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Writing
Moral
Born February 25, 1986 (age 40)
Morale, born in Fukuoka, is a Japanese director and screenwriter. He graduated from Waseda University and has since worked as director and scriptwriter, both for theater as well as for TV. He has won the Best Director award at Golden Comedy Festival 2013 and the Best Play award at Sakichi Sato Theater Festival 2014.
Known For
Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary · 2024Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary
★ 5.72024
MovieAnimationAdventure
Follow the friendship between the Nobara family's pet dog Shiro and a "small dinosaur". Their connection helps the growth of Shinnosuke and the Kusakabe Defense Squad.
Mission: Sorta Possible · 2025Mission: Sorta Possible
2025
Movie
The film is a slapstick action comedy about company employees, known as "underground employees," who secretly handle problems that cannot be solved in public. The story unfolds when the group receives a mission to demolish a shuttered shopping district in order to build a commercial complex. Also appearing in the film are underground employees of rival companies with the same mission, a large landowner who is the target of both companies, a passionate man trying to revive a shopping district that is on the verge of collapse, and a man with some kind of secret.
ゾンビ1/2 〜Right Side of the Living Dead〜 · 2026ゾンビ1/2 〜Right Side of the Living Dead〜
2026
Movie
Style of Hiroshi Nohara's Lunch · 2025Style of Hiroshi Nohara's Lunch
★ 7.22025
SeriesAnimationComedy
The series follows Hiroshi Nohara's lunchtime philosophy, focusing on budget and break time constraints, cooking trivia, preparation methods, and everyday dilemmas for salarymen, including deciding on lunchtime treats, finding quick meals, and venting about bosses.
The Shadows of Who We Once Were · 2023The Shadows of Who We Once Were
★ 6.82023
SeriesMysteryCrime
A group of 23 former classmates of Nezu’s 6th grade class 2 gathered at their alma mater for a reunion and were involved in a major incident in which they were confined for three days and 13 people died. The one who confined them was Miki Yumizaki, a former classmate. Miki’s purpose was to test how much human “goodness” could be maintained in a life-threatening situation. Who will betray whom and who will kill whom? What actions will people take in the midst of a disordered situation? Revenge, bullying, betrayal, exposure, and other unpredictable developments continue in this shocking suspense!
Sweat and Soap · 2022Sweat and Soap
★ 6.32022
SeriesComedy
A love story between Natori Kotaro who works as a product development planner at a cosmetics and bath products company and has a fetish for smells and Yaeshima Asako who works in the accounting department and has an inferiority complex about her body smell when she sweats.
Not the Girl, Not Her · 2021Not the Girl, Not Her
★ 4.02021
SeriesDramaFamily
Masaya Kotani is an associate professor at a university who has led an unremarkable life. One day, however, he has a series of chance encounters with Reiko Nonoyama, a woman who attends the university where Masaya works, and they become interested in each other. They say a miracle happens when coincidences happen three times in a row. Masaya tries to keep his distance from Reiko, but is drawn in by her natural charm, and falls deeper and deeper into the swamp of love…
14 Circumstances of Boys With Reasons Why They Cannot Return to Jimoto · 202114 Circumstances of Boys With Reasons Why They Cannot Return to Jimoto
★ 5.02021
SeriesDrama
Kansai Johnny's Jr. members, who are rapidly gaining attention, are reunited! 'I want to go back to my hometown, but I can't go home!' is an omnibus drama of boys who have a reason to go to Tokyo to pursue their dreams! Members were selected from "Naniwa Boys", "Ae! Group", and "Lil Kansai" for boys who cannot return to their hometown in Kansai due to various circumstances! A drama about men who went to Tokyo to pursue their dreams, but had their own circumstances and couldn't go home even if they wanted to.


