He won a honorable mention at the 1984 Director's Company Scenario Competition. After that he works on video cinema, TV drama script and more.

He made debut screenwriters for a theatrical movie with " The time of play is not over " released in 1991 .

The awards received at the Sitges' Catalonia International Film Festival 2000 at the 2000 "Best Secret " winner of the Best Screenplay Award for the Japanese . Won the 2004 Japan Academy Award Excellence Screenplay Award for " Yomogari Eri ". In 2018 he won the same award for the second time at "The Miracle of Namiya General Store ". Currently he does not do the screenplay for TV dramas and is one of the few screenwriters who sticks to screenplays of movie works.

Published by Raicho Bird's scenario class in the book "Master Saito Hiroshi's Scenario Class in a Week" , "It's been sticking to the original that presents the project by himself and presents it as a work" In a book review, the rough speech is introduced as "speech of a weakness system".

Initially, there were many screenplays of comedy touches, but also serious scripts are written.
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