Direction: Mitsuru Hongo

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


Ascendance of a Bookworm (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 23 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

Plot TV Series (2019 - 2020). 26 episodes. Urano, a young Japanese soon-to-be librarian, dies in an earthquake. She is reincarnated in another world as a young girl named Maine, but...

6.8

24 votes

6.8

24 votes

Outlaw Star (TV Series)

1998 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Wendee Lee · Mitsuru Hongo

Plot Gene Starwind and his partner Jim Hawking run a small business on the backwater planet of Sentinel III. But all that changes the day that Hilda hires them for a...

6.2

261 votes

6.2

261 votes

Direction Mitsuru Hongo · Hiroyuki Morita

Plot The story of the Hand Island no Bouken special is set a little before the events of One Piece Film Z and depicts a major "Hand Island" incident during the...

6.2

151 votes

6.2

151 votes

Magical Angel Creamy Mami (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Kobayashi · Ryo Tachiba · Tomomi Mochizuki · Takashi Annô

Plot Creamy Mami is about a young girl, Yuu, who after seeing a spaceship is given the power to use magic for one year. She is also given 2 cats, Poji...

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

World Trigger (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

Plot A gate to another dimension has burst open, and from it emerge gigantic invincible creatures that threaten all of humanity. Earth's only defense is a mysterious group of warriors who...

6.1

47 votes

6.1

47 votes

Spirit of Wonder

1992 · Movie · 43 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

Plot Miss China, a young Chinese girl, runs a restaurant in England. Dr Breckenridge and Jim are boarders that live upstairs. Unfortunately, Miss China has a problem with getting the rent...

5.9

32 votes

5.9

32 votes

Crayon Shin-chan (TV Series)

1992 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo · Keiichi Hara · Yūji Mutō

Plot TV Series (1992-Present Day). 1126 Episodes. Shinnosuke Nohara, aka Shin-chan, a combination of Dennis The Menace and Howard Stern, is a 6-year-old growing up in Tokyo in this animated series....

5.7

36K votes

5.7

36K votes

Crayon Shin-chan: Henderland no Daibouken

1996 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

5.4

591 votes

5.4

591 votes

Reideen (TV Series)

2007 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

Plot Saiga is a normal high school student with a gift in mathematics. His daily routine is disrupted when his family gets news that his Father's remains have been discovered- a...

5.3

29 votes

5.3

29 votes

Shin-Chan: Action Kamen vs. Demon Haigure

1993 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

5.3

1K votes

5.3

1K votes

Magical Idol Pastel Yumi (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Yutaka Kagawa · Akira Sugino · Ryo Tachiba · Mitsuru Hongo

Plot Tv series. 25 episodes. Yumi is a little girl who loves flowers. She is presented with a flower award on the festival of flowers and is given a magic-wand that...

5.2

33 votes

5.2

33 votes

Candidate for Goddess (TV Series)

2000 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

Plot In the future humankind has expanded and colonized other planets. Then an alien species, Victim, attacks the human colonies leaving only one planet, Zion. In an effort to stop Victim...

5.2

25 votes

5.2

25 votes

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

Plot A member of the Time Patrol finds out that there is a disturbance in Japan, 1570. While heading to that particular time and location to investigate, she is attacked and...

5.2

351 votes

5.2

351 votes

Sakura Wars: The Movie

2001 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

Plot Following in the aftermath of a terrible Demon-Human war, turn of the century Japan is preparing a new fighting force in case the demons decide to return. A squadron of...

5.0

72 votes

5.0

72 votes

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

Plot Shin Chan has managed to Misae buy him the new Ultra Hero sword but when he gets home, is not a sword but a rule inside the package! This incident...

4.9

156 votes

4.9

156 votes

Kasumin (TV Series)

2001 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

Plot TV Series (2001 - 2003). 78 Episodes. Haruno Kasumi is a fourth-grader. Her parents are zoologists who went over to Africa to carry out their research studies. In order to...

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Deltora Quest (TV Series)

2007 · Series · min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

Plot The whole series is based on the first series of the Deltora Quest novels where Lief a blacksmiths' son, Barda former leader of the palace guards and Jasmine a wild...

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Shamanic Princess

1996 · Movie · 180 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo · Hiroyuki Nishimura

Plot From the Guardian World, home of mages, Tiara has been sent on a mission: recover the stolen Throne of Yord, the most powerful magic artifact of all. But Tiara finds...

Not rated

Not rated

Tenkai Knights (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuru Hongo

Plot Eons ago, a peaceful planet cube called Quarton, populated by bricks of life that change shape called Tenkai, was devastated by a war between two opposing factions: the Corekai Army,...

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Not rated

21 Emon (TV Series)

1991 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

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Not rated