Screenplay: Rika Nakase

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


Princess Tutu (TV Series)

2002 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Junichi Sato · Shôgo Kawamoto

Plot TV series (2002-2003) 1 season. 26 episodes. 13-year-old ballet student Ahiru is clumsy, good-hearted and sweet... and has a big secret. The mysterious Drosselmayer morphed a young duck into a...

7.8

76 votes

7.8

76 votes

When Cicadas Cry - Solutions (TV Series)

2007 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Chiaki Kon

Plot TV series (2007). 1 season. 24 episodes. The endless cycle of hatred and death that befell the small village of Hinamizawa continues. Rika Furude, who is the sole witness of...

7.6

441 votes

7.6

441 votes

When They Cry: Higurashi (TV Series)

2006 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Chiaki Kon

Plot TV Series (2006-2013). 28 Episodes. On one hot summer day in 1983, a transfer student named Maebara Keiichi comes to a peaceful rural village in Hinamizawa. There, he befriends his...

7.4

897 votes

7.4

897 votes

Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Chiaki Kon

Plot TV Series (2011). 2 Seasons. 24 Episodes. Even though Ritsu Onodera hates to rely on family connections, he winds up taking a job as an editor at his parents' company,...

7.0

122 votes

7.0

122 votes

Genshiken (TV Series)

2004 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Ikehata

Plot TV Series (2004-2007). 24 Episodes. Sasahara Kanji is a college freshman who decides to join a student society to share his hidden thoughts on manga, anime and gaming. When he...

7.0

432 votes

7.0

432 votes

Pure Hearted Romance (TV Series)

2008 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Chiaki Kon

Plot TV Series (2008) 12 Episodes. Misaki is suddenly having some unexpected and odd problems. What started as a need for some college entrance exam tutoring has somehow led him to...

6.9

212 votes

6.9

212 votes

Fruits Basket (TV Series)

2001 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Akitaro Daichi · Hiroshi Nagahama · Keiji Gotoh · Masahiko Otsuka

Plot Tohru Honda is 16 year old orphaned girl who gets invited to live in the house of her classmate, the handsome boy Sohma Yuki, and his cousins, 16 year old...

6.6

741 votes

6.6

741 votes

Ghost Hunt (TV Series)

2006 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Rei Mano

Plot TV Series (2006-2007). 25 Episodes. Ghost stories are the favorite pastime of Mai Taniyama and her friends, until she meets Kazuya Shibuya who happens to be a ghost hunter. He...

6.5

75 votes

6.5

75 votes

Kaleido Star (TV Series)

2003 · Series · 23 min. · Japan

Direction Junichi Sato · Yoshimasa Hiraike

Plot Sora, a young girl from Japan, comes to America in search of her dream. She wants, with all her heart, to be a member of the famous Kaleido Stage, a...

6.3

25 votes

6.3

25 votes

Ginban Kaleidoscope (TV Series)

2005 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Shinji Takamatsu

Plot 16-year old Sakurano Tazusa is a Japanese figure ice-skater who considers herself to be worth $10 billion in beauty. While executing her moves in the Women's Figure Skating Grand Prix,...

6.2

36 votes

6.2

36 votes

AM Driver (TV Series)

2004 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Isao Torada

Plot TV Series (2004 - 2005). 51 Episodes. In the future, human beings are attacked by beings called the Bug-chine, which appeared a few years back. No normal human weapon can...

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Ginga Densetsu Weed (TV Series)

2005 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Toshiyuki Kato

Plot TV Series (2005-2006). 26 episodes. After finding out he is the son of the great leader of Ohu, Gin, Weed sets out on a journey to find his father. However,...

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Not rated

La Corda d'Oro Blue Sky (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 23 min. · Japan

Direction Kōjin Ochi · Takahiro Natori

Cast Yuya Uchida · Reiko Takagi · Satoshi Hino · Jun Fukuyama

Plot TV Series (2014). 12 Episodes. While being called a "genius violinist," high school sophomore Kanade Kohinata feels herself entering a plateau period and difficult to improve her musical achievements. She...

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Ask Dr. Lin! (TV Series)

2001 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Shin Misawa · Hiroshi Ishiodori · Hiroshi Fukutomi · Makoto Moriwaki

Plot TV Series (2001 - 2002). 51 Epidoes. Kanzaki Meirin, a junior high school student, posseses fusui power which can drive away evil spirits away whenever they appeared. She is in...

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Gad Guard (TV Series)

2003 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Nishikiori · Yoshikazu Miyao

Plot Several hundred years in the future, the resources of the Earth runs out, and the progression of the human race has stagnated. The world is now divided into "Units". A...

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Vampiyan Kids (TV Series)

2001 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Masatsugu Arakawa

Plot A family that survives on orange juice instead of blood. Strange, but that's why they are called vampiyans. When Papa is unable to scare human's, he is sent to the...

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Twin Spica (TV Series)

2003 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Tomomi Mochizuki

Plot Asumi Kamogawa is a lonely girl raised by a widower father. Her mother was one of the many victims of a tragedy that occurred five years ago. A rocket launch...

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Kyousogiga Dainidan (TV Miniseries)

2012 · Movie · 50 min. · Japan

Direction Rie Matsumoto

Plot OVA Mini-series (2012). 5 Episodes. Five tales about different characters from the world of "Kyosogiga". (Source: ANN)

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The Marshmallow Times (TV Series)

2004 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Fukutomi

Plot TV Series (2004 - 2005) 52 Episodes. The series focuses on 7 children and a sheep-like character. Together, they work together as a team and hang out together. They wear...

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Not rated

Kanamemo (TV Series)

2009 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Shigehito Takayanagi

Plot The story centers on Kana Nakamichi, a middle-school girl who had already lost her parents and just recently lost her only remaining relative, her grandmother. As a result, she ends...

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Not rated