Keiko Nobumoto
Keiko Nobumoto was a Japanese screenwriter. She wrote the screenplay for Cowboy Bebop and created Wolf's Rain. Nobumoto died from esophageal cancer on December 1, 2021, at the age of 57.
Works
CAROLE & TUESDAY
Part-timer Carole meets rich girl Tuesday, and each realizes they've found the musical partner they need. Together, they just might make it.
Release Date:2019-04-11
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:67
Space Dandy
Space Dandy is a dandy in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid eyes on. Each new species he discovers earns him a hefty reward, but this dandy has to be quick on his feet because it’s first come – first served! Accompanied by his sidekicks, a rundown robot named QT and Meow the cat-looking space alien, Dandy bravely explores unknown worlds inhabited by a variety aliens. Join the best dressed alien hunter in all of space and time as he embarks on an adventure that ends at the edge of the universe!
Release Date:2014-01-04
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:107
Samurai Champloo
Break-dancing but fierce warrior Mugen has to deal with the cold-blooded and conceited Jin, a samurai who believes he is above all. These sworn enemies are brought together by Fuu for a special task.
Release Date:2004-05-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:666
Tokyo Godfathers
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
Release Date:2003-12-05
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1316
Wolf's Rain
Paradise—a legend, a myth, and a hopeless dream in a world that has become a wasteland. It is not meant for everyone, only the wolves thought to be extinct yet still roam the lands. When the Flower Maiden awakens, the path to the end will open. Kiba, a lone white wolf, wanders into a poverty stricken city on a quest. The scent of Lunar Flowers and the will to find Paradise is all he has. Along the way, he runs into other outcast wolves—Tsume, Hige, and Toboe, each with their own story and troubles. Fate bringing them together, they seek out the Flower Maiden, Cheza, and their way to Paradise. But, doing so is no simple matter. Up against a world that fears them and a man with mysterious abilities, their journey is overrun with challenges and worse—sacrifices. With limited time, they must fight to protect Cheza against everyone who seeks her and discover the hidden path to their destiny.
Release Date:2003-01-07
Department:Writing
Job:Series Composition
Episode Count:26
Vote Count:183
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hopes of cashing in the bounty. However, the mystery surrounding the man responsible, Vincent, goes deeper than they ever imagined, and they aren't the only ones hunting him.
Release Date:2001-09-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:919
Cowboy Bebop
In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.
Release Date:1998-04-03
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:1680
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day, Ryoko gets a job in a hair salon, while the two boys settle down into a career of enforcement and protection.
Release Date:1997-06-21
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:6
Hakusen Nagashi
Sonoko Nanakura is a straight A student, daughter of a doctor. She meets Wataru Okochi, a tall orphan guy working in a factory, who attends school at night. Her parents warn her not to get involved, and a smart boy Yusuke Hasebe also seems interested in her.
Release Date:1996-01-11
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:3
Macross Plus: The Movie
Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden. Military test pilots and former childhood friends, loose cannon Isamu Alva Dyson and the Zentradi mixed race Guld Goa Bowman, are selected to each pilot a new aircraft (Shinsei Industries' YF-19 & General Galaxy's YF-21) for Project Super Nova, to choose the newest successor to the VF-11 Thunderbolt variable fighter which is currently still in use by the U.N. Spacy military forces. Their own personal grudges end up disrupting the tests, and begin to wreak havoc on the program.
Release Date:1995-10-06
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:66
Macross Plus
The year is 2040 and the galaxy is flourishing with several colonies and advanced technology. AI is near perfection and the current top idol is the near-completed Virturoid Idol Sharon Apple. All that is missing are her actual feelings, which instead are supplied by Myung Fang Lone. Sharon's debut concert is on planet Eden, where at the same time, fighter pilots Isamu Dyson and Guld Bowman battle over air superiority for the Supernova Project. Isamu, Guld and Myung were once childhood friends, but after an accident seven years ago, they went their own separate ways. With Myung back in the picture, the old disputes are once again awakened. And when an unstable and illegal AI technique is installed in Sharon, the situation is worsened.
Release Date:1994-08-25
Department:Crew
Job:Series Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:42
Hiroshima ni Ichiban Densha ga Hashitta
The story follows a girl who works on a streetcar both before and after the bomb drops on Hiroshima.
Release Date:1993-08-06
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Henshin Mou Hitori No Watashi
A suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a free-spirited life, forcing a restaurant owner to raise funds because of the Shinjuku incident. An office lady who impulsively jumps out of the company because she can't stand the sarcasm of girls at the company witnesses a motorboat accident. However, the accident was treated as suicide...
Release Date:1993-06-07
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Nurse Call
A drama about a nurse starring Hiroko Yakushimaru
Release Date:1993-01-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:3
Fly! Peek the Whale
As a little boy Kei saw his fisherman father lost at sea only seconds after catching his parting gift of a pan flute carved from whalebone. A few years later young Kei and his kid brother Moito discover a baby whale trapped by a rock in a shallow inlet near the Spanish coast.
Release Date:1991-05-22
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:2
World Apartment Horror
A Yakuza underling is given the assignment to rid an apartment of its tenants within a week. He tries a variety of desperate tactics to no avail. Soon his problems get worse as an evil spirit makes its presence known.
Release Date:1991-04-05
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:12
Tales of the Bizarre
Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending.
Release Date:1990-04-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:6