Yasutaka Tsutsui is a Japanese novelist, science fiction author, and actor. His Yumenokizaka bunkiten won the Tanizaki Prize in 1987. He has also won the 1981 Izumi Kyoka award, the 1989 Kawabata Yasunari award, and the 1992 Nihon SF Taisho Award.
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
Release Date1999-09-15
Charactersd Yukio's Father
Vote Count89
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.
Release Date2006-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Charactersd Kuga (voice)
Vote Count2707
Girls surrounding 17 years old are affected by an illness that make her to be 'Stacies': they feel a strange and momentary happiness until they become zombies.
Release Date2001-08-18
Charactersd Dr. Inugami Sukekiyo
Vote Count47
What do you get when you mix a granddaughter from an extremely rich family with crime, murder, and a passion for law and justice? Kanbe Miwako, a granddaughter of a super rich millionaire becomes a detective and starts working at a male dominant police station. Her fancy fashion, elegant manners, and upper-class attitudes constantly gets on the nerves of the old-fashioned coworkers. However, to everyone’s surprise, Miwako’s unique investigation lead by an ultra rich sense of value becomes the key to solve mysterious cases, one by one!
Release Date2005-01-13
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Charactersd Ryuhei Sezaki
Episode Count20
Vote Count6
The making of anime "Paprika" (2006), focusing on its adaptation from Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel.
Release Date2007-05-23
Charactersd Himself
A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected, come down with the disease, which leads to death. They have no way of fighting against this infection filled with fear and despair. The media calls the disease the "Lemming Syndrome".
Release Date2005-05-18
Charactersd Miyagi
Vote Count19
In the year 2011 the greatest tectonic disaster in the history of mankind has occurred. As a result of the catastrophic earthquakes North and South America, Eurasia, Africa and Australia have sunken underwater while the Japanese islands remain untouched.
Release Date2006-09-02
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Charactersd
Vote Count8
In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a broadcasting center responsible for all of Japan's entertainment.
Release Date1999-11-13
Charactersd Organization Manager
Vote Count6
Some students decide to set up a play written by one of their classmates, who has commited suicide. The play is based on a tragic and mysterious legend about a love affair between two teachers at the school long ago. Some girls then accidentally stumble over some information about the legend, and the girl who commited suicide. Shortly after, the girls start turning up dead in seeming accidents.
Release Date2000-08-05
Charactersd Kazuhiko Teduka
Vote Count12
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
Release Date1989-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Charactersd Sci-Fi writer
Surrounded by violence for as long as he can remember, Ryoudo Numata has steeled himself into a tremendously tough man, growing to become the very essence of "manliness" himself in order to live his life in peace. When members of a yakuza clan set on fire to his house to facilitate a real estate transaction, Kumada murders them and gets jailed for it. 15 years later, finally free, he will now have to reconnect with his family who clearly are in disarray due his long absence and face the distrust of his children who know nothing of their father except that he had abandoned them.
Release Date2007-08-25
Charactersd Boss
Vote Count1
Release Date1986-04-12
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Charactersd Dr. Inugami
The Glass Mask drama is based on a very popular manga of the same name by Suzue Miuchi, about a young girl named Maya whose dream is to be an actress. A legendary former stage actress, Tsukikage Chigusa, watches Maya as she reenacts drama episodes she's seen on TV. She approaches Maya and has her join her acting company, Tsukikage Theater. Tsukikage holds the production rights to a legendary masterpiece called "The Crimson Goddess," in which she had played the title role until a terrible accident burnt her face beyond surgical repair. She's been searching all of these years for someone to play the role which only the most talented actress could play, and maybe she's found that someone in Maya... --synopsis by awrittensin
Release Date1997-07-07
Charactersd Hayami Eisuke
Episode Count12
Vote Count3
Release Date1996-05-11
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Charactersd
Adaptation of the novel of the same name.
Release Date1994-02-19
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Charactersd
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
A 2005 remake of the 1976 TV original.
Release Date2005-10-04
Charactersd Soichiro Kono
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. *Kagi (The Key) - starring Eguchi Yosuke. 2. Perfect Couple - starring Yada Akiko. 3. Toosugita Otoko (The Man Who Was Too Far Away) - starring Nakamura Shido. 4. Meiro (The Maze)- starring Tanihara Shosuke. 5. Kage ga Omonaru Toki (When Shadows Accumulate) - starring Yashima Norito. * Adapted from a novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka.
Release Date2003-09-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".
Release Date2000-05-12
Charactersd Self
Release Date1990-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count13
Vote Count2
In a near-future time, the British government has come up with an environmentally friendly program that abolishes prisons. Criminals and undocumented immigrants are chemically transformed into trees and put on public display. A propaganda filmmaker is forced to question his work as he prepares to see his journalist wife be “planted” for crimes against the state. A grim and imaginative cautionary tale by British filmmaker Tony Hipwell, based on the short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui (PAPRIKA, THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME).
Release Date2021-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
Vote Count3
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.
Release Date2006-07-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2155
Two police detectives with different beliefs about the value of people's lives must cooperate to solve their city's most serious crimes.
Release Date2020-04-10
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count11
Vote Count64
Shinshun! Love stories (新春! LOVEストーリーズ) is a 2002 Japanese telefilm starring members of the all-girl J-pop group Morning Musume. Shinshun! Love stories is an anthology film based on three different romantic stories: The Dancing Girl of Izu, Haikara-san ga Tōru and Toki o Kakeru Shōjo. The film aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System on January 2, 2002. A limited edition DVD was released on October 26, 2005.
Release Date2002-03-13
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
This elusive work, originally published in 1972, is finally being adapted for the stage after 45 years! Ken Sogoru, who has erased the memories of the characters from the previous story, including the protagonist Yoshiyama Kazuko and her childhood friend Asakura Goro, returns to the future and appears before Yoshiyama Kazuko and her friends again to search for three scientists from the 27th century who went missing in the 20th century. Yoshiyama Kazuko helps Ken Sogoru search for the three scientists, and they travel back in time to find the scientists. A time-slip love comedy drawn by Ueda Makoto of Europe Kikaku, the flagship of sci-fi comedies.
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
An omnibus special comprised of five segments.
Release Date2014-10-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Release Date2016-05-28
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has the power to travel through time.
Release Date1983-07-16
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count33
Hita Nanase, a housekeeper with the psychic ability to read people’s minds, leading her to uncover the secrets of the households where she works.
Release Date2012-01-24
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count10
Release Date1974-10-12
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
With next year's university entrance exams looming, high school senior Yoshiyama Mihane is beginning to feel the blues. She recently joined the school's photography club. As she walks by the science lab one day after school, she smells the aroma of lavender. From that moment on, she acquires the ability to leap freely through time and the days ahead are marked with bizarre occurrences...
Release Date2016-07-09
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count5
Vote Count5
Kenzo was behind bars for killing a gangster. Upon his release, he goes to live with his son, whose marriage is on the rocks. His 14-year-old granddaughter Tamako is ostracized when she discovers that her grandfather is a murderer. Kenzo soon helps defend Tamako from bullies at school. When Tamako stands up for herself, she comes to believe that she has inherited some of her grandfather’s great strength. Eventually, an associate of the man Kenzo killed comes looking for revenge, along with the dead man’s son.
Release Date2003-04-05
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count4
Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fullfil her mother's wish.
Release Date2010-03-13
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count64
A five-part comedy and horror anthology
Release Date1994-04-23
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Retired university professor Gisuke Watanabe lives a comfortable but secluded life of affluence in the traditional Japanese house built by his grandfather. One day, an anonymous email threatens his peaceful lifestyle.
Release Date2025-01-17
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count12
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.
Release Date1986-04-19
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count6
In the near future, a man undergoes an experiment by sharing living quarters with an alien aboard a space station. Based on a Yasutaka Tsutsui play.
Release Date2000-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A gifted psychic named Nanase teams up with other psychics in order to fight against a mysterious organization determined to hunt them down.
Release Date2010-10-02
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
Release Date1997-11-08
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Release Date1982-11-08
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Release Date1980-07-20
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.
Release Date1982-10-23
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
A suspense story about a girl with an ability to read people's mind. Together with her psychic friends, Nanase, the telepath, tries to save others from danger and fight those who threaten her power. The drama deals with friendship and social tendency to exclude strangers.
Release Date2008-10-09
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count10
Night after night The Censor and his team mould Yoko's memories into fantastical dreams. Tonight nothing happens as planned.
Release Date2021-10-14
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
Vote Count9
Release Date1980-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Release Date1979-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Release Date1980-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.
Release Date2002-12-28
Vote Count22
Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic new film from a remarkably skilled cast about "the beauty of sensualism."
Release Date2005-11-19
Vote Count3
A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.
Release Date1997-03-29
Asakura Tetsuya is a man who leads a double life. By day, he is a mild-mannered and affable salaryman in the Mogi Corporation. Come night, he takes on the persona of a hardened and violent individual bent on exposing the shady dealings of his company. Tetsuya's brother was a former president of one of the Mogi subsidiaries, but committed suicide under mysterious circumstances after some company trouble. Tetsuya is convinced that a company conspiracy staged the suicide, and he is obsessed with finding out the truth in order to avenge his brother.
Release Date1999-04-17
Episode Count11
Vote Count2
Depicts a confrontation between the onmyōji Abe no Seimei and some out to destroy the capital.
Release Date2002-07-02
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Eri and Shuji meet as next door neighbors and over the course of a year become lovers. However, just as Shuji is planning on asking Eri to marry him, they are each offered job opportunities at opposite ends of the globe. Pulled apart by their careers, they happen to meet years later and are surprised to find they still have feelings for one another. However, the fact that they are both in serious relationships with other people promises to complicate matters.
Release Date1998-04-10
Episode Count12
Release Date1999-08-16
Episode Count1
Release Date2002-07-02
Episode Count5
Release Date2004-04-15
Episode Count10
