A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Nara Prefecture, Japan
Born:
December 13, 1952
Film director, screenwriter, and film critic.
Director:
1979 The Pearl Attack Rapist
1981 Empire of Kids
1983 Miyuki
1984 Fine, with Occasional Murders
1985 COMBA Tennen
1985 Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki
1985 The Second Is a Christian
1986 One Who Died in Vain
1989 Dangerous Stories
1990 Universal Laws
1993 Tôhôkenbunroku
1994 Tsutsumi honoo no gotoku
1996 Boys, Be Ambitious
1999 Amateur Singing Contest
2003 Get Up!
2005 Pacchigi!
2007 Pacchigi! Love & Peace
2008 The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
2010 The Hero Show
2012 Fly with the Gold
2020 Yakuza
Original Concept:
1979 The Pearl Attack Rapist
1981 Empire of Kids
1983 Miyuki
1984 Fine, with Occasional Murders
1985 COMBA Tennen
1985 Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki
1985 The Second Is a Christian
1986 One Who Died in Vain
1989 Dangerous Stories
1990 Universal Laws
1993 Tôhôkenbunroku
1994 Tsutsumi honoo no gotoku
1996 Boys, Be Ambitious
1999 Amateur Singing Contest
2003 Get Up!
2005 Pacchigi!
2007 Pacchigi! Love & Peace
2008 The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
2010 The Hero Show
2012 Fly with the Gold
2020 Yakuza
Producer:
1979 The Pearl Attack Rapist
1981 Empire of Kids
1982 Tattoo
1983 Miyuki
1984 Fine, with Occasional Murders
1985 COMBA Tennen
1985 Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki
1985 The Second Is a Christian
1986 One Who Died in Vain
1989 Dangerous Stories
1990 Universal Laws
1993 Tôhôkenbunroku
1994 Tsutsumi honoo no gotoku
1996 Boys, Be Ambitious
1999 Amateur Singing Contest
2003 Get Up!
2005 Pacchigi!
2007 Pacchigi! Love & Peace
2008 The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
2010 The Hero Show
2012 Fly with the Gold
2020 Yakuza
Screenplay:
1979 The Pearl Attack Rapist
1981 Empire of Kids
1982 Tattoo
1983 Miyuki
1984 Fine, with Occasional Murders
1985 COMBA Tennen
1985 Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki
1985 The Second Is a Christian
1986 One Who Died in Vain
1989 Dangerous Stories
1990 Universal Laws
1993 Tôhôkenbunroku
1994 Tsutsumi honoo no gotoku
1996 Boys, Be Ambitious
1999 Amateur Singing Contest
2003 Get Up!
2005 Pacchigi!
2007 Pacchigi! Love & Peace
2008 The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
2010 The Hero Show
2012 Fly with the Gold
2020 Yakuza
Writer:
1979 The Pearl Attack Rapist
1981 Empire of Kids
1982 Tattoo
1983 Miyuki
1984 Fine, with Occasional Murders
1985 COMBA Tennen
1985 Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki
1985 The Second Is a Christian
1986 One Who Died in Vain
1989 Dangerous Stories
1990 Universal Laws
1993 Tôhôkenbunroku
1994 Tsutsumi honoo no gotoku
1996 Boys, Be Ambitious
1999 Amateur Singing Contest
2003 Get Up!
2005 Pacchigi!
2007 Pacchigi! Love & Peace
2008 The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
2010 The Hero Show
2012 Fly with the Gold
2020 Yakuza
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.