Yumiko Inoue (Writer)

Learning to Love

This romance follows two unlikely souls bridging vast differences through secret lessons. A strict high school teacher, raised in a rigid household, begins tutoring a kind-hearted but illiterate nightclub host. As their bond deepens, societal judgment, jealousy, and prejudice threaten their forbidden connection.

Release Date2025-07-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

BG: Personal Bodyguard

Akira Shimazaki (Takuya Kimura) lives with his middle school student son. He used to work as a bodyguard, but, due to an incident, he now works as a security guard at a construction site. The private security company where he works establishes a new bodyguard division. Hiding his past as a bodyguard, Akira Shimazaki begins work as a novice bodyguard.

Release Date2018-01-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count16

Vote Count11

Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon

Life is simple for Sasamoto Sawa, a young housewife, but when the adulteress Takigawa Rikako moves into her neighborhood, so too does a new world of sophistication and sex. After Takigawa is nearly caught in the act, Sasamoto covers for her during the ensuing aftermath, unwittingly involving herself with a handsome teacher named Kitano Yuichi — and discovering her own desires for extramarital passions.

Release Date2014-07-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count11

Vote Count25

Emergency Interrogation Room

Yukiko Makabe works at the #3 Special Investigation Team of the Metropolitan Police Department. She has excellent negotiation skills. Yukiko then attempts to negotiate with a hijacker on a bus, but something unexpected happens and her mission fails. Yukiko takes full responsibility and takes a transfer to a special interrogation team "Kintori". Her boss is Katsutoshi Kajiyama and Yukiko has had a difficult working relationship with him in the past. Her other coworkers include Susumu Hishimoto, Zenjiro Nakata and Haruo Koishikawa.

Release Date2014-01-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenstory

Episode Count9

Vote Count4

Mother at Fourteen

Miki Ichinose is a 14-year-old schoolgirl who is very outgoing and cheerful. She lives with her parents and younger brother. She is in a romantic relationship with Satoshi Kirino who is 15 years old. They keep their relationship a secret from their parents because Miki is young and Satoshi is expected to excel in school and get into a university so he can take over the family business by his overbearing mother. One night, after a date, they sneak into a treehouse and consummate their relationship. Soon after, Miki suspects that she is pregnant and steals a pregnancy test, which her mother later finds. She is taken to a doctor who confirms her pregnancy. Initially upset, Miki's parents promise they will support her. Miki tells Satoshi of the pregnancy and he takes the news well. However, his mother is furious when she learns of it and forbids the two from seeing each other.

Release Date2006-10-11

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count11

Vote Count7

Good Luck!!

A promising pilot tries his best to advance in the company, even though an unfortunate incident left him in a bad light with his captain.

Release Date2003-01-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Vote Count11

Sherlock: Untold Stories

Set in present day Tokyo, Shishio Homare (Dean Fujioka) works as a freelancer crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio Homare has been fascinated with how people become criminals and in original sin. He is a genius, but he also has an impulse to commit crimes. Shishio Homare works on cases which interests him among police or customer requests. Meanwhile, Junichi Wakamiya (Takanori Iwata) is a psychiatrist. He is smart and cool-headed. Due to a case, Junichi Wakamiya gets involved with Shishio Homare. At first, Junichi Wakamiya thinks Shishio Homare is ignorant and arrogant, but, as they work together, Junichi Wakamiya gets comfortable with Shishio Homare.

Release Date2019-10-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count11

Vote Count5

The Great White Tower

Two surgeons with contrasting objectives are asked to work together in a city hospital. While one of them strives to achieve fame and power through his work, the other wants to save human lives.

Release Date2003-10-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count21

Vote Count29

Engine

Jiro Kanzaki is an F3000 test driver blessed with acute sensitivity and breathtaking driving techniques. He's a daredevil who feels no fear driving at speeds that even top racers dare not attempt. But unexpected trouble forces this world-famous racer to leave his team and return to Japan for the first time in years. Until he finds a new job as a racer, Jiro decides to stay with his parents. What awaits Jiro there is his hardheaded father, his nagging sister, the 12 children of the foster home his father runs, a snobbish male nurse, and a stubborn female nurse who likes to daydream about her life.

Release Date2005-04-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count11

Vote Count4

Grave of the Fireflies

Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin, Kyoko. Kobe is bombed and Kyoko is killed. Hisako is forced to take care of Kyoko's two children in addition to her own, but there is not enough food for everyone.

Release Date2005-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count110

Back of Father

A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.

Release Date2014-07-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count2

Natsuko Kira

Natsuko is going back to the advertising agency she worked for before taking maternity leave and is shocked to learn that she is not the creative director any more but instead, she is put in charge of the Sales Development. Unmotivated, Natsuko finds she has her work cut out for her, and she has trouble balancing her job responsibilities with her home life, so she hires Miyuki, a babysitter. Unfortunately, Miyuki’s presence eventually works to tear her marriage apart.

Release Date2016-07-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

Himawari

Release Date1996-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count162

Vote Count2

Believe: A Bridge to You

This series, produced to commemorate the 65th anniversary of TV Asahi, tells the story of Riku Kariyama, an architectural designer passionate about bridge construction. He faces an unexpected difficulty of being imprisoned, but he never gives up, continuously searching for a path of hope and rebirth. The intricate suspense and heart-pounding, stirring human stories intertwine, weaving a grand drama.

Release Date2024-04-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count9

Vote Count3

Gift

An unconscious young man is found inside the closet of a missing billionaire. Amnesiac, he is given the name Yukio and kept close to Naomi—the woman who was supposed to disappear alongside the billionaire, Shibata—in case he ever recovers his memories of the night he was rescued and the whereabouts of Shibata and his fortune.

Release Date1997-04-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count11

Vote Count1

Love Affairs in the Afternoon

Son Ji Eun moves to a small city due to her husband's new job as a civil servant. She works part-time at a mart. Son Ji Eun is quiet and sincere. Her life in the small city becomes boring. Son Ji Eun's life is shaken by Yoon Jung Woo. Yoon Jung Woo is a biology teacher at a local school.

Release Date2019-07-05

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count16

Vote Count18

Fixer

Who will run Japan? The prime minister or a mastermind? A political thriller about the "fixer" pulling strings behind the scenes controlling the political, business, and legal worlds as the greed of money and power intersect.

Release Date2023-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count15

Vote Count5

Hojo Tokimune

The 40th NHK Taiga Drama is Hojo Tokimune. It tells the dramatic and turbulent life of young shikken Hojo Tokimune, and his successful defense of Japan from invasion by Mongolia in the 1200's. It is a tragic story of betrayal and clan wars and Hojo Tokimune is at the center of it all. The main focus of the story is Hojo Tokiyori's older sons, their relationship, and their views and actions concerning Kublai Khan's attempted invasion. The two brothers, Tokimune and Tokisuke, are torn apart by politics.

Release Date2001-01-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count49

Made in Japan

With the strong yen, global financial crisis and competition from developing nations, the Japanese manufacturing industry is in a precarious situation. A large electronics maker is on the brink of bankruptcy and can support itself for only 3 more months. Three men at the company, who work in sales, finance and production respectively, secretly form a reconstruction team and they work feverishly to revive the company.

Release Date2013-01-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count3

Vote Count1

Masshiro

Release Date2015-01-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count2

Salt of the Earth

Kensaku Kamimura is an archeologist. He makes a discovery that overturns history. Kensaku's discovery proves humans existed in Japan at a time where it was previously thought they did not. The small village of Shiona, where Kensaku made his discovery, also feels an influx of new people coming to the area. Kensaku's discovery is to be written into textbooks with the help of editor Rina Sakuma. Rina becomes attracted to Kensaku as they spend time together. Meanwhile, the bone of a female student is discovered at an excavation site where Kensaku works. The female student went missing 13 years ago. Detective Taichi Yukinaga, who worked on the case back then, resumes his investigation. A scholar visits Rina and tells her that Kensaku's discovery has been manipulated.

Release Date2014-02-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Pandora

Suzuki is an eccentric at university hospital who has been conducting a research to come up with a miracle drug for cancer on his own. One day, Suzuki finally succeeds in developing a new type of anticancer drug that completely hinders the self-renewal of all cancer stem cells. However, his colleagues do not seem to share his excitement, and he is not even allowed to carry out clinical trial on humans. Suzuki is disheartened and completely at a loss by this but then he comes across a girl, Manami, who is suffering from terminal cancer. With help from her, he successfully carries out clinical trial. Yet, things take an unexpected turn. What will become of Suzuki, Manami and all the others around them? What is the fate of this new drug? Pandora's box released all the evils as soon as it was opened. What is it that is ultimately left inside?

Release Date2008-04-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count8

Vote Count4

Isan Souzoku

Sato Ikuo is a houseman who works for the internal medicine department. Not wanting to burden his mother, who brought him up as a single mother, he obtained a scholarship from a nearby public university and enrolled in its medical faculty. After that, he met Kaede, the only daughter of Kawamura Kozo, the president of Kawamura Memorial Hospital. They got married and he was adopted into the Kawamura family. He is completely indifferent to the many sarcastic and caustic remarks that are aimed at him by Kaede’s aunts and cousin, and lives detached from the ongoing inheritance battle. But that does not mean Ikuo is a timid man. He has no interest in the power struggle in the hospital, career progression and opening his own practice. His dream is to be involved in medical care in remote places overseas and he focuses on training as a houseman every day.

Release Date2015-10-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count9

Vote Count1

Heavenly Blue

Winner of the 10th Art Works Award. The film depicts the "ultimate love" in which a man who is a murderer and a woman who doesn't believe in love meet by chance and eventually fall in love with each other. "A drama adaptation of Ayako Sono's original work of the same name, which is based on the "Okubo Kiyoshi Incident," which actually happened. The script was written by Yumiko Inoue. Koichi Sato plays the role of a ruthless murderer who murders women one after another, and Kaori Momoi plays the role of a woman who falls in love with such a murderer. It was broadcast on terrestrial TV in the "Saturday Drama" slot.

Release Date1994-12-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count4

Hirugao

Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet again and their love story continue.

Release Date2017-06-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count28

Lily

Yuri is a girl who was left by her boyfriend for another girl. Sadly, she decides to send him several videos venting.

Release Date2008-03-29

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count3

SCANDAL

Release Date2008-10-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Misty

Witnesses of a murder. Remake of Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon.

Release Date1997-05-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3

Oda Nobunaga

The show follows the early years of Japanese warlord hero Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century. As a young man Oda was not seen as the right heir to the Oda clan, but through a masterful political marriage arranged by his father, Oda Nobunaga not only gained influence, he also became the Daimyo who joined the three imperial counties to unite Japan.

Release Date1998-03-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Chûshingura 1/47

During Japan's feudal period, a noble lord was treacherously killed by a rival. His 47 samurai retainers took their revenge on their master's killer after scattering into society for several years, so as not to be detected. Having completed their task, all 47 then committed ritual suicide. This series, of which this TV movie is the pilot, follows the adventures of one of these samurai as he patiently waits for the chance to fulfill his destiny.

Release Date2001-12-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Mom, May I Quit Being Your Daughter?

Akiko and her 25-year old daughter Mizuki are best friends and are closer than most mother and daughters. Akiko feels that Mizuki is growing distant from her due to her new boyfriend and decides to seduce him.

Release Date2017-01-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count8

Vote Count1

Samurai High School

Kotaro Mochizuki (Haruma Miura) is a timid, introspective teenager who attends a private high school. One day he discovers a mysterious old book and from that day on, whenever he finds himself in a difficult situation, he turns into a samurai warrior.

Release Date2009-10-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count9

Vote Count6

Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final

Movie based on the Emergency Interrogation Room series.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Mother Strikes Back

Asako Mizusawa is a fifty-year-old homemaker. She endured her mother-in-law's sarcasm and passive aggressive moves when her husband, Hiroyuki, decided to move in with his parents. And while she regained her freedom when her mother-in-law passed away, a life-changing event takes place two years later. It happens when her son Yuta marries a woman named Ririka. Asako has now become the mother-in-law! Asako did not approve of the marriage, but she was willing to accept it under one condition that they all live together under the same roof. Unexpectedly, Ririka agreed with a smile. Ririka invites Asako to share a bottle of wine on the first day they move in. They have a lively conversation about marital problems and Asako even mentions an affair her husband has had in the past. The two appear to be getting along, but it is all a ploy by Ririko to learn more about Asako... From the next day on, Asako notices Ririka doing suspicious things. Wanting to know more, she begins to snoop around. She learns that Ririka used to work at a bar and was more than friendly with her customers. Asako becomes determined to make her son see who Ririka really is, but her attempts only work to alienate herself from her son and her husband also takes Ririka's side. Meanwhile, a man in the neighborhood disappears. Detectives investigating the disappearance find that the evidence leads towards Ririka...

Release Date2013-01-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count9

王様の心臓〜リア王より〜

Release Date2007-04-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count1

Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman

Release Date2020-01-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Red Moon

Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery "Morita Brewery". Eventually, they succeeded in this business and lived happily while raising three children. However, in August 1945, the situation changed completely due to the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.

Release Date2004-02-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

新春ドラマスペシャル 緊急取調室 特別招集2022〜8億円のお年玉〜

Three months after the operation of the "Emergency Case Response Investigation Team" (commonly known as "Kintori") was suspended, under Kajiyama Katsutoshi (Tanaka Tetsushi), the director of the Special Investigation Headquarters for the 800 million yen robbery. , Kazuhisa Iwaki (Koji Okura), deputy director general of the Metropolitan Police Department, gave a top-secret order. Surprisingly, the fingerprints of a man found on the premises of a private house the other day match the fingerprints left on the cash truck that was robbed of 800 million yen! In other words, there is a high possibility that the person who died was the suspect in the 800 million yen robbery. Aiming to solve the case as soon as possible, Iwaki decides to "temporarily operate Kintori and call in the necessary personnel" as a special measure! Kajiyama is ordered to gather personnel immediately and carry out the interrogation of the residents of the private house.

Release Date2022-01-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Jump

An ordinary salary man, Junosuke, goes in search of his lover, Miharu, who disappeared one night when she handed him the key to her room, and promised to be back in five minutes. She had only gone out to buy apples at the nearby convenience store, because Junosuke has one for breakfast every morning. Slightly drunk from the cocktail he had had earlier, Junosuke falls asleep, and wakes up the next morning to find that Miharu had never returned.

Release Date2003-08-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Last Supper Detective Tono Kazuyuki and the Seven Suspects

On the first day of opening, a small Italian restaurant is set on fire, killing three customers, and the unidentified survivor, who was injured and taken to hospital, somehow escapes. Detective Tono and his team, who are renowned for their interrogation skills, realise from evidence left at the scene that there are still survivors who have fled the scene. After obtaining information about the customers from the owner-chef, who was slightly injured, Tono visits the suspects, but they all seem to be acting strangely and are hiding something. The hidden relationship between the suspects, who seemed unrelated, is then revealed.

Release Date2011-05-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Matinee

Satoshi Makino is a genius classical guitarist. One day, he meets journalist Yoko Komine. They become attracted to each other, but Yoko Komine has a fiancé.

Release Date2019-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

19-Nineteen

After graduating from high school Min-seo fails to get into college. He spends the next year cramming for his entrance exam once again. Jeong-hun a university student fresh out of high school school.

Release Date2009-11-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count10

Terigaki

The drama depicts the love-hate and conflict between two men and a woman who meet after a fall at a train station.

Release Date1996-09-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

2030 Kanata no Kazoku

In Tokyo in the year 2030, 27-year-old Itakura Kakeru lives in a shared apartment. He is suddenly approached by Ogiwara Misae, his housemate three years his senior, about wanting his help to have a child. Kakeru has never even considered having a family before. But as he searches for an answer for Misae, he comes face to face with his parents, grandparents and younger sister who went their separate ways 15 years ago, and starts to consider what family is. And then, Kakeru gives more than a passing thought to the significance of being connected to someone.

Release Date2015-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter