Ryushi Mizukami
Biography: Ryushi Mizukami, born December 26, 1964 is a Japanese actor and screenwriter hailing from Toyama Prefecture. He is affiliated with Toei Management and possesses a unique set of skills, including horseback riding and choreography. Mizukami's journey in the entertainment industry began with his involvement in situation theaters before participating in small theater productions and other producer-led performances. Subsequently, he made his mark in the realms of film and television, establishing himself as a versatile actor. Additionally, he pursued a career as a screenwriter, crafting scripts for plays, movies, and V-cinema projects. His talents are diverse, exemplified by his recognition with the Special Jury Prize at the Yokohama Film Festival for the movie "SCORE" in 1995 and the Excellence Award at the 1998 Japan TV Scenario "Toryumon" contest. Beyond his roles on screen, Mizukami is a dedicated educator. He serves as a professor in the Film Department at Kyoto University of Art and Design, contributing to the development of young talents. His wealth of experience and knowledge is being passed on to the next generation of filmmakers, shaping the future of the industry.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 26, 1964
Deathday: N/A
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Ring 0
2000-01-22
Ring 0
Overview: Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-22
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Living Rights
2015-03-07
Living Rights
Overview: The fifth work of the "Kita-Shirakawa school movie" in which a student of Kyoto University of Art and Design, a professional film staff, and a cast team up to make a film. With a certain big disaster, people are struggling for love while holding their own circumstances, and as a result, they ask what it is to "live correctly" even in a vague and uneasy era. Ittoku Kishibe played Yanagida, the protagonist of the protagonist who created and exhibited objects that incorporate radioactive materials to create and display indiscriminate terrorism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-07
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Score
1995-12-11
Score
Overview: A small time Yakuza thug is thrown into a bloody battle after a bank robbery he was forced into goes wrong when all the men begin to turn on each other a hitch-hiking serial killing couple decide to steal their loot.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-12-11
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The City of Lost Souls
2000-09-15
The City of Lost Souls
Overview: Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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Swallowtail Butterfly
1996-09-14
Swallowtail Butterfly
Overview: The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
Genres: Drama Crime Music Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-14
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Another Battle
2000-11-25
Another Battle
Overview: Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss dies, a struggle for his position takes place between Kaneo's boss Awano and the young Nakahira. Nakahira's men try to extort money from Masatatsu, bringing him in between a yakuza battle.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-25
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A Haunted School
1996-11-22
A Haunted School
Overview: Amidst rumors that the spirit of a student, who committed suicide years ago, appears in the photography club darkroom, high school sophomore Yuri borrows a mysterious horror manga from her elusive but studious senior, Miwako.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-22
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Cursed Songs: Chi-Manako
2008-03-22
Cursed Songs: Chi-Manako
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
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Onibi: The Fire Within
1997-04-19
Onibi: The Fire Within
Overview: After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-04-19
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Petrel Hotel Blue
2012-03-24
Petrel Hotel Blue
Overview: Seeking to exact revenge upon Yoji, Yukio travels to an area surrounded by the sea, desert and lava topped mountains. There, Yukio meets mysterious Rika and becomes enchanted by her presence. While, Yukio can't get Rika out of his mind, he faces off against Masakazu, a former subordinate of Yoji, and a detective chasing Rika.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-24
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KISS ME
1996-06-06
KISS ME
Overview: A hard-boiled touch love story that depicts the momentary love between a hitman and a woman who had a dangerous escape together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-06
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I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE
1996-11-08
I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE
Overview: Set in a metropolis in the 21st century, this unique erotic drama depicts youth colored by sex, drugs, and violence with a touch of science fiction.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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Lonely Hitman: The Blue Wolf
2001-03-21
Lonely Hitman: The Blue Wolf
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-21
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Alive
2003-06-21
Alive
Overview: Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-21
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Miroku
2013-10-26
Miroku
Overview: Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage years to adult life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-26
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Awakening
2007-01-27
Awakening
Overview: After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that her husband had lived a double life. Struggling between her anger and the chance to begin a new chapter for herself, she finds her life moving into unchartered waters as she faces her 60th birthday.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 1
1998-08-21
Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 1
Overview: Yuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined to exact revenge on the evil lord Akinari Katou and “The 7 Spears”, the band of soldiers he commands. Trained assassins and skilled in sorcery, these men took over the Aizu prefecture and took its most beautiful young women as concubines. They left behind 7 daughters now seeking out Jyubei Yagyuu to help get revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-21
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Dead or Alive
1999-11-27
Dead or Alive
Overview: Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-27
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The Millennial Rapture
2012-09-04
The Millennial Rapture
Overview: Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in Japan—drew the absurdity and passion of life since its inhabitants have been living and dying. There were beautiful men in “Roji” who struggled to live with the blood of the Nakamato Clan, blood called “noble yet unholy.” Oryu, a midwife, has watched all those men growing up, living and dying... She is now aging old and starts to talk with the dead men souls of the Nakamoto Clan...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-04
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Just the Two of Us
2020-07-10
Just the Two of Us
Overview: Shunsaku was paralyzed from the neck down at the young age of 36 by a spinal injury suffered in a motorcycle accident. A blind woman named Hanae arrives to be his caregiver. Despite her frustrations with Shusaku's ill-nature and verbal abuse, Hanae also harbors a tremendous sense of being deprived that she doesn't tell others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-10
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Taro the Fool
2019-09-06
Taro the Fool
Overview: Tarō is a vagabond, a wannabe, an urchin, and not what anyone would call mainstream. He does not care. Do not even ask him about his background or age. He would not know and he would not bother. The man meets two others and he begins to experience a new set of conditions.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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Getting Any?
1995-02-11
Getting Any?
Overview: While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-11
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Tokarev
1994-03-05
Tokarev
Overview: A school bus driver's life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-05
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Endless Waltz
1995-10-07
Endless Waltz
Overview: Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-07
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The Wild Beat: Requiem of Betrayal
1994-08-26
The Wild Beat: Requiem of Betrayal
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-08-26
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Yoko the Cherry Blossom
2015-11-21
Yoko the Cherry Blossom
Overview: In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka works as a teacher in the agricultural division at a youth training institute. Although Japan’s defeat seems imminent, all of Masaaki’s students are drafted in a futile last-ditch effort. In an attempt to give the young men some hope, he makes everyone promise that they will all meet again under the cherry blossoms upon their safe return. Consumed by sadness over the fate of his students, Masaaki devotes the next 30 years of his life to develop a new species of cherry blossoms that could thrive in any climate in remembrance of his students.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-21
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Off-Balance
2000-01-01
Off-Balance
Overview: 13-year old Chiaki Matsumoto enters middle school with two rules for herself: 1. Always stay cool and 2. Don’t make friends. Having suffered bullying in elementary school, Chiaki chooses a path of isolation, building emotional walls and deciding to live a tough, solitary life. One day, by chance, she meets Kiki, a flamboyant and mysterious individual who transcends age and gender. As Chiaki begins to interact with Kiki, she slowly opens her heart, learning to trust again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Ley Lines
1999-05-22
Ley Lines
Overview: The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-05-22
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Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
2000-12-30
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
Overview: Nami, the young madam of a well-established hot spring hotel in Kotohira, is reunited with her childhood friend Kana who has come to participate in an art auction. However, when people with links to the auction start getting killed one after another, Nami sets out to find the criminal with her detective husband Ryohei.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-30
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Ring
1995-08-11
Ring
Overview: In different parts of Tokyo, four young and seemingly healthy people suddenly die of heart failure at exactly the same moment. Reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa decides to investigate the deaths, and discovers that the four had stayed at a rural inn together just a week earlier. At the inn, he comes across a strange video that ends with a message saying that anyone who watches it will die exactly seven days later. Now the clock is ticking for Asakawa. Can he break the curse in time?
Genres: Horror TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-11
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Charon
2004-11-02
Charon
Overview: Yuto Kawasagi works at a bookstore. She also lives as Hideko Katsuki, newly wed to renowned author Dai Katsuki. She is also Charon, a high-class prostitute working for her lover, gangster Michio Jigen. When Dai discovers her secret life, she disappears, and both Michio and Dai set out to find her.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-02
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Confessions of a Dog
2006-05-07
Confessions of a Dog
Overview: Takeda is an honest police officer, father and husband, but after he’s promoted to detective he quickly becomes embroiled in dirty back room dealings, blackmail, and corruption that goes right to the top of the force. Meanwhile, renegade investigator Kusama must decide whether he should shake the foundations of Japanese law enforcement with the information that has come into his possession about the police.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-05-07
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Tokyo Wine Party People
2019-10-04
Tokyo Wine Party People
Overview: Shino Sakuragi is an OL. She attends a wine party recommended by her boss, even though she isn't comfortable at such a fancy get together. There, Sakuragi meets Kazushi Oda. He is knowledgeable about wine and he doesn't show off his success as a businessman. She becomes attracted to him, but Oda gets arrested for accounting fraud later. Sakuragi is confused by the situation, but she keeps attending the wine parties and becomes hooked on wine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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Randen: The Comings and Goings on a Kyoto Tram
2019-05-24
Randen: The Comings and Goings on a Kyoto Tram
Overview: A writer from Kamakura named Hiraoka Eisei is researching supernatural stories but finds himself revisiting memories from a previous visit to his wife’s home town. Ogura Kako,a shy local woman, is asked to help an actor from Tokyo practice speaking with Kyoto intonation and, after the lesson, he asks her to show him around Arashiyama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-24
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Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020-07-11
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
Overview: A young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying “Granny, it’s me,” he lies to them that he is their grandson. An old lady, who runs a music shop in the declining shopping area in Amakusa, answers his call and warmly accepts him. Pretending as her grandson, he settles down in the town. He gets used to his friendship with young villagers, the sound and landscape of Amakusa, and the old lady’s everyday life.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-11
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Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2005-03-19
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
Overview: One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-19
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Osaka Yakuza War: The Price of a Misfire
2007-03-25
Osaka Yakuza War: The Price of a Misfire
Overview: In the winter of Showa 62 (1987), the muddy conflict between Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, the Kobe Yamagagumi, and the Seiwakai—commonly referred to as the "Yamasho War"—seemingly came to an end. Tadokura (played by Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), a member of the Sakado-gumi under the Yamagagumi, spent his days consumed by relentless work, harboring unresolved emotions. Amidst this, Shimamura, the Sakado-gumi's second-in-command, is killed in a hitman's ambush. Little did they know that this brutal act would spark a bloody cycle of retaliation that would shake not only the Yamagagumi but also the entire Kansai yakuza world to its core. A complete cinematic depiction of this intense gangland war!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-25
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Black Face
2013-01-18
Black Face
Overview: The man (Choi Fi-yeol) has no name. His codename is "008 (Gong Gong Pal)." A cold-hearted Korean hitman is summoned to Japan for a job. While hiding his identity and working at Donhyun's (played by Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) yakiniku restaurant, he saves a woman and ends up meeting Kaneda of the Hayamikai. “Let’s be chingu (friends).” Kaneda, a regular at the restaurant, naturally works his way into 008’s life, forming a bond. However, Kaneda becomes a target of the invading Sakaki family and loses his life. For the first time, 008 has lost a chingu. A hitman who once had no emotions now begins to act on his own will.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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