A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Born:
November 11, 1954
Adaptation:
1989 Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1990 Ningen no sabaku
Original Story:
1978 The Days of No Return
1989 Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1990 Ningen no sabaku
Screenplay:
1978 Hawaiian Love: Dangerous Honeymoon
1978 September Sky
1978 The Days of No Return
1980 不良少年
1983 Legend of Plumeria
1984 The Audition
1987 River of Fireflies
1988 This Heartbeat
1989 Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1990 Flower Season
1990 Ningen no sabaku
2004 Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
2005 Furyo shonen no yume
Teleplay:
1978 Hawaiian Love: Dangerous Honeymoon
1978 September Sky
1978 The Days of No Return
1980 不良少年
1983 Legend of Plumeria
1984 The Audition
1987 River of Fireflies
1988 This Heartbeat
1989 Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1990 Flower Season
1990 Ningen no sabaku
2004 Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
2005 Furyo shonen no yume
2005 The Passed Scene
Writer:
1978 Hawaiian Love: Dangerous Honeymoon
1978 September Sky
1978 The Days of No Return
1980 不良少年
1983 Legend of Plumeria
1984 The Audition
1985 I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
1987 River of Fireflies
1988 This Heartbeat
1989 Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1990 Flower Season
1990 Ningen no sabaku
1992 Execution In Daytime
1996 Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1998 I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
2004 Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
2005 Furyo shonen no yume
2005 The Passed Scene
Writer:
2005 Geisha Koharu Nēsan Funtōki
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.