A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Tom Kotani
Birthplace:
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Born:
December 21, 1935
Died:
December 13, 2020
Director:
1970 Young Guy - The Sky is Ours!
1973 Wild Cop
1973 Wild Cop 2
1977 The Last Dinosaur
1978 Pink Lady's Motion Picture
1978 The Bermuda Depths
1979 White Love
1980 The Ivory Ape
1981 Completely... With That Air!
1981 The Bushido Blade
1982 A Woman in Danger
1982 Call Girl
1984 F2 Grand Prix
1985 The Sound of the Waves
1987 Mayonaka no tsuma-tachi
1992 Mystery Experience Zone: Really Scary Stories: Ghost Photos sent to you & Ghost Detectives
2000 Take It
2001 Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.
Writer:
1970 Young Guy - The Sky is Ours!
1973 Wild Cop
1973 Wild Cop 2
1977 The Last Dinosaur
1978 Pink Lady's Motion Picture
1978 The Bermuda Depths
1979 White Love
1980 The Ivory Ape
1981 Completely... With That Air!
1981 The Bushido Blade
1982 A Woman in Danger
1982 Call Girl
1984 F2 Grand Prix
1985 The Sound of the Waves
1987 Mayonaka no tsuma-tachi
1992 Mystery Experience Zone: Really Scary Stories: Ghost Photos sent to you & Ghost Detectives
2000 Take It
2001 Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.
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.