Direction: Nobuhiro Doi

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Nobuhiro Doi. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Be with You

2004 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Yuko Takeuchi · Shido Nakamura · Akashi Takei · Karen Miyama

Synopsis Mio's death leaves husband Takumi and 6 year old son Yuji fending for themselves. Taku occasionally suffers fainting spells, is disorganized, and fears that his health hindered Mio's happiness. Yuji overheard relatives speculate that his delivery compromised her health, and...

7.0

160 votes

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Flying Colors

2015 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Kasumi Arimura · Atsushi Ito · Shûhei Nomura · Morio Agata

Synopsis Sayaka Kudo is a gyaru who wears miniskirts and dyes her hair blonde. Although she is a 2nd year senior high school student, she is on par academically with 4th grade elementary school students. She frequently transfers between school because...

6.4

66 votes

6.4

66 votes

Quartet (TV Miniseries)

2017 · Movie · 54 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi · Toshio Tsuboi · Kaneko Fuminori

Cast Takako Matsu · Hikari Mitsushima · Issei Takahashi · Ryuhei Matsuda

Synopsis Maki, Suzume, Iemori, and Beppu accidentally met in a karaoke one day. They then decided to form a musical quartet and live together. At this point no one knows that each of them actually plotted the meeting with their own...

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The Voice of Sin

2020 · Movie · 142 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Shun Oguri · Gen Hoshino · Mikako Ichikawa · Meiko Kaji

Synopsis Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes...

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The Full-Time Wife Escapist (TV Series)

2016 · Series · 54 min. · Japan

Direction Kaneko Fuminori · Yasuharu Ishii · Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Yui Aragaki · Gen Hoshino · Ryôhei Ohtani · Takashi Fujii

Synopsis TV Series (2016-). Moriyama Mikuri had graduated from university and got no job offers. She became a temporary employee but was even laid off. Now, she works as a housekeeper for bachelor Tsuzaki Hiramasa by chance and he proposes a...

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Sleeping Forest (TV)

2014 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Satomi Ishihara · Haruka Kinami · Terunosuke Takezai

Synopsis A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a self defense case, but after an investigation there’s...

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The Flying Publicist

2013 · Series · 54 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi · Yamamuro Daisuke · Ryôsuke Fukuda

Cast Yui Aragaki · Gou Ayano · Kyôhei Shibata · Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Synopsis Inaba Rika, whose childhood dream was to become a news reporter, is instead a director for an informative TV program. At one point, she was a reporter; however, her career was cut short after her ambitious habits for obtaining and...

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Japan Sinks: People of Hope (TV Miniseries)

2021 · Series · 54 min. · Japan

Direction Shunichi Hirano · Nobuhiro Doi · Yōhei Miyazaki

Cast Shun Oguri · Jun Kunimura · Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Anne Nakamura

Synopsis Set in Tokyo in 2023, it is a drama series about people struggling to survive in an unprecedented crisis caused by the collapse of Japan due to several huge earthquakes.

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Hanamizuki

2010 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Yui Aragaki · Tôma Ikuta

Synopsis Sae (Yui Aragaki) is a high school student who is studying hard for her college entrance exams. She lost her father when she was very young and so lives her mother Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru) in Hokkaido, Japan. Her father Kemimichi...

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Orange Days (TV Series)

2004 · Series · 47 min. · Japan

Direction Natsuki Imai · Jirô Shôno · Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Kou Shibasaki · Hiroki Narimiya · Miho Shiraishi

Synopsis Kai Yuuki (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is in his senior year at university studying social welfare psychology. At present, he is in the middle of job-hunting season. He is finding it difficult with no job offers so far. One day, he meets...

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Red Finger (TV)

2011 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Meisa Kuroki · Junpei Mizobata · Tetta Sugimoto

Synopsis Detective Kyoichiro Kaga investigates the murder of a child.

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Kataomoi Sekai

2025 · Movie · Japan

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The Wings of the Kirin

2011 · Movie · 129 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Yui Aragaki · Junpei Mizobata · Matsuzaka Tori

Synopsis A man's body is found under the statue of a giraffe with wings in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls unconscious while he is attempting to run away. Yashima's lover (Kaori)...

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Tomorrow’s Family (TV)

2020 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Aoi Miyazaki · Eita · Keiko Matsuzaka · Yutaka Matsushige

Synopsis Risa Onodera, played by Miyazaki, had a groom runaway on the wedding day four years ago. Her father, Shusaku (Matsushige) and her mother, Machiko (Matsuzaka), built a large two-family house to live with their daughter and her new family. One...

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Tears for you

2006 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Masami Nagasawa · Kumiko Aso · Eiichirô Funakoshi

Synopsis 8-year old Yotaro gains a 3-year old step-sister, Kaoru, when his mother marries a jazz musician who plays in a club in Naha, Okinawa where they live. Before long Kaoru's father deserts them, and not long afterward Yota's mother becomes...

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Oyaji no senaka (TV Miniseries)

2014 · Movie · 54 min. · Japan

Direction Makoto Kiyohiro · Daisuke Yamamuro · Nobuhiro Doi · Kan Ishibashi

Cast Maki Horikita · Takashi Kobayashi · Toshiyuki Nishida · Machiko Ono

Synopsis A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.

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Forbidden Love (TV Series)

1999 · Series · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi · Kazuhiro Nanba

Cast Nanako Matsushima · Hideaki Takizawa · Hitomi Kuroki · Naomi Nishida

Synopsis On the outside, Michi has a good life. She has good friends, a teaching career and a handsome fiancé. On the inside, however, she is empty. A fateful encounter with a young man on a motorcycle changes everything. He is...

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I Fell in Love Like a Flower Bouquet

2021 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Kasumi Arimura · Kanata Hosoda · Ryô Iwamatsu · Jô Odagiri

Synopsis Two people meet each other at a Tokyo train station and start a love affair.

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Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara (TV)

2009 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi

Cast Kazunari Ninomiya · Mao Inoue · Gori · Shin Yazawa

Synopsis Nonoue Junichi is a psychiatrist working in the counseling room of a cancer treatment center by the beach. While tending to the patients, part of his job involves taking dictation from them when they want to send a letter to...

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Kounodori (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 54 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Doi · Kaneko Fuminori · Naoki Kato

Cast Gou Ayano · Mayu Matsuoka · Yo Yoshida · Kentarô Sakaguchi

Synopsis TV Series (2015-). Kounotori Sakura, an OBGYN working at the Persona General Medical Centre who is also a gifted jazz pianist. His mother had died in childbirth and he was brought up in an orphanage, which is what fueled his...

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