Screenplay: Yasushi Hirano

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


Dragon Ball (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Toriyama · Daisuke Nishio · Kazuhisa Takenouchi · Minoru Okazaki

Plot TV Series (1986-1989). 5 Seasons. 153 Episodes. Long ago in the mountains, a fighting master known as Gohan discovered a strange boy whom he named Goku. Gohan raised him and...

7.8

73K votes

7.8

73K votes

Doctor Slump (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Toriyama · Minoru Okazaki · Daisuke Nishio · Yoshihiro Ueda

Plot TV series (1981-1986). 5 Seasons. 243 Episodes. Professor Senbe Norimaki, aka Doctor Slump, is a bumbling inventor living with his wife and his out-of-control robot daughter, Arale. The trio frequently...

7.5

12K votes

7.5

12K votes

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshiyuki Tomino

Plot TV series (1985-1986). 1 season. 50 episodes. Eight years after the One Year War, the Earth Federation creates an elite force called the Titans to hunt Zeon remnants. When Titans...

7.5

64 votes

7.5

64 votes

Detective Conan (TV Series)

1996 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Gôshô Aoyama · Kenji Kodama · Yasuichiro Yamamoto · Masato Sato

Plot Kudo Shinichi is a seventeen year-old high school detective whom people call the "Modern Sherlock Holmes." However, one night after a date with his childhood sweetheart, Ran, Shinichi witnessed an...

6.6

7K votes

6.6

7K votes

Captain Tsubasa (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu

Plot Captain Tsubasa is a popular manga, anime, and video game series originally created in Japan by Yoichi Takahashi in 1981. Captain Tsubasa is based on the sport of football (soccer)....

6.5

52K votes

6.5

52K votes

Grey Digital Target

1986 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Satoshi Dezaki

Plot In a desolate and parched future Earth, Grey, a class C soldier is fighting to achieve his late sister's dream, to rise in the ranks to become a citizen. Along...

6.3

101 votes

6.3

101 votes

Vampire Hunter D

1985 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Toyoo Ashida · Carl Macek

Plot 10,000 years in the future, the world has become a very different place; monsters roam the land freely, and people, although equiped with high tech weapons and cybernetic horses, live...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

The Legend of Hikari (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Tomomi Mochizuki · Tetsuya Kobayashi · Fumiko Ishii · Chisato Motegi

Plot TV series. 19 episodes. The story is about Hikari Kamijou, a fifteen-year-old junior-high-school girl who develops a passion for the sport of rhythmic gymnastics ever since she saw her idol,...

5.4

61 votes

5.4

61 votes

Dino Adventure Jurassic Tripper (TV Series)

1995 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Kunihiko Yuyama

Plot TV Series (1995). 39 Episodes. On a school yachting trip, fifteen children of various ages are mysteriously transported to another world where dinosaurs still roam. While attempting to return home,...

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6 Angels

2002 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Makoto Kobayashi

Plot A group of female mercenaries known as the Rose Guard patrol a Utah nuclear test site that has been turned into a prison for hardened criminals. The Canyon family, however,...

Not rated

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The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird (TV Series)

1991 · Series · 23 min. · Japan

Direction Katsuyoshi Yatabe · Hajime Yatate

Plot From the dark reaches of space an evil energy being called Draias seeks to invade the earth, following Draias the space police borrow the advance rescue vehicles and android constructed...

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Bats and Terry

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuko Kase · Tetsuro Amino

Plot Bats & Terry are the two tough guys in the school. They don't take crap from anyone, not even teachers. They will fight anyone necessary, and will defend strangers (especially...

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ICE The Last Generation

2007 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

Direction Makoto Kobayashi

Plot The year is 2012. Due to an environmental contaminant, the human population has been decimated, including all males, leaving only women behind. Facing extinction, some have decided to accept their...

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Not rated

Please, My Melody (TV Series)

2005 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Makoto Moriwaki

Plot My Melody arrives on Earth much to the surprise of her rival Baku. Together with one of the junior high school students, Yumeno Uta, they decide to protect the dreams...

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Armor Hunter Mellowlink

1988 · Movie · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Takeyuki Kanda

Plot A rebel soldier seeks revenge for his fallen comrades. He hunts down all the remaining battle suits from the previous war with a large armor piercing rifle. Carrying the dog...

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Showa Monogatari

2011 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiro Murakami

Plot The original story follows the human drama of the Yamazaki family in Tokyo in the Year Shouwa 39 (1964) — the year that the city hosted the Summer Olympics.

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Ultraman: Tiga (TV Series)

1996 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Hirochika Muraishi · Kyôta Kawasaki · Shingo Matsubara · Tsugumi Kitaura

Cast Hiroshi Nagano · Takami Yoshimoto · Akitoshi Ohtaki · Shigeki Kagemaru

Plot A high-tech squadron protects Earth from evil monsters and aliens with the help of a giant super-being named Ultraman Tiga.

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Ojamanga Yamada-kun (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu · Kouichi Sasaki

Plot TV Series (1980 - 1982). 103 Episodes. The misadventures of the Yamada family and their neighbours.

Not rated

Not rated

Showa Monogatari (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuhiro Tougou · Hiroshi Kugimiya

Plot TV Series (2011). 13 Episodes. Showa Monogatari is a nostalgic slice-of-life show about a Japanese family in 1964, the year the Olympics came to Tokyo. The father Yuuzou owns a...

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Not rated

Ultraman 80 (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Noriaki Yuasa · Tôru Toyama · Kiyo Sumi Fukazawa · Shohei Tojo

Cast Masaaki Daimon · Yûsaku Yara · Hatsunori Hasegawa · Jin Nakayama

Plot TV Series (1980-1981). 50 Episodes. Ultraman 80, disguised as mild-mannered schoolteacher Takeshi Yamato, defends the Earth from ferocious giant monsters, which are the result of negative energy from human anger.

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