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

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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

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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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