A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Born:
October 10, 1930
Died:
December 9, 2015
Writer, singer, songwriter, tarento, and politician.
Novel:
1966 The Pornographers
2008 Tombstone of the Fireflies
Original Story:
1966 The Pornographers
1968 Scrap Collectors
1971 Games
1983 Wet Kimono
2002 The Boy and the Sea Turtle
2003 The Mother Who Became a Kite
2004 The Tale of the Ginormous Whale That Fell in Love with a Little Submarine
2005 My Air Raid Shelter
2006 The Cake Tree in the Ruins
2008 Kiku and the Wolf
2008 Tombstone of the Fireflies
Short Story:
1966 The Pornographers
1968 Scrap Collectors
1971 Games
1983 Wet Kimono
1988 Grave of the Fireflies
2002 The Boy and the Sea Turtle
2003 The Mother Who Became a Kite
2004 The Tale of the Ginormous Whale That Fell in Love with a Little Submarine
2005 Grave of the Fireflies
2005 My Air Raid Shelter
2006 The Cake Tree in the Ruins
2008 Kiku and the Wolf
2008 Tombstone of the Fireflies
Story:
1966 The Pornographers
1968 Scrap Collectors
1968 The Funeral Racket
1971 Games
1983 Wet Kimono
1988 Grave of the Fireflies
2002 The Boy and the Sea Turtle
2003 The Mother Who Became a Kite
2004 The Tale of the Ginormous Whale That Fell in Love with a Little Submarine
2005 Grave of the Fireflies
2005 My Air Raid Shelter
2006 The Cake Tree in the Ruins
2008 Kiku and the Wolf
2008 Tombstone of the Fireflies
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.