Screenplay: Akiko Nogi

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Akiko Nogi. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


I Am a Hero

2015 · Movie · 125 min. · Japan

Direction Shinsuke Sato

Cast Yo Oizumi · Masami Nagasawa · Miho Suzuki · Kasumi Arimura

Synopsis One day, after returning from work late in the evening, Hideo witnesses a traffic accident in which a car crashes into a nearby pedestrian, killing the victim instantly. However, despite severe injuries including a broken neck, the victim's body stands...

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Weakest Beast (TV Series)

2018 · Series · Japan

Direction Nobuo Mizuta

Cast Yui Aragaki · Ryuhei Matsuda · Kei Tanaka · Haru Kuroki

Synopsis Akira is thirty-years-old and a good employee. People like her. She is pretty. Kosei is thirty-three-years old and also popular at work and personally. He is hard to get. The two meet at a bar and hit it off.

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We Married as a Job Special (TV)

2021 · Movie · 122 min. · Japan

Direction Fuminori Kaneko

Cast Munetaka Aoki · Yui Aragaki · Nana Asakawa · Arata Furuta

Synopsis Mikuri learns that she is pregnant and Hiramasa decides to take paternity leave before an important project is finished. The couple experience unfamiliar situations involving childbirth and rearing.

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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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Last Mile

2024 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan

Direction Ayuko Tsukahara

Cast Hikari Mitsushima · Masaki Okada · Sadao Abe

Synopsis On the night before ‘Black Friday,’ which is the one of the busiest commerce days, a cardboard box, that is delivered from the world’s largest shopping site, explodes. Soon after, a series of mysterious explosion cases occurs. The entire nation...

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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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MIU404 (TV Series)

2020 · Series · Japan

Direction Naoki Kato · Kentaro Takemura · Ayuko Tsukahara

Cast Gou Ayano · Kumiko Aso · Philip Hersh · Gen Hoshino

Synopsis TV Series (2020). 11 Episodes. A new detective in the Mobile Investigative Unit (known as "MIU") of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who does not trust other people works with an inexperienced detective and attempts to solve cases within 24...

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My Love Story!!

2015 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Hayato Kawai

Cast Ryôhei Suzuki · Kentarô Sakaguchi · Nagano Mei · Sawa Suzuki

Synopsis Gouda Takeo is a big guy with a heart just as big. Unfortunately, the girls are not interested in him and only want his good-looking best friend, Sunakawa. Accepting the fact, Takeo is content with his single life. However, one...

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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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Inu-Oh

2021 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

Direction Masaaki Yuasa

Synopsis Inu-Oh was a real-life Sarugaku Noh performer who enjoyed great success in 14th century Japan. Nowadays he is unknown because there are very few documents about his life that have survived. Today, almost 600 years later, this "Inu-Oh"project, full of...

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Okitegami Kyôko no Bibôroku (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 54 min. · Japan

Direction Tôya Satô · Yoshinori Shigeyama · Naoko Komuro

Cast Yui Aragaki · Masaki Okada · Mitsuhiro Oikawa · Daiki Arioka

Synopsis Kyoko Okitegami is a private detective. She is known as the Forgetful Private Detective. When she wakes up in the morning, her memory is reset. Due to this, she rigidly adheres to a maintenance secret. No matter what case she...

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Let's Go Karaoke!

2024 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Gou Ayano · Jun Saito · Kazuki Kitamura · Kyôko Yoshine

Synopsis Nothing worries Satomi Oka more than the upcoming final choir competition of his middle school career-right up until he is accosted by a stranger from the shadows who demands, "Let's go karaoke!" As a yakuza, Kyouji Narita doesn't scare easily,...

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Unnatural (TV Miniseries)

2018 · Series · 54 min. · Japan

Direction Ayuko Tsukahara

Cast Satomi Ishihara · Mikako Ichikawa · Arata Iura · Masataka Kubota

Synopsis Stories of Unnatural Death Investigation, a Japanese non-governmental organization. Mikoto Misumi (Satomi Ishihara) is a pathologist at UDI (Unnatural Death Investigation) Lab. She can't stand neglecting unnatural deaths and believes there must be a truth behind the deaths. Team members...

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