Keita Kono (Director)
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Works
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Release Date1990-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count19
Vote Count2
Hoshi Shin'ichi Mystery Special
A collection of five short stories by Hoshi Shinichi
Release Date2014-02-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition
Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the series. In this work, we collaborate with five popular manga artists such as Go Nagai, Junji Ito, Eiichiro Oda, Kazuo Umezu and Masayuki Ishikawa.
Release Date2015-04-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
The Great White Tower
Two surgeons with contrasting objectives are asked to work together in a city hospital. While one of them strives to achieve fame and power through his work, the other wants to save human lives.
Release Date2003-10-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count21
Vote Count29
Tales of the Bizarre: 2020 Summer Special
Story 1 - Stains Story 02 - Three Wishes Story 03 - Father Who Does Not Burn Story 04 - Distributor
Release Date2020-07-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Tales of the Bizarre: 2022 Fall Special
As part of the long-running anthology series, which began in 1990, this special features a collection of mysterious and thought-provoking stories. Episode Summaries: 1. "Love Triangle with My Ex" Mika's ex-boyfriend reappears in her life as a robot, complicating her current relationship. 2. "The Concierge" A single mother moves into a new apartment where a mysterious concierge begins to fulfill her every wish with unsettling consequences. 3. "Waga-sama" A workaholic CEO returns to his hometown and encounters a strange boy tied to his childhood and eerie events. 4. "Wait a Minute!" A man’s love confession is interrupted by two versions of his crush from the future, causing chaos.
Release Date2022-11-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Fall Special
Release Date2017-10-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
68-Year-Old New Employee
Hitsujido Honpo, an established Japanese-style sweets company known for its traditional flavours and reliability, has maintained a modest popularity. To win a new segment of customers, it has embarked on new business development. The leader of this team of five young employees is 28-year old Kudo Mayuko (Takahata Mitsuki). Mayuko was headhunted by the current CEO Okazaki Kengo (Maruyama Tomomi), for her achievements in her previous job. However, she struggles with the difficulty of new business development and pressures within the company. One day, a “new” 68-year-old employee Niimoto Kazuo (Kusakari Masao) is assigned to be Mayuko’s subordinate all of a sudden. She is dumbfounded to learn that he is 40 years her senior and even feels anger. Mayuko is confronted with the question of whether he should do the old job he was proud of? Or a new job as a brand new employee, and assumes the role of mentor.
Release Date2018-06-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Murder on the Orient Express
The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".
Release Date2015-01-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
Taishi lives with his father Kazushi. His mother left home when Taishi was very young and he barely has any memories of her. He believes that his mother left home to study in Paris. His favorite moments come once a week when he receives a letter from his mother. But one day, during Taishi's summer vacation, he learns that his mother isn't in Paris but in Shodoshima, Japan. Taishi then decides to take his pet dog with him and bicycle from his hometown of Yokohama all the way to Shodoshima. On his 500 kilometers trip to Shodoshima, Taishi meets various peoples and touches their hearts, while leaving behind small miracles. What Taishi doesn't know about his mother is that she suffers from memory loss and that's why she lives apart from her family. Taishi's father Kazushi soon learns that his son has left for Shodoshima and he sets out to find his son.
Release Date2009-08-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Furuhata Chugakusei
Young Furuhata, a 3rd-year junior high student from Tokyo, transferred to a school in the countryside due to family circumstances. He doesn't fit in at first, but he eventually gains a reputation as a detective and opens his own detective agency. One day, he hears about the town's legend of buried treasure, and he immediately begins unraveling the mystery.
Release Date2008-06-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Doctor White
A collapsed woman, wearing white clothes, is found at a park in the early morning hours. The woman introduces herself as Byakuya. Except for her name, she doesn't remember anything else about herself. She doesn't know general stuff either, but she holds extensive medical knowledge and has a genius-like diagnostic ability. With just the smallest amount of information, she is able to diagnose any disease. She begins to work with a diagnosis team at a hospital.
Release Date2022-01-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count4
Freeter, Ie wo Kau
Freeter, Ie wo Kau is a Japanese television drama series that aired on Fuji Television and on Kyodo Television in 2010. The story revolves around Take Seiji, who quits his job after three months. With no dreams, no savings, and a poor relationship with his family, he becomes a hikikomori. However, after his mother falls ill with depression, he ends up having to take on a part-time job at a construction site. Because of that, he soon decides to work towards rebuilding his life: "Even though I'm just a freeter, I'm going to buy a house for the sake of my family." One of the people he meets at the construction site is Chiba Manami, who graduated from a top-class university and joined a well-known general contracting firm. Manami is the complete opposite of Seiji. But while their personalities clash at first, they gradually come to understand each other. --Tokyograph
Release Date2010-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
Helen the Baby Fox
A young boy named Taichi Ogawara finds a fox cub on the side of the road and takes it home as a pet. He discovers it is blind, deaf, and mute. Because of this, he names it Helen, after Helen Keller.
Release Date2006-03-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
One Thousand Trillion Yen Randsom
Based on the mystery novel by Yagi Keiichi, the former Deputy Prime Minister was investigated after leaving a national debt of 1,085 trillion yen, but charges were mysteriously dropped. Now, his granddaughter has been kidnapped. The ransom? Either 1,085 trillion yen- the same as Japan's national debt- or a formal apology and financial reconstruction plan from the former Deputy Prime Minister are to be prepared within the next seven days. Can the police save the young girl before the deadline?
Release Date2015-10-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Nagareboshi
Natsuko has been in a cold relationship with her husband, Kensaku, for many years. One day he dies suddenly, leaving Natsuko alone with a wizard, Mari, who appears and offers to grant up to four wishes. Natsuko requests to go 50 years back in time to the past before she met her husband. There, Natsuko meets young Kensaku, her young self, and her father Shintaro. Natsuko pretends to be someone she is not and attempts to uncover hidden truths while living in the past. What awaits Natsuko at the end of her time travel? And what will be her last wish to the wizard?
Release Date2021-03-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Laughing Kangaroo
A love triangle turns deadly during an awards ceremony in Australia. Unfortunately for the killers, however, Furuhata and Shintaro are on a well-deserved holiday in the same hotel.
Release Date1995-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
He Is Always There
This is a story of two physicians who are complete opposites. Although he's a skilled surgeon, Dr. Shiba does not believe that every life is worth saving, but is willing to perform any surgery for the right price. On the other hand, Dr. Ishikawa is an idealist who believes that doctors should treat all patients equally and fight to protect every person's right to live. Therefore, Ishikawa quickly becomes liked by hospital staff while Shiba continues to make enemies.
Release Date1993-01-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count7
Tsubakiyama's Send Back
When middle-aged salary man Tsubakiyama suddenly dies, he leaves his family high and dry. But suddenly he's given another chance: a few days in which to return to Earth and straighten things out. The thing is, he's come back in the form of a strikingly beautiful young woman.
Release Date2006-11-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Barakamon
A proud young calligrapher is punished for punching a critic by being sent to a faraway island in the east coast of Japan. But as he meets and lives with the island's friendly people, his attitude begins to improve.
Release Date2023-07-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count3
王様のレストラン
Release Date1995-04-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count4
Breathless Summer
A 19-year-old girl burdened by a cruel destiny, a 41-year-old man living in atonement, and a forbidden love that cannot be accepted by the people around them. Breathless Summer is as much a social drama as it is a love story. Takei plays said girl who learns that her mother never recorded her birth in their family register. While falling into despair after finding out the secret about her birth yet wholeheartedly trying to live to regain "herself", she happens to run into a former journalist who is suffering from a deep scar in his heart himself. Although they could be father and daughter, they start to develop much stronger feelings for each other, a love forbidden by society.
Release Date2012-07-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count1
Marumo's Story
Marumo no Okite is a Japanese television series which premiered on Fuji TV on April 24, 2011. This television series stars Sadao Abe as Mamoru Takagi, a public relations officer with a stationery company. It also stars child actors Fuku Suzuki and child actress Mana Ashida as Mamoru's late friend Jun-ichiro's twin children. The television series was broadcast as part of the Fuji TV's Dramatic Sunday time slot, which airs every Sunday from 9pm to 9:54pm.
Release Date2011-04-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count2
HR Hero
Set in a large company that retains an old hot-blooded constitution, the protagonist, Ren Hitomi, who is too stupid and pure, and the heroine, Naomi Mano, who struggles every day with the hope of changing the company, face the various problems of employees in the company with a unique human resources department and face the various problems of modern people".
Release Date2025-04-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Double Cheat: Itsuwari no Keikan
A crime entertainment drama produced by TV Tokyo and WOWOW, which deals with various scams that have increased in recent years with the spread of the Internet.
Release Date2024-04-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count16
Vote Count3
The History of Our Family
Wagaya no Rekishi is a Japanese three-part television mini-series, shown on Fuji TV from April 9, 2010 to April 11, 2010 to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. The show was known for its star-studded cast.
Release Date2010-04-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count5
The Fantastic Deer-Man
Forced out of his research group after conflicts with his colleagues, Ogawa Takanobu takes up an offer to teach at a girls' high school in Nara. When taking roll call on the first day one of his students, Hotta Ito, sneaks into class late, claiming a bogus excuse--that she got a ticket after trying to park her deer in front of the train station.
Release Date2008-01-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count6
Jaja uma narashi
Ryuichiro's bride, company president Mayumi Kitahara dies, leaving him to take care of her daughter Natsumi. Natsumi moves into Ryuichiro's flat, but he sets to work to be the father she never had.
Release Date1993-07-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count1
The Great White Tower
Release Date2019-05-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count2
Miracles
A comical and heartwarming drama about a university lecturer on animal behavior who just loves all living creatures. Once he starts thinking about them, he becomes too absorbed to care about anything else! People think he is quite odd and eccentric! But gradually his attitude, free from restrictions of rigid common sense and social norms, changes the way of thinking of those around him. They can recall a time when they, too, were engrossed in something they loved.
Release Date2018-10-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count6
Farewell, Mr. Premier
What happens when the Prime Minister of Japan suddenly has the lowest approval ratings in history? Tamura Masakazu plays an unpopular Prime Minister who faces daily protests of citizens, inside betrayals, and the decision of a new Chief Cabinet Secretary. He makes an unprecedented selection, choosing his daughter's private tutor, who is only in his 20s and not even a politician! Will the Prime Minister be able to turn his ratings around, or will he be forced to resign? This drama focuses on the government of Japan, with a comedic twist.
Release Date1997-04-08
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Dangerous Venus
Hakuro is single and works as a veterinarian. His father died when Hakuro was a child and his mother later remarried into the wealthy Yagami family. Although Hakuro was brought into the Yagami family through his mother's marriage, he does not feel like part of the Yagami family. Especially, when compared to his younger step-brother who possesses the same blood as his family. After the death of Hakuro's mother, Hakuro dropped Yagami from his name and broke off relations with that family. Hakuro has a strong sense of justice and sincerity in his actions. He is very susceptible to beautiful women. One day, he meets a woman. The woman introduces herself as the wife of his stepbrother and informs him that his stepbrother is missing. As Hakuro and the woman trace his stepbrother's whereabouts, Hakuro becomes involved in the Yagami family's fight over a three billion yen inheritance.
Release Date2020-10-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count4
My Fair Prince
Izumi Hidaka is 36-years-old and the CEO of start-up game company Pegasus Ink. Four years ago, she developed the game Love My Pegasus, which was targeted towards women and became very popular. Since then, she has been obsessed with the character Kento-soma from Love My Pegasus. Izumi Hidaka created Kento-soma from her ideal man, having the same personality and appearance. Because of Kento-soma, she has not had a boyfriend for years. One evening, Wataru Igarashi suddenly appears in front of drunken Izumi Hidaka. She is shocked by Wataru Igarashi’s appearance, which is just like game character Kento-soma...
Release Date2021-07-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Marigold in 4 Minutes
Mikoto Hanamaki is a paramedic with a special psychic ability: he can see the moment at which a person’s life ends. But the talent is a curse because despite his best efforts, he can’t seem to change that fate. Can this empathic paramedic, fighting on the front lines of life and death, find a way to alter the immovable hand of fate and save the one he loves?
Release Date2019-09-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count2
Lost Days
A group of university students who belong to the same tennis club, Shino Yuta, Sakurada Miki, Sasaki Rinka, Takano Natsu, Fueki Mana, Tachibana Satsuki and Sakurada Wataru, go on a graduation trip to a cottage in the mountains in winter.
Release Date2014-01-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count2
San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku
A program that uses a script written by Koki Mitani and is produced by a different cast and crew each time. As the narration at the beginning of the show says: "If you think you can create the same work with the same script, you don't know drama". This is a drama that clearly shows how the atmosphere of a work changes depending on the direction, making it ideal for those who aspire to become directors.
Release Date1996-10-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Ants without Umbrella
Jun Hashimoto is a sci-fi novel writer, but he isn't popular at all. He lives off of his savings. One day, his editor Tateyama assigns him a job: he is to write a "love" themed short story for a web magazine oriented towards youths. At first Jun refuses, because he has never written a love story before, but Tateyama pushes him to write one. The deadline is imminent. Jun's childhood friend Keisuke Murata then appears in front of him. Jun complains to Keisuke that he can't write, but while talking to him, he comes up with an idea.
Release Date2016-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count4
Shikatsushi: Jô-oh no hôigaku
Matsushita plays Kiriyama Yuki, an assistant professor in forensic science at a university's faculty of medicine, who's great at finding the true cause of unnatural deaths. On the other hand, she has a reputation of being a weirdo with her messy hair, going without makeup and behaving more like a man than a woman. Co-stars include Yokoyama Yu who plays the role of Inukai Hajime, a research student working under Kiriyama and Matsushige Yutaka who plays Murakami Mamoru, the police detective who is at odds with Kiriyama.
Release Date2013-09-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop
The series centers around Ryūhei Kasugai (Tetsuya Watari), the grumpy owner of a traditional rice shop in Kamakura, who is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Determined to reconnect with his estranged family, he gathers them back together under one roof. As they navigate old conflicts and rediscover family bonds, Ryūhei also seeks to secure the future of the shop.
Release Date2007-10-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
doktor/kranke
Sayaka, a girl with supernatural powers and multiple personality disorder, lives with psychiatrist Shibusawa for treatment, but Shibusawa has begun to love her beyond as more than a patient.
Release Date2001-12-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
Tales of the Bizarre: 1991 Winter Special
Tales of the Bizarre: 1991 Winter Special is a special edition of Tales of the Bizarre that aired on Fuji Television on December 26, 1991.
Release Date1991-12-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
68歳の新入社員
Release Date2024-09-01
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打工仔买房记SP
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