A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Tokyo, Japan
Born:
January 1, 1962
Director:
2006  Heavenly Forest
2007  Life Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara
2009  I Give My First Love to You
2011  Paradise Kiss
2013  Beyond the Memories
2016  Bōkyō
2016  Your Lie in April
2017  Daytime Shooting Star
2019  Come Kiss Me at 0:00AM
2019  FLY! BOYS, FLY! 僕たち、CAはじめました
2021  20 Conditions to Fall in Love With the App
2021  Love that Begins with Lies
2021  Redder Than Yesterday, Bluer Than Tomorrow: Cinema Fighters Project
2023  And Yet, You Are So Sweet
2024  Yano-kun no Futsu no Hibi
2025  366 Days
????  Midnight Loners
Assistant Director:
1993  The Ordinary People
Creator:
1993  The Ordinary People
2017  Fugitive Boys
2024  Destiny
Director:
1993  The Ordinary People
1994  Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari
1994  禁断の果実
1995  Into a Bright Moment
1997  Futari
1998  Boyhunt
2002  Flowers For Algernon
2003  Madam Mari
2004  I Wish To Be A Farmer's Wife
2004  Mother and Lover
2006  Regatta: Kimi to ita eien
2008  4 Shimai Tantei Dan
2017  Fugitive Boys
2021  Voice Spring!
2022  Boyfriend Kourin!
2022  My Cuteness Is About to Expire!?
2023  About Sunday Night...
2023  From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke
2024  Destiny
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.