Yoshiko Morishita (Writer)

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Works

Unbound

In 18th-century Edo, Tsutaya Juzaburo rises from a poor background to become a leading publisher. Despite political changes threatening his career, he works to shape Edo’s cultural scene through innovative books and collaborations with artists.

Release Date2025-01-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count48

Vote Count8

Jin

After awakening in the Edo era, a neurosurgeon uses his medical knowledge to help those around him while searching for a way back to the present day.

Release Date2009-10-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count22

Vote Count37

Gochisousan

Uno Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries and moves to Osaka with her husband. Meiko experiences cultural differences between Tokyo and Osaka, as she lives as a mother and wife in Osaka.

Release Date2013-09-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count150

Vote Count2

Stepmom and Daughter Blues

Eight-year-old Miyuki lost her mother several years ago and has since lived with just her father, Ryoichi. One day, she is suddenly introduced to Akiko, who is to be her new mother. Akiko uses her stellar business skills to try to win the little girl over, only to fail miserably. Ryoichi tries to reason with Miyuki, but to no avail. Akiko changes tactics and tries to get Shimoyama, a woman in the neighborhood who knows Miyuki well, on her side.

Release Date2018-07-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Vote Count13

Into the White Night

What happens with two children commit two different muders in order to protect each other? Does salvation exist for them? In order to walk beneath the sun once more, Ryouji and Yukiho find themselves in a twisted web from which neither can escape without abandoning the other. Having no one but each other, this drama follows the events the follow that fateful day… 14 years ago.

Release Date2006-01-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count11

Vote Count20

Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World

"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It's 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks "I have been in a world without her for 17 years." Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then.

Release Date2004-07-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count11

Vote Count14

Flower and Sword

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age of war is about to end, but Hideyoshi Toyotomi's rule makes life difficult for the people. Monk Senko Ikenobo is a master of flower arrangement. He prays for peace in the world and tries to give hope to the people with flower arrangement. He becomes good friends with Rikyu. Rikyu is a monk and a politician. He has the most profound influence on chanoyu. Rikyu is forced to commit hara-kiri by Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s order. Monk Senko Ikenobo challenges Hideyoshi Toyotomi.

Release Date2017-06-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Ooku: The Inner Chambers

In an alternative feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects males caused a massive population reduction, leaving females to fill the vacant jobs, therefore changing the social structure. Now, 80 years after the initial outbreak with a 1:4 male:female ratio, Japan is a completely matriarchal society. Females hold all important political positions, and males are their consorts. Only the most powerful female—head of Tokugawa shogunate—may keep a harem of handsome and unproductive males, known as "Ōoku".

Release Date2023-01-10

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count21

Vote Count6

Naotora: The Lady Warlord

Naotora Ii is a woman given a male name, who succeeded as the head of the Ii family during the Warring States period when her father passed away. With her wisdom, courage and affection for loved ones, Naotora lived through turbulent times and paved the way for the future of her clan.

Release Date2017-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count50

Vote Count7

The Emperor's Cook

The drama series depicts the life of Tokuzo Akiyama, head chef of the Imperial Household Ministry’s Imperial Cuisine Division during the Taisho (1912-1926) and early Showa (1926-1989) eras. Based on a true story and book by Hisahide Sugimori, 'The Emperor’s Cook' follows the life of country boy, Akiyama, who arrives in Tokyo in pursuit of the culinary arts. Driven by a deep love for his wife and family, a great reverence for his teachers, strong reliance on friends and an abiding love for cooking, Akiyama eventually rises to become 'the Emperor’s cook'.

Release Date2015-04-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count12

Vote Count38

Platonic Sex

When Aoi is gang-raped by her classmates and kicked out of her home by her own parents she sees no reason to continue living. Before she commits suicide, however, she receives an email on her cellphone from a man named Toshi addressed to a girl named Ai. The message simply thanks the girl for being alive, but this specific message has an effect on Aoi and she decides to keep on living. Without many options, Aoi resorts to everything from paid dating to porn to earn money and meets a lot of less than reputable characters. Throughout it all though she looks toward Toshi as her hope for happiness and the two form a relationship.

Release Date2001-10-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count14

Black Jack

Adapted from the manga series "Black Jack"

Release Date2024-06-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

The Bandage Club

An adolescent human drama of high school students who are troubled with their own concerns but gradually find a method of survival through Hotai Club.

Release Date2007-09-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

More Painful than Rain

Ayami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and is beginning to think that she would rather live her life for work than marriage. Just then, she meets Kurasawa, who works at the same company, and they soon find themselves drawn to each other.

Release Date2005-01-29

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Dreaming of the Meridian Arc

In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka Ino, who is known for being the first person to make a map of Japan in 1821. During the process of of making the drama series, a surprising fact is discovered about the first map. That fact is that Tadataka Ino was not the person who made the first Japanese map.

Release Date2022-05-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Heaven and Hell: Soul Exchange

Ayako is a 35-year-old detective who is hardworking and has a strong sense of justice. However, she is inflexible and works too hard, which causes her to fail often. One day, she arrested a wanted suspect for a murder case, but, unfortunately, her soul was exchanged with the suspect just when she was looking forward to her rewards.

Release Date2021-01-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Vote Count19

Black Kite

Yasu's mother passed away when he was very young and his father abandoned him. Yasu's wife, Misako, also lost both her parents when she was young. The two spend their days in happiness, watching their young son, Akira, grow up. Unfortunately, a freakish accident occurs that results in Misako sacrificing her life to protect her son. Yasu loses himself in grief and remorse, but recovers as he vows to raise his 3 year-old son as best as possible.

Release Date2013-01-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Vote Count5

Never Let Me Go

30-year-old Kyoko has a "job". The story starts with her looking back 20 years to her boarding school of Yoko Gakuen in the mountains. Tomohiko, Miwa, and Kyoko are all in the same grade. Inspired by the educational philosophy of the principal - Emiko, teacher Tatsuko joins the boarding school staff, but soon finds the school rather strange...

Release Date2016-01-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

Ruri's Island

Ruri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless abandonment. When Nakama Yuzo, a kind man but for a trigger-happy temper, runs into Ruri he realizes that perhaps she's the child he's been looking for. Yuzo lives in Hatomijima, a small insland in Okinawa where the population is 49 and the average age group is 61. There are no children. The island has only one school - a primary school. If a child is not enrolled in the school, it will be closed. As a result, society will abandon the island and in a few years, it will cease to have any inhabitants. To save their island, the locals decide to bring in a foster child. Ruri is their candidate, and with her she brings the hope of the island's survival.

Release Date2005-04-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

First Penguin!

The "first penguin" is the courageous first penguin that dives into the sea filled with enemies. Iwasaki Nodoka is a young single mother with no money, no house, and no work. While Nodoka decides that she will do anything to eat, she meets a fisherman who offers her "10,000 yen to rebuild the coast". Thus, Nodoka now carries the dreams of the local fishermen whose lives are on her shoulders. Despite her limited knowledge of the fishing industry, Nodoka does her best working with the stubborn sea men, breaks through the old common sense and customs with her boldness, and creates a revolution in the industry.

Release Date2022-10-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count6

Keisei Saimin no Otoko

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

Zoku Heisei Meoto Jawan

Zoku Heisei Meoto Jawan

Release Date2002-01-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

The Battle of Mr. and Mrs. Sasaki

Release Date2008-01-20

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Don't Let Your Money Down

Don't Let Your Money Down

Release Date2001-01-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Ima da kara, shinsaku drama tsukuttemimashita

Release Date2020-05-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1