Miyako Yamaguchi
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 03, 1952
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Harikomi
1991-09-26
Harikomi
Overview: When a team of detectives lose the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect’s ex-lover, who is trapped in an abusive marriage.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-26
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Female Teacher: Secret
1978-10-21
Female Teacher: Secret
Overview: A male high school student becomes obsessed with his teacher and uses various schemes including exposing her philandering husband to have sex with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-21
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Dark Tales of Japan
2004-09-22
Dark Tales of Japan
Overview: Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-22
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The Woman with Red Hair
1979-02-17
The Woman with Red Hair
Overview: Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-02-17
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Chloe
2001-06-15
Chloe
Overview: Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls ill.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-15
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Nun's Diary: Confession
1979-01-20
Nun's Diary: Confession
Overview: After being brutally raped on her honeymoon, a young woman attempts suicide. A nearby priest talks her out of it and she decides to become a nun. But once inside she finds that this house of God is a den of debauchery and depravity.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-01-20
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Farewell to the Land
1982-04-09
Farewell to the Land
Overview: Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who lives in Tokyo, Yukio has become an amphetamine-addicted loner at odds with his family, friends and colleagues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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Sunday's Dream
2005-10-22
Sunday's Dream
Overview: Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy regarding redundancy. However, Shinobu soon gets remarried to Sakamoto depriving Kazuya of a place to stay. He then meets Sachiko who works in a salon where sexual pleasure is offered to men. They promise to have a date on the next Sunday by the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-22
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The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa
1996-09-14
The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa
Overview: A biographical drama depicting the life full of love and suffering of the writer and poet Kenji Miyazawa, who celebrated his 100th birthday in 1996.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-14
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Human Scramble: Delinquent
1993-05-08
Human Scramble: Delinquent
Overview: Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-05-08
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Firefly
2001-03-24
Firefly
Overview: Emotionally withdrawn strip club dancer Ayako has never recovered from her mother's suicide when she was young. She begins a relationship with patient potter Daiji, but leaves him behind when she quits her job and returns to her home town after a 10 year absence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-24
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Black Jack
2000-03-30
Black Jack
Overview: Matsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a church where it is rumored that miracles happen. There, they find strange twins named Pinoko. With Pinoko's guidance, Matsuzaki is saved by a genius surgeon, BJ, in exchange for exorbitant fees. However, Matsuzaki is captured by the police. Meanwhile, Reiko, a female detective who pursues Matsuzaki and other organizations, tries to solve a mystery by conducting an independent investigation. It turns out Matsuzaki was found dead.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-30
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Butterfly Web
1978-09-23
Butterfly Web
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-23
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Yummy in Neon Town: I Am Ready to Be Eaten
1979-04-14
Yummy in Neon Town: I Am Ready to Be Eaten
Overview: Inside the club there is the happy beat of music, free flowing beer and generous tips from drunk horny patrons. But for four bar girls the harsh realities of life wait just outside the front entrance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-14
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A Man
2022-11-18
A Man
Overview: Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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Like Grains of Sand
1995-12-16
Like Grains of Sand
Overview: A coming-of-age story. Shuji, a Japanese teen, is falling in love with his friend Hiroyuki, however, Hiroyuki is attracted to Kasane, the new girl in their class.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-12-16
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Tokyo Fair Weather
1997-10-18
Tokyo Fair Weather
Overview: This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-18
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Joshidaisei no kokuhaku: Akai yûwakusha
1980-04-12
Joshidaisei no kokuhaku: Akai yûwakusha
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-12
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Rape Shot: Momoe's Lips
1979-06-23
Rape Shot: Momoe's Lips
Overview: Toru, a down and out tabloid reporter is looking for his next “big” story. In order to get paid decent money in the supermarket rag business, you need to find controversy! The elusive “Momoe” is forbidden fruit, so he sets his sights on Miki Yoko, an up and coming young singing sensation. She’s young and beautiful and Toru thinks her record company is pumping her full of drugs. He will do anything to get a story, even assaulting her and tailing her everywhere she goes. One night, she is kidnapped right in front of him and, with his reporter instincts at work, Toru’s life spirals into a torrid world of sex, drugs, and corruption in the entertainment business. In his quest for a huge story, will he come out unscathed?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-23
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Ready to Shoot
1990-11-17
Ready to Shoot
Overview: A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-17
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Hanako of the Toilet
1998-06-04
Hanako of the Toilet
Overview: When a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously disappeared from eleven years before. She and her new friends join forces to fight the evil force that threatens them all.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-06-04
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Torso
2009-11-13
Torso
Overview: Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her sister discovers her secret desire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-13
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Demon King of Yoja Manor
1957-10-22
Demon King of Yoja Manor
Overview: During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro Hayatori, deputy director of Hayatori Hospital, grows suspicious of Akuri, founder of the new religion “Reihi-kyo,” who had predicted these incidents. Together with his fiancée Mitsuko Nogata and friend Chief Kamimura, he investigates Akuri. It’s revealed that Akuri conspired with Dr. Sakurada, a psychiatrist, using a brainwave-disrupting ray to cause Tsubota and Tsukita’s collapse. Disguised as “Busujima,” Sakurada operates from a nearby villa. Meanwhile, Dr. Stanley from Monotor Republic plans to assassinate conglomerate Maurice and enlists Sakurada to create a half-animal man. Soon after, Akuri predicts Tsubota’s death as Sakurada aims to showcase the creature’s power for profit.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-22
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Nozokiya
1995-05-13
Nozokiya
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-13
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Nowhere Man
1991-11-02
Nowhere Man
Overview: Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-02
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Private Detective DOBU 6: The Origami Murder Case
1983-12-29
Private Detective DOBU 6: The Origami Murder Case
Overview: A spree of murders in the city targets peddlers and komuso monks, all killed in the same method. Dobu investigates after a ronin's death with a unique clue.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-29
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Dendera
2011-06-25
Dendera
Overview: Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the villagers and their own families who left them to die.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-25
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History of Yakuza Conflict: Huge Organizational Split
2015-01-25
History of Yakuza Conflict: Huge Organizational Split
Overview: Fujio Yamadai, the third generation leader of Japan's largest organized crime group, Tamba-gumi, has passed away due to illness. Yamatatsu group leader Tatsuo Yamanaka (Hakuryu), who has become acting group leader, recommends Tamba group leader Kazuhisa Takemoto (Hitoshi Ozawa) to Kashira. However, Sumiko, the sister of the third generation Yamadai, who actually runs the Tanba-gumi, mentions that Takemoto is the man who will inherit the fourth generation of the Tanba-gumi. Eventually, the Takemoto faction and Yamanakaha became enemies, and the huge organization split into two. This spurs the assassination of the boss...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-25
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Five Pink Girls
1978-11-03
Five Pink Girls
Overview: A movie based on Saikaku Ihara’s “Five Women Who Loved Love”, which depicts women such as strippers and married women becoming hostesses in a pink salon.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-11-03
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Many Happy Returns
1993-11-20
Many Happy Returns
Overview: Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers they are fakes, but is intrigued by the showmanship of the group, and becomes involved with them. The group is split into two, some members concentrating on spiritual teachings, and the others using the facade of religion to make money. The business faction dismiss the old spiritual master and choose Kazuo to lead their group.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-20
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Goodbye, Flickmania
1979-05-26
Goodbye, Flickmania
Overview: Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly all his time at the movies and a 19-year-old going through the final rites of passage from adolescence to adulthood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-26
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Hanezu
2012-02-01
Hanezu
Overview: Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes and lives a peaceful existence with nature. Takumi then meets Kayoko, a woman who went to the same school as Takumi. Kayoko is fascinated with the color crimson. She dyes scarves with the color of hanezu. Kayoko lives with boyfriend Tetsuya, who works as an editor of a PR magazine. They live together. Soon, Kayoko falls in love with Takumi.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-01
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Angel Guts: Nami
1979-07-07
Angel Guts: Nami
Overview: While investigating stories of rape for a magazine article a determined but callus reporter becomes perversely aroused as she meets the women who are suffering through the horror of their experiences. But will she suffer their fate if she goes too far?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-07
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So What
1988-07-16
So What
Overview: In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also playing together in a rock band.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-16
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Travail
2002-03-23
Travail
Overview: Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both are also unsatisfied with their partners — Asami is in a slump and is danger of slipping into the C League and she blames her husband Kazuya, and Rina is tired of her boyfriend Hiroki, an unsuccessful musician.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-03-23
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An Unforgettable Affair
1978-06-03
An Unforgettable Affair
Overview: Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko's mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who is young and beautiful. An idea forms in Toshihiko's mind to get even with his father for the shabby way he had treated his mother. He wonders if he can do it through Asako.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-06-03
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Shadow of Sand
2008-02-02
Shadow of Sand
Overview: "Shadow of Sand" - Set in Tokyo in the 1980's. Yukie, a young woman lives with the vision of the lover she has murdered. After his death he continues to appear in her room. Yukie maintains her usual life, trying to avoid discovery of her crime until a new lover turns up.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-02
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Horu in Rabu: Kusamura no Yokujô
1979-11-23
Horu in Rabu: Kusamura no Yokujô
Overview: A female professional golfer who was banished on suspicion of being addicted to stimulants now works the golf courses as a hustler.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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Marital War in Kibogaoka
1979-06-02
Marital War in Kibogaoka
Overview: 1979 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film. Senkichi, a middle-aged salaryman, started to feel lonely just by repaying a mortgage. This black humor Roman Porno depicts him with a subtle touch as he tries to gain sex freedom from his wife. Based on a novella by Akio Jissoji.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-02
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Woman's Trail: Wet Path
1980-04-12
Woman's Trail: Wet Path
Overview: A stripper reluctantly returns to her manager and husband with her new lover in tow. The lover tries to claim her but after escaping a beating he takes to the road alone meeting several women along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-12
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Until Evening
1980-09-20
Until Evening
Overview: Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-09-20
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The First Catch
1980-12-27
The First Catch
Overview: Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-12-27
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Shinjuku Midare Machi: Ikumade Matte
1977-09-17
Shinjuku Midare Machi: Ikumade Matte
Overview: The story of a group of artistic people centred around a bar in Shinjuku.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-09-17
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Hirusagari no joji: susurinaki
1977-10-15
Hirusagari no joji: susurinaki
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-15
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A White Ship
2002-07-06
A White Ship
Overview: Shizuka (Mami Nakamura) is a young school teacher. She moves to a small village by the sea, near her own home country. The elementary school she is assigned has only 20 students. But her last assignment was not very successful and she has lost the confidence. One day, a student finds a white ship sailing on the sea, far from the school. They begin an investigation and finally identifies the ship. It's a cruiser called Rainbow Love. 'Why don't we write a letter to the captain?' Shizuka proposes. And everyone gets excited...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-06
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Gate of Flesh
1977-12-24
Gate of Flesh
Overview: The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep alive and the innate strength of post-war women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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Showtime
1977-06-25
Showtime
Overview: A stripper contends with bad boyfriends, a demanding boss and the yakuza while entertaining a nightly crowd of horny spectators.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-25
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After Life
1999-04-17
After Life
Overview: On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-17
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Madness in Bloom
2002-10-19
Madness in Bloom
Overview: Yamaguchi, Ichikawa and Kosuge dress in white military-style uniforms to "clean" the streets of Shibuya from bad elements. After rightist gang boss, Aota takes an interest in the three, the boys gradually become influenced by him, but start to go their different ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-19
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Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
1993-05-08
Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-05-08
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尻を撫でまわしつづけた男 痴漢日記6
1998-12-20
尻を撫でまわしつづけた男 痴漢日記6
Overview: An unstoppable "ass stroke" experience once you remember it. The crowded train is a fingertip paradise as usual ... However, this time, the the detectives were not the only enemies...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-20
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The Scythian Lamb
2018-02-03
The Scythian Lamb
Overview: Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by the government, with the intention of re-socialising them. Aside from the few who know about the project, the general townsfolk has no idea of the former convicts' identities. Tsukisue is the pleasant and efficient municipal official put in charge of the programme. As he slowly learns about their past, a body is discovered.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-03
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Okaimono
2009-02-14
Okaimono
Overview: In a quiet farming village in northeastern Japan, there lives an elderly couple. One day, a notice arrives in the mail about an antique camera sale in Tokyo. This triggers the old man's memory of the time when he used to love cameras and he decides he wants to go to Tokyo. Going on this shopping trip is like embarking on an adventure for them and is is full of surprises and unexpected happenings, but through this adventure, the old couple's lives slowly get revealed. Before heading home, the couple stops by Tokyo Station, a place that holds fond memories for them. They take a photo together with the old man's camera and quietly reflect back on the long life that they spent together.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-02-14
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