Katsuya Kobayashi
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 10, 1981
Deathday: N/A
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POP！
2021-02-28
POP！
Overview: Kashikura Rin is an official charity supporter on a local TV station's charity program. She is depicted as being worried about how to deal with people and how to live as she approaches the turning point of her life at the age of 20. (c) nathalie.mu
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-28
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Kill Devil
2004-02-07
Kill Devil
Overview: Kill Devil is a Japanese movie about a group of juvenile delinquents in the year 2025. The juveniles are host to a "murder gene", and are sent to an uninhabited island by the government so that they can be rehabilitated. The government studies the causes of the gene, and implants an experiment on the juveniles called a "Tag". The Tag gives the juveniles murder impulses and memory loss, and both boys and girls start to brutally kill each other.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-07
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Pray
2005-10-15
Pray
Overview: Our story begins with two losers, Mitsuru and Maki, driving down the road with a drugged and kidnapped little girl in the back of their car. They owe lots of yen for drugs and a kidnapping scheme seemed to only possible way to get the money. The problem is, that when they call to make ransom demands, the people state that their daughter died a year ago, so who the hell do they have in their custody? The kidnappers are holed up in an old school, turns out it was the school that Mitsuru used to go to and it's now abandoned. Or, SEEMINGLY abandoned.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-15
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Cat Girl Kiki
2006-06-21
Cat Girl Kiki
Overview: Yoshirou, a secluded teenager, brings back home a stray cat after a car accident. The next morning the cat has turned into a nice girl, Kiki, who wants to be his girlfriend... Will catnip get in the way of their love?
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-21
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Running on Empty
2010-02-20
Running on Empty
Overview: The beautiful Azami is tired of her penniless and lazy boyfriend, Hideji. Determined to break up with him, she must first get back all the money she has given him over the years. She hatches a plot in which she fakes her own kidnapping to get Hideji to pay a ransom. Things get hilariously complicated when all parties involved act to their own agendas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-20
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Dog × Police: The K-9 Force
2011-10-01
Dog × Police: The K-9 Force
Overview: Yusaku Hayakawa dreams of becoming a detective, but works as a trainer for police dogs. When Yusaku gets an albino shepherd named Shiro, he forms a special bond with him. Everyone says that Shiro does not have the abilities to become a police dog, but Yusaku believes in him and trains him. When a terrorist act occurs, Shiro gets the chance to show what he has learned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-01
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Takano Tofu
2023-08-23
Takano Tofu
Overview: Tatsuo and his daughter Haru run Takano Tofu Store in Onomichi. They begin their work before dawn every day. They carefully select beans to make their tofu. While they have peaceful days, Tatsuo worries about his daughter being alone after his death.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-23
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Goggles
2005-03-05
Goggles
Overview: One morning, Haruki comes to school wearing goggles. His classmates make fun of him as usual, but the goggles are meant to hide the bruises from the abuse he received from his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-05
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes Kagayaku Hoshi Yami wo Saite
2013-01-16
Legend of the Galactic Heroes Kagayaku Hoshi Yami wo Saite
Overview: DVD release of the theatrical play "Ginga Eiyu Densetsu Kagayaku Hoshi Yami wo Saite" based on hit novel "Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Stars Wataru Yokoo and Takashi Nikaido (Kis-My-Ft2). The play is held at Tokyo International Forum in November 2012.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-16
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Gokutsubushi
1994-10-15
Gokutsubushi
Overview: The original is a manga work by Shigeru Tsuchiyama serialized in the magazine "Leed Comic". The director is Takeshi Watanabe of "Kyouju Luger P08", the script is Masaya Ishikawa, and the shooting is Naoaki Imaizumi. A hard-boiled action by a combination of a former yakuza detective and a gangster who is a police officer. Performers are Kazuya Kimura, Rikiya Yasuoka, and Katsuya Kobayashi. Kyotaro Inugami, a detective at the port station, is a former yakuza. The young head of the gangster group Tsuneno-gumi, Choji Hanawa is a police officer. They were two people glaring at each other, but there are two people, Assistant Commissioner Masaru Sasaki and Shiro Sasaki ...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-15
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Throws Out My Hometown
2006-07-01
Throws Out My Hometown
Overview: Aiko and Meri are best friends. But they are to be apart in the next spring, because Aiko is going to Tokyo to attend the university there. In their home town, they meet various people. A bus driver looking for his runway daughter. A young man who can not decide what he should do about his job and marriage. A middle-aged housewife who doesn't see the meaning of their marriage life anymore..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-01
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Lost Summer
2023-10-13
Lost Summer
Overview: Lost Summer
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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Concrete
2004-02-11
Concrete
Overview: A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured. On the 25th of November 1988, four youths abducted and held Furuta Junko in the house of one of the captors. Subjected to rape, torture, and humiliation, Junko had no hope of escape as the manhunt was stalled by the captors forcing her to tell her parents that she was ok. For 41 harrowing days, Junko had to endure unimaginable suffering at the hands of these four individuals. Finally, after losing in a game of mahjong solitaire, they beat her with an iron dumbbell and set on fire with lighter fluid. She died later that day from shock. In an attempt to hide their crime they buried her in cement and thus the name 'Concrete Encased High School Murder Case' was born as Japan had to confront the horrors of this crime. The perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-11
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Rockers
2003-09-27
Rockers
Overview: Guitarist Ko-chan is a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their make-up skills. Bassist Gaku-chan keeps a bucket in the wings for whenever his nerves get the better of him, and drummer Momo-chan is doomed to forever carrying the botched childhood attempts at self-tattooing. It's not until this foursome is forced to look for an additional guitar player after Jin's dad burns his Stratocaster, that attitude and musical ability enter into the equation. Leather-clad, shade-wearing Tani (Tamaki), inseparable from his black Les Paul, is introduced as the king of R'n'R cool and Jinnai keeps him firmly seated on his throne throughout the film, retroactively proclaiming the guitarist, rather than himself, as the band's true hero.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-27
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Amachoroi Love Song
2010-09-04
Amachoroi Love Song
Overview: While working part-time jobs, Naomi, a not-so-popular band member who sings at live houses, faces a challenging situation as two members of the band declare their departure, and her boyfriend proposes to her. Although Naomi initially considers quitting rock music, things take a different turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-04
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The Last Message
2012-06-30
The Last Message
Overview: Police coroner Kuraishi Yoshio (Masaaki Uchino) and the crime lab team attempt to solve a serial murder case with a killer who seems to kill indiscriminately.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-30
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Linda Linda Linda
2005-07-23
Linda Linda Linda
Overview: Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival's rock concert—including a classic '80s punk-pop song by the Japanese group The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda".
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-23
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Blossoming Into a Family
2017-01-21
Blossoming Into a Family
Overview: “I never got to feel the warmth of a loving family.” That is what Seishiro notes down in 1948, who was adopted as a child by the idealistic Eichiro. In 1980, Izumi works at a bank and she lives with her mother Ito. Twenty-two years later, in the evening on a winter night and the day before Izumi is to marry, her mother tells Izumi about her late father's dream, Seishiro. Her father's dream was of Izumi's marriage. Izumi reminisces about her loving father. What happened in the meantime? In reversed chronological order this movie tells a story about a man who had much to give and what he got in return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-21
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The Cottage
2006-07-07
The Cottage
Overview: Shiho and six of her friends celebrate their graduation with a trip to the southern island of Europa. After they hear the legend about cursed spirits of people who died with a grudge, the hotel manager and one of the friends disappear and die mysteriously in the night.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-07
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The Devil's Path
2013-09-21
The Devil's Path
Overview: Death-row inmate Sudo sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii. In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura, also known as "teacher," committed numerous murders for insurance money. While checking out the story, based on Sudo's tip, Fuji becomes convinced that the letter is correct. But, a lot of time has passed from the incidents and Sudo's testimony isn't clear. Due to the persistance of Sudo, who is a former yakuza, and Fuji, the police begin to move.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-21
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Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love
2006-08-05
Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love
Overview: In 1999, an enormous meteor crashed onto Earth carrying extraterrestrial creatures known as Worms within it. These creatures took on the identities of real humans and then killed them. In order to counter this new threat, ZECT was formed, who in turn created the Masked Rider System to combat the Worms. The battles lasts over seven years, depleting Earth's resources and turning it into a barren wasteland. By present time, power struggles in ZECT have caused a new group, known as Neo-ZECT, to be created. Souji Tendou, a man weilding the Kabuto Zector, decides to sell his power to either ZECT or Neo-Zect for unkown reasons.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-05
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Paradise
2006-01-28
Paradise
Overview: Set in a rural fishing village in southern Japan, this is the story of Erika, a celebrated former anchorwoman now back in her hometown campaigning for a seat in the national party, and Yohei, an insecure fisherman-in-training. The two are worlds apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-28
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The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage
2003-12-26
The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage
Overview: There has been a surge in the number of people killing themselves; a mysterious DVD is found on the bodies of the victims... Nozomi falls under the spell of a deadly cult. Yousuke, the policeman she is dating, soon realizes that the cult has something to do with the DVD. Then one day all trace of the group disappear--along with Nozomi.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-26
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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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Zenigata
2018-05-26
Zenigata
Overview: Two brothers run a bar called Zenigata in a backstreet of a fishing port. At midnight, the bar changes to a lending place, where the brothers lend money and charge high interest. One day, they hire a former boxer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-26
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Ah, Wilderness: Part 2
2017-10-21
Ah, Wilderness: Part 2
Overview: Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-21
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Ah, Wilderness: Part 1
2017-10-07
Ah, Wilderness: Part 1
Overview: Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-07
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School Wars: Hero
2004-09-18
School Wars: Hero
Overview: Set in the mid-1970s, the film is based on the true story of Yoshiharu Yamaguchi, a teacher and former Japanese international rugby union player, who turned-around a failing high school in Kyoto, giving special attention to the rugby team, which included the most disruptive students among its members.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-18
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Only the Cat Knows
2019-05-10
Only the Cat Knows
Overview: Masaru and Yukiko have been married 44 years. They have three children who live independently from them. Masaru and Yukiko enjoy their peaceful days, but, one day, Yukiko tells her daughter Naoko that she wants to divorce Masaru.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-10
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Boy
2007-04-22
Boy
Overview: Jun, a 16-year-old teen, refuses to stand while the national anthem is being played at his graduation ceremony. This event will totally change his life, as he involuntarily becomes the new hero of a rebel anti-system youth. Singer Muy's pop music and his friend, Nozomi, with whom he shares his sadness and hatred for the society that surrounds them, help him bear his terrible loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-22
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Girls Don't Cry
2018-11-16
Girls Don't Cry
Overview: Rina and Aoi are a pair of identically dressed girls who become influentially popular in Harajuku. Through the kind favors of suspicious talent broker they appear in a music video, but afterwards, it is only Rina who is recruited by a talent agency.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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Lost Paradise in Tokyo
2010-09-18
Lost Paradise in Tokyo
Overview: Mikio and his older brother Saneo, who is mentally handicapped, live together and have just buried their father. One day, Mikio hires a hooker named Marin for his brother. Marin is an underground singer who goes by the name Fala. A video producer who is filming Fala's documentary finds out about her double life, and proposes to film her and Saneo's sex life. Dreaming about leaving Tokyo with Saneo with a huge sum of money from the film, Mikio and Marin agree to the offer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-18
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Nekonade
2008-06-28
Nekonade
Overview: The highly disciplined human resources manager Taro Onizuka starts to heal and change as he raises the kitten he found in a park.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-28
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Kizumomo.
2008-09-06
Kizumomo.
Overview: Aki, who loves freedom, mets Masaya, an aspiring watchmaker. The two have opposite personalities and initially clash. The two reach better terms when Masaya is able to see Akis inner pain. Eventually, Masaya uncovers Akis sad past which was supposed to be held secret from everyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-06
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Climb Miss Kotera
2020-06-05
Climb Miss Kotera
Overview: Kotera (Haruka Kudo) is a high school student. She belongs to the school's climbing club and is enthusiastic with bouldering. She is polite and has a tender personality. Meanwhile, Kondo (Kentaro Ito) is a member of ping pong club at the same school and is attracted to Kotera.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-05
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World's End / Girl Friend
2005-09-10
World's End / Girl Friend
Overview: Shinnosuke and Misawa are joint managers of a Bonsai shop. Suddenly Shinnosuke's childhood friend Haruko turns up. She has split up with her boyfriend and finds herself out on the streets. Shinnosuke starts to like her and really wants to cheer her up, but he can't manage to express his real feelings or stop picking up other women. Misawa is dumbfounded by Shinnosuke's behavior but also has complex feelings of love for his friend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-10
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The Last Supper
2005-02-12
The Last Supper
Overview: A plastic surgeon who excels at his job hides a dark secret. After finally succumbing to his desire to taste human flesh, the surgeon soon finds himself addicted to the taste of his patients' skin, which leads him to discover further culinary delights at a seedy restaurant with some highly dubious special dishes. Murder and mayhem ensue as the demented doctor continues to find new and gruesome ways to satisfy his appetite.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-12
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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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Prisoner/Terrorist
2007-02-02
Prisoner/Terrorist
Overview: During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leaving him captured. Exposed to maltreatment in prison, he slowly loses his grip on reality as he is forced to confront his ideological convictions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-02
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Maestro!
2015-01-31
Maestro!
Overview: Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou appears in front of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-31
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Doubting & Dancing
2019-03-02
Doubting & Dancing
Overview: Members of Kanna's university dance circle got together for the first time in a few years to celebrate the engagement of Kanna and Masao. Suspicion arises that Kanna and another member had sex, leading to fights and arguments between friends.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-02
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Koukoku Gaisha Danshi Ryou no Okazu-kun Gekijoban
2019-07-12
Koukoku Gaisha Danshi Ryou no Okazu-kun Gekijoban
Overview: Kazu, Keisuke, Ippei and Tadashi work for the same advertising company and live in the same company dormitory. The men relieve their stress by eating dinner together on Fridays. Kazu's nickname is “Side Dish.” Kazu takes on a new project which is to make brochures for restaurants in Enoshima Gourmet Town. He has a hard time, because a lot of the restaurants there have never advertised before. At that time, Keisuke tells Kazu about Tomokazu, who is the owner and chef at an Italian restaurant in Enoshima Gourmet Town. Kazu visits Tomokazu’s Italian restaurant and asks for permission to place his restaurant in the brochure, but Tomokazu kicks Kazu out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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Peeping Tom
2008-10-18
Peeping Tom
Overview: Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was his own death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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