Writing

Wataru Kenmotsu

Born — Died

1945-08-19 — 2003-07-18

Place of birth

Kanagawa, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

14 titles

Wataru Kenmotsu (剣持 亘, Kenmotsu Wataru, August 19, 1945 - July 15, 2003) was a Japanese screenwriter. He often teamed up with director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time poster
6.8

Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has the power to travel through time.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

1983

Lonely Heart poster
7.2

Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, or is she real?

Lonely Heart

1985

I Are You, You Am Me poster
6.4

9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.

I Are You, You Am Me

1982

Kenya Boy poster
5.8

An 11-year-old boy who goes to Africa with his father in 1941. Because he is Japanese, the father is detained by the British. The boy joins up with a beautiful native girl, and the adventure begins.

Kenya Boy

1984

The Island Closest to Heaven poster
6.4

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.

The Island Closest to Heaven

1984

Aoi sanmyaku poster
NR

Remake of 1949 film

Aoi sanmyaku

1975

The Sound of the Waves poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Sound of the Waves

1985

Switching – Goodbye Me poster
6.6

After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend Kazumi.

Switching – Goodbye Me

2007

Curtain Call poster
6.0

Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her real father, "Daddy-Long-Legs", who sends a bouquet of flowers every birthday, once she can wear a special pair of pointe shoes. The day finally arrives and Miho's small adventure begins.

Curtain Call

1984

White Fang poster
8.5

A gray wolf raised on a farm kills the family dog, and to save him from being destroyed, a boy named Lasset makes a trek through the wilderness with the wolf to a wilderness sanctuary 300 miles to the north. The BGM in the film consists entirely of Dvorak's Serenade for Strings, making it perhaps the only anime since Gauche the Cellist to make use of a single piece of classical music as the soundtrack. The plot of the film is simple and the outcome obvious, but the atmosphere of the film is genuine, and it is very moving in parts thanks to Dvorak's music (which is scored entirely for the most emotional of the instrument groups, the strings). This is a straightforward drama about the friendship between a boy and his wolf, and it pushes all the buttons you'd expect, but it's very enjoyable despite all that.

White Fang

1990

The Strange Pair poster
3.3

An unreliable narrator recounts the love story of a loan shark, his wife, and their recently released from jail childhood friend.

The Strange Pair

1988

Wild Cop 2 poster
6.7

Based on the comic Gokuburi Deka.

Wild Cop 2

1973

Wild Cop poster
6.5

Based on the comic Gokiburi Deka.

Wild Cop

1973

Kazoku Hakkei poster
NR

Nanase, who inherited psychic powers from her father, searches for his whereabouts while working as a housekeeper.

Kazoku Hakkei

1986