Screenplay: Masaaki Sakai

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


Small, Slow but Steady

2022 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Direction Shô Miyake

Cast Yukino Kishii · Tomokazu Miura · Masaki Miura · Shinichirô Matsuura

Plot A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has...

6.5

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6.5

258 votes

Bitter Sweet Home Kyoto (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 45 min. · Japan

Direction Kozo Nagayama · Ryôsuke Kanesaki

Cast Nao Matsushita · Keiko Horiuchi · Mayumi Wakamura · Rino Katase

Plot An extreme elitist, Kamo is a Tokyo University graduate and bureaucrat at the Ministry of Finance. Due to her mother’s sudden passing, she is forced to turn herself into an...

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Kei x Yaku: Dangerous Partners (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 45 min. · Japan

Direction Hatano Takafumi

Cast Nobuyuki Suzuki · Atsuhiro Inukai · Chiaki Kuriyama · Yoshimi Tokui

Plot Ichiro is a detective in the Public Security Department of the Metropolitan Police. One day, by order of his superior, he approaches Shiro, a yakuza who usually accompanies various politicians,...

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Two Portraits of Miyagino

2010 · Movie · 113 min. · Japan

Direction Tatsuji Yamazaki

Cast Tomoko Mariya · Ainosuke Kataoka · Jun Kunimura · Kirin Kiki

Plot In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master's shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A...

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