Japanese is weak, he enlists the help of Miu to write the texts. Through this relationship, the two end up in love.
Release Date2013-12-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Aruhi, Ahiru Bus
40-year-old Asakura Hazuki works for a big publishing company and is the editor of the female magazine ‘Us’. However, the magazine is discontinued. Hazuki's contract with the publishing company is not renewed and she ends up losing her job. To make matters worse, she breaks up with Kosuke, her boyfriend of seven years, and is pressed for the loan on designer goods which she bought on a spree. At 40, Hazuki is on the verge of losing everything. At that moment, she happens to get scouted to be a bus guide on Ahiru Bus, a city sightseeing tour which she has boarded. She is plunged into the completely foreign world of female bus guides. Hazuki aims to turn her life around as she journeys around a rapidly changing Tokyo. -
Release Date2015-07-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count1