Yoichi Maekawa (Writing)

Diary of a Surgical Resident: Madoka

Madoka Wakatsuki, a 26-year-old resident, strives to find happiness while navigating the challenges of being both a doctor and a woman in the medical field.

Release Date:2025-01-14

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

Someone in this town

Release Date:2024-12-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:3

Bankake ~ Metropolitan Police Department Automobile Police Unit

Release Date:2023-03-27

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Shylock's Children

The Nagahara branch of Tokyo Daiichi Bank is a small branch that mainlydeals with small and medium-sized businesses. Masahiro Nishiki was a deputy manager working there. He was now off the career track but was working peacefully, trusted by his team members and co-workers.

Release Date:2022-10-09

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:4

Shōtai

Keiichi Kaburagi is arrested as a suspect in a murder case and sentenced to death. He escaped from prison during the transfer, but while fleeing, he rescues the people he meets in his hiding place from the predicament. And when the rescued people realize that Kaburagi is a wanted death-row prisoner, they begin to wonder, "Is he really a murderer?"

Release Date:2022-03-12

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:2

Kareinaru ichizoku

Daisuke Manpyō is the owner and president of the successful Hanshin Bank. He also owns several other companies and some real estate. His son-in-law is a bureaucrat at the Ministry of the Treasury, who tips him off that there is a move afoot to reorganize commercial banks. Manpyō is in for difficult times as he attempts to block the merger between his bank and another.

Release Date:2021-04-18

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:4

Bones of Steel

Heita Tomishima is a very conscientious but awkward young man at a mid-sized construction company. He loves working on-site, but one day is suddenly transferred to Operations, a unit whose work is totally outside his comfort zone. Its remit is to land major projects, including public works, and in-house it's cynically known as the Bid Rigging Department. Working under a crusty-old director, a crass macho type, a go-getter doyenne, and a cunning manager adept at hiding his true intentions, Heita dedicates himself to winning a public works contract worth billions.

Release Date:2020-04-18

Department:Writing

Job:Teleplay

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:2

Fukushima 50

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

Release Date:2020-03-06

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:168

A Lone Scalpel

Tetsuhiko Toma is a surgeon who studied in the United States. He begins work at a private hospital in a rural area in Japan. He believes that people should receive the same level of care at all hospitals. Guided by those principles, he takes on challenging surgeries and saves the lives of patients. Tetsuhiko Toma attempts an internal organ transplant for the first time in Japan, but the health care system blocks him.

Release Date:2019-01-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:1

Akira and Akira

The story begins in April 1986 and is set during the days of the bubble economy. Kaidou Akira comes from a wealthy background and is the heir of a large company Tokai Yuusen. On the other hand, his genius classmate from the University of Tokyo, Yamazaki Akira had a tough life due to the bankruptcy of his father's company and having to run away from creditors but overcomes the odds to graduatefrom the top-notch school. The two are employed at the same bank and get caught in a battle lasting over 10 years which causes upheavals in their lives.

Release Date:2017-07-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:9

The Unbroken

WOWOW brings acclaimed author Toyoko Yamasaki's 1999 literary tour de force to life on the small screen for the very first time. Audiences have already received television adaptations of Yamasaki's other works – The Ivory Tower (白い巨塔), The Grand Family (華麗なる一族), The Waste Land (不毛地帯), A Son of the Good Earth (大地の子), and My Destiny (運命の人) – and can now add The Unbroken (沈まぬ太陽) to that list with this long-awaited production. Features a star-studded cast and additional filming on location in Africa and the Middle East.

Release Date:2016-05-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:20

Vote Count:2

Strategist KANBE

July 1590, Odawara. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army had surrounded the Odawara Castle for over 3 months, hoping to conquer this last obstacle to his dream of the country's unification. Standing at the gate of the castle, a lone man facing the menacing guards shouted out: "Do not throw your lives away. Treasure living!". Not long after, the castle gates opened and the reigning lord surrendered. The name of that man is Kuroda Kanbee. An excellent military strategist, he worked hand-in-hand with Hideyoshi to unify the country.

Release Date:2014-01-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:50

Vote Count:9

Kumokiri Nizaemon

During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, and all across the Kansai region, stealing large sums of money with skillful techniques. They only target the very wealthy and never kill or injure people. They appear with the clouds and disappear like the mist. On the night that the beautiful Ochiyo is to become the bride of a dry goods dealer, a large amount of money hidden inside the shop is stolen. The gang disappears without injuring anyone. It was a two-year plan to marry Ochiyo off so that she could bring them in. The leader of this gang is Kumokiri Nizaemon, the greatest bandit of all time. He keeps a rein on his highly-skilled and notorious followers Nanabake no Ochiyo, Kinezumi no Kichigoro, Subashiri no Kumagoro, Ingakozo Rokunosuke and others.

Release Date:2013-04-10

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:5

Lady Joker

One day, a suspicious-looking audio CD is delivered to Shiroyama Kyosuke, the company president of Hinode Beer, the industry’s top brewer. Shiroyama is shaken by the contents which pin the company down for its past misdeeds.

Release Date:2013-03-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:3

Hidamari no Ki

In the chaos of the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, two young men bound by the bonds of firm friendship stand by their convictions as they try to create lives for themselves, walk the path they believed and die in the course of destiny. Ibuya Majiro (Ichihara Hayato) is a boorish, low-ranking samurai who serves the Hitachifuchu domain. Although Ibuya is skilled, he is terrible at making his way in life because he is honest to a fault. The single-minded Ibuya lives for justice and is loyal to the shogunate which is on the verge of collapse. In contrast to Ibuya, Tezuka Ryoan (Narimiya Hiroki), a fine doctor of Western medicine, is usually an irresponsible womaniser, but a compassionate person who would go all out for his patients...

Release Date:2012-06-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Presumed Guilty

Journalist Kayama Seiji who is covering the war zone, gets shocking news that Shinozuka Yoshio, the criminal serving time for the murder of a young girl 12 years ago, is actually innocent. At that time, Kayama reported on that case. Convinced that Shinozuka was the criminal, Kayama had proceeded to write the news stories, but he is proved to be wrong after the passage of 12 years. Shinozuka's lawyer, Ishihara Yoko, holds a press conference where she criticises the sloppy investigation by the police and speaks of suing for the suffering during the 12 years that Shinozuka had lost. However, Shinozuka's daughter, Miho has mixed feelings for her father who is released from prison at this late stage.

Release Date:2012-03-25

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:5

Marks' Mountain

20 years ago a half-frozen boy was rescuded in the mountains after his parents apparent sucide. He gets released from a mental institution and his girlfriend notices him talking about a dark mountain shadow. Meanwhile a murder happens in a residential area in Tokyo. Assistant Inspector Goda Yuichiro takes on the investigation. Soon an official of the Ministery of Justice gets murdered in a similar fashion pointing towards a serial killer. Yet, Goda receives a strange order from above: he's not to further investigate in this direction. He senses a huge mystery behind the case and starts chasing after the psychopath killer called Marks. Somehow a journalist's research about a corrupt construction magnate and another unsolved murder that happend in the mountains 13 years ago are also linked to the case.

Release Date:2010-10-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:3

Onyado Kawasemi

Humanistic detective stories that took place in an inn called 'Kawasemi'.

Release Date:2003-04-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:8

Dangerous case file of female lawyer Yuriko Mizushima

a 3-part TV drama series featuring Reiko Takashima

Release Date:1997-05-23

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:3

Gigolo II

Daisuke gets swept up in a mission that attempts to recover a highly-confidential disc, only to find that there is a terrible trap waiting for him! Before long, his gigolo skills involve him in a heroic battle of sex with his opposing female counterpart...

Release Date:1996-06-07

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Naughty Guide to Tokyo Nightlife

For those willing to descend deep enough into Tokyo's seedy underworld, many illicit and illegal pleasures are available, for a price. The NAUGHTY GUIDE TO TOKYO NIGHTLIFE follows a number of women who are part of this world and who offer to act out any man's erotic fantasy, for a price, of course.

Release Date:1996-05-03

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

Mary's Game

An assignment is issued to a lady sniper to destroy the mafia.

Release Date:1996-01-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Dochinpira: Gekijô-ban

Based on the comic book series of the same name by Tetsumi Dokou and Makio Hara.

Release Date:1995-03-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Mahjong Demon 5 Final Edition: One-man Retirement Match

Shoichi Sakurai meets his girlfriend's father, the legendary drug dealer Mo. This leads to the two of them repeatedly competing against each other, but Mo eventually passes away. Sakurai, who regrets having taken his life, receives news of the Japan Championship and decides to retire after this match. Thus, he faces his final match, but...

Release Date:1995-02-24

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Corporate Yakuza

A gripping yakuza drama about a former elite banker who steps into the underworld.

Release Date:1994-10-28

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Mahjong Demon 4: Mahjong Proxy War

Kabukicho, Shinjuku. Shoichi Sakurai meets a man who goes to a mahjong parlor from 9am to 5pm and realizes that there is something missing in his mahjong. Next, a soba restaurant owner from Karuizawa who lost his land because of mahjong appears before Sakurai. Sakurai teaches him mahjong when he asks for his help, but...

Release Date:1994-10-21

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

The Wicked Reporter

Matsuzaki is a racing tipster for a sports paper, a lowlife who spends half his time drunk, hangs out with yakuza and other riff-raff, and complicates his sex life by succumbing to advances from his girlfriend's sister.

Release Date:1993-07-19

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Goto shi kabushiki gaisha

Based on the comic of the same name that ran in Manga Pachinkā.

Release Date:1993-05-08

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay