A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Tokyo, Japan
Born:
April 9, 1957
Director:
2016  Like the Wind
Music:
1987  The Making of "A Taxing Woman"
1988  The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
1990  Tales of a Golden Geisha
1992  Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
1992  Tokyo Babylon 1
1994  Tokyo Babylon 2
1996  Seraphim Night
2000  Will Be There for You
2002  48x61
2008  Aki fukaki
2016  Like the Wind
2019  Sleeping Village
2023  The Chocolate Man
Musician:
1987  The Making of "A Taxing Woman"
1988  The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
1990  Tales of a Golden Geisha
1992  Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
1992  Tokyo Babylon 1
1994  Tokyo Babylon 2
1996  Seraphim Night
2000  Will Be There for You
2001  Metropolis
2002  48x61
2008  Aki fukaki
2016  Like the Wind
2019  Sleeping Village
2023  The Chocolate Man
Original Music Composer:
1982  Demon's Room
1984  Mermaid Legend
1984  People of Twilight
1987  A Taxing Woman
1987  The Making of "A Taxing Woman"
1988  A Taxing Woman's Return
1988  The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
1988  Yojo no jidai
1989  Gunhed
1990  Tales of a Golden Geisha
1992  Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
1992  Tokyo Babylon 1
1993  The Last Dance
1994  Tokyo Babylon 2
1996  Seraphim Night
1996  Supermarket Woman
1997  The Key
1997  Woman in Witness Protection
1999  Tyo Story
2000  Will Be There for You
2001  Metropolis
2002  48x61
2008  Aki fukaki
2008  The Taste of Fish
2016  Like the Wind
2019  Sleeping Village
2023  Nezumikozo Jirokichi
2023  The Chocolate Man
Music:
1995  Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
2013  The Family Game
????  Shopping Hero
Musician:
1995  Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
2003  Officer Ichiro
2013  The Family Game
????  Shopping Hero
Original Music Composer:
1987  Amaenaideyo!
1992  Tokyo Babylon
1995  Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
1996  Ryoma ni Omakase
2002  Central Ikegami Police
2002  Tsuhan-Man
2003  Officer Ichiro
2013  The Family Game
????  Shopping Hero
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.