Takeshi Ōbayashi
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 24, 1942
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Known For
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
1999-12-11
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
Overview: An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock begins to levitate as it's true intentions for the world and Godzilla are revealed.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-12-11
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Heaven and Earth
1990-11-24
Heaven and Earth
Overview: Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, Kagetora must find the strength to be as brutal as his opponent, but at what cost?
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-24
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Antarctica
1983-07-23
Antarctica
Overview: Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-23
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Space Battleship Yamato
1977-08-06
Space Battleship Yamato
Overview: When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth's atmosphere.
Genres: Action Animation Adventure Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-06
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Super Girl Maria
1991-09-10
Super Girl Maria
Overview: Yama, a bloodthirsty demon full of hatred and anger. He who confronts it is selected to have a few supernatural powers. Maria, wages a supernatural war in a school and another dimension with the help of Hiroshi who has the same ability.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-10
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Super Girl Maria: Final Fight
1991-11-25
Super Girl Maria: Final Fight
Overview: It's been a year since the fierce battle with the incarnation of hatred, "Yama". Peace returned to the city, and Maria was in her second year of high school. Her destructive power increased with the teachings of her same supernatural power, Hiroshi. Eventually, it will be time to join forces with the new "Kuru". Hiroshi's predictive ability, excellent spatiotemporal movement, and Maria's psychokinesis overlap ... "Holy power" is generated. The final death battle with Yama begins.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-25
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Kobayashi Hitomi no reijo monogatari
1987-12-19
Kobayashi Hitomi no reijo monogatari
Overview: A young lady who lives in a villa, drives a luxury car, plays tennis, throws garden parties and lives a comfortable life. However, she was actually a false young lady. She was a mistress owned by a certain man. But she ignores the feelings of her sugar daddy and runs out of the villa, hunting for other men. However, with the appearance of a certain man, she learns of true love and tries to live that love. However, her body had already refused to be monopolized by any man...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-19
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The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun
1982-07-23
The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun
Overview: Kotiyama is a swindler and extortionist, the head of a whole gang of crooks, usually posing as a poor monk; once he really took vows, but he was kicked out of the monastery long ago. He is enterprising, smart and not too cruel, so his accomplices love him. Posing as an envoy from the abbot of the Kennei Temple, Kotiama plays a show in front of Lord Matsue with an income of 150,000 koku, and extorts money from him. The film is based on the famous play by Kawatake Mokuami.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-07-23
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The Two Musashis
1981-05-29
The Two Musashis
Overview: Toru Emori leads the cast as Hirate Musashi while a Hiroshi Fujioka competes with him as Okamoto Musashi. They must not only contend with the Yoshioka and Yagyu fencing schools, but have to take on Chiyonosuke Azuma as Sasaki Kojiro, and deal with the women who pursue them for love. Unlike the Yoshikawa Eiji novel which is not historically accurate, this film offers a new view of Japan’s greatest hero! The film is based on the novel by Kosuke Gomi!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-05-29
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Buchō no aijin: Pinku no sutokkingu
1986-04-26
Buchō no aijin: Pinku no sutokkingu
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-26
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Motto hageshiku motto tsuyoku
1981-05-15
Motto hageshiku motto tsuyoku
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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Pika**nchi Life Is Hard Dakara Happy
2004-03-01
Pika**nchi Life Is Hard Dakara Happy
Overview: Sequel to the 2002 film Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy, starring members of boy band Arashi.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-01
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Achilles and the Tortoise
2008-09-20
Achilles and the Tortoise
Overview: Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-20
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Chameleon
2008-07-05
Chameleon
Overview: Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men kidnapping a middle-aged man in the parking garage. Goro records the man on his cell phone without knowing he could be in big trouble.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-05
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Ekiro
2009-04-11
Ekiro
Overview: An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is charged with the investigating the missing person case. Det. Yobuno quickly finds more mysterious as he delves into the case, but a woman named Keiko Fukumura (Eri Fukatsu) surfaces who may hold the key to case.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-04-11
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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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Bishimai: hagu!
1985-03-09
Bishimai: hagu!
Overview: Two unmarried sisters live together. They both have careers and boyfriends. And in the end they always have each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-09
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Kichiku
2002-10-15
Kichiku
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-15
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Serial Killer: Coldblooded
1984-02-11
Serial Killer: Coldblooded
Overview: Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-11
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Beaten by Black Rain
1984-08-12
Beaten by Black Rain
Overview: Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the event. Kuroi Ame ni Utarete tells the interlocking stories of a group of survivors who frequent Stand Akauma, a bar: Takeshi, who lost his entire family; Tomoko, a prostitute horribly burned in the bombing; her younger brother Junji, who scrabbles on the fringes of society; Eiko, a pregnant young woman whom he loves; and Yuri, another prostitute who is determined to secure a brighter future for her blind son.
Genres: History Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-12
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The Eyes of Asia
1997-04-11
The Eyes of Asia
Overview: Nakaura of Julian (Julião Nakaura), a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1538, as proof that Japan had converted to Christianity. Fifty years after the mission, which so fascinated European royalty, Julian was forced again to prove his faith, only this time before a Shogun, who wanted to force him to abandon his religion. Julian resists, as does Miguel Chijiwa, a fellow at the embassy to Rome, who become a martyr. Betrayed by Cristóvão Ferreira, who cannot bear the torture, Julian suffers an inglorious death ... or maybe not. All the while, a woman wants to discover her past...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-04-11
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Memory & Desire
1998-01-01
Memory & Desire
Overview: Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapproving mother in Japan. On their honeymoon, they have the freedom to express their love away from her repressive influence. However, on what should be the happiest of days, Keiji is drowned and Sayo must, by custom, return to live with her cruel and selfish mother-in-law.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Highest Honour
1982-05-15
The Highest Honour
Overview: After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-15
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Sunset Sunrise
1973-04-29
Sunset Sunrise
Overview: Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara in 1971, Sunset Sunrise (Hi wa shizumi, hi wa noboru) is a “hippie” road movie chronicling the trek that a handful of people take in order to reach Katmandú, the capital of Nepal.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-29
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Love Scenario
2010-09-25
Love Scenario
Overview: Popular TV screenwriter Mayumi Taniyama suffers from the dreaded writer's block. When producer Masaya Mukai asks for a screenplay written for him, Mayumi Taniyama offers to write one if he falls in love with her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-25
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Zankoku! Shōjo tarento
1984-03-02
Zankoku! Shōjo tarento
Overview: After appearing on a TV program a young woman is recruited to be an advertising idol much to the dismay of her boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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Watashi no naka no shōfu
1984-11-03
Watashi no naka no shōfu
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-11-03
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The Imperial Navy
1981-08-08
The Imperial Navy
Overview: A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-08
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Gate of Youth
1981-01-15
Gate of Youth
Overview: The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke's father a group leader at the mine, dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a friendly Harley-riding yakuza boss. This movie has it all, drama, romance, sex, yakuza and violence! It is based on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki that was originally serialized in the magazine Shukan Gendai in 1969-70.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-15
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Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983-11-15
Lanterns on Blue Waters
Overview: The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-11-15
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Heavenly Sin
1992-10-03
Heavenly Sin
Overview: Elite lawyer Ryoko enlists the help of a foreign mafia in rescuing her son from a criminal who holds grudge against her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-03
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Heroic Purgatory
1970-09-26
Heroic Purgatory
Overview: Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-26
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Hold Me and Kiss Me
1992-11-14
Hold Me and Kiss Me
Overview: Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-14
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Female Doctor: Flesh Slave
1986-03-08
Female Doctor: Flesh Slave
Overview: A female doctor tries to prove her innocence when an erotic tape is shown to her fiancé.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-03-08
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A Brief Message from the Heart
1995-11-23
A Brief Message from the Heart
Overview: A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-23
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Lifetime Insecurity
1994-10-29
Lifetime Insecurity
Overview: In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-29
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Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy
2002-10-18
Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy
Overview: "Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy" centers around five friends who are residents in a Tokyo apartment complex. Now senior high school students, the five friends live the wild life in Harajuku before encountering unforeseen surprises.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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GO CRAZY 銃弾を駆け抜けろ！
1996-06-14
GO CRAZY 銃弾を駆け抜けろ！
Overview: Satomi breaks her lover Takao out of jail, who was falsely accused of killing her parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-14
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SEXY COP 348
1996-08-08
SEXY COP 348
Overview: Asuka Hanyu, a lone wolf who will stop at nothing to investigate, is a cool beauty who throws away her voluptuous body and strikes her enemies right between the eyes. This female detective infiltrates the Taiwanese mafia. However, her identity is compromised when someone tips her off!
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-08
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Flickering Flames
1977-02-26
Flickering Flames
Overview: In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Inspector Kitahara, who received the report, goes quickly to the Tanemura home, along with other police to speak to the family of the child. Then, suddenly, the phone rings. The kidnapper wants money.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-26
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Apartment Wife: Serial Murders
1986-02-28
Apartment Wife: Serial Murders
Overview: Murders of housewives occur one after another in a suburban apartment complex. All of the victims have had an intimate relationship with a certain man, and behind him lies a woman with a past...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-02-28
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