Shintaro Sugawara (Director)

Inheritance Detective

Haie takes care of inheritance issues. He closes estate disputes and exposes questionable heirs — all while respecting the wishes of the dead.

Release Date: 2025-01-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 6

GO HOME ~Metropolitan Police Department Unidentified Person Consultation Office~

Mita Sakura is considered to be weird by her colleagues at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, because she voluntarily works in the unidentified bodies department. About 20,000 unidentified bodies exist in the country and Mita Sakura works on returning these unknown deceased people to their families. She has a colleague, Tsukimoto Makoto, who works in the same department. They are totally opposite in terms of their personalities and interests. Mita Sakura is bright and warm-hearted, but Tsukimoto Makoto is calm and cold-hearted. They do share the same desire to return these unidentified bodies to their families. To find the identities of these deceased people, they rely on the few clues that are left behind on them.

Release Date: 2024-07-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 2

Love You as the World Ends: The Movie

Utopia was a tower of hope, but it was a tower of despair created by human desires. In Utopia, they were researching the only way to save this world: a vaccine against the monster called Golem. One girl with special antibodies was used as research material. Her name is Mirai, the daughter of Hibiki Mamiya. Hibiki decides to rescue Mirai together with five men who have gathered in Utopia. The men are trying to rescue their loved ones, to save their family and friends, and to steal food and money to survive. Although each of them has their own non-negotiables and some rebellion, they gradually come to resonate with Hibiki's beliefs and decide to fight together.

Release Date: 2024-01-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Invert: Jozuka Hisui Inverted Collection

Jozuka Hisui is a psychic with green eyes and has the ability to feel the souls and bring the dead back. Together with her partner Chiwasaki Makoto, Hisui works hard as a "medium detective" and catches the culprits despite their perfect plans and alibis.

Release Date: 2022-11-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 8

Medium Detective Hisui Jozuka

Hisui Jozuka can “see” the culprits with her clairvoyance, but this won’t hold up as evidence. Just how will she solve complex cases? “I have the ability to know the truth, but why am I so useless?” Hisui, with her green eyes, is in anguish. As a medium, she can trace down culprits with her special gift of clairvoyance, but this won’t hold up as evidence. What must she do to get the police to investigate? Will they manage to catch the perpetrator? This is a unique detective drama series that features a psychic detective who goes face to face with criminals.

Release Date: 2022-10-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 15

Police in a Pod

20-year-old rookie police officer Kawai Mai works hard at a police box and feels both physically and mentally drained. She has never felt appreciated even though she supposedly works for the sake of the area’s residents. In addition, she does not find working at a police box rewarding. Mai is about to hand in her resignation when she meets 30-year-old Fuji Seiko, the former ace detective of the Criminal Investigations Division. Seiko is said to have been forced to transfer to the police box for harassing a subordinate at work but … … This encounter between Mai and Seiko will significantly change their lives as they are suddenly paired up. This odd pair struggle to help and support each other in cases, routine duties and romance?! And Seiko’s true reason for coming to the police box is revealed.

Release Date: 2021-07-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 9

Vote Count: 17

Love You as the World Ends

26-year-old car mechanic Hibiki Mamiya lives with his high school sweetheart of the same age, Kurumi Ogasawara. Life together feels so natural and filled with the warmth of each other's love. It was a happiness they expected would last a lifetime. Hibiki is secretly preparing his proposal to Kurumi when misfortune strikes. A tunnel collapses, trapping him for four days. Barely making it out alive, he discovers a world completely changed. There is absolutely no one around, communication signals are dead, the transportation network is a wreck, and the only information available is the emergency evacuation order being repeated on the radio. Everywhere Hibiki goes, he sees bloodstains. Just what happened to this town?!

Release Date: 2021-01-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 16

Vote Count: 42

Gourmet Detective Goro Akechi

Detective Goro Akechi has a passion for fine dining. Good-looking but incredibly quirky, he solves food-related crimes by using, well, food. He treats Ichigo Kobayashi like his assistant and drags her into all sorts of cases, even though she's perfectly happy just running her food truck.

Release Date: 2020-04-12

Department: Production

Job: Production Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 6

Black School Rules

Sōra is a high school student who is basically invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya, who is an unpredictable character that often surprises those around him. Sōra and Chūya both have feelings for the same classmate, Kio Machida. The Machida girl refuses to come to class, because she doesn't want to dye her naturally brown hair black. Their school has unreasonable school rules, especially about uniforms, which include requiring all students to have black hair. Sōra and Chūya decide to stand up to change their school's black school rules so that Machida won’t have to repeat a year of school from missing too many classes.

Release Date: 2019-11-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

Strawberry Song

Kota runs into his old friend Chika on the anniversary of their friend's death. They plan to meet again in a year, but their feelings are complicated.

Release Date: 2019-07-05

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 1

Nurse in Action!

Tachibana Haruka is a rookie nurse with a bright personality. Mihara Natsumi is 34-year-old veteran nurse. She is struggling at work and with her love life. While Tachibana Haruka and Mihara Natsumi work as nurses at a place that deals with life and death, they laugh and cry. The two women grow as persons in the process.

Release Date: 2019-04-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 10

Tokyo Alien Bros.

In the year 2020, two alien brothers are on a mission. To learn about humans, they must interact with them. What will they discover in Tokyo?

Release Date: 2018-07-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 1

Kiss that Kills

A mysterious woman appears in front of Otaro Dojima. The mysterious woman has a pale face with red lips. She kisses him and he dies, but the next moment he regains consciousness. He realizes he is now seven days in the past. The mysterious woman also follows him. Due to her kiss, Otaro Dojima dies and goes back to the past over and over again.

Release Date: 2018-01-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 19

Kiss that Kills: Parallel

What would happen if Ōtarō wouldn't be able to go back in time with a kiss and be revived? A real-world-like parallel timeline about what happens after Ōtarō's deaths.

Release Date: 2018-01-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 6

時代をつくった男 阿久悠物語

Aku Yu was a songwriter who put out more than 500 songs in his lifetime. His songs spanned a wide genre from idol songs, enka, folk songs to songs for anime and commercials. He was called a hit maker for the many famous songs he composed which added colour to the period.

Release Date: 2017-08-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke

Yosuke Misaki used to be a promising prosecutor, but he suddenly quit his job. He begins a new career as a pianist. He knocks on the door of wealthy man Kentaro Katsuki who lives in a peaceful area of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. Kentaro Katsuki lives with his housekeeper Michiko Tsuzuruki (Midoriko Kimura). Kentaro allows Yosuke Misaki to stay at his home. Near Kentaro Katsuki's home, lives the Sanada family. At their home, Haruka aspires to become a pianist. One day, a fatal fire breaks out at the Sanada's house. Later, Yosuke helps Haruka to play the piano again.

Release Date: 2016-03-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Yowakutemo Katemasu

Also Known As: Can Win Even If Weak

Release Date: 2014-04-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 5

Farewell for Today

Kouta Fujioka is a 29-year old man who has a good family, including his father who always supports him, his mother who enjoys cooking, and his older sister with her bright personality. He also has a girlfriend named Etsuko Tanebe. Kouta wants people to eat delicious foods made by him and begins a job as an apprentice chef at a restaurant. One day, Kouta suddenly passes out and is sent to the hospital, where he is diagnosed with malignant lymphoma, completely changing his life. Given three months left to live, Kouta makes up his mind, with the support of his family and those he meets at the hospital, to accept his fate and "face a proper death".

Release Date: 2013-08-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Carry On! Hara-chan!

Echizen, who is a modest woman, works at a fish cake plant. Instead of keeping a diary, she draws cartoons of "Nakuna, Harachan" on her notebook about her daily life. The main character in her comic, Hara then appears in the real world.

Release Date: 2013-01-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 2

My Little Nightmare

Beautiful and young, Ayami has a solid reputation as a dedicated and reliable elementary teacher, but her true character is solely clandestine. Ayami does not believe in love and trust, and her values make her oblivious to other people's matters. Almost devious, she is always scheming so she never has to deal with responsibility and troubles that spur around her. One day, a new student Yuiko enrolls in her homeroom class. It does not take long for Ayami to find out that Yuiko has an ability to predict the future through the dreams she sees in her sleep; dreams which are symbolic and require proper interpretation to understand the upcoming occurrences. But when Yuiko begins to have nightmares of people around them, Ayami, though unwillingly, must team up with Yuiko to try to change the tragic fate of those around them... But can they properly assess what Yuiko's nightmares truly mean and change what may already be destined?

Release Date: 2012-10-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 6

QP

The main character of the manga was Ishida Kotori, also known as "QP", the most powerful gangster in his area. The drama will shift its focus onto Azuma Ryo, Kotori's close friend, who has some hidden ambitions.

Release Date: 2011-10-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 12