Toyoko Yamasaki (Writer)
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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 Date2021-04-18
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count12
Vote Count4
The Great White Tower
Two surgeons with contrasting objectives are asked to work together in a city hospital. While one of them strives to achieve fame and power through his work, the other wants to save human lives.
Release Date2003-10-09
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count21
Vote Count29
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 Date2009-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count20
Vote Count3
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 Date2007-01-14
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count10
Vote Count9
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 Date2016-05-08
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count20
Vote Count2
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 Date1978-06-03
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count31
Vote Count1
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 Date2005-07-07
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count11
The Great White Tower
Release Date2019-05-22
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count5
Vote Count2
A Son Of The Good Earth
Release Date1995-11-11
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count11
Vote Count3
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 Date2019-03-23
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
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 Date1984-01-08
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count51
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 Date2012-01-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count10
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 Date1961-06-28
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1
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 Date2009-10-23
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count12
The Great 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 Date1966-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count14
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 Date1974-01-26
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1
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 Date1960-04-14
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
Onna no Kunsho
Release Date2017-04-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count2
The Corporation
Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the expansive Kinki Corporation, but rival corporations are competing for a government contract to produce fighter planes.
Release Date1976-08-14
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
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 Date1963-03-31
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
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 Date2011-09-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
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 Date1959-01-27
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
The Shop Curtain
Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
Release Date1958-06-15
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1