A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Higashiōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan
Born:
March 10, 1969
Director and screenwriter. He's known as one of the best Japanese directors working today.
Director:
1998 Pornostar
2001 Blue Spring
2001 Unchain
2003 9 Souls
2005 Hanging Garden
2009 The Blood of Rebirth
2011 Monsters Club
2012 I'm Flash!
2014 Crows Explode
2018 Planetist
2018 The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2019 Wolf's Calling
2020 The Day of Destruction
2021 Go Seppuku Yourselves
2021 Shiver
2022 Alive.
2023 I’M HERE
2024 Sugu ni yuku
2025 Transcending Dimensions
Editor:
1998 Pornostar
2001 Blue Spring
2001 Unchain
2003 9 Souls
2005 Hanging Garden
2009 The Blood of Rebirth
2011 Monsters Club
2012 I'm Flash!
2014 Crows Explode
2018 Planetist
2018 The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2019 Wolf's Calling
2020 The Day of Destruction
2021 Go Seppuku Yourselves
2021 Shiver
2022 Alive.
2023 I’M HERE
2024 Sugu ni yuku
2025 Transcending Dimensions
Executive Producer:
1998 Pornostar
2001 Blue Spring
2001 Unchain
2003 9 Souls
2005 Hanging Garden
2009 The Blood of Rebirth
2011 Monsters Club
2012 I'm Flash!
2014 Crows Explode
2018 Planetist
2018 The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2019 Wolf's Calling
2020 The Day of Destruction
2021 Go Seppuku Yourselves
2021 Shiver
2022 Alive.
2023 I’M HERE
2024 Sugu ni yuku
2025 Transcending Dimensions
Producer:
1998 Pornostar
2001 Blue Spring
2001 Unchain
2003 9 Souls
2005 Hanging Garden
2009 The Blood of Rebirth
2011 Monsters Club
2012 I'm Flash!
2014 Crows Explode
2018 Planetist
2018 The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2019 Wolf's Calling
2020 The Day of Destruction
2021 Go Seppuku Yourselves
2021 Shiver
2022 Alive.
2023 I’M HERE
2024 Sugu ni yuku
2025 Transcending Dimensions
Screenplay:
1998 Pornostar
2001 Blue Spring
2001 Unchain
2003 9 Souls
2005 Hanging Garden
2009 The Blood of Rebirth
2011 Monsters Club
2012 I'm Flash!
2014 Crows Explode
2017 Spark
2018 Planetist
2018 The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2019 Wolf's Calling
2020 The Day of Destruction
2021 Go Seppuku Yourselves
2021 Shiver
2022 Alive.
2023 I’M HERE
2024 Sugu ni yuku
2025 Transcending Dimensions
Writer:
1991 Check
1996 Billiken
1998 Pornostar
2001 Blue Spring
2001 Unchain
2003 9 Souls
2005 Hanging Garden
2009 The Blood of Rebirth
2011 Monsters Club
2012 I'm Flash!
2014 Crows Explode
2017 Spark
2018 Planetist
2018 The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
2019 Wolf's Calling
2020 The Day of Destruction
2021 Go Seppuku Yourselves
2021 Shiver
2022 Alive.
2023 I’M HERE
2024 Sugu ni yuku
2025 Transcending Dimensions
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.