Kana Matsumoto (Directing)

大川と小川の休日捜査

Release Date:2024-09-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Two in a Housing Complex

In their 50s, single, and living in their family home, these two childhood friends were born in a housing complex. Even though their hearts are stirred, they are fine together. It’s a warm and humorous story of friendship, featuring the famous duo Koizumi Kyoko and Kobayashi Satomi.

Release Date:2024-09-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:1

When Spring Comes

Release Date:2024-01-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:1

Subscription Adultery

Adapted from a popular webtoon. Toriyama Michiru, an ordinary housewife who has never thought about adultery before gets addicted to a subscription affair service that allows you to have a “safe affair.” Her married life with her husband (Kimura Ryo), who she’d met through work, began to deviate from the ideal she had originally envisioned. One day, at the recommendation of a friend, she learns of an app called “Buffet,” a subscription service that allows married people to have affairs safely and confidentially. After signing up for the service, she encounters photographer Junya, and Kentaro, the heir to a major hospital, and as a result, she becomes unable to break free from the never-ending loop of desire for self-approval and paying for more services. A new and exciting “swamp” suspense drama centered around love, money and greed begins!

Release Date:2023-11-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:1

Kashi Mashi Meshi

A man killed himself. Due to his death, three of his former classmates from art school, reunite for the first time in a long while. These three people have connections to the man in different ways, including his ex-girlfriend, the manager of a rugby club where the man played, and his ex-boyfriend. While struggling with their own lives, these three people begin to meet and have meals together.

Release Date:2023-04-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:8

Fence

Komatsu Kie (Key), a magazine writer from Tokyo, teams up with Omine Sakura, an Okinawa native, to pursue the truth of a sexual assault case.

Release Date:2023-03-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:8

大川と小川の時短捜査

The president of an IT company is found dead. The cause of death is believed to be an overdose of medication for a chronic illness, but the possibility of murder emerges since potassium and other substances were found in the body. Ogawa, unfamiliar with the investigation, asks for help from Okawa, a former detective who now works for the police department. The "large-and-small duo", who are uneven in appearance and personality, take on the challenge of getting to the bottom of a difficult case.

Release Date:2022-09-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Kotaro Lives Alone

Shin Karino is an unpopular manga writer and he is single. He lives in an apartment complex that has a rule forbidding children from living there. One day, Shin Karino's doorbell rings. When he opens his apartment door, he sees a small boy. The boy is 5-year-old Kotaro Sato. Kotaro Sato tells Shin Karino that he moved into the neighborhood. Shin Karino makes a weird face, because of the rule of his apartment complex. Kotaro Sato says that he lives by himself. At first, Shin Karino is annoyed by Kotaro Sato, but residents of the apartment building, including Shin Karino, become attached to Kotaro Sato.

Release Date:2021-04-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:11

Pension Metsä

Tenko runs a pension alone. The pension is located in a forest in Nagano, that is full of the Japanese larch tree. She interacts with her guests, who come from all walks of life.

Release Date:2021-01-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:1

A Day-Off of Ryoma Takeuchi

Eight fictional holidays are taken by actor Ryoma Takeuchi. While taking a break from filming, he visits a spice shop.

Release Date:2020-11-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:3

도쿄남자도감

Release Date:2020-05-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Today's Nekomura

A cat who dreams of reuniting with its owner & works as a housekeeper to save money.

Release Date:2020-04-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:24

Vote Count:3

Tokyo Danshi Zukan

This story tells the tale of a boy's life in Tokyo for 20 years. Shota attended a famous private university in Tokyo. After he learned that his girlfriend was cheating on him with rich older men, he said "Woman only care about money after all", and swore to raise his status in Tokyo. After graduating, Shota found a job at a leading trading company and lived a life with no shortage of money and love. However, his values ​​gradually change throughout his fight for success with his co-worker Kojima and his relationship with Minami, who wants to marry a man with an annual income of more than 30 million. It wasn't until Shota reunited with his classmate, Kazuma, a CEO of a venture company, and his subordinate, Ruriko, that he starts to find new meaning to his life...

Release Date:2019-12-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Naoto Shibui's Holiday

Shibui Naoto is a 52-year old single designer with a private office. He spends his daily life with style.

Release Date:2019-01-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:12

Côte d'Azur No.10

"Cote d'Azur No.10" tells 9 different stories about the daily lives of ordinary people. Their daily lives are like a treasure.

Release Date:2017-11-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:9

Bread and Soup and Cat Weather

Akiko lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then she quits her editing job and takes over her mother's small restaurant. At the restaurant there's only two items on the menu: sandwich and soup.

Release Date:2013-07-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:9

Hanashineko

Variety show spinoff of the film "Rentaneko"

Release Date:2012-05-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Tokyo Oasis

In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people by random chance: she gives a ride to a man named Nagano, whom she has never met before; at a small theater, runs into Kikuchi, a former screenwriter; lastly, meets Yasuko at the zoo.

Release Date:2011-10-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

Mother Water

Blessed with several large rivers, interconnected streams and springs, Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto, anoints the land with a bountiful source of water. In this tranquil setting, three women join the flow of a small community with the subtle presence of a spring breeze. Setsuko , the proprietor of a whiskey-only bar; Takako, the owner of a coffee shop along the waterway; Hatsumi, a maker of tofu so delicious it seems to spring forth from the clear water. Under their subtle influence, other townspeople gradually begin their own streams too: Yamanoha, a local worker for a furniture workshop; Otome, the owner of a neighborhood public bath; Jin, a young man who assists him at the bath; Makoto, a wayfarer about the town. Among their daily lives, there is Poplar, a small child with a perpetually friendly smile.

Release Date:2010-10-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5