Screenplay: Izumi Matsumoto

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


Kimagure Orange Road: Message in Rouge

1991 · Movie · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Naoyuki Yoshinaga

Plot Madoka's father is back in Japan for a concert. After the concert, Madoka thinks she sees her father kissing a woman in his room. Madoka leaves upset and runs away...

7.2

21 votes

7.2

21 votes

Kimagure Orange Road: The Movie

1988 · Movie · 68 min. · Japan

Direction Tomomi Mochizuki

Plot Kyosuke Kasuga thinks back to the summer when he finally decides on which girl he loves. The three-year Kyosuke/Madoka/Hikaru love-triangle crashes to an end.

7.2

90 votes

7.2

90 votes

Kimagure Orange Road (TV Series)

1987 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Izumi Matsumoto · Osamu Kobayashi · Tomomi Mochizuki · Takeshi Mori

Plot Kyousuke Kasuga is a completely normal Japanese high school student, with two very big problems. The first is his complete and utter inability to choose between two girls, the bright,...

7.1

463 votes

7.1

463 votes

Direction Takeshi Mori

Plot Kyousuke's cousin Akane, who is also an esper and has the power to transform herself into anybody else, comes over to visit. She quickly becomes friends with Hikaru and believes...

7.0

25 votes

7.0

25 votes

Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning

1996 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot It's been several years and Kyosuke Kasuga is now 19. A mysterious phone call warns him of oncoming cars but he doesn't listen. Ironically, he gets hit by a car...

6.8

59 votes

6.8

59 votes

Kimagure Orange Road: An Unexpected Situation

1991 · Movie · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Takeshi Mori

Plot Akane pretends to have a boyfriend before her friends. Now Kyousuke has to take the vacant place but after a night with alcohol things turn into a bad direction. Will...

6.7

23 votes

6.7

23 votes

Kimagure Orange Road: I was a Cat; I was a Fish

1989 · Movie · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Koichiro Nakamura

Plot Grandpa has brought a rope that switches the spirits of the persons holding each end. Kyousuke accidentally hits the goldfish while holding the other end and thus begins his adventure,...

6.7

26 votes

6.7

26 votes

Direction Naoyuki Yoshinaga

Plot After the body swap incident with idol singer Hayakawa on the other day, Kyousuke is living in fear that his secret may become public and Madoka and his friends will...

6.6

25 votes

6.6

25 votes

Direction Naoyuki Yoshinaga

Plot Kyousuke, walking down the street, crashes head to head with the idol singer Hayakawa and their minds switch bodies. Kyousuke is now in Hayakawa's body and vice versa. How will...

6.6

26 votes

6.6

26 votes

Kimagure Orange Road: White Lovers

1989 · Movie · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Kôichirô Nakumura

Plot The gang is at the grandparents' house. Grandpa warns them that lovers cannot ski together, because of a curse. A long time ago, two lovers came to the mountain to...

6.5

28 votes

6.5

28 votes

Kimagure Orange Road: Hawaiian Suspense

1989 · Movie · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Shigeru Morikawa

Plot Madoka, Kyousuke and Hikaru are on vacation in Hawaii, where Hikaru is mistaken for someone else and is kidnapped. Now it is up to Kyousuke and Madoka to rescue her.

6.4

27 votes

6.4

27 votes