Masaya Kakehi

Born in West Tokyo City, Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Hoya High School and Nihon University College of Art. Soon as a manga artist, when he was 14 years old, he won the Big Comic Spirits Monthly Newcomer Encouragement Award at “The City of Youkai” . He has also been selected for Kodansha 's Chiba Tetsuya Award . In college, he completed two independent films, including “Scrap” and “Haraise”. Both were selected for the Yubari Film Festival . Enrolled in a video production company for a period after graduating from university, earning full-fledged CG and video editing related technologies. After leaving the company, he worked mainly on motion graphics and animation . In 2003, the independent movie “ Beauty Can ” was announced. The third challenge, Yubari Film Festival 03 Off Theater Division Grand Prix, other Pia Film Festival 03 Planning Award, Michinoku International Mystery Film Festival 03 Kadokawa Off Theater Competition Grand Prix, etc. The award will be used as a whole, and will be linked to the 2004 theater release. In 2005, he made a self-remake of “ Beauty Can ” starring Satoshi Tsumabuki in “The World's Strange Story '05 Spring Special Edition” . In 2006, he wrote the novel “Beauty Can”. In 2008, the short film “ Ross: Time: Life ” , which was previously produced as an independent work , will be made into an omnibus series drama on Fuji TV. He participated as a draft, general director and director. He also made a feature film director debut for theatrical performance in “ Sweet Rain Grim Reaper Accuracy ” slightly ahead of this

Works

Kamen Rider

Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

Release Date1971-04-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count11

Vote Count92

Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki. She works for a manufacturing company in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s time for the Reaper to go to work.

Release Date2008-04-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count29

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 3, Part 2

A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals.

Release Date2007-03-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Zero-One Others: Kamen Rider Metsuboujinrai

ZAIA Enterprise CEO Leon Arkland has abducted Jin away from Metsuboujinrai.net. A large number of soldier-model Huma Gears "Sold" were seen by Naki and Ikazuchi while rescuing Jin. The intention of Leon Arkland was to mass-produce "Sold" and sell them as weapons all over the world. Jin is indignant at the fact that Humagears are about to be used as a weapon, and tells the other members of Metsuboujinrai.net that he wants to free the "Solds". Four people who transform into Kamen Riders will fight to release the "Solds". However, something unexpected happened... What happened to Jin, while he was captured by Leon? According to Leon's plan, the being that poses the "greatest threat" to humankind is about to be born in a surprising way...

Release Date2021-03-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Kamen Rider Zero-One: What Will Hop Out of the Kangaroo? Decide on Your Kangar-own! That's How You Know It's Aruto!

Hyper Battle DVD of Kamen Rider Zero-One, featuring Kamen Rider Zero-One Hopping Kangaroo and the Trapping Spider Progrisekey.

Release Date2019-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Yips

A detective drama produced by Fuji TV.

Release Date2024-04-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count4

Shinigami-kun

Shinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled to die and brings souls to the nether world. He would appear with the signature phrase “Congratulations! I’m here to call on you” although it is hard to say how this can be a happy occasion, and watch over the dying. To a grim reaper, persuading people attempting to commit suicide and preventing unforeseen deaths is also an important task. But because #413 is new to this grim reaper work, he has a tendency to lean towards humans in his judgments, break the rules of the nether world and get reprimanded by his superior.

Release Date2014-04-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count6

Kotodama Shoujo the Animation: Microphone Soul Spinners

Kotodama Shoujo the Animation: Microphone Soul Spinners

The project focuses on four girls who belong to the lowest group of a star training high school and their success story to the top after encountering rap battle performances.

Release Date2020-01-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobSeries Director

Episode Count24

Have a Nice Day

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.

Release Date2006-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kamen Rider Zero-One: Shooting Special

Fuwa has been told that his true past, the one that hadn't been falsified, has been "boring and uninteresting", as Yua overhears and notices that Fuwa cannot hide the look of disappointment on his face. "You are Vulcan! Engrave it in your head!" In order to regain his confidence, Isamu Fuwa looks back at his life and battles as a Kamen Rider! However, this plan of his starts to head in an unexpected direction...!

Release Date2020-05-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Detective Story

Shuichi Tsujiyama (Takumi Saito) is a broke private investigator. While on a job assignment, he is about to catch a crucial moment by taking a picture, but Naomi Arai (Fumi Nikaido) misunderstands the situation. Shuichi Tsujiyama and Naomi Arai struggle physically. Because of this, Shuichi Tsujiyama misses his crucial photo opportunity. Kimie Hasenuma (Mari Natsuki) is a housekeeper who has been employed by Naomi Arai for many years. Kimie Hasenuma asks Shuichi Tsujiyama to be Naomi Arai’s bodyguard.

Release Date2018-04-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Quirky Guys and Gals

The movie consists of 4 stories each telling how people survive on life-death choice. The story titles are: Cheering Girls, Boy? meets girl., Claim Night! and The House Full Of 'Abandoned' Businessmen.

Release Date2011-01-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Tokyo Serendipity

Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after, the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.

Release Date2007-08-18

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count11

The High School Heroes

The High School Heroes

Gosei School has a long history. The principal of the school is highly ambitious and he tries to achieve his goals by using supernatural majin powers. Six students go up against the principal. The students are Taisei Manaka (Taisho Iwasaki), Ryuhei Domon (Ryuga Sato), Yusuke Takigawa (Yuto Nasu), Hyuma Oura (Hidaka Ukisho), Naoya Morimura (Naoki Fujii) and Ichika Sakurai (Issei Kanasashi).

Release Date2021-07-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Great Selection Taxi

Edawakare is the driver of Sentaxi, a marvellous vehicle which is able to take a passenger back to his or her “life’s turning point”. His cool appearance is at odds with his talkative, meddlesome, sweet-toothed character. He gives advice to passengers who are flustered after failing in their life’s choice.

Release Date2014-10-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count12

Tokyo OnlyPic 2008

Virtuoso animated satire on the Olympic Games as a media spectacle. In the form of a news broadcast, the strangest sports, rituals and participants are included. The maker invited several animation artists to provide contributions to this truly colourful procession. Fun. Great fun.

Release Date2008-08-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Zero-One Others: Kamen Rider Vulcan & Valkyrie

Shigeru Daimonji, the Secretary of National Defense, has ordered Yua Yaiba/Kamen Rider Valkyrie to eliminate Kamen Rider MetsubouJinrai. While she hesitates to act on this directive, the Rider itself sets sights on Valkyrie. Meanwhile, the now former Solds attempt to discover freedom for the first time without ZAIA Enterprise, while engaging in an all out war against A.I.M.S. Isamu Fuwa/Kamen Rider Vulcan, who personally witnessed the birth of Kamen Rider MetsubouJinrai, investigates to discover their true goal. What is Yua's fate, who acts on her own justice as she refuses to fight both Kamen Rider MetsubouJinrai, the Solds, & Isamu who is determined to carry out his final mission as Kamen Rider Vulcan?

Release Date2021-08-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Tiger: My Life as a Cat

After dying in an accident, a manga artist with a gambling problem is given one month back with his family to redeem himself — in the body of a cat.

Release Date2019-02-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Parallel Couple

Kanta's perfect life with his wife Natsume is shattered when she dies in a traffic accident. However, she mysteriously reappears at home, creating two parallel worlds—one where she’s alive and one where Kanta has died. As their worlds intersect, they strive to reclaim the time they lost together.

Release Date2025-04-01

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Soumatou Kabushikigaisha

Release Date2012-07-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count3

Snack Scratches

Toko runs a small restaurant named Snack Kizutsuki, (Snack Bar of wounds). Her restaurant serves snacks, but doesn't sell alcohol. She welcomes her customers, who carry wounds in their minds.

Release Date2021-10-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count1

大卖吧☆未体验少女 ウレロ☆未体験少女

大卖吧☆未体验少女 ウレロ☆未体験少女

Release Date2014-01-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Tofu Sisters

Tofu Sisters

A tv drama that fused mockumentary, drama, and animation. It was originally planned to be an original DVD drama in 2008. Three sisters live together (all played by Yoshitaka Yuriko) who are like tofu. The eldest is a librarian suffering due to an affair, the second daughter is a cabaret club worker and the youngest is an actress. The eldest daughter is a drama. The second daughter was an animation. The youngest daughter is a documentary.

Release Date2010-07-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special

To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the popular omnibus drama "Tales of the Unusual," in which Tamori serves as the storyteller, "Tales of the Tales of the Unusual 35th Anniversary Special: Legendary Masterpieces One Night Only Revival Edition" will be broadcast on Fuji TV's "Saturday Premium" slot (Saturday 9pm) on May 31st. The program will feature five of Tamori's most famous works from the series' past. The programs that will be broadcast on the 31st are as follows: "BLACK ROOM" (broadcast in 2001, starring Takuya Kimura) "The Night Train Man" (broadcast in 2002, starring Ren Osugi) "Locker" (broadcast in 1990, starring Yuji Oda) "Bijokan" (broadcast in 2005, starring Satoshi Tsumabuki) "Memories of Love, Don't Stop" (broadcast in 2019, starring Yuki Saito)

Release Date2025-05-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Canned Beauties

Growing weary of his girl friend, Kentaro moves to a new apartment. One day in summer, he sees his ugly neighbor come out from the room together with many beautiful women around. It bothers him big time and eventually he reaches to an answer to this mystery: the very existence of a certain can named "BIJO-CAN". Kentaro, getting hold of this"BIJO-CAN" , finally succeeds to produce his own ideally beautiful woman, Yuki.

Release Date2003-02-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector