Meiji Fujita (Director)
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Works
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Release Date1990-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count2
The Black Leather Notebook
Ginza is a night town filled with ambition and burning desire… How does a plain bank clerk embezzle an enormous amount of money and jump into the underground world? What is her ultimate goal? Her greatest weapon is a black leather-bound notebook.
Release Date2004-10-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count2
Last Love
Akira was a sax player in New York, but retired from it because of his wife's sudden death. One day, Akira Agawa met Yui Uehara, a young woman who works for the cleaning station, and eventually reunited in New York. Since then, they have opened up their hearts and are gradually attracted to each other.
Release Date2007-06-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Jiu: Special Investigation Team
The show is based on the "Jiu" suspense novel series by Honda Tetsuya. Motoko (Kuroki) is a fierce, physically capable investigator with a strong battle instinct, while Misaki (Tabe) is more intellectual, kind-hearted, and naive. The two of them are both working to track down Jiu, the ringleader responsible for a series of brutal crimes.
Release Date2011-07-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
Face
Seira Ino (Emi Takei) is about to make her major label debut as a “masked artist” who does not show her face.
Release Date2024-01-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his lord’s commands. This is the tragic story of one such loyal samurai, whose love for his family forced him to make the ultimate choice of disobeying the wishes of his lord.
Release Date2013-02-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Snow Jack
A blackmail arrives at Appi ski resort. “We demand 30,000,000 yen as consolation money for the destruction of the environment. If you do not respond to the demand, a time bomb set on the ski slope will be detonated.” If the bomb goes off, it will not only hurt the skiers but trigger an avalanche and cause a major catastrophe. The general manager of the ski pistes, Kurata (Ken Watanabe) pleads for an immediate shutdown of the ski site and reporting to the police, but the president of the ski resort gives priority to business interests and decides to negotiate with the blackmailer. And a negotiation process for a despicable ransom case with a massive hostage of all the skiers at the resort begins.
Release Date2014-08-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Omizu no Hanamichi
The drama tells the story of a hostess turning 30 years old.
Release Date1999-01-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count3
Meikyu Sousa
Detective Yoichiro arrives at a crime scene involving the brutal murder of three family members to find a young five-year-old boy hiding in the closet. The discovery of the young boy takes Detective Yoichiro back to his own tragic childhood when his parents were killed in a fire. Without any real clues, the murder investigation continues unsolved. That is, until another murder takes place one year later, this time with a mother and son as the victims. And evidence found at the scene links the killer to the murder that took place a year ago.
Release Date2015-05-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Revenge Court
Release Date2015-02-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How did this woman know the novel is serialized in the newspaper? And why does she want to start reading it in the middle of the story? Which article was she actually interested in? Sugimoto cannot help making his own investigations about Yoshiko, but the more he searches, the more astonishing facts come to light...
Release Date2016-03-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Freezing Point
The young daughter of Keizo Tsujiguchi, a respected physician who runs his own hospital, is found murdered. Keizo secretly blames his wife Natsue because he suspects her of having an affair with his colleague Murai, and having been too distracted to keep proper watch over the child. Being a proud man, he does not accuse her directly, but concocts, instead, a twisted revenge against her. Pretending it is to comfort his devastated wife, Keizo arranges for them to adopt a baby girl. What he hasn't told Natsue, is that the baby is the orphaned daughter of the murderer, a tragic day-laborer who has hanged himself while in police custody. He plans to reveal the child's origins after Natsue has given her heart to the child-- when it will cause the greatest possible hurt.
Release Date2006-11-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Pro Bono
A young, mentally retarded boy is wrongfully accused of murder, but his family lacks the means to hire an attorney to defend him. The boy’s sister, Kiriko, pleads with an accomplished attorney named Otsuka to defend her brother pro bono. But because of Otsuka’s busy schedule and other priorities, he refuses to take the case. Lacking a proper defense, Kiriko’s brother is eventually convicted of murder, and dies in prison. From that point on, Kiriko is determined to take revenge against Otuska.
Release Date2014-12-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
One in a hundred thousand
Tamura Masakazu plays Shohei Yamauchi, a freelance reporter obsessed with finding out the truth about a traffic accident in which his beloved daughter died. Judging by the photo of the accident, which appeared in the news described by photojournalists as "one coincidence in a hundred thousand", and the survivor's testimony that "I saw a red fireball" immediately before the accident, the circumstances of the accident are questionable. The film is based on a late masterpiece by Seicho Matsumoto.
Release Date2012-12-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Tsuda Umeko: Osatsu ni Natta Ryugakusei
Tsuda Umeko was born in December 31, 1864 and became a pioneer in women's eductation. In 1871, Tsuda Umeko, with her father's recommendation, went to the United States to study at the age of 6. She was the youngest of the group of females to travel there. They were the first Japanese female students to study overseas at their government's expense. 11 years after studying in the United States, Tsuda Umeko returns to Japan. She wants to become a woman who is helpful to her culture, but she is shocked by the low status of women in Japan. (Source: AsianWiki)
Release Date2022-03-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Special Cabinet Investigator ORDER
1997 V-Cinema film.
Release Date1997-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Air Girl
Komari Sano's parents ran a small Tokyo factory that manufactured aircraft parts. With her parents' influence, Komari Sano dreamed of becoming a pilot. During World War II, her older brother died as a kamikaze pilot and her parents died during the bombing of Tokyo. Komari Sano became an orphan and lived with her aunt. Her aunt ran a ryotei (high end traditional restaurant). After the war, all aerial activities were initially banned in Japan. After long negotiations with the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, Sizuo Matsuki, who is the security chief of Civil Aviation Bureau, finally launched Japan's civil aviation. Komari Sano applies for the position of a cabin attendant.
Release Date2021-03-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Rokumeikan
Release Date2008-01-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Giwaku
Release Date2009-01-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Adiantum Blue
Adiantum Blue is about a pianist with a terminal illness, who wishes to spend her last happy days with her lover in Nice.
Release Date2006-11-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
300 Million Yen Robbery
Release Date2014-01-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Tennō no Ryōriban
A biographical series about Tokuzō Akiyama, who served as the imperial cook, from his youth until he became the chief cook of the Ministry of the Imperial Household.
Release Date1980-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count19
Vote Count1
The Animal Trail
Animal Trail, a natural path made by traffic of wild animals, can sometimes be helpful for people who are totally lost in the wilderness. One day, a woman who is exhausted with her hopeless life unexpectedly meets a gentleman by chance. Out of genuine hope to escape from her misery, she allows her destiny to blindly follow the mysterious instruction given by this stranger. Would this "Animal Trail" ultimately lead her to happiness, or would it lead her to disaster? The life of Tamiko (Yonekura) was miserable, as she had to give up her dream to become a jewelry designer and work for a Japanese style hotel "Hosenkaku" simply to support her physically handicapped husband. One day, Tamiko was approached by a mysterious gentleman Kotaki (Sato) who offers her a unique proposal, "would you be interested in riding a vehicle without a destination?" His words shook Tamiko's desperate soul wanting for a drastic change in her life. In order to free herself from the depressing reality, she cleverly kills her husband by setting her house on fire. Then, through Kotaki's introduction, she becomes acquainted with Kito, a political fixer, and decides to become Kito's mistress. Although she notices that her decision may not be right, she decides to follow her instincts and go for the "animal trail"….
Release Date2006-01-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
Princess Hiro
Release Date2003-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count1
Artificial Beauty
Honami Saotome seems to have the ideal life, working as a fashion model. Behind her perfect face is an unfortunate girl who born into a family that has a long history of "the ugly bug". Since childhood, she was bullied for being ugly, and to start a new life, she decides to have plastic surgery on her entire body. Nobody knows that behind her glamorous lifestyle, there is a girl afraid that her secret may be found out, or that her face may fall apart. Though Honami has the inner strength of never giving up, her arrogance of doing anything for her own happiness is just too much. Meanwhile, Ryusui Fujishima is the heir to a grand master of flower arrangement, whose philosophy is, "flower arrangement starts from hating flowers". He is the man who values essence more than appearance, whether it's flowers or people. He is then attracted not to Honami's looks, but to her tough and bold personality: like a wild flower growing between rocks.
Release Date2002-04-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
The Holy Monsters
The drama has Okada playing the part of Shiba Kengo, a pure-hearted young surgeon who is dedicated to his work. He gets transferred from a prestigious university hospital to a financially troubled hospital, but there he meets a capable and cool-headed chief nurse named Kasugai Yuka (Nakatani), who teaches him the reality of the medical world. The pure Kengo must face various obstacles and challenges as he tears off the “masks” of respected professionals – doctors, nurses, and educators – and uncovers their true natures.
Release Date2012-01-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count1
Danso no Reijin
The drama is based on the life of the Manchu princess Kawashima Yoshiko, who served as a spy for the Kwantung Army and as a military leader for Manchukuo. The former actress/singer Ri Kouran (also known as Yamaguchi Yoshiko), on the other hand, was a Japanese woman born in China, where she initially built her career as an actress. Although the two were of different generations, they were said to be closely linked at one point.
Release Date2008-12-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
6-second Trajectory: Fireworks Expert Mochizuki Seitaro's Melancholy
This drama focuses on the fireworks industry, which is suffering from a decline in events due to the coronavirus pandemic. "Mochizuki Fireworks Store" is a fireworks store that has been running for generations. Mochizuki Kou is the fourth generation owner who passes away at the age of 80, leaving his son Seitaro alone and at a loss for words. Few months later, Kou, who was supposed to be dead, appears in front of Seitaro as if he is still alive. This is a heartwarming fantasy, depicting the mysterious daily life of the father and son fireworks masters.
Release Date2023-01-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count19
Vote Count1
Castle of Sand
This drama adaptation follows the original work's historical setting and is told from Yoshimura's perspective, featuring some original cast members.
Release Date2011-09-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Castle of Sand
On December 11, 1960 an elderly man is found bludgeoned to death near the Kamata Station in Tokyo. Detective Yoshimura Hiroshi is a rookie detective that has only one clue to go on - the name "Kameda." Detective Yoshimura also has a dark side himself from his miserable experience in the war. Now, Detective Yoshimura places himself in the criminal's dark mind to track down the killer. Based on the 1961 novel "Suna no utsuwa" by Seicho Matsumoto it was also made as a feature film The Castle of Sand (1974).
Release Date2011-09-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Singles
Release Date1997-10-14
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Evil People
Toyomi Terajima (Ryoko Yonekura) chose to become a nurse because she had no interest in marriage and wanted an occupation she could do for the rest of her life. Although she doesn't have a lot of aspirations, she does have a vague idea of wanting to work as a nurse overseas, and so she studies English. Outside of that, her life is less than ordinary and she carries out her job as a nurse without any indifference. That is, until one fateful night when she calls on Dr. Toya Shinichi (Takaya Kamikawa), director of the hospital, for help with a patient suffering from a heart attack. It is this chance encounter that brings the two together and sets the wheels in motion.
Release Date2007-01-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
Last Serenade
This drama is about the lives of the men and the woman for more than fifty years. It shows how people's lives go. The two men love the same woman since they were children. Their love and hate continue till the end of their lives
Release Date1989-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count21
Yako no Kaidan
Sayama Michio is a young and callous beautician who will stop at nothing to fulfill his ambition(s). Coming from an impoverished background, he suddenly becomes the darling of the beauty world. He holds women who desire beauty captive and puts on several different faces when dealing with Murase Minako, the female owner of the place that he works at; Hatano Masako, a woman of leisure; and Fukuchi Fujiko, an editor of a weekly magazine to come out tops. He also gets involved with two detectives who are investigating him for a prior incident.
Release Date2009-04-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
告発〜国選弁護人
Release Date2011-01-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
美味しんぼ
Release Date1994-01-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Ikiru
In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.
Release Date2007-09-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
New York Love Story
Release Date2004-03-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The 300 million yen robbery
The 300 million yen robbery (San Oku En Jiken), also known as the 300 million yen affair or incident,was the single largest heist in Japanese history at the time. It occurred on the morning of December 10, 1968, in Tokyo,Japan. Half a century later, the case remains unsolved. 7 years later,just before just before the statute of limitations, Sawatari, a journalist, found out about the mind behind the crime is Matsuda, a businessman currently living in America. He traveled to America and asked Matsuda for the truth. Matsuda told him a story of how he, a former police officer, became friends with Joe, a bad boy, and Rock, who is shy and sensitive. Matsuda's sister committed suicide after being raped, and Matsuda lost his job after he made a scene in the financial institute his sister used to work. Matsuda, Joe, and Rock decided to do something big in revenge, so they decided on robbing a cash carrier.
Release Date2000-12-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Tales of the Bizarre: 1990 Winter Special
Tales of the Bizarre: 1990 Winter Special is a special edition of Tales of the Bizarre that aired on Fuji Television on January 3, 1991.
Release Date1991-01-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector