Screenplay: Arisa Kaneko

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


Stand Up!! (TV Series)

2003 · Series · Japan

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast Kazunari Ninomiya · Tomohisa Yamashita · Anne Suzuki · Hiroki Narimiya

Synopsis Four schoolboys find themselves the last virgins left at school. During the summer holidays, a girl they knew as children 11 years ago, moves back to the neighborhood. Despite their childhood attraction to her, they realize she is a mere...

6.9

34 votes

6.9

34 votes

Train Man (Densha Otoko)

2005 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Shosuke Murakami

Cast Takayuki Yamada · Miki Nakatani · Ryoko Kuninaka · Eita

Synopsis Train Man: Densha Otoko is the film inspired by the phenomenal bestseller by Hitori Nakano that has taken Japan by storm. Based on true events that took place on a popular Bulletin Board website in Japan called “2ch,” this fairy-tale-like...

6.3

94 votes

6.3

94 votes

Orange

2015 · Movie · 139 min. · Japan

Direction Kôjirô Hashimoto

Cast Tao Tsuchiya · Kento Yamazaki · Ryô Ryûsei · Hirona Yamazaki

Synopsis High school student Naho receives a letter sent by herself 10 years in the future.

6.3

42 votes

6.3

42 votes

Helter Skelter

2012 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan

6.3

149 votes

6.3

149 votes

Burn the House Down

2023 · Series · Japan

Direction Yûichirô Hirakawa

Cast Mei Nagano · Asuka Kudô · Taishi Nakagawa · Kyoka Suzuki

Synopsis Follows Anzu Murata, who thirteen years after the home of the wealthy Mitarai family was burned in an fire, infiltrates the house of the Mitarais as a housekeeper in order to reclaim the house and family that was taken from...

5.3

87 votes

5.3

87 votes

Pending Train

2023 · Series · Japan

Direction Kenta Tanaka

Cast Yûki Yamada · Eiji Akaso · Moka Kamishiraishi · Kai Inowaki

Synopsis TV Series (2023-) One regular Tokyo morning, passengers suddenly find themselves ighting for their very survival when their train car jumps into an apocalyptic future.

5.1

24 votes

5.1

24 votes

TANG AND ME

2022 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan

Direction Takahiro Miki

Cast Kazunari Ninomiya · Hikari Mitsushima · Mikako Ichikawa · Shinya Kote

Synopsis Ken Kasugai has been deserted by his wife, because he was absorbed in a game. One day, missing child robot Tang appears in front of him.

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An Incurable Case of Love (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 48 min. · Japan

Direction Kenta Tanaka

Cast Mone Kamishiraishi · Takeru Satō · Kami Hiraiwa · Mayu Hotta

Synopsis Nanase Sakura met Doctor Kairi Tendo and fell in love with him. She then studied hard to became a nurse and finally meets Kairi Tendo again. But she realizes that he has a totally different personality than what she imagined.

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7 gatsu 24 ka dôri no Kurisumasu

2006 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction Shosuke Murakami

Cast Takao Osawa · Miki Nakatani · Ryûta Satô · Juri Ueno

Synopsis Hopeless romantic Sayuri (Miki Nakatani) yearns for her dream man to sweep her off her feet and take her to July 24th Avenue in Lisbon, Portugal, her idealised paradise from her favourite manga. When she runs into her old high...

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Kagehinata ni saku

2008 · Movie · 129 min. · Japan

Direction Yûichirô Hirakawa

Cast Junichi Okada · Aoi Miyazaki · Atsushi Ito · Aya Hirayama

Synopsis Deeply mired in debt, compulsive gambler Maya resorts to joining a scam ring to pay off his loans.

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9 Border

2024 · Series · Japan

Direction Momoko Fukuda · Takuya Sakagami · Kana Torii

Cast You · Kai Inowaki · Kôhei Matsushita · Haruna Kawaguchi

Synopsis A human love story centers around three sisters aged 19, 29, and 39. The drama focuses on how the sisters started living together again after their father's sudden disappearance, trying their best to find their happiness.

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ROUGH

2006 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

Direction Kentarô Ôtani

Cast Masami Nagasawa · Mokomichi Hayami · Tsuyoshi Abe · Takuya Ishida

Synopsis A diver on the university team must decide which of her two childhood friends she loves, and they're both on the swim team.

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Direction Ayuko Tsukahara · Toshio Tsuboi · Akihiro Anan

Cast Miki Nakatani · Naoto Fujita · Kôji Seto · Aya Oomasa

Synopsis Miyabi Tachibana (Miki Nakatani) is 39-years-old and she hasn't had a boyfriend in 5 years. She enjoys her life as a single woman. She is a doctor and runs her own beauty dermatology clinic. Miyabi Tachibana is pretty and confident,...

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Hitsuji to hagane no mori

2018 · Movie · 134 min. · Japan

Direction Kôjirô Hashimoto

Cast Keiko Horiuchi · Moka Kamishiraishi · Mone Kamishiraishi · Ken Mitsuishi

Synopsis When high school student Tomura Naoki met piano tuner Itadori Soichiro at his school in Hokkaido, he could smell the forest from the piano tuned by Soichiro. Touched, the boy decides to work together with Soichiro at his musical instruments...

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Direction Tsukahara Ayuko · Ryosuke Fujiwara · Takayoshi Tanazawa

Cast Youki Kudoh · Yui Natsukawa · Ryûsei Yokohama · Haruna Kawaguchi

Synopsis Kurumi Mashiba works for home decor company. While she is busy with work, she forgets to renew the contract of her apartment. Because of this, she gets kicked out of her apartment and she doesn't have a place to stay.

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My Little Monster

2018 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Shô Tsukikawa

Cast Masaki Suda · Tao Tsuchiya · Yûki Furukawa · Minami Hamabe

Synopsis Haru Yoshida is a high school student. He is viewed as a problem child with an unpredictable behavior. He also doesn't have any friends. Shizuku Mizutani is a high school student who studies too much. She is cold and doesn't...

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Direction Kentaro Takemura · Toshio Tsuboi · Ayuko Tsukahara

Cast Kasumi Arimura · Kenshi Okada · Nobue Iketani · Masaki Kaji

Synopsis This is a love story between Akira Kuroiwa, a 15-year-old boy who knows nothing of love, and Hijiri Suenaga, his new 25-year-old homeroom teacher. One fated summer, Akira begins to realize he has feelings for Hijiri, but Hijiri has a...

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