Nojima Shinji
- Name: Nojima Shinji
- Native name: 野島伸司
- Nationality: Japanese
- Gender: Male
- Born: March 4, 1965
- Age: 59
"I had to find my way of establishing my own identity," he admitted candidly in a recent interview. "If it hadn' been scriptwriting, it might well be something else."
He moved to Tokyo and got a part-time job in a restaurant, while he worked during the day on a secondhand word processor. The script that won the competition became Kimi ga Uso wo Tsuita (You Lied), and was screened in 1988. This wasn't the end of his problems, however; having no formal training, he had to teach himself how to write, frequently ending up with unworkable scripts.
Nevertheless, Nojima managed to get one serial on the air every year, and scored his first huge hit in 1991 with Hyakuikkaime no Puropozu (101 Proposals), the story of a bumbling salaryman who just wouldn't give up on the girl he loved.
As the bubble deflated and early '90s Japan began to turn sour, Nojima took a risk and injected some social comment into his work. The result, TBS' Kou Kou Kyoushi (High School Teacher) in 1993, aroused a storm of controversy and eerily foreshadowed the problems of teenage violence that concern the Japanese authorities today. Also in 1993, Fuji TV screened his Hitotsu Yane no Shita (Under the Same Roof), a more positive look at modern family life, also including his first part written for a non-Japanese actor. This serial proved his biggest ratings success to date.
Nojima has continued to write stylish, love-centered dramas for Fuji TV while working on more substantial serials for TBS. Earlier this year he tackled the treatment of mentally handicapped patients in Seija no Koushin (When The Saints Go Marching In), a show sadly marred by histrionic over-acting. Recently finished is Seikimatsu no Uta (The Last Song), his debut on NTV, which marked another departure in style. It takes a whimsical approach to the past and future dreams of two bewildered elderly men, and is a sign of the direction Nojima wishes to explore in future stories. "Customs and fashions change," Nojima himself commented, "but the essence of human nature does not." - DramaWiki Edit Biography
Screenwriter
Title | Rating |
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Nanyobi ni Umareta no | 8.1 |
Eroi Kareshi ga Watashi wo Madowasu | 6.9 |
Yuri Dano Kan Dano | 6.0 |
Takane no Hana | 7.7 |
Kareshi wo Loan de Kaimashita | 5.9 |
Kiss Shitai Matsuge | 5.2 |
Ame ga Furu to Kimi wa Yasashii | 6.7 |
Papakatsu | 7.1 |
Our House | 7.6 |
Algernon ni Hanataba wo | 8.1 |
Oniichan, Gacha | 7.5 |
Platonic | 7.4 |
Ashita, Mama ga Inai | 8.3 |
49 | 7.5 |
Shinikare | 7.3 |
Risou no Musuko | 7.6 |
GOLD | 7.3 |
Love Shuffle | 8.0 |
Bara no nai Hanaya | 7.9 |
Aikurushii | 7.6 |
Koinu no Waltz | 6.5 |
Pride | 8.3 |
Kou Kou Kyoushi 2003 | 7.2 |
Golden Bowl | 7.7 |
Strawberry on the Shortcake | 7.2 |
Food Fight | 7.3 |
Utsukushii Hito | 7.6 |
Lipstick | 7.7 |
Seikimatsu no Uta | 6.6 |
Seija no Koushin | 7.8 |
Hitotsu Yane no Shita 2 | 7.8 |
Miseinen | 7.5 |
Ningen Shikkaku | 8.1 |
Kono yo no Hate | 7.5 |
Kou Kou Kyoushi | 6.9 |
Hitotsu Yane no Shita | 8.0 |
Kou Kou Kyoushi | 7.6 |
Ai to Iu Na no Moto ni | 7.4 |
101st Marriage Proposal | 7.5 |
Suteki na Kataomoi | 7.1 |
Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari Series 1 | 8.0 |
Aishiatteru Kai! Sotsugyoshiki Special | 6.4 |
Aishiatteru Kai | 7.4 |
Kimi ga Uso wo Tsuita | 7.6 |
Drama
Title | Rating |
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Lipstick
Japanese Drama, 1999, 12 eps
Yoshioka Atsushi
(Guest Role)
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7.7
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