Toru Hosokawa (Writer)

Human Trash

A washed-up former punk rocker is frustrated by his work at his grandmother's hot spring. He returns to Tokyo and finds himself entangled in a web of crime.

Release Date2001-03-31

Charactersd Iwata

Vote Count1

Polar Bear Cafe

Pushed by his mother to stop lazing around the house, a Panda searches for a part-time job but has troubling finding one to accommodate his laziness. He soon stumbles upon the Shirokuma Cafe, run by a Polar Bear who is holding interviews for a part-time position with his faithful customer Penguin. Panda applies for the job but fails the interview, with the job instead going to a human girl named Sasako. However, the others soon point Panda towards a part-time job at a nearby zoo.

Release Date2012-04-05

DepartmentWriting

JobSeries Composition

Episode Count102

Vote Count12

Coji-Coji

They are neither animals nor humans. They cannot be distinctly categorised as boys or girls. They are also not considered to be Earthlings or space creatures. There are no such specific titles in the world of Coji-Coji. Instead, it boils down to the meaning of "existence", an emphasis on the root of a character. This world hinges on all things natural, the pure existence of life. The protagonist, Coji-Coji, represents a perfect existence where truths of life are constantly being delivered and no words of malice can be spoken.

Release Date1997-10-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count101

Vote Count1

Washimo

Hiyori's grandmother died. To stop her crying all day and every day, Hiyori's father built a humanoid robot called Washimo, that looks like her granny, complete with dentures. It walks faster than a snail but slower than a rhinoceros beetle; in fact, however, it can outrun a bullet train.

Release Date2014-03-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count24

Late Night! The Genius Bakabon

Tensai Bakabon has been off the airwaves for almost 20 years! What's a Papa to do in dire times like the late 2010s? How about break every rule in the anime books, throw in celebrity guests, and take a nonsensical peek into the little things in modern life like otome games, blind dates, and the possibility that a series from the Showa era could make it to now! Is this really how it should be?!

Release Date2018-07-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobSeries Director

Episode Count12

Vote Count4

Kanpai Senshi After V

Kanpai Senshi After V (Cheers Warriors After V) is a parody Super Sentai, which started on Japanese TV in 2014. It follows the late night outs of the Sentai hero team Golden Warriors Treasure V, focusing on their drinking parties over their battles against evil. Their nights out consists of food and drinks at a restaurant which happens to be staffed by the villains they are fighting against, before heading to the karaoke bar.

Release Date2014-04-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count24

Vote Count3

The Laughing Salesman

Release Date2025-07-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Shimokitazawa Die Hard

Snack bar owner and her regular patron tell 11 different stories about the worst day in the lives of people in their neighborhood of Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. One of those instances involve a Tokyo politician being kidnapped during an S&M session. ~~ 11 screenwriters contribute 11 different stories with different casts under the theme of “The worst day of their life.”

Release Date2017-07-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Shinobanai! Crypto Ninja Sakuya

In the story, the Crypto Scroll enshrined in the ninja city of Kōka has been stolen, leading to a battle royal among ninja. Sakuya, Nemu, and Xiaolan were living their daily lives until they must unite their forces.

Release Date2023-10-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count38

Vote Count1

Gigant Big-Shot Tsukasa

Release Date2014-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count32

Chronicle of Isobe Isobē

Isobe Isobe is a samurai school student who dreams of becoming a great samurai but tries his best to slack off every day. If only we could live like this. A Reiwa period comedy dedicated to all Japanese people who try too hard.

Release Date2024-07-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count3

Tales of the Bizarre: 2026 Summer Special

The 2026 summer special of Fuji TV’s long-running anthology series presents four new strange tales. A veteran detective investigates a crime scene where evidence and bodies seem to vanish. A woman clearing her late mother’s apartment finds the past refusing to be thrown away. A young girl uses a mysterious costume to become an adult man. And a 26-year-old man discovers that his mother has been listed for auction online. Each story leads ordinary people into a surreal, unsettling world.

Release Date2026-06-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

A Copywriter Takes Paternity Leave

Yōsuke works as a copywriter for an advertising agency. His wife, Aiko, informs him that she is pregnant. Due to a case, Yōsuke asks for an unusually long six-month paternity leave. Nobody at his workplace has taken a six-month paternity leave before. A few months later, Yōsuke's daughter is born.

Release Date2021-07-09

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count6

Nurse Discipline

Yumi, is a freelance nurse working a temporary contract to help a local doctor. Filled with hope, she visits the doctor, but what she sees there is the gruesome sight of the previous nurse, Kaori, drugged and abused by the doctor every night! "Could it be me next?!" Yumi hides in a hospital room late at night to catch the perpetrators in the act. But the one who appears is Mamoru, the man she abandoned years ago. "You said pretty things about becoming a nurse, but I'll show you just how slutty you are..." As the needle plunges into Yumi's arm as she desperately resists, the angel in white falls to the depths of a lustful beast..

Release Date1997-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Shouga Dorama Oda Nobunaga

Oda Nobunaga slips back in time to the present and arrives on the set of "Oda Nobunaga", a historical drama serial. "This is not who I really am!", the short-tempered Nobunaga loses his temper and rewrites the script without permission. It was a small, small-scale drama, just a bunch of maniacal and slightly funny episodes, not a "Taiga Drama" at all. Now filming has begun on a historical drama directed by the real Nobunaga that is "ridiculous but all true"!

Release Date2017-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Shouga Dorama Tokugawa ☆ Ieyasu

Release Date2021-03-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count4

Mr. Hikita, I Am Knocked Up

A couple are perfectly happy to not breed and procreate. Thus their life is a content and unselfish one. He writes and admires his wife. However, she informs him that she wants a child. They try and try, but alas are not successful. It is time to visit a physician to unlock the fertility riddle. Well, he is the culprit it seems

Release Date2019-10-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Golden Orchestra

When Chizuru joins as a teacher at Umega High School, she hears an amateur orchestra perform. Reminiscing her old days of playing the violin, she decides to enroll in one.

Release Date2016-11-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

My Landlord and Me

An elderly lady who is the protagonist's landlord lives on the first floor, and the protagonist Tarō Yabe, a good-for-nothing comedian, live on the second floor. Her way of greeting is always "Gokigenyo", General MacArthur is her type, she’s never had a beef bowl or a hamburger before and she mistakes Tarō for an actor… It’s all about a "strange life together" of a 39-year-old Tarō Yabe and a 87-year-old "landlord". It’s humorous and heartwarming daily interactions between two people living in a corner of the big city, Tokyo.

Release Date2020-03-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count15

Paikaji Nankai Sakusen

Sasaki has had a difficult period, going through a divorce and losing his job. To take a break and start anew, Sasaki decides to visit Iriomote Island. While there, Sasaki's belongings are stolen by four homeless men. Sasaki then lives with three other people: a survivalist, a city man and a girl who speaks Kansai dialect. One day, Sasaki hears news about the four homeless men and decides to get revenge ...

Release Date2012-07-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

ドクター皆川～手術成功5秒前～

Release Date2023-10-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

3年B組皆川先生～2.5時幻目～

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tokyo OnlyPic 2008

Virtuoso animated satire on the Olympic Games as a media spectacle. In the form of a news broadcast, the strangest sports, rituals and participants are included. The maker invited several animation artists to provide contributions to this truly colourful procession. Fun. Great fun.

Release Date2008-08-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

あぶない刑事にヨロシク

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

劇場の灯を消すな！本多劇場編

Release Date2020-09-26

Episode Count1

少年メリケンサックを探せ!!!

Release Date2008-12-07

Episode Count15

Vote Count2

Samidare Chūbō

A small Chinese restaurant is about to open tomorrow. Mr. Lee, an apprentice cook, is preparing the dishes and Kanematsu, a young waitress, is writing the menu by hand. Just as the preparations seem to be progressing steadily, the manager collapses. Kanematsu waits for a call from the senior waitress who has accompanied him to the hospital, and continues to write the menu silently under the broken fluorescent light. Then the phone rings, telling him that the manager will be sick tonight. And the night is over... The script and direction of the film are highly effective in making us feel the character of each of the characters and the gentle connection between them in the minimal time and space of just one night and almost only in the kitchen. The strength of the pictures in each scene is also worthy of note.

Release Date1993-01-01