Screenplay: Shigeru Yanagawa
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Shigeru Yanagawa. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Magical Angel Creamy Mami (TV Series)
1983 · Series · 24 min. · Japan
Direction Osamu Kobayashi · Ryo Tachiba · Tomomi Mochizuki · Takashi Annô
Plot Creamy Mami is about a young girl, Yuu, who after seeing a spaceship is given the power to use magic for one year. She is also given 2 cats, Poji...
6.2
23 votes
6.2
23 votes
Urusei Yatsura (Lamu) (TV Series)
1981 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Mamoru Oshii · Kazuo Yamazaki · Iku Suzuki · Keiji Hayakawa
Plot Urusei Yatsura is the story of the unluckiest and most lecherous young man alive, Ataru Moroboshi. When aliens decide to invade Earth, Ataru is randomly selected to defend his planet...
6.1
793 votes
6.1
793 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
Cheerful Dwarves of the Forest: Belfy and Lillabit (TV Series)
1980 · Series · 30 min. · Japan
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
Maple Town Stories (TV Series)
1986 · Series · 30 min. · Japan
Direction Junichi Sato · Hiroshi Shidara · Kunihiko Ikuhara · Takashi Kuoka
Plot Maple Town Stories is about friendship, adventure and the troubles the children (Patty Rabbit, Bobby Bear and Fanny Fox) who are the main characters of the show, fall into. Wild...
5.6
3K votes
5.6
3K votes
Sailor Moon (TV Series)
1992 · Series · 30 min. · Japan
Direction Junichi Sato · Kunihiko Ikuhara · Harume Kosaka · Hiromichi Matano
Plot TV Series (1992-1997). Tsukino Usagi is your normal, everyday, 14-year-old, stereotypical dumb blonde. Her life is suddenly changed one day after a chance encounter with a talking cat named Luna....
5.5
17K votes
5.5
17K votes
Anyway, It Doesn't Matter (TV Series)
1987 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Yuzo Yamada
Plot TV Series (1987 - 1988). 43 Episodes. A gang decides to play at burglary without the knowledge of their schoolmates, each masquerading at different times as the master thief Tonchinkan.
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Inakappe Taisho (TV Series)
1970 · Series · 30 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Kawasaki · Masami Anô · Masanori Hasuda · Akira Honda
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Shin Bikkuriman (TV Series)
1989 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Yukio Kaizawa · Yuji Endo · Hiroyuki Kakudo · Yoshihiro Oka
Plot TV Series (1989 - 1990). 72 Episodes. Sequel of "Bikkuri-Man" anime series.
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Miyuki (TV Series)
1983 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Mizuho Nishikubo
Plot Masato Wakamatsu, 16 years old, is working at the beach one summer. Having made a bad impression on his classmate/crush Miyuki Kashima, he makes a pass at another pretty girl....
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Tentou mushi no uta (TV Series)
1974 · Series · 30 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Sasagawa · Masami Anô · Satoshi Dezaki
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Knight Hunters (TV Series)
1998 · Series · 23 min. · Japan
Direction Kiyoshi Egami · Kazutoku Tanahashi
Plot TV Series (1998). 25 Episodes. These four men, Omi Tsukiyono, Ken Hidaka, Yohji Kudoh, and Aya Fujimiya, are a group of assassins called "Weiß." They cover their operations by working...
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Kakyûsei Elf Version (TV Miniseries)
1999 · Movie · 27 min. · Japan
Direction Norio Kashima
Plot High school students Mizuho Yuuki and Miko Kamiyama are best friends. Miko likes fellow classmate Tohru Nagase. Mizuho is determined not to get in the way of their budding relationship....
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What's Michael?
1985 · Movie · 55 min. · Japan
Direction Noriyasu Kogawa · Shuku Nagao
Plot A series of adventures featuring the one cat apparently everyone in the world owns... Michael. (Source: MyAnimeList)
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Akazukin Chacha (TV Series)
1994 · Series · 24 min. · Japan
Direction Shoki Tsuji · Hatsuki Tsuji
Plot Chacha is a cute little girl who is training to be a good magician. She was raised by her teacher Seravi, who is considered the world's greatest magician. Chacha almost...
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Meikuappu! Sêrâ senshi (S)
1993 · Movie · 17 min. · Japan
Direction Harume Kosaka · Takuya Igarashi · Kunihiko Ikuhara · Junichi Sato
Plot Short film that was shown before Sailor Moon, la película (1993).
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New Maple Town Stories: Palm Town Chapter (TV Series)
1987 · Series · 24 min. · Japan
Direction Yukio Kaizawa · Yoshihiro Oka · Hiroshi Shidara · Yasuo Yamayoshi
Plot The series tells the new adventures of the bunny Patty Rabbit after her transfer from the countryside to Palm Town a city by the sea.
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Gu-Gu Ganmo (TV Series)
1984 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Yoshikata Nitta · Hideki Takayama · Takenori Kawada · Yuji Endo
Plot TV Series (1984 - 1985). 50 Episodes. One morning Tsukune Tsukuda, out of spite, lets her brother’s pet bird go. But later she has misgivings, and comes home with an...
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Amazing Sarutobi (TV Series)
1982 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Kouichi Sasaki · Masahisa Ishida · Yuzo Yamada
Plot TV Series (1982 - 1984). 69 Episodes. Nikumaru, meaning "meatball" in Japanese, is a seventeen-year-old student at Ninja High School, a special school for the training of ninja. He is...
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Thumbelina: A Magical Story (TV Series)
1992 · Series · 24 min. · Japan
Direction Hiromitsu Morita
Plot TV Series (1992). 26 Episodes. A bratty girl named Mia is given a book, Thumbelina, which upon reading she is shrunk and transported into the world of the book. She...
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