Masanobu Katsumura
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 21, 1963
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Umizaru 3: The Last Message
2010-09-18
Umizaru 3: The Last Message
Overview: While a menacing typhoon approaches, an accident at the giant natural gas plant Regalia occurs. Japan Coast Guard rescue divers Daisuke Senzaki (Hideaki Ito), Tetsuya Yoshioka (Ryuta Sato) and engineer Hiroshiichirou Sakuragi (Masaya Kato) head together to the gas plant. During their rescue efforts an explosion occurs that traps Daisuke, Natsu Nishizawa Kazue Fukiishi and worker Hisayoneo Kizima (Gaku Hamada). Daisuke then looks for a way out for his party with a man he just meets Takuya Hotori. Because of the typhoon, even a helicopter cannot approach the Regalia. Meanwhile, at the head office of the Japan Coast Guard, the Japanese coast guard tries to find a way to rescue the trapped people, but the government officials put national interests first. Tension arises between these two parties. Daisuke's wife Tamakisai Senzaki (Ai Kato) prays for the safe return of Daisuke not only for her sake, but for their new born son.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-18
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Sonatine
1993-09-10
Sonatine
Overview: Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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Tiger Cave
2023-02-11
Tiger Cave
Overview: A story of a lonely man with motifs from Hamlet and Sangetsuki. One day, The man hears a mysterious voice.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-11
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The Water Flows to the Sea
2023-06-09
The Water Flows to the Sea
Overview: High school student Naotatsu travels to live at his uncle's house. In the pouring rain, he is picked up at the nearest station by a strange adult woman named Sakaki who guides him to an unexpected share house where a life together begins.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-09
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Kubi
2023-11-23
Kubi
Overview: Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-23
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Bankake ~ Metropolitan Police Department Automobile Police Unit
2023-03-27
Bankake ~ Metropolitan Police Department Automobile Police Unit
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-27
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From Me to You
2010-09-25
From Me to You
Overview: Sawako Kuronuma looks miserable on the outside, but is actually a positive-minded girl, who looks up to Shota Kazehaya, a sociable and friendly boy. Perceiving Sawako's good intentions, he secretly has feelings for her. Sawako meets Kazehaya and makes her first friends, Chizuru and Ayane but in comes Kurumi proclaiming her love for him... Will Sawako and Kazehaya ever find out about each other's feelings?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-25
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Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final
Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final
Overview: Movie based on the Emergency Interrogation Room series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
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Hoshi Shin'ichi Mystery Special
2014-02-15
Hoshi Shin'ichi Mystery Special
Overview: A collection of five short stories by Hoshi Shinichi
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-15
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Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2010-03-13
Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Overview: Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fullfil her mother's wish.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-03-13
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Ramo Trip
2012-02-25
Ramo Trip
Overview: Film on the life of Ramo Nakajima, part adaptation of his short stories, part documentary
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-25
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Masquerade Night
2021-09-17
Masquerade Night
Overview: An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at the countdown party Masquerade Night that will be held at Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. Detective Kosuke Nitta must go undercover and work again at the Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. There, he meets Naomi Yamagishi, who works as a concierge. Without any information about the criminal, except that the person will be in attendance, Detective Kosuke Nitta works feverishly to find the criminal among the 500 attendees.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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The Complex
2013-05-13
The Complex
Overview: Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu, the handyman cleaning up the old man’s apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-13
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Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor
2016-10-05
Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor
Overview: Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tokyo district prosecutors' office. He is currently busy with a case involving suspicious donations to powerful politician Yohei Tachibana. Shinichi then receives a mysterious message from his friend Samon Kondo. His friend is in charge of space development at The The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The message talks about a scandal related to space development. Samon soon goes missing after sending the message. Shinichi begins to see a connection between the two cases.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-05
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Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special
2016-07-03
Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special
Overview: Kojiro Himuro is a champion figure skater taking part in an upcoming world competition. Yet, he is suffering from a complicated CTEPH (chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension). Kantaro Kurosu is the director of the Cross Medical Center. He asks Michiko Daimon to perform surgery on Kojiro, but, right before his surgery, she is deprived of “the most important weapon as a surgeon.”
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-03
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Kimi Ga Kureta Natsu
2007-08-18
Kimi Ga Kureta Natsu
Overview: A young couple played by Takizawa Hideaki and Fukada Kyoko get's married because the girl is pregnant. Their son is healthy until they find out he has cancer at the age of five. How does the young couple deal with that?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-18
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あゝ、荒野
2011-10-29
あゝ、荒野
Overview: Kenji stutters and suffers from interpersonal blushing. After his mother's death, he lives with his violent father, but cannot stand it, so he takes a live-in job at a barbershop to get out of the house. On the other hand, Shinji's father committed suicide when he was young, his mother abandoned him and he grew up with a wild personality. The two, who may or may not have similarities, meet by chance and are trained by Horiguchi, a former boxer, to become professional boxers. A coming-of-age story about love, loneliness and facing oneself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-29
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Noriko Goes to Seoul
2011-09-10
Noriko Goes to Seoul
Overview: Mori Noriko is a Japanese housewife with a taciturn husband, Hiroshi, and a teenage daughter, Miyuki, neither of whom can understand her interest in the Hallyu star Kim Hyun Jae. When Noriko receives the news one day that she has lung cancer, she decides to gather her courage to travel to Seoul and see Hyun Jae, who's judging a music audition. There, she meets Kim Min Ha, a young man who continually fails auditions despite his talent and passion for music. The two develop a friendship, with Noriko helping Min Ha overcome obstacles to achieve his dream.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-09-10
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Hebi no Hito
2010-09-25
Hebi no Hito
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-25
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神様のピンチヒッター
1991-05-23
神様のピンチヒッター
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-23
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You Alone Can't See
1998-07-25
You Alone Can't See
Overview: During Muraishi's time in prison for fraud, he recalls his past and learns a power to penetrate and cure others. Upon release, he goes to Hakodate, where he can find his ex-wife, Kiriko. Though he cures a lot of people on the way and believes that he is the only one to make Kiriko happy, he is being depressed by discovering a guy together with her.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-25
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The Hotel Venus
2004-09-10
The Hotel Venus
Overview: In a strange alienated world there is a secret hotel in a shabby diner called the Venus Café, harboring some unusual people where compelling secrets lie in each resident's heart. Torturing secrets that have broken their emotional boundaries in the past. In this bittersweet, heart-wrenching story, there lives a man by the name of Chonan (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) who lives in the attic and works as a waiter or handyman at the hotel. Room 1 is shared by two residents; an incapable alcoholic and an illegal doctor named Doctor (Teruyuki Kagawa) and Wife (Miki Nakatani) who used to be a nurse but now works as a hostess living in the hopes of Doctor's recuperation. In Room 3 lives a bubbly girl by the name of Soda (Jo Eun Ji), who came from a deserted town where no one flowers flourished and has a dream to open her own flower shop. Finally, Room 4, occupied by a challenging young boy by the name of Boy (Lee Joon Gi), who carries around a gun longing to become a strong man and wishes to some day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Zen
2009-01-10
Zen
Overview: In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen school of Buddhism. He taught that a person was capable of realizing Buddhahood within himself, by way of Zazen. Zazen is extended hours of sitting and meditating to achieve a state of “Mu” (nothingness, or empty existence).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-10
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Hero
2007-09-08
Hero
Overview: After six years away, D.A. Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) returns to his former Josai branch of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, just in time for a brewing storm. Kohei's first case starts out simple enough. The suspect, a blonde-haired security guard, had already confessed to manslaughter, but he suddenly retracts his confession and takes things to court with big-shot defense attorney Gamo (Matsumoto Koshiro). It turns out that the security guard is a key alibi witness in a high-profile political corruption case, and the results of his case will directly affect the next. With the media, politicians, and a special investigative team breathing down his back, Kohei must handle the case with care (and flair) to find out the truth.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-08
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蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」
1999-11-16
蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-16
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Keiho
1999-02-17
Keiho
Overview: The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-02-17
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Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen
2015-04-25
Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen
Overview: Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-25
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Nadeshiko Tai
2008-09-20
Nadeshiko Tai
Overview: The story is set in Chiran, Kagoshima, the site of a secret base used to launch kamikaze missions during the war. At the time, a group of young girls known as the Nadeshiko Tai were gathered to help out at the base. The drama will be part documentary and it is based on the experiences of 78-year-old Shoko Nagasaki, a survivor of the Nadeshiko Tai.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-20
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Mondai no Nai Watashitachi
2004-02-28
Mondai no Nai Watashitachi
Overview: Mio Sasaoka hears of a middle school student that was a victim of bullying and then committed suicide. Mio thinks the girl should have confronted her tormentors rather than committing suicide. Mio herself is the leader of a group of students at her school. She is a bully. Her main target is Maria Shiozaki who is weak. Mio pushes her into the swimming pool and scribbles on her book, justifying her actions because Maria is disagreeable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-28
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Gaku
2012-01-01
Gaku
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Alibi Breaker Special
2024-04-06
Alibi Breaker Special
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Genres: Mystery Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-04-06
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Hot Blooded Yakuza at the Shopping District! - Chapter 1: The Rage
1999-06-15
Hot Blooded Yakuza at the Shopping District! - Chapter 1: The Rage
Overview: "A wave of recession hits the Kirigaoka Central Shopping Street in a certain town. One by one, the shops succumb to Angel A's pressure. Finally, the second generation of shopkeepers in the Kirigaoka Central Shopping Arcade, all of whom are strong ex-biker gang members, stand up! In order to protect the local shopping arcade, their ‘community development’ campaign has begun."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-06-15
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Tokyo Friends: The Movie
2006-08-12
Tokyo Friends: The Movie
Overview: Rei Iwatsuki moved from her hometown Kōchi to Tokyo to pursue her dreams. On arrival, she found a job as a waitress in a restaurant and met guitarist Ryuuji Shintani. Ryuuji liked her voice and invited her to join his band as the vocalist, The Survival Company (also known as Sabakan). The two started a relationship but then broke off when Rei wanted to write her own songs. Rei met other girls also working in the restaurant, Hirono, Ryoko and Maki, all in pursuit of their own dreams, and became good friends with all of them. One day, Rei receives news that Takashi was seen in New York and she decides to go look for him...
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-12
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This Mystery is Excellent! ~ Challenge from Bestseller Writer
2014-12-29
This Mystery is Excellent! ~ Challenge from Bestseller Writer
Overview: Kashiopea no Endo Roru A murder takes place on a luxury overnight train which runs from Sapporo to Ueno, Tokyo. The victim is a film director. The suspects are 4 women. Nokosareta Senritsu After a pianist concludes her best performance to date, she dies mysteriously in the waiting room. The cause of her death is potassium cyanide that was laced in her coffee. Kuroi Pan Teru A man works as a supervisor for a construction company. 30 years ago, he was a popular actor who played a hero character on TV. Now, he has a wife and a 20-year-old daughter. One day, the man learns that his daughter is kidnapped. Daiyamondo Dasuto A cold wave hits Tokyo. Two men, working for the same company, are unable to avoid overtime work that night. The snow storm then causes electrical outages. The two men must face difficult life or death decisions.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-29
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Convenience Jack
1992-01-18
Convenience Jack
Overview: A youth action drama depicting the struggles of a young man who gets involved in an extraordinary incident at a convenience store. This film is based on the novel of the same name written by Asato Izumi, written and directed by newcomer Hisashi Toma. Isamu Nagata of “Asatte DANCE” was in charge of the photography.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-18
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Doctor X: The Movie
2024-12-06
Doctor X: The Movie
Overview: The star-studded casts of the drama series come together for the highly anticipated movie adaptation of "Doctor X"! The secret of Michiko Daimon is finally revealed. "I never fail." How was the solitary surgeon Michiko Daimon born? What is the dark and mysterious tumultuous half-life of Michiko?
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-12-06
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Ruri mo hari mo teraseba hikaru
2022-12-27
Ruri mo hari mo teraseba hikaru
Overview: The story follows a high school girl who is a young caregiver. She ends up helping the drama club as a lighting assistant, leading to a conflict between her own circumstances of having to manage household chores and caregiving, and the new transfer student who is determined to take the club activities seriously. It's a fresh and heartwarming tale of a girl coming to terms with her true feelings that she has kept buried deep inside.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-27
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Somebody's Xylophone
2016-09-10
Somebody's Xylophone
Overview: A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-10
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Prison Break
2017-04-12
Prison Break
Overview: One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. Although Sakuma is a dangerous person who had also broken out of jail in Aomori, he submits to Urata who is the only person who had treated him kindly in the past. However, three months after escaping from jail, Sakuma shows up at Urata’s house. He has come to complain about the inhumane Akita prison officers. But he is locked up again after Urata notifies the police during an unguarded moment. A year later, Sakuma is sent to Abashiri Prison and Urata is also ordered to transfer as the prison’s chief warden.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-12
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Returning the Favor
2006-03-22
Returning the Favor
Overview: Kitahara Kazunori was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in the fall of his second year in high school, and thereafter spent a year and 10 months battling the disease. Although he studied hard for the university examinations and was successfully admitted to his first choice, [the prestigious] Tokyo University, he only managed to visit it for a day before passing away. After that, last January [i.e. 2005], Kazunori's mother compiled the thoughts he had left behind and published it as a book, and it was adapted into this drama. Even as Kazunori had to fight his serious illness, he received support from his friends, school teachers and family members, and had warm relations with many people. This drama illustrates the 1 year and 10 months young Kazunori persevered together with the people around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-22
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Cover as Many Waves as Possible
1991-08-31
Cover as Many Waves as Possible
Overview: The year is 1982, and the place is Shōnan in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. A group of passionate young people operate a beach radio station for the local community.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-31
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Butterfly Sleep
2018-05-12
Butterfly Sleep
Overview: Ryoko Matsumura is a popular writer in her 50's. She also knows that she has Alzheimer’s. Ryoko Matsumura begins to teach at a university. She meets a young Korean man in his 20's. They become attracted to each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-12
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Genius Detective Mitarai: Abstruse Case File
2015-03-07
Genius Detective Mitarai: Abstruse Case File
Overview: Kiyoshi, a brilliant detective, inquiries on mysterious cases with his childhood friend, Ishioka, a novelist.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-07
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Kamen Rider Build The Movie: Be The One
2018-08-04
Kamen Rider Build The Movie: Be The One
Overview: After the end of the civil war that tore apart Japan, the new governors of Touto, Hokuto and Seito work together to reunify the country. However, they are actually members of an extraterrestrial race called the "Blood Tribe" (the same species as Evolto), who assumed their government positions as part of a plan to destroy Earth as they have done to Mars and other planets before. Considering Sento Kiryū (Kamen Rider Build) a major threat to their plans, the Blood Tribe manipulates his friends and other civilians into attacking him. With even his close ally Ryūga Banjō (Kamen Rider Cross-Z) now against him, Sento must fight to survive and stop the Blood Tribe's plan from succeeding.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-04
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Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
2007-03-31
Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
Overview: A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends him as he sets up his shop, Kyo-ya and in spite of the difficulties stemming from cultural differences between the two ancient capitals including the favored taste of tofu itself, they eventually marry and become the owner of a tofu shop on a more respectable street. Behind the rock-solid business of Kyo-ya, their son, Eitaro bears the brunt of other tofu shops' animosity toward Kyo-ya's refusal to comply with Edo's way of running business and starts to frequent a gambling hall run by the mysterious "Boss", which throws the family into a critical situation that threaten to pull them apart...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-31
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Last Hold!
2018-06-19
Last Hold!
Overview: Okajima, a senior at Toridesaka University who has dedicated himself to the sport of bouldering, is facing a crisis. With his graduation imminent, he is the only member of the bouldering club. It needs at least seven members to stay in existence. Determined not to let the long history of the club end at his generation, Okajima desperately solicits new students and, after a lot of hard work, manages to recruit six new members: Arai, Momoda, Takaido, Nakamichi, Kuwamoto, and Kawaguchi. However, with the exception of Kawaguchi, they are all beginners…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-19
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4.50 from Paddington
2018-03-24
4.50 from Paddington
Overview: Toko Amano worked as a detective, but to take care of her sick husband she quit her job. After her husband passed away, Toko Amano now works as a crisis management expert. 3 days ago, Toko Amano's former mother-in-law rode on an express train with beds. She witnessed a man strangling a woman and told the train conductor, but he thought she imagined it. The police later searched for the woman's body, but could not find her. Toko Amano boards the same express train that her former mother-in-law rode. She looks for the dead body.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-24
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Blade of the Immortal
2017-04-29
Blade of the Immortal
Overview: Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine.
Genres: Action Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-29
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おとり捜査官・北見志穂Ⅱ
1999-04-03
おとり捜査官・北見志穂Ⅱ
Overview: After a series of arson attacks targeting red cars happens in the vicinity of Shiba Park, Shiho Kitami and Detective Hakamada of the MPD's First Investigation Division are asked by the local precinct to help with a stakeout. However, when the entire neighborhood loses power, a murder occurs...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-03
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Sukiyaki
2011-09-23
Sukiyaki
Overview: Kenta Kurihara (Tasuku Nagaoka) is sent to prison for battery. In his cell he is referred to as the "newcomer." Meanwhile, Kenta is bummed out with simple meal offerred in prison. The four other prisoners in his jail cell have no problems eating his food. On lunar new year's day the prison offers the traditional Osechi-Ryori dish. The inmates in the cell gather to play a game that has become an annual ritual. They compete for items from each other's dishes by boating about the most delicious things they have ever eaten. Shunsuke Aida (Motoki Ochiai) begins their game by talking about a dish which his mother made ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Ju-On: Black Ghost
2009-06-27
Ju-On: Black Ghost
Overview: The supernatural grudge manifests itself by way of a strange cyst growing in the body of a young woman, slowly draining all life from her in revenge for... what?
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-27
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Giwaku
2019-02-03
Giwaku
Overview: Sahara Takako is a lawyer who specialises in civil cases. She hates to lose and will use whatever means necessary to pursue the truth. Despite her competence, she is mocked as a rotten lawyer for defending companies that exploit their employees and winning many of these lawsuits. One day, Takako gets an unexpected request from a veteran lawyer, Harayama Masao. He would like her to take over the defence of a woman because he is in poor health and needs to be hospitalised. This woman is Shirakawa Kumako, who has been in the public eye. Called “Onikuma” by the public, which is a play on her maiden name, Onizuka, she faces charges of killing her husband Fukutaro, the owner of an established Atami restaurant, for insurance money.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-03
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The Reason Why I Became Ill
1990-08-11
The Reason Why I Became Ill
Overview: An omnibus comedy movie consisting of three short stories. The themes are "My Sweet Little Cancer," "Langerhans Connection" and "Hypertension Road," respectively.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-08-11
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Ooka Echizen Special-Shadow Master Scattered in Early Spring
2021-01-01
Ooka Echizen Special-Shadow Master Scattered in Early Spring
Overview: The special edition and the third edition of the "Ooka Echizen", starring Higashiyama Noriyuki, will be broadcast during the new year of 2021. In this SP, Higashiyama Noriyuki will play two roles. It is a swordsman who drives the blade to use it for revenge of a pathetic prostitute. How does the confrontation confront the man who is very different from the circumstances and is different in the circumstances? You can find the answer in this SP.
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2021-04-09
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
Overview: In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-09
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Hell's Garden
2021-05-21
Hell's Garden
Overview: Naoko Tanaka is a 26-year-old office lady (OL). Her job is typical, but her workplace has fierce fights among different cliques. Other OLs are absorbed in the daily clique fighting. One day, due to an OL at the company, Naoko Tanaka's company is targeted by OL from all over Japan.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-21
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Kouiki Keisatsu 10
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Overview: Police investigators of cases involving two or more prefectures.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-24
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Hot Blooded Yakuza at the Shopping District! - Chapter 2: The Explosion
2000-01-01
Hot Blooded Yakuza at the Shopping District! - Chapter 2: The Explosion
Overview: A snack bar opens in the Kirigaoka central shopping street, which has begun to co-exist with the major supermarket Angel A. The owner is Akemi, a childhood friend of the ‘second generation’. The owner is Akemi, a childhood friend of the ‘Nidaime’. The Nidaime were excited, but in fact she was a pawn of Angel A. And those who are after the Kirigaoka Central Shopping Arcade are once again plotting against them in an unexpected and despicable way...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Genres: TV Movie Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-04
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