Anna Ishibashi
Also Known As: 石橋 杏奈, Ishibashi An'na
Biography: Ishibashi Anna is a Japanese model and actress. Winner of the 31st Horipro Talent Scout Caravan in 2006, out of 30,8224 applicants. Debuted in Shissou Holiday. Also referred to as the post-Ishihara Satomi. She was given a Best New Talent award at the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Okagaki, Fukuoka, Japan
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Shiren & Ragi
Overview: Two souls were drawn to each other without any possible escape from their doomed fates. It was in an era when the country was divided in the north and the south. A legendary woman "Shiren"(Hiromi NAGASAKU) who was born to a family of assassins. A young sword fighter "Ragi"(Tatsuya FUJIWARA) who looked up to Shiren with admiration. News was brought to the north that said the King of the South "Godai"(Katsumi TAKAHASHI) has revived who once was assassinated by Shiren. Shiren was once again ordered by "kyougoku"(Arata FURUTA), a high-ranking vassal of the North, to assassinate Godai. Shiren was upset about Godai being still alive whom she believed she had killed. Ragi who sensed Shiren's distress volunteered to accompany her on the mission. Shiren's cold heart started to melt by seeing Ragi's determination to be there for and support her. Finally the moment to attack Godai comes. It was the moment when an astonishing truth was revealed to the two who had shared their love by that time.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-05
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Shojyo Senso
Overview: A survival action thriller written and directed by Oikawa Ataru, who has been a leading figure on the Japanese low-budget horror scene since his breakthrough work Tomie. Its blood-drenched visuals tell a story of high school girls engaging in a battle to the death as part of a game organized by an underground website. School outcasts Rioka (Ishibashi Anna) and transfer student Yoshimura (Kirishima Rina) enter the world of a game run by an shady website on the invitation of their absent classmate Miki (Minami Yuki). Its objective is simple: a group of high school girls murder each other until one of them achieves seven kills.
Genres: Horror Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-15
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Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Overview: Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fullfil her mother's wish.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-03-13
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Helter Skelter
Overview: Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to retain her perfect image, Lilico descends into a world of nightmares and makes those around her miserable.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-07-14
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Your Friend
Overview: While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale of her own. After overcoming her initial reluctance to open up to the writer, Emi talks about her busted leg and her childhood friendship with the chronically ill Yuka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-26
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Milocrorze: A Love Story
Overview: Three tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead Ovreneli Vreneligare was just a little boy, he fell in love in the park. Sharing a juice box with the stunningly gorgeous Milocrorze, he took her home to his cat, Verandola Gorgonzola, and made her his girlfriend until the fickle beauty abandoned him, and he covered the hole in his heart with a pot lid he found lying on the ground. This is only the beginning of his story but it’s not the end of his heartbreak. MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY is a candy-flavored anthology of hopeless l’amour, and it has many victims.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-18
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Torihada 5: yofukashi no anata ni zotto suru hanashi wo
Overview: A young woman is surprised to see that there is a bounty on her head on the Internet... A big reward is promised to anyone who would end her life before midnight. It is eleven o'clock in the evening when she sees the message. Does she have only one hour to live?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-30
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My Back Page
Overview: In 1969, Sawada is filled with idealism that permeated that era and starts working as a gonzo journalist for a weekly magazine. Two years later, Sawada interviews activist Umeyama with senior reporter Nakahira. Umeyama boasts that his group will steal arms and take action in April. Sawada doubts Umeyama's claims but is attracted to his personality. An incident occurs... Sawada hears news that a man was killed at a army post...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-05-28
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Anna Ishibashi: The Missing Actress
Overview: Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!" series, which is set after FILE-02.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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Airport 2013
Overview: When there's a transfer flight delay, a put-upon ground staff worker at a small town airport has to deal with a family that has plenty of problems of their own. Shot in a single take, "Airport" focuses on familial and romantic relationships and the secrets that often hold them together.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-02
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Haunted School: The Curse of the Word Spirit
Overview: Ayano, Miyu, Yuri and Mei are high school students. They learn about a fatal gas accident which occurred at a school in the past. The girls then experience unusual occurrences like hearing breathing from closed classrooms and seeing a person's shadow. Hitomi then sneaks into an abandoned school to shoot a horror video for the internet. Hitomi hears from her colleague Kimio about a fox's window which leads to the spirit world.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-23
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L♡DK
Overview: Aoi Nishimori's parents moved to another city for work, but Aoi didn't want to transfer to a new high school. She stays behind and lives in an apartment by herself. Shūsei Kugayama moves in next to Aoi's apartment. Shūsei is a very popular student at their high school. Due to a mistake, Aoi makes the sprinkler go off in his room. Until Shūsei's room is fixed, he stays with Aoi.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-12
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The Unfading Dream We Have
Overview: Popular theater company director Yuuji Kaieda (Yoshikuni Dochin) secretly marries and lives with his lover Aki (Rin Takanashi). Aki is the main actress of the theater company. Aki’s younger sister Haruna (Anna Ishibashi) then appears. In the past, Yuuji and Haruna had a secret intimate relationship. Yuuji tries to keep his distance from Haruna because of this. Soon, Yuuji and Aki's secret is disclosed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-06
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The Millennial Rapture
Overview: Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in Japan—drew the absurdity and passion of life since its inhabitants have been living and dying. There were beautiful men in “Roji” who struggled to live with the blood of the Nakamato Clan, blood called “noble yet unholy.” Oryu, a midwife, has watched all those men growing up, living and dying... She is now aging old and starts to talk with the dead men souls of the Nakamoto Clan...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-04
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Pet Peeve
Overview: A motorcycle accident in the city will be the precursor to a series of bizarre phenomena being revealed consecutively. Meanwhile, a girl named Yoko possesses a second sight which allows her to see strange things invisible to others.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-20
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Rakugo Story
Overview: Haruki Masato is a shy youth who gets swept away when he happens upon a rakugo performance. He knocks on the door of rakugo master Imadoka Shoroku in Tokyo’s old downtown and somehow gets taken on as a disciple, and embarks on a path to become a rakugo comedian under the name of Imadoka Koharu.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-12
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2016 Spring Special
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Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-28
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Across Brooklyn Bridge
Overview: The girl crosses the bridge and opens the door to adulthood. Saki, a lonely girl who lives with her father in New York, where she never wanted to come. On the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge, which she was not allowed to cross, she met people who were following their dreams, and fell in love for the first time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-12-17
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Torihada: The Movie
Overview: Hikari Takabayashi is a hardworking call center agent for a home appliance company who apologizes continuously to customers, even to rude callers who call just to verbally insult her. She does, however, hide a secret. A love affair with her married boss. One day she was asked by one of her junior colleagues Mika, to take a call from a middle-aged woman named Kazuyo Miyawaki who calls frequently. Upon returning home exhausted after dealing with the caller, she noticed the nameplate on her neighbor's door, "Kazuyo Miyawaki"...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-13
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The Red Thread
Overview: Mei has been in love with Yuya all her life. They've grown up together. But when they reach their second year of middle school, Yuya suddenly professes his love for her older sister, Haruna.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
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Humanoid Monster, Bem
Overview: Bem, Bela and Belo arrive at a new town plagued by a series of mysterious, unsolved cases which, as they discover, are caused by another youkai, one more powerful than they have ever encountered. The story will also focus on Belo's first love, and his increasing desire to become human. In the meantime, Bem and Bela have found a way to become human, but are conflicted about whether to let just Belo turn human, or along with Belo, become humans themselves.
Genres: Mystery Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-15
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Torihada: The Movie 2
Overview: Shiori Yamauchi finds a letter in her mailbox addressed to a Reiko Miura, who seems to be the previous occupant of her condo unit. She opens the letter out of curiosity. In it were the words, "I want to see you. I love you." A few days later, another letter arrived with the words, "I'll come and see you today after a long time." Scared, Shiori did an internet search for "Reiko Miura" and found out that she was the victim of a stalker murder that happened a year and a half ago.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-10
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My Pretend Girlfriend
Overview: Noboru is a high school student who isn't popular at all. He looks up to senior student Miyazaki who is one of the most popular guys at school. Miyazaki has two girlfriends: Momose and Tetsuko. Momose and Tetsuko have totally different personalities. Momose is bright and Tetsuko is a popular student from a wealthy family. One day, Miyazaki is caught with Momose. To keep his relationship with Tetsuko, Miyazaki asks Noboru and Momose to pretend they are dating. They both agree due to their affections for Miyazaki. Noboru and Momose begin to act like a couple in front others and soon Noboru begins to develop feelings for Momose, who is still in love with Miyazaki.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-10
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Passage of Dreams
Overview: Based on the manga series "Yume no Kayoiji" by Yasuyuki Ohno (first published January, 1987 by biweekly seinen manga magazine Young King).
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-17
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Memoirs of a Murderer
Overview: The movie begins in the year 1995 where there were 5 peculiar murder cases. The murderer would always get someone close to the victim to witness how he would strangle the victim from behind with a rope but he would let the witnesses go and speak to the media on how the murders happened. Ito plays the role of Makimura, the police detective who was in charge of investigating the serial murders but failed to catch the cunning murderer and his respected superior ended up being killed as well. 22 years later in 2017 when the case is nearing its statute of limitations, a man named Sonezaki claims to be the culprit for the 1995 murders and even publishes a book titled "Watashi ga satsujinhan desu" to talk about the cases. Despite the disgust towards Sonezaki's actions, the intensive attention showered on him via the media and SNS makes him become the talk of town.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-10
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Tremble All You Want
Overview: Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming fixation has prevented her from even considering another candidate for boyfriend until an office colleague asks her out.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-23
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Color Me True
Overview: Kenji is a young aspiring movie director. He falls in love with Princess Miyuki, who came from a black‐and‐white movie.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-10
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Busjack
Overview: A recently laid off-man having a really bad day accidentally gets mistaken for a hijacker on a bus full of very extreme personalities. He really didn't mean to hijack this bus. But he's got nothing better to do, so he might as well make the most of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-08
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The Stand-In Thief
Overview: Hajime Onuki (Ryuhei Maruyama) was a thief, but he now works as a welder and lives happily with his girlfriend. Hajime Onuki is threatened by a former partner in crime. He forces Hajime Onuki to break into the mansion of a picture book writer to steal. He is caught by others while in the act, but they keep mistaking him for someone else. Hajime desperately keeps up the ruse to not get caught.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-18
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Linking Love
Overview: High School student Miyui Mashio is really struggling. She can't fulfill her dream of becoming an idol and her parents are always fighting. Suddenly, she finds a genie in a bottle and through an accident, finds herself back in 1991. She realizes she is now going to school with her parents. But the problem is, her parents do not seem to get along - so Miyui will never be born! Miyui learns her father is interested in idols and so together with her mother and other girls she forms the idol group AGS16 to make sure her parents will eventually fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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Butterfly Sleep
Overview: Ryoko Matsumura is a popular writer in her 50's. She also knows that she has Alzheimer’s. Ryoko Matsumura begins to teach at a university. She meets a young Korean man in his 20's. They become attracted to each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-12
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Love Stoppage Time
Overview: Aspiring university student is studying in order to try again for the university examination. One midday time seems to stand still for everyone and everything around him. Moreover, this phenomenon repeats daily. Yet, he is not the only one who is aware of the situation. There is an explanation and there is someone who holds the key to that explanation.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-10
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Fall Special
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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Love Story
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-24
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