Yōsuke Asari
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 14, 1987
Deathday: N/A
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Fuunjitachi ~ Rangaku Kakumei-hen
2018-01-01
Fuunjitachi ~ Rangaku Kakumei-hen
Overview: Maeno Ryotaku (Kataoka Ainosuke) is a doctor of Buzen Province, Nakatsu domain. Aspiring to learn Western knowledge, he comes across a Dutch-language translation of the German medical text Anatomische Tabellen while studying in Nagasaki. After returning from Nagasaki, Maeno is invited by a doctor friend Sugita Genpaku (Niiro Shinya) of Wakasa Province, Obama domain to observe an autopsy.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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歌妖曲～中川大志之丞変化～
2022-11-06
歌妖曲～中川大志之丞変化～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-06
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Be with You
2004-10-30
Be with You
Overview: When two souls find one another, nothing can tear them apart. Widower Takumi lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son Yuji after the loss of wife and mother Mio. Yuji unfailingly remembers her promise to him: "I'll be with you again in a year's time, when the rains come." On the first anniversary of her passing, Takumi and Yuji are taking a walk in the woods when they come across a woman sheltering from a monsoon downpour.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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Negative Happy Chain Saw Edge
2008-01-19
Negative Happy Chain Saw Edge
Overview: One day, apathetic high school student Yosuke meets a beautiful girl named Eri. Eri does battle every night with an indestructible, chainsaw-wielding maniac, “Chainsaw Man”. As Yosuke and Eri bond, he eventually joins the fight. Features CG effects by the talents behind the “Death Note” series. Based on the best-selling novel by Tatsuhiko Takimoto.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Fantasy Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-19
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Wedding High
2022-03-12
Wedding High
Overview: What's the biggest event for a couple? A wedding! The goofy but earnest Akito Ishikawa and the always cheerful Haruka Nitta are about to tie the knot. Thanks to the help of their wedding planner Nakagoshi, they've finally made it to the day of the wedding.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-12
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劇団☆新感線『狐晴明九尾狩』
2021-09-17
劇団☆新感線『狐晴明九尾狩』
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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Bakumatsu Aibou-den
2022-01-03
Bakumatsu Aibou-den
Overview: A single bullet cuts through Kyoto in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate right before the restoration of imperial rule. Who plotted to assassinate Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who is about to become the last shogun of Japan? Was it the faction wanting to overthrow him or the rebels within the shogunate? Mutual enemies Sakamoto Ryoma, the wandering samurai, and Hijikata Toshizo, a deputy leader of the Shinsengumi and vassal of the Tokugawa clan, receive a secret order to track down the culprit. They are given a mere two days.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-03
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The Pearl Legacy
2023-10-06
The Pearl Legacy
Overview: Harumi comes to terms with her mother’s passing and gets embroiled in the hunt for a legendary 600 million yen pearl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Ikebukuro West Gate Park SP
2003-03-28
Ikebukuro West Gate Park SP
Overview: This special takes place three years after the end of the original series. Makoto is homeless as a result of his mom selling out their shop and soon becomes involved in a ‘bone smasher’ case, in which someone puts homeless people to sleep and breaks their bones.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-28
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Confess to Your Crimes
2023-10-20
Confess to Your Crimes
Overview: The story tells of the granddaughter of the political family Uta, who is kidnapped. The kidnappers' demand is not money, but for the politician to hold a press conference and confess to the crime. Kentaro Nakashima plays the protagonist, Koji Uta, the second son of the Vice Minister of the Cabinet, Seijiro Uta (played by Shinichi Tsutsumi). Despite his reservations about his father's actions, he reluctantly takes on the role of his father's secretary, and the kidnapping incident plunges the Uta family into unprecedented predicaments.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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闇に咲く花
2023-08-04
闇に咲く花
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-04
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Akechi Mitsuhide: The man God hated
2007-01-03
Akechi Mitsuhide: The man God hated
Overview: The famed leader Oda Nobunaga had two right-hand men who contributed to unifying the nation. One was Akechi Mitsuhide and the other Kinoshita Tokichiro, both rivals of each other for higher promotions. Eventually Mitsuhide was recognized for his work and was given a castle. However, Nobunaga's ambition to conquer the nation did not allow Mitsuhide to live happily in his territory. That is when an idea flashed across Mitsuhide's mind… Akechi Mitsuhide, the man who was considered to be the most intelligent general of the warring states era. What was the truth about him, Oda Nobunaga's best general and murderer?
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-03
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Samural Detective Onihei:Blood for Blood
2024-05-10
Samural Detective Onihei:Blood for Blood
Overview: When he was young, Hasegawa Hirakawa was taken care of by the daughter of an izakaya, who wanted to become a secret agent. Although Hirakawa gave up this wish, Asami began to explore independently for the thief, Kogawara, the murderer, and the net cutter, who Hirakawa was looking for. Although he successfully entered the group of the uncle of the murderer, he fell into a desperate crisis.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-10
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Samurai Cat: The Movie
2014-03-01
Samurai Cat: The Movie
Overview: The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman who has fallen on hard times in old Edo. Caught between two warring gangs in an epic battle of cat lovers and dog lovers, he begrudgingly accepts the canine faction's offer to assassinate the opposite leader's beloved pet: an adorable white cat. Yet upon raising his lethal sword, he cannot bring himself to go through with the act, and the cat melts his ronin heart. But before finding peace as a newly minted cat person, the still fearsome Madarame will have to take on both gangs in a classic samurai street brawl.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-01
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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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Kofuku no Alibi: Picture
2016-11-18
Kofuku no Alibi: Picture
Overview: Stories depicting ordinary people revolving around ceremonial occasions. Without knowing that the funeral is for a yakuza member, an undertaker holds the funeral service. Relatives bicker over the deceased's last will. A son insists on wearing a long jacket normally worn by bousouzoku biker gang to a coming of age ceremony. His parents try to stop him. A husband heads over to his pregnant wife. She got pregnant before they got married and his father-in-law is angry at him. A freeter man challenges a professional baseball player over a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-18
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GS Wonderland
2008-11-15
GS Wonderland
Overview: "GS Wonderland" is about the 1960's Group Sounds bands - A Japanese pop movement inspired by the Beatles and other mid-1960's Brit Pop. Three young men set out to start their own band "The Diamonds" when they are signed to a recording contract during their very first rehearsal. Things turn for the unexpected when their agent brings Mick (Chiaki Kuriyama) into the group as their keyboardist.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-15
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Pacchigi!
2005-01-22
Pacchigi!
Overview: Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic class-mates on two Korean girls. He makes a narrow escape, but soon after, he and his best bud Yoshio are sent by their home-room teacher to invite the Korean students to a friendly soccer game as a way of restoring the peace.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-22
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Hyakunen no kei, watashi ni ari
2016-01-03
Hyakunen no kei, watashi ni ari
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-03
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Bilocation
2013-10-21
Bilocation
Overview: Shinobu Takamura is an aspiring painter. One day, she is accused of using counterfeit money. Shinobu is confused by the allegation, because she never did such a thing and was at home when the crime occurred. Police Officer Kanou then appears and takes her to a place. When they get there, a group of people are already gathered. All of the people there are concerned over a doppelganger like existence that looks just like them and acts like them. They call that existence "bilocation".
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-21
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Why did the girl have to lose her memory?
2014-10-01
Why did the girl have to lose her memory?
Overview: When the suspect of an arson case refuses to cooperate with the investigation, the detectives search his house and find a locked-up little girl. She doesn't talk and there are no clues to her identity, so assistant psychology professor Narumi Saku is asked to counsel her.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Returning the Favor
2006-03-22
Returning the Favor
Overview: Kitahara Kazunori was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in the fall of his second year in high school, and thereafter spent a year and 10 months battling the disease. Although he studied hard for the university examinations and was successfully admitted to his first choice, [the prestigious] Tokyo University, he only managed to visit it for a day before passing away. After that, last January [i.e. 2005], Kazunori's mother compiled the thoughts he had left behind and published it as a book, and it was adapted into this drama. Even as Kazunori had to fight his serious illness, he received support from his friends, school teachers and family members, and had warm relations with many people. This drama illustrates the 1 year and 10 months young Kazunori persevered together with the people around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-22
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Code Blue: The Movie
2018-07-27
Code Blue: The Movie
Overview: A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians are assigned to this latest medical system. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, witness the fragility of life, and they grow personally and professionally.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-27
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The 11 Words Murder
2011-06-10
The 11 Words Murder
Overview: A series of suspicious deaths, starting with that of her boyfriend Kawazu Masayuki, prompts mystery novelist Yuki Rikako to investigate. She discovers that all the victims were once passengers on the same cruise ship a year ago and involved in an accident that left one man dead. Rikako must find out what really happened during that outing before more casualties result.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-10
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Recall
2018-06-15
Recall
Overview: A woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the freight company which owns the truck becomes the target of the public and the media’s wrath, Tokuro Akamatsu, the president of the freight company, realizes that a structural defect within the truck itself may have been to blame. A conspiracy of the wheel manufacturer's attempts to cover up a defective product is uncovered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-15
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Our Stardust Dance
2011-10-06
Our Stardust Dance
Overview: A drab middle-aged man with thoughts of committing suicide and an extraordinary child prodigy plan a fake kidnap in exchange for a ransom of 10 billion yen.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-06
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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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The Chasing World 4
2012-05-19
The Chasing World 4
Overview: One day, it's decided that all people with blood type B have to be killed. There are people in black costumes who chase after and kill everyone with blood type B. Tsukasa is one of those people. Together with her friend Yui she tries to stay alive and staying alive means running because hiding isn't a solution. On the hunt, they meet Masaharu and together they decide to fight against those black costumed creatures.
Genres: Mystery Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-05-19
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The Chasing World 5
2012-05-26
The Chasing World 5
Overview: When good-for-nothing employee Daichi is attending to a backlog of work, a frightening game of tag targeting people with blood type B begins.
Genres: Mystery Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-05-26
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Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
2018-08-06
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
Overview: Nanami Ishikawa works as an editor at a publishing company. She travels Hiroshima to go after her father Asahi who left home. During her visit to Hiroshima, she learns about the tragic story of Asahi's older sister Minami Hirano. When Minami Hirano was 13 years old, she was exposed to radiation by an atomic bomb.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-06
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Partners
2010-11-06
Partners
Overview: 19-year-old freeter (a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding housewives and students.) Tsuyoshi Osanai enters a school for guide dog trainers. After 2 years of training, Tsuyoshi becomes an assistant trainer. His first dog to train is Chie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-11-06
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Kuroi Gashu: Kusa
2015-03-25
Kuroi Gashu: Kusa
Overview: Ichiro Numata (Hiroaki Murakami) is the chief editor of a publishing company. He suddenly falls unconscious and is hospitalized, but various cases takes place at the hospital. Hospital Director Kenichiro Asashima and Chief Nurse Junko Amemiya goes missing. There are rumors that they were in a close relationship. Head of Drug Management, Yasuharu Horimura is found dead. Rumors were that he stalked Junko Amemiya. The investigation into his dead is carried out as a suicide case, but Detective Eiji Kirishima (Takanori Jinnai) suspects foul play. Ichiro Numata follows with his sharp eyes what transpires at the hospital and he also holds a secret.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-25
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One Night
2019-11-08
One Night
Overview: A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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The Eternal Fountain
2012-06-16
The Eternal Fountain
Overview: The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji Kuramoto who confesses to murdering his wife. While following Kuramoto's action in Yamanaka and being sure of his innocence, Yamauchi remembers his wife who passed away 12 years earlier.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-16
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Sky of Love
2007-11-03
Sky of Love
Overview: Mika is a fresh high school student who starts texting a mysterious boy. She is shocked when he reveals who he is - Hiro, a delinquent attending her school. What she doesn't know is that Hiro isn't as bad as he seems.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-03
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The Man of the Tokyo Olympics
2014-10-11
The Man of the Tokyo Olympics
Overview: After the end of the second world war, Fred Wada Isamu (Osawa), an American of Japanese descent who runs a fruit and vegetable shop in Los Angeles. One day, Wada sees a newspaper article on the search for someone of Japanese descent who can look after Japanese athletes coming to the United States to compete in the national swimming championship, and offers his family. Several months later, Kiyokawa (Mitsuishi), the Japanese swimming team’s coach, and the swimmers Hashizume (Katsuji), Furubashi (Nakao) and others arrive in the United States. The Japanese swimming team breaks one world record after another and sets nine world records. It is joyous news for Japan. Several years later, Wada and his wife receive a phone call from Tabata Masaji (Nishida Toshiyuki), the chairman of the Japanese Swimming Federation and general secretary of the Japanese Olympic Committee. Tabata says he would like some form of help from Wada in their bid for the Tokyo Olympics...
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-11
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Why was the family erased?
2015-07-01
Why was the family erased?
Overview: One day, Hikari Seno questions her professor about her classmate who suddenly disappeared 3 weeks ago.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-07-01
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Fall Special
2017-10-14
Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Fall Special
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie
2021-03-19
Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie
Overview: At the end of the TV series of the same name, it is revealed that the husband works for the Public Security Bureau, and their marriage is a cover to keep her under surveillance. In spite of his mission, he falls in love with Nami and tries to convince her not to get involved in other people’s affairs. She is being monitored as a state-level security risk, and the bureau is unwilling to tolerate any more trouble from her. However, to save a friend, Nami runs out of the house and risks everything she has to confront the enemy. When she comes home, she finds her husband pointing a gun at her! A gunshot echoes through the quiet, upscale neighborhood…The movie picks up where the controversial ending of the drama series left off!!
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-19
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Randies
2009-11-14
Randies
Overview: In Ikebukuro, unbeaten street fighter Ran Sakurai (Yosuke Kawamura) and his friend Kenji (Yosuke Asari) run a benriya operation called "Randys" to earn enough money to buy a haka for their dead friend Shinichi Hoshi (Tsutomu Takahashi). Randys is named after their hero, Randy Bass: the American baseball player who helped lead the "hard luck" Hanshin Tigers to a Japan series title in 1985. A benriya is basically a problem-solver that accepts payment to do anything you need done, and Randys specializes in helping the weak triumph over the strong, much like Randy Bass did with Hanshin. One day, they find out the feared leader of a team of badasses called (appropriately enough) the Giants, Takeshi (Hisato Izaki), has returned to Ikebukuro to stir up trouble. He has only one goal: to beat the crap out of Sakurai. A dispute that began 4 years ago is about to be settled, but not before the streets of Ikebukuro are covered in blood...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-14
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Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
2023-07-28
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
Overview: To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield alongside a war orphan, now grown up, who dreams of glory.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-28
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鬼平犯科帳 本所・桜屋敷
2024-01-08
鬼平犯科帳 本所・桜屋敷
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Genres: TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-01-08
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鬼平犯科帳 老盗の夢
2025-02-08
鬼平犯科帳 老盗の夢
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Genres: TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-02-08
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