Masahiro Motoki
Biography: Masahiro Motoki (本木雅弘 Motoki Masahiro, born December 21, 1965 in Okegawa, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He portrayed protagonist Daigo Kobayashi in Departures, which won the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. His performance earned him the Award for Best Actor at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, at the 3rd Asian Film Awards and at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 21, 1965
Deathday: N/A
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MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
2010-04-29
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
Overview: Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-29
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Gemini
1999-09-15
Gemini
Overview: When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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Gonin
1995-09-23
Gonin
Overview: Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-23
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The Bird People in China
1998-06-10
The Bird People in China
Overview: Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-06-10
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Departures
2008-09-13
Departures
Overview: Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-13
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Last Song
1994-02-05
Last Song
Overview: A drama that depicts the trajectory of four years in the life of two young musicians and one woman who dreamed of becoming a star, leaving Hakata to pursue fame in Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-02-05
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Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
1992-01-15
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Overview: A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must team together to defeat their rivals or face disgrace and the disbandment of the sumo club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-15
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The Longest Night in Shanghai
2007-06-26
The Longest Night in Shanghai
Overview: A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramedy that twists traditional roles by making the beauty expert a male and the cab driver a feisty female. Although he works in a glamorous industry, Naoki Mizushima can't help but notice that his life is anything but beautiful. Can the uncouth Lin Xi help him make over his life for the better?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2007-06-26
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Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
1996-03-23
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
Overview: There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, worked, and shared experiences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-23
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Heat Wave
1991-02-09
Heat Wave
Overview: Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-02-09
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989-06-17
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Overview: Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-17
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Making of Gemini
2000-05-12
Making of Gemini
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-12
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Black Jack
2000-03-30
Black Jack
Overview: Matsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a church where it is rumored that miracles happen. There, they find strange twins named Pinoko. With Pinoko's guidance, Matsuzaki is saved by a genius surgeon, BJ, in exchange for exorbitant fees. However, Matsuzaki is captured by the police. Meanwhile, Reiko, a female detective who pursues Matsuzaki and other organizations, tries to solve a mystery by conducting an independent investigation. It turns out Matsuzaki was found dead.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-30
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The Mystery of Rampo
1995-05-27
The Mystery of Rampo
Overview: Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-27
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The Emperor in August
2015-08-08
The Emperor in August
Overview: In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. General Korechika Anami is torn over making the proper decision and the Emperor of Japan worries about his people. Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki leads the cabinet meeting, while Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu can't do anything, but watch the meeting. At this time, Major Kenji Hatanaka and other young commissioned officers, who are against Japan surrendering, move to occupy the palace and a radio broadcasting station. The radio station is set to broadcast Emperor Hirohito reading out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-08
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Shall We Dance?
1996-01-27
Shall We Dance?
Overview: A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-27
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Touch
2024-05-29
Touch
Overview: Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2024-05-29
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Spy Sorge
2003-06-14
Spy Sorge
Overview: A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who like he is attached to the ideals of freedom and rule of the masses. Sorge is able to feed the Soviet Union useful information regarding the Axis allies and their movements in Asia and beyond.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-14
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Fancy Dance
1989-12-23
Fancy Dance
Overview: Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-23
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My Santa Boy
1992-11-20
My Santa Boy
Overview: This suave lad triple books himself for christmas dates.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-20
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The Big Bee
2015-09-12
The Big Bee
Overview: Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter will be dropped. 8 hours is given as the deadline. Making the situation even more dire, a young child is in the helicopter.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-12
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The Long Excuse
2016-10-14
The Long Excuse
Overview: A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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Silence of the Sea
2024-11-22
Silence of the Sea
Overview: The day before his exhibition, world-renowned painter Tamura discovers that his own work contains a forgery. Meanwhile, the body of a woman with countless ukiyo-e tattoos is discovered at the sea. From the two incidents, the name of Ryuji emerges.
Genres: Romance Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-22
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Raffles Hotel
1989-10-29
Raffles Hotel
Overview: Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hotel and finds out that he lives in a big house with his wife and children. In the darkness, Moeko suddenly stands in front of Kariya with a camera in her hands. The shutter's sound resounds through the room. When it fades away, Moeko has vanished...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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Come On Girls!
1982-07-10
Come On Girls!
Overview: Three high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-07-10
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Balloon
1990-05-12
Balloon
Overview: Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-12
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Dioxin from Fish!
1992-02-22
Dioxin from Fish!
Overview: A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-02-22
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Headphone Lullaby
1983-07-10
Headphone Lullaby
Overview: The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-10
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Ganryujima
2003-03-18
Ganryujima
Overview: The legendary duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island is brought to life in a way never before seen. The vile Musashi has raped a farm girl and commandeered a boat for his trip to the island.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-18
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Barrow Gang BC
1985-04-27
Barrow Gang BC
Overview: Film about a pirate radio station.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-27
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Playtime Never Ends
1991-10-05
Playtime Never Ends
Overview: A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-05
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Tekkonkinkreet
2006-10-21
Tekkonkinkreet
Overview: Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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Highschool Scramble
1982-12-18
Highschool Scramble
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-12-18
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Beppin Town
1989-10-18
Beppin Town
Overview: An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama ). The scenery of Kobe before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake is included in various background scenes, and you can see the buildings and scenery that can not be seen now.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-18
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Tales of the Bizarre: Vol. 2
1991-08-07
Tales of the Bizarre: Vol. 2
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Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-07
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Ryuukou Kanbou
2021-04-10
Ryuukou Kanbou
Overview: The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paranoid about Saeko’s health, making her wear heavy clothes even in summer in order to prevent her from catching a cold. Their child before Saeko died due to an epidemic, and he believes thorough enforcement is a natural consequence. In 1918, the Spanish flu reaches Japan. As the number of infected people grows, Shiga starts to suspect their servant Ishi might have gone to watch a travelling entertainment troupe’s performance which drew a great number of villagers. It is something Ishi is likely to do. But when Shiga questions her, she says that she did not go. However, she makes him have misgivings on a regular basis and he decides to take this opportunity to make her quit. An uproar ensues. Shiga feels that he has become a tyrant and refrains from kicking her out but he loses all reason and faith in humanity amid the pandemic…
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-10
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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
2022-06-22
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
Overview: An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-22
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小泉今日子４０周年スペシャル
2022-03-31
小泉今日子４０周年スペシャル
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-31
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Making of "Departures"
2009-12-11
Making of "Departures"
Overview: A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-11
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Nowhere Man
1991-11-02
Nowhere Man
Overview: Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-02
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Saiyûki
Saiyûki
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Original Language: zh
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