# Chiho Watanabe

Chiho Watanabe (渡辺 千穂, Watanabe Chiho, born 18 October 1972, in Tokyo) is a Japanese screenwriter.
Watanabe is a member of the Scenario Writers Association. She is married to freelance announcer Shinichi Hatori.

## Biography

She was born in Tokyo.
In 2000, she worked for a company as an office lady, originally thought that she wanted to write something, because she liked her books originally, as a result of the screenplay version of the television drama Fuzoroi no Ringo-tachi taken from a bookstore she am was willing for her path of screenwriting. In the era of underwriting worked on plotting screenplay and stayed in the eyes of producers of television stations, she made her debut as a screenwriter at the 2002 TV drama Tentai Kansoku (Kansai Telecasting Corporation).
Since then, she has worked numerous comedies and romantic dramas around television dramas. In 2010 one of her works Nakanai to Kimeta Hi (Fuji Television) drew attention by hiding the back and front of the human with the theme of female workplace bullying without hiding, attracting attention, and in 2014 First Class (Fuji Television) drew a female rating "Mounting" and called a topic. She was highly appraised as writing a plurality of characters as a single story and received a reputation that she "felt refined elegance" and received a screenplay of the Asadora Beppinsan in the latter half of 2016.
In her private life, she was married on 18 August 2014, after acquiring a dinner hosted by President TakeOff in August 2012, after a dating period of about two years with a freelance announcer Shinichi Hatori belonging to the same office since around November the same year. On 13 January 2016 Asadora Beppinsan made a preliminary announcement at the production presentation, giving birth to a girl who becomes her first child at the end of the same month.

## Works
### TV dramas

| Run | Title | Network | Notes |
| Jul–Sep 2002 | Serchin for my Polestar | KTV | |
| Jul–Sep 2003 | 14-Kagetsu: Tsuma ga Kodomo ni Kaette iku | YTV | |
| 2004 | Kētai Keiji: Zenigata Rui | BS-TBS | |
| 2004–05 | Kētai Keiji: Zenigata Rei | BS-TBS | |
| Apr 2004 | Tengoku e no Ōen Uta: Cheers: Cheerleading ni kaketa Seishun | NTV | |
| Nov 2004 | Shinsatsuhakkō Kinen Drama 'Ichiyō Higuchi Monogatari' | TBS | |
| 2005 | Tokyo Michika | CX | Episode 1 |
| 2005 | Koisuru Nichiyōbi | BS-TBS | Second SeriesEpisodes 1 and 2 "Owaranai Uta"Episodes 3 and 4 "Subarashī Hibi"Episode 7 "Boku no Mori"Episode 8 "Boku no Heya kara"Episode 10 "Baby Baby"Episode 13 "Aenai Yoru o Dakishimete"Episode 14 "Shijōsaidai no Sakusen"Episodes 17 to 19 "Koi no Uta"Episode 23 "Rōdoku Geki: Tokyo Tower" |
| 2005 | Bungaku no Uta Koisuru Nichiyōbi | BS-TBS | Episodes 3 and 4 "Semmono o Nusumu Onna"Episode 11 "Kanojo no Kokuhaku"Episode 13 "Rōgishō" |
| 2005 | Girl's Box | BS-TBS | Episode 3 "Christmas no Yukue"Episode 4 "Imou to" |
| Oct–Dec 2005 | Kiken na Aneki | CX | |
| 2006 | Kētai Keiji: Zenigata Kaminari | BS-TBS | |
| 2006 | Mō hitotsu no Sugar and Spice | CX | |
| 2007–08 | Kētai Keiji: Zenigata Umi | BS-TBS | |
| 2007 | Koisuru Nichiyōbi | BS-TBS | Third SeriesEpisode 1 and 2 "Ayako no Koi"Episode 6 "Shitsuren no Kizu no Iyashi-kata"Episodes 8 and 9 "Hajimete no Koi"Episodes 12 and 13 "Sotsugyō-Haru no Uso"Episode 14 "Tsukusu Onna no Koi"Episode 15 "Ashita no Egao"Episode 21 "Chikakute Tōi Koi"Episode 22 "Ohikkoshi"Episode 23 "Onī no Koi"Episode 25 "Sanshimai" |
| 2007 | Ima o Ikiru Sobo | BS-TBS | |
| Jul–Aug 2007 | Papa to Musume no 7-kakan | TBS | |
| Jan–Mar 2008 | Daisuki!! | TBS | |
| Mar 2008 | Ross:Time:Life | CX | Episode 8 "Buchō-hen" |
| May 2008 | Tokyo Girl: Erena Mizusawa | BS-TBS | Episodes 1 and 2 "Kimi no Uta" |
| Aug 2008 | Tokyo Girl: Anri Okamoto | BS-TBS | Episodes 4 and 5 "Journey" |
| Dec 2008 – Feb 2009 | Akai Ito | CX | |
| 2009 | Kētai Keiji: Zenigata Inochi | BS-TBS | |
| Mar 2009 | Tokyo Girl: Yu Seol-ah | BS-TBS | Episode 4 "Seihokusei Shōjo" |
| Jan 2010 | Seicho Matsumoto Drama Special: Sankyō no Shō | CX | |
| Jan–Mar 2010 | Nakanai to Kimeta Hi | CX | |
| Jun–Aug 2010 | Tokyo Little Love | CX | Second Season |
| Jul 2010 | Zettai Nakanai to Kimeta Hi: Kinkyū Special | CX | |
| Apr–Jun 2011 | Namae o nakushita Megami | CX | |
| 14 May 2011 | Yonimo Kimyōna Monogatari: 21 seiki: 21-nen-me no Tokubetsu-hen | CX | "Avatar" |
| 9 Sep 2011 | Miyuki Miyabe Special Majutsu wa sasayaku | CX | |
| Jan–Mar 2012 | Saiko no Jinsei | TBS | |
| 1 Jul 2012 | NTT DoCoMo: 20-Shūnen Special Drama Yume no Tobira Tokubetsu-hen 20-Nen-go no Kimi e | TBS | |
| Jul–Sep 2012 | Ikimodekinai Natsu | CX | |
| Jan–Mar 2013 | Saki | KTV | |
| 20 Jan 2013 | Premium Drama Aruku, Aruku, Aruku: Shikoku Henro Michi | NHK-BS | |
| 6 Feb 2013 – | Kamisama no Itazura | BS-TBS | |
| 27 Sep 2013 | Kinyō Road Show! Jinsei ga tokimeku Katazuke no Mahō | NTV | |
| 25 Oct 2013 | Nigakute, Amai: Kibō no Cha | NHK G Kyushu Okinawa | |
| Apr–Jun 2014 | First Class | CX | |
| Apr–May 2014 | Kōhī-ya no Hitobito | NHK BS Premium | |
| Nov–Dec 2014 | Akka | Wowow | |
| Nov 2014 – Feb 2015 | Watashitachi ga Propose sa renai no ni wa, 101 no Riyū ga atteda na | LaLa TV | |
| Apr–Jun 2015 | Tatakau! Shoten Girl | KTV | |
| 24 Jun 2015 | Tokubetsu Drama Kikaku: Eien no boku-ra sea side blue | NTV | |
| Nov–Dec 2015 | 5-Ri no Junko | Wowow | |
| Oct 2016 – Apr 2017 | Asadora Beppinsan | NHK | |
| Jul 2017 | Uchi no Otto wa Shigoto ga dekinai | NTV | |

### Films

| Date | Title |
| 27 Aug 2005 | Sayonara Midori-chan |
| 8 Oct 2005 | Ko no Mune ippai no Ai o |
| 9 Jun 2007 | Koisuru Nichiyōbi: Watashi. Koi shita |
| 20 Dec 2008 | Akai Ito |
| 21 Nov 2015 | Rain Tree no Kuni |
| 4 Jun 2016 | Shokubutsu Zukan: Unmei no Koi, hiroimashita |

### Internet dramas

| Run | Title | Website |
| Mar–May 2006 | Tokyo Love Collection | GyaO |
| 6 Oct – 22 Dec 2009 | bump.y | TBS |
| Feb–Mar 2011 | Saigo no Kataomoi | BS-TBS, Banana Republic |

### Internet

| Run | Title | Website |
| 15 Oct 2012 – | Lesson of the Evil –Joshō– | BeeTV |

### Stage

| Year | Title | Location |
| 2009 | bump.y Dai 1-kai Kōen Mappiruma no Elevator! | Aoyama Amphitheater |
| 2010 | Ghost Friend –Yūrei– | Space 107 |
| 2010 | Ama Danshi –Amadan– | Actor's Theater |
| 2011 | Sotsugyō –Love Letter– | Shibuya Duo |