Screenplay: Masahiro Yamaura

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


The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill

2021 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan

Direction Kan Eguchi

Cast Masanobu Ando · Manami Hashimoto · Yurina Hirate · Inowaki Kai

Synopsis Akira Sato is the legendary killer known as The Fable. Following the order of his boss and due to being overworked, he lives peacefully with his partner Yoko as ordinary siblings. Akira still works part-time at design company Octopus with...

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House of Ninjas

2024 · Series · 55 min. · Japan

Direction Dave Boyle

Cast Kento Kaku · Yôsuke Eguchi · Tae Kimura · Kengo Kora

Synopsis The Tawara family, the last ninja clan. It had abandoned its roots after an incident in the past, but now the family must take on the greatest crisis in Japanese history, one that threatens to shake the nation to its...

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359 votes

6.1

359 votes

Direction Mitsuno Michio

Cast Keisuke Koide · Akiyoshi Nakao · Hiroyuke Onoue · Rokkaku Shinji

Synopsis In the 1980s, a simple-minded fool named Hideaki meets comedy legend Sanma, changes his name to Jimmy and becomes a comedic superstar.

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35 sai no kôkôsei (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 45 min. · Japan

Direction Sakuma Noriyoshi · Nagumo Seiichi · Masaki Nishiura

Cast Yonekura Ryoko · Mayu Matsuoka · Junpei Mizobata · Nana Katase

Synopsis Yonekura Ryoko plays a 35 year old woman who mysteriously goes back to high school as a student.

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Binbô danshi (TV Series)

2008 · Series · 45 min. · Japan

Direction Inomata Ryuichi · Yoshino Hiroshi · Shigeyama Yoshinori

Cast Shun Oguri · Norito Yashima · Yû Yamada · Haruma Miura

Synopsis Koyama Kazumi is a poor but optimistic college student who firmly believing that there are more important things than money. Despite his own poverty he ends up taking on other people's debts and faces various challenges to pay off those...

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Umi ni furu (TV Miniseries)

2015 · Movie · 60 min. · Japan

Direction Takeyoshi Yamamoto

Cast Kasumi Arimura · Yoshio Inoue · Yuka Itaya · Michitaka Tsutsui

Synopsis Miyuki Amaya becomes the first female pilot of the Shinkai 6500 in Japan. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) had put effort into her first submersible across the organization. Miyuki's father had also been active as a...

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Hard Nuts! (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 45 min. · Japan

Direction Hayato Kawai · Kôjirô Hashimoto

Cast Ai Hashimoto · Kengo Kora · Kenichi Yajima · Kazuki Namioka

Synopsis Namba Kurumi (Hashimoto Ai) is a student who attends Tokyo University’s Department of Mathematics. She may be an oddball who is poor at communication, but solves difficult cases in flashes of genius. Detective Handa Tatsuhiko (Kora Kengo) of Hatsune Police...

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

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

Synopsis 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 father was a top detective, but Yoshitaro now wants to...

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Direction Youichi Narita

Cast Haruka Fukuhara · Kenshi Okada · Kentarô Itô · Shûsaku Kamikawa

Synopsis Yuri is a high school student in the present day. She isn’t happy with her life at home or school. One day, she has an argument with her mother and runs away from home. Somehow, when Yuri later opens her...

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