Screenplay: Akiyoshi Sakai

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


Area 88 (TV Miniseries)

1985 · Series · 210 min. · Japan

Direction Hisayuki Toriumi

Plot Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die...

7.2

25 votes

7.2

25 votes

Yatterman (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 22 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Sasagawa · Koichi Mashimo · Mamoru Oshii · Yûji Nunokawa

Plot TV Series (1977-1979). A mysterious stone known as Skull Stone (Dokurosutôn) is scattered across the planet, it holds the power to reveal the location of the largest deposit of gold...

6.0

27 votes

6.0

27 votes

Ultra Maniac (TV Series)

2003 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Ryôji Fujiwara · Mashu Itô · Shigeru Kimiya · Ryuichi Kimura

Plot Haruka Amami isn't the most confident pop singer in Japan, but when she's accepted after an audition, she's sent to Tokyo to start a career in entertainment. Though, little does...

5.8

68 votes

5.8

68 votes

Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Hisayuki Toriumi · Masami Anô · Noboru Ishiguro · Fumio Kurokawa

Plot A team of bird-themed superhero ninjas battle the menace of Galactor, a technologically advanced international terrorist organization determined to conquer the world.

5.8

620 votes

5.8

620 votes

Direction Masayuki Hayashi · Hiroshi Iwata · Mizuho Nishikubo

Plot Young forest pixies Belfy and Lillibit live in an old-fashioned lilliputian village deep in the forest. Lillibit lives with his parents and younger sister, whom he tends to give the...

5.6

327 votes

5.6

327 votes

Hâi sureppu Jun (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Shidara

Plot TV Series (1985-1986). 45 Episodes. Jun is a very intelligent little girl who spends her time making all kinds of inventions. It goes as far as creating two small robots,...

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Itadakiman (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Sasagawa

Plot TV Series (1983). The story begins in the XXI Century. Oshaka School in Kamakuland is a world-renowned school where only those who are pure and clearheaded descendants of Priest Sanzo's...

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Space Warrior Baldios the Movie

1981 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan

Direction Hisayuki Toriumi

Plot From a poluded and destroyed planet called S-1 arrives an invasion on earth, Marin one of the people of S-1 helps the earthlings fighting the invaders with his super ship...

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Lightspeed Electroid Albegas (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Kōzō Morishita

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Superbook (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Norio Yazawa · Osamu Sekita · Susumu Ishizaki · Kazuo Yamazaki

Plot TV Series (1981 - 1982). 26 Episodes. Sho Azuka discovers the ancient bible named Superbook. that book can speaks and sends him, his friend Azusa Yamato, and his clockwork toy...

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Casshan (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Sasagawa

Plot TV Series (1973-1974). 35 Episodes. Tetsuya Azuma is an android with a human consciousness, who turned himself into an android to hunt down and destroy the robots that have taken...

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Area 88 Gekijouban

1985 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Hisayuki Toriumi

Plot A compilation film for the big screen, consisting out of the first two acts of the OVA.

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Tokimeki Tonight (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Sasagawa · Tsutomu Shibayama · Tomomi Mochizuki · Kazunori Tanabashi

Plot TV Series (1982 - 1983). 34 Episodes. 15-year-old Ranze Eto lives in an isolated castle in Japan with her werewolf mother, vampire father, and younger brother, Rinze. Despite her lineage,...

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Cyborg 009 (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Ryousuke Takahashi

Plot It chronicles the adventures of 9 people kidnapped by the Black Ghost Organization who are converted into Cyborgs with superhuman abilities. They manage to escape and now they are fighting...

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Patalliro! (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Nobutaka Nishizawa · Takashi Kuoka · Yugo Serikawa · Hiroshi Shidara

Plot TV Series (1982 - 1983). 49 Episodes. Patalliro du Malyner VIII is the crown prince of the Diamond producing country of Malynera. Known for being both ugly, mischievous and with...

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F-Zero: GP Legend (TV Series)

2003 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Ayumi Tomobuki

Plot The year is 2201 and across the universe rabid fans flock to F-Zero tracks everywhere. The prizes are enormous and the stakes grow even higher when the outlaws compete to...

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Dashing Warrior Muteking (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Seitarô Hara

Plot TV Series (1980 - 1981). 56 Episodes. Twelve-year-old Rin Yuki loyally supported his father when the world laughed at the scientist for saying that Earth was about to be invaded...

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Zukkoke Knight - Don De La Mancha (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 22 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot This is a story of a lone-wolf knight called Don de la Mancha (Don Quijote de la Mancha) based on one of the most famous novels in the world, "Ei...

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Daikengo, The Guardian of Space (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Yahiro · Shigeyasu Sannai

Plot TV Series. Giant robot Daikengo flies through space to re-establish galactic peace; on-board prince Ryger, who ran away from his planet Emperius to defeat the menace out of his reign...

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