Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 13, 1974
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
2006-03-28
Overview: ***Replay A man sees his dead girlfriend through his digital camcorder. ***Inochibi (Life Force) A nurse is able to save dying patients with her 'life force'. ***Ame no Houmonsha (The Visitor in the Rain) A woman visits her sister on a rainy night to celebrate her birthday, but finds a stranger in her house who may be a murderer at large... ***Okusanya-san (The Wife Seller) A man stumbles upon a shop selling perfect wives. ***Imakiyo-san (Mr. Imakiyo) A student finds a spirit called Imakiyo in his apartment, and he has to obey three rules or suffer the consequences...
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Horror Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-28
Popularity:
2018-06-30
Overview: In 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the author came across diplomatic documents relating to the reversion of Okinawa and was particularly impressed by the handwritten documents of Kazuo Chiba, then Director of the North American First Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which, unlike ordinary bureaucrats, "stood out from the crowd and seemed unique". The name of Chiba subsequently appeared in a number of documents left by former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's secretary, and the author became interested in finding out what kind of person he was.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-30
Popularity:
2009-08-22
Overview: Your favourite teddy bear. That model kit that took so long to complete. The picture book you used to read over and over again. The shining stone you found that day in the park. Where do all your childhood's treasures go when you grow up? In this story, we meet fantastic creatures that gather all these little objects that fall into oblivion as they are forgotten by their owners when they step into adulthood. These creatures sneak into our world from a different dimension, and unseen by humans, they take all the ditched and forgotten "treasures" into their world. Here, they use their booty to build their own city, a fairy tale-like place called... Oblivion Island!
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-22
Popularity:
2005-09-23
Overview: A Japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-23
Popularity:
2010-05-22
Overview: Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-22
Popularity:
1995-09-09
Overview: A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-09
Popularity:
2008-03-22
Overview: Misaki is a popular bar hostess whose policy is to 'live on presents'. She is haughty and wants nothing but the most expensive and exclusive. One night, she finds a rabbit and takes it home, setting off the story of an unimaginable tragedy. It is an 'animal panic horror' film with a new edge presenting an allegory of the worst in the modern materialistic world. This is the first full-length feature film for Yuichi Kanemaru, who has worked as assistant director to Kaneto Shindo, Yasuo Furuhata and Takashi Miike. And Tomoko Tabata's dynamic performance in her first horror movie is a definite highlight.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-22
Popularity:
2009-07-19
Overview: Genjuro’s crime was assassination, his punishment was to survive a faked execution and lose his home, lose his identity, and emerge as Maboroshi Shinigami, the Phantom Assassin. When his wife is kidnapped and tortured to reveal his whereabouts and dragged to the executioner for crucifixion by corrupt clan officials, Genjuro faces an army of swords to save her. Evil men aim to frame Genjuro for another murder. For their scheme they need only one thing, Genjuro’s dead body. Genjuro will have to cut down their swordsmen and challenge Sarashina Gunpei, deadliest blade in Japan in a final blood-soaked battle.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-19
Popularity:
1994-04-09
Overview: A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-09
Popularity:
2008-11-24
Overview: Yasushi and Yuka, who have both lost their spouses in the past, are brought together by fate and lead a happy life together, blessed with two children. Then one day, their new house, which the couple had painstakingly built together, catches fire due to Yuka's carelessness. Fortunately, no one in the family is seriously injured and Yasushi is relieved, but the shock of the fire causes Yuka to suffer from a neurological disorder called dissociative amnesia, and she is unable to remember even her own name. The doctor tells her that there is no clear cure in modern medicine, which shocks Yasushi, but she accepts Yuka in her current state and decides to walk with her again.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-24
Popularity:
2008-10-31
Overview: A sixth grade teacher raises a pig with his class.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-31
Popularity:
2009-09-23
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-23
Popularity:
2022-09-16
Overview: Physicist Manabu Yukawa returns to Japan from America. Detective Kaoru Utsumi visits him and talks about a case. The case is about a popular girl in a town who disappeared and, several years later, her body was found. A suspect was arrested for her murder. That suspect was previously arrested for another girl's murder, but he was released due to a lack of evidence. Detective Shunpei Kusanagi investigated the prior murder case. The same suspect was then released due to a lack of evidence for the most recent murder case. The released man returned to his town, where everybody hated him. On the day of the autumn festival parade, the man was killed. Physicist Manabu Yukawa, Detective Kaoru Utsumi and Detective Shunpei Kusanagi work together on his case.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-16
Popularity:
2009-01-10
Overview: Five passengers stare at a middle-aged man weeping on a train - a young man with a broken heart, an office worker exhausted from work, a new station attendant, a salaryman who cannot cry, and a lost high school girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-10
Popularity:
2008-07-08
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-08
Popularity:
2010-01-10
Overview: The story is based on the bestselling autobiography of 25-year-old Rie Saito, who became a number-one hostess in Ginza despite being deaf. "Hitsudan Hostess" was published by Kobunsha this past May, and so far it has sold roughly 115,000 copies. The book depicts the life of Saito, who was born in Aomori and became deaf at the age of 1 due to an illness. She rebelled against her strict parents, and she ran away from home several times as a youth. At a local club, she began taking an interest in "hitsudan" (communicating through writing), which she later made use of when she moved to Tokyo and became a popular hostess at a Ginza club. --Tokyograph
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-10
Popularity:
2003-03-15
Overview: A woman in a bright green coat, Mizue (Toda Naho), gets off the bus at Shikaoi Town in Hokkaido. She has followed her former salsa dance partner, Arisaka (Endo Kenichi), to his hometown. Arisaka, who is about to start a new life, is troubled, and soon their feelings for each other burn intensely...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-15
Popularity:
2003-07-11
Overview: The year is 2053. Space exploration has because privitized, but with increased exploration comes higher accident rates. Therefore, the world's insurance agencies banded together to form CR or Cosmic Rescue. It is the job of CR to save victims of interstallar accidents & clear away the dangerous debris flying parts left over from previous crashes, that threaten other space vehicles. Nanjou Satoshi is captain of CR Shift Division 89. With Eguchi Ryo, his trusty mechanic & Sawada Azuma, the hot-headed rookie, they spend their days doing the rather menial work of clearing debris. But then one day, Azuma intercepts an emergency beacon from a young girl. The crew of #89 rushes to the scene, the ship disappears from their radar & they soon find themselves let go from CR. But what happened to the ship & the young girl? Was it all Azuma's imagination? Did the ship disappear? Or did someone hide it? The answers may cost them more than just their jobs.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-11
Popularity:
2003-12-05
Overview: A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims and taking them with him. His victims however, are not merely random humans as thought by the police. They are in fact, the past and present guardians of the gateway of the afterlife.On the day he is to be married, Detective Kanzaki, who happens to be on the case, discovers that his fiancé Mina has been murdered with her heart also missing. He also learns that the killers are Kudo, a geneticist, and his evil secretary Rei. The two are trying to obtain six hearts from the guardians so that they may call forth a horde of demons from the Gate of Rage and have their every desire granted. Only problem is, once they open the gate the entire world will be covered in darkness.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-05
Popularity:
1995-09-23
Overview: Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-23
Popularity:
2021-09-03
Overview:
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-03
Popularity:
2022-03-25
Overview: The artisanal techniques that Japan has cultivated over its long history are disappearing day by day, along with the lights of the lives of these artisans. Hiroshima is a city where sake brewing is thriving. Senzaburo Miura, the "father of ginjo-shu" who made Japan's first ginjo-shu (sake made from rice at a polishing ratio below 60%), is the pride of Hiroshima. Senzaburo's spirit of "try one hundred times, improve one thousand times" overlaps with that of the Japanese people who survived through the prewar and postwar periods. Now, the spirit of Japanese master craftsmanship is shared with the world from Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-25
Popularity:
2023-01-06
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-06
Popularity:
1999-11-06
Overview: While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. Mistakenly identified as prime suspects, they have to solve the crime but time is running out: Koji has to be back to perform in his club by midnight, as a very special guest will be attending.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-06
Popularity:
2011-04-23
Overview: Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.
Genres: Action Mystery Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-23
Popularity:
2023-03-24
Overview: A community is shocked when the bodies of an elderly man and the manager of a home-visit nursing centre are found. The passing of 42 elderly patients is connected to Shiba, a caretaker recognised for his affection and dedication.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-24
Popularity:
2024-06-14
Overview: Nobumasa Tsuboi (Yo Oizumi) runs a small factory in a small town. He has a daughter Yoshimi Tsuboi (Riko Fukumoto) who suffers from a congenital heart disease. A doctor tells Nobumasa Tsuboi that his daughter will only live for about 10 more years. Nobumasa Tsuboi is devastated that his daughter won't live past the ago of 20. Nobumasa Tsuboi and his wife Yoko Tsuboi (Miho Kanno) cannot accept the diagnosis. Even though he has no medical knowledge or experience, Nobumasa Tsuboi begins to study about artificial hearts.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-14
Popularity:
2011-01-22
Overview: A series of short stories explore the connection of love between dogs and people.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-22
Popularity:
2011-02-26
Overview: This is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged the death of his father by brutally killing the murderers in broad daylight. Samurai revenge killings, or adauchi, was considered a rightful and noble act of honor and virtue.But all that changed abruptly on February 7, 1873, when adauchi became prohibited as part of the Meiji Restoration’s goal to Westernize Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-26
Popularity:
1998-04-04
Overview: Japanese film directed by Hiromasa Taguchi.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-04
Popularity:
2016-08-03
Overview: Under the oppressive Japanese colonial rule, Deok-hye, the last Princess of the declining Joseon Dynasty, is forced to move to Japan. She spends her days missing home, while struggling to maintain dignity as a princess. After a series of failed tries, Deok-hye makes her final attempt to return home with help of her childhood sweetheart, Jang-han.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-08-03
Popularity:
2013-09-23
Overview: Wataru, a freelance cameraman who works for a travel magazine in Tokyo. He had aimed to be a teacher but failed to achieve his goal and left home to go to Tokyo. However, he does not do well in Tokyo and has to return to his hometown. Wataru reunites with his former girlfriend who is a primary school teacher now and through his interaction with his family, friends and a group of primary school students who want to take part in a choir contest, he begins to take steps to resurrect his dream of being a teacher.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-23
Popularity:
2011-09-25
Overview: Do criteria exist for the death penalty? Yusuke Mito, a law faculty lecturer who did not become a lawyer even though he passed the bar exam, the famous lawyer Kojiro Otomo who advocates the abolition of the death penalty, and the public prosecutor Mariko Nagase studied law together. Each have their own thoughts about the death penalty. One day, Otomo’s wife is murdered by someone. Shinzo Sabae who is resentful of a lawsuit that Otomo had been in charge of, is arrested as a suspect. Otomo reverses the stance he had had until now and seeks the death penalty against Sabae. This prompts Mito to make the decision to become a lawyer and stand in the court. However, the first case Mito takes charge of is the defence of Sabae, who murdered the wife of his good friend, Otomo…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-25
Popularity:
2010-04-10
Overview: Based on a true story. A Japanese girl and an American guy, fall in love in Japan. Their relationship will not be easy to manage, with their different cultures and their different langages.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-10
Popularity:
1998-05-23
Overview: Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo as a family man who fought to defend Japan and Asia from western colonialism but was ultimately hanged by a vengeful United States.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-23
Popularity:
2007-02-12
Overview: "Don of the entertainment world" Wada Akiko was killed by someone's hand! The Japanese archipelago swaying in shocking news! And the entertainment world .... Those who are "motivated to kill" are field managers, talents, singers, cultural men, program staff, pachinko parlor staff ... more than 1,000 suspects!
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-12
Popularity:
1998-03-14
Overview: A love story between a timid woman and frustrated ballet dancer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-03-14
Popularity:
2008-09-20
Overview: Drama about a young doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-20
Popularity:
2007-11-23
Overview: The tale of hardship, love, determination and life of Mineko, a young maiko (apprentice geisha) in the Gion district of Kyoto.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-23
Popularity:
2018-09-21
Overview: Keiichi Yoshinaga, who works for a major construction company receives a sudden phone call from his ex-wife, Junko Aoba. She tells Keiichi that their second son, Tsubasa, who lives apart, has been arrested for murdering his classmate. Keiichi immediately meets Tsubasa, but for some reason he keeps silence. Since Tsubasa shows no signs of reflecting upon his conduct, he is possibly going to an open trial. To overcome this situation, Keiichi consults a lawyer Kyoko Kanzaki who has a child of the same age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-21
Popularity:
2008-10-25
Overview: Ever since that fatal incident in college, Kanako has sensed them. A sound behind her... an object moving at the corner of her vision. Birds. Cooing, taunting birds... But are they real, or just in her head? As she struggles to perform her duties teaching marine biology, the images of pigeons slowly begin to drive her to the edge of insanity, until even drugs and alcohol no longer offer her protection. And what if they aren't figments of her imagination? What if that strange rumor she heard at the crime scene was true? If it was, then the real nightmare is only beginning! Vengeance has wings and the sky is filled with terror in GUN-KYU!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-25
Popularity:
2019-11-29
Overview: Set along the river basin of Shimane Prefeture's Takatsu River, a government-protected river, this drama portrays various people living in an area burdened by decreasing population as they carry on the tradition of "Kagura" Shinto music and dance which is said to be the roots of Kabuki. Directing from his own screenplay is Nishikori Yoshinari of Railways. Saito Manabu (Komoto Masahiro) operates a ranch on a mountain and worries his son Tatsuya (Ishikawa Raizo) has been making a habit of skipping Kagura practice. Then Manabu learns his alma mater elementary school will be closed down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-29
Popularity:
2020-01-17
Overview: Ryoichi Yoshimori is a university student. His girlfriend, Kyoko Sawada is a few years older but the pair don’t care as they are deeply in love. After Ryoichi proposes to Kyoko, she suddenly disappears. Several days later, Kyoko re-emerges but claims to have no memory of him. With the help of a classmate/lawyer Chiaki Takaharu and his childhood friend Maki Kawai, Ryoichi attempts to unravel the mystery that may be related to the rumours of a memory erasing individual known as Kiokuya.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-17
Popularity:
2010-07-10
Overview: A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his clan after only one year of imprisonment. Following his return, Kanemi is faced with the death of his wife, Mutsue. Thereafter, Kanemi lives with and cares for his wife's niece, Satoo, who has secret affections for Kanemi and expresses them by helping change his bleak outlook on life. Meanwhile, Kanemi's develops his unique "bird-catching" sword technique which he will soon put to test in battle for the first time against the fearsome swordsman, Hayatonosho Obiya.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-10
Popularity:
1991-12-16
Overview: An office lady (Yasuko Tomita) who has a bitter memory of Christmas Eve breaks up with her affair partner (Shoji Sadaoka) and finds a new love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-16
Popularity:
2020-07-10
Overview: Kae is a fat high school girl who is a 'fujoshi', which is girls who enjoy reading homosexual romance novels. She is dismayed when her favourite character is killed off. She is unwell and refuses to eat. She loses weight. As a side-effect she is thin and suddenly popular at school. Boys begin to pursue her. She has a choice of suitors and can pick a boy of her liking. They are all pretty.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-10
Popularity:
2020-08-14
Overview: Akari is a first grade high school student. She is positive, realistic and outgoing with romance. Akari though is not good at expressing her feelings. She become friends with Yuna, who attends the same high school. Yuna has a hard time talking with strangers and she is passive with romance. She has never been in love, but she dreams of having a romance like those drawn in manga. Even though Akari and Yuna have totally different personalities, they are now good friends. Yuna gets attracted to Rio who is Akari’s stepbrother and attends the same high school. Akari becomes attracted to Kazuomi, who is Yuna’s childhood friend and attends the same high school.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-14
Popularity:
1996-03-09
Overview: A young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its members through back and forth e-mails.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-09
Popularity:
2004-10-09
Overview: Detective Mimura was living peacefully with his loving wife and son when the latter two were killed in an explosion caused by a 14-year-old boy, Yuya. Four years later, when Yuya is released from juvenile detention centre, Mimura's feelings towards the boy have evolved from grief to outright hatred, and he must cope with the pain. Meanwhile, Yuya's father quits his job as a teacher and dedicates himself to compensate the victims and to take care of his son. While the adults are trying to come to terms with their disrupted lives, Yuya is about to test the law again...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-09
Popularity:
2008-04-26
Overview: A young girl named Ann moves with her mother to her mother's hometown after her parents go through a divorce. There, Ann meets her first love Daigo Kitamura. Daigo helps her get used to life in the country. Ann even gets through her mother's suicide.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-26
Popularity:
2020-11-06
Overview: Rai, a frustrated student and part-time labourer, is wandering home after setting up a museum exhibition on the classic novel "The Tale of Genji". There is a blinding flash of light and he finds himself mysteriously time-slipped into the Heian period, the setting for the famous novel. Armed with a pamphlet on the history of the period and a bottle of headache tablets he passes as an onmyoji (magical protector of the capital) and is hired by the emperor’s wife Nyogo Kokiden. Fearless and coldly analytical she plots to have her son take over the Emperor’s position. Rai is expected to help. This light-hearted historical fantasy is a treat for lovers of sumptuous kimono.
Genres: Fantasy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-06
Popularity:
2020-11-27
Overview: Karen is an ordinary high school student in Tokyo, but she sometimes recalls pieces of her childhood memories that she did not know before. During the process of getting her passport for a school trip, Karen views her family register. She learns that she had an older sister Yukari, who died at the age of 4. Karen also learns that her parents are not her biological parents and that she was adopted. Karen now wants to learn about herself. She lies to her parents and tells them that she is leaving on the school trip. Instead, she travels to Fukuoka where she was born. Her classmate Satoi Hogari accompanies her.
Genres: Romance Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-27
Popularity:
2023-12-15
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-15
Popularity: