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

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

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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

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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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