Makiko Watanabe
Biography: Makiko Watanabe (渡辺 真起子, Watanabe Makiko, September 14, 1968) is a Japanese actress and former fashion model from Tokyo. She is affiliated with Decade.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 14, 1968
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Tomorrow's Dining Table
2021-05-28
Tomorrow's Dining Table
Overview: 3 women are happy and busy raising their boys named Yu. Due to some little thing, their lives fall apart. Their anger and anxiety unconsciously head towards their sons Yu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-28
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The Mourning Forest
2007-05-29
The Mourning Forest
Overview: A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-29
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Sugar Glass Bottle
2022-10-08
Sugar Glass Bottle
Overview: Near-future Tokyo. Kou, through the help of his high school best friend, finds a surprising way to express his mounting frustration at the insidious forces of commercialism that are forcing out the neighbors he cares most about. Initially inspired by a prank that the writer-director Neo Sora (The Chicken, 2020) had pulled on him in his childhood, a sense of warm nostalgia and cold, material reality intermingle to tell a tale set in the not-so-distant future about disappearing spaces and the forces of policing and gentrification that drills this process forward.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-08
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In the Wake
2021-10-01
In the Wake
Overview: Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence for another crime, and he surfaces as a suspect but detective Tomashiro can't nail down conclusive proof.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-01
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All to the Sea
2010-01-23
All to the Sea
Overview: Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share: books.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-23
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Love Exposure
2009-01-31
Love Exposure
Overview: The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-31
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Playback
2012-11-10
Playback
Overview: Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first time in ages. On the way Haji has an accident, and wakes up to find himself transported back to high school with his adult body in tact.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-10
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Hello, Goodbye
2017-07-15
Hello, Goodbye
Overview: Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to helping an elderly woman, they're forced to interact, confronting their differences and similarities as well as their deepest secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
2000-01-22
Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
Overview: When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped
Genres: Horror Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-22
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M/Other
1999-05-14
M/Other
Overview: Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine is upset when Tetsuro brings his 8-year-old son Shun to live with them, while his ex-wife recovers from a car accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-05-14
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Small, Slow But Steady
2022-12-16
Small, Slow But Steady
Overview: A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-16
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孤独のグルメ 2020大晦日スペシャル～俺の食事に密はない
2020-12-31
孤独のグルメ 2020大晦日スペシャル～俺の食事に密はない
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-12-31
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悪女について
2023-03-23
悪女について
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-23
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Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
2002-08-24
Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
Overview: A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts becoming more like her and tearing her world apart.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-24
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The Rebirth
2007-11-24
The Rebirth
Overview: Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with his hands. He moves away and gets a job in a factory. The woman who is the mother of the killer wants to apologize to the father, although she knows it would change nothing. He refuses to meet. She moves back to her hometown. She works in the kitchen at an inn where the man now lives. No one speaks. He eats alone. He reads in his apartment. She walks to her home and has a sandwich. She keeps her eyes lowered. He drives to work. Does either want to connect? What bond can they establish?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-24
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Himizu
2011-09-05
Himizu
Overview: After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-05
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Women on the Edge
2011-10-24
Women on the Edge
Overview: Following the 2011 tsunami, three women reunite in the family home only to rekindle tense, ruinous relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-24
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GFP BUNNY
2012-10-22
GFP BUNNY
Overview: A troubled teenager only lives through her camera and the Internet. Fascinated by science, she experiments on various animals, and her own mother, poisoning her with thallium and documenting the results.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-22
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Sketches of Kaitan City
2010-12-18
Sketches of Kaitan City
Overview: The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his family's gas business, but things aren't going well in his new endeavor and he becomes increasingly frustrated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-12-18
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Torso
2009-11-13
Torso
Overview: Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her sister discovers her secret desire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-13
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Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room: The Movie
2023-04-28
Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room: The Movie
Overview: The individuals that comprise the Tokyo MER team rush to on-site disasters and accidents, performing life-saving treatment thanks to the OR equipped within their vehicle. Their one mission is simple: leave no one dead. But conflicts arise when an unprecedented event rocks Yokohama after a bomb explodes in Landmark Tower, leaving thousands fighting to escape. Although the chief doctor Kitami believes they should not wait and presses for a quick dispatch, the more level-headed Chief Kamoi of the elite Yokohama MER thinks otherwise — they need to wait until the area is safe to enter, or they won’t be able to save anyone.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-04-28
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Where Are You?
2009-11-13
Where Are You?
Overview: A sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and then dying. The boy turns to crime, but doesn't find success. He then seeks out his remarried father, but the pain still exists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-13
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XX: Beautiful Prey
1996-05-17
XX: Beautiful Prey
Overview: This Japanese thriller finds a sexy policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investigation has led her to a seductive sadist and his equally appealing masochist victim. Falling prey to her suspects' powerful allure, she struggles to extricate herself from an increasingly torrid affair to solve the mystery she set out to investigate.
Genres: Thriller Action Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-17
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The Many Faces of Chika
2005-01-05
The Many Faces of Chika
Overview: When her husband is hospitalized with tuberculosis, Chika has a series of three relationships: with a teacher in her hometown, with a student in Tokyo, and with an aging gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-05
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The Midnight Maiden War
2022-01-21
The Midnight Maiden War
Overview: I is a university, who came to Tokyo from his hometown. I lives alone and doesn't have friends or a girlfriend. I's university life is boring and he doesn't have a dream. I supports himself by working as a day laborer at a construction site. I meets two people at a hide-and-seek club. One is his Senior and the other person is Black Suit. By meeting them, I's boring life changes. They start the "Midnight Maiden War," which is their plan to destroy Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-21
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Luxurious Bone
2001-08-25
Luxurious Bone
Overview: Miyako works as a call girl, living with her close friend Sakiko. After encountering a client, Shintani, with whom Miyako experiences sexual pleasure for the first time in her life, the two women begin to drift apart. Miyako suggests that Shintani should sleep with Sakiko, an event that draws the three into a love triangle in which their various flaws and anxieties are reflected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-25
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
2021-12-29
99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
Overview: The super unconventional lawyer is back! Our new friends are comic book girls! And the biggest enemy of all! The strongest lawyer who manipulates the prosecution behind the scenes sets out to prove the devil... Take on a case that is 100% impossible to prove!
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-29
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Still the Water
2014-06-01
Still the Water
Overview: On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his birth, Kyoko must come to grips with her mother’s terminal illness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-01
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Family
2023-11-03
Family
Overview: Based on the comic by Tsuchida Seiki, inspired by the artist's own life experience, this film portrays the loss and regeneration of the life of four men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-03
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Haw
2022-08-19
Haw
Overview: Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of his life, having been left by his fiancée. One day, his boss tells him to take care of a big, white dog, abandoned by its previous owner. Tamio begins to live with the dog, who doesn't bark and only makes a sound that sounds like "haw", and thus he names it Haw. While living together, the connection between the two deepens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-19
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Nobody's Perfect
2013-03-23
Nobody's Perfect
Overview: "Daijobu 3 Kumi" depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without arms and legs, and the 28 students in his 5th grade class, told from the vantage point of school board member Yusaku Shiraishi
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-23
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Mogura
1996-10-19
Mogura
Overview: Mogura, a shut-in former musician, falls in love with a young cellist after seeing her photo in a magazine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-19
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Ringo no usagi
1997-08-02
Ringo no usagi
Overview: About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-02
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Fourteen
2007-01-27
Fourteen
Overview: Sensitive and refined drama in which experiences from the puberty of a female teacher and a piano student reflected in the world of the younger generation they have contact with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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A Road Stained Crimson
2012-10-13
A Road Stained Crimson
Overview: Professional killer Ken (Hirofumi Arai) is trying to break away from the yakuza. Taking up work at a local motorcycle shop, he forges a new life under the motherly eye of Yoko (Jun Fubuki), an older woman who owns the shop. However, Ken's dark past isn't letting him go that easily. Akira (Jun Murakami), Ken's ruthless mentor and himself an assassin, has been coming around and pressuring Ken to return to the family. Together with orphaned teenager Tsuyoshi (Niinobu Ryomei), Ken decides to take to the road and settle matters in the only way he knows - by the trigger of his gun. Featuring music by Snake on the Beach, a solo project of legendary singer and guitarist Yusuke Chiba, A Road Stained Crimson takes viewers down the high-octane expressway of bikes, guns and rock 'n' roll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-13
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Labyrinth of Leg Fetishism
2001-08-25
Labyrinth of Leg Fetishism
Overview: Another psychodrama, this time revolving around an SM club.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-25
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Starting Over
2014-10-26
Starting Over
Overview: Nana is 19 and lives in a corner of Tokyo. Her birth mother and Marin, a girl the same age who she loves, were the only people she could trust. Nana confronts them in her yearning for love, but the world does not give it to her. With her whole life ahead of her, Nana struggles, suffers, and begins a search for the true meaning of love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-26
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Odayaka
2012-12-22
Odayaka
Overview: Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who is in a divorce, is worried that her daughter is exposed to radiation. Yukako is also afraid of radiation and tries to convince her husband to move. The two become friends after Yukako tries to save Saeko after a suicide attempt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-22
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Nemuriba
2010-10-23
Nemuriba
Overview: Mika (Marie Ono), a Japanese-American woman, returns to her native Saitama hometown and becomes a therapist for a "nemuriba" ("a place to sleep").
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-23
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Fragments of the Last Will
2022-12-09
Fragments of the Last Will
Overview: Based on a true story - a true love story of a man and his wife who are at the mercy of fate, but wish to be reunited for 11 years. With thoughts of his wife and his fellows, Yamamoto Hatao never gave up hoping that he'd return home despite hopeless circumstances.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-09
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Life Back Then
2011-11-19
Life Back Then
Overview: Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments. Now as a young adult Kyohei takes a new job. He works for a company that specializes in cleaning out the homes of recently deceased individuals. With his new job Kyohei meets co-worker Yuki (Nana Eikura). Yuki has also experienced a traumatizing event as a teen and has also shut herself away from the world. These two young people form a bond as they go through the homes of the recently departed people. They gradually open up to each other and in the process to the world. Yet, their fragile psyches may or may not be ready for such changes ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-19
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Sixteen
2007-05-26
Sixteen
Overview: A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-26
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Colors
2006-07-15
Colors
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-15
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Tampen
2001-12-01
Tampen
Overview: Four short films produced without a director
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-01
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Heaven's Story
2010-10-02
Heaven's Story
Overview: A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is eventually placed back into society so that he can kill him with his bare hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-02
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64: Part 2
2016-06-01
64: Part 2
Overview: 1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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Aoi Shushi wa Taiyou no Naka ni Aru
2015-08-10
Aoi Shushi wa Taiyou no Naka ni Aru
Overview: In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants and women of the night gather. The city hall's plan is to house the slum dwellers in cultural housing, complete with gas and running water. Kenji, a construction worker, and Yumiko, a waitress at a late-night rest house, meet in the slum, but only at dusk. One day, a Korean worker falls from scaffolding at an apartment building site and dies. The site supervisor and city hall workers bury the corpse in the concrete foundations of the apartment building...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-10
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My Sister, My Love
2007-06-06
My Sister, My Love
Overview: It is a taboo story about love and incest between twins. It's not about sex, it's about the feelings the two have for one another and how society views them.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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Mugonkan
2022-08-27
Mugonkan
Overview: A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, featuring artworks by students before they were sent to fight in WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-27
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White Night
2009-09-19
White Night
Overview: Fate brings a man and woman together in Lyon, France. They fall in love, but time is set to run out on them ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-19
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東京の日
2015-10-31
東京の日
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-31
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Au revoir l'été
2013-10-19
Au revoir l'été
Overview: After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-19
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Canary
2004-11-20
Canary
Overview: Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-20
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Wandering Home
2010-12-04
Wandering Home
Overview: War photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems Yasuyuki can't give up drinking alcohol. His family gets tired. Yasuyuki is then hospitalized in an alcoholic ward. There he finds comfort living with other patients and having conversations with doctors. With the help of his family, Yasuyuki recovers mentally and physically, but his body has already paid a heavy toll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-12-04
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Desert of Namibia
2024-09-06
Desert of Namibia
Overview: Desert of Namibia follows a bipolar young woman who burns the candle at both ends. A portrait of an unidealized Tokyo gen-Z, that surprises with its incredible energy and irreverence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano
2010-09-04
Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano
Overview: A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to disintegrate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-04
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Happyend
2024-10-04
Happyend
Overview: A near-future Tokyo awaits destruction as the city is rocked by a series of foreshocks that predict a larger, more disastrous quake on the horizon. With the anxiety looming over them, a group of teenage best friends and musicians get into typical teenager trouble that tests the strength of their relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-04
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While the Women Are Sleeping
2016-02-27
While the Women Are Sleeping
Overview: Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest arouse the curiosity of the couple.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-27
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Capturing Dad
2013-02-16
Capturing Dad
Overview: Part-time worker Hazuki lives with her younger sister, high school student Koharu, and their mother Sawa. One day they receive word that their estranged father is on his deathbed, so Sawa asks Hazuki and Koharu to visit him and take one last photo to remember him by.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-16
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A Loving Husband
2016-08-25
A Loving Husband
Overview: Schoolteacher Yohei is married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years they begin to live by themselves when their son marries and moves out. Then Yohei discovers that all’s not well in his marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-08-25
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Star Sand
2017-08-04
Star Sand
Overview: In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi, living together in a cave on a small island in Okinawa. The two men are deserters from their armies; yet both vow never to harm another human being again. Hiromi looks after the deserters until another soldier appears and the peace of the cave is shattered. It leads to the death of three of them and a fascinating mystery that isn't solved until the present day.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-04
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2/Duo
1997-06-10
2/Duo
Overview: The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-10
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The Lowlife
2017-11-25
The Lowlife
Overview: Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-25
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CREEP
2007-10-18
CREEP
Overview: Kohei and Akira are a couple running away together without a destination. They meet a geology researcher namend Shiraki on the way and the three visit a log cabin of a famous geologist Kanbe. With fortune teller Eiko, ex-girlfriend of Kanbe, joining the party, five people of diverse ages, sexes, statutes, and professions happen to spend a night together in the log cabin deep in the mountains. As the strangers get to know each other and grow closer, each one of their hidden pasts is brought to light. Meanwhile, following a thunderstorm and an earthquake, something even worse is approaching them...
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-18
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Rabbit on the Moon
2007-10-18
Rabbit on the Moon
Overview: Sanae is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her mother and six-year-old sister. She has not recently been able to be open with her fisherman grandfather. Sanae is awoken by the sound of hard rain one night. As she dozes, the rain changes into the flow of the river and she finds herself lying in a fishing boat when she opens her eyes. She hears, from far away, the strains of a harmonica which her grandpa loves... Next morning Sanae is informed that her grandfather has passed away. Frictions are revealed between Sanae and those around her. In her confused state, she runs out of the house leaving for the river where her grandpa's boat is moored...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-18
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Faces of a Fig Tree
2006-12-23
Faces of a Fig Tree
Overview: Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-23
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Mystery Trilogy Special
2015-11-30
Mystery Trilogy Special
Overview: This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-30
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A Banana? At This Time of Night?
2018-12-28
A Banana? At This Time of Night?
Overview: Hisashi Tanaka is a medical student in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. He does volunteer work and gets to know Yasuaki Kano at the hospital. Yasuaki Kano has suffered from muscular dystrophy since he was 12-years-old. Yasuaki Kano has his eccentric ways like running out of the hospital and saying that he wants to eat a banana late at night. Hisashi Tanaka thinks Yasuaki Kano is a lovely person. Yasuaki Kano develops a crush on rookie volunteer Misaki Ando. He asks Hisashi Tanaka to write a love letter for him, but Misaki Ando is Hisashi Tanaka’s girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-28
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37 Seconds
2019-02-09
37 Seconds
Overview: 23-year-old comic book artist Yuma, physically disabled due to profound cerebral palsy and emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overly protective mother, forges her own unusual path to sexual awakening and independence while at the same time discovering love and forgiveness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-09
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Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic
2014-11-22
Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic
Overview: The intertwined love story of four young people on Christmas night.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-22
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Aesop's Game
2019-08-16
Aesop's Game
Overview: Three girls - Miwa, an introvert who's best friend is her turtle, Saori, a rich girl from a celebrity family, and Koyuzu, a member of a revenge agency - wind up in a complex rivalry with one another.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-08-16
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Walking Man
2019-10-11
Walking Man
Overview: Atomu (Shuhei Nomura) was raised by his mother in a poor environment. He is now a young adult, but he stutters and has timid personality. To support himself, Atomu works part-time for a used junk collecting company. Atomu finds inspiration in rap music and his life changes.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-11
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Slight Fever
2017-11-12
Slight Fever
Overview: Wakana is a 17-year-old high school student who loves to cook. She enjoys peaceful days with her family and friends, but sometimes she senses delicate changes among people around her. Wakana meets office worker Mizuho through social media where she can talk about her worries, but Mizuho turns out to be a person Wakana never expected to be.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-12
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And Your Bird Can Sing
2018-09-01
And Your Bird Can Sing
Overview: With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults' lives become intimately entangled over the course of a long summer in Hakodate, Hokkaido.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-01
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Voices in the Wind
2020-01-24
Voices in the Wind
Overview: Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out on a long, eventful journey to her home town, where she lost her family in the flood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-24
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My Friend "A"
2018-05-25
My Friend "A"
Overview: Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-25
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Momi's House
2020-03-20
Momi's House
Overview: Momi’s House is a facility to support self-reliance of young people with problems. The facility is run by Yasutoshi (Naoto Ogata) and his wife Megumi (Misato Tanaka). Ayaka (Sara Minami) is a 16-year-old girl. She has refused to go to school for about half a year. Her mother decides to send her to Momi’s House. While staying there, Ayaka begins to change.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-20
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Obon Brothers
2015-07-25
Obon Brothers
Overview: A failed director is trying to get his next movie off the ground, while dealing with his cranky brother and his estranged wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-07-25
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Tamaran Hill
2020-06-09
Tamaran Hill
Overview: Hinako comes across the novel “Tamaran Hill” and immediately starts reading it with delight, as “tamaran” (intolerable) happens to be her father’s favorite swear word. She soon imagines herself inside the book’s story, which also deals with someone intrigued with that particular word, and even meets the real-life author Senji Kuroi there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-09
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The Asadas!
2020-10-02
The Asadas!
Overview: Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-02
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Startup Girls
2019-09-06
Startup Girls
Overview: A young female founder runs in to societal barriers during her drive to create startup projects, in a Japanese society that hasn't traditionally accepted entrepreneurs . She finds herself, and maturity along the way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
2013-01-01
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
Overview: Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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State of Emergency
2020-08-28
State of Emergency
Overview: An omnibus film consisting of 4 short films and a documentary related to COVID-19.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-28
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Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition
2015-04-11
Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition
Overview: Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the series. In this work, we collaborate with five popular manga artists such as Go Nagai, Junji Ito, Eiichiro Oda, Kazuo Umezu and Masayuki Ishikawa.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-11
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Foreboding
2017-11-11
Foreboding
Overview: Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father there. Etsuko becomes worried about Miyuki's state of mind, and she takes Miyuki to the psychiatric hospital where her husband, Tatsuo, works. There, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of "family." Later, Etsuko tells Tatsuo that she is not comfortable with Dr. Jirō Makabe. Tatsuo introduced her to Dr. Makabe earlier at the hospital. Etsuko has a feeling of unease about her husband working with Dr. Makabe. One day, Etsuko hears Dr. Makabe state "I came to Earth to invade."
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-11
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Lost Girl
2009-02-14
Lost Girl
Overview: Ryoko hides herself in a closet after a patron in her restaurant becomes ill from food poisoning & she is held responsible. Her husband and co-owner Daichi attempts to lure her out of the closet. After a violent argument with Daichi, Ryoko seeks out old friend Yuka...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-02-14
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Zebraman
2004-01-30
Zebraman
Overview: A down-and-out school teacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-30
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The Calming
2020-02-21
The Calming
Overview: A filmmaker is constantly on the move after recently ending a relationship. As she travels alone between Beijing, Nanjing, Hong Kong and Japan, she observes and engages with her ever-changing environs while seeking an inner calm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-02-21
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Come and Go
2021-11-19
Come and Go
Overview: Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah Wai. His eighth feature explores the lesser-known aspects of the Asian melting pot city through the eyes and experiences of a dozen characters who struggle to find their place in society: among them a Nepali refugee with dreams of opening a restaurant, a Burmese student struggling to make ends meet while working two jobs, and a Taiwanese sex tourist who travels to meet his favorite adult video actress.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-19
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
2021-06-04
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Overview: Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who carries a huge burden in her heart, his life will change forever.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-04
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The Harbor Lights
2025-01-17
The Harbor Lights
Overview: The growth and struggles of Akari, a third-generation Korean born the year of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. A post-disaster story based on people living in Kobe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-17
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Or Utopia
2024-11-16
Or Utopia
Overview: Japan, 2024. The Earth is dominated by a mysteriously giant creature (That Thing) and the group of 12 survivors has formed an uneasy community out of necessity to survive Two years later, Hirayama, the hotel owner, is found dead. Is it suicide or murder? As they search for the truth behind his death, the past and the secrets of each individual are revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-16
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