Hiroto Totsuka (Director)

Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo

At a high school entrance ceremony, high school student Kotoko Aihara, who isn't that smart, notices pretty boy Naoki Irie. She falls in love with him immediately. Kotoko initially doesn't express her feelings to him, but finally has a chance to tell him how she feels. Unfortunately, Naoki turns Kotoko down, saying "I don't like dumb women." One day, Kotoko Aihara's house is severely damaged by an earthquake. Until the house is rebuilt, Kotoko Aihara and her father decide to live with her father's friend. When Kotoko Aihara moves to her new temporary house, she is surprised to learn that Naoki Irie lives there as well.

Release Date2013-03-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Episode Count16

Vote Count46

I'm Inside Mari

Isao Komori is a college dropout who spends his days cooped up in his apartment playing video games. The highlight of his day is visiting a convenience store where an angel-like high-school girl called Mari visits every night. One morning Komori wakes up in Mari's body. Another "Komori" inhabits his old body, and Mari has disappeared. Komori struggles to maintain Mari's ordinary life and starts to investigate Mari's disappearance.

Release Date2017-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count8

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Literary Virgin

Kanoko Tsukishiro is a 26-year-old woman who doesn't know what love is. She works in the literature editorial department. Saku Kagaya is a popular novelist who can not love. They fall in love with each other.

Release Date2018-09-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count5

Love Live! School Idol Musical the DRAMA

Release Date2024-11-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count3

Love and Hongkong

A new movie director attempts to make a documentary about a Japanese actress/model who is returning to her hometown of Hong Kong. He is seen struggling with his efforts to edit his film shoots while the audience gets to see his video segments. At times the actress is cooperative at other times she is really difficult. The audience is also introduced to the city of Hong Kong by way of the narrative of the documentary so far. Then suddenly the actress is kidnapped in front of the director while at a film shoot. At the same time, he encounters a strange woman who insists that he should know her. Both the director and strange woman then have their own stories to tell about what they have experienced. The strange Japanese woman has come to Hong Kong to meet with her date that she arranged on-line. The movie then proceeds to reveal a confounding amount of mysterious hints as to the many questions being raised as to what is going on.

Release Date2017-10-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Deaikei Site de 70 nin to Jissaini Atte Sono Hito ni Ai Sona Hon wo Susume Makutta 1 nen no Koto

Nanako Hanada works as a manager of a bookstore. Her bookstore doesn’t have many customers, due to the rise of digital formats. Nanako Hanada and her husband Ken are also on the verge of divorcing. Her work life and personal life are equally in rough shape. One day, Nanako Hanada signs up for online dating site AU×AU and leaves one sentence in her profile, which is "I will recommend a book that suits you right now." Whenever she meets someone in person from the dating site AU×AU, she recommends a book to them.

Release Date2021-02-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

Investigation Division 1

The First Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, which is based in the Dai-Tokyo Police Station , is headed by Keiichiro Funakoshi, the Chief of the First Investigation Division . This is a department that specializes in considerations that lead to solutions. Along with Ryu Fujii , a new detective who was newly assigned for some reason , they lead to the solution of many difficult cases one after another while colliding with each other's strengths.

Release Date2022-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Haiiro No Otome

Release Date2023-09-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Vote Count1

Faking Beethoven

Beethoven, the world's most famous musician and iconic solitary genius. But what if that image was entirely fabricated… by his own secretary?

Release Date2025-09-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count2

Last Night Rewind

Small miracles take place within three families. These different stories revolve around a false kidnapping, a pious child and a forsaken dream. Based on a stage production by Saijo Mitsutoshi.

Release Date2017-11-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count1