A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan
Born:
December 6, 1963
Director:
2000 Free and Easy 11
2001 Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
2002 Free and Easy 13
2004 Drugstore Girl
2007 Kitaro
2007 Maison Ikkoku
2008 10 Promises to My Dog
2008 Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
2009 Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto
2012 Welcome Home, Hayabusa
2013 It All Began When I Met You
2014 Samurai Hustle
2016 Samurai Hustle Returns
2018 Recall
2019 Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019 Shounentachi Movie
2021 Angry Rice Wives
2023 Shylock's Children
Producer:
1995 Gonin
2000 Free and Easy 11
2001 Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
2002 Free and Easy 13
2004 Drugstore Girl
2007 Kitaro
2007 Maison Ikkoku
2008 10 Promises to My Dog
2008 Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
2009 Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto
2012 Welcome Home, Hayabusa
2013 It All Began When I Met You
2014 Samurai Hustle
2016 Samurai Hustle Returns
2018 Recall
2019 Iwane: Sword of Serenity
2019 Shounentachi Movie
2021 Angry Rice Wives
2023 Shylock's Children
Creator:
2020 大江戸グレートジャーニー~ザ・お伊勢参り~
Director:
2011 My Dog, My Happiness
2020 大江戸グレートジャーニー~ザ・お伊勢参り~
2022 混声の森
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.