Taeko Asano (Writer)
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Works
Love Generation
Love Generation revolves around the relationship of the two leading protagonists, Katagiri Teppei and Uesugi Riko, who begin their relationship as squabbling colleagues before falling in love.
Release Date1997-10-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count11
Vote Count10
ICHI
Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick.
Release Date2008-10-25
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count131
Junjo Kirari
The 74th NHK Asadora Drama is Junjo Kirari, which means something along the lines of "pure-hearted Kirari." The story is set in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture in the era around the Second World War. When the story opens in 1928, the heroine, Sakurako, is a very active seven-year-old girl. Indeed, even in the first episode she exhibits her confidence and enthusiasm. But above all else, Sakurako is interested in becoming a jazz pianist, and music features extensively in the plot.
Release Date2006-03-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count156
Vote Count2
Birds Without Names
An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has mysteriously disappeared.
Release Date2017-10-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count29
That Girl's Captives of Love
Centers on three childhood friends in a love triangle. Yori moved back to the countryside, and started wearing glasses and not being noticed by girls. Meanwhile, Shizuku entered the entertainment industry alongside Subaru, and both began working as a model and actor, respectively. But when Yori turns 16, he re-enters their lives.
Release Date2018-10-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count16
Chichi yo, anata wa erakatta - 1969 nen no oyaji to boku
Release Date2009-11-06
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Marmalade Boy
Two sets of parents divorce and marry each other, while their children Miki and Yuu are caught in the middle and start falling for each other.
Release Date2018-04-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count28
Love for Beginners
Hibino Tsubaki is a young teenage girl with a talent for styling other people's hair. Yet, Tsubaki suffers from low self-esteem and isn't very comfortable styling her own hair. She also has a tendency to dress old-fashioned. She's teased at high school because of this. One day, popular male student Tsubaki Kyota targets Tsubaki for teasing. Tsubaki Kyota holds sway over the entire classroom and is quite a playboy. Inexplicably they fall in love. Meanwhile, Tsubaki Kyota has commitment issues...
Release Date2012-12-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count43
Face
Seira Ino (Emi Takei) is about to make her major label debut as a “masked artist” who does not show her face.
Release Date2024-01-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Clover
Saya Suzuki is an ordinary employee working at a hotel. She falls in love with her elite boss Susumu Tsuge. Through their romance, Saya Suzuki grows as a person.
Release Date2014-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count44
Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning of all kinds.
Release Date2006-12-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScenario Writer
Vote Count4
Mystery Trilogy Special
This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
Release Date2015-11-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
First Love
A university student has the usual dreams and aspirations. It turns out to be a pipe dream and so she murders her own flesh and blood. The usual media heads seek an answer in order to sell copy. A psychologist is writing a book about the character and incident. Her research for the subject matter turn the psychologist inward and things come out of the shadows that perhaps are better left buried deep in the shadows of the psyche.
Release Date2021-02-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count11
The Bucket List
Sachie Kitahara is a housewife and she has devoted her life to her family. Mako Goda is a wealthy woman who runs a business. They are both diagnosed with terminal illnesses and are told they only have a short time left to live. These two women from completely different walks of life meet at the hospital. They both feel emptiness in their lives. They happen to get a 12-year-old's written bucket list. Sachie Kitahara and Mako Goda decide to carry out the girl's wish list and they begin to feel happiness entering their lives.
Release Date2019-10-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Innocent Love
An arson took it all away from Akiyama Kanon seven years ago. Her parents died in that fire, her brother was arrested as the prime suspect and her carefree life disappeared from that instant. She was shunned by the town as the sister of a murderer, yet she believes in her brother's innocence and often pays him visits with words of encouragement. As life gets harder when nobody is willing to give her a job, Kanon decides to try her luck in the city and there she meets the man of her destiny...
Release Date2008-10-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count10
Vote Count2
Ōoku
Release Date2016-01-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Partner in Crime
For the past 15 years, Fuyukawa Misaki has lived a quiet, reclusive life while keeping her secret well-hidden. With just two months left before the statute of limitations on the murder of her colleague expires, a mysterious man appears in Misaki’s life, who says, “I know your secret.” Is he a friend or foe? The nameless man who claims to know about Misaki’s past does not reveal any personal information about himself, but only says he wants to live with her in exchange for keeping her secret. Hence, a bizarre living arrangement begins. Who is this man and what is his purpose? Meanwhile, conventional detective Kiba is convinced that Misaki is the elusive criminal behind the 15-year old murder case and is determined to uncover evidence to prove his theory. As this peculiar love-suspense drama unfolds, you will need to piece together information to solve the mysterious puzzle of murder while the clock counts down to the expiration deadline.
Release Date2015-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Jikan no Shûzoku
Release Date2014-04-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Pro Bono
A young, mentally retarded boy is wrongfully accused of murder, but his family lacks the means to hire an attorney to defend him. The boy’s sister, Kiriko, pleads with an accomplished attorney named Otsuka to defend her brother pro bono. But because of Otsuka’s busy schedule and other priorities, he refuses to take the case. Lacking a proper defense, Kiriko’s brother is eventually convicted of murder, and dies in prison. From that point on, Kiriko is determined to take revenge against Otuska.
Release Date2014-12-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Bōkyō
Three stories from Shiratsuna Island: "Mikan no hana" Shiratsuna Island is the only remaining island city in Japan, but it is being merged with a city on the opposite shore. Housewife Misato Tomita lives on the island. "Umi no hoshi" Yōhei Hamasaki, who was born on Shiratsuna Island, lives in an apartment in the outskirts of Tokyo with his wife, Tomomi, and their son, Taichi. "Kumo no ito" Popular artist Hirotaka Kurosaki, who is a native of Shiratsuna Island, goes back to his hometown after seven years.
Release Date2016-09-28
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count1
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 Date1998-07-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count12
Vote Count4
Last Friends
Follow the life of Michiru Aida, a beauty parlor assistant who returns to Tokyo after 4 years. Bullied by her seniors at work and abused by her boyfriend, she is reunited with her best friend during high school, Ruka Kishimoto, a skilled motocross racer. Takeru, a make-up artist, is introduced to Ruka by her housemate, Eri and thus begin a journey of friendship.
Release Date2008-04-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count11
Vote Count17
Oiesan
Traces the rise of the company Suzuki Shoten from the 1880's to 1919. After the death of her husband, Yoni Suzuki and her general manager built the company from a small sugar importer into Japan's largest trading and manufacturing company.
Release Date2014-05-09
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenstory
Stop the Old Fox
After the sudden death of her adoptive father Shimada Mataemon, Nui, whose own father met an untimely death when he was about to expose the corruption of the shogunate becomes determined to expose the collusion between Kannouji, and the unforgivable relationships between the ladies in waiting of the inner palace and the monks. Nui is undertaking this undercover investigation without regard for the danger she is putting herself in, for the sake of Shinnosuke whom she secretly loves
Release Date2016-04-08
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
More Than Words
Mieko and Makio's youthful friendship with Eiji evolves into love, parenthood, and reunions, painting a bittersweet portrait of growing up.
Release Date2022-09-16
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count10
Vote Count11
Ooku
The mini-series revolves around the harem of a shogun in the Edo Period in Japan. The women jostle and compete with one another and with their lord and on occasion even wield more power than their master.
Release Date2003-06-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count13
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
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Episode Count12
Vote Count8
100 Tales of Horror
There are all kinds of people living in the back street tenement houses in old Edo. One of them is Ashiya Dosan, the descendant of an Onmyoji who made a name for himself back in the Heian period. Unfortunately, unlike his forefathers, Dosan has not made much of a living off the fortune telling and amulet peddling that he does.
Release Date2002-08-13
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
What Do You Really Do About Love?
Sakurazawa Jun is 27 years old and excels in her job, is fashionable, has many hobbies and lives a very fulfilled life. Her life is driven by her primary motto "love is just a waste of time!" and she has no experience in romantic relationships or with men. Before her appears Nagamine Shuma, an incredibly handsome chef in training who knows exactly what women want to hear and feel. He's someone who lives in the moment, lets people come and go, is cool and not serious about love. For some reason, Shuma is intrigued by Jun and decides to approach her...
Release Date2022-04-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count10
Vote Count3
Ooku ~ Hana no Ran ~
Tells the story of the women surrounding Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun.
Release Date2005-10-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count11
Love 2000
Yuri Maroev is a secret agent and assassin from the Ural Republic sent along with his brother on a mission to Japan. Once in Japan, he meets systems analyst Mashiro Rieru and uses her high-level security access to get top-secret information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His pretense of romance turns into genuine feelings of love, as Rieru falls deeper into the intricacies of Yuri's fateful covert operations.
Release Date2000-01-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count11
Vote Count1
Perfect Love
Release Date1999-07-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Cross of Roses
A new kind of melodrama about a man that wants children, but can't have them with his wife; and a single-woman that wants to have a child of her own. It is also about what children mean to both sexes.
Release Date2002-10-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count10
Every Precious Moment
Release Date2023-10-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count9
I'm Sorry, I Love You
Ritsu was abandoned by his mother Reiko when he was little, so now he belongs in the lower social strata. One day, Ritsu gets involved in a case and his head is severely injured, so he can die at anytime. Convinced she abandoned him due to poverty, Ritsu attempts to find his mother and be good to her before his death. But when he learns that she is leading a happy life instead, with her pianist son Satoru, he decides to take revenge on his mother. Ritsu then meets Rinka, a girl whom he happened to help in the past, and discovers she is Satoru’s childhood friend.
Release Date2017-07-09
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count10
Vote Count3
Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight
Kanji Takizawa worked diligently at a bank, successfully reaching the position of branch manager. Despite the fact that his conversation with his wife Mariko was dwindling and there was a growing distance between him and his young, unmarried daughter, Misaki, he had come to accept his peaceful life. One day, Kanji gets loaned out to a client company for an unjustifiable reason. Shocked, Kanji lies to his family that he was going on a business trip to Switzerland, where he meets and finds a kindred spirit in Shiori Meguro. Meanwhile, Mariko suspects that her husband may be having an affair, and finds herself falling in forbidden love with her daughter’s fiancé, Haruki Hino.
Release Date2018-10-11
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Episode Count10
Prism
Maejima Satsuki works part-time at a garden centre in Tokyo. While her aspiration is to be a voice talent, she is on the verge of giving up. Satsuki has never been serious about what she does. It is the same with romance. However, she meets Morishita Riku, who is a garden designer. After a terrarium that she made captured his attention, Satsuki ends up helping out with a garden project he has undertaken. Before long, the two of them become a couple. Then, the gardener, Shiraishi Yuma, joins the project, and Riku is greatly shaken. Satsuki is unaware of their reunion. The feelings of the three of them intertwine as they focus on completing the garden. Satsuki eventually makes a choice.
Release Date2022-07-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
Extramarital Love
Release Date2002-01-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count9
Kare, Otto, Otoko Tomodachi
Haruko (Maki Yoko), an events producer, is the second of the Inuyama family's three daughters. She turns down a proposal from the man she has been cohabiting with, causing their relationship to turn awkward. Her older sister, Asako (Kimura Tae), is hides her husband's domestic violence while her younger sister, Ikuko (Kaho), cannot instinctively understand love. Haruko is at a critical point in her career and love life, but she scrambles about for the sake of her sisters. The three of them are helped by the family ties and eventually break out of their shell.
Release Date2011-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
13
For 13 years, Yuria Aikawa's whereabouts have been unknown. All of a sudden, she reemerges and returns to her family. What awaits Yuria is a world that have completely changed.
Release Date2020-08-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
Cat Street
A story about a talented child actress who wins back her dream after retiring from acting. Keito was once a popular child actress, but she had shut herself away from society for 10 years after a traumatic acting incident. She is now 17 years old and incidentally enrolls to a free school for dropouts where she makes true friends. Together, they build trust and find the meaning of life. --NHK
Release Date2008-08-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
The Cicada's Eighth Day
Kiwako Nonomiya is devastated after Takehiro Akiyama, the married man she has been having an affair with, manipulates her into getting an abortion by promising to marry her and then refusing to divorce his wife. Kiwako then learns of Takehiro's wife's pregnancy. One morning, while Takehiro and his wife Etsuko are away, Kiwako sneaks into their home to get a look at their six-month-old child. Without a thought for the consequences, she carries the baby away. Kiwako then raises the child as her own, while being a fugitive from the law.
Release Date2010-03-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count6
Toward the Wilderness
Morimura Tomomi is a housewife scorned by her husband and two sons, and yet she continues to protect the family. On her 46th birthday, she leaves home in disgust and embarks on a 1,200 km journey. It is Tomomi’s first time driving onto the highway and she speeds along to the west. On the road, she encounters a series of traumatising episodes. She detects her husband’s affair, is faced with a truck driver who mistakes her for a prostitute housewife, and finally her car gets stolen. While Tomomi is at a loss, a good-looking young man and an elderly person give her a ride, and she arrives in Nagasaki. As she meets various people in this town which was once transformed into a wasteland because of the atomic bomb, she becomes aware of a “wilderness” within her and starts to explore the path to rebirth
Release Date2015-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count8