Yukihiko Tsutsumi (Directing)
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Works
STEP OUT
Set against the vibrant and culturally rich backdrop of Okinawa, Step Out tells the inspiring story of Teruya, a young boy who discovers his passion for dance. Living with his dedicated single mother, Akane, and his introverted younger sister, Mai, Teruya finds himself drawn to dance after meeting Lisa, a skilled dancer at a local school. As Teruya hones his skills and partners with Lisa, his growing talent opens the door to both exciting opportunities and unexpected challenges.
Release Date:2025-03-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Hotel of my Dream
This film is adapted from the novel of the same name, which tells the story of a new writer, Kayo Nakajima, who debuted with the worst debut in history by winning an award with a former idol. Afterwards, she was caught in a series of troubles, such as "having her single volume of books blocked from publication", "quarreling with a well-known writer", and "being betrayed by the editor".However, eventually, Kayo gradually opened up a path of her own with her ambition and wonderful creativity.
Release Date:2024-12-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Three Way Battle of Japanese New Era
A “hyper comedy-drama” that portrays three people who firmly believe they are direct descendants of the three great warlords of the Sengoku era— Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu — engaging in fierce battles of pride, honor, and lineage as the “Three Great Heroes of the Reiwa Era.”
Release Date:2024-12-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
A Conviction of Marriage
The perverted serial killer who shook the world, "Shinagawa Piero," has been arrested. The killer turns out to be a 20-year-old woman! A boy, seeking to find his murdered father's missing head, writes a letter to her in prison under the name of Arata, a child welfare center worker who was counseling him. To fulfill the boy's request, Arata meets her, but when she realizes Arata did not write the letter, he abruptly proposes marriage to her to capture her interest.
Release Date:2024-09-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Stage Play "Journey to the West"
Born from the stone egg of Mount Huaguo, Son Goku (played by Ainosuke Kataoka) wreaks havoc in the Heavenly Realm, earning the wrath of the Jade Emperor (played by Shin Tamura) and is imprisoned under the Five Elements Mountain.
Release Date:2024-05-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Knockin' on Locked Door
Release Date:2023-07-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:2
Generalprobe 7
A mystery that depicts the 13 days from the production announcement press conference by the seven actors taking on a new Shakespeare play to the final rehearsal. The director is Tsutsumi Yukihiko, who has directed many hit works. TROUPE SEVEN, a seven-member theater troupe that is extremely popular among young people, is about to welcome a new member, Yamai (Miura Kairi), in preparation for the performance of their new play "Shakespeare Legends". Suddenly, their charismatic leader Soga dies, and the wheels of destiny begin to spin out of kilter.
Release Date:2023-04-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Singula
Fifteen AI debate over whether humanity should be saved or destroyed.
Release Date:2023-04-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Get Ready!
This dark medical drama examines the meaning of human life, centring on a team of unidentified black-market doctors who undertake any kind of surgery with superhuman surgical skills and exorbitant medical expenses. Hazama Eisuke, also known as "Ace", is a genius surgeon who works as a patissier during the day. He has an operating room equipped with the latest equipment in the basement of his patisserie, where he performs surgeries on patients who have been abandoned by others. Shimoyamada Jo, also known as "Joker", is a brilliant international lawyer and a negotiator with patients.
Release Date:2023-01-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:4
truth: 1 Night, 1 Room, 3 Baddest Bitches
A Japan-set battle-royale comedy over a vial of sperm is centered around three women on the verge of a nervous breakdown from hearing their biological clock ticking away: a doctor and manager of a sperm bank, Sana Kobayashi, a single mother, Maron Kuribayashi, and an alluring receptionist, Mayumi Kujō. Unknowingly, the three shared a beloved partner and a sperm donor, Makoto, but lost him in a sudden accident. The night of Makoto's funeral they are shocked to discover each other in his room. In a rage of screaming, thrashing, and boasting about their own sexual prowess with Makoto, more fierce emotions erupt once Sana's plan to self-inseminate is exposed, but this leads to unexpected consequences. They affirm their real love for Makoto and reveal his true wishes.
Release Date:2022-01-07
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:2
ARASHI Anniversary Tour 5×20 FILM “Record of Memories”
Captures the group in one of its last concerts on its 2018-2019 "5×20" anniversary tour.
Release Date:2021-11-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
First Love
A university student has the usual dreams and aspirations. It turns out to be a pipe dream and so she murders her own flesh and blood. The usual media heads seek an answer in order to sell copy. A psychologist is writing a book about the character and incident. Her research for the subject matter turn the psychologist inward and things come out of the shadows that perhaps are better left buried deep in the shadows of the psyche.
Release Date:2021-02-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:10
SPECサーガ黎明編『Knockin'on 冷泉's SPEC Door』～絶対預言者 冷泉俊明が守りたかった幸福の欠片～
Release Date:2021-02-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:3
Hope
Kazuto Ishikawa is a first-class architect. He is married to Kiyomi. They have a son, Tadashi, who attends high school and a daughter, Miyabi, who attends middle school. They live together in a refined home, designed by Kazuto. An injury causes Tadashi to quit playing soccer. Since that time, Tadashi often stays out all night without permission. One evening, Tadashi leaves home and does not return. Kazuto and Kiyomi become worried about their son and consider going to the police. News then reveals the murder of Tadashi's classmate. The police suspect that Tadashi might be involved in the murder.
Release Date:2020-10-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
12 Suicidal Teens
Twelve boys and girls gather at an abandoned hospital to die for various different reasons. There, they find the body of a dead boy. The twelve boys and girl attempt to find the person who killed the boy. During their search, the reasons why they want to die are revealed.
Release Date:2019-01-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:77
The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One day, they receive devastating news of their daughter falling into a coma after a near-drowning accident at a pool. The doctors declare her brain dead with no prospect of recovery and the couple must decide if they should donate her organs to others in need or to wait until her heart stops beating.
Release Date:2018-11-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:13
Spec saga "The Romance of Satori"
Spec saga "The Romance of Satori" is a 24 minute science fiction-comedy-adventure-action-suspense-romance-mystery starring Yuina Kuroshima as Ito Ninomae, Erina Mano as Satori Hoshi and Naoki Kunishima as Shoichi Mizushima. The series premiered on Fri Sep 28, 2018 on Paravi and EP06 (S01E06) last aired on Fri Sep 28, 2018.
Release Date:2018-09-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:3
SICK'S Jo no Shou
Again we follow a pair of police detectives as they track down offenders with special abilities (SPEC). However, since the events of the previous chapters, MPD Public Security's special division for solving cases involving unknown circumstances (Mishou) no longer exists. Instead, there is now an exclusive special division (Tokumu) as part of the Cabinet Information Research Office that only deals with cases involving SPEC holders led by Nonomura Koutarou's younger brother, Nonomura Koujirou
Release Date:2018-04-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:15
Vote Count:6
Miman City 2017
20 years ago, the only survivors from the virus-ridden city promised to meet in 2017. What happened to the city and this mysterious virus?
Release Date:2017-07-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Virtual Detective Tabito Higurashi
Higurashi Tabito has lost four out of his five senses--his sense of sound, smell, taste, and touch. The only sense he has is sight, which he relies on for his job as a detective who has to investigate and find various missing objects. He works at the detective agency with Yukiji, his buddy and manager, and Tei, his adopted daughter. No matter what it is, Tabito always finds the missing object. His investigative methods, however, are a little bizarre. His eyes seem to be able to see everything, including things that regular people can't see, like scents and emotions. Without a single blood relative left in the world, the lonely Tabito pours his heart out on his job. Each case he solves brings him closer to Yukiji, Tei, and her daycare teacher Yoko, who all treat him like family. Wrapped in their warmth, his heart begins to melt.
Release Date:2017-01-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:2
Ranmaru: The Man with the God Tongue
Ranmaru is a shy, dorky guy with a tongue that can analyze any element simply by licking an object, a skill that allows him to solve all manner of crimes. With his cute, but annoying sidekick Hikaru, plus the steadying hand of friend Kanji, Ranmaru solves a series of strange events at a failing hot spring resort deep in the mountains. Ranmaru falls in love with a doctor who saves his life. The loveable, endearing Ranmaru and his band of quirky pals team up to solve a nasty murder mystery that devastates the village.
Release Date:2016-12-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Sanada 10 Braves
Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of a ninja group who all serve under samurai warrior Yukimura Sanada.
Release Date:2016-09-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:12
The Man with God's Tongue
Release Date:2016-07-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:1
Detective Ballerino
In the past, Kurumi Usushima (Yuto Nakajima) wanted to become a ballerino, but he is now a detective. Kurumi Usushima and his senior detective, Takao Washio (Masahiro Takashima), solve a case by using the hypnosis technique past life regression.
Release Date:2016-01-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
The Big Bee
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter will be dropped. 8 hours is given as the deadline. Making the situation even more dire, a young child is in the helicopter.
Release Date:2015-09-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:13
Initiation Love
Set in Shizuoka and Tokyo, Japan in the late 1980's. Takkun is a university student in Shizuoka attempting to find a job. Mayu is a dental hygienist. They meet through a blind date and begin to date, but Takkun finds a job in Tokyo and goes there. They begin a long distance relationship, but their relationship breaks down.
Release Date:2015-05-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:40
Yamegoku - I Will Quit Yakuza
Nagamitsu Bakushu is a mysterious police officer who mans a hotline within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Organised Crime Department for breakaway yakuza members. After receiving a phone call, the detective in charge has to make contact with the yakuza, protect him, fix things up with the organised crime group which the yakuza belongs to, and finally place the yakuza in a respectable occupation. Although Bakushu ended up supporting the rehabilitation of yakuzas, she somehow treats them like enemies and gets the people around her involved.
Release Date:2015-04-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:3
The Mourner
Shizuto Sakatsuki (Kengo Kora) is a mourner. He goes to scenes of accidents and mourns for the victims. Yukiyo Nagi (Yuriko Ishida), who killed her husband and served prison time, goes to the scene of the murder and meets Shizuto. She follows him from that time. Other people that exists in their lives are Shizuto’s mother Junko who is terminally ill with cancer and waits for Shizuto’s return, his younger sister Mishio who is pregnant by her now ex-boyfriend and a magazine reporter who chases after Shizuto. The movie examines life and death, love and hate and sin and forgiveness through these characters.
Release Date:2015-02-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Eight Ranger 2
Set five years after first film "Eight Ranger". A new threat appears for Eight City and its protectors Eight Ranger.
Release Date:2014-07-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Trick Shinsaku Special 3
Within a mountain village, the Suijin family has controlled the village for a long time. The three sisters from the Sujin family begin to quarrel over the family inheritance. There, consecutive murders then take place in the village. The murders can only by explained by paranormal phenomenon. Naoko (Yukie Nakama) and Jiro (Hiroshi Abe) attempt to uncover the truth.
Release Date:2014-01-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Trick the Movie: Last Stage
Trade company employee Shinichi recommends to Naoko and Jiro to go to a beautiful place abroad. There, Naoko and Jiro meets tribal shaman and sees through her tricks. The shaman has refused to leave her place.
Release Date:2014-01-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:20
Pikanchi Half: Life is Hard Tabun Happy
Pikanchi Half is a spin-off of the two previous movies in the Pikanchi series, showing the five friends, now in their 30s, having a reunion as they are running into problems with family and work
Release Date:2014-01-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
トリック 母之泉篇 腸完全版
Release Date:2013-12-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
SPEC: Close~Reincarnation
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".
Release Date:2013-11-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:17
SPEC: Close~Incarnation
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".
Release Date:2013-11-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:18
SPEC: Zero
High school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. Detective Akio Kondo came and told her "your family has a high possibility that they were killed by people who have spec." That was the first time she heard of "spec". 6 years later, Saya Toma, who has never forgotten what the Detective said, decides to become a detective. She returns to Japan after receiving training by the FBI in the United States. Saya Toma is assigned to work unsolved cases in the Public Security Bureau. Meanwhile, because of Satoshi Chii's scheme, Juichi Ninomae considers Saya Toma his parents' enemy and tries to push her to the edge. Satoshi Chii's scheme has also caused Saya Toma and Juichi Ninomae to forget that they are brother and sister. The siblings are headed to a life-staking fight. A girl named Maho Ueno becomes involved in their fight. To protect Maho Ueno, Saya Toma uses "spec".
Release Date:2013-10-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:17
Starman: A Love Story
Sawako (Ryoko Hirosue) was dumped by her husband and since then she has raised her three sons alone. One day, she happens to meet a young man (Sota Fukushi) who is dying. She falls in love with him at first sight. The young man also suffers from memory loss. Sawako names him Hoshio. Taking advantage of his memory loss, she decides to make him live with her and as the father of her three sons. Now, Sawako, her three sons, her grandmother and Hoshio all live together. Sawako hopes Hoshio never regains his memory. Hoshio also begins to develop feelings for her. Whenever Sawako has troubles, Hoshio helps her out with his mysterious ability. Hoshio's past is also a mysterious. A mystery that is finally revealed.
Release Date:2013-07-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:2
Angel Home
The "Himawari So" ("Sunflower House") is a group home for mentally underdeveloped adults. Manga artist Itpon Aijo (Naoto Takenaka) begins to work at the "Himawari So". He moves into the home with his daughter Mako (Shihori Kanjiya), who is mentally underdeveloped. Uyan (Takayuki Takuma) is a resident at the group home. Uyan and Mako begin to develop feelings for each, but Itpon becomes worried about them.
Release Date:2013-04-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Eight Ranger
Set within the devastated city of Eight City, the Eight Rangers protect the city and go against the evil Dark Kuruseido.
Release Date:2012-07-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
My House
Suzumoto and Sumi creatively master their independent lives while living in a park in Nagoya. In contrast, a middle-class family is caught up in pressure and routine. The two threads of the story gradually intertwine, until a tragic escalation occurs. Shot with a black-and-white documentary feel, yet highly stylized, the film analyzes the contradictions and pathologies of modern society.
Release Date:2012-05-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
SPEC: Heaven
Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by postulating the "SPEC" of the unknown criminals and then deduce the criminal's unknown "SPEC" to make arrests. A mystery occurs when bodies are found on a cruiser in the ocean. Saya Toma and Ryo Kase of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department are brought in to solve the case.
Release Date:2012-04-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:24
SPEC: Life
Set one year after the fight between detectives Saya Toma, Takeru Sebumi, and Satoshi Chii. More confrontations ensues between the detectives at the Unidentified Crimes Unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Takeru Sebumi returns after taking a break due to his eye problems. Kenzo Ichiyanagi is appointed section chief, while Kotaro Nonomura is demoted. New member Shu Kikkawa joins the team.
Release Date:2012-04-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:14
Hayabusa
May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.
Release Date:2011-10-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
SPEC ~ First Blood
An eccentric genius and a demoted special forces officer team up in Tokyo's Unidentified Crimes Unit to tackle criminals with supernatural abilities.
Release Date:2010-10-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:22
BECK
Yukio is your average high school student who spends his days going to class and avoiding bullies. That is until he meets Ryusuke, a guitar prodigy. Together with Taira, Chiba, and Saku they form the rock band BECK. As their popularity increases so does the danger as Ryusuke's past catches up with him.
Release Date:2010-09-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:45
Trick Shinsaku Special 2
Ueda, Naoko, Yabe Kenzo and his partner Akiba are back in a new Trick special. Ueda Jiro is summoned to investigate serial killings that are likely to happen again during a festival to take place in a small village in Okayama. The victims are persons who took an oath under a local tradition but were dumped by their partners afterwards. The festival is marked by the return to the village of a strange woman by the name of Higashizaki Ayano, who had left 20 years ago after the death of her husband and son. The Saionji family, which is the most influential in the city, dislikes the fact
Release Date:2010-05-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale
Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama), a female magician, and Jiro Ueda (Hiroshi Abe), a genius physicist, are back again to solve the mystery of supernatural happenings. In a village where people are cured, a battle royale is held to find the successor for shamen Kamahaeri. Naoko attempts to gain big money by participating in the battle royale, while Jiro is invited to the village to stop this custom. Naoko and Ueda then challenges this amazing trick ..
Release Date:2010-05-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:22
20th Century Boys 3: Redemption
The final showdown, and the final reveal. who is Friend? How can he be stopped?
Release Date:2009-08-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:62
20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope
Set 15 years after "Twentieth Century Boys," Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an attempt to stop Friend's increasing influence over the world and continued plans to eliminate humanity, as detailed in the New Book of Prophecy.
Release Date:2009-01-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:68
Where The Legend Lives
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted from a day when he discovered ancient ceramics while repairing railroad tracks. Now completely blind, Kohei relies on his wife (Sayuri Yoshinaga) to guide him through the country and read the maps in their pursuit of Yamatai.
Release Date:2008-11-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End
In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighbourhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Who is Friend?
Release Date:2008-08-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:100
Sushi King Goes to New York
A genius sushi chef travels to New York to battle it out with the local competition there.
Release Date:2008-04-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Happily Ever After
Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi wrings laughs out of an unlikely topic -- domestic violence -- in this dark comedy about noodle-shop waitress Yukie Morita (Miki Nakatani), who puts up with the fiery temper, gambling and cruelty of her shiftless, ex-gangster boyfriend (Hiroshi Abe). But as flashbacks reveal, there's a reason behind Yukie's unconditional love for her man. Yûko Natori and Mayumi Sada also star.
Release Date:2007-10-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:6
The Bandage Club
An adolescent human drama of high school students who are troubled with their own concerns but gradually find a method of survival through Hotai Club.
Release Date:2007-09-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
The Sword of Alexander
Orichalcum is a mystical metal material that gives great powers to the life form that possesses it. Many Eons ago, the Orichalcum was split into three and landed on Earth. The metal then took the form of three relics: Skanda’s Vajra, Jew’s Cross, and the Sword of Alexander. Anyone able to re-unite these three Orichalcum relics would then obtain the powers of a God. Now two rival aliens are in a heated race to reunite the Orichalcum. They land in Edo era Tokyo where the relics are thought to exist.
Release Date:2007-04-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:9
Trick: The Movie 2
Ueda employes Yamada to go a mysterious island in search of a girl (played by Maki Horikita) that disappeared 10 years ago. They discover the island is run by Kobako Sachiko, who can appear and disappear via boxes, among other strange powers.
Release Date:2006-06-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:18
Memories of Tomorrow
After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.
Release Date:2006-05-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:16
Requiem from the Darkness: Hinoenma
Release Date:2006-03-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Forbidden Siren
A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and give them a breakdown of the local rules; most important: do not go outside when the island's siren starts wailing.
Release Date:2006-02-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:37
Trick Shinsaku Special
Ueda joins other professors to debunk a spirtualist, Midorikawa Shouko, who claims she knows when people will die. The professors die one by one. Introduction of Yabe's Otaku assistant, Akiba.
Release Date:2005-11-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
Requiem from the Darkness: Kowai
Release Date:2005-03-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Egg
A woman sees an egg every time she closes her eyes.
Release Date:2005-03-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:11
H2: The Days with You
Drama series based on manga H2 by Adachi Mitsuru about two rival high school baseball games. The stars of each team, Hideo and Hiro, happen to be childhood friends.
Release Date:2005-01-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:2
Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World
"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It's 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks "I have been in a world without her for 17 years." Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then.
Release Date:2004-07-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:13
Pika**nchi Life Is Hard Dakara Happy
Sequel to the 2002 film Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy, starring members of boy band Arashi.
Release Date:2004-03-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Stand Up!!
Stand Up!! is a Japanese television drama which ran weekly for three months in 2003. The drama, which stars Kazunari Ninomiya of Arashi and Tomohisa Yamashita of NEWS, centers around the lives of the last four virgins left in their highschool as they struggle to lose their virginity over their final high school summer vacation. A 6-DVD Box Set featuring all eleven episodes, as well as six individual volumes were released in Japan on December 18, 2003.
Release Date:2003-07-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:11
Collage of Our Lives
A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo exhibition in the United States. Having heard rumors that she has died, he follows his curiosity to New York City.
Release Date:2003-05-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:10
2LDK
Hoping to land a role, two Japanese actresses begin a fight within their apartment that keeps escalating.
Release Date:2003-04-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:91
Ikebukuro West Gate Park SP
This special takes place three years after the end of the original series. Makoto is homeless as a result of his mom selling out their shop and soon becomes involved in a ‘bone smasher’ case, in which someone puts homeless people to sleep and breaks their bones.
Release Date:2003-03-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Jam Films
Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.
Release Date:2002-12-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:14
Trick: The Movie
Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing as a god. When a series of bizarre incidents occur, Naoko is cornered with a genius physicist (Hiroshi Abe) and Detective Yabe (Katsuhisa Namase). Do deities actually exist, or are they charlatans?
Release Date:2002-11-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:21
Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy
"Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy" centers around five friends who are residents in a Tokyo apartment complex. Now senior high school students, the five friends live the wild life in Harajuku before encountering unforeseen surprises.
Release Date:2002-10-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Love is Still Necessary
Rage, a pimp who only loves money and himself, is sent to jail for 6 months. While he is in the jail, Rage’s partner, Reiji, dies in a traffic accident. Released from prison, Rage finds himself having lost everything but a debt of 6 million dollars. One day, Rage is visited by a lawyer that mistakes him for Reiji. According to the lawyer, Reiji’s father died and left him a large inheritance. Reiji’s only other living relative is his blind sister. Rage smells money and hatches a plan to pretend to be Reiji and steal his money.
Release Date:2002-07-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:1
Chinese Dinner
Hoshino (Toshiro Yanagiba) is the mob-connected owner of a ritzy Chinese restaurant. One evening he’s sitting down in a lavishly appointed private room to enjoy an elaborate multicourse dinner, when he gets a call from a crooked politician of his acquaintance. A long-meditated money-laundering deal is about to bear fruit and earn him a cool 5 billion yen. The gang boss who backed him on this deal will be pleased. He is, understandably, in the mood for celebrating when an unexpected visitor (Izam) arrives — a tall, husky, mincing fellow in dreadlocks, with a gun. He is a hit man sent to whack Hoshino — but for what? The hit man neither explains nor kills; instead he sits down at the table and asks Hoshino when dinner is going to be served. Coolly, Hoshino calls in Chinese for the waitress, who enters, wearing a red, slit dress and an inscrutable expression, with the first course. The longest meal of Hoshino’s life has just begun.
Release Date:2001-03-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Drowning Fish
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate "Oboreru Sakana". The "big guns" are a misfit duo of ethically questionable characters who must infiltrate a gay nightclub and "fit in" while they search for clues. What ensues is both hilarious and action-packed. Oboreru Sakana is a rather ambitious and often hilarious contemporary crime thriller. Its narrative swings from the grisly to the humorous and pulls in as many pop culture elements as it can manage.
Release Date:2001-02-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Trick
Although 23 year old Yamada Naoko is a "super" magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her landlady for the rent being late. After being fired once again, her boss shows her an ad of a physics professor, a non-believer of all things magical, offering money to anyone who can prove to him that magic is real. Desperately needing the money, Naoko accepts the challenge, which is how she comes to meet Professor Ueda. Falling prey to her simple magic tricks, Ueda is impressed, and enlists Naoko to help him uncover the tricks behind a local cult. Their hilarious antics, along with those of police officer Yabe, leads them onto further mysteries, all with tricks needing to be solved in sort of an "X-Files" meets "Scooby-Doo"...
Release Date:2000-07-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:31
Vote Count:22
Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Living in an area known for its juvenile crime, 21-year-old Makoto has become a member of a youth gang called the G-Boys. Known for his cool head and ability to get things done, Makoto becomes a key troubleshooter for the gang by diffusing tense situations and keeping his friends out of harm's way. However, the death of his girlfriend and an escalating turf war with a rival gang threaten to be more than Makoto can handle.
Release Date:2000-04-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:25
Black Jack
Matsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a church where it is rumored that miracles happen. There, they find strange twins named Pinoko. With Pinoko's guidance, Matsuzaki is saved by a genius surgeon, BJ, in exchange for exorbitant fees. However, Matsuzaki is captured by the police. Meanwhile, Reiko, a female detective who pursues Matsuzaki and other organizations, tries to solve a mystery by conducting an independent investigation. It turns out Matsuzaki was found dead.
Release Date:2000-03-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer
Graduating at the top of her class, elite detective candidate Jun Shibata is transferred to the section that handles cases deemed "unsolvable" by the department. Her partner, though a well-respected and experienced detective, has grown complacent after unsuccesfully pursuing these cases that many consider an exercise in futility. With her upper class breeding, her colleagues don't expect much from her either, but she suprises them all with her motivation and astounding powers of deduction. Well-constructed mysteries and colorful characters abound in this stylish and edgy police drama.
Release Date:2000-03-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:15
Keizoku Special: Phantom
After the events of the series, Shibata has lost her memories and is reassigned. Meanwhile, a strange case regarding a cursed tree that kills whoever's name is written on its trunk surfaces among mysterious deaths. Following different leads, Shibata and the Unsolved Cases unit will meet again as they investigate. Asakura, it seems, is also plotting behind the scenes...
Release Date:1999-12-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Unsolved Cases
Keizoku is a Japanese mystery thriller created first as a TV drama and later as a film. It is about Detective Jun Shibata, who handles unsolved cases with her hardened partner Tōru Mayama. The television series was broadcast in eleven episodes between 8 January and 19 March 1999. A two-hour "special drama" was then broadcast on 24 December 1999. The series has been called "epoch-making" in the police procedural genre on Japanese television.
Release Date:1999-01-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:9
Hanako of the Toilet
When a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously disappeared from eleven years before. She and her new friends join forces to fight the evil force that threatens them all.
Release Date:1998-06-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
The Files of Young Kindaichi: Legend of the Shanghai Mermaid
Kindaichi is off on yet another case, this time in Shanghai. When the father of a Chinese friend of the young Kindaichi is murdered at the circus, it is up to the ever-resourceful and clever young high-school detective to solve the case. But hidden in the background is the 4000 year-old legend of the Shanghai Mermaid.
Release Date:1997-12-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
Miman City
After a devastating earthquake strikes Makuhara the northern part of Chiba, 18 year-old Yamato, leaves to Makuhara to find his friend Kiichi who lives in the area. On his way Yamato meets Takeru, who is also traveling to Makuhara as a volunteer in the relief effort. However, when the two arrive at Makuhara they are shocked to find that the city, which is under government lock down, is intact and is managed solely by children after a mysterious virus results in the deaths of all the adults. Forced to survive on their own, the child leaders must save the city and also fight the government, which tries to hide the truth.
Release Date:1997-10-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:4
Psychometrer Eiji
Eiji, an average high school student, and his 2 friends stumble onto a crime scene. When he touches something with one of his hands, he is able to receive brief impressions of the past of the object - psychometry. Determined to solve crimes, a woman detective finds out about his ability and tries to persuade him to use it, even resorting to food bribes for he and his friends.
Release Date:1997-01-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:3
The Files of Young Kindaichi: Snow Yaksha Legend Murder Case
Hajime Kindaichi is working a part time job as an assistant to a TV station for the filming of a shock show. They have invited celebrities in Segori Village and are planning to scare them by playing pranks on them such as fake deaths. However, a threatening letter arrives and soon, a real murder occurs broadcasted in front of everyone.
Release Date:1995-12-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Goodbye Japan
A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okinawa, feeling neglected by the Japanese government's response, declare independence.
Release Date:1995-09-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Files of Young Kindaichi: School's Seven Mysteries Murder Case
Release Date:1995-04-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.
Release Date:1995-04-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:7
Vote Count:6
Ookami ga Dekita Hi
Taihei's difficult days are just beginning. His girlfriend Natsuko has a sister called Kanoko who falls victim to a a disease that has afflicted women of the family for generations, causing a sudden eruption of hair across her body. When she turns into a wolf and escapes into the woods, Taihei and Natsuko come after her and stumble across an unidentified body. The police claim the wolf is to blame. This begins a frantic chase where the myth of the werewolf and Japanese folklore blend together.
Release Date:1992-02-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Kimi to mitai kowai hanashi
An omnibus of three stories by three directors competing on the theme of erotic-horror suspense.
Release Date:1992-01-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Christmas in New York
In his album film, Tatsuro Yamashita sings in English against the backdrop of Christmas in New York.
Release Date:1991-12-25
Department:Art
Job:Art Direction
Thriller CRT
A creepy anthology about a homicidal little girl, a woman being stalked, a dentist and a man struggling to keep his eyes open on the road.
Release Date:1991-02-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
! [ai-ou]
Three outsiders meet by chance and try to chase their dreams despite all odds. However, things take a dramatic turn when they run into trouble with the Yakuza.
Release Date:1991-01-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that Shizuka tries her best to restrict her diet and please Kazuki. "It's So Far Away!" Karuma Sae is an office lady who works in the city center but lives with her family in a house far away from her work. Because she is always rushing to catch the last train, she can never enjoy a decent date with her boyfriend, Oishi Mamoru. Her father is also always interfering in her life, so she can't appreciate the city life and isn't happy. "Get Ready to Drive!" Masuko is a new taxi driver in Tokyo who is very stressed from dealing with the behavior of some passengers. One night he drives a very beautiful drunk hostess home. "What Is English?" Kosaka Shigeru, a businessman, was transferred to a Chicago branch factory. He tried hard to learn English, practicing day and night, but couldn't improve as much as he expected.
Release Date:1988-09-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
The Frozen Horror Show
Iyo is an assistant in an antique shop. One day he displays an old refrigerator. But soon discover that it's a man-eating refrigerator.
Release Date:1987-05-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Killer Goldfish
This is the first film adaptation of a completely original story released by SUPER SAPIENS, a project by directors who led the Japanese film industry in the 2000s.
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Television ga Kureta Yume
Focusing on the directors, writers and producers who have worked on numerous dramas and variety shows produced by TBS, the program explores the behind-the-scenes stories behind their masterpieces, including the ingenuity used to create hit productions and the friendships between them and celebrities.
Episode Count:2