Writing

Tsunehisa Ito

Born

1941-11-18 (84)

Place of birth

Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

9 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Makoto-chan poster
9.0

A series of interconnected vignettes regarding Makoto Sawada, an energetic yet socially inept kindergartner, and his long-suffering family. Makoto strives to receive the title of his school's "Best Child" award, resulting in chaos and misunderstandings wherever he goes.

Makoto-chan

1980

Nobody's Boy: Remi (Movie) poster
6.1

Remi, an orphan kid gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer Vitalis when her foster parents fall on hard times.

Nobody's Boy: Remi (Movie)

1980

Serendipity the Pink Dragon poster
8.0

After a boy is shipwrecked on a deserted island, he finds a pink egg which hatches into the pink dragon (referred to as a dinosaur in the English-language theme song) named Serendipity. A feature-length compilation of the 26 episode Nippon TV series.

Serendipity the Pink Dragon

1989

Great Edo Fleeting Life Bath Story poster
5.0

Story of Japanese women during the great Edo period.

Great Edo Fleeting Life Bath Story

1994

Attack No. 1 poster
5.8

Kozue is a high school girl and an enthusiastic volleyball player. Her dream is to play on the Japanese national volleyball team. Over the course of the series she makes it from the school district league up to the Japanese volleyball finals, step by step until the international volleyball championship. But the faster and higher Kozue climbs, the more she is confronted with the dark side of success: too-high expectations, self-conceit, and envy.

Attack No. 1

1970

Gon, the Little Fox poster
6.0

Gon is a little fox. Looking for food he comes to a little village where he repeatedly steals food and creates other mischief, constantly evading the angry villagers.

Gon, the Little Fox

1985

Star of the Giants - Big League Ball poster
6.0

Hyuma joined the glorious giant army. However, while he was happy, he revealed his fatal weakness, the lightness of the ball, and was demoted to the second army. In his humiliating farm life, he finally completes the changing ball "Big League Ball No. 1". And whereabouts of the confrontation with his fateful rival, Mitsuru Hanagata, Toyosaku Samon ...

Star of the Giants - Big League Ball

1970

No artwork available
NR

Tajibee, a cockfighting expert from Kawachi, and Kitahachi, a carpenter from Edo, survive a shipwreck near Beppu. They rescue Sakamoto Ryoma from masked samurai, and he entrusts them with a secret letter for Saigo Takamori of Satsuma. A shogunate spy, Chizou, overhears and pursues them. Along the way, a pickpocket named Okoma steals their wallet and the letter. When they finally deliver the letter in Satsuma, they realize it was a decoy to mislead the enemy.

The Buddy: Yaji and Kita

1982

Manzai Taikouki poster
NR

Animated film.

Manzai Taikouki

1981