Screenplay: Tamio Hayashi
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Tamio Hayashi. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
YAT Anshin! Luxury Space Tours (TV Series)
1996 · Series · 20 min. · Japan
Direction Hitoshi Nanba
Plot The space travelling company, YAT, is thrown into the unknown realms of the outer space. At the same time, the group encounters the psychic, Maron, and scientist, Note. Subsequently, the...
7.2
76 votes
7.2
76 votes
The Eternal Zero
2013 · Movie · 144 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Yamazaki
Cast Junichi Okada · Min Tanaka · Haruma Miura · Mao Inoue
Plot A young man Kentaro Saeki (Haruma Miura) keeps failing his bar test and does not know what to do any more. His older sister Keiko is a freelance writer. Kentaro...
7.1
190 votes
7.1
190 votes
Fish Story
2009 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan
Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura
Cast Gaku Hamada · Atsushi Ito · Kengo Kora · Mirai Moriyama
Plot Fish Story centres around a rock band from 1975 who decide to break up having had no success, they record one last song before the band splits up. Decades later...
7.0
258 votes
7.0
258 votes
Usagi Drop
2011 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan
Direction SABU
Cast Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Karina · Mana Ashida · Mirei Kiritani
Plot Movie adaptation of the manga "Usagi Doroppu". Daikichi (Matsuyama) a 27 year-old working man returns home to attend his grandfather's funeral. There, he meets his grandfather illegitimate daughter Rin (Ashida)...
6.5
89 votes
6.5
89 votes
The Last Recipe
2017 · Movie · 126 min. · Japan
Direction Yōjirō Takita
Cast Kazunari Ninomiya · Gou Ayano · Yoshi Oida · Hidetoshi Nishijima
Plot Mitsuru Sasaki (Kazunari Ninomiya) is a world-class chef, but he has lost his passion for cooking. He can create any dish by just tasting it once. His restaurant went bankrupt,...
6.3
727 votes
6.3
727 votes
Prophecy
2015 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan
Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura
Cast Tôma Ikuta · Erika Toda · Ryôhei Suzuki · Yosiyoshi Arakawa
Plot A man named Gates heads a mysterious group called "Shinbunshi" who don newspaper masks and post internet videos informing the public of their crimes of justice against people they deem...
6.3
31 votes
6.3
31 votes
The Snow White Murder Case
2014 · Movie · 126 min. · Japan
Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura
Cast Mao Inoue · Gou Ayano · Nanao · Misako Renbutsu
Plot A young woman who work at cosmetic company become a prime suspect,after her beautiful co-worker was murderer.
6.3
44 votes
6.3
44 votes
Vampire Princess Miyu (TV Series)
1997 · Series · 110 min. · Japan
Direction Toshihiro Hirano · Keitaro Motonaga · Hideaki Kushi · Yasuhiro Matsumura
Plot Stranded in the space between human and demon, Miyu was born a vampire and charged with the responsibility of returning evil demons called Shinma to the dark. Being eternally 15,...
6.0
56 votes
6.0
56 votes
Straw Shield
2013 · Movie · 125 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Takao Osawa · Nanako Matsushima · Tatsuya Fujiwara · Goro Kishitani
Plot "Kill Kunihide Kiyomaru, and I will pay you 1 billion Yen". This is the ad placed in all the main newspapers in Japan. In placing the ad, the powerful multi-billionnaire...
5.1
700 votes
5.1
700 votes
In the Wake
2021 · Movie · 135 min. · Japan
Direction Takahisa Zeze
Cast Hiroshi Abe · Mitsuko Baisho · Seiji Chihara · Hideko Hara
Plot Nine years after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, two murder cases take place in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. The two victims are assumed to have been murdered by the same...
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Miami Guns (TV Series)
2000 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Yoshitaka Koyama
Plot Spoiled rich girl Yao Sakurakouji decides to join the Miami police force to enjoy car chases, gunfights and wanton destruction. The psychotic and not-too-bright Yao is partnered with Lu Amano,...
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Softball Boys
2010 · Movie · 113 min. · Japan
Direction Keisuke Toyoshima
Cast Kento Nagayama · Kento Kaku · Haru · Toshiki Ayata
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Recall
2018 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan
Direction Katsuhide Motoki
Cast Tomoya Nagase · Dean Fujioka · Issei Takahashi · Kyôko Fukada
Plot Tokuro Akamatsu (Tomoya Nagase) runs a transport company. One day, a truck owned by Tokuro Akamatsu is involved in an accident. A tire came off the truck and killed a...
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Dive!!
2008 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan
Direction Naoto Kumazawa
Cast Kento Hayashi · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Junpei Mizobata · Asaka Seto
Plot The story has three male protagonist. The perfect diving athlete Yoichi Fujitani (Sosuke Ikematsu), of pedigree stock and carrying the weight of the entire diving club because he's the best....
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Fragments of the Last Will
2022 · Movie · 134 min. · Japan
Direction Takahisa Zeze
Cast Kenta Kiritani · Keiko Kitagawa · Tôri Matsuzaka · Kento Nakajima
Plot Hatao Yamamoto was a Japanese prisoner of war detained in a post second World War Siberian gulag. He believed that he would be able to reunite with his wife and...
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See You Tomorrow, Everyone
2013 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan
Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura
Cast Gaku Hamada · Kana Kurashina · Kento Nagayama · Haru
Plot After Satoru Watarai graduated from elementary school, he dropped out of school and decided to live within his apartment complex, never to venture outside.
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Naoko
2008 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan
Direction Tomoyuki Furumaya
Cast Juri Ueno · Haruma Miura · Shôfukutei Tsurube · Yorie Yamashita
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A Stitch of Life
2015 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan
Direction Yukiko Mishima
Cast Miki Nakatani · Masatô Ibu · Hairi Katagiri · Haru Kuroki
Plot Ichie (Miki Nakatani) is the owner of a dressmaking shop. Her grandmother started the shop and now Ichie runs the business. Her clothes are made with an old sewing machine...
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Cats Don't Come When You Call
2016 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan
Direction Toru Yamamoto
Cast Shunsuke Kazama · Mayu Matsuoka · Takeshi Tsuruno
Plot Mitsuo is a boxer who prefers dogs but ends up looking after two cats that his brother rescues.
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Route 225
2006 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan
Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura
Cast Miki Hayashida · Eri Ishida · Yoichi Sai · Kyusaku Shimada
Plot Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are the same as in their own world, but their parents...
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