Toshio Tsuboi (Director)
Little is known about Toshio Tsuboi, a figure with a modest footprint in Director. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Light of My Lion
The appearance of a mysterious little boy interrupts the quiet, predictable life shared by an artist with autism and his caring older brother.
Release Date: 2024-10-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 11
Vote Count: 9
Sayonara, Maestro!
Ever since gifted conductor Natsume’s wife and daughter left him five years ago, he has isolated himself from the music scene. Then one day, he decides to return to Japan for the first time in decades to conduct a small town orchestra and return to his estranged daughter, Hibiki, who loathes him and his music. Now he must try to thaw a relationship with his daughter frozen in time for five years, and learn to be a father.
Release Date: 2024-01-14
Department: Art
Job: Decorator
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 3
I Will Be Your Bloom
Asuka had once realized her goal to become a teacher, but after a gutting failure, she gives up her dream profession and becomes extremely withdrawn. After a series of events, she finds herself becoming a live-in housemother for a dorm… where the boy-band septet 8LOOM live together! At the dorm, she is reunited with her former student Dan—as a teacher, Asuka used to encourage him to go for his dreams. Inspired by Dan's leadership in the band and his passion for making his dream come true, Asuka, too, regains the passion she had in her teaching days and comes to terms with her own failure.
Release Date: 2022-10-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 12
If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student
A story that begins when a husband, who lost his beloved wife ten years ago and lost the meaning of life, and his daughter are unexpectedly reunited with their wife/mother. As his wife is reborn as a ten-year-old elementary school student, the family is reborn.
Release Date: 2022-01-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 12
How to Get a Divorce for the Whole Family!
Mizuguchi Saki is an outstanding fashion magazine editor who grew up in a modern and liberal family. She meets Obara Koichi who is the ace of the Air Rescue Wing of the Air Self Defence Force. He grew up in a strict military family and is the classic straight-laced guy.
Release Date: 2021-04-16
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 7
My Housekeeper Nagisa-san
Twenty-eight-year-old Mei Aihara is a single working woman with no time or talent for housework and romance. But when she is forced by her sister to hire Nagisa Shigino, a middle-aged male housekeeper, hilarity ensues in this must-see romcom!
Release Date: 2020-07-07
Department: Production
Job: Production Director
Episode Count: 7
Vote Count: 7
Nagi's Long Vacation
Nagi Oshima quits her job, cuts off everybody she knows (including her boyfriend), quits social media and cancels her cellphone. To restart her life, she moves to an old apartment in the suburbs of Tokyo. She wants to have a pleasant and free life, not caring about other people.
Release Date: 2019-07-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 12
Meet Me After School
Emotions resurface when a school teacher and her former student reconnect three years after sharing a forbidden attraction that scarred them both.
Release Date: 2018-10-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 11
Vote Count: 16
Prison Princess
Release Date: 2017-10-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 5
Swimming in the Dark
Yuji Tomioka is a 38-year-old single man who has never dated a woman. He works the night shift as a security guard at a supermarket. He experiences loneliness during this time. One night, during a shooting star, he wishes to have friend. A mysterious neighbor, Azusa Hada, appears in front of him. They fall in love, but Yuji's life changes.
Release Date: 2017-07-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 3
Quartet
Maki Maki, Sebuki Suzume, Beppu Tsukasa and Iemori Yutaka happen to meet and form a quartet. They even begin to live together in Karuizawa during the winter, but there is a big hidden secret.
Release Date: 2017-01-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 39
It's Not That I Can't Get Married, I Just Don't Do It
Tachibana Miyabi is 39-years-old and she hasn't had a boyfriend in 5 years. She enjoys her life as a single woman. She is a doctor and runs her own beauty dermatology clinic. Miyabi is pretty and confident, but at her school reunion, she finds herself being pitied by others for still being single. After the school reunion, she attends a gourmet meeting at a restaurant. There, she talks about her school reunion. At that time, Seiji, the owner of the restaurant, makes a biting remark that she isn't the type popular with men. She becomes upset by the remark, but she accepts his advice.
Release Date: 2016-04-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 3
Busujima Yuriko no Sekirara Nikki
Yuriko Busujima (Atsuko Maeda) does not trust men due to her father's betrayal when she was a child. She has a dating rule, which she has two boyfriends at the same time. This is in case one of her boyfriends betrays her, she will still have the other boyfriend who still love her. She works as a reporter.
Release Date: 2016-01-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 1
Masshiro
Release Date: 2015-01-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 2
Back of Father
A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.
Release Date: 2014-07-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 2
Ando Lloyd ～A.I. knows LOVE ?～
Reiji Matsushimais a genius physicist. He realizes that he and his fiancé Asahi Ando will be killed a theory that he advanced. One day, in the year 2013, Reiji dies in a airplane explosion & crash. He was a handsome and world-famous professor who studied wormhole theories. It is a mystery whether his research on wormhole theory caused his death or not.
Release Date: 2013-10-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 10
Undercover Agent Lizard
Release Date: 2013-04-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 4
Veterinarian Dolittle
Tottori Kenichi is a foul-mouthed but gifted veterinarian nicknamed Dolittle. His catch phrase is 'pet care means business'. He is the director of his animal clinic and rescues not only 'voiceless' pets but also helps their owners, who lack understanding and caution, with their problems and worries. Working with him is animal nurse Tajima Asuka. Hanabishi Masaru is Dolittle's rival, a charismatic vet and director of another animal hospital who has not only an opposite personality but also a different stance towards pet care.
Release Date: 2010-10-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 9
Vote Count: 4
Smile
Smile is a Japanese television drama series, shown on TBS started last April 17, 2009. Jun Matsumoto plays the lead role of Vito, a half-Filipino, half-Japanese man who always smiles despite all of the problems and difficulties he faces. The series focus on foreigners and mixed-race children who suffered from racism
Release Date: 2009-04-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 11
Vote Count: 4
Love Shuffle
Love Shuffle is a Japanese television drama series that aired on TBS from 16 January to 20 March 2009. The theme song of the series is Fantasy by Earth, Wind & Fire. Usami Kei is a salaryman who has risen in status due to his engagement with Mei, the wealthy daughter of his company's president. Shortly after she breaks off the engagement, a power failure leaves him stuck in the elevator of his apartment building. Trapped with him are three others living on the same floor - Airu, a trilingual interpreter, Ojiro, a model photographer, and Masato, a psychiatrist. While waiting, their conversation hits upon their love lives and the question of whether there is truly only one fated partner for everyone. As a result, they decide to try "shuffling" their relationships with each other. --Tokyograph
Release Date: 2009-01-16
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 12
Tanaka Express 3
Release Date: 2007-04-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 11
Manhattan Love Story
Next door to Chuo TV's offices is "Manhattan," a coffee shop for aficionados. The owner's passion for coffee is almost a sickness and all he wants is for his customers to enjoy their coffee. He is a man of few words. If he has to say something, he gets his waiter Shinobu Gamo to speak on his behalf. Owner's real name is unknown. He would prefer to be addressed as the shops' "Master" rather than its owner - not that anyone is aware of this. He gives his all to coffee. Despite his wishes, his regular customers don't really come to taste the coffee. They are there because of love. They use his shop as a place for dates, marriage proposals and break-ups. He doesn't show it, but it saddens him that his customers are so preoccupied with affairs of the heart and not the coffee.
Release Date: 2003-10-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 11
Vote Count: 3