Screenplay: Takuya Nishioka
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Takuya Nishioka. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Tombstone of the Fireflies
2008 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
Direction Taro Hyugaji
Cast Reo Yoshitake · Rina Hatakeyama · Keiko Matsuzaka · Seiko Matsuda
Plot Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
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7.2
443 votes
Oba: The Last Samurai
2011 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan
Direction Hideyuki Hirayama
Cast Yutaka Takenouchi · Sean McGowan · Mao Inoue · Daniel Baldwin
Plot In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae...
6.6
85 votes
6.6
85 votes
Maria no ibukuro
1990 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan
Direction Hideyuki Hirayama
Cast Haruko Sagara · Akira Emoto · Bunjaku Han · Kimiko Yo
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Tattoo Ari
1982 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan
Direction Banmei Takahashi
Cast Ryudo Uzaki · Keiko Takahashi · Misako Watanabe
Plot Already slipping into crime as a potential career when still a teenager, Akio Takeda determines that he will do something "really big" before the age of 30. As a first...
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Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Movie 1: Operazakan - Aratanaru Satsujin
1996 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Daisuke Nishio
Plot Guests to the Opera House, Kindaichi, Miyuki and Inspector Kenmochi discover that the actors are rehearsing the play "The Phantom of the Opera", but when they begin to be killed...
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P. P. Rider
1983 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan
Direction Shinji Sômai
Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Michiko Kawai · Masatoshi Nagase · Shinobu Sakagami
Plot Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
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The Portrait in Prussian Blue
1986 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan
Direction Hidenori Taga
Cast Kaori Takahashi · Kôji Tamaki · Mieko Harada · Akiko Isozaki
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Village Of Doom
1983 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan
Direction Noboru Tanaka
Cast Masato Furuoya · Misako Tanaka · Kumiko Ohba · Isao Natsuyagi
Plot An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.
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Akifukaki
2008 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan
Direction Toshiharu Ikeda
Cast Norito Yashima · Eriko Sato · Hidekazu Akai · Tengai Shibuya
Plot A middle school teacher (Norito Yashima) falls in love with a hostess (Eriko Sato) and they end up quickly getting engaged and moving in together. However, as he struggles to...
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
2012 · Movie · min. · Japan
Direction Tomoyuki Takimoto
Cast Ken Watanabe · Yôsuke Eguchi · Yui Natsukawa · Yukiyoshi Ozawa
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Mermaid Legend
1984 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan
Direction Toshiharu Ikeda
Cast Mari Shirato · Kentarô Shimizu · Jun Etô
Plot Keisuke and his wife Mizawa are abalone fishers in a small village. A local contractor tries to buy up the land in order to build a "leisure land" (that is,...
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Don ni natta otoko
1991 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan
Direction Yasuo Furuhata
Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Yukiyo Toake · Yûko Natori · Masahiko Kondô
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