Writing

Teruo Abe

Born 1961-02-15

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Cape Nostalgia poster
6.1

Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are beginning to blow.

Cape Nostalgia

2014

The Taste of Fish poster
7.0

It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market is where you're most likely to find them. It's the home of Japan's biggest daily fish auction, and it's a place of fierce competition between fish merchants that have been in the business for generations. Based on a comic series, The Taste of Fish follows businessman Shuntaro, who has a successful career in a trading company and is in a steady relationship with girlfriend Asuka. One day, Shuntaro has to help out at the fish wholesaler store run by Asuka's father, and he immediately falls in love with the world of Tsukiji Fish Market. Soon, Shuntaro quits his job and devotes all of his time to running the business while learning about the market's fascinating set of long-standing traditions. However, he must first also learn to distinguish the tastes of different fishes before he can survive in the competitive world of Tsukiji.

The Taste of Fish

2008

Night of Body's Model poster
3.6

Takahashi moves into a new apartment after a divorce and as she tries to settle in, finds that she is having strange and violent dreams and weird things keep happening in her apartment. Her neighbour likes to listen to her through the wall, and becomes increasingly sensitive to her thoughts and feelings. A scientist father and son also live in the building; the son has an obsession with prosthetic body parts.

Night of Body's Model

1996

The Woman Changed Her Clothes at the Bus Stop poster
NR

A woman in a bright green coat, Mizue (Toda Naho), gets off the bus at Shikaoi Town in Hokkaido. She has followed her former salsa dance partner, Arisaka (Endo Kenichi), to his hometown. Arisaka, who is about to start a new life, is troubled, and soon their feelings for each other burn intensely...

The Woman Changed Her Clothes at the Bus Stop

2003

Love Fight poster
6.8

Minoru has spent most of his life being protected by his spunky female best friend Aki. Fed up, he decides to take up boxing. However, just as he manages to get stronger than Aki she becomes obsessed with boxing herself.

Love Fight

2008

School Day of the Dead poster
5.4

Some students decide to set up a play written by one of their classmates, who has commited suicide. The play is based on a tragic and mysterious legend about a love affair between two teachers at the school long ago. Some girls then accidentally stumble over some information about the legend, and the girl who commited suicide. Shortly after, the girls start turning up dead in seeming accidents.

School Day of the Dead

2000

The Sowing Traveller 3 poster
NR

Acclaimed director of Summer of Chirusoku, Half a Confession and Yunagi City, Sakura Country Kiyoshi Sasabe casts Rin Takanashi and Takumi Saitoh as members of the farming industry. The Sowing Traveller 3 tells a universal story of the cherished act of growing fruit. Ayane is conflicted about coming back home because she feels it’s a setback. Filming took place in Akaiwa, Okayama prefecture, a peach growing area with lots of sun and fertile soil. Along with the harmony of daily life that the local people have with nature, an important feature of the film is its beautiful landscapes.

The Sowing Traveller 3

2016

Tsuyukusa poster
5.5

Middle-aged Fumi lives a quiet seaside life, she spends her days working at a small local factory, spending time with her neighbor’s son, and attending her sober-lifestyle group. One night while driving home her car is struck by a small meteorite, the odds of which are 100 million to 1. Seeing this as a good omen, Fumi decides she should be open to new possibilities in her life, even perhaps romance…

Tsuyukusa

2022

Female Teacher 6 poster
NR

Satsuki Yamamoto, a teacher at Kairei High School. Satsuki had been secretly living with her student, Tsutomu, in a semi-cohabiting arrangement. When Tsutomu's junior female student, Riho, discovered their relationship, she was shocked. This was because Riho had admired Satsuki as a teacher. As Tsutomu's graduation approached, the three individuals' intentions began to shift...

Female Teacher 6

1998

At Home poster
6.6

A father, a mother, an elder son, a daughter and a younger son. A family of five. For all appearances, a perfectly normal, happy family. But none them related

At Home

2015

High School Girl Story: Lewd Fruit poster
5.6

Brother, sister, sister's best friend, teammates... The attempted rape and assault incidents that occurred that summer, and the subsequent suspension from the Koshien tournament. Five years later, as they reunite, each carrying their lingering feelings, quiet emotions resurface...

High School Girl Story: Lewd Fruit

1997

Three for the Road poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Three for the Road

2007

Distorted Desire poster
NR

Original Video film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara

Distorted Desire

1995