Toyoko Yamasaki (Writing)

Little is known about Toyoko Yamasaki, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.

Works

Kareinaru ichizoku

Daisuke Manpyō is the owner and president of the successful Hanshin Bank. He also owns several other companies and some real estate. His son-in-law is a bureaucrat at the Ministry of the Treasury, who tips him off that there is a move afoot to reorganize commercial banks. Manpyō is in for difficult times as he attempts to block the merger between his bank and another.

Release Date:2021-04-18

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:4

The Great White Tower

Release Date:2019-05-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:2

Two Homelands

Kenji Amo is a 2nd generation Japanese-American. He was born in America, but went to school in Japan. He returned to America to study at UCLA. Now, Kenji Amo works as a reporter for a newspaper in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles. Charlie Tamiya also studied at UCLA with Kenji Amo. Charlie Tamiya has feeling for Nagiko who works with Kenji Amo at the same newspaper company. Knowing that, Kenji Amo holds complicated feelings. At this time, Nagiko's friend Emi Hatanaka asks Kenji Amo to marry her. He accepts her proposal, but the Pacific War begins. Circumstances surrounding Kenji Amo changes.

Release Date:2019-03-23

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

Onna no Kunsho

Release Date:2017-04-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

The Unbroken

WOWOW brings acclaimed author Toyoko Yamasaki's 1999 literary tour de force to life on the small screen for the very first time. Audiences have already received television adaptations of Yamasaki's other works – The Ivory Tower (白い巨塔), The Grand Family (華麗なる一族), The Waste Land (不毛地帯), A Son of the Good Earth (大地の子), and My Destiny (運命の人) – and can now add The Unbroken (沈まぬ太陽) to that list with this long-awaited production. Features a star-studded cast and additional filming on location in Africa and the Middle East.

Release Date:2016-05-08

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:20

Vote Count:2

Man of Destiny

A newspaper reporter (Masahiro Motoki) uncovers a secret "Okinawa pact" between the Japanese and U.S. government. A woman who is the deputy director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs becomes a key figure in the story.

Release Date:2012-01-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:10

3.11 A Sense of Home

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.

Release Date:2011-11-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

The Unbroken

Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head office after ten years, and continues to struggle. When a National Air Line plane is involved in the worst air disaster in Japanese history, he is assigned to console and provide restitution to the families of the victims.

Release Date:2009-10-23

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:12

The Waste Land

Iki Tadashi is a military leader named who was captured by the Soviets during World War II. Treated as a war criminal, he was sentenced to many years of labor in a harsh Siberian detention camp. After 11 years of imprisonment, he is released. He returns to Japan and begins readjusting to life as a civilian, rejecting an offer from his former colleague to work on a defense project. Tadashi has decided to never involve himself in war again, much to the joy of his family. Instead, he attempts to set off on a new path working at a major trading company. --Tokyograph

Release Date:2009-10-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:20

Vote Count:3

The Family

The Family, the program commemorating the 55th anniversary of the launch of the TBS TV station, is a social drama depicting the inside story between bureaucrats, politicians, and big businesses over a bank merger revolving around the family discord between Daisuke Manpyō, the owner and president of Hanshin Bank, and his eldest son, Teppei.

Release Date:2007-01-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:8

Matrilineal Family

A generations old family business is sent into turmoil when the sudden death of the head of the family opens the door to a fierce struggle between his three powerful and privileged daughters and the young mistress of modest means pregnant with his child.

Release Date:2005-07-07

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:11

The Great White Tower

A striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Zaizen Goro, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary physician Satomi Shuji, who selflessly continues a quest to save human lives. The Great White Tower is the title of a representative novel by Toyoko Yamazaki that depicts the hidden side of the medical world and the dignity of human life, thus shocking and moving many readers, marking a milestone in medical dramas. A dense human drama develops starting with the first half, which depicts the tragicomic circumstances arising from human ambition in the selection of professors, and proceeding to the second half, which inquires into the dignity of human life through a medical court case involving a malpractice suit.

Release Date:2003-10-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:21

Vote Count:27

A Son Of The Good Earth

Release Date:1995-11-11

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:3

Burning Mountain River

The three Amaba brothers are second-generation Japanese Americans, whose allegiances are torn by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Determined to show his loyalty to his adopted country, Isamu volunteers for the U.S. Army and is shipped off to fight in Europe. A second brother, studying in Japan at the outbreak of hostilities, is conscripted to fight against the Americans as a Japanese soldier. The third brother Kenji (Matsumoto) avoids conflict by enlisting as a military interpreter, in which capacity he witnesses the war crimes trials that followed Japan's defeat.

Release Date:1984-01-08

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:51

The White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

Release Date:1978-06-03

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:31

Vote Count:1

The Corporation

Release Date:1976-08-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

The Family

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.

Release Date:1974-01-26

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:1

The Great White Tower

Release Date:1966-10-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:14

The Third Will

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father

Release Date:1963-03-31

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

A Design for Dying

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.

Release Date:1961-06-28

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:1

Bonchi

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.

Release Date:1960-04-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Flower Shop Curtain

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

Release Date:1959-01-27

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

The Shop Curtain

Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.

Release Date:1958-06-15

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:1