Hiroshi Kataoka

Director

January 1, 1959 (67 years)

Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Hiroshi Kataoka (born 1959) is a Japanese director and television producer for NHK. Originally from Tokyo, he majored in civil engineering at university, but after experiencing show business in New York, he decided to pursue a career in film and television. He joined NHK in 1982 and has been producing and directing television series and TV movies for them since.

Filmography

7.7

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

The heroine Balsa is a skilled bodyguard and a masterful spear-wielder. One day she rescues Prince Chagum who has fallen into a river. The prince is carrying a mysterious spirit egg in his body, and is in danger of being assassinated by his father, the Mikado, who fears this will damage his imperial prestige. Balsa embarks upon a perilous journey when she accepts the queen’s plead to protect her son from her husband.

7.8

Genroku Ryoran

The 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most enduring and best loved stories of Japan's history. Generations have grown up hearing the stirring tale of Oishi Kuranosuke, chief councillor of the Ako clan who leads his men through suffering and hardship to ultimately avenge their lord after he is unjustly forced to commit harakiri. NHK's 38th Taiga Drama "Genroku Ryoran" is the ambitious remake of this classic epic and boasts a cast that reads like a Who's Who in Japanese entertainment.

7.0

The Scales of Justice

A genius lawyer who changed jobs from a doctor, while suffering from the tragedy of false accusations, leads an out-of-force team to uncover the truth of numerous difficult cases and save the souls of those involved in the case.

3.1

Mistress

Shibasaki Kaori is a doctor. Her patient that she was having an affair with dies. Kaori is suspicious of the patient's son Kido Takashi about the death. Noguchi Tomomi is a single mother. She is excited in experiencing love for the first time in 7 years. Harada Saeko is in conflict with her husband Harada Satoshi about having a child. Mizushima Juri insists on having freewheeling romance. She feels excitement with meeting a woman. These four women's lives connect and an unexpected story begins.

N/A

On-yado Kawasemi

Humanistic detective stories that took place in an inn called 'Kawasemi'.

1.0

I'll Still Love You in 10 Years

The story focuses on 26-year-old Rika (Ueto), a single editor who is unskilled in love. The story starts when a man (Uchino) appears before her, telling her that he is her husband from 10 years in the future. He informs her that she will meet the young version of himself in a few days, but begs her not to marry him. Tokyograph

7.0

Crescent Moon

Oshima Goro, a janitor of an elementary school, becomes a gifted teacher who teaches children that have fallen behind even though he has no licence. Single mother Akasaka Chiaki opposes formal education in schools during the war and sees the potential in a school to give coaching for a free, well-rounded education. The two of them become a couple both at work and at home, and create new history in the industry in this story depicting a family’s 50 years, set against the backdrop of the Showa to Heisei era.

7.5

The Mission and Soul's Limit

The suspenseful story is set in the heart surgery department of a university hospital. Ishihara plays a medical trainee aiming to become a heart surgeon, while holding doubts about the real cause of the death of her father, who died during an operation.

7.0

Oboe no Nai Satsujin

An ex-cop suffering from dementia is marked by detectives pursuing a murder case. It is a case that he does not remember at all, but he has a strong motive for committing the crime... Is he really the murderer?

N/A

Sakura Housara

Shonosuke Furukehashi (Hiroshi Tamaki) is a young samurai and the second son of Sozaemon (Bunchin Katsura) of Togane Domain, Kazusa Province. Sozaemon serves as an attendant, but one day, he is suddenly suspected of accepting bribes. Forged documents written in handwriting startlingly identical to his offer incontrovertible evidence. Framed for accepting bribes he knows nothing about, Sozaemon commits ritual suicide for his “crime”. Shonosuke’s elder brother Katsunosuke (Satoshi Hashimoto), an assistant instructor at the domain’s training hall, is placed under house arrest. Because of that, Shonosuke leaves for Edo alone in order to clear the name of his beloved father.

10.0

How to speak Japanese

Yamada ga machi ni yatte kita (aka How to Speak Japanese)

N/A

Network Baby

A grieving young mother employed at a video game company is recruited to test and train a new virtual world. She finds a character in this world of fantasy who becomes her new albeit virtual daughter.

7.0

Tokyo Dragon

When I was young, Takato Kuroda took a hand at seeing "Qi" at my grandfather Shigaru who was a great feng shui, but since I closed my eyes with fear, I could not see myself ever since. From the complex with respect to the deceased grandfather, Dragon has developed a software to look at attention with computers, and has an office of management consultant. This summer, Tokyo was suffering from extreme weather which rain continues for over 20 days, and urban function was deprived. One day, a who visited an old shop owner and Suzuki with an introduction of an owner and Yazaki ...

N/A

The Taika Reforms

A drama introduces the well known coup in the 7th Century Japan followed by the Taika reform which marks the start of the nation by portraying the friendship and betrayal between two young men, Nakatomi no Kamatari and Soga no Iruka.

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