A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Tokyo, Japan
Assistant Director:
1999 Moonlight Whispers
2004 Black Kiss
2007 My Sister, My Love
2008 The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
2013 Since Then
2014 Mother
2016 High & Low The Red Rain
2023 Picture of Spring
2024 90 Years Old - So What?
2024 Worlds Apart
Director:
1999 Moonlight Whispers
2004 Black Kiss
2005 Oboeteiru
2007 My Sister, My Love
2007 Tomie vs Tomie
2008 The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
2013 Since Then
2014 Mother
2016 High & Low The Red Rain
2023 Picture of Spring
2024 90 Years Old - So What?
2024 Worlds Apart
Screenplay:
1999 Moonlight Whispers
2004 Black Kiss
2005 Oboeteiru
2007 My Sister, My Love
2007 Tomie vs Tomie
2008 The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
2013 Since Then
2014 Mother
2016 High & Low The Red Rain
2023 Picture of Spring
2024 90 Years Old - So What?
2024 Worlds Apart
Second Unit:
1999 Moonlight Whispers
2003 Bright Future
2004 Black Kiss
2005 Oboeteiru
2007 My Sister, My Love
2007 Tomie vs Tomie
2008 The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
2010 Tokyo Island
2013 Since Then
2014 Mother
2016 High & Low The Red Rain
2023 Picture of Spring
2024 90 Years Old - So What?
2024 Worlds Apart
Director:
2013 The Complex: Prologue
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.