Min Tanaka
Biography: Min Tanaka is a Japanese actor and dancer. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 26th Japan Academy Prize for The Twilight Samurai.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 10, 1945
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
The Unnameable Dance
2022-01-28
The Unnameable Dance
Overview: The Unnameable Dance shows the life and dance of Tanaka Min, an elderly dancer in his 70s, in a multifaceted and dynamic manner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-28
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Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
2016-12-03
Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-03
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Four Women Living in That House
2019-09-30
Four Women Living in That House
Overview: A mother, daughter and two of their friends live in an old Western-style house in Suginami. As secrets are revealed, they face challenges together.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-30
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Tekkonkinkreet
2006-10-21
Tekkonkinkreet
Overview: Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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Perfect Days
2023-11-10
Perfect Days
Overview: Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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47 Ronin
2013-12-06
47 Ronin
Overview: Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Genres: Drama Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-06
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Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
2009-12-02
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
Overview: A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-02
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Heaven's Door
2009-02-07
Heaven's Door
Overview: A young man Tomoya Nagase and a girl Mayuko Fukuda both learn that they have an untreatable illness and are nearing death. When one reveals that they have never been to the ocean, they embark on a comical adventure to see the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-02-07
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Amnesiac Love
2022-12-24
Amnesiac Love
Overview: This story follows the journey of an ill-fated young man whose ambition is to be a professional antiques dealer. A hard-up young man, who makes his living by selling old items in flea markets, meets a nurse and he falls in love with her. He decides to become a successful antique dealer. So he participates in a huge auction in the mountains but he makes a fool of himself. At the same time he ends up being in the netherworld, and hovers between life and death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-24
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The Fighter Pilot
2013-12-20
The Fighter Pilot
Overview: A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflicting accounts from his former comrades about his character and how he joined his squadron.
Genres: War Drama Action Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-20
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House of Himiko
2005-08-27
House of Himiko
Overview: Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry with her father but in need of money, Saori travels to the House of Himiko, a nursing home established by her father for gay men. Over time, a tenuous relationship begins to develop between Saori, her father, and Haruhiko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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Mom, Is That You?!
2023-09-01
Mom, Is That You?!
Overview: Akio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make matters worse, he’s on the brink of divorce with his wife, and his relationship with his college-student daughter isn’t exactly smooth sailing. One day, he decides to drop in to Tokyo’s old-timey district to visit his mother Fukue. However, things seem a little off. His mother used to be always working with an apron on, but now she’s covered in stylish clothes, looking livelier than ever, and even in love! Akio becomes perplexed, feeling out of place in his own mother’s home, but after encountering kind, warm—and almost nosey—neighbors and a side of his mother he’d never seen before, Akio gradually starts to discover something he had lost sight of.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-01
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Father of the Milky Way Railroad
2023-05-05
Father of the Milky Way Railroad
Overview: Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and becomes obsessed with farming, jewelry and religion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-05-05
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Black Ox
2024-11-08
Black Ox
Overview: In the Meiji Period, in the 19th century Japan, transitioning towards modernization, BLACK OX explores the relationship between man and ox, inspired by the “Ten Ox-Herding Pictures” a series of short poems and illustrations from Zen Buddhism tradition that depict the path to enlightenment and spiritual awakening. BLACK OX follows the life of a Man, a former hunter-gatherer who loses his connection to the gods of nature and to his spirituality in the process of becoming a farmer and becoming “Japanese” during the nation’s period of westernization in the Meiji Period. Transitioning from a life in the mountains to a life in the farm, one day he comes across a Black Ox. He somehow succeeds in leading the reluctant animal back to his home, and begins living with it. The OX becomes his companion in a life of seasons in the attempt to reconnect with nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-08
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Ghost Book
2022-07-22
Ghost Book
Overview: The forbidden book that will make any wish come true "The Ghostly Book of Books". However, in order to make your wish come true you have to go through a life-threatening trial. What is that trial...?
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-22
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some body comes into the light
2023-10-26
some body comes into the light
Overview: A beautiful session between dancer Tanaka Min and director Wim Wenders that illustrates something before we started speaking with words.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-26
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Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
2014-09-13
Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
Overview: Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-09-13
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Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
2014-08-01
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Overview: Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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Riding the Metro
2006-10-21
Riding the Metro
Overview: Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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Invisible
2018-08-24
Invisible
Overview: An invisible salaryman tries to become a hero.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-24
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Black Dawn
2012-06-02
Black Dawn
Overview: In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, leaked information comes in about enriched uranium from the Korean peninsula. Sumimoto of the external affairs fourth division suspects that a conspiracy has been hatched to rock Japan-Korean relations.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-02
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Who Were We?
2024-05-31
Who Were We?
Overview: On Sado Island, Kii works as a cleaner at a gold mine. One day, she finds a collapsed woman in the facility and takes the woman to her home. The woman doesn't remember her past or even her name. The woman is named Midori by the two other girls living with Kii. Kii gets permission from the director for Midori to work as a cleaner at the mine. One day, Midori is attracted by the presence of cats and this leads her to meet Ao, who works as a night guard at the gold mine. Ao tells her that he also doesn't remember his past. Midori and Ao get attracted to each other and spend time together. One day, Midori meets Murasaki who seems to have a close relationship with Ao. This disturbs Midori.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-31
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The Tale of Iya
2013-10-22
The Tale of Iya
Overview: As a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched regions, an old man and his granddaughter Haruna's humble lifestyle begins to influence the outlook of a man from Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-22
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The Real You
2024-11-08
The Real You
Overview: Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions, Sakuya ventures into uncharted technological territory. He turns to VF (Virtual Figure), a technology that aggregates personal data from one’s life to create a “human” in a virtual space.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-08
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The Scythian Lamb
2018-02-03
The Scythian Lamb
Overview: Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by the government, with the intention of re-socialising them. Aside from the few who know about the project, the general townsfolk has no idea of the former convicts' identities. Tsukisue is the pleasant and efficient municipal official put in charge of the programme. As he slowly learns about their past, a body is discovered.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-03
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Mountain Stage
Mountain Stage
Overview: A collaborative improvisational guitar and dance set featuring backing from crickets and cicadas.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
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Blade of the Immortal
2017-04-29
Blade of the Immortal
Overview: Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine.
Genres: Action Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-29
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The Ark in the Mirage
2016-01-30
The Ark in the Mirage
Overview: A young man, involved with a gang of hoodlum exploiting vulnerable elderly men to steal their retirement money, experiences social disenchantment, alienation and confusion mostly due to a lack of dreams and fulfillment of ambition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-30
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Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
2017-12-09
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
Overview: Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical creatures live alongside humans. Akiko is a cheerful publishing assistant who moves into town after marrying Masakazu, a popular mystery writer. Akiko is surprised by the unusual town but enjoys the new curiosities surrounding her. However, just as she was beginning to settle in, a trifling incident sweeps her spirit to the underworld too soon. Convinced that destiny has something else in store for his wife, Masakazu journeys into the underworld to bring back Akiko’s spirit.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-09
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The Outsider
2018-03-09
The Outsider
Overview: A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-09
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Rebirth
2011-04-29
Rebirth
Overview: After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own, it is four years before the authorities catch up with her and the young child.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-29
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Vision
2018-06-08
Vision
Overview: Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-08
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Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
2015-08-01
Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
Overview: Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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Svaha: The Sixth Finger
2019-02-20
Svaha: The Sixth Finger
Overview: Pastor Park, the head of a religious investigation center that exposes cults and cult leaders, begins looking into a suspicious new religion called Deer Mount.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-02-20
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Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu
2011-03-24
Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu
Overview: Part documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu Inoue who wandered Ina Valley for about 30 years from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji era.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-24
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Modest Heroes
2018-08-24
Modest Heroes
Overview: Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs, and an invisible salaryman tries to become a hero.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-24
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The Great War of Archimedes
2019-07-26
The Great War of Archimedes
Overview: It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.
Genres: War Action Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-26
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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
2018-11-30
The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
Overview: Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One day, they receive devastating news of their daughter falling into a coma after a near-drowning accident at a pool. The doctors declare her brain dead with no prospect of recovery and the couple must decide if they should donate her organs to others in need or to wait until her heart stops beating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-30
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Hajimari mo owari mo nai
2013-12-14
Hajimari mo owari mo nai
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-14
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Children of the Sea
2019-06-07
Children of the Sea
Overview: Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-07
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Ninomiya Kinjirou
2019-06-01
Ninomiya Kinjirou
Overview: Ninomiya Kinjirou is a biopic follows the life of the eponymous character, an 18th century peasant boy who worked to rescue over 600 poor villages and hamlets from financial ruin by developing new economic policies.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-01
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A Morning of Farewell
2021-05-21
A Morning of Farewell
Overview: Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns to her father Tatsuro's home in Ishikawa Prefecture. She then begins to work at the local Mahoroba Clinic. She works with the clinic director Toru, Nurse Mayo and staff Seiji. Seiji, who worked with Sawako at the university hospital, followed her and works with her again. Mahoroba Clinic provides home healthcare to patients. Sawako visits the patients' homes and provides treatment there. At first, she has a hard time due to the different system. She becomes acclimated to the different system and finds a way to deal with the patients, their lives, and their families. --asianwiki
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-21
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The Twilight Samurai
2002-11-02
The Twilight Samurai
Overview: Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-02
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The Hidden Blade
2004-10-30
The Hidden Blade
Overview: Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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HOKUSAI
2021-05-29
HOKUSAI
Overview: The unknown life of Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in the Edo period, who is said to have painted more than 30,000 works throughout his life, such as "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-29
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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
1990-01-01
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Overview: "Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh choreographers and their companies. Although Butoh is often viewed as Japan's equivalent of modern dance, in actuality it has little to do with the rational principles of modernism. Butoh is a theater of improvisation which places the personal experiences of the dancer on center-stage. By reestablishing the ancient Japanese connection of dance, music, and masks, and by recalling the Buddhist death dances of rural Japan, Butoh incorporates much traditional theater. At the same time, it is a movement of resistance against the abandonment of traditional culture to a highly organized consumer-oriented society.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
2022-06-17
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2021-04-09
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
Overview: In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-09
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Haruneko
2016-12-17
Haruneko
Overview: Those who want to die seek refuge in a mysterious café in this feverishly strange Japanese debut.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-17
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TIME
2024-03-28
TIME
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-28
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National Treasure
2025-06-06
National Treasure
Overview: Set after the war in Japan, when the country experienced rapid economic growth, Kikuo is born into a yakuza family. His strange fate leads him to be eventually taken in by a kabuki theater actor. He experiences turbulent times, but his talent as a kabuki actor blossoms.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-06-06
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