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.
Gisuke is a retired college professor. His wife has passed away, and he is now living alone in an old Japanese-style house. One day, an unsettling message appears on his computer saying that the enemy is coming.
Release Date:2025-01-17
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
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 Date:2021-03-01
Department:Writing
Job:Short Story
Vote Count:3
The story centers around millionaire Daisuke Kambe, the heir to one of the wealthiest families in Japan, who is assigned as a detective to the Modern Crime Prevention Task Force (aka MCPTF), at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Taking full advantage of his vast family wealth, he spares no expense in solving complex crimes, and has the tendency to evaluate everything including individual human lives in terms of their monetary value. Haru Kato, a detective with a compassionate heart who believes that money isn’t everything, is chosen as Kambe’s partner but is repulsed by his materialistic attitude. Having diametrically opposing personalities, witness how the two join forces to tackle seemingly unsolvable crimes and mysteries!
Release Date:2020-04-10
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:55
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 Date:2016-07-09
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:5
Release Date:2016-05-28
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
An omnibus special comprised of five segments.
Release Date:2014-10-18
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
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 Date:2012-01-24
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Episode Count:10
A gifted psychic named Nanase teams up with other psychics in order to fight against a mysterious organization determined to hunt them down.
Release Date:2010-10-02
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:1
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 Date:2010-03-13
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:62
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 Date:2008-10-09
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Episode Count:10
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 Date:2007-08-25
Character:Boss
Vote Count:1
The making of anime "Paprika" (2006), focusing on its adaptation from Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel.
Release Date:2007-05-23
Character:Himself
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 Date:2006-10-01
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Character:Kuga (voice)
Vote Count:2507
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 Date:2006-09-02
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Character:
Vote Count:7
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "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 Date:2006-07-15
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:2039
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 Date:2005-11-19
Vote Count:2
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 Date:2005-05-18
Character:Miyagi
Vote Count:19
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 (Kyoko Fukada), 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 Date:2005-01-14
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
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 Date:2005-01-13
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Character:Ryuhei Sezaki
Episode Count:20
Vote Count:3
Release Date:2004-04-15
Episode Count:10
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 Date:2003-09-18
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Character:
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 Date:2003-04-05
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:4
Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.
Release Date:2002-12-28
Vote Count:14
Release Date:2002-07-02
Episode Count:5
Depicts a confrontation between the onmyōji Abe no Seimei and some out to destroy the capital.
Release Date:2002-07-02
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
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 Date:2002-03-13
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Set in a future dystopia where teenaged girls begin dying for no apparent reason -- and often in an elated, chronically happy state of mind. One of these girls, Stacy, is back from the dead, however, and she's ready to gorge herself on human flesh. As more and more teenage-girl zombies begin to feast on the living, the people of Japan brace themselves and try to find a way to end the madness.
Release Date:2001-08-18
Character:Dr. Inugami Sukekiyo
Vote Count:41
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 Date:2000-12-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
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 Date:2000-08-05
Character:Kazuhiko Teduka
Vote Count:10
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".
Release Date:2000-05-12
Character:Self
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 Date:1999-11-13
Character:Organization Manager
Vote Count:6
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 Date:1999-09-15
Character:Yukio's Father
Vote Count:78
Release Date:1999-08-16
Episode Count:1
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 Date:1999-04-17
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:2
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 Date:1998-04-10
Episode Count:12
A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
Release Date:1997-11-08
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
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 Date:1997-07-07
Character:Hayami Eisuke
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:2
A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.
Release Date:1997-03-29
Release Date:1996-05-11
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Character:
A five-part comedy and horror anthology
Release Date:1994-04-23
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Adaptation of the novel of the same name.
Release Date:1994-02-19
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Character:
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1990-10-04
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:13
Vote Count:2
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
Release Date:1989-01-28
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Character:Sci-Fi writer
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 Date:1986-04-19
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Vote Count:6
Release Date:1986-04-12
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Character:Dr. Inugami
Yoshiyama Kazuko 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 Date:1983-07-16
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:28
Release Date:1982-11-08
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.
Release Date:1982-10-23
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Release Date:1980-07-20
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Release Date:1980-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Release Date:1980-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Release Date:1979-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Release Date:1974-10-12
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story