Masayoshi Azuma

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Masayoshi Azuma

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Yagyu Jubei: The Fate of the World
Screenplay
The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover what happened to 10 of the shogun’s spies that never returned. Matsukata Hiroki, one of the last surviving members of the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema proves that he has not lost a step as he portrays an older and wiser Yagyu Jubei in a movie that brings the best of samurai filmmaking into the 21st century. Summoned from semi-retirement by Shogun Iemitsu, Jubei is asked to take to the road and investigate a clan rumored to be preparing explosives for a rebellion. With help from a beautiful female ninja they head into the Shirakawa domain where the fighting skills of both are tested time and again as they strive to destroy a conspiracy that could bring a new Warring States Era. In the 1960's Yagyu Jubei was the signature role of the great Konoe Jushiro, father of Matsukata Hiroki. This brings the character full circle.
Tenshin
Screenplay
Tenshin Okakura left the great achievement to the Japanese modern art. This is a story of Tenshin's life and conflict and teacher-student love between Tenshin, who rediscovered art of Japan and tried to produce new beauty in Meiji period, and his young pupils, Taikan Yokoyama, Shunsou Hishida, Kanzan Shimomura, Buzan Kimura.
ルート42
Writer
Tatsuya and Yoko promised to marry, but Yoko then died in a car accident. Tatsuya quit his job and spends his days thinking about suicide. One day, Tatsuya meets Yuri Takahashi, who looks exactly like Yoko. They then go on a road trip.
Ramen Samurai
Writer
Hikari (Dai Watanabe) receives news that his father passed away. Hikari decides to take over his father's ramen shop. To do so, Hikari quits his job at a design company and goes back to his home town of Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture. Now, taking over his father's shop Hikari has problems recreating his father's recipe. Hikari thinks back to when he was a child and how his father believed Hikari never used his imagination. Hikari relies on his memory in attempt to recreate his father's recipe.
Flower & Snake 3
Writer
A businessman is ruthless with his competitors, and in response his competitors after being driven out of business kidnap aforementioned business man's wife and start training her to be a porn star, particularly of the S&M/bondage variety
Dreaming Awake
Writer
Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man is fixated on with the Second World War. He feels a sense of frustration at the irrational sacrifice of young people's lives during the war six decades earlier. Daisuke finds that he can vent his frustrations to Kimuro, who experienced the war firsthand. Kimuro's wife, Emiko, is also troubled by memories of the war. She lost a loved one in the war and has never gotten over it. And Kimuro himself also has something from the past that he has yet to face. He believes that the burden of his unresolved past will eventually be the death of him. When Daisuke's neurosis causes him to quit school, life changes for all three of them.
Doubles
Writer
A hard-up locksmith and a vengeful computer nerd meet online, adopting the monikers Key and Gun respectively. Together they hatch a perfect heist against a consulting company -- Gun's former employer. At first everything goes perfectly. Gun's expert hacking from his laptop and Key's veteran touch quickly open the safe. Unfortunately, an overzealous security guard makes an unscheduled visit. After dispatching him, the two flee to the closest elevator, only to get stuck between the eighth and ninth floors
Codename: Tomoko
Writer
An action in which a former CIA female operative captures a revenge drama that unfolds against a huge secret organization.
Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3
Screenplay
The first of three V-Cinema sequels.
Boys, Be Ambitious
Screenplay
Chunba and Kotetsu, grows up in the working class neighborhood of Kishiwada in Osaka in the mid-seventies. Their life in school is a never-ending series of fights and reprisals against rival gangs landing them in trouble with organised crime and in the juvenile court.
Captive Toriko Confinement Island
Screenplay
The second installment of the "Toriko" series, an erotic violence drama with a sexy idol cast. A beautiful newscaster was abducted on an isolated island in the sea. And what awaits her there, is a ruthless island dominatrix, who is...
Rei Tin: Ko Ladies!! Socho saigo no hi
Writer
Based on a manga by Masahide Motohashi.
Rei Tin: Ko Ladies!! Socho saigo no hi
Adaptation
Based on a manga by Masahide Motohashi.
Toriko: Eyes of a Rapist
Original Story
A dangerous lunatic going around breaking into the apartments of various women and brutally raping and killing them while wearing a black outfit and black bondage mask.One night he breaks into the apartment of a care worker and rapes her.He doesn't kill her though as he finds that he falls in love with her.So instead,he returns on different nights and rapes her time and time again...pretty rough life for her considering she was gang-raped when she was a schoolgirl(shown in flashbacks).She falls in love with the detective investigating the case,but the rapist is still on the loose.
Toriko: Eyes of a Rapist
Screenplay
A dangerous lunatic going around breaking into the apartments of various women and brutally raping and killing them while wearing a black outfit and black bondage mask.One night he breaks into the apartment of a care worker and rapes her.He doesn't kill her though as he finds that he falls in love with her.So instead,he returns on different nights and rapes her time and time again...pretty rough life for her considering she was gang-raped when she was a schoolgirl(shown in flashbacks).She falls in love with the detective investigating the case,but the rapist is still on the loose.
Rei Tin: Ko Ladies!!
Screenplay
Based on a manga by Masahide Motohashi.
Yokohama Bakkuretai
Screenplay
Based on the comic book by Tetsu Kusamoto.
Never Comeback
Screenplay
A criminal breaks out of prison and is quickly back to his old ways.
The West Tako Cheerleaders
Screenplay
A boy seeks manhood in joining his school’s militaristic cheer squad.