Renpei Tsukamoto (Directing)
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Works
The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary
Kishibe Midori (Ikeda Elaiza), an editor for a popular fashion magazine, finds herself transferring to the lexicography division following the magazine's discontinuation. The place is filled with a group of quirky characters, led by Majime Mitsuya (Noda Yojiro), a boss with a shaggy hair who is extremely serious. While being tossed about by them, Midori is influenced by their patience and passion for making a dictionary which takes over a decade, and she gradually immerses herself in the work. This drama depicts their struggles in creating and finalizing the dictionary, "The Great Passage."
Release Date:2024-02-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:2
Girl XX
An omnibus style pinku drama that focuses on the sexual concerns of modern women. Based on the manga “Sex-chan” by Haro Aso, the original creator of Alice in Borderland.
Release Date:2023-08-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Hand of God
A murder occurs amidst allegations of plagiarism against a veteran writer. Freelance journalist Michiko Kibe delves into the truth. The tragic fate of those consumed by the obsession to write... A new kind of mystery where literature and horror intertwine.
Release Date:2023-05-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Daddy's Lunch Box
A single father who has no cooking experience and can't even make a fried egg satisfactorily... A bento box made for his daughter for three years in high school, and a unique handwritten letter. A classic home comedy drama based on a true story of a father and daughter that will make you laugh and cry over and over again, with a total of 700 lunch boxes and menu items.
Release Date:2023-01-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:45
Tell Me
On May 2, 1998, Hide, a leading Japanese rock musician who had been active as a guitarist for X JAPAN and as a solo artist (hide with Spread Beaver/zilch), suddenly passed away. His funeral was attended by about 50,000 people and became a social phenomenon as all of Japan wept at his untimely farewell. His younger brother, Hiroshi Matsumoto, who was Hide's manager, started to work with Hide's co-producer I.N.A., who had been working on a song with Hide, and his friends to make his brother's will come true. Yuji and I.N.A. struggle under the unusual circumstance that Hide himself is not present, but they are confronted with various difficulties.
Release Date:2022-07-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Ultramarine Area
Kim Jun Hee, a member of the immensely popular five-membered band, Indigo AREA, has suffered setbacks and deep wounds, and now her boyfriend, the vocalist, suddenly announces that he is leaving the band. The story depicts the process of Jun Hee escaping from her narrow world of values, regaining her music, and becoming a strong "human being," while also finding the connections that are essential to survive. A new slice-of-life story of healing and courage.
Release Date:2021-10-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:2
My Father's Tracks
Taiga Kitamura, who was separated from his mother at an early age, believes that his father's selfishness in devoting himself to the rally hastened her death, and leaves for Tokyo upon entering university. While aiming to become an actor but feeling vaguely dissatisfied, he receives the sudden news of his father's death from his childhood friend Miho Uechi who lives in his hometown.
Release Date:2021-10-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Off the Record
Keito is a reporter for a weekly magazine. The magazine covers everything from corruption by politicians to entertainers' scandals. She watches out for the next big scoop. Keito is also rich and enjoys her work, as well as her love life. One day, Keito's mother suddenly dies. Anna was a single mother who raised Keito alone. She worked as a movie critic. Right before her death, Anna mentioned something about Keito's father. The name she mentioned is that of a Hollywood star.
Release Date:2020-01-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:3
Don't You Think Girls Who Talk in Hakata Dialect Are Cute?
The series follow the story of a high school boy who lives in Tokyo, and his childhood friend, Hakatano Donko-chan, who is from Hakata and really talks in Hakata dialect! People around her sometimes get confused because of it, but her dialect makes them smile!
Release Date:2019-07-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Bento Harassment
Kaori is a single mother and she raises her high-school age daughter Futaba. Her daughter is in a rebellious phase and ignores her mother. Kaori decides to take measures to communicate with her daughter and also get some revenge. Kaori creates messages in her daughter's bento meals.
Release Date:2019-06-28
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:17
Kioku Sousa ~Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu~
After being paralysed while on a case Detective Ichiro Onizuka returns to Shinjuku East to solve unsolved cases.
Release Date:2019-01-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:7
Vote Count:2
Reon
Dumped, fired from her job, Reon’s day couldn't get any worse. Then a freak accident causes her to swap bodies with her old company’s womanizing CEO.
Release Date:2018-02-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Important Witness Private Detective
Kei Maneki works as a model. He has bad luck with murder cases taking place when he works. Kei Maneki becomes an important witness in these murder cases. To clear his name, Kei Maneki and his model friends Itsuki Suo and Toma Shimon attempt to solve the murder cases.
Release Date:2017-10-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:1
定年女子
Release Date:2017-07-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Goodbye Ghosts!
Madoka Tsutsumi is a university student. He rarely expresses his feelings and he has never done an impulsive act in his life. One night, he sees an old man and a pink rabbit struggling physically. The pink rabbit seems surprised and asks Madoka if he can see them. The pink rabbit then introduces itself as the Angel of Death and says the old man is a ghost who died yesterday.
Release Date:2016-04-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:1
Addicted To Mystery
Akemi Ninomiya is a hardcore mystery fan. Although she is only a college student, she is wealthy and owns a building. Private Detective Morio Ukai prefers tracking down lost pets for wealthy clients rather than murder cases which brings in little money. The duo join forces to solve various suspicious cases.
Release Date:2014-01-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:3
Husband’s Woman
Yamagishi Hoshimi, an only child, lost her father at an young age and was raised only by her mother, who works as a temporary worker at a large company. Her boss Komatsubara Mugitaro supports her a lot with her goal to become a regular employee soon. Mugitaro's wife Hishiko believes that her husband is having an affair with his subordinate Hoshimi due to his high interest in her and decides to meet her personally. At this moment, Hoshimi and Hishiko collide and happen to swap bodies. After the first confusion, they decide to continue to live the lives of each other for the moment. Mugitaro doesn't know about this strange occurrence and is more than bewildered about the completely different reactions from his "girlfriend" and his wife.
Release Date:2013-10-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:1
The Death, Her and Me
After suffering a serious illness as a child, Yukari Tokino is able to see the dead.
Release Date:2012-09-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
I Love Tokyo Legend - Kawaii Detective -
Tsukiko Otonashi is a fashionista who is too beautiful to be a detective. She is also intrigued by urban legends so much so that she believes all crimes are somehow linked to these legends. She even conducts her investigations in such a way as to prove them to be true. Tsukiko also likes to make use of whatever she can. She especially likes to enlist the help of crime lab officer Hitoro Katsuura, who happens to have a crush on her. Many other unique characters will make appearances as she investigates the crimes related to urban legends, using odd and exquisite techniques.
Release Date:2012-04-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:4
Asuka High School March!
Nao Yoshino is a girl who fails the entrance exams of her target high school. She winds up enrolling in a technical high school called Kenritsu Asuka Kōgyō Kōkō, also known by the nickname "Asukō". Out of the 148 entering freshmen, only three are girls, and Nao is the only one in her class.
Release Date:2011-04-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:5
Kazura
Bald Moriyama wants a new image and buys a wig. It works: suddenly he has a career and a girlfriend. But life is hard when you have to keep a secret. Perfect timing and handling of real-life anxieties plus brilliant comedians MIMURA and OOTAKE make WIG an exceptionally funny comedy.
Release Date:2010-01-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women
This is an omnibus of six short films by six different directors, whose lead characters are unconventional women. They are "Hijoshi," females who live true to themselves and their desires.
Release Date:2009-05-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police
After one of their group is caught for speeding a group of trouble-making teenagers decide to prank the local police officer. It starts with simple speeding pranks but gradually moves to more elaborate and bizarre pranks.
Release Date:2008-04-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:19
Seven Female Lawyers
Release Date:2006-04-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:2
Time Limit Investigator
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby. So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.
Release Date:2006-01-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:10
One Missed Call 2
A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can the police stop it if it's a ghost?
Release Date:2005-02-05
Department:Production
Job:Production Director
Vote Count:127
Gomu
A short film tie-in for One Missed Call 2 by the film's director Renpai Tsukamoto
Release Date:2005-01-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Ghost Shout
Yoko Sakaki: 24 years old. Occupation: Ghost Negotiator. With her tomboyish attitude and severely bad mouth, she helps ghosts leave this world by shouting at them. But, that work is almost done - she and her boyfriend Toshio are about to get married, and their dream is to open a tofu shop together. However, she has kept her profession a secret from him, instead telling him she is a flight attendant... While out with him one night, Yoko gets a call from work telling her that a ghost has appeared in Hachioji... She goes to bust the ghost with her unreliable new partner, Yanagida, but can she hold on to her relationship at the same time?
Release Date:2004-12-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Mother and Lover
Shingo Okazaki is a young man devoted to his mother to a degree that's rare in Japan. He's a young fellow who treats his mother with respect, but his tendency to overdo it makes his filial devotion look more like a little fault to those around him. Then, a young woman falls in love with him. She finds it very admirable that he takes such good care of his mother, but is also a bit confused by this fellow who seems to care more for his mother than for his girlfriend.
Release Date:2004-10-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:1
At-Home Dad
A Proud "man of the house", Yamamura Kazuyuki is the bread winner in a society where men bring home the money. He is a tv commercial director and makes good money to support his wife and son. After recently buying a house, he finds his new neighbor is a stay at home dad. Finding it hard to respect a man who isn't the money maker, he finds the tables are turned as he himself is out of work and running the household, while his wife returns to the workforce. It isn't quite as easy as he keeps telling everyone, but that's okay since he is looking for a new job and should have one soon.It is a look at how society is changing with often times, hilarious results. Struggling to keep his head above water, he finds himself being tutored by his neighbor (even if he doesn't want to be), and at the same time building a friendship.Through trials and tribulations, he learns to respect his new role, while giving credit to the women (and men) who are the ones staying home and keeping home-life afloat.
Release Date:2004-04-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:3
Flowers For Algernon
Abandoned as a child by his mother, Hasumi Sachiyo, Fujishima Haru is a mentally challenged man that has grown up and worked at the Sakurai Bakery as a baker. Working with him at the bakery is the owner Sakurai Kyoko and Tashiro Miki, a girl who is also mentally challenged and is like a sister to Haru. At night, after the bakery is closed, Haru and Miki attend a night class with other mentally challenged adults. Their teacher at the class is Toya Erina who not only is their teacher but also their friend. One day, Erina is approached by her old friend Kobayashi Rumiko about a candidate in the research she is conducting with professor Tatabe Shinichiro and Tokunaga Atsushi that could possibly increase the intelligence of the mentally challenged. Reluctant at first, Erina changes her mind when she sees the resolve in Haru to become smarter so that his mother will come back for him. With the success of the surgery,
Release Date:2002-10-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Transparent
A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden such people are known as "satorare" and their well-being come under special government protection. As all the young doctor's thoughts/feelings are always heard by hospital colleagues, this creates much inconvenience to them and they try to drive him away. In steps a beautiful female doctor who tries to shield him from the cruel reality of his uniqueness.
Release Date:2002-07-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:2
The Scent of Jealousy
Release Date:2001-10-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Hanamura Daisuke
A comical look at the Japanese legal system. Big corporate law firm seeking to increase their profit margin notices that a lot of the partners spend a lot of their time on cases which don't bring in a lot of revenue. They decide they need to hire an average lawyer, at a minimal salary, that will take care of these small cases and not complain. That's why the law firm hires Hanamura Daisuke (Yusuke Santamaria)...to handle these minor cases. Daisuke's approach to the law is very unique and the way he handles each case is very entertaining
Release Date:2000-07-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:13
A Woman With Many Wounds
Release Date:1999-04-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Kawaii Dake ja Dame Kashira?
Release Date:1999-01-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Osorubeshi! Otonashi Karensan
Release Date:1998-01-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:2