A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Born:
January 3, 1968
Screenplay:
1998 Kuro to Kuro: Out of This World
1999 Deadline Birds, Sound in the Souls of Men
2006 Diary of Beloved Wife: Feast
2008 Love Master 3
2011 Mahou Shoujo wo Wasurenai
2012 A Slightly Erotic Life Experience: 5 Seconds Before The Kiss
2013 The War and a Woman
2014 Kabukicho Love Hotel
2015 Hand in the Glove
2017 Itoshi no Nora
2017 Long Goodbye: Tantei Furui Kurinosuke
2017 The Dog Bridegroom
2022 Red Bridge: Beginning
2022 With Love from Koshu Highway
2025 Ranshima Bound
Writer:
1998 Kuro to Kuro: Out of This World
1999 Deadline Birds, Sound in the Souls of Men
2006 Diary of Beloved Wife: Feast
2008 Love Master 3
2008 Love Master II: Roaming in Hokkaido
2011 Mahou Shoujo wo Wasurenai
2012 A Slightly Erotic Life Experience: 5 Seconds Before The Kiss
2013 The War and a Woman
2014 Kabukicho Love Hotel
2015 Hand in the Glove
2016 My Technicolor Girl
2017 Itoshi no Nora
2017 Long Goodbye: Tantei Furui Kurinosuke
2017 The Dog Bridegroom
2022 Doomsday Detective
2022 Red Bridge: Beginning
2022 With Love from Koshu Highway
2023 A Spoiling Rain
2023 Futari Shizuka
2023 Is This Heaven?
2024 During the Rains
2024 Futon
2025 Ranshima Bound
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.