Asuka Kurosawa
Biography: Asuka Kurosawa was born on December 22, 1971 in Kanagawa, Japan as Asuka Okasaka. She is an actress.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 22, 1971
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
The Files of Young Kindaichi: Snow Yaksha Legend Murder Case
1995-12-30
The Files of Young Kindaichi: Snow Yaksha Legend Murder Case
Overview: Hajime Kindaichi is working a part time job as an assistant to a TV station for the filming of a shock show. They have invited celebrities in Segori Village and are planning to scare them by playing pranks on them such as fake deaths. However, a threatening letter arrives and soon, a real murder occurs broadcasted in front of everyone.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-12-30
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Memories of Matsuko
2006-05-27
Memories of Matsuko
Overview: While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-05-27
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Beautiful Escape
2020-10-17
Beautiful Escape
Overview: Akihiko Kobe, a first-year high school student with a stutter, is a target of bullying in his class and spent his days depressed. Akihiko lives at home with a face that can not endure anything and kills God in his brain every day. One day, I accidentally see a classmate, a brilliant and intelligent girl student, Mitsuri Nanao killing a cat. Kuri was inspired by the blood she saw during her period and had a desire to see the blood of others. Kuri then tells Akihiko that she has a desire for murder and proposes to kill the bullying group. The two begin to kill, and go east to escape, killing them. New generation youth splatter road movie
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-17
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Intimate Stranger
2022-03-05
Intimate Stranger
Overview: A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her, claiming to know her son.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-05
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A Snake of June
2003-06-13
A Snake of June
Overview: A woman is being stalked by a stranger. His stalking turns to blackmail when he sends her copies of photos of her in an embarrassing position. Now he controls her and she has to do anything he says. Anything.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-13
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Yoko
2023-07-28
Yoko
Overview: A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-28
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Cold Fish
2011-01-29
Cold Fish
Overview: Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-29
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Water Flower
2005-07-14
Water Flower
Overview: Minako is at the age where her father is more like an alien to her than a person. The situation is exacerbated when he comes home drunk one night and tries to climb on top of her. Minako's mother deserted them for another man when Minako was a child. Now working as a hostess, she has little time for her own six year-old daughter, Yu, Minako's half sister. Both girls are yearning for their mother's love. Minako runs into Yu at a game center in the mall and proposes they take a trip. She changes out of her school uniform and into adult clothes and the pair hops on an overnight bus out of the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-14
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Dead Waves
2005-02-05
Dead Waves
Overview: When a television producer visits the home of a brother and sister to interview them for his series on paranormal phenomena, what first appears to be a simple case of psychopathology turns into a full-blown epidemic of demonic manifestation. To his horror he realizes that he is not only a witness to the blossoming insanity, filming each scream and horrific expression, but that he and his technology have been intricately tied to the cause and conduit of its spread…
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-05
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Sing in Love
2022-05-27
Sing in Love
Overview: Jin is a temporary elementary school teacher on his way to a permanent position when a traumatic event plunges him into a terrifying deep darkness. Three months later, a mysterious man named Kai provokes Jin's memories and feelings regarding the past experience through rapping. Why is Kai obsessed with Jin? How does Jin confront his own "darkness"? Conflicts and battles for men who have been deeply injured inspire healing. And does true love exist on the other side?
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-27
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Over and Over Again
2022-04-28
Over and Over Again
Overview: Shuhei passes the telephone booth installed on the side of the railway and goes home. It was a family reunion once a week, but an odd couple who moved in close to me visited me and started saying and acting as if to stir up the family.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-28
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Jellyfish Eyes
2013-04-23
Jellyfish Eyes
Overview: In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There he will discover that every child has the ability to communicate with a fantastic creature, but they are being used in an evil plan to collect the children’s negative energy. Artist Takashi Murakami ‘s debut film is an amazing epic story that is an X-Ray of children’s hopes and fears with the artist’s unmistakable visual style.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-23
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The Trap
1996-05-25
The Trap
Overview: When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-25
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Blue Fake
1998-07-04
Blue Fake
Overview: Ayaka and Echika are asked to locate a woman who makes harassing phone calls to a popular DJ, but...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-04
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Father, Father
2023-12-15
Father, Father
Overview: Father, Father
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-15
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The World of Kanako
2014-07-04
The World of Kanako
Overview: When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-04
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Walking Woman
2024-09-21
Walking Woman
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Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-21
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A Story of Modern Chivalry
1997-10-08
A Story of Modern Chivalry
Overview: A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of revenge for his great friend.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-08
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Performing Kaoru's Funeral
2024-03-05
Performing Kaoru's Funeral
Overview: When a screenwriter named KAORU dies suddenly, she leaves behind a tangle of relations who are all pulled together for the final act in her life: performing her funeral. The chief mourner is her ex-husband, Jun. A failed actor, he drifts around Tokyo as a driver for callgirls. He has to clean himself up to lead the ceremony down in the small village in Okayama that KAORU came from. There, he meets a host of eccentric characters, TV people, and KAORU ’s daughter, all of whom have complicated feelings for the recently departed. As can be guessed, the funeral becomes chaotic as people quarrel and fight but the fact that KAORU was loved is not in doubt as nostalgia, bitterness, and affection for the woman come out from each mourner in comic confrontations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-05
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Saga Saga
2023-03-11
Saga Saga
Overview: 28-year-old Kyoko return to her hometown of Ureshino in Saga Prefecture from Tokyo after a stint as an actress. It is here that she “runs” into Nahoko, her half-sister. Nahoko is secretly stalking Kyoko. Things get a lot more complicated when another half-sister is revealed.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-11
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Miss Boys! Yûjô no yukue-hen
2012-01-21
Miss Boys! Yûjô no yukue-hen
Overview: A year after the cross-dressing tournament, the fan club is weakened, it only has two members left. But a new kid who seems to be a fan of "Masamin" makes his appearance. Kaneko, for his part, feels a certain weariness in the attractiveness of his friend and will try to shine on his own, leaving the club...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-21
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Thorn
2015-09-13
Thorn
Overview: A high-school boy with telekinesis kills himself after being bullied and beaten by his classmates. The boy had been secretly storing his special power in his pet cactus. After the boy's death, the cactus is passed onto his mother who inherits his power and vows to avenge his death.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-13
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I Hate Tokyo
2013-08-24
I Hate Tokyo
Overview: Natsumi (Kie Kitano) moves to Tokyo to enter a fine arts university. In Tokyo, Natsumi meets Ryosuke and they soon become a couple. Ryosuke is a good person, but he doesn't have a job. Every day he just loafs around. To pay for her living expenses, Natsumi begins work at bar. Natsumi and Ryosuke become estranged from each other. They decide to break up. Natsumi's book is finally published.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-24
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Déracine
2004-11-27
Déracine
Overview: A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless pals, he makes his living by selling his paintings on the street. His paintings, dynamically exploding on pieces of cardboard, catch the eyes of Kyoko, an art dealer. He can feel alive only if he keeps painting, but unable to find something to fill his void inside, he tries to drown himself in alcohol. Drawn to Jouji, Kyoko commissions him to paint for her. The two travel to a secluded mountain-side, and there Jouji becomes inspired both by the natural surroundings and Kyoko herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-27
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Silence
2016-12-23
Silence
Overview: Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-23
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Vampire Clay
2018-04-20
Vampire Clay
Overview: Absurdity and gore ensue as a possessed pile of clay begins terrorizing students at an art school.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman
1998-12-12
Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-12
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Kirei? The Terror of Beauty
2004-08-21
Kirei? The Terror of Beauty
Overview: A mentally unstable young woman named Yoshie implores a gifted plastic surgeon (Yukiko Okamoto) to make her beautiful in this disturbing Japanese psychodrama directed by Katsuya Matsumura. Although the operation is successful, Yoshie becomes even more preoccupied with beauty -- and soon draws the doctor into a horrifying world of emotional agony and masochism. The film's supporting cast includes Asuka Kurosawa, Kota Kusano and Miki Asakura.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-08-21
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Hibi
2005-02-19
Hibi
Overview: Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-19
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The Promised Land
2019-10-18
The Promised Land
Overview: A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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The Flowers of Evil
2019-09-27
The Flowers of Evil
Overview: A high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes but is witnessed, which sets off a chain of events that send his life and the lives of others around him out of control.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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Kakame - Vampire Clay Derivation
2019-10-12
Kakame - Vampire Clay Derivation
Overview: Kakame, the evil mud through which a frustrated artist filled his revenge spirit, returns to the charge in this direct continuation of Vampire Clay.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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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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The Cold-Blooded Trap
1998-07-11
The Cold-Blooded Trap
Overview: Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-11
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Sanctuary
2006-10-07
Sanctuary
Overview: A child suddenly disappears in a small village and his mother desperately searches for clues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-07
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The Rite of Loss
2016-03-30
The Rite of Loss
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Genres: Crime Adventure Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-30
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The Japanese Doll
2019-11-15
The Japanese Doll
Overview: University students Yuri and Masato accept a peculiar invitation to a campground party, but things turn deadly when a cursed doll starts to attack.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-15
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Lost Serenade
2016-06-11
Lost Serenade
Overview: Kaori (Nori Sato) runs a small piano studio. One of her students is Yuu (Uwa Ishibashi). On the way from a recital, Kaori is sexually assaulted by Yuu's father (Kentaro Furuyama). Kaori later learns Yuu has also been sexually abused by her father. Kaori and Yuu share each other's pain and eventually Kaori decides to fulfill Yuu's wish.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-11
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Lost Girls & Love Hotels
2020-09-18
Lost Girls & Love Hotels
Overview: Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing Yakuza, as their tumultuous affair takes her on a journey through the city's dive bars and three-hour love hotels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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Saori, Piling Up
2018-03-17
Saori, Piling Up
Overview: A middle-aged housewife's frustrations with her boorish husband "pile up" until she can take it no more.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-17
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Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku
2018-07-23
Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku
Overview: Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by Tsubaki's daughter, Mineko, and believes in her father's innocence, witnesses a bizarre fortune-telling session at the Tsubaki mansion. That night, another murder occurs within the mansion. A visual adaptation of Seishi Yokomizo's gothic horror.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-23
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Hirugao
2017-06-10
Hirugao
Overview: Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet again and their love story continue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-10
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Last Judgement
2018-01-01
Last Judgement
Overview: A young man who's failed the Tokyo University of the Arts exam five times is jealous of a talented high school artist who eventually helps him unlock his hidden potential. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Suicide Forest Village
2021-02-05
Suicide Forest Village
Overview: One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-05
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Restart
2021-07-16
Restart
Overview: Mio came to Tokyo with her sights on becoming a singer/songwriter, but that dream was dashed by a scandal without her ever becoming successful. She returns heartbroken to her hometown of Shimokawa where connecting with her parents, her former classmates, and the rich natural surroundings help her emotionally recover.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-16
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Teki Cometh
2025-01-17
Teki Cometh
Overview: Gisuke is a retired college professor. His wife has passed away, and he is now living alone in an old Japanese-style house. One day, an unsettling message appears on his computer saying that the enemy is coming.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-17
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