Yoshiko Tanaka
Biography: Yoshiko Tanaka (田中 好子, Tanaka Yoshiko, April 8, 1956 – April 21, 2011) was a Japanese actress. She was also famous as a member of the pop group Candies. While a member of Candies, Tanaka was known by the nickname "Sue" Still at the height of its popularity, the group disbanded in 1978. Tanaka was also the sister-in-law of the well-known actress Masako Natsume. Tanaka was born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan. In her Candies period her nickname was Sue. She also had a role in Godzilla vs. Biollante, portraying Asuka Okouchi. She won the award for best actress at the 14th Hochi Film Award for Black Rain. In 1991, she married golfer Kazuo Odate, and was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992. In October 2010, Tanaka's cancer relapsed and she died on April 21, 2011. She was 55 years old at the time of her death. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yoshiko Tanaka, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 08, 1956
Deathday: April 21, 2011
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風車の浜吉捕物綴
1992-01-01
風車の浜吉捕物綴
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Ring 0
2000-01-22
Ring 0
Overview: Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-22
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Install
2004-12-25
Install
Overview: High school student Asako moves all of her belongings to the refuse area of her apartment complex and stops attending school. Kazuyoshi, a precocious young boy, invites her to join him in an online chatroom venture where she assumes the identity of a married temptress named "Miyabi".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Kosuzume Pass
1923-11-13
Kosuzume Pass
Overview: Tokutaro is an orphan child who becomes a street candy vendor. He sells candies, humming a song he learned long ago from his mother. One day he met with thieves along the way and this encounter changes their lives in ways they cannot imagine.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1923-11-13
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Godzilla vs. Biollante
1989-12-16
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Overview: After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who's experiments result in a new mutation.
Genres: Action Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-16
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Railroad Man
1999-06-05
Railroad Man
Overview: A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-06-05
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A Last Note
1995-06-03
A Last Note
Overview: A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-03
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The Deep Red
2005-09-17
The Deep Red
Overview: Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a result of a horrible multiple homicide. The first person traumatized is the lone survivor of the terrible family bloodbath, a girl who grows up to be a pretty college student. The second person affected by this heinous crime is the daughter of the murderer, a young girl who ends up becoming a tattooed bartender. A full decade after the crime, the killer is finally going to be executed, and the surviving member of the massacre decides to reach out and befriend the murderer's daughter. A tentative, odd sort of friendship blossoms between these two people, both of whom seem to have little in common personally, and every reason in the world for not wanting to meet. Yet they do, but not without reservations. And really, is this friendship quite what it seems? Or is it all part of some twisted plan for vengeance?
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-17
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Black Rain
1989-05-13
Black Rain
Overview: Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-13
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Kusa no ran
2004-09-03
Kusa no ran
Overview: This is a true story about the "Chichibu Incident," which is said to be the only revolution in Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-03
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正義だ！味方だ！全員集合！！
1975-12-27
正義だ！味方だ！全員集合！！
Overview: Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near Yokohama, but a gang was making its presence felt in the town and the shopkeepers in the shopping arcade were troubled by it. Chotaro poses as a journalist and uses his words of wisdom to suggest that pen is mightier than the sword, so they create a mini-comic magazine and launch a campaign to expel the gang.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-12-27
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Godzilla vs. Mothra
1992-12-12
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Overview: Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately a meteorite has awoken a hibernating Godzilla as a three way battle for the Earth begins.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-12
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Touch a Dream
2003-04-26
Touch a Dream
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-26
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Hitsudan Hostess
2010-01-10
Hitsudan Hostess
Overview: The story is based on the bestselling autobiography of 25-year-old Rie Saito, who became a number-one hostess in Ginza despite being deaf. "Hitsudan Hostess" was published by Kobunsha this past May, and so far it has sold roughly 115,000 copies. The book depicts the life of Saito, who was born in Aomori and became deaf at the age of 1 due to an illness. She rebelled against her strict parents, and she ran away from home several times as a youth. At a local club, she began taking an interest in "hitsudan" (communicating through writing), which she later made use of when she moved to Tokyo and became a popular hostess at a Ginza club. --Tokyograph
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-10
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Sakura
1994-04-09
Sakura
Overview: The story of a bus conductor who dedicates his life to the cherished Japanese symbol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-09
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Arigatou
2006-11-25
Arigatou
Overview: In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-25
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Winds From Zero
2007-05-12
Winds From Zero
Overview: On April 9, 2000, Suzuki Kyoko receives a phone call from the police. She learns that her 19-year-old son and his friend were killed by a drunk driver while walking along a bridge in Zama. Suzuki Kyoko lost her husband to cancer five years earlier and her world crashes down. The drunk driver was given the maximum sentence at the time 5 1/2 years. Suzuki Kyoko then spearheads a movement to increase the penalty for reckless driving. She also enrolls at Waseda University where her son died just a week after his entrance ceremony. Suzuki Kyoko also starts an exhibit to honor the victims of reckless driving.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-12
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Araki Mataemon: Duel at Kagiya Corners
1993-03-23
Araki Mataemon: Duel at Kagiya Corners
Overview: Watanabe Kazuma's younger brother is brutally murdered by Kawai Matagoro. However, Kazuma's vendetta is denied since the Japanese law in the 17th Century only allowed a samurai to avenge his father or older brother, but not a younger brother. This incident makes his family member Araki Mataemon face his best friend in order to clear path for Kazuma. The tension mounts as they must carry out the vengeance before the murderer Kawai Matagoro reaches the safety of a direct retainer of the Shogun.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-03-23
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Smile
2007-12-15
Smile
Overview: Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skating instructor. But by a twist of fate, he finds himself coaching a local ice hockey team of hapless youths and leading them to a championship
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-15
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Kaibyō Koi-ga-fuchi
1987-08-13
Kaibyō Koi-ga-fuchi
Overview: The sisters lived near a pond called Koigafuchi, near Edo, and kept a father-and-son cat named Tama and Kaze. The elder sister, Oichi, was discovered by a samurai named Kazuma who rescued her when she had fallen ill, and she was sent to serve him at his mansion in Edo, but this was the beginning of her misfortune.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-13
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Women in the Mirror
2003-04-02
Women in the Mirror
Overview: Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-02
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Tenohira no memo
2010-10-23
Tenohira no memo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-23
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The Man from Shimizu
1982-12-28
The Man from Shimizu
Overview: On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a gambling den, where he bets the condolence money for his mother's funeral. No surprise to learn he loses the lot. Not the hard-boiled yakuza story it seems, this is a comedy featuring many new artists who were making a name for themselves at the time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-12-28
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An Eraser in My Head
2007-03-13
An Eraser in My Head
Overview: An art school student and an artist find love but soon must face a painful struggle.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-13
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Oyaji
2007-08-25
Oyaji
Overview: Surrounded by violence for as long as he can remember, Ryoudo Numata has steeled himself into a tremendously tough man, growing to become the very essence of "manliness" himself in order to live his life in peace. When members of a yakuza clan set on fire to his house to facilitate a real estate transaction, Kumada murders them and gets jailed for it. 15 years later, finally free, he will now have to reconnect with his family who clearly are in disarray due his long absence and face the distrust of his children who know nothing of their father except that he had abandoned them.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-25
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Yume-Chiyo
1985-06-08
Yume-Chiyo
Overview: Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Though her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in helping a man wrongfully accused of murder and in the process discovers love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-06-08
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The Unconcealed Woman
1994-09-01
The Unconcealed Woman
Overview: Based on a story written by actress and author Hideko Takamine. Kimizuru Kawamoto is a popular geisha in Shitaya, Tokyo in 1926. Kimizuru is pregnant with the child of Hiroshi, the son of an large company's president, who tells her to wait for marriage until he returns from Germany in 3 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-09-01
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The Paradise Garden
1991-05-04
The Paradise Garden
Overview: The story of Czech architect Jan Letzel, who designed the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-04
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Friendship
1998-05-16
Friendship
Overview: Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when they all shave their heads for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-16
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The Tomb & the Divorce
1993-07-31
The Tomb & the Divorce
Overview: Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male friend at her leather-working class, Yoshinori has a fit. This is on top of the myriad of odd clients that he must appease.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-31
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Salaryman Senka
1995-12-23
Salaryman Senka
Overview: Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-12-23
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Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
1996-12-28
Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
Overview: Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-28
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The First Catch
1980-12-27
The First Catch
Overview: Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-12-27
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Eternal Monument
1982-06-12
Eternal Monument
Overview: A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-12
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Best Wishes for Tomorrow
2007-10-27
Best Wishes for Tomorrow
Overview: A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American Airmen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-27
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The detective whose path was crossed by a snake
1995-07-01
The detective whose path was crossed by a snake
Overview: Starring Ken Takakura, this TV special depicts a detective (Akira Hayasaka) who lives in a harsh life with pride and conviction. Minoru Akiba, Chief of the Investigation Division 1 of the Metropolitan Police Department, is a veteran detective who has passed through the shrine in numerous incidents. His wife was killed by a criminal he caught 13 years ago as revenge. There is a report that his former subordinate, Constable Murasawa, was stabbed to death under Akiba... Suzuki Kyoka plays his daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-07-01
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誰もが信じられない！
1983-06-11
誰もが信じられない！
Overview: A wheelchair-bound daughter is told that her mother's death was a murder and asks for an investigation, gradually learning the secret of her own birth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-06-11
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