Yoko Maki
Biography: Maki Yoko, born October 15, 1982 in Inzai, Chiba, Japan, is a Japanese actress. Maki has appeared in several films including 2003 film Infection and the 2004 American remake The Grudge. Maki made her film debut at the age of 19 in 2001 film Drug. Her film career sprung when receiving a role as Aya in the highly modernized remake of the Japanese vengeance film Lady Snowblood (later re-titled as The Princess Blade). Maki later began performing on stage in the 2002 play Cross. In November 2008, Maki announced that she had married a 26-year old man not in the Japanese entertainment industry.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 15, 1982
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Hakutaka Shirataka Amane no Investigation File
2021-03-22
Hakutaka Shirataka Amane no Investigation File
Overview: A corpse of a clown is found in a park. Detective Shirataka Amane of Musashino Higashi Police Station begins investigating with rookie detective Uzuka Shinsaku. They find a picture of the victim holding a balloon with the number 1 and the letters TTX on social media which indicates pufferfish poisoning. Shirataka intuitively suspects that this is an incriminating statement done by a serial killer, but Chief Investigator Fukukawa Saeko denies her. Detective Kusano Seiya and other personnel of MPD First Investigative Division join the investigation, then a second murder occurs. Shirataka recalls an unsolved kidnapping and murder case from two years ago that she still regrets.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-22
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The Grudge
2004-10-22
The Grudge
Overview: An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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In the Pool
2005-05-21
In the Pool
Overview: A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-21
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Infection
2004-10-02
Infection
Overview: Infection takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient. In a hospital death is just a breath away.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-02
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Summer Time Machine Blues
2005-09-03
Summer Time Machine Blues
Overview: The members of a sci-fi club accidentally spill Coke on the remote controller of an air-conditioner during summer and suddenly a time machine appears in their sweating bath-like clubroom.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-03
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Undercurrent
2023-10-06
Undercurrent
Overview: Kanae's husband disappeared without a trace while on a union trip. Though usually headstrong and independent, the woman becomes plagued with worry over what happened to him, and is unable to move on with her life. Thus, Kanae decides to hire a private investigator, and keeps running the public bathhouse to the best of her abilities. As he tries to figure out the truth about her husband, Kanae must deal with the stress from a work-intensive job, meddlesome neighbors, and recurring nightmares in which she is drowning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Dumbeast
2009-05-16
Dumbeast
Overview: How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb Animal) to the big screen in all its wacky tragicomedic glory. The one and only Asano Tadanobu sports a seriously nerdy bowl haircut to play the leading role of simple-minded novelist Dekogawa who has mysteriously disappeared. Dekogawa wrote an autobiography about his youth that reveals not only his past, but also some of his childhood friends’ best-forgotten secrets. In order to keep the skeletons in the closet, these buddies of yesteryear try to silence him permanently. But no matter how hard they try to kill Dekogawa, he just keeps coming back – because he’s simply too thickheaded to die!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-16
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Sway
2006-07-08
Sway
Overview: A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-08
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Nemesis the Movie: Mystery of Golden Spiral
2023-03-31
Nemesis the Movie: Mystery of Golden Spiral
Overview: Set two years after the drama series "Nemesis," Naoki Kazama works for Nemesis Detective Agency and is regarded as a brilliant detective. He is able to solve the most difficult of cases, but he has a secret. He is actually a lousy detective and relies on the genius skills of his assistant Anna Mikami to solve cases. Their partnership continues.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-31
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The Princess Blade
2001-12-15
The Princess Blade
Overview: Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her own right, she learns the gruesome truth about the death of her beloved mother and joins forces with a mysterious rebel leader.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-15
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Yatsuhakamura
2019-10-12
Yatsuhakamura
Overview: During the Sengoku period, villagers brutally killed eight samurai, and in the Taisho era, the head of an old family murdered 32 villagers in the Eight-Tomb Village. Terada Tatsuya, who had long been estranged from the Terada family, returns as its successor. However, this return is the beginning of a tragedy. Grandfather, half-brother, monks, nuns... one after another, people related to the family are murdered. Yet, the truth remains elusive. In the midst of this, Tatsuya stumbles into a massive cave system. What he sees there is a wax figure of the head of the Terada family wearing the samurai armor. Meanwhile, Kindaichi, who has uncovered the secret of Tatsuya's birth, finds himself at the same cave. At that very moment, Tatsuya is cornered deep within the cave by villagers who fear the curse.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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Love Strikes!
2011-09-23
Love Strikes!
Overview: Set one year after the drama series "Moteki." 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto doesn't have money, dreams or a girlfriend. He has left his job at a staffing firm and is attempting to start a new life by working as a writer for a news site. Suddenly, Yukiyo experiences "moteki" - a period when a man becomes suddenly popular with woman. Cute magazine editor Miyuki, pure and naive office worker Rumiko, beautiful shop assistant Ai and beautiful, but tough co-worker named Motoko all become interested in Yukiyo. He tries to calm down, but is shaken by the interests of these women.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Dark Tales of Japan
2004-09-22
Dark Tales of Japan
Overview: Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-22
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The Cursed Sanctuary X
2021-11-19
The Cursed Sanctuary X
Overview: Kaname Azuma is sick of her marriage life with her husband and she decides to divorce him. She leaves Japan and travels to South Korea. There, she visits her brother Teruo's villa. Teruo is surprised by Kaname's sudden visit, but after he hears of her marriage life, he lets her to stay with him. Somehow, Teruo and Kaname happen to enter The Cursed Sanctuary X.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-19
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The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma
2011-12-10
The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma
Overview: "Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Genji Hakaru. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Ryokuzono Miyasutokoro is obsessed with Genji and eventually becomes a spirit. Yu Kao, who is from the lower class, give comfort to Genji's emotional wounds. Writer Murasaki Shikibu is jealous of Genji and is eventually ordered by Seime Abe to write a work ...
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-12-10
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Veronika Decides to Die
2005-10-12
Veronika Decides to Die
Overview: Towa lives in a peculiar sanatorium after committing suicide. Convalescing in sanatorium, she is informed that she has only 7 days to live. Isolated within their worlds, strange people live in this sanatorium and try to avoid making any contact with her. However, Kuroda a man who lost his power of speech feels sympathetic towards her and their every lovable things give true colors to the life and inspire Towa’s honest desire for the life…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-12
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Like Father, Like Son
2013-09-24
Like Father, Like Son
Overview: Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-24
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The Confidence Man JP - Episode of the Hero -
2022-01-14
The Confidence Man JP - Episode of the Hero -
Overview: Dako, Boku-chan and Richard commit their next con on Malta Island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-14
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Great Absence
2024-07-12
Great Absence
Overview: It's about the reunion of a long-estranged father and his son amid lost memories and scattered fragments of lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-07-12
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Jigen Daisuke
2023-10-12
Jigen Daisuke
Overview: Feeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the world’s best gunsmith. He finally finds out that Chiharu, who runs a watch shop, is the person he’s been seeking. Then, Jigen meets Oto, who comes to Chiharu’s shop looking for a gun. Jigen finds out about Oto's secrets and the mysterious organization that’s after her. After Oto is kidnapped, Jigen gets into a desperate battle to save her.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-12
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Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003-07-05
Battle Royale II: Requiem
Overview: It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-05
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You'll Die Six Hours Later
2008-09-28
You'll Die Six Hours Later
Overview: "You will die six hours later." Keishi, a youth who proclaims himself a seer, suddenly says this to Mio, who is walking along the streets of Shibuya. At first, Mio scoffs at it as nonsense but ever since her acquaintance was murdered a few days ago, she realises that she has also become a victim of a stalker. Half believing it, she decides to hang around with Keishi. Later, with the help of Sawaki, a detective she knows, the stalker is identified. She thinks the case is closed but a totally unexpected person attacks her...
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-28
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Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship
2013-03-02
Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship
Overview: Su-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship with a married man. 39-year-old Sawako works as a web designer and also takes care of her grandmother. -san and her mother take care of her grandmother.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-02
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Genome Hazard
2014-01-24
Genome Hazard
Overview: Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all his memories are gone and finds himself acting like someone else. What is his true identity?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-24
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I LOVE YOU
2013-07-18
I LOVE YOU
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-18
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Disconcerto
2014-10-18
Disconcerto
Overview: Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school classmate Haruhiko Gyoten. A big crisis then occurs for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-18
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The Ravine of Goodbye
2013-06-22
The Ravine of Goodbye
Overview: In a valley, with a dense growth of trees, a baby is killed. The baby's mother Satomi is arrested as the prime suspect. The police also learn that Satomi is involved in a romantic relationship with her next door neighbor Ozaki. The information was provided by the neighbor's lover Kanako.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-22
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Pacchigi!
2005-01-22
Pacchigi!
Overview: Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic class-mates on two Korean girls. He makes a narrow escape, but soon after, he and his best bud Yoshio are sent by their home-room teacher to invite the Korean students to a friendly soccer game as a way of restoring the peace.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-22
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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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Looking for a True Fiancée
2011-11-19
Looking for a True Fiancée
Overview: A three-timing 29 year-old man loses part of his memory after taking a nasty fall at a skating rink. The man, who works as pharmaceutical salesman, then discovers an engagement ring in his briefcase. Later, he comes across three different women who all claim to be his girlfriend. To figure out which of the women he planned to marry, he sets up dates with each of them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-19
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Black Dawn
2012-06-02
Black Dawn
Overview: In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, leaked information comes in about enriched uranium from the Korean peninsula. Sumimoto of the external affairs fourth division suspects that a conspiracy has been hatched to rock Japan-Korean relations.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-02
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Renai Shousetsu
2004-06-19
Renai Shousetsu
Overview: A love story starring Tamaki Hiroshi, Konishi Manami, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Hirayama Aya and Kamiki Ryunosuke. Hiroyuki, a fourth-year law student who has just broken up with his girlfriend Miwa, is approached by Satoshi, a student at the same university, on his way home from school and asked to do something strange. He wants to make a will for himself. Satoshi, who calls himself the "God of Death," begins to tell him about his mysterious past. He wants to get close to people but cannot. He says that everyone he was close to would die. So he has lived his life without befriending or loving anyone since he was a child. But when Satoshi meets a woman named Mizuki, he unexpectedly falls in love with her. And that was the beginning of a very sad love story...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-19
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A Perfect Day for Love Letters
2004-12-04
A Perfect Day for Love Letters
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-04
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Pacchigi!
2005-01-22
Pacchigi!
Overview: Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic class-mates on two Korean girls. He makes a narrow escape, but soon after, he and his best bud Yoshio are sent by their home-room teacher to invite the Korean students to a friendly soccer game as a way of restoring the peace.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-22
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Udon
2006-08-26
Udon
Overview: Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt. Awaiting him are his old friends, a caring sister, a disgruntled father ...and a bowl of noodles. Namely, "udon" noodles. The town is built around udon, sustained by udon, nationally famous for udon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-26
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SP: The Motion Picture
2010-10-30
SP: The Motion Picture
Overview: At an event hall in Roppongi Hills, there is a charity event for landmine eradication. Kaoru does security with Security Police officers Soichiro Ogata, Eri Sasamoto, Takahumi Yamamoto and Mitsuo Ishida. Kaoru Inoue senses a threatening existence and starts to suffer a severe headache and becomes dizzy. When Kaoru was young, his parents were killed by terrorists and that incident has had an traumatic effect on Kaoru since.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-30
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Parasite
2023-06-05
Parasite
Overview: A stage adaptation of the Korean film Parasite, which changes the setting to 1990s Japan. It ran from June 5th-July 2nd 2023 in Tokyo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-05
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Mozu The Movie
2015-11-07
Mozu The Movie
Overview: Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who terrorizes Japan by insinuating himself into people's dreams and the collective psyche of the Japanese people.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-07
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The Lion Standing in the Wind
2015-03-14
The Lion Standing in the Wind
Overview: Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-14
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Poison Berry in my Brain
2015-05-09
Poison Berry in my Brain
Overview: Ichiko is a 30-year-old unemployed woman. She meets Ryoichi at a drinking establishment. Even though he is a lot younger than her, she can't forget him. Meanwhile, Ichiko has 5 different characters in her brain that governs her actions. The 5 characters are Yoshida, Ishibashi, Ikeda, Hatoko and Kishi. These 5 character then have a fierce meeting. Yoshida presides over the meeting as the chairman. Ishibashi is the optimist. Ikeda is the pessimist. Hatoko is the character that lives in the moment and Kishi thinks about the past.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-09
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Before the Vigil
2013-01-15
Before the Vigil
Overview: Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. Matsuoi then thinks of his wife's lovers. Matsui goes to those men and informs them of Tatsuya's condition. The other women in the lives of those men are shocked and begin to re-examine their views of their men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-15
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Buddha 2: The Endless Journey
2014-02-08
Buddha 2: The Endless Journey
Overview: 2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his position as a prince to see the world. He meets a strange boy named Assaji, who can predict the future, a monk with only one eye and Depa. Siddhartha continues traveling. Siddhartha is overwhelmed by the sufferings he witnesses around him. Meanwhile, Prince Ruri of Kosara begins his attack on the Shakya clan. Second Buddha movie from Tezuka Productions.
Genres: Animation Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-08
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Bitter Honey
2016-04-01
Bitter Honey
Overview: Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and adoring pet for an aging writer seeking greatness. Things quickly get complicated for the odd couple, however, when the writer's deceased former student/lover enters the picture as a ghost and helps Akako realize her own desires, activating her agency and frustrating the one-sided male fantasy the writer is so keen to continue.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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After the Storm
2016-05-21
After the Storm
Overview: Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-21
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かもしれない女優たち
2015-06-23
かもしれない女優たち
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-23
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SP: The Motion Picture Pre Episode VI
2011-03-05
SP: The Motion Picture Pre Episode VI
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-05
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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
2006-06-03
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Overview: In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Shaun gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-03
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SP: The Motion Picture II
2011-03-12
SP: The Motion Picture II
Overview: After the attack on the Chief Cabinet Secretary, the next duty of the fourth office will be to guard the National Assembly building. In the midst of security, Ogata keeps Inoue away from the main conference hall and puts his well-thought-out plan into action, and the parliament building is controlled by SPs and terrorists who support the revolution. Inoue notices something strange and starts to fight against the terrorists to stop Ogata.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-12
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My Uncle
2016-11-03
My Uncle
Overview: Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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Mixed Doubles
2017-10-21
Mixed Doubles
Overview: To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a table tennis prodigy decides to take part in a mixed doubles table tennis tournament.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-21
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Yakiniku Dragon
2018-06-22
Yakiniku Dragon
Overview: Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down. He runs a small restaurant named Yakiniku Dragon. He is married and has three daughters: oldest daughter Jung-Hwa, middle daughter Yi-Hwa and youngest daughter Mi-Hwa. Oldest daughter Jung-Hwa is dating Tetsuo, but they break up. Middle daughter Yi-Hwa loves Tetsuo and marries him, but Tetsuo still loves her older sister and they divorce. Youngest daughter Mi-Hwa wants to become a singer, but she is in love with a married man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-22
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The Blood of Wolves
2018-05-12
The Blood of Wolves
Overview: Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-12
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Flying Rabbits
2008-09-13
Flying Rabbits
Overview: Yukari always wanted to become a flight attendant and has just been hired by Japan Airlines. However, due to an unexpected mistake, she has also been recruited to the company's basketball team (the JAL "Rabbits") despite being a lousy at basketball. Forced to divide her time between job training and playing basketball, Yukari makes an increasing amount of mistakes in both areas. Frustrated, she nearly gives up on her dream career, but somehow finds the strength to keep trying both in the skies and on the court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-13
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Hard Romanticker
2011-11-12
Hard Romanticker
Overview: Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury. Day after day, (fictional) Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums want to kick his ass. While working multiple dead-end part-time jobs, he cruises around town on his scooter in search of gangland trouble: leaping across rooftops with irate hordes of punks in hot pursuit, running off with a fetching belle in a sailor suit, rescuing a schoolgirl from being gang-raped at a glue-sniffing orgy…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-12
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The Vanished
2006-03-25
The Vanished
Overview: A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-25
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Kamikaze Girls
2004-05-29
Kamikaze Girls
Overview: Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-29
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Saikō no Rikon: Special
2014-02-01
Saikō no Rikon: Special
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Genres: Family Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Ride or Die
2021-04-15
Ride or Die
Overview: Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-15
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First Love
2020-02-22
First Love
Overview: A university student kills her father with no apparent motive. But is her claim that she is a liar simply another lie? A psychologist burdened with her own scars seeks to uncover the truth. There, she discovers a fabricated past and the screams of a soul violated by those she loved. Based on the novel by Shimamoto Rio.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-22
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Namonaihi: A Day with No Name
2021-06-11
Namonaihi: A Day with No Name
Overview: A human drama about the strange fate of the three brothers, played by Masatoshi Nagase, Joe Odagiri, and Nobuaki Kaneko, set in Nagoya.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-11
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A Man
2022-11-18
A Man
Overview: Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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Kaneko's Commissary
2024-10-03
Kaneko's Commissary
Overview: Kaneko, imprisoned for violence, was a man who would get angry even at his wife if she came to visit. It was the power of family - his wife, child, and uncle - that led this good-for-nothing to start a new life. Kaneko now runs a commissary that provides items to people imprisoned like he once was and visits them on behalf of their families. However, the peace is shattered when a young girl, his son’s friend, is found dead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-10-03
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People Without a Fort
2004-09-24
People Without a Fort
Overview: After female high school student Furuya Meiko is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide, police investigate and discover that she was involved in prostitution. The night before Meiko's death, her secret job was exposed and broadcasted to the public by well-known journalist Nagasaka Fumio on a very popular news program. Filled with anger and confusion, her boyfriend, Yahiro Kiichiro vows to get revenge on Nagasaka.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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