Arisa Kaneko

Writing

Arisa Kaneko

Born

1973-08-13 (53)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

17 titles

Kaneko Arisa is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist from Tokyo. She graduated from Nihon University College of Art, Department of Film, and is a lecturer at the same department. In 1995, at the age of 22, she won the grand prize for "Tokiwa Saien no Fuyu" at the 8th Fuji Television Young Scenario Awards.

Known for

Behind the camera

Helter Skelter poster
6.7

Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to retain her perfect image, Lilico descends into a world of nightmares and makes those around her miserable.

Helter Skelter

2012

Orange poster
7.3

A girl mysteriously receives advice from her future self and as a result her group of friends, along with a newly arrived, troubled classmate, learn how to be better friends and a better community.

Orange

2015

My Little Monster poster
7.6

Problem student Haru Yoshida sits next to the cold and studious Shizuku Mizutani in class. Without any other friends to turn to, both of them start to get to know each other and grow closer. Haru eventually develop feelings for Shizuku and confesses his feelings to her. Will Haru and Shizuku get their happily ever after?

My Little Monster

2018

Number One poster
NR

Kubozuka plays Araki Ryunosuke who starts working at a host club called "club NO.1" to pay his debt.

Number One

2001

Wish Upon a Star poster
NR

Japanese TV film

Wish Upon a Star

2005

Train Man poster
6.2

The purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku ultimately started dating with her and chronicled his event and his dates with the woman (who became known as "Hermès") on the Japanese mega-BBS 2channel.

Train Man

2005

Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor poster
7.0

Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tokyo district prosecutors' office. He is currently busy with a case involving suspicious donations to powerful politician Yohei Tachibana. Shinichi then receives a mysterious message from his friend Samon Kondo. His friend is in charge of space development at The The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The message talks about a scandal related to space development. Samon soon goes missing after sending the message. Shinichi begins to see a connection between the two cases.

Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor

2016

Arigato, Okan poster
NR

Hanako is a mother, who was not enthusiastic when her husband took in two foster children some years ago. He died not long afterward, leaving her alone to care for the youngsters, Koya and Torataro, a task that she rose to with a passion. As the two boys graduate from high school, Hanako has become not only a devoted parent but the neighborhood's most reliable mother in the Osaka style: strong, responsible, irreverent. After the two boys leave school they also leave home, though Torataro continues to work in the family factory. Koya secures employment at a restaurant, where he is forced to put up with the bullying of an older colleague. Unable to take it any more, he runs away, and Hanako and Torataro look for him. They eventually find him pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician.

Arigato, Okan

2008

The Forest of Wool and Steel poster
7.0

High school student Naoki Tomura grew up in a remote area in Hokkaido. He meets piano tuner Soichiro Itadori in school and eventually decides to work at Itadori’s musical instrument store. Tomura gradually grows as a piano tuner through his interactions with the other tuners and musician clients

The Forest of Wool and Steel

2018

The Kodai Family poster
6.7

Kie Hirano is an ordinary OL who often daydreams. Mitsumasa Kodai at the same company as Kie Hirano, but he is an elite salaryman. He is the eldest son in the Kodai family and he is also telepathic. Mitsumasa Kodai got his special ability to read other people's mind from his British grandmother. Mitsumasa becomes attracted to Kie's warm heart and her dreamy temperament. They begin to date and enjoy their days together, but Mitsumasa Kodai's mother calls.

The Kodai Family

2016

Christmas on July 24th Avenue poster
3.2

Sayuri Honda (Miki Nakatani) claims she has no interests in love affairs. She refuses to take things as they are for she fancies her harbor town of Nagasaki as Lisbon, Portugal. But on Christmas, encouraged by the season of romance, she tries to materialize her once-in-a-lifetime love with the man of her dreams.

Christmas on July 24th Avenue

2006

Tang poster
4.5

Ken Kasugai has been deserted by his wife, because he was absorbed in a game. One day, missing child robot Tang appears in front of him.

Tang

2022

Will You Marry My Wife? poster
5.0

Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He decides to concentrate on the future of his beloved family. Shuji Mimura's final plan is to find the best man to marry his wife Ayako.

Will You Marry My Wife?

2016

The Kodai Family Special poster
7.8

The three brothers of the Kodai family possess telepathy, and this has led to many nerve-wracking incidents. Their aunt Anne narrates an episode from the past. 30 years ago, Yuko, a fourth-year student at a prestigious private university, learns about the existence of Kodai Shigemasa, who has been admitted from Oxford. One day, Yuko’s friend Nao and Masao start dating. Yuko congratulates her but detects Masao’s unfaithfulness immediately after that. Although Yuko meditates and tries to make the two of them reconcile, they break up in a just one week. Masao then promptly confesses his feelings for Yuko

The Kodai Family Special

2016

Flowers in the Shadow poster
7.0

Shinya is in debt as a result of his gambling habit. He attempts to defraud an old woman with a bank transfer scam, but the woman reminds him of his late mother and they start to relate to each other. Meanwhile, Shinya meets a girl called Hisako in town, and ends up helping her to find out the whereabouts of an unsuccessful comedian, Raita, whom her mother was in love with in her youth. Shinya's father, Ryutaro, is disowned by his son after his wife's death. When Ryutaro meets a homeless man called Moses, he starts living on the street as well. One day when the old woman dies, Moses comes to the deceased and confesses his past. Subsequently Shinya resumes communicating with his father Ryutaro.

Flowers in the Shadow

2008

巨悪は眠らせない 特捜検事の標的 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

巨悪は眠らせない 特捜検事の標的

2017

Welcome Home, Hayabusa poster
7.8

Kento Ohashi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is a novice ion engine developer working on a team that is launching the unmanned Hayabusa spacecraft into outerspace. His father Isao (Tomokazu Miura) was the leader of a previously failed space probe named Nozomi. Now, Kento pursues his dreams and his father's while experiencing the unexpected surprises that comes with the Hayabusa's 7 year odyssey.

Welcome Home, Hayabusa

2012