James Miki

April Fish

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas.

Release Date1986-05-31

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Charactersd TV Presenter

Vote Count3

Last Dance: Divorce Ceremony

Where have all the wives gone who were once driven to tears by their husbands' infidelity? With each passing year, women become stronger and more resilient, while men enter the 21st century still harboring the legacy of the Showa era! How can there be no problems in the married life of such men and women?! People at a crossroads in life are about to set sail for a second life! This entertaining drama depicts the sometimes sad and sometimes funny slapstick human drama unfolding on board a ship among a variety of troubled couples!

Release Date2001-10-06

Charactersd Salaryman

Watashi no Seishun Note

An educational program where notable figures from various fields—such as business, art, sports, and more—give lectures to high school students about their own youth. The program aims to inspire and guide them by encouraging reflection on past experiences and future life choices through thoughtful discussions.

Release Date1985-04-20

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Monkey

Buddhist priest Tripitaka and his three disciples Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy, travel from China to India to fetch the Buddhist scriptures. They have been sent by Buddha, and getting these scriptures will bring peace to the people of the world.

Release Date1978-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count15

Vote Count16

Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations

The 39th NHK Taiga Drama is Aoi Tokugawa Sandai. It is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of three generations of the Tokugawa dynasty--from its founder Ieyasu to Iemitsu, the third Shogun who solidified the Tokugawa power base.

Release Date2000-01-09

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count49

Vote Count4

Eighth Shogun Yoshimune

The drama is depicting the life and times in 17th and 18th century Japan during the rule of the eighth shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune.

Release Date1995-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count48

Konto 55: Grand Outer Space Adventure

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

Release Date1969-12-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Miotsukushi

In the early Showa era, the town of Choshi in Chiba Prefecture was divided by the conflicts between the worlds of "land" and "sea". Born to Kyubei Bando, the owner of a long-established soy sauce brewery, and his mistress Rui, Kaworu was taken in by her father and raised as a prim and proper lady. As she grew up, she fell in love with Sokichi, the eldest son of an established fisherman; alas, their two families were in conflict. This is a story of pure love between two people that grew beyond the boundaries of the old customs that they were brought up with. It is a drama that depicts their turbulent journey of love and the bonds of the people from an old and established family working tirelessly to protect their naturally brewed soy sauce business through the ups and downs.

Release Date1985-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count162

Vote Count1

Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu

Release Date1977-08-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye

Komori Chiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day while training, her coach hits a ball into her eye on accident. At the hospital, the news that she will never regain the sight in her eye leaves her heartbroken. As a last resort, she undergoes a costly surgery from the mysterious doctor known as Black Jack, where after a successful operation, a mysterious figure starts to emerge in her vision, and only she can see it.

Release Date1977-11-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4

Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning I

Kenji Matsushita is a reportage writer. While he was interviewing the tattoo contest, he met a woman with a tattoo of a large snake, Kinue. Kineda is the mama of the bar and the wife of the president of the earth-moving company, Mogami. She was a sympathetic woman, and Kenji was drawn to her body and spent the night together. The silk branch was found in a dismembered corpse in the bathroom of her apartment, and the carved torso of the snake disappeared. Since the bathroom was completely closed, the investigation was stopped. So Kenji consults with his lover, Nobuko's older brother, Kyosuke. Kyosuke is a genius, and he solved the mystery of the closed room without difficulty. However, the criminal cannot be identified yet.

Release Date1983-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Take Me Away!

Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Tokyo but Tetsu didn't turn up. She went to look for him in San Francisco but all she found was him with his new girlfriend. Kyoko went back to Tokyo and eventually married a big corporate CEO.

Release Date1978-07-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

The Walking Major

U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambling with U.S. servicemen in order to raise funds to rebuild an orphanage. Suspicious of Allen's motives, a Japanese newsman, Hiroshi Kitabayashi, traces the American's background until he discovers the motive behind Allen's long walk.

Release Date1970-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count1

Did the Red Bird Escape?

A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well-to-do family.

Release Date1973-02-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Nezumi Kozō kaitō den

Japanese comedy film.

Release Date1984-12-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Pink Lady's Motion Picture

The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "monster," a sad, furry being (played by a man in a bulky, over-sized pink acrylic costume) who suffers acts of unusual cruelty by the keeper and ringmaster before the girls escape with the creature in a circus trailer.

Release Date1978-12-16

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count1

The Political Game

This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. Noritaka Sakamoto was in charge of photography, and Kentaro Haneda was in charge of music direction. It depicts how an honest candidate aiming for a clean election campaign gradually collapses in the face of various realities. Kiyokawa, the mayor of Higurashi City, died at his lover's house. Yoshihiko announces that he will conduct a clean election campaign, but his sponsors and backers are reluctant.

Release Date1989-05-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Shinano River

Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.

Release Date1973-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Love of Saturday

Nemoto Ritsuko is the girlfriend of Kuroki Tamotsu. Both are 22 years old. Ritsuko lives with her father, Shingo, a piano tuner and city hall clerk. Meanwhile, Tamotsu is a small club's pianist in Yokohama. Ritsuko, close to the age of marriage, is worried and forms a concrete plan. Ritsuko's sister, Kinue, arranges for her to meet her husbands colleague Abe Goro. Tamotsu and Ritsuko wind up quarreling on their date the following day where Tamotsu eventually promises to meet her father. However, due to their conflicting future life plans, their relationship begins to fray. They begin to go their separate ways, however...

Release Date1970-12-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Samurai Vendetta

Tange Tenzen is made a vassal to the shogun. He is a master of the single long sword fighting style. But in order to defend the honour of his wife, Nagao Chiharu, he loses an arm and his family is also wiped out.

Release Date2012-07-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count11

Vote Count5

Double Clutch

Hiromi Go plays a high school student who needs a role model in his life badly. He's raised by his older sister played by Keiko Matsuzaka who is a hostess at a night club. She meets a man who becomes her boyfriend. He races in a off-road car rally professionally. The same man becomes Go's role model and teaches him sophisticated car driving techniques. One of the techniques taught is 'double clutch' ( Thus the movie's title Double Kuracchi ) to make gear transition smoothly between shifts. Due to an unfortunate accident, Matsuzaka's character dies and Go is left to fend for his life. Hiromi Go was a big pop idol in Japan when this movie was created. Both Go and Matsuzaka still enjoys high celebrity status in Japan.

Release Date1978-04-29

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Beauty of the Forbidden Fruit

Release Date1984-01-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

300 Million Yen Mission

Release Date1971-01-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Dangai kara no koe

A couple of sculptors who caused a traffic accident and changed their lives are led to a crime. The lives of the up-and-coming sculptor Sugio Nishikawa and Maiko have changed completely since the traffic accident. Sugio was forced to live in a wheelchair, and the quality of his work deteriorated. One day, Sugio insured Maiko for 50 million life insurance and forced her to cooperate with insurance fraud.

Release Date1980-07-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Love in the North

Japanese film based on the song by Harumi Miyako.

Release Date1976-11-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi

In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's because of his great sword techniques. However, a group within the feudal clan which supported to use guns considered Kojiro an obstacle in their goals and has the well-known ronin, Miyamoto Musashi, fight him. Now because of political gain and greed, two honorable men are to fight to the death on Ganryu Island.

Release Date1992-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Rainbow Over Paris

A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music there. But, when he finally wins her after many difficulties, he somehow feels empty, because his spirit has always been aroused against barriers before him.

Release Date1970-03-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Permanent Blue

In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to his family's inn to nurse her, but he soon discovers than she is an extremist on the run from the police.

Release Date1976-09-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Nani ga nandemo Tamegorō

Release Date1970-08-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Devilish Beauty

Based on Edogawa Rampo's famous story, "Black Lizard"

Release Date1979-04-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Eve in a Summer Dress

Young lovers Makiko and Hidekazu break up because of misunderstanding. Makiko flies to New Zealand and soon recovers. When she is about to marry a man who really loves her, Hidekazu suddenly appears in her life again... Between a man who loves her and a man she loves, how would Makiko's choice be?

Release Date1984-07-07

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Maitresse

Release Date2000-02-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Daddy on a Rocking Boat

Based on the comic by Mitsutoshi Furuya

Release Date1973-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Tomorrow Will Shine

This work depicts the life of a young woman, set in China and Japan, just before the end of the war.

Release Date1974-11-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

夕月

1969 Japanese movie

Release Date1969-01-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Keisei Saimin no Otoko

A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK.

Release Date2015-08-22

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

Episode Count5

ひばり・橋の花と喧嘩

Release Date1969-07-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Otose

Otose, the daughter of a poor farmer, was born on Awaji Island. At her workplace, she met Tsuda Mitsugi, a loyalist of the imperialists. He was the man of her dreams. As if to test their love, numerous trials befall them.

Release Date2001-04-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Kemono Michi

The drama sheds light on the dark side of Japan connected to the political and financial world by depicting the vicissitudes of women.

Release Date1982-01-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Saigo no Chūshingura

Chushingura is a famous story in Japan on 47 samurai in the Edo period who avenge their lord against Lord Kira, who was the cause of the master's death. This drama based on Ikemiya Shoichiro's book focuses on Terasaka Kichiemon, the only survivor of the 47 samurai. After raiding Kira's residence and taking avenge, Terasaka receives an order from Oishi Kuranosuke, the leader of the group to escape from the site. The rest of the samurai is ordered to commit seppuku by the Shogunate and kill themselves. Living in disguise and receiving contempt from others, Terasaka struggles to follow Oishi's order. He works to pass down the true intention of avenge to the next generation and at the same time looks after the families of the 46 members.

Release Date2004-11-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Kaikyô

Based on a true story about a Japanese woman, seeking her true love, who lived in Korea before, during, and after World War II but is forced to move back to Japan.

Release Date2007-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count1

Light and Shade of Youth

Hiroshi Nanjo is an active and tactful youth devoting more of his energies to his part time job than to studying for a college entrance exam. On the other hand, Bunpei Noro is an awkward fellow who once failed in a college entrance exam and is now studying hard for a second try. ‘Light and Shade of Youth’ depicts the friendship between these two young men of opposite characters, interlacing a cute waitress along the way.

Release Date1976-03-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Nemuri Kyōshirō 4: The Woman Who Loved Kyoshiro

Tamura Masakazu returns as Nemuri Kyoshiro for the fourth and final time. Gensai, an eccentric Ukiyoe artist, urgently requests Kyoshiro to kill his wife. He believes that the moment she is killed will represent the ultimate state of beauty, and wishes to see Kyoshiro's signature “Engetsu Sappo” (“Full Moon Cut”) killing technique for the purpose. But this unusual request comes not only from Gensai, but also his wife, Orin, who has a tie to Kyoshiro's past. Meanwhile, Tenzen wants to hire Kyoshiro as their master sword instructor for the Kurume Clan, whose lord has an unhealthy obsession with Kyoshiro and his Engetsu Sappo…

Release Date1998-12-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

The Forbidden Fruit

Release Date1970-12-15

Soldiers' Girls

Women endure hardship and struggle to keep away from prostitution in the immediate aftermath of WWII. The "Special Comfort Women Association" (RAA) creates a shelter for women to avoid falling into prostitution. Young Fumiko and Yuko will try their luck there.

Release Date1958-01-04

北上川悲歌

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song by Tsuzuko Sugawara.

Release Date1961-05-31

Keshin

Daizaburo Akiba, a music critic, sets up Kiriko, a young hostess, and refines her to become his ideal woman.

Release Date1987-01-05

Episode Count4