Hikari Mitsushima
Also Known As: 満島ひかり, みつしま ひかり, 满岛光, 미츠시마 히카리, 滿島光, Хикари Мицусима, هیکاری میتسوشیما
Biography: Mitsushima Hikari was born in Okinawa, Japan. She had one of her first movie experiences with Death Note and Death Note - Last Name (2006) as Yagami Light's younger sister. In 2009 she showed her talent as one of the main characters in "Ai no Mukidashi", earning her attention and three awards, one of them being the 34th Hochi Film Award for Best New Artist. She also appears on television, currently airing the Fuji TV drama "Soredemo, Ikite Yuku".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Okinawa, Japan
Birthday: November 30, 1985
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Gender: Female
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写真家 荒木経惟 ７７歳の切実
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-18
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28 Up Japan
Overview: The 4th installment of the Japanese version of the Up Documentary Series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-18
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Love Exposure
Overview: The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-31
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Villain
Overview: Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is shattered one day when he is involved in the murder of one of his former encounters, the sweet-faced Ishibashi Yoshino who, after being jilted by playboy Masuo Keijo, berates and mocks the troubled loner.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-11
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Kakera: A Piece of Our Life
Overview: The story of the relationship between a college student whose relationship with her boyfriend is going nowhere and a bisexual medical artist who makes prosthetic body parts. Haru is a college student ignored by her boyfriend yet believes she is still in love with him. One day at a café, Haru meets Riko, a medical artist (prosthetist) who creates body parts in order to disguise clients’ missing pieces, lost due to accident or disease. Both were alone, but struck up an immediate friendship and closeness. Riko doesn't care about gender when it comes to relationships, and believes that love itself is the most important thing a human can achieve. Haru struggles in her life between friendship and a deeper relationship with Riko.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-07
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Smuggler
Overview: To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-22
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Rinco's Restaurant
Overview: After a bad breakup, a young woman returns to her hometown and opens a menuless restaurant. A young woman in her mid 20's becomes so heart broken she loses her voice. To recover, the woman decides to go back to her hometown and stay with her free-spirited mother whom she has not been very close to in the past. The young woman then decides to open a restaurant which accepts only one customer a day, allowing for thoughtful preparation for that customer.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-06
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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Overview: A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-15
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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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DAICHI MIURA BEST HIT TOUR in Nippon Budokan 2 15
Overview: Daichi Miura's concert film of his BEST HIT TOUR at Nippon Budokan on February 15, 2018 to conclude his 2017 national tour.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-15
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Tang
Overview: Ken Kasugai has been deserted by his wife, because he was absorbed in a game. One day, missing child robot Tang appears in front of him.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-11
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As You Like It
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-08-14
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A Chorus of Angels
Overview: Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is later forced to leave after an accident occurs. 20 years later, Haru learns that one of her former students has committed a crime, and eventually returns to the island once more.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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Kidnap Tour
Overview: Haru is a rather cool fifth-grade elementary school student who shares the same tastes as her mother’s younger sister Yuko (Kaho) and can tell Yuko what she really feels. On the first day of the summer vacation, Haru is kidnapped. The culprit is her free-spirited father Takashi who disappeared from home two months ago.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-08-02
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Kaguya
Overview: Under the impetus of the 75th anniversary of the bamboo top-handle bags, the House presents a contemporary retelling of an ancient Japanese story entitled ‘Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter).’ Makoto Nagahisa stages the plot of finding oneself, along with true love, in a Tokyo betwixt and between reality and a dream. Dressed in looks from the Gucci Love Parade collection, Hikari Mitsushima, Aoi Yamada, and Eita Nagayama star in the story shedding a new light on the Gucci Bamboo 1947 and Gucci Diana Beloved lines.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-10
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I Am Makimoto
Overview: Sou Makimoto works in the "send-off" department at the city hall. The department's main responsibility is to hold funerals for people who die alone and bury them at a cemetery. Makimoto doesn't like to socialise with his colleagues or listen to them. By doing his job, he meets various people and slowly begins to change his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
Overview: Set in the early 1990's, after The Persian Gulf War began, a 30 year old man passes himself off as Captain Kuhio a pilot for an American Special Unit. He also boasts that he is the offspring of Kamehameha I and a distant relative of Queen Elizabeth of England. In actuality, the man is a marriage swindler looking for his next big score.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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Mr. Moonlight: The Beatles Budokan Performance 1966 - A Dream We Had Together
Overview: The documentary about how Beatles went popular in Japan and did a concert in Budokan back in 1966.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-27
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Kakekomi
Overview: Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-16
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Shaolin Girl
Overview: A Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial arts school.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-26
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Pride
Overview: Shio Asami (Stephanie) was brought up in a wealthy family whose mother is a prominent opera singer. However, the bankruptcy of her father’s business forced her to give up becoming an opera singer. Moe Midorikawa (Hikari Mitsushima) entrapped Shio and claimed a victory in an opera contest. A competition of two heroines ensues, placing their pride on the line.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-17
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Last Mile
Overview: On the night before ‘Black Friday,’ which is the one of the busiest commerce days, a cardboard box, that is delivered from the world's largest shopping site, explodes. Soon after, a series of mysterious explosion cases occurs. The entire nation becomes terrorized by the shocking events. Funado Erena has just began to work as the center director for a large distribution warehouse that covers three-quarters of the Kanto area. Erena must gain control over this unprecedented situation with team manager Nashimoto Ko.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-08-23
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All Lives
Overview: TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with his life and a patient who has been told he has little time left to live, as they travel around the world in search of answers to the eternal questions of what people live for and what they leave behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-06
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One Piece Film: GOLD
Overview: The glittering Gran Tesoro, a city of entertainment beyond the laws of the government, is a sanctuary for the world’s most infamous pirates, Marines, and filthy rich millionaires. Drawn by dreams of hitting the jackpot, Captain Luffy and his crew sail straight for the gold. But behind the gilded curtains lies a powerful king whose deep pockets and deeper ambitions spell disaster for the Straw Hats and the New World alike.
Genres: Action Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-23
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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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Mary and The Witch's Flower
Overview: Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest where she finds a strange flower and an old broom, none of which is as ordinary as it seems.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-08
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Goodbye to Our Kindergarten
Overview: One day, five kindergarten children suddenly disappear from a kindergarten in Tokyo, sending their teachers and parents into a panic. The five of them are connecting on trains and headed to an unfamiliar place for some purpose. Before their journey, they had made a promise to each other “not to cry no matter what happens”
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-30
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Make the Last Wish
Overview: Koike Minami returns from USA to Japan to accomplish her deceased twin sister's wish to win a competition and sing with Avril Lavigne on the stage in a concert in Tokyo.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-09
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Death Note
Overview: Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-17
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Arthouse Ultraman
Overview: In the 21st century, multiple mysterious phenomenon began to occur as monsters who were initially thought to be a part of mythology had come to life. These phenomenons had also resulted from human activities that disrupted the nature of the ecosystem. Ultraman Max is the titular giant of his series. Originally a civilization observer sent from Nebula M78, the sacrifice of Kaito Touma changed his mind into bonding with with the youth and actively defending Earth from monsters and alien attacks. Arthouse Ultraman is a movie with four episodes edited together, theatrically released at Fantasia Festival 2006.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-02
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The Bucket List
Overview: Sachie Kitahara is a housewife and she has devoted her life to her family. Mako Goda is a wealthy woman who runs a business. They are both diagnosed with terminal illnesses and are told they only have a short time left to live. These two women from completely different walks of life meet at the hospital. They both feel emptiness in their lives. They happen to get a 12-year-old's written bucket list. Sachie Kitahara and Mako Goda decide to carry out the girl's wish list and they begin to feel happiness entering their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-11
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Death Note: The Last Name
Overview: In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-28
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Life and Death on the Shore
Overview: Set in 1945 at the end of World War II. Saku arrives on Kakeromajima as the head of navy special forces. He is admired by the children on the island and he is interested in learning the island song as well as drinking with his men. Toe is an elementary school teacher on Kakeromajima and she has feelings for Saku.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-29
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Drop in Ghost
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-01
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Traces of Sin
Overview: Tanaka is going through a tough time trying to support his younger sister Mitsuko, recently arrested and hold up in jail. As an investigative reporter, he immerses himself into a story about a shocking murder case gone cold; a family was brutally murdered a year ago and the case remains unsolved.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-18
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Tormented
Overview: To his mute sister's dismay, a young boy puts a dying rabbit out of its misery with a brick -- and soon the siblings end up in a world of nightmares.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-16
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Exte: Hair Extensions
Overview: An aspiring hair dresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that comes alive, driving those who use the extensions insane or killing them.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-17
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Hello! Junichi
Overview: An elementary student named Junichi is having trouble returning an eraser he borrowed from his secret crush, Maeda. With the support and encouragement of rookie teacher Anna, Junichi gets over his shyness and starts a band with his classmates.
Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-15
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Rebirth of Mothra II
Overview: The fairies from Infant Island discover a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-13
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The End of Summer
Overview: The story, set in the heady post-war 50s into the early 60s , revolves around a love triangle between Tomoko, long playing the mistress to married older writer Shitto and the new stud who comes into her life, Ryota Kinoshita. Tomoko is sick and tired of her relationship with writer Shingo, who is married and has children. Shingo is a talented writer, but has yet to be recognized by the public. Tomoko then enters into a sexual relationship with younger man Ryota Kinoshita, but Tomoko is not satisfied.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-31
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Sawako Decides
Overview: After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill, she has to take over his struggling factory. Gradually she becomes the decider of her own life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-01
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Be Sure to Share
Overview: Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it's too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced connecting to his strict father who was also his teacher and soccer coach. With a consuming secret of his own, Shiro, now in his late twenties and about to get engaged, must eventually learn how to share the pain of it with his loved ones.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-01
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A Woman Who Acts
Overview: Akira is an old man with little time left to live due to illness. He has a young and beautiful wife, Yoshiko, who tries to take him outside to enjoy his last days. She looks delighted as Akira gets weaker and weaker. What are her true intentions?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-12
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Riverside Mukolitta
Overview: Ex-con Takeshi Yamada eludes his past by relocating to a quaint rural village in the Hokuriku region. There, he begins to work at a small factory which makes shiokara (salted fish paste). Through the efforts of his boss, Takeshi moves into a nearby, dilapidated apartment complex. One afternoon, Takeshi’s vociferously eccentric neighbor Kozo Shimada barges into Takesh’s unit and demands a bath in Takeshi’s personal lavatory. With the metaphorical ice broken, Takeshi eventually emerges from his shell and warms to a friendship with Kozo and the other residents.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-03
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Spaghetti Code Love
Overview: 13 disparate young people connected by chance or circumstance intersect as they ponder their place in the world and deal with the pressures and heartaches of modern life in Japan’s busy capital.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-11
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Sometimes Repentance
Overview: The latest film by Tetsuya Nakashima. Based on the novel by Bunzo Uchikai.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-06-01
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