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name: "Hiroshi Kashiwabara"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "6 September 1949"
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# Hiroshi Kashiwabara

## Identity

Hiroshi Kashiwabara

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hiroshi-kashiwabara
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hiroshi-kashiwabara
- **IMDb ID:** nm0440569
- **TMDB ID:** 66156
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3812783
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3812783, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440569/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66156

Writer. Born 6 September 1949 in Chuo, Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 6 September 1949, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
- **Active:** 1994–2000
- **Also known as:** Kashiwabara Hiroshi, Kanji Kashiwabara, Kanji Kashiwa, Kashiwabara Kanji
- **Frequently works with:** [Wataru Mimura](https://film.one/person/wataru-mimura.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3812783, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440569/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66156

## Biography

Hiroshi Kashiwabara (also credited as Kanji Kashiwabara or Kanji) is a Japanese screenwriter and director. Born on 6 September 1949 in Chūō, Tokyo, he studied at Nihon University and began working part-time for Toho in 1973 on the children's series *Kure Kure Takora*.

He wrote the screenplay for *Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla* (1994) and co-wrote those for *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999) and *Godzilla vs. Megaguirus* (2000), both with Wataru Mimura. Kashiwabara has also contributed scripts to the *Detective Conan* television series and films, as well as several *Lupin the Third* animated features.

*Sources: wikizilla.org, en.wikipedia.org, detectiveconanworld.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999), Fi1m 63, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-2000-millennium.md)

## Complete filmography (63)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Detective is hard.* (2019), Director
- *Detective Conan: Episode One - The Great Detective Turned Small* (2017), Screenplay
- *Saraba Abunai Deka* (2016), Writer
- *25* (2014), Screenplay
- *June 6th* (2013), Director
- *Straight to Heaven* (2008), Director, Writer
- *Detective Conan: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure* (2007), Screenplay
- *Lupin the Third: Seven Days Rhapsody* (2006), Screenplay
- *Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem* (2006), Writer
- *Madamada Abunai Deka* (2005), Writer
- *Lupin the Third: Operation: Return the Treasure* (2003), Screenplay
- *Jingi 32: The Price of Betrayal* (2002), Screenplay
- *Jingi 31: Boryokudan Re-armed* (2002), Screenplay
- *Jingi 30: In-law Cemetery* (2002), Screenplay
- *Renkan Brothers Get Money!* (2001), Director, Screenplay
- *Lupin the Third: Alcatraz Connection* (2001), Screenplay
- *Godzilla vs. Megaguirus* (2000), Screenplay
- *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999), Screenplay — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-2000-millennium.md)
- *Abunai Deka Forever The Movie* (1998), Writer
- *Abunai Deka Forever TV Special '98* (1998), Screenplay
- *Gun Breath A Perfect Night to Die* (1998), Director, Screenplay
- *Be-Bop High School 2-2* (1998), Screenplay
- *Be-Bop High School 10* (1997), Screenplay
- *Be-Bop High School 9* (1997), Screenplay
- *Be-Bop High School 8* (1997), Screenplay
- *Son of a Cat* (1997), Director
- *Be-Bop High School 7* (1997), Screenplay
- *Abunai Deka Returns* (1996), Writer
- *Be-Bop High School 2* (1996), Screenplay
- *Be-Bop High School 1* (1996), Screenplay
- *Detective Conan* (1996), series, Writer
- *Carnival of Wolves* (1995), Screenplay
- *Lupin the Third: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure* (1995), Writer
- *Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus* (1995), Screenplay
- *XX: Beautiful Target* (1995), Screenplay
- *Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla* (1994), Screenplay
- *Shizukanaru Don* (1994), series, Writer
- *Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2* (1994), Screenplay
- *New York Undercover Cop* (1993), Screenplay
- *Lupin the Third: Voyage to Danger* (1993), Writer
- *Bastard LAST DOWN TEN* (1993), Screenplay
- *Lupin the Third: From Siberia with Love* (1992), Screenplay
- *さらわれたい女* (1992), Screenplay
- *The Man With No Name* (1991), Screenplay
- *Lupin the Third: Napoleon's Dictionary* (1991), Screenplay
- *Lupin the Third: The Hemingway Papers* (1990), Screenplay
- *Crime Hunter 2 - Bullets of Betrayal* (1989), Writer
- *Beppin Town* (1989), Writer
- *Roppongi Banana Boys* (1989), Screenplay
- *Gunhed* (1989), Co-Writer
- *Mottomo Abunai Deka* (1989), Writer
- *Break Out* (1988), Screenplay
- *Dangerous Cops Again* (1988), Screenplay
- *墓場から生きかえった男* (1988), Screenplay
- *Dangerous Cops* (1987), Screenplay
- *Young Lady Detectives: Heart Beat!* (1987), Screenplay
- *Dangerous Detective* (1986), series, Screenplay
- *Pro Hunter* (1981), series, Screenplay
- *Keishi-K* (1980), series, Writer
- *Detective Story* (1979), series, Writer
- *Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka* (1978), series, Writer
- *The Great Chase* (1978), series, Writer
- *Wounded Angels* (1974), series, Writer

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