Category
page 1Japanese screenwriters
Takeshi Kitano
Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer (born 1947)
Isao Takahata
Japanese animator, animation director, director, producer (1935-2018)

Katsuhiro Otomo
Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director (born 1954)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic

Naomi Kawase
Japanese filmmaker

Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Japanese film director and screenwriter

Kaneto Shindō
Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. (1912–2012)

Yōji Yamada
Japanese film director and screenwriter

Shinobu Hashimoto
Japanese screenwriter (1918-2018)

Yoshishige Yoshida
Japanese film director, novelist (1933-2022)

Gen Urobuchi
Japanese writer of visual novels, light novels, and anime

Kanae Minato
Japanese crime fiction writer

Tarako
was a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. Her debut role was as a preschooler on Urusei Yatsura. She was better known as the voice of Momoko "Maruko" Sakura, the titular character in the long-running anime series Chibi Maruko-chan from its debut in 1990 until its conclusion in 1992 and its subsequent revival, which premiered in 1995 and continues to air as of today. She was employed by the talent management firm Troubadour Musique Office.

Hideshi Hino
Japanese mangaka

Noboru Iguchi
Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor

Shirō Toyoda
Japanese film director (1906–1977)
Kinoko Nasu
Japanese writer, video game designer

Chiaki J. Konaka
Japanese writer

Eiichi Yamamoto
Japanese film director and screenwriter

Sugako Hashida
Japanese screenwriter, playwright, and talent (1925-2021)

Toshio Matsumoto
Japanese film director and video artist (1932–2017)

Shintarō Asanuma
Japanese voice actor

Taichi Yamada
Japanese writer (1934–2023)
Yōji Enokido
Japanese screenwriter and novelist (1963-)

Kōhei Oguri
film director

Masayuki Suo
Japanese film director
Michiko Yokote
Japanese screenwriter

Noboru Ishiguro
Japanese anime director (1938–2012)

Shūsuke Kaneko
Japanese film director

Shinsuke Sato
Japanese film director
Matsutarō Kawaguchi
Japanese writer and film producer
Takao Koyama
Japanese screenwriter

Shimako Satō
film director and screenwriter
Kenji Terada
Japanese scenario writer, anime director, series organizer and novelist

Riku Sanjo
Japanese author

Noribumi Suzuki
Japanese film director (1933–2014)

Yoshihiro Nishimura
Japanese film director
Kazuaki Takano
Japanese writer
Jirō Satō
Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director

Toshiaki Toyoda
filmmaker

Masanori Hata
Japanese zoologist, essayist, and filmmaker (1935-2023)

Ichirō Ōkouchi
Japanese novelist
Nanase Ohkawa
Japanese mangaka

Kazuki Ōmori
Japanese film director and screenwriter (1952-2022)

Kōji Fukada
Japanese film director

Chie Hayakawa
Japanese director and screenwriter

Toshiki Inoue
Japanese screenwriter

Yōsuke Kuroda
Japanese writer

Takahisa Zeze
Japanese film director

Nobuhiro Suwa
Japanese film director

Junya Ikeda
Japanese voice actor
Chihiro Amano
Japanese film director

Kankurō Kudō
Japanese actor and screenwriter

Kundō Koyama
Japanese writer

Keishi Ōtomo
impresario and film director

Izuru Narushima
Japanese screenwriter and film director

Shinji Takamatsu
Japanese film director

Yū Irie
Japanese film director

Yumi Yoshiyuki
Japanese film director, actress, and screenwriter best known for her work in the pink film genre
Ukyō Kodachi
Japanese game designer and anime screenwriter