Satoru Nakajima (Director)
Little is known about Satoru Nakajima, a figure with a modest footprint in Director. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Lap of the Gods
An A-to-Z driver's eye view track tour of 23 Formula One Grand Prix circuits in the 1970's and 1980's. Narrated by Murray Walker.
Release Date1992-01-01
Charactersd Self
My Story Is Long
A young man has college and a failed business behind him. Unemployed and planning his next steps he is lodging with is mother, a small business owner. His sister and her family also move in with the two, albeit temporarily. She sees him as a loser and a lush and wants him out. She also whispers in their mother's ear to ask him to leave the house in order to find his own way and begin the rest of his life. She probably has noble intentions, but is she right and will she succeed?
Release Date2019-10-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count16
Mr. Love Chemistry 2
Despite working as a matchmaker, Sosuke is an awkward person. He works with Shion and they bicker over their different beliefs of love and marriage.
Release Date2015-09-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
This is Not a Business Expense!
Sanako Moriwaka (Mikako Tabe) is single and works in the accounting department of a soap company. For her job, she checks receipts and bills. Each slip that she reviews, mentions only the dollar amount and a brief reason for the expense. When Sanako Moriwaka reviews the slips, she can often discern suspicious facts surrounding the expense or even troubles in the lives of the employee.
Release Date2019-07-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count8
Guilty Flag
Ryōsuke Sagara is an ordinary salaryman and he works for a mid-size shipping company. He is a good-natured person. His family consists of his wife Maho, high school student daughter and elementary school student son. Maho works part-time at a supermarket. They are a happy family, but Maho and their two children suddenly disappear. There are no clues about their disappearance. Ryōsuke gets the attention of the media and public. He tries to find the truth behind his family's disappearance with the help of his subordinate Mizuho Ninomiya at work.
Release Date2021-10-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count20
Vote Count10
Sensei wa Erai!
Nakajima, Chinen, and Arioka play three useless students at a public junior high school. At first, they find their homeroom teacher dull and bothersome, but an incident leads them to take a liking to him. Along with their former classmate (Yamada) who now attends a private school, the students unite to transform their teacher into a respectable guy. - (TokyoGraph)
Release Date2008-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Kuitan
This story about a detective who has a huge appetite is adapted from a manga by Daisuke Terasawa.
Release Date2006-01-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count20
Vote Count1
I'm Taking the Day Off
Hanae Aoishi is set to turn 30. She works for a general trading company and has never taken a day off or been late for work. She dresses pleasantly plain and has zero dating experience. She attends a company party and drinks with part-time employee Yuto Tanokura. He is a handsome university student. Through the evening, Hanae becomes drunk and passes out. When she wakes up, Hanae finds Yuto Tanokura sleeping next to her and he is naked. She becomes confused about what happened and takes the day off from work for the first time. To come out of her shell, Hanae decides to date Yuto Tanokura who is 9 years younger than her. At this time Yu Asao, the CEO of a food company located in the same building as her company, begins to have feelings for Hanae.
Release Date2014-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count7
Cheap Flight!!
Aizawa Miharu (Takeuchi Yuko) receives an order to work for Cherry's Airlines from major airline. Cherry's Airlines is a low cost, budget carrier. The concept for Cherry's Airlines is to provide little to no service, all for the lowest cost to the passenger. Miharu struggles with her new job, because she is trained to provide excellant service from her previous company. Miharu begins to feel gloomy from struggling with her amateur colleagues and against the low cost policy of her company. Nevertheless, Miharu works hard for Cherry's Airlines first flight.
Release Date2013-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Become a Mother
In the spring, when Kashiwazaki Yui and her 3 years old son were coming back home from kindergarten, she let go of her son's hand for a moment and then he was gone. 9 years later, her son appears in front of her again.
Release Date2017-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
#Remolove
Oozakura Mimi is an industrial physician who has never been in a relationship. To Mimi, protecting the health of the employees is the most important thing and romance comes after that. Mimi later gets to know someone through social media. Although Mimi does not know the identity of the person, he is actually someone who is working in the same company.
Release Date2020-10-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count2
Magnet Man
Release Date2014-06-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Seeing with the Heart
Content with his perfect life, Yoshinori Arai’s eyesight starts to fail and he despairs. How will he battle his illness and return to his dreams?
Release Date2016-08-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Dream Again
A pro baseball player Shunsuke Ogi was fired by the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants because of a shoulder injury. After one year, he still dreams of coming back to the game, and decides to put everything behind to try out again. After he cancelled his wedding with his fiancée Satsuki Ninomiya and threw away the ring to forget Satsuki, a lightning bolt strikes him to death.
Release Date2007-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Number One
Kubozuka plays Araki Ryunosuke who starts working at a host club called "club NO.1" to pay his debt.
Release Date2001-12-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Hotman
Enzo, a school art teacher, is the pillar of a rather unusual family. He takes care of his 5-year-old daughter but does not know who her mother is, and he also lives with his four siblings whose fathers are all different. Enzo's daughter suffers from severe atopic dermatitis, so he throws himself into managing her diet to alleviate her condition. He is so determined to raise the little daughter well, he doesn't appear to have any spare time for a girlfriend. And yet Enzo finds himself drawn to Misuzu, a health teacher at his school. A light-hearted and romantic story of a man trying to find love and learn to be a father at the same time.
Release Date2003-04-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count3
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
A story about a high school full of delinquents, and its elite class that has clones of famous warlords from Japan's Warring States period fighting it out.
Release Date2022-07-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count2
Isn’t It a Ripoff?: The Job of a New Member of the Intellectual Property Department
Fujisaki Aki is an employee at "Tsukiyono Drink", a medium-sized beverage manufacturer. She has been transferred to the Intellectual Property Department, that is in charge of managing intellectual property rights. Together with her superior, Kitawaki Masayoshi, who is a licensed patent attorney, the two work together to overcome various challenges faced by the company.
Release Date2023-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count2
Perfect Son
Perfect Son is comedy-drama television series co-starring Ryosuke Yamada and Kyōka Suzuki, which aired on NTV from 21:00-21:54 on Saturday nights from 14 January 2012 to 17 March 2012. The screenplay was written by Shinji Nojima.
Release Date2012-01-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count4
Dandarin Rules
Labor Standards Inspectors... are you aware of their existence? For the sake of the 52 million actively employed people across the nation, the government had set up this body to help ensure that there is safety at workplaces. Danda Rin, is an example of a very diligent and strict inspector. She doesn't compromise when it comes to the rules. The story opens with the transfer of Danda Rin to the new Labor Standards Inspector office. "She had caused her boss at her ex-office to go bald!!" is the rumor that accompanies her to her new office. Danda Rin is someone who doesn't do things in half measures, which is totally unlike the laidback male colleagues in the office. "Unpaid overtime", "Managers in name only", "Power harassment by managers"; these are all the things she fights against!
Release Date2013-10-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count1
May I Blackmail You?
Kanji Senkawa receives requests which the police or private investigators can't handle. He solves the cases by threatening people. Kanji Senkawa meets wealthy university student Mio Kanesaka. She has a good heart and and can't ignore those in difficult situations. Kanji and Mio get involved in various cases including voice phishing and kidnappings.
Release Date2017-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count5
Stingers: Undercover Verification Unit
A secretive team of former criminals known as the Stingers goes undercover to help the police crack modern crimes while hiding their own dark pasts.
Release Date2025-07-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count2
DEKA WANKO -Ms. Detective vs. Police Dog-
"Deka Wanko" is originally a manga by "Gokusen" creator Kozueko Morimoto. The comedic series revolves around a rookie detective named Ichiko Hanamori (played by Tabe), whose exceptional dog-like sense of smell is used to solve difficult cases, in addition to earning her the nickname of "Deka Wanko."
Release Date2011-01-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count3
My Story Is Long : 2025 Spring
Release Date2025-03-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Worry Not, She's the Boss
Fukabori Marie is a charismatic wedding planner and company president who is relied on by everyone, regardless of whether she is her boss or subordinate. Her husband Yusaku, an unsuccessful manga artist on the verge of going out of business, and his son, Junki, who dreamed of becoming an idol but was rejected at an audition, lost his way. In addition, her father who became alone due to a middle-aged divorce also came and she had to feed three useless men!
Release Date2023-10-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count2
The Only One I Can't See
A private lawyer (Hiroshi Mikami) who is infatuated with the widow of the Mamiya conglomerate (Emi Shindo) and aims for her inheritance. But he had multiple personalities. One day, university student Kawashima Megumi is mistaken for her older sister, Maiko. She is given a key to a coin locker, and finds inside the diary of Maiko's real father, a zaibatsu leader. Using her sister's name, Megumi gets close to the widow of the zaibatsu leader.
Release Date1992-01-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count1
Miracle of Love
After finding out about her surprise pregnancy, Janesuda was labeled as her lover, Atiruj's life-destroyer. Despite the taunts from the people around her lover, she tried to be patient and persevere to make her relationship work. However, love isn't always sweet. When she discovered that love was beginning to disappear for Atiruj, Janesuda decided to leave everything behind with a hurt heart. Atiruj continues to live his life mercilessly and with a cold heart.
Release Date1999-04-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Girls In The Wind
Release Date1988-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Episode Count1
GTOスペシャル座談会
Release Date1998-12-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Midnight Ghost Tour
Release Date2004-04-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Marriage at Twenty
Although marriage is the farthest thing from her mind, Renko meets a special person on her twentieth birthday and starts to seriously think about marriage. In this light comedy, these feelings inside her clash with those of her friends and family members, but they all add to the growing experience of her first true love.
Release Date2000-07-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
The Kitazawas: We Mind Our Own Business
Taizo Kitazawa works as a middle school principal. He has three children. His first child, Hirofumi, is 38 years old and works as a heart surgeon. His second child, Chiaki, is 27 years old and works as a lawyer. The youngest child, Shusaku, is 25 years old and works as a police officer. He is ambitious and has a strong sense of justice. In order to keep happiness in the Kitazawa family, the family uses any means they can. Shusaku comes into conflict between love for his family and professional ethics.
Release Date2018-01-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count1
Cops 'n Robbers
An ambitious novice detective needs the expertise of a legendary thief. Watch this unlikely ‘cops & robbers’ double act solve crime together!
Release Date2018-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count3
I Won't Love Anyone Anymore
Miyuki works in a bank with Sayuri and Takuya. Sayuri and Takuya plot to get the money each of them needs. Miyuki is violently hurt by their scheme and her relationship with her fiance is affected. When Miyuki discovers the people responsible for all that has happened to her, she plans her revenge.
Release Date1991-04-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12