Screenplay: Joji Matsuoka

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


Midnight Diner

2014 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Mansaku Fuwa · Tamae Andô · Toshiki Ayata

Plot A small diner in a busy shopping district is open from midnight until 7am and is run by a renowned chef known as 'the Master.' One evening, a burial urn...

6.8

105 votes

6.8

105 votes

Midnight Diner 2

2016 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Aoba Kawai · Koichi Sato · Sôsuke Ikematsu

Plot When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. He's diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning.

6.7

25 votes

6.7

25 votes

Kira kira hikaru

1992 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Etsushi Toyokawa · Michitaka Tsutsui · Kai Ato

Plot Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love...

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Farewell, Kuro

2003 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Ayumi Ito · Akira Emoto · Hirofumi Arai

Plot Based on a true story, the film depicts the life of Kuro, a dog who had lived in a high school in Nagano prefecture since 1960.

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Swimming Upstream

1990 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Michitaka Tsutsui · Saki Takaoka · Mikihisa Azuma · Kazuko Shirakawa

Plot Kaoru, a highschool boy, falls in love with a girl, Sonoko, a leading member of his high-school's swimming club. Though he cannot swim at all, he joins the swimming club...

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