
Writing
Toshiharu Maruuchi
Place of birth
Japan
Known for
Writing
Credits
11 titles
Japanese screenwriter. In 1971 , he was arrested for student protests and dropped out of Kyushu University . After 12 years of legal battles and 2.5 years of imprisonment, he decided to become a screenwriter at the age of 36 and studied under Haruhiko Arai . In 1999, he won the Kikushima Ryūzō Award for "One Step on a Mine, It's All Over". He is currently a lecturer at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.
Known for
5.0Asuka Kotobuki, a junior college student, is in the middle of her job hunting. She spends all her time visiting companies and taking job exams, but her honesty and truthful personality causes her to keep receiving rejection notices.
Only 5 Grams
1988
Office worker Hiroko plans to murder a former classmate who is blackmailing her using her past. She plans and puts her perfect crime into action, but is struck by an unexpected turn of events. Hiroko, who works at a credit union, has a past in which she embezzled 10 million yen from the company to give to a man. She has been secretly paying it back and is finally just six months away from paying it all back. Just when she is happy to be proposed to by pharmacy owner Nozawa, her high school friend Kyoko blackmails her for 10 million yen. In fact, Kyoko is the mastermind behind the man who extorted money from Hiroko. She has gone from being an actress to a club madam and is in trouble with the debts of her club. Hiroko decides to kill Kyoko, who will stop at nothing to kill her...
The Woman Who Kept Hiding
1995
6.2Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.
Nowhere Man
1991
A biographical film of war photographer, Taizo Ichinose.
One Step on a Mine, It's All Over
1999
6.5Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".
Oishinbo
1996
7.0Japanese history explodes across the screen in the life story of Hitokiri Nakamura Hanjiro, one of the great heroes of the Meiji Restoration. From his earliest beginnings as a country samurai raising sweet potatoes whose exceptional sword skills impressed Saigo...
Hanjiro
2010
Film credits
Behind the camera
5.0Asuka Kotobuki, a junior college student, is in the middle of her job hunting. She spends all her time visiting companies and taking job exams, but her honesty and truthful personality causes her to keep receiving rejection notices.
Only 5 Grams
1988
Office worker Hiroko plans to murder a former classmate who is blackmailing her using her past. She plans and puts her perfect crime into action, but is struck by an unexpected turn of events. Hiroko, who works at a credit union, has a past in which she embezzled 10 million yen from the company to give to a man. She has been secretly paying it back and is finally just six months away from paying it all back. Just when she is happy to be proposed to by pharmacy owner Nozawa, her high school friend Kyoko blackmails her for 10 million yen. In fact, Kyoko is the mastermind behind the man who extorted money from Hiroko. She has gone from being an actress to a club madam and is in trouble with the debts of her club. Hiroko decides to kill Kyoko, who will stop at nothing to kill her...
The Woman Who Kept Hiding
1995
6.2Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.
Nowhere Man
1991
A biographical film of war photographer, Taizo Ichinose.
One Step on a Mine, It's All Over
1999
6.5Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".
Oishinbo
1996
7.0Japanese history explodes across the screen in the life story of Hitokiri Nakamura Hanjiro, one of the great heroes of the Meiji Restoration. From his earliest beginnings as a country samurai raising sweet potatoes whose exceptional sword skills impressed Saigo...
Hanjiro
2010
3.7A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.
Ready to Shoot
1990
5.0No synopsis available yet.
End of Our Own Real
1997
4.5Tatsuya is on a honeymoon in Australia. A couple of unfortunate encounters land him in jail, where he’s imprisoned without a chance of ever getting out again. His wife tries her best to launch an appeal, but it’s Tatsuya’s inmates who are his best chance of escaping his current predicament.
Singapore Sling
1993
NRNo synopsis available yet.
不法滞在
1996
