Satomi Oshima

Marry My Husband

When betrayal by her husband and best friend leads to her death, Misa is mysteriously granted a second chance, traveling back in time by ten years. Determined to rewrite her fate, she sheds her former "nice person" persona to pursue revenge. However, her plans take an unexpected turn when she meets Section Chief Wataru Suzuki, a man absent from her previous life, who begins to change her revenge-focused heart.

Release Date: 2025-06-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Episode Count: 1

90 Years Old – So What?

Aiko Satō, who has won many literary awards, retired from her life as a writer and had no guests. She spent a gloomy time, but then a middle-aged editor named Tachibana came with a commission for a story. The story begins with a series of essays that are initially unpleasant, writing out her anger towards society. Aiko's life will undergo significant changes by the time she is 90 years old.

Release Date: 2024-06-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

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: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 3

The Concierge

Welcome to the Hokkyoku Department Store! This unusual shop caters exclusively to animals, furry and feathered alike. Akino is a new concierge in training and she's quickly realizing the high demands of her customers—especially those on the extinct species list. From a sea mink searching for a special gift to a laughing owl looking to please his wife, can she fulfill every request?

Release Date: 2023-10-20

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 24

The Water Flows to the Sea

High school student Naotatsu travels to live at his uncle's house. In the pouring rain, he is picked up at the nearest station by a strange adult woman named Sakaki who guides him to an unexpected share house where a life together begins.

Release Date: 2023-06-09

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 5

Raven of the Inner Palace

The Raven Consort is a special consort living deep in the inner palace who, despite her title, does not perform nighttime duties for the emperor. Some who have seen her say she has the appearance of an old woman, while others describe her as a young girl. The Raven Consort's name is Shouxue. She can use mysterious arts and will accept any favor asked of her, whether it is to find something lost or to curse someone to death. The current emperor, Gaojun, visits her one night to ask a favor. Their meeting exposes a secret that will turn history on its head...

Release Date: 2022-10-01

Department: Writing

Job: Series Composition

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 30

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: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 12

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

Nikuko is a brash, jolly, scattered, and passionate woman in an otherwise sleepy seaside town in northern Japan. She’s also the single mother of 11-year-old Kikuko, who is her opposite in many ways. Kikuko is a string-bean of a young girl, pensive, quietly curious, and methodical in how she approaches life in this small harbor town. Nikuko embarrasses Kikuko as any mom of a preteen would, but Nikuko’s bold spirit makes her especially well-known in a town where Kikuko herself wants nothing more than to simply blend in. As Kikuko navigates the everyday social dramas of middle school, enhanced with touches of magical realism from her ever-present imagination, a shocking revelation from the past threatens to uproot the pair’s tender relationship.

Release Date: 2021-06-11

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 57

Love Will Begin When Money Ends

Reiko Kuki is single, works in the accounting dept. for toy manufacturer. She lives her life frugally and hardly buys stuff that is not a necessity. A year ago, she found small dishes at a secondhand store and liked them immediately. And Finally, she makes the decision to purchase it for $15. She enters the store, but sees a man and woman buying small dishes at random. The man is Keita Saruwatari. His father runs the toy company where Reiko works. Reiko happens to be the person to advise Keita about money...

Release Date: 2020-09-15

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 7

The Last Three Times We'll Meet

A love story woven by a loveless mistrust girl, Kaede Tamaki who works for a small video production company, and a mysterious young man Seishiro who is attracted by her . Satomi Oshima and Kentaro Hagiwara, who also teamed up for the currently released movie "30 Minutes to Sayonara", were responsible for the script and directing, respectively.

Release Date: 2020-03-31

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

Our 30-Minute Sessions

College student Sota picks up a cassette tape left behind by musician Aki when he died a year ago. When the tape is played back, Aki takes over Sota's body for just 30 minutes. They share the same body and rush to reunite a band that split up and bring a smile to Aki's girlfriend Kana's face.

Release Date: 2020-01-24

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 30

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: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 12

A Meal Makes Her Forget

Sachiko Sasaki works as a literary magazine editor. She is well respected by her colleagues due to her perfectionist ways. On Sachiko Sasaki's wedding day, her boyfriend Shungo disappears. Sachiko Sasaki is dumbfounded by her boyfriend's disappearance. The next day, Sachiko Sasaki goes to work, but she can't stop thinking about Shungo. She realizes she is more traumatized than she thought. Sachiko Sasaki decides to go to a restaurant. When her meal comes out, Sachiko Sasaki forgets all about Shungo. Her experience makes her become a connoisseur of gourmet meals.

Release Date: 2018-10-12

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 4

My Long Awaited Love Story

Riko is 27, working as a love simulation game designer, and she no longer has big expectations for a man in her life. One day app company TIMEIS, lead by Soichiro, hires her to work on their latest game.

Release Date: 2017-12-23

Department: Writing

Job: Screenstory

Vote Count: 6

The 100th Love with You

On July 27th, university student Aoi Hinata has an accident. When she wakes up, Aoi Hinata finds herself in a classroom from one week before the accident.

Release Date: 2017-02-04

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 39

Bōkyō

Three stories from Shiratsuna Island: "Mikan no hana" Shiratsuna Island is the only remaining island city in Japan, but it is being merged with a city on the opposite shore. Housewife Misato Tomita lives on the island. "Umi no hoshi" Yōhei Hamasaki, who was born on Shiratsuna Island, lives in an apartment in the outskirts of Tokyo with his wife, Tomomi, and their son, Taichi. "Kumo no ito" Popular artist Hirotaka Kurosaki, who is a native of Shiratsuna Island, goes back to his hometown after seven years.

Release Date: 2016-09-28

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Vote Count: 1

ヤッさん～築地発！おいしい事件簿～

Release Date: 2016-07-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 1

Hasegawa Machiko's Story

In the year 1926, Machiko Hasegawa is a 6-year-old child and lives in Fukuoka. She is a bright girl, who enjoys playing outdoors. At home, she loves to draw. Her father is a handsome mining engineer and he loves his family more than anything else. When Machiko is 14-years-old her father passes away. The rest of her family decides to move to Tokyo. Her mother than makes a quick decision and sends 15-year-old Machiko to manga artist Tagawa as his student. Machiko's life is peaceful, but the oncoming war makes things tense. Machiko's family moves back to Fukuoka. When the war is about to end, the local newspaper asks Machiko to publish a serial manga. Machiko has difficulties in coming up with an idea for the manga series and decides to go to the nearby Momochi Seaside Park. She watches the ocean and comes up with the idea for manga series "Sazae-san".

Release Date: 2013-11-29

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Beyond the Memories

Kanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a car accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Kanna then meets Roku Akazawa, who also carries a painful experience from his past. When Roku was an elementary school student, a girl who was with him got into an accident and died. Because of that incident, Roku carries a heavy sense of guilt. When they meet, time, frozen since that day, begins to tick again.

Release Date: 2013-10-26

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 10

Good Life: Thank You, Papa, Goodbye

The basis for the drama is the novel “Kashikogi” by author Cho Chang-in, which has sold 2 million copies in Korea since its publication in 2000. It has already been adapted as a television drama and a stage play in that country. On February 4, Shogakukan is publishing the book in Japan under the title “Good Life.” Sorimachi plays the part of Daichi Sawamoto, a newspaper reporter who has always prioritized his work over his family. When his wife suddenly leaves him, he finally notices the love he has been receiving from his son. Just as he decides to answer back, it is discovered that his son has leukemia.

Release Date: 2011-04-19

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 1

Recipe of 49 Days

Two weeks after her adoptive mother, Atsuta Otomi, passed away, Endo Yuriko returns to her family home. She is not visiting because she feels anxious for her father, Ryohei, who has lost his will to live as a result of his wife's death. She has come back because she has decided to divorce her husband, Hiroyuki. However, when Yuriko returns home, a young lady who calls herself Imoto Sachie walks right into the house. Sachie says she will help in housework and everything else until the 49th day and this seems to have been at Otomi's request. Furthermore, she tells everyone in the household that it is Otomi's wish to have a big feast and not a Buddhist memorial service on her 49th day. At first, father and daughter are opposed to the idea, but when they learn of the existence of a recipe which Otomi had left behind, they gradually begin to think they can do it.

Release Date: 2011-02-15

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Episode Count: 4

My Darling Is a Foreigner

Based on a true story. A Japanese girl and an American guy, fall in love in Japan. Their relationship will not be easy to manage, with their different cultures and their different langages.

Release Date: 2010-04-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 20

My Girl

Back in his high school years, Kazama Masamune had a girlfriend four years his senior, who one day left to go study abroad. Now, six years later, Kazama hears that his girlfriend has passed away, and that she had secretly given birth to their daughter, who is now five years old. Kazama then decides to raise his daughter on his own.

Release Date: 2009-10-09

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Tokyo Tower

A story about a young man named Masaya, whose lifelong dream is to go build a life in Tokyo. Masaya thinks his life in his hometown is uncool. A few years later, he manages to move to Tokyo but not without any consequences. In Tokyo, he learns the hard way about the meaning of life, survival, love, insecurities, desperation and hope. He also learns the struggles of living in a big city and trying to fix his relationship with his parents, especially his mom.

Release Date: 2007-01-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 2

Hataraki Man

Hiroko Matsukata’s determined to work her way to the top, and at only 28, she’s now an editor at Jidai Weekly. But she’s had to dedicate her life to work while suppressing her feminine character traits to blend in with her uncouth male coworkers.

Release Date: 2006-10-13

Department: Writing

Job: Series Composition

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 4

1 Litre of Tears

1 Rittoru no Namida is a Japanese television drama for Fuji Television about a girl who was diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease at 15, but was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25.

Release Date: 2005-10-11

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 140