Kana Matsumoto (Director)

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Works

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

Lawyer Shiro pours his heart into home-cooked meals for his partner, hairstylist Kenji, as they navigate life as a middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo.

Release Date2019-04-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count19

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 Date2021-01-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Vote Count1

Himitsu ~ The Top Secret ~

Two men, torn by the moral dilemma of uncovering others' secrets for justice, work to solve unsolved cases using special MRI technology that can reproduce living memories of the dead.

Release Date2025-01-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count1

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 Date2023-11-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

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 Date2024-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count2

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 Date2013-07-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count9

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 Date2020-11-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

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 Date2021-04-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count13

When Spring Comes

Release Date2024-01-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count1

Kashi Mashi Meshi

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 Date2023-04-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Today's Nekomura

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

Release Date2020-04-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count24

Vote Count3

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 Date2023-03-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count8

Tokyo Danshi Zukan

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 Date2019-12-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Naoto Shibui's Holiday

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 Date2019-01-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Hei no Naka no Biyoushitsu

Hei no Naka no Biyoushitsu

Haru Komatsubara, a quiet prisoner, working as a hairdresser in a unique prison beauty salon, reflects on guilt, redemption, and second chances as her sentence nears its end.

Release Date2025-08-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

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 Date2022-09-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Mother Water

Set with three central figures, "Mother Water" describes the daily lives of people near the Kamo River in Kyoto, Japan.

Release Date2010-10-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Hanashineko

Hanashineko

Variety show spinoff of the film "Rentaneko"

Release Date2012-05-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

도쿄남자도감

도쿄남자도감

Release Date2020-05-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

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 Date2011-10-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

Côte d'Azur No.10

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 Date2017-11-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count9

大川と小川の休日捜査

Release Date2024-09-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

コートダジュールN゚10 (2017)

コートダジュールN゚10 (2017)

Release Date2017-11-20

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

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