A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Suzuka, Mie, Japan
Born:
May 2, 1963
Casting:
2007 from DARK
Producer:
2000 Ring 0
2001 St. John's Wort
2002 Ping Pong
2003 Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
2004 Otakus in Love
2004 Thirty Lies or So
2005 House of Himiko
2006 Honey and Clover
2007 A Gentle Breeze in the Village
2007 Talk, Talk, Talk
2007 Welcome to the Quiet Room
2007 from DARK
2008 Gu Gu, the Cat
2010 Norwegian Wood
2013 Girl in the Sunny Place
2015 La La La at Rock Bottom
2015 Pieta in the Toilet
2016 Pink and Gray
2016 The Top Secret: Murder in Mind
2017 Narratage
2018 Hanalei Bay
2018 River's Edge
2022 One Day, You Will Reach the Sea
2024 Desert of Namibia
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.