A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Gyeongseong, South Korea [now Seoul]
Born:
August 1, 1937
Novel:
1983 Legend of the Eight Samurai
2003 Singles
Original Story:
1983 Legend of the Eight Samurai
2003 Singles
2008 Je t'aime: I Am a Beast
Screenplay:
1973 Love Is After School
1980 The Detective Journey
1983 Detective Story
1983 Legend of the Eight Samurai
2003 Singles
2008 Je t'aime: I Am a Beast
2008 Rokumeikan
2012 Bungo: Stories of Desire
2012 Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi
Writer:
1971 Love Forsaken
1973 Love Is After School
1979 G.I. Samurai
1980 The Detective Journey
1983 Detective Story
1983 Legend of the Eight Samurai
1986 Love Story
1990 Heaven and Earth
1995 Rape
2003 Singles
2008 Je t'aime: I Am a Beast
2008 Rokumeikan
2012 Bungo: Stories of Desire
2012 Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi
2013 スケート靴の約束 ~名古屋女子フィギュア物語~
Screenplay:
1980 Tennō no Ryōriban
2014 Back of Father
Screenstory:
1978 Juujiro
1980 Tennō no Ryōriban
2014 Back of Father
Writer:
1974 Wounded Angels
1975 Oretachi no Tabi
1978 Juujiro
1980 Tennō no Ryōriban
1986 Danjoshichi Natsu Monogatari
1987 Danjoshchinin Akimonogatari
1989 Last Serenade
1992 Waga Machi
1994 29-sai no Christmas
1998 Shimei Tehai
2001 The Bubble
2003 Musashi
2008 Je t'aime: I Am a Beast
2014 Back of Father
2019 Magi: The Tensho Boys' Embassy
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.