Takumi Saitoh
Biography: Takumi Saitoh (斎 藤 工 Saitō Takumi, Tokyo, Japan, August 22, 1981) is a Japanese actor, singer, and model. Saitoh was born on August 22, 1981, in the city of Tokyo, Japan. He made his acting debut in 1992, playing a small role in the Japanese drama Ippai no kakesoba. In the following years, he worked as a model for companies like Calvin Klein and Issey Miyake. In 2001, he starred in the movie Toki no kaori: Remember me (a remake of the Korean film Ditto), while in 2006, he participated as Yūshi Oshitari in the musical adaptation of the manga The Prince of Tennis, a role that made him gain popularity as an actor. Also, in 2006, he played Shūya Arisada in the drama Princess princess D, an adaptation of the homonymous manga by Mikiyo Tsuda. However, his most important role was undoubtedly that of Noeru Kisaragi in the direct-to-video movie BOYS LOVE. The film tells the story of a magazine editor who meets and interviews a young model (later he also discovers that he is a gigolo) and the immediate attraction that arises between them. After the success of the film, the following year a theatrical successor to it was released (titled Schoolboy Crush in the West), but with a different plot and without Saitoh's involvement. Another of his most important works is Sukitomo, another homosexual-themed film, released in 2007, and Itsuka no kimi e, also released that same year. The expressiveness of Saitoh as an actor and his natural way of embarking homosexual characters has contributed to give a "normalized" image of homosexual love in Japan, to the point of making it accessible and understandable to the general public. However, he ran the risk of being caught in a series of characters of that nature, so he joined the cast of the lightweight 2007 drama Delicious Gakuin. He participated in the 2009 graduation special of the Gokusen drama series and in HANA-KIMI 2011, the second Japanese TV adaptation of the comics of the same title.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 22, 1981
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~
2020-07-23
Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~
Overview: They'll take back your uncool heart to protect peace! One day cool director Piyoshi Kurosawa offers Phantomirage a sparkling big role! That's right, if this is the case, let's make everyone's heart flutter through the movie! However, Reverse Police's SakaSama found him! The director who is busy with the shoot is turned into an Ikenaier! With that, the movie will no longer be cool!
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-23
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Alpaca Alien: PACALIEN
2018-05-19
Alpaca Alien: PACALIEN
Overview: A series of original Pacalien shorts which aired during commercial breaks on Toonami.
Genres: Animation Horror Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-19
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Shin Kamen Rider
2023-03-17
Shin Kamen Rider
Overview: A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, an Augmentation made by SHOCKER, and Ruriko Midorikawa, a rebel of the organization, escape while fighting off assassins. What’s justice? What’s evil? Will this violence end? Despite his power, Hongo tries to remain human. Along with freedom, Ruriko has regained a heart. What paths will they choose?
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl
2009-08-15
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl
Overview: A reconstructed girl is created from the pieces of a vampire girl's mini-butchery. Slaughter abounds as both of them pursue the same boy.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-15
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Space Battleship Yamato
2010-12-01
Space Battleship Yamato
Overview: In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-12-01
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Tokyo Vampire Hotel
2017-11-16
Tokyo Vampire Hotel
Overview: Manami is captured by blood thirsty trigger happy vampires, and taken to their hotel, where they keep prisoners as future meals. They are all instructed to find a partner to survive, when a vampire clan from Transylvania interferes.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-16
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RoboGeisha
2009-10-03
RoboGeisha
Overview: Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-03
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Furyō shōnen 3, 000-ri no sō-ban (atama)
2012-03-11
Furyō shōnen 3, 000-ri no sō-ban (atama)
Overview: The movie is based on an autobiographical book titled “Tokyo Furyou Shounen Densetsu.” The book was written by Endo Natsuki, who was once affiliated with the biker team and band COOLS that was formed in the 1970s by Tachi Hiroshi (61) and Iwaki Koichi (60). The story for the film takes place at a technical high school in the 1970s, where it is said that half of the school’s 3,000 students are juvenile delinquents. Saito plays a student named Sendo, who is aiming to be number one out of all of them. Naturally, the movie will incorporate a lot of action scenes as he brawls his way to the top.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-11
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Boys Love
2006-11-24
Boys Love
Overview: Magazine editor Taishin Mamiya interviews high school model Noeru Kisaragi. Despite Noeru's bad attitude, his painting of an ocean intrigues Mamiya and leads to a dinner, during which Noeru solicits Mamiya sexually. Soon Mamiya sees Noeru with another man, and he is shocked to discover at that moment that his interest in Noeru goes beyond article research—he truly wants to know more about him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-24
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Hyperspace Boy Wonder Seven
2001-07-07
Hyperspace Boy Wonder Seven
Overview: Hyperspace Boy Wonder Seven is a fictional tokusatsu, mentioned in TV series Giant Robot Mikazuki. This single 25-minutes episode of the "Wonder Seven" was released in 2001 as bonus with the "Tekkōki Mikazuki" DVD-box.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-07-07
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Helter Skelter
2012-07-14
Helter Skelter
Overview: Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to retain her perfect image, Lilico descends into a world of nightmares and makes those around her miserable.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-07-14
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Ace Attorney
2012-02-11
Ace Attorney
Overview: Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses on rookie defense attorney Phoenix Wright, as he strives to protect his clients in various murder trials, including the death of his mentor, Mia Fey, and the accusation of rival prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth. Phoenix's greatest ally is Mia's younger sister Maya, a spirit medium whose body is possessed by Mia to communicate with him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-11
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Ton demo horror series Oh! My neck is on the plate!
2007-04-27
Ton demo horror series Oh! My neck is on the plate!
Overview: Straight to video horror/comedy directed by Minoru Kawasaki
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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Goodbye Cruel World
2022-09-09
Goodbye Cruel World
Overview: Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the Sugiyama Clan for money laundering. This one night only gang succeed in robbing them blind and though they were supposed to go their separate ways after splitting the money, the five end up being hunt down by a detective hired by the clan and clan members themselves. An ending nobody ever even dreamed of.
Genres: Crime Documentary Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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Inside Zokki
2021-05-14
Inside Zokki
Overview: "ZOKKI" is a unique film directed by Naoto Takenaka, Takayuki Yamada, and Takumi Saitoh. It is a live-action adaptation of a short story collection by manga artist, Hiroyuki Ohashi. The people of Gamagori City, Aichi, where the film will be shot, were particularly happy in 2020 when the production started. For the past eight years, volunteers from Gamagori, including printers, bakers, and pubs, have been working to bring the film to the city, and now the city of Gamagori has decided to get involved and fully support the film "ZOKKI"! A number of happenings occur in the once peaceful place of Gamagori. The film was shot by a gorgeous cast and staff. And a group of amateurs struggle to somehow make the film more exciting. "URAZOKKI" is a story about the "behind-the-scene" of a group of people who come together to make a film. That's what the film was supposed to be like....
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-14
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Surrogacy
2021-03-24
Surrogacy
Overview: Tamaki who becomes a surrogate mother for the sake of her elder brother, Satoshi, who is gay by going through artificial insemination using his partner Keito's sperm with her egg and the siblings wanting to reveal the truth to their parents after her pregnancy passes the first trimester.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-24
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Loving You
2007-07-28
Loving You
Overview: After Noboru saves Hayase from drowning by giving him mouth-to-mouth, Hayase grows confused about his feelings. It doesn't help that around the same time he meets Noboru's twin brother, Ryū, who has a very different, outgoing personality.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-28
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The Lonely 19:00
2020-08-28
The Lonely 19:00
Overview: A new and more contagious virus emerged after COVID-19 and forced Japan to live an even more severe self-restraint. During the time of COVID-19 it was necessary to maintain a social distance of 2 meters, with this new ferocious virus the distance had to be of at least 50 meters. Otomi was born inside his house and has never been outside. One day he hears a strange noise and leaves the house for the first time in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-28
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Jellyfish Eyes
2013-04-23
Jellyfish Eyes
Overview: In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There he will discover that every child has the ability to communicate with a fantastic creature, but they are being used in an evil plan to collect the children’s negative energy. Artist Takashi Murakami ‘s debut film is an amazing epic story that is an X-Ray of children’s hopes and fears with the artist’s unmistakable visual style.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-23
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GACHI-BAN MAX2
2010-08-21
GACHI-BAN MAX2
Overview: This is the second film in the Gachiban MAX series of juvenile delinquent action films, filmed in a guerrilla style and featuring realistic fight scenes. Kubota Masataka stars in this one, as he did in the first film, with handsome new actors added in vivid fight scenes. Kuronaga Yuto (Kubota), who took control of Shibuya in the first film, moves into Kabukicho in Shinjuku. He challenges a fight against Aikawa Koji (Matsuzaki Yutaka) the Kabukicho high school gang leader who does any bad thing he likes and manipulates yakuza and nightclub hosts with money.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-21
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GACHI-BAN: ULTIMATUM
2011-08-06
GACHI-BAN: ULTIMATUM
Overview: The invincible Yanki (Japanese delinquent), Monji Mori, leader of the Black Skull Gang, has been released from juvenile prison. Meanwhile, other infamous Yanki, Hayato, has a run-in with the local Yakuza. He barely escapes thanks to a guy who claims to be from the Gold Skull biker gang. Hayato gets caught in the middle as the two Skulls clash in a turf war of the ages.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-06
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Kazoku gokko
2015-08-01
Kazoku gokko
Overview: Different people and five different families are acting out various scenarios, scripts and what-ifs. First there is the four Suzuki family members, who are not, sitting around a table in isolation. Then there is the unveiling of a will and what happens when it is read out, there are the sisters who are at it against each other, then there is the funeral that does not go according to plan and more.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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Nuigulumar Z
2014-01-25
Nuigulumar Z
Overview: A gothic lolita merges with a teddy bear to fight zombies and save the world.
Genres: Horror Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-25
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Shinjuku Incident
2009-03-22
Shinjuku Incident
Overview: A simple Chinese immigrant wages a perilous war against one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2009-03-22
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The Best Skilled Surgeon 2016
2016-02-16
The Best Skilled Surgeon 2016
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-16
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最上の命医 2019
2019-10-02
最上の命医 2019
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-02
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The Window of non-REM Winter 2023
2023-12-25
The Window of non-REM Winter 2023
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-25
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Ichikei's Crow The Movie
2023-01-13
Ichikei's Crow The Movie
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Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-13
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Sukitomo
2007-01-13
Sukitomo
Overview: Drama following a young boxer Tomokazu and his relationship with his best friend Yoshiko and sister Misao as while he's training for an important match. His sister and friend have always been there for him, supporting him, but Tomokazu is about to find out that not everything is as simple as it may seem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-13
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THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY
2023-01-27
THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY
Overview: Oda Nobunaga and Nōhime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil and water, making for a somewhat unhappy marriage. When Oda's enemy, Imagawa Yoshimoto, attacks Owari with his vast army, Oda is devastated by the overwhelming gap in military strength. However, Nohime encourages him not to despair, and the pair draw up a tactical plan that will allow them to overcome the odds.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-27
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Manhunt
2017-11-19
Manhunt
Overview: Accused of a murder he didn't commit, a prosecutor sets out on a mission to clear his name.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-11-19
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13 Assassins
2010-09-09
13 Assassins
Overview: A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-09
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Café Seoul
2009-07-18
Café Seoul
Overview: Jun, a Japanese freelance reporter, discovers hidden gem of Korean traditional bakery "Moran-dang" by chance in the middle of the city of Seoul, while covering stories of the city. Moran-dang takes him back to his memory of childhood and urges him to stay there for more stories. One day, Moran-dang is vandalized by construction villains in town who maliciously try to take the spot of the bakery and the owner and chef, Sang-woo, gets his hands injured. When Moran-dang is in danger of closing, little brother Sang-hyuk returns home after drifting apart. As Jun inspires Sang-hyuk to restore his family tie and the secret recipes, Sang-hyuk and Jun are connected in friendship to save Moran-dang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-18
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Shibuya
2010-01-09
Shibuya
Overview: Go Ayano plays Kazunari Mizusawa, a young photographer gathering pictures of girls in Shibuya for a documentary. Suddenly the constant noise of the bustling crowd is drowned out by a high school girl (Aimi Satsukawa) shrieking in anger. Mizusawa is startled, but also confused by the fact that nobody in the area but him seemed to care or even notice. His fascination with figuring out exactly what makes young girls want to come to Shibuya in the first place makes him determined to find out more about her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-09
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Downfall
2023-03-17
Downfall
Overview: Kaoru Fukazawa is a manga artist. His manga series was published for eight years, but has now finished. He doesn't have any ideas for his next work. His situation seems bleak, with his editor seeming to not care about him anymore and his relationship with his wife Nozomi Machida being troubled. He spends his days in despair and darkness. Kaoru visits a business that provides sexual services and meets a prostitute named Chifuyu, who attracts him. They decide to head to Chifuyu's hometown together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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CLEARNESS
2008-02-16
CLEARNESS
Overview: Sakura is a 20-year-old college student who has sex for money to fund her shopping addiction. After her customers leave her apartment, she spends her time spying on Leo, a young, beautiful, and (dyed) blond-haired boy, who works at a male escort service across the street. One day, Leo pays her a visit, and so starts an unlikely friendship. But Leo has a troubled past. He is the son of a prostitute who worked for his current pimp and died before she could repay money that she owed. He himself entered the business when he graduated from junior high school. Though Leo refuses to make love to Sakura (he has a policy of not having sex outside of work), the two fall in love and become inseparable until Leo gets into a fight with Sakura's boyfriend and gets him into a car accident. Leo turns himself in, and Sakura moves to Okinawa to wait for him at their dream destination.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-16
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Tamami: The Baby's Curse
2008-06-27
Tamami: The Baby's Curse
Overview: A beautiful girl, Yōko, gets lost one night during an air raid and is taken in by an orphanage. Eventually, she is reunited with her own family and goes home to live with them. But there, an unexpected fate awaits her as she is subjected to horrific brutality from these people who are tortured by a past mistake.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-27
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Brush of the God
2024-07-26
Brush of the God
Overview: His story follows a schoolgirl named Akari Tokimiya and the fantastical adventure which occurs when she visits the memorial service of her grandfather Kenzo, a master special effects man. She has unhappy memories of the old man and his passion projects, the last of which he died during the making of. At the memorial service, she meets classmate Takuya, a tokusatsu superfan, and a strange person named Hozumi, the star of the movie Kenzo was making when he died. Hozumi has with him a prop from the film, the titular “Brush of the God,” which transports Akari and Takuya into the world of the movie where they face fearsome Kaiju, including the legendary Yamata-no-orochi who is attempting to destroy everything. If they are to survive and get back to their homes, Akari and Takuya must find out the secret of the movie.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-07-26
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Taksu
2014-11-22
Taksu
Overview: Chihiro is depressed and obsessed with his own mortality. Him and his wife, Yuri (Yoko Mitsuya), decide to take a trip to Bali, Indonesia to see his pregnant sister, Kumi (Kiki Sugino). They hope the trip can bring about change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-22
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The Ninja War of Torakage
2015-06-20
The Ninja War of Torakage
Overview: Set in the Sengoku Period, Torakage is retired ninja. He lives his life peacefully, but turmoil comes as he becomes involved a fight over treasures.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-20
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Bushido
2024-05-17
Bushido
Overview: Kakunoshin Yanagida (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) was a samurai, but he was forced out of the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived in poverty with his daughter Kinu (Kaya Kiyohara). Despite being poor, he never gave up his pride and honor that he held as a samurai. Even when playing the board game Go, which is his hobby, he always plays in a fair manner. Because of a case, the truth behind the false accusation is revealed. Kakunoshin Yanagida is shaken and filled with rage. He decides to take revenge, even if it means he will be torn from his daughter.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-17
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女優iの憂鬱/ COMPLY+-ANCE
2020-02-21
女優iの憂鬱/ COMPLY+-ANCE
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-21
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A Cappella
2016-03-26
A Cappella
Overview: Set in the year 1969 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Kyoko Noma is a loving female high school student who takes part in campus protests. One day, she meets university student Wataru Domoto in the tea cafe Mubansou ("A Cappella"). Kyoko falls in love with him, but they get involved in an incident that leads to a shocking ending.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-26
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I Just Wanna Hug You
2014-02-01
I Just Wanna Hug You
Overview: Tsukasa got into a severe car accident when she was a high school student. She still suffers from the effects of that accident, with memory impairment and needing to use a wheelchair. Tsukasa falls in love with taxi driver Masaki. Even though they have difficulties, they try to make a happy family together, but they encounter another serious situation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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The Kodai Family
2016-06-04
The Kodai Family
Overview: Kie Hirano is an ordinary OL who often daydreams. Mitsumasa Kodai at the same company as Kie Hirano, but he is an elite salaryman. He is the eldest son in the Kodai family and he is also telepathic. Mitsumasa Kodai got his special ability to read other people's mind from his British grandmother. Mitsumasa becomes attracted to Kie's warm heart and her dreamy temperament. They begin to date and enjoy their days together, but Mitsumasa Kodai's mother calls.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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The Projects
2016-06-04
The Projects
Overview: Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a housing project in the suburbs of Osaka. However Hinako (Naomi Fujiyama) and Seiji (Ittoku Kishibe) couldn't care less. Having moved in just six months ago after the closure of their herbal medicine shop, the old couple is reluctantly putting their life back together. But when Seiji disappears, the apartment rumor mill churns: divorce, murder, dismemberment? As the story spins out of control, and a mysterious man with a parasol puts in a tall order of natural remedies, the truth turns out to be even more fantastic than gossip. Ranging from incisive comedy of errors to absurdist adventure to moving late life romance, "The Projects" is one of the biggest surprises of the year.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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Shin Godzilla
2016-07-29
Shin Godzilla
Overview: When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-29
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Scoop!
2016-10-01
Scoop!
Overview: Shizuoka Miyakonojo is a middle-aged paparazzi photographer. His skills as a cameraman are good, but he gambles and is in debt. When he worked in the editorial department for weekly picture magazine 'Scoop!,' he landed numerous scoops. He now works as a freelance photographer and chases after celebrity scandals. Shizuoka Miyakonojo works with Nobi Namekawa. She is a rookie reporter for 'Scoop!' and they land a scoop.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-01
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HERO 2020
2020-06-19
HERO 2020
Overview: japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-19
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The Sowing Traveller 3
2016-10-22
The Sowing Traveller 3
Overview: Acclaimed director of Summer of Chirusoku, Half a Confession and Yunagi City, Sakura Country Kiyoshi Sasabe casts Rin Takanashi and Takumi Saitoh as members of the farming industry. The Sowing Traveller 3 tells a universal story of the cherished act of growing fruit. Ayane is conflicted about coming back home because she feels it’s a setback. Filming took place in Akaiwa, Okayama prefecture, a peach growing area with lots of sun and fertile soil. Along with the harmony of daily life that the local people have with nature, an important feature of the film is its beautiful landscapes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow!
2016-12-17
Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow!
Overview: A giant whale appears and flies above Sakura New Town. With the whale’s sound of crying, some changes occur to Kenta Amano and Yokai.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-17
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Kabuto-O Beetle
2005-07-16
Kabuto-O Beetle
Overview: In Japan there is a wrestler. His name is legendary. His sombrero is enormous. His mask is cool. His name is BEETLE, THE HORN KING. A masked wrestler with his own theme song and the strength and agility of the mighty horn beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis), he fights for truth, justice and fairness in wrestling around the world with his homies, the International Masked Wrestler Association. But alien wrestlers based on lesser insects have invaded the planet and acted in a rude and disgusting manner. Now they must be laid low with Helicopter Kicks. Directed by Japan's hottest new comedy auteur, Minoru Kawasaki, BEETLE, THE HORN KING is the ultimate collision of masked Mexican wrestlers, Japanese sci fi and bug-loving weirdness
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-16
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The Blue Hearts
2017-04-08
The Blue Hearts
Overview: Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-08
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High & Low The Red Rain
2016-10-08
High & Low The Red Rain
Overview: The Amamiya Brothers, Masaki and Hiroto, keep looking for their older brother Takeru who disappeared one year ago. The three Amamiya brothers lost their parents when they were young. Since then, they relied only on each other. On the anniversary of their parents' death, Masaki and Hiroto expect Takeru to appear. Instead, they meet a person who has a clue on Takeru's whereabouts.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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Out Burn
2014-08-09
Out Burn
Overview: Eiko Yagami (Ryoko Yonekura) is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime Division which deals directly with organized gangs to try and keep the peace. However, Eiko has some sidelines: she's a moneylender to her fellow police officers without charging interest in return for information and is also willing to do the odd side job for those on the criminal side for the money. One day, Kasumi (Riho Takada), who is the daughter of Senma-gumi gang's leader (Toshiyuki Nishida), is found stabbed to death. As this threatens to pit gang against gang, Eiko and the police have to hurry and find her killer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-09
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Hirugao
2017-06-10
Hirugao
Overview: Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet again and their love story continue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-10
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RE:BORN
2016-09-24
RE:BORN
Overview: A former special forces operative struggling to contain the destructive impulses of his past goes on a rampage against a squad of ruthless assassins.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-24
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Tag
2015-05-11
Tag
Overview: Mitsuko, a young student, encounters a series of horrifying incident set in alternate realities where people wind up dead in the most horrendous fashion.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-11
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Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi Natsu Hen 2015
2015-08-29
Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi Natsu Hen 2015
Overview: For this 16th Anniversary Special, Inagaki Goro is our host once again for 6 spooky tales based on tales from real people and performed here by an all-star cast. A young man who returns to his family's home after leaving Tokyo finds something else may have followed after him; a young girl dreams of darkness and a small shrine that draws ever closer; a woman with a failed business makes a go at it with a company with a bizarre dormitory, one with a past secret; a police officer receives a call from what appears to be a dead woman who wants his help; a woman taking documents to a food company finds time slipping away without her noticing; a single man who runs a restaurant sees an unusual family living down the hallway from him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-29
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2018-02-03
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Overview: Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of stomach cancer. At his funeral, a motley crew of fellow mahjong players, pachinko parlor employees and former drinking buddies gather to pay their respects and tell stories, revealing aspects of Masato’s life that complicate his sons’ resentment towards him.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-03
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Unrequited Love
2016-07-02
Unrequited Love
Overview: Childhood best friends. Cousins. Housemates. Coworkers. Eight stories of unrequited love, eight sets of people who weren't meant to be together. Several short films put together under the common theme of One Sided Love: ***My Nickname is Butatchi ***Something Blue ***Asahan no Yuge ***Kataomoi Supairaru ***Usotsuki no Koi ***Ibu no Okurimono ***Radio Personality ***Boku no Sabotin
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-02
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Elevator Trap
2009-10-10
Elevator Trap
Overview: Japanese film directed by Keisuke Horibe. Three seemingly unacquainted men and a woman find themselves trapped in an elevator. As the hours pass and the level of anxiety rise, we realize the elevator trap is in fact a trap, but hatched by which of the parties and for what motive?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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Ramen Shop
2018-03-29
Ramen Shop
Overview: Masato is a young ramen chef in Japan. When he finds his late mother's journal after the sudden death of his emotionally distant father, he takes it with him to her native country, Singapore, hoping to piece together the story of his family and his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-29
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Specialist
2013-05-18
Specialist
Overview: Kusanagi plays a police detective who gets framed for a crime he didn't commit and had to spend the last 10 years in prison. However, he regains his job as a police officer and makes use of his specialized knowledge on criminal psychology to solve difficult cases.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-18
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Specialist 2
2014-03-08
Specialist 2
Overview: A mysterious code written with letters and numbers is found on a street in Kyoto. Yoshito Takuma (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and Chinami Anekoji (Kaho Minami) begin to investigate. They discover that something happened at the place where the code was found on stickers and they also discover a dead body. A man known as "Writer" is suspected of being the culprit. To find the man known as "Writer," Yoshito Takuma infiltrates into Shiga central prison. --asianwiki
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-08
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Nomitori Samurai
2018-05-18
Nomitori Samurai
Overview: Hironoshin is a samurai of the Echigo-Nagaoka clan. One day, Hironoshin attends a party at a mansion in Edo where his lord, Tadakiyo is invited to recite poems. Hironoshin is asked to give his opinion and foolishly comments that the piece was plagiarized. Infuriated, Tadakiyo orders Hironoshin to live his life without honor as a ‘cat flea picker', which is in fact a pseudonym for a male prostitute. The honest and straight-shooting Hironoshin convinces himself that he has no other options, and resigns himself to live as a sex worker. Hironoshin becomes an apprentice to a flea-picker boss who encourages him, convinced that Hironoshin is exacting revenge in the guise of a prostitute.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-18
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Last Winter, We Parted
2018-03-10
Last Winter, We Parted
Overview: An ambitious, young freelance journalist takes on the closed case of a famous fine arts photographer whose beautiful female subject died on set in a gruesome fire.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-10
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Koi
2013-12-16
Koi
Overview: The story is set in the 70s where Ishihara plays Fumiko, an university student, who gets involved romantically with her assistant professor Katase Shintaro (Iura Arata) and his wife Hinako (Tanaka Rena). However, on 28 February 1972, the police finds Shintaro seriously injured and a young man working in a electronics store (Saito Takumi) dead in a bungalow at Karuizawawhile Fumiko and Hinako are also present at the scene. The truth behind the case is not known and the case is quickly classified as a crime of passion which leads to Fumiko being sent to prison. 40 years later, a report writer Torigai Mitsuhiko (Watabe Atsuro) comes to know about this case and goes to interview the elderly Fumiko (Harada Mieko) in prison which leads him to find out what really happened at the bungalow.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-16
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Pacalien
2017-06-03
Pacalien
Overview: Romeros is an alien investigor who looks like an alpaca. When he lands on Earth, he finds his spaceship damaged and becomes disconnected with his planet. He arrives on a mountain where people wearing weird masks are waiting for him.
Genres: Animation Horror Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-03
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7s
2015-11-07
7s
Overview: Sawada is an unpopular move director but he manages to win the grand prize at an indie film festival With the reward he decides to go big for his next film. Sawada will have to face many difficult situations while trying to make it happen as the production money starts to run out...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-07
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A.I. Love You
2016-12-10
A.I. Love You
Overview: A girl install an app called a.i on her phone and a mans voice talks to her ...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-10
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A Gambler's Odyssey 2020
2019-04-05
A Gambler's Odyssey 2020
Overview: Boyatetsu travels to the year 2020 in Tokyo from the year 1945. Tokyo is now plagued by a decreasing population and an increase in unemployment.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-05
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Detective Story
2018-04-08
Detective Story
Overview: Shuichi Tsujiyama (Takumi Saito) is a broke private investigator. While on a job assignment, he is about to catch a crucial moment by taking a picture, but Naomi Arai (Fumi Nikaido) misunderstands the situation. Shuichi Tsujiyama and Naomi Arai struggle physically. Because of this, Shuichi Tsujiyama misses his crucial photo opportunity. Kimie Hasenuma (Mari Natsuki) is a housekeeper who has been employed by Naomi Arai for many years. Kimie Hasenuma asks Shuichi Tsujiyama to be Naomi Arai’s bodyguard.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-08
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The Prisoner of Sakura
2019-03-22
The Prisoner of Sakura
Overview: With all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from opposing countries. The film is a love story set in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku against the historical backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War. The movie is centered around the romance between a Russian officer, a war prisoner in Matsuyama, and a Japanese nurse who find themselves on opposing sides of the war. It is a kind of "Romeo and Juliet story of the Russo-Japanese War".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-22
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Diner
2019-07-05
Diner
Overview: A former murderer and genius chef along with a waitress come together with a group of fantastical assassins in a diner. A girl with a hollowness in her heart, who believes that she belongs nowhere, is thrust into a series of attacks where she must struggle to find her will to live.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-05
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Kamen Teacher: The Movie
2014-02-22
Kamen Teacher: The Movie
Overview: Set in the near future of Japan with the educational system nearing collapse. To rehabilitate the lawlessness at public schools and its troubled students, the government sends Kamen Teacher to designated schools.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-22
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Meatball Machine Kodoku
2017-08-19
Meatball Machine Kodoku
Overview: Nobody knows where they came from. They parasitize in human beings, take control of them and change their bodies into hideous monsters (Necro-borg). The Necro-borg fight each other until the other dies. Where did they come from? To what end? Yuji and Kaoru, whom both have dark secrets within themselves, get caught up in the horrific battles of Necro-borg. What will their fate be?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-19
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The Best Skilled Surgeon 2017
2017-08-23
The Best Skilled Surgeon 2017
Overview: Maverick pediatric surgeon Mikoto Saijo agrees to work under his mentor, but only if he's allowed to care for a teenager with a risky pregnancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-23
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Shin Ultraman
2022-05-13
Shin Ultraman
Overview: The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly meets a giant silver humanoid who starts appearing every time a space monster attacks!
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-13
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Manriki
2019-11-29
Manriki
Overview: A suave beautician offers patients the chance to correct what they feel nature has gotten wrong. Governed by an unconventional morality, the beautician instead employs a deadly contraption to bring patients in line with the beautician's unnatural notions of beauty.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-29
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Toki no kaori: Remember me
2001-11-24
Toki no kaori: Remember me
Overview: Remake of the Korean film Ditto about a college student in the past who falls in love with a boy from the future.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-24
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Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
2020-02-07
Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
Overview: An effervescent musical about one of the most unlikely couples seen on screen: two Otaku intent on hiding their nerdiness from their colleagues!
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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God Tongue: Kiss Pressure Game The Movie
2013-06-28
God Tongue: Kiss Pressure Game The Movie
Overview: Hitori Gekidan gets off a crew bus, assuming he will participate in a travel program. He overhears people in the monitoring room announce the beginning of the "24 Hour Kiss Pressure Game." He is then assaulted by attractive actresses pleading for a kiss as well as deadly mercenaries and zombies attempting to kidnap him. Soon he grasps his character and situation. He is Shogo Kawashima aka The Desert Reaper and he is on the run with Aoi Tsukasa (Aoi Tsukasa). For unknown reasons, the Red Shadow, who raised him, wants him back.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-28
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Threads - Our Tapestry of Love
2020-08-21
Threads - Our Tapestry of Love
Overview: Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda were both born in 1989. They met for the first time at the age of 13 and became each other's first love, but they separated. At the age of 21, they met again. They were unable to undo their past. Now, they are 31 years old.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-21
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Haruko's Paranormal Laboratory
2015-01-22
Haruko's Paranormal Laboratory
Overview: Haruko is a girl who prefers to cuddle up to her old-fashioned TV set. In this wondrous story, a television can transform into a man: and this is by no means the end of the strange cheerfulness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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Fukushima 50
2020-03-06
Fukushima 50
Overview: Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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State of Emergency
2020-08-28
State of Emergency
Overview: An omnibus film consisting of 4 short films and a documentary related to COVID-19.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-28
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Love Mooning
2021-11-12
Love Mooning
Overview: Hiroshi, who runs a mental clinic, has never recovered from the shock of his wife’s suicide. One day, Ayako, a mysterious patient comes to his clinic….
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
2021-03-26
Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
Overview: Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the publisher and subordinates and runs the ship well. Chatting with his direct boss he picks up a certain vibe. Did he misunderstand that the magazine is doomed and will be terminated? If so, he is not going down without a fight. He will fight to make it through and keep his, and the others', jobs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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Beautiful Dreamer
2020-11-06
Beautiful Dreamer
Overview: Excitement pervades through a university preparing for the annual school festival. Meanwhile, a calm atmosphere hangs over the club room of the film studies group which does not really have an exhibition. But Sara, who dreamed there was something in the corner of the club room, finds an old cardboard box that morning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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Wild Virgins
2019-12-06
Wild Virgins
Overview: According to a Japanese urban legend, those who didn’t get down and dirty by the time they hit thirty, will be transformed into a superhero. Mikio Hoshimura is a 29-year-old incompetent pencil pusher at an insurance firm. He’s at the bottom of the company’s rankings. His social life is below zero, he’s got no girlfriend, only tons of manga’s to get keep him warm during the winter. But, on the eve of his thirtieth birthday at a team-building event, he has the bright idea to stand up for the first time of his life against the #MeDon’tCare coolios of his office when they start harassing Akiyama, the company’s newest recruit. If he had hoped to obtain the key to his chastity belt with this, he’s dead-wrong.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-12-06
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Cube
2021-10-22
Cube
Overview: Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze of interlocking cube-shaped rooms containing deadly traps.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-22
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The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8
2020-07-31
The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8
Overview: An actor who has lost his job due to the coronavirus buys capsule monsters online and begins to raise them.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-31
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Last of the Wolves
2021-08-20
Last of the Wolves
Overview: After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one evil person who gets released from prison, the situation drastically changes.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-20
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COMPLY+-ANCE
2020-02-21
COMPLY+-ANCE
Overview: Three shorts and three supplements tackle the central theme of 'compliance'. A wanna-be actress findsherself trapped between her traditional loyalty to her parents and her strong-willed director; a police officer and his robot sidekick resort to unorthodox methods to fight crime; a structuring of a PSA to promote social sensitivity is taken to absurd extremes.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-21
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The Rug Cop
2006-07-11
The Rug Cop
Overview: A spot-on, hilarious spoof of 1970s Japanese TV cop shows, THE RUG COP follows chrome-domed officer Genda as he transfers to a new precinct just as a group of radical terrorists hijack a shipment of uranium and deliver a ransom demand of five billion yen. Genda and his crack team of detectives must solve the case using their peculiar abilities: champion eater Detective Fatty, abnormally endowed Detective Big Dick, speedy weightlifter Detective Shorty, and ladies man Mr. Handsome. But most dangerous of all is the Rug Cop, whose projectile toupee proves lethal to wrongdoers! Kawasaki s unique comic genius and his love of vintage cop shows combine to produce a silly masterpiece that will have viewers truly believing in Rug Power!
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-11
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The Gesuidouz
2024-09-05
The Gesuidouz
Overview: From rising cult filmmaker Kenichi Ugana, a misfit horror-themed rock band moves to the Japanese countryside to write the greatest punk anthem in the world.
Genres: Horror Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-05
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Shonen to Inu
2025-03-20
Shonen to Inu
Overview: New Takahisa Zeze movie, adaptation of the book "Shonen to Inu." To be released in Spring 2025.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-03-20
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Shunkinshō
2008-09-27
Shunkinshō
Overview: In the Daoxiu Town located in Osaka, there lived such an independent woman. Her name is Harukin Akiya (played by Naoya Nagazawa). At the age of 9, she went blind due to illness and then began learning silk and bamboo. The skill of Chunqin is superb. Although it is taught in a school, it scared away many disciples due to its stubborn and stubborn temper. The only person who never gives up on Chunqin is her servant Sasuke (played by Saito Gong), who has been guiding her since childhood. Sasuke regards the sacred Harukin as if it were Guanyin. Occasionally, he follows Harukin to learn the Sanwei line and takes care of everything for his master with all his heart. At that time, the playboy Ritaro (played by Matsuda Goji) pursued Harukin but was rejected and humiliated. Chunqin's unconventional behavior has led to a tragedy in his life and tightly intertwined the fate of him and Sasuke
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-27
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