A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Aichi, Japan
Born:
January 1, 1967
Assistant Director:
1999 Score 2: The Big Fight
2002 Hotel Hibiscus
2006 The Vanished
2011 Bunny Drop
2011 Phone Call From Mary
Director:
1999 Score 2: The Big Fight
2002 Hotel Hibiscus
2006 The Vanished
2007 Boy Meets Pusan
2008 Cafe Daikanyama: Sweet Boys
2009 Café Seoul
2011 Bunny Drop
2011 Phone Call From Mary
2012 Eden
2014 100 Yen Love
2014 In the Hero
2017 Ringside Story
2018 The Gun
2018 We Make Antiques!
2019 Journey of the Sky Goddess
2020 Hotel Royal
2020 The Gun 2020
2020 Underdog: Part One
2020 Underdog: Part Two
2020 We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
2021 Abareru, onna
2023 We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams
First Assistant Director:
1999 Score 2: The Big Fight
2002 Hotel Hibiscus
2003 Wild Berries
2006 The Vanished
2007 Boy Meets Pusan
2008 Cafe Daikanyama: Sweet Boys
2009 Café Seoul
2011 Bunny Drop
2011 Phone Call From Mary
2012 Eden
2014 100 Yen Love
2014 In the Hero
2017 Ringside Story
2018 The Gun
2018 We Make Antiques!
2019 Journey of the Sky Goddess
2020 Hotel Royal
2020 The Gun 2020
2020 Underdog: Part One
2020 Underdog: Part Two
2020 We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
2021 Abareru, onna
2023 We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams
Screenplay:
1999 Score 2: The Big Fight
2002 Hotel Hibiscus
2003 Wild Berries
2006 The Vanished
2007 Boy Meets Pusan
2008 Cafe Daikanyama: Sweet Boys
2009 Café Seoul
2011 Bunny Drop
2011 Phone Call From Mary
2012 Eden
2014 100 Yen Love
2014 In the Hero
2017 Ringside Story
2018 The Gun
2018 We Make Antiques!
2019 Journey of the Sky Goddess
2020 Hotel Royal
2020 The Gun 2020
2020 Underdog: Part One
2020 Underdog: Part Two
2020 We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
2021 Abareru, onna
2023 We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams
Second Unit:
1999 Score 2: The Big Fight
2002 Hotel Hibiscus
2003 Wild Berries
2006 The Vanished
2007 Boy Meets Pusan
2008 Cafe Daikanyama: Sweet Boys
2008 Flavor of Happiness
2009 Café Seoul
2011 Bunny Drop
2011 Phone Call From Mary
2012 Eden
2014 100 Yen Love
2014 In the Hero
2017 Ringside Story
2018 The Gun
2018 We Make Antiques!
2019 Journey of the Sky Goddess
2020 Hotel Royal
2020 The Gun 2020
2020 Underdog: Part One
2020 Underdog: Part Two
2020 We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
2021 Abareru, onna
2023 We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams
Director:
2019 Stolen Face
2019 The Naked Director
2024 Like a Dragon: 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.