Known for Editing
Born
March 18, 1960 (age 66)
Birthplace
Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Filmography
53 films, 33 shows


Foxing: Kitsuné-tsuki
2026 · 15m
country: Japan
Shinano is a character designer drifting through a monotonous routine. Her work is absorbed into a commercially driven system, and on social media, she feels no sense of belonging, deepening her loneliness. One day, Koyami—a fox-masked character from her old doodles—appears, followed by other discarded creations, blurring reality and imagination. As she wanders through her own mind, Shinano realizes they are fragments of herself—the shape of her loneliness—and chooses to keep creating while living with it.


Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
2026 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
Nobita and friends finds a secret underwater castle packed with mysteries and riches. With Doraemon's high-tech gadgets, they dive into an ocean adventure mixing humor, teamwork, and imagination in a breathtaking aquatic world.


Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise
2025 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
In 1944 on Peleliu, Tamaru writes fake heroic tales of Japanese soldiers' deaths to families. In the hell of bombs, hunger, thirst and disease, he bonds with Yoshiki. Together they cling to life in this atrocious war of attrition. Only 34 survive. What do these two young men witness in the madness?


Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Art World Tales
2025 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
Nobita and Doraemon enter the world in a European Renaissance painting, but run into trouble as they hop from piece to piece in search of a malevolent time traveler who wishes to recreate the extinct pigment of "Artoria Blue".


Ghost Cat Anzu
2024 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Precocious tween Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in rural Japan. Living in a temple with her grandfather, she meets Anzu, a giant "ghost cat" and notorious layabout tasked with looking after her. Distrustful of her new guardian, Karin sabotages Anzu's odd jobs for the townsfolk and befriends the eccentric local forest spirits. In an effort to win Karin over, Anzu accidentally makes a deal with the devil, and all Hell breaks loose.


Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Earth Symphony
2024 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
When a malevolent entity intent on eradicating music from the world surfaces, Nobita and his friends must unite with supernatural companions to safeguard the planet.


The Imaginary
2023 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
Amanda and her imaginary friend Rudger go on thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger finds himself alone, he faces a mysterious threat.


Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
2023 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. The school had old railroad cars for classrooms and was run by an extraordinary man – its founder and headmaster, Sōsaku Kobayashi – who deeply valued children's independence, and who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.


Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Sky Utopia
2023 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Doraemon, Nobita and his friends go to find Utopia, a perfect land in the sky where everyone lives with happiness, using an airship having a time warp function.


Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021
2022 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
During summer vacation Nobita picks up a small rocket containing Papi, a palm-sized alien president escaping rebels on his home planet Pirika.


Tomorrow's Leaves
2021 · 9m
country: Japan
The annual arrival of the message leaf causes concern – something is undeniably wrong. Its usually vibrant and lasting colours quickly fade, and it suddenly withers and crumbles. Five envoys, from five diverse lands, are dispatched to find out what has happened. The envoys travel to a distant land, quietly guided by tiny spirits. Each envoy has its own strengths and vulnerabilities. They compete and support each other as they draw closer to their destination, facing treacherous terrain and difficult conditions. Through athletic challenges and the uniting power of sport, they discover the positive fundamental values that come with playful competition. Together, the envoys approach near the source of the message leaf. Can they restore life to a future in peril?


Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur
2020 · 1h 51m
country: Japan
Nobita accidentally finds a fossil dinosaur egg mixed with rocks in the dinosaur fossil exhibition site that he had visited before. He returns it to its original state with the 'time blanket'.


Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration
2019 · 1h 51m
country: Japan
After being mocked for believing that rabbits live on the Moon, Nobita uses one of Doraemon’s gadgets to create a hidden lunar kingdom. Accompanied by a mysterious new classmate named Luca, Nobita and his friends travel to the Moon’s far side, where they discover children with extraordinary powers and become drawn into a dangerous conflict that reaches far beyond Earth.


Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island
2018 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
Upon hearing about the story of Treasure Island, Nobita dreams of discovering and exploring his own treasure island, despite the fact all of the Earth has been mapped already.


Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!
2017 · 58m
country: Japan
The older boys are graduating school and recount their memories together. The next day everyone defends the graduation ceremony against Zundar and Dadacha's Second-Button Monster, but Yumoto struggles using his love power.


Mary and The Witch's Flower
2017 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest where she finds a strange flower and an old broom, none of which is as ordinary as it seems.


Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi
2017 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
Doraemon and Nobita discover a mysterious golden ring far beneath the ice in Antarctica, leading them to uncover an ancient, ruined city.


Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan
2016 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Doraemon and his friends travel to ancient Japan where they meet Kukuru. When Kukuru tells them that his tribe has been enslaved by Gigazombie, Doraemon decides to help him.


Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes
2015 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Nobita and friends decide to make a movie inspired by the space adventures of their heroes, but their fiction turns into a reality.


Doraemon: New Nobita's Great Demon - Peko and the Exploration Party of Five
2014 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
Nobita is followed by a stray dog on his way home and decides to help it find its original owner with the help of Doraemon. They find out that the dog is actually a prince in its homeland in Africa.


The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
2013 · 2h 17m
country: Japan
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she must confront her fate.


Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum
2013 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Doraemon and his friends travel to the 22nd century to look for his golden bell, which was stolen by a notorious thief called Kaito DX.


Stitch and the Planet of Sand
2012 · 48m
country: Unknown
To confront a planetary war at the sand planet of Katūna, Stitch must leave Yūna and Earth behind.


Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles – Animal Adventure
2012 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Nobita and Doraemon use time tree Mochi and catch a big bird, which has been extinct for 500 years ago. To protect the animal, Nobita and Doraemon go to Beremon Island, overseen by a golden beetle named Herakles.


Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: Winged Angels
2011 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
Nobita and Doraemon find a giant robot in pieces which they later assemble. It turns out to be a destructive weapon and the gang must save Earth from an imminent invasion.


Colorful
2010 · 2h 7m
country: Japan
Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was, before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life.


Crayon Shin-chan: Super-Dimension! The Storm Called My Bride
2010 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
Shin-chan is approached by his time-traveling future bride-to-be Tamiko, who asks him to help save his adult self from the ruler of Neo Tokio.


Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King
2010 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Nobita, Doraemon, and the rest must come to the aid of mermaid princess Sophia, whose undersea kingdom is suffering under the weight of a war. Their only hope lies in a mythical sword from the planet Aqua...


Crayon Shin-chan: Roar! Kasukabe Animal Kingdom
2009 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
Shin-chan's parents have turned into animals, and environmental extremists are to blame! Shin-chan's going to have to put things right.


Doraemon: The New Record of Nobita's Spaceblazer
2009 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
Nobita finds a passage to a spaceship in another dimension. With their new friends, he and Doraemon fight the cruel leader of an exploited planet.


Pattenrai!! - Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari
2008 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
The film is based on the true story of Yoichi Hatta (1886-1942), a civil engineer who traveled to Japanese-ruled Taiwan in 1910 to build a complex irrigation system in the barren southwest. Hatta manages to overcome the initial doubts of local farmers, but a tragic tunnel accident eventually halts the project and shakes his confidence.


Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
2008 · 1h 52m
country: Japan
A sapling Nobita discovers is turned into a plant-boy with help from Doraemon, and becomes Earth's only hope at passing judgment from the dryadic aliens of the Green Planet.


Dog in a Sidecar
2007 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor of a neighborhood fishing pond. There she meets a shy girl who needs her help baiting a hook and reminds her of herself in the fourth grade.


Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users
2007 · 1h 52m
country: Japan
Nobita wishes the world into a magic-reliant one with Doraemon's Moshimo-Box, and, along with his friends, must stop an asteroid from hitting the planet with help from a sorcerer-in-training.


Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
2006 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
After bringing a fossilized egg back to life with the Time Cloth, Nobita finds himself the owner of a baby dinosaur. Everything is fine until it grows up. Nobita and friends use Doraemon's time machine to return it back to its own time.


Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey
2004 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Nobita, believing he and Doraemon had done a good deed by saving stray cats and dogs and sending them back in time by 300 million years, discover that the usage of Doraemon's Ray of Evolution had created a cat-and-dog-person society equal to Nobita's time. When an asteroid attack is set to hit the city, Nobita and his friends must save Doraemon and ease tensions between the two sides.


River
2003 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
Five old friends meet again at a school reunion and discuss their painful memories. The friends then run into an old acquaintance who was an exchange student. The exchange student tells the friends about a new drug able to erase memories, but they have to steal it from his factory ...


Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! Yakiniku Road of Honor
2003 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
It's yakiniku night for the Noharas! But before they can dig in, they get wrapped up in a sizzling conspiracy and are forced to go on the run.


Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! The Battle of the Warring States
2002 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Shin-chan somehow travels back in time, where he promptly involves himself in samurai wars and political intrigue, changing history left and right!


Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom
2002 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
Nobita, Doraemon, and the rest travel to the far future, on an inhabited planet where humans and robots coexist. The Empress of the Robot Kingdom is plotting to strip the robot inhabitants of their emotions, so it's up to Nobita and his friends to stop the plan, while also helping a robot boy named Poko from getting caught in the middle.


Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves
2001 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Doraemon and his friends have to rescue the people of Birdopia from the wrongdoing of vengeful former bird troopers before they unleash a wicked ancient dragon.


Crayon Shin-chan: Jungle That Invites Storm
2000 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
The Noharas go on an Action Mask-themed cruise, where all the grown-ups get kidnapped by a gang of monkeys. It's up to the kids to rescue them!


Crayon Shin-chan: Blitzkrieg! Pig's Hoof's Secret Mission
1998 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
It all begins when a secret agent hiding in the ship where dinner Futaba school students. The Pig Hoof follow and take the boat with her, Shin Chan and his friends on board. From there, Shin Chan, Masao, Nene, Kazama and Boo Chan van with Agent everywhere as their hostages.


Picnic
1996 · 1h 12m
country: Japan
Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best vantage point to view the final event.


Crayon Shin-chan: Great Adventure In Henderland
1996 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
The Futaba Kindergarten kids are so excited for their trip to the Henderland amusement park, but Shin-chan soon learns there are evil forces at play!


Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express
1996 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
Doraemon went missing for 3 days. But it turns out later that he went to the 22nd century to buy a mystery galactic express train ticket whose destination is a secret until the passengers arrive there and see for themselves.


2112: The Birth of Doraemon
1995 · 30m
country: Japan
Acting as a prequel, this short subject shows the life of Doraemon before traveling to the 20th century: how he was made, how he was partially broken, how he lost his ears, how he met the Nobi family and decides to return to the past to help Nobita.


Crayon Shin-chan: The Hidden Treasure of the Buri Buri Kingdom
1994 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
The Noharas win a vacation to the Kingdom of Buri Buri -- but the whole thing was just a clever ploy by an evil organization to kidnap Shin-chan!


Crayon Shin-chan: Action Mask vs. Leotard Devil
1993 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Everyone's favorite TV superhero Action Mask shows up in Kasukabe, and he's trying to get something from Shin-chan -- but what could it be?


Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits
1991 · 40m
country: Japan
A Doraemon anime film. It premiered in theatres on March 9, 1991 on a bill with Doraemon: Nobita in Dorabian Nights. The movie's original plot was written by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko.


Pro Golfer Saru: Kouga Hikyou! Kage no Ninpou Golfer Sanjou!
1987 · 40m
country: Japan
Set in a hidden valley in the Japanese Alps, Saru and his family must battle a trio of golf-assassins.


Pro Golfer Saru: Super Golf World e no Chousen!!
1986 · 43m
country: Japan
Set in the Super Golf World theme park, Saru faces the world's greats at a tournament run by the ever-present Mr. X.


The Ballad of Narayama
1983 · 2h 10m
country: Japan
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.