Jirô Akagawa

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 Date:2018-04-08

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:1

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation

Izumi Hoshi is senior in high school, but she led a small yakuza group in her past. After killing her uncle's murderer with a machine gun, her yakuza group disbanded. Izumi now lives an ordinary life as a high school student and works as a manager at a cafe. A dangerous situation soon awaits for Izumi.

Release Date:2016-03-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:14

Nezumi-Kozo, Running Around Edo

Jirokichi plays around during the day, but at night becomes a completely different person. His nickname is Nezumi-Kozo (“Rat Boy"). Jirokichi steals gold coins from corrupt samurai families and hands it over to the poor. He works with his younger sister Kosode.

Release Date:2014-01-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:17

Vote Count:1

4 Shimai Tantei Dan

The story features a team of four sleuthing sisters.

Release Date:2008-01-18

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

High school student Hoshi Izumi loses her father suddenly in an accident. One day, Sakuma, the waka gashira of a small and weak Yakuza gang in Asakusa - the Medaka Gumi - pays Izumi a visit along with the gang members. The death of their former kumicho (Boss) puts Medaka Gumi on the verge of a breakup. Therefore, Sakuma begs Izumi, the former boss's only distant relative left, to succeed to the kumicho position. Izumi is taken by surprise and keeps refusing at first. However, she ends up becoming the 8th kumicho of the Medaka Gumi! The police tell her that her father's death may possibly be a homicide case. There's also Mayumi, a mysterious woman staring closely at Izumi's father's photograph at his funeral. The situation becomes complicated when the drug-dealing vicious yakuza, Hamaguchi Gumi, comes into the picture as well as Sandaiji Hajime, a politician whose public stance is to eliminate drugs.

Release Date:2006-10-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:3

Midnight Ghost Tour

Release Date:2004-04-16

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Farewell

Yuichi Kosaka is a salaried businessman in Ueda city. His achievements have not been improved recently, and he is betrayed by the manager of takada. Takada, who is related to the company's executives, is very strict with him. Every night late, Yuichi is often dissatisfied with his wife, Kazue, and his daughter Sanae.On the other day Yuichi ran the car aiming at his home village. However, it is lost in the mountain road which should know well. An old public telephone keeps in sight, and yuichiro stops the car before it. It was Yuichi who had been able to find the name of the old high school classmate, Tai in the old telephone book, and dial, and was surprised to hear the voice of the big. It was because the voice was as it was 30 years ago. The telephone was connected to the past.

Release Date:2001-07-14

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

School Day of the Dead

Some students decide to set up a play written by one of their classmates, who has commited suicide. The play is based on a tragic and mysterious legend about a love affair between two teachers at the school long ago. Some girls then accidentally stumble over some information about the legend, and the girl who commited suicide. Shortly after, the girls start turning up dead in seeming accidents.

Release Date:2000-08-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:10

Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel

The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.

Release Date:1998-02-21

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Three Sisters Investigate

Three sisters, all otherwise typical junior, high school student and college students, who, while probing into the murder case of their father, get themselves in the middle of other cases and wind up becoming detectives themselves.

Release Date:1998-01-10

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Episode Count:10

Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.

Release Date:1996-09-23

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Goodbye for Tomorrow

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening.

Release Date:1995-09-23

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Turning Point

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Release Date:1994-06-18

Vote Count:1

Calico Cat Holmes and the Lord of the Haunted Castle

Based on Akagawa Jirou's popular book series about hapless detective Katayama Yoshitaro who lives with his sister Harumi and their cat Holmes, which has a sixth sense when it comes to solve mysteries. In this stand alone OVA the aftershow party of Harumi's acting troupe becomes the showplace of murder and tragedy. Luckily Yoshitaro brought Holmes along.

Release Date:1992-07-21

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

Chizuko's Younger Sister

The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter Mika is suddenly in a dangerous situation, Chizuko returns as a ghost to save her; reunited with her sister, Mika begins spending time with Chizuko again.

Release Date:1991-05-10

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:12

Don't touch the thief!

A drama adaptation of Jiro Akagawa's "Thief Series". Junichi Konno, also known as Phantom Thief Dark Cat, is a world-class thief, and his wife is Mayumi, a detective in the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division. A bumpy but friendly couple solves various cases.

Release Date:1990-10-18

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Animated Classics of Japanese Literature

A brilliant collection of beautifully animated episodes based on selected masterpieces of Japanese modern literature. The aim of this series is to appeal to the viewer at large and to give him or her some idea of the variety and individuality which Japanese literature has developed over the last hundred years. The authors range from Higuchi Ichiyou (Takekurabe), Mori Ougai (The Dancing Girl) and Natsume Souseki (Botchan) to Kawabata Yasunari (The Izu Dancer), Nobel laureate of 1968, and Mishima Yukio (The Sound of Waves).

Release Date:1986-04-25

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

Early Spring Story

A high school student Hitomi poses as a university student and ends up in falling in love with middle-aged Okawa, her dead mother's ex-boyfriend. Hitomi's feelings shift back and forth as she is not sure whether it is true love or just a realization of her mother's romantic dream...

Release Date:1985-09-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:6

Akagawa Jiro's Vampire is Coming of Age

Erica, a member of the vampire tribe, suspects her father when the female students at the school are killed by having their throats ripped out.

Release Date:1985-09-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Kekkon Annai Mystery

A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine that she'll pose as his fiancée for a remarkable cash reward. Hiroko moves to Sekine's mansion and prepares to attend the family's meeting. However, this only turns out to be a prelude of a bloody fight over the family's legacy.

Release Date:1985-06-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Someday, Someone Will Be Killed

While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins...

Release Date:1984-10-10

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:1

Curtain Call

Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her real father, "Daddy-Long-Legs", who sends a bouquet of flowers every birthday, once she can wear a special pair of pointe shoes. The day finally arrives and Miho's small adventure begins.

Release Date:1984-07-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Fine, with Occasional Murders

Kanako returns from the USA to a troubled mother who witnessed a man leaving a murder scene and is consequently under persistent threat. For the time being.

Release Date:1984-05-26

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:2

Detective Story

Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a washed-up gumshoe who's hired by Naomi's father to bodygard his daughter until she leaves. Shuichi finds the job annoying and wants to quit. But he also has a screwed-up ex and alimony to pay. Things go from bad to worse when Naomi and Shuichi stumble upon a murder which might involve the yakuza. They decide to find out who committed the murder but God knows what it will lead to.

Release Date:1983-07-16

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:5

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

The drama depicts an ordinary high school student growing up by becoming a yakuza head.

Release Date:1982-07-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:1

Murder Case: Lover Swap

Yoshiko Konno went on a winter trip in a car driven by her fiance, Yoichi Itokawa, but got lost due to a blizzard and arrived at a mountain cottage in the depths of a grove. They decide to rent a room. After greeting several men and women sitting by the fireplace, they enter the bedroom. In the middle of the night, Yoshiko woke up and, hearing a woman's voice from the next room, left the room to see what was going on...

Release Date:1982-02-20

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:1

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

Release Date:1981-12-19

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:49

幽霊列車

Release Date:1978-01-14

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story