Rin Takanashi
Also Known As: たかなし りん, 槙野真莉, 高梨真莉, タカナシリン, 高梨 臨, 高梨 真莉, たかなし まり
Biography: Takanashi Rin, born in Funabashi city, Chiba prefecture, is a Japanese model, film and television actress. After being scouted in Harajuku, she entered the audition for Fuji TV's variety show "Idol Road" and won the Grand Prix in 2005. The idol group Pink Jam Princess was formed at the end of the year and she was one of the five members. The group was short-lived and disbanded after releasing a single. Takanashi's career as actress began when she starred in the 2008 film adaptation of the Japanese novel "GOTH" as one of the lead characters, Morino Yoru. Her breakthrough came a year later with the 33rd entry of Super Sentai series, Samuri Sentai Shinkenger in which she starred as Shiraishi Mako / Shinken Pink. In 2012, she co-starred with Kase Ryo in the film "Like Someone in Love". For this film, she won the Best New Actress Award at the 27th Takasaki Film Festival. Takanashi received her first starring role in TBS renzoku dorama "Houkago Groove". Subsequently, she appeared in NHK Asadora "Hanako to Anne" as Daigo Ayako, friend of Hanako. Takanashi has been a regular model of the fashion magazine "andGIRL" since February 2017. On January 20, 2018, Takanashi Rin announced her engagement with Urawa Red Diamonds and Japan's National Football Team defender, Makino Tomoaki, on her Instagram. The couple submitted their marriage registration on February 9, 2018 and held their wedding reception on December 26, 2018. Takanashi Rin is represented by the agency STARDUST.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chiba, Japan
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Dokurogeki: atoaji no warui sasupensu

Overview: An omnibus drama that delivers suspense with a bad aftertaste, a number of bad endings with a hopeless aftertaste, and indescribable "unbearable" emotions, this feeling will surely become a habit.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-14
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Dokurogeki 2: atoaji no warui sasupensu

Overview: Misuzu Murai had a hobby of divination in college, Yokoyama often lets Misuzu do divination, one day, Yokoyama's grandson got sick and needed surgery, Yokoyama hopes to do something for grandson and let Misuzu do divination, something terrible happened to divination this time.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-09
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Making of 'Like Someone in Love'

Overview: Documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on the set of Abbas Kiarostomi's 2012 film "Like Someone in Love" with narration by the director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-01
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Goth

Overview: Itsuki and Yoru share a passion for the dark and death, making them the perfect choice to track down a serial killer who is roaming the streets.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
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Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Eternal

Overview: Set primarily before the events of Kamen Rider W Forever, Kamen Rider Eternal tells the story of Daido Katsumi, the formation of NEVER, the mission that led them to target Fuuto, and reveals just how Daido obtained his Lost Driver and got his first taste of the power of Kamen Rider Eternal. As a mysterious woman retells this story to Phillip and Shotaro, they realize that Daido may not have been the simple monster he first appeared to be…
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-21
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Samurai Sentai Shinkenger Episode 1 and 2 Special Edition

Overview: The director's cut version of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger's first two episodes, which was first released on DVD on August 6, 2010. It was re-released on Blu-ray Volume 1 on February 7th 2014.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-06
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Like Someone in Love

Overview: An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-15
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Killers

Overview: A psychotic executive triggers a journalist's dark side, and they begin to form a strange bond through the internet.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Samurai Sentai Shinkenger Final Live Tour 2010

Overview: A live show that was performed across Japan in March and April of 2010, acting as a final farewell for the cast. It comprises two parts: a scripted show part, and a talk show with the cast. The Goseigers also appear.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-21
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It All Began When I Met You

Overview: Six love stories following the love lives of ten different people.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-22
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Come Back! Samurai Sentai Shinkenger: Special Act

Overview: The film begins with the Shinkengers defeating the Ayakashi Demebakuto. As he assumes his second life, he captures the Shinkengers in mirrors as he sends them into a series of different dimensions (all different film genres) in order make them suffer for his amusement before actually killing them. First, the Shinkengers appear in the jidaigeki Lord's log of Notable Events, fighting a group of samurai, shortly followed by a Western showdown between Genta and Ginshirō, the owner of the rival sushi stand Silver Zushi, over whose food is better in Wild Grip. Then the scene changes again to the cop drama Passionate Version with the vassals as cops while Takeru is being held hostage as the Shinkengers starts to realize that something is wrong.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-11
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Samurai Sentai Shinkenger the Movie: The Fateful War

Overview: Taking place in between Shinkenger Acts 22 and 23, the Shinkengers battle the newly revived Kusare Gedoushu Aburame Manpuku and his army for three days. The wounded and tired Shinkengers nearly lose, had the Kusare Gedoushu not needed to regain energy by soaking in the Sanzu River. As their wounds are treated, Jii reveals they he has found the Secret Disk used by the first Shinken Red to seal Manpuku at the Genryu Temple, which lies in the middle of Kusare Gedoushu territory.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-08
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Samurai Sentai Shinkenger vs. Go-Onger: Silver Screen BANG!!

Overview: A year after defeating Yogoshimacritein, the Go-Ongers head to the wild western realm of Gunman World to defeat Gaiark's Pollution President Batcheed in a final confrontation. However, after defeating Engine-Oh G9, Batcheed opens up a dimensional rift that sucks the Go-Ongers and Engines to other Braneworlds. Soon after, while finding themselves fighting Ugatz, the Shinkengers encounter Go-On Red as he helps take out the Ugatz on his own, much to the Shinkengers' shock.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-30
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Tensou Sentai Goseiger vs Shinkenger: Epic on the Silver Screen

Overview: The film features the remnant Ayakashi who seek to revive Dokoku Chimatsuri, but instead revive the Goseigers' nemesis Buredoran of the Comet as the Gedoushu Buredoran Chimatsuri. To make matters worse, Takeru Shiba has been brainwashed into serving Buredoran as Gedou Shinken Red.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-22
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Isn't Anyone Alive?

Overview: In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to terms with their own impending deaths, and the fragile absurdity of life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-18
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Love for Beginners

Overview: Hibino Tsubaki is a young teenage girl with a talent for styling other people's hair. Yet, Tsubaki suffers from low self-esteem and isn't very comfortable styling her own hair. She also has a tendency to dress old-fashioned. She's teased at high school because of this. One day, popular male student Tsubaki Kyota targets Tsubaki for teasing. Tsubaki Kyota holds sway over the entire classroom and is quite a playboy. Inexplicably they fall in love. Meanwhile, Tsubaki Kyota has commitment issues...
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-06
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My Hawaiian Discovery

Overview: Minori Oyamada, a put-upon editor at a travel-guide publishing company, is asked by an old friend to plan her forthcoming wedding party in Hawaii. After persuading her boss that it will be a work trip, Minori departs for Hawaii with the intention to find and marry a rich man. But when Minori arrives, she encounters three different men who complicate her original goal...
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-14
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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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Hare no Hi Cinderella Wedding Dress wo Nihon e! Aru Josei no Chosen

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-02-24
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Alibi Breaker Special

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Genres: Mystery Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-04-06
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犬神家の一族

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Genres: TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-24
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The Sowing Traveller 3

Overview: Acclaimed director of Summer of Chirusoku, Half a Confession and Yunagi City, Sakura Country Kiyoshi Sasabe casts Rin Takanashi and Takumi Saitoh as members of the farming industry. The Sowing Traveller 3 tells a universal story of the cherished act of growing fruit. Ayane is conflicted about coming back home because she feels it’s a setback. Filming took place in Akaiwa, Okayama prefecture, a peach growing area with lots of sun and fertile soil. Along with the harmony of daily life that the local people have with nature, an important feature of the film is its beautiful landscapes.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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Higanbana - Women's Crime File (Higanbana: Onnatachi no Hanzai Fairu)

Overview: Nagisa, the heroine, has the ability to “synch” with all the powerful emotions that linger in crime scenes. When this happens though, she blacks out. Even in her day-to-day life, she can hear people's evil intentions and true colors and senses their lies and deception. That is why she always wears headphones in order to shut out people's emotions. She works well with her colleagues at the "Red Spider Lily" (Higanbana) unit, who are all brutally honest acid-tongued women with no qualms about speaking their minds. "Red Spider Lily" is an eclectic unit that includes a science geek, a single mom, and a woman who grew up abroad. Seen by many as a department that's been taken off the main career track, "Red Spider Lily" turns out to be full of fabulous detectives!
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-24
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Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi Natsu Hen 2015

Overview: For this 16th Anniversary Special, Inagaki Goro is our host once again for 6 spooky tales based on tales from real people and performed here by an all-star cast. A young man who returns to his family's home after leaving Tokyo finds something else may have followed after him; a young girl dreams of darkness and a small shrine that draws ever closer; a woman with a failed business makes a go at it with a company with a bizarre dormitory, one with a past secret; a police officer receives a call from what appears to be a dead woman who wants his help; a woman taking documents to a food company finds time slipping away without her noticing; a single man who runs a restaurant sees an unusual family living down the hallway from him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-29
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Bad Girls of Japan

Overview: Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls, and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-20
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The Door into Summer

Overview: A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-25
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Cottontail

Overview: After the death of his wife, Kenzaburō receives an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. His late wife asks him to travel to Lake Windermere in England with their son to scatter her ashes. Plagued by sweet and painful memories of his wife, Kenzaburō travels to England from Tokyo to fulfill her final wish, but the father and son's fraught relationship threatens to upend their journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-24
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Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Final Live Tour 2009

Overview: DVD release of the live stage show featuring Engine Sentai Go-Onger in 2009.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-21
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