Masahito Kagawa

Prior Convictions

Kayo is a probation officer who forges ahead with her job. Continuing to work closely with ex-convicts, she is assigned to Kudo who had committed murder. As she endeavors to rehabilitate him, Kudo suddenly disappears and emerges as a suspect in a case.

Release Date:2022-01-28

Department:Writing

Job:Comic Book

Vote Count:7

Zenkamono

Agawa Kayo is an upright young woman who earns a living by working part-time at a convenience store. She suffered trauma from some experience in the past and a certain incident makes her decide to become a volunteer probation officer. A volunteer probation officer is a civil servant who helps rehabilitate juvenile delinquents and criminals but receives no pay. They are simply volunteers with a sense of public spirit. After going through a workshop, Kayo who has just become a volunteer probation officer is put in charge of her first case, Saito Midori. The owner of an accessory shop, Midori behaved violently towards an employee and has been released on parole after serving a two-year sentence for extortion and assault. Under the guidance of probation officer Takamatsu Naoharu, Kayo struggles to help her find her place in society.

Release Date:2021-11-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:1

Fugitive Flower

Young wife Sakiko is arrested for the murder of her husband. Despite her claim of innocence, that claim is not heard. Sakiko escapes and chases the real criminal who killed her husband. Her only clue is a sight of a tattoo on the murderers back. Sakiko hides in the city at night to find the real culprit. Offering her body to see the back of the men she seeks out, Sakiko must uncover the truth to the murder of her husband before it is too late.

Release Date:2018-04-14

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

The Scythian Lamb

Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by the government, with the intention of re-socialising them. Aside from the few who know about the project, the general townsfolk has no idea of the former convicts' identities. Tsukisue is the pleasant and efficient municipal official put in charge of the programme. As he slowly learns about their past, a body is discovered.

Release Date:2018-02-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:19

Hanako San

Short film directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi as part of the 学校の怪談物の怪スペシャル series centered around the legend of Hanako san.

Release Date:2001-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2

密告（チクリ）　マル暴裏捜査

Release Date:1998-06-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Health Master Dan

Adaptation of the manga by the same title by Noboru Takahashi. Dan is a masseuse that has the ability to pinpoint anyone's health issues. In this erotic / semi-erotic film Dan uses his special 'techniques' that help cure his patients' ailments.

Release Date:1998-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Maohgai

Kishi is a 37-year-old personnel officer and fairly happy with work, wife and child. But he turns out to be susceptible to a more exciting life. Through his old schoolfriend Daimon he meets the attractive Yoshie and spends a sensational night of love with her. Kishi doesn't want to leave it at one night. On their second meeting, Daimon is also present and this night turns into a sado-masochistic ritual. A suppressed memory emerges in Kishi: once he raped an elderly woman with Daimon. Kishi again crossed a frontier this night and the relationship with his colleague Yuko also breaks boundaries. He slowly realises that his emotional life is taking a direction that he had never dreamed possible; Kishi moves into a new and dark world.

Release Date:1993-08-06

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

The Tomb & the Divorce

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male friend at her leather-working class, Yoshinori has a fit. This is on top of the myriad of odd clients that he must appease.

Release Date:1993-07-31

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Misty

Release Date:1991-11-23

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Dance till Tomorrow

Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.

Release Date:1991-06-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Nonsensical Life

One summer day, a university student, Yazawa, is offered a lucrative job that pays 50,000 yen for two hours. All he had to do was go to a poet's house and listen to his poems. On the day of the job, the poet, Kihara, reads out a strange poem that starts with "The world is one" and ends with "Because we are 10 years old". Yazawa did as Kihara asked, reciting the poem and answering his questions. Yazawa reads the poem at Kihara's request and asks him a question: "Please give me a title. Kihara's ability to take something that would normally be "boring" and turn it into a surrealistic laugh is brilliant.

Release Date:1991-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

New I’m a Man! Aim! Japan’s Best Salaryman

1990 Original Video.

Release Date:1990-04-25

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Nekketsu After School Club 1

1990 original video.

Release Date:1990-03-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Nekketsu After School Club 2

1990 Original Video film.

Release Date:1990-03-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Nekketsu After School Club 3

1990 Original Video.

Release Date:1990-03-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Bathclean Night

Release Date:1983-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

HER YOUTH

Release Date:1982-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director