Screenplay: Jirô Akagawa

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


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Mikeneko Holmes no Yuurei Joushu

1992 · Movie · 45 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuyuki Kitajima

Plot The detective Katayama Yoshitaro who lives with his sister Harumi and their cat Holmes, which has a sixth sense when it comes to solve mysteries. The aftershow party of Harumi's...

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Curtain Call

1984 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

Cast Tomoyo Harada · Mitsuko Baisho · Tsunehiko Watase

Plot Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her real father,...

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Hare tokidoki satsujin

1984 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

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Kekkon Annai Mystery

1985 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

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Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction (TV)

1996 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan

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The Teacher

2000 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Tetsuo Shinohara

Cast Thane Camus · Kyôko Fukada · Shuntaro Hani · Tomoka Hayashi

Plot Some students decide to set up a play written by one of their classmates, who has commited suicide. The play is based on a tragic and mysterious legend about a...

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Sôshun monogatari

1985 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Tomoyo Harada · Ryuzo Hayashi · Kunie Tanaka · Saori Yuki

Plot A university student Hitomi falls in love with a middle-aged man Okawa, who was the lover of her deceased mother. Hitomi's feelings shift back and forth as she is not...

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Chizuko's Younger Sister

1991 · Movie · 155 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Hikari Ishida · Tomoko Nakajima · Toshinori Omi · Tomoka Shibayama

Plot Futari (Two of Us) is about two sisters, one of them the perfect child, the other clumsy and slow. One day, the perfect sister dies, and comes back as a...

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Kokubetsu (TV)

2001 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan

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Who Do I Choose?

1989 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

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Mazakon-keiji no jikenbo (TV)

1983 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

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Detective Story

1983 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Yusaku Matsuda

Plot Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a washed-up gumshoe who's hired by Naomi's father to bodygard his daughter...

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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation

2016 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

Direction Kôji Maeda

Cast Kanna Hashimoto · Hiroki Hasegawa · Masanobu Ando · Tetsuya Takeda

Plot Yakuza underboss and schoolgirl Hoshi Izumi intends to become a regular student once again following a period of unleashing bloody revenge upon those who murdered the former yakuza boss. However,...

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Nezumi, Edo wo hashiru (TV Series)

2014 · Series · min. · Japan

Direction Rintaro Mayuzumi · Taisuke Kawamura · Tomohiko Yamashita · Kenji Nakanishi

Cast Hideaki Takizawa · Nana Katase · Taiga Kyômoto · Masahiro Takashima

Plot Under the rule of Shogun Ienari, the samurais and the townspeople are all discontented and grumbling about their lot in life. Amidst all these, there lives a man by the...

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Mikeneko Hômuzu no suiri (TV Series)

2012 · Series · min. · Japan

Direction Nagumo Seiichi · Satoru Nakajima · Satoshi Nakajima · Yôichi Matsunaga

Cast Masaki Aiba · Naoto Fujita · Tadayoshi Ohkura · Aya Oomasa

Plot Yoshitaro Katayama (Masaki Aiba) is a detective at the #1 investigation team in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Yoshitaro became a detective because of his dying father's last wish. Yoshitaro's...

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