Rokuro Sugimura (Director)

Special Investigation Nine

The #9 investigation team has been disbanded and members of the #9 investigation team have been scattered around. One year later, the Chief of the National Police Agency, Sojiro Kandagawa, orders the creation of a special investigation team to cover from the initial investigation until it is sent to the prosecutor's office. Sojiro Kandagawa appoints Sakutaro Munakata as the leader of the special investigation team. Former #9 investigation team members join the special investigation team.

Release Date2018-04-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count2

Homicide Team 9

The members of this elite investigative team are unique individuals with their own personal troubles, but what unites them is their strong sense of justice. They each channel all their energy and skill to solve the most difficult cases.

Release Date2006-04-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count3

Night Cherry Blossom Dyeing

Osome is an ex-actress who lost her parents in a fire when she was 6-years old. She then is separated from her older brother, who goes missing. While she tries to investigate the fire that killed her parents, an officer, Yoshikawa reveals that her father used to be a shogunate spy. Osome decides to become a spy herself under Yoshikawa, to find the man who killed her parents and to seek out her lost brother.

Release Date2003-10-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Karate Cop 5

Release Date1987-05-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Karate Cop 2

Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the robbers' whereabouts.

Release Date1983-07-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Secret Magistrate Asahina

Ometsuke Asahina Kawachinokami Masakiyo - holds the position of inspector overseeing the daimyo on behalf of the shogun and the council of elders. When signs of rebellion appear in various areas across Japan, while receiving a secret order from Elder Tsuchiya Sagaminokami, Asahina hides her identity and heads to the area as a secret magistrate and crushes the evil that is plaguing the world with her ruthless hand.

Release Date1998-06-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Karate Cop

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

Release Date1982-04-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Pro Golfer Oribe Kinjiro

Kinjiro Oribe, nicknamed Orikin, is a professional golfer who has not won a single tournament in his 17-year golf career. He arrives at the golf training course in the city center as a professional instructor, he is inspired by unique people, and he becomes obsessed with the idea of winning at least one victory on the tour, which he almost gave up...

Release Date1993-01-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Passed Scene

At the end of October, Sueko Yamane, a widow living alone, is strangled to death in her home in the Togura district on the outskirts of Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture. Money had been stolen, and it appeared to be a robbery and murder. Kaharu Ginsaku (Tomokazu Miura), head of the First Investigative Division at the Ehime Prefectural Police Headquarters, who was in charge of the investigation, did not anticipate that this case would turn out to be an unexpectedly difficult case. At the end of that year, in a forest overlooking the Genkai Sea in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, Kazuo Shimosaka (Shiro Sano) puts his hands around the neck of his girlfriend, Nobuko Mano (Saki Takaoka), and strangles her to death.

Release Date2005-04-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Karate Cop 3

A cop, Katayama, gains the trust of a mother and daughter whose father, Nishina, is missing after being accused of killing a gang boss.

Release Date1984-07-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Arashi no Namida

Satoko lives happily with her husband, baby daughter Haruko and parents-in-law. One day, Satoko loses her husband and daughter in a tragic accident. Soon after, she meets a crying a baby girl and calls her Haruko. 10 years later, Satoko lives with Haruko and her childhood friend Yoriko. Satoko has raised Haruko like her real daughter, but she discovers something shocking about her dead husband...

Release Date2016-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count44

The Man Who Wanted to Be Ultraman

Hiroshi Asami has been working at Tsuburaya Productions for nearly 20 years. He is a member of the special effects team who both creates and wears kaiju costumes, making him an expert on how they move. As a seasoned veteran of the Ultraman Series, Hiroshi is involved in the production of a new movie. However, when it is decided to replace the traditional kaiju costumes with CGI to make the film more internationally appealing, he is removed from the team and transferred to another department.

Release Date1993-10-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector