Masaki Tanimura (Director)

Nodame Cantabile

When a classically trained young conductor meets a free-spirited pianist at music school, their romance and their music have a hard time harmonizing.

Release Date2006-10-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count40

Japan's Number One Jerk Salaryman

Ippei Ohmori, "the worst man in Japan" who hates his family and children, and aspires to become a politician. While trying to improve his image to win the election, Ippei gradually comes to face his family problems and eventually stands up to change society as well.

Release Date2025-01-09

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Ai wa mieru: Zenmô fûfu ni yadotta chiisana inochi

Ueto Aya's is Juri Tatematsu. She's blind like her husband. They give birth to a child, despite fears and opposition from their parents. Raising the child, Juri keeps pushing herself towards her dream of becoming a professional musician. She made her dream come true.

Release Date2010-09-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Life

Adapted from Keiko Suenobu's manga "LIFE," this drama delves into the dark side of high school life. The story focuses mainly on bullying, but the manga also touches on subjects such as self-mutilation, suicide, and rape. Kitano Kii stars as Ayumu Shiiba, one of the students bullied by a group of classmates led by Ayumu's former friend, Manami Anzai (Fukuda Saki).

Release Date2007-06-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count13

Otomen

Otomen is a Japanese romantic comedy manga by manga artist Aya Kanno, which began in Bessatsu Hana to Yume in late 2006 and concluded on November 26, 2012. The series has been adapted into a live action TV drama. The series has been one of the best-selling shōjo properties in America, since being licensed by Viz Media. The series is also licensed in France by Delcourt and in Spain by Planeta DeAgostini.

Release Date2009-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Vote Count1

Bitter Blood

A rookie detective assigned to the Ginza Police Station finds himself partnered with his estranged father. Together with the rest of the team, they solve crimes as an old adversary plots to take revenge on father and son.

Release Date2014-04-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count8

Cain and Abel

Takada Yu is an employee of a development firm. His father has favored his high-achieving older brother and been indifferent to Yu since young. So Yu craves for his father’s love and wants his recognition somehow. Then one day, Yu encounters a woman. Although it was the worst possible meeting, he gradually starts to have romantic feelings for her through work and an unexpected development. But ironically enough, she turns out to be the girlfriend of his older brother. Yu begins to realize what he truly treasures and matures as a person as he struggles with this complicated romance and with his older brother and father.

Release Date2016-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count2

Themis's Law School Classroom

Themis is known as the goddess of law and order in Greek mythology. This story takes place at a law school where students aspire to become judges, prosecutors, and lawyers. Hiiragi Shizuku, who is both a judge and a law teacher, is confronted with the reality of the law school, where the teachers are only interested in teaching students how to pass the bar exam. With her belief that "one cannot become a good lawyer if you do not know people", Shizuku decides to create a new trend in the law school by teaching the students how to learn more about "people", which is something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Release Date2023-01-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Honey and Clover

The series depicts the relationships and lives of a group of five art school students. This is a live-action television drama based on the manga and anime series with the same name.

Release Date2008-01-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count3

Kobayakawa Nobuki no Koi

Nobuki Kobayakawa is a surgeon at a university hospital who is beset by troubles with human relations at work and wearied by his emotionally unstable and jealous wife, although he loves his daughter. He then happens to meet the woman Kana and is attracted to her. But Kana has a secret past. Should he seek new happiness with Kana by leaving a home that only wears him out? This drama is a warm depiction from the man’s perspective of the life of a man who stands on the crossroads of life.

Release Date2006-01-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Last-resort Investigator

A former forensic ace and a psychology expert use science and lie detection to uncover truths behind impossible cases.

Release Date2025-07-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count1

Tokyo Tower

A story about a young man named Masaya, whose lifelong dream is to go build a life in Tokyo. Masaya thinks his life in his hometown is uncool. A few years later, he manages to move to Tokyo but not without any consequences. In Tokyo, he learns the hard way about the meaning of life, survival, love, insecurities, desperation and hope. He also learns the struggles of living in a big city and trying to fix his relationship with his parents, especially his mom.

Release Date2007-01-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count2

Kare wa, Imouto no Koibito

Miyuki is a timid florist, frustrated with her non-existent love life. While down on her luck she runs into an old classmate (and crush) of her's on the street. Things are going great when her younger sister, Haruka, who has taken away every guy that she's ever liked, begins to weasel her way between them. Can Miyuki overcome her obstacles and fight for the man she's loved since high school?

Release Date2011-07-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Dengeki Kon - Perfume of Love -

Release Date2010-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2