Contact & details
How their work is rated
6 rated titles, weighted by votes
8 wins from 11 nominations across all awards
- Mostly
- drama, comedy, family
- Active
- 2009–2025
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 91%
- Best known for
- Creepy
Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 12 of 17 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.
Their television work
2015–2016
- Fuji TV1
Across 1 series matched to TMDB, 11 episodes.
Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.
Credits18
13 films · 2 TV titles
Black Showman
2025 · Film
Produced
Faceless
2024 · Film
Produced
Do Unto Others
2023 · Film
Produced
The Brightest Roof in the Universe
2022 · Film
Produced
Once Hit the Bottom
2022 · Film
Produced
Pointy-Headed Gonta: The Story of the Two-Named Dog in the Fukushima Disaster
2022 · Film
Produced
Mr. Hikita, I Am Knocked Up
2019 · Film
Produced
Nomitori Samurai
2018 · Film
Produced
The Great Passage
2016 · TV
Produced
Creepy
2016 · Film
Produced
Desperate Sunflowers
2016 · Film
Produced
Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace
2015 · TV
Produced
Strawberry Night
2013 · Film
Produced
The Last Message
2012 · Film
Produced
Toilet
2010 · Film
Produced
- 2010
Toiretto
2010
Produced
- 2009
Oh, My Buddha!
2009
Produced
- 2004
Space Pirate Captain Herlock: Outside Legend - The Endless Odyssey
2004
Worked on
18 titles across 22 years, averaging 0.8 a year. The last five years hold at 1.2 a year. 9 of those 22 years carry no credit on file. 18 titles between 1997 and 2026, most in 2016 (3). 6 in the last five years shown, against 2 in the five before.
2 of 6 rated titles sit above their 6.6 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up. 6 titles rated on IMDb between 1997 and 2026, averaging 6.4 weighted by votes. Highest: The Great Passage (2016) at 7.4; lowest: Toiretto (2010) at 5.5.
Who they work with
- Hidetoshi Nishijima2
- Yûko Takeuchi2
- Drama9 of 12
- Comedy3 of 12
- Crime2 of 12
Names appearing on two or more of Kôbunsha’s produced titles, across the 12 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.
Works with12 companies
Companies that appear alongside Kôbunsha on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.
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