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Department: Acting
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Birthday: October 21, 1947
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Gender: Male
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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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Overview: Three girls, who are would-be ‘idols’, try to train somewhere in Daikanyama, by order of a manager of secret ‘idol’ school.
Genres: Comedy Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Overview: A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-31
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Overview: The first Luna film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-05
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Overview: The sixth Luna movie.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-26
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Overview: The second Luna film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-05
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Overview: The fourth Luna movie.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-25
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Overview: This movie is an alternate ending to the series, taking place after the events of episode 46. With only six Riders remaining in the Rider War, Shirō Kanzaki feels that time is running short.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-17
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Overview: Garo cartoonists Dynamite Crazy Party. A live concert centered around Garo cartoonists
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-22
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-05-09
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-22
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Overview: A very dynamic young lady, Lin, has a thing for Japanese culture while living in Taiwan. Following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Lin got a Facebook message from a Japanese guy, Mogi who has been curious about the Japan-friendly country since then. The two start to interact through Facebook. During the golden week holiday, they finally met in person in Taiwan. Time passes quickly when they're together. After their first date, things seemed to move forward at the speed of light. They spent more time talking about their hopes, dreams, fears and finally came to a decision together to try and make things work, despite the circumstances.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-05-27
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Overview: A youth romance that fantastically depicts the unstable emotions of high school girls who refuse to transform into adults
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-13
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Overview: The husband works as a usesd paper collector, and the wife works in a Korean barbecue restaurant. The director exhibits an exceptional ability to turn the realistic episodes of poverty one after another into comedy. A warm feeling is sure to slowly permeate the viewers' hearts.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Overview: Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company "Theatrical Company Hono" in Fujieda City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where the presiding officers and performers are composed of elderly women. They have been performing stage plays about issues related to the elderly for a long time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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Overview: Wataru Kamiya, a boy who lives with his father after losing his mother. Suddenly, his father left home for a while on a business trip abroad, and decided to live with Luna Hazuki, a female college student, as a boarder. I'm a lazy person who can't study or exercise, and if I'm interested, it's just naughty. Luna, who is pessimistic about her future, will stretch her body and become a one-on-one private professor. The sex appeal comic that hit the hearts of boys all over Japan is a live-action film!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-05
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Overview: When an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and mouse with a naïve college student. As they venture into more and more unpredictable territory in the bedroom, he begins to think she might be using him as a test subject for her fiction more than anything else.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Overview: "Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the music that defined two generations of post-war Japan. Although the term survives, it has a strong connotation with a simpler, pre-"Economic Bubble" era when Japanese people shared a common identity in the reconstruction of their nation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-12
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Overview: 41-year-old Shizuo Daikoku (Shinichi Tsutsumi) suddenly quits his job at a company to become a mangaka. His family and friends become involved in his new pursuit...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-15
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Overview: Young rocker Takuro meets pop star Saki at one of his band's shows. When she asks him to write a song for her, their views on life and music collide.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-22
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Overview: The story follows a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One day, he discovers a hidden tunnel underneath a spa that leads him to a modern Japanese bath house. Inspired by the innovations found there, he creates his own spa, Roma Thermae, bringing in the modern ideas to his time.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-28
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Overview: Three cute, sexy ninjas, around the age of 20, have been in training, building their powers for some vague future threat. Their destined mission becomes apparent when a handsome ninja from 400 years past drops from the sky into the hot tub of on of the girls. He comes with news of a grave threat: an evil industrialist has apparently joined forces with UFOs to take over Japan. The only solution, it seems, lies in the special talents of the three girls - notable as much for their martial arts as their skimpy costumes.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Overview: Sagawa Matsuo is a timid, timid, useless man. His uselessness is so abnormal that everyone feels like they are just looking at him. I felt so irritated that I almost wanted to bully him. She always hangs out with her childhood friend Madoka, and the strong-willed Madoka often overworks and scolds her. Mommy Daddy, the commander of "Mother Planet" far away in the sky, was monitoring Matsuo's movements. "Give this good-for-nothing man some love and courage!" The person who received the orders was a muscular woman named Hercules Reggie.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-21
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Overview: Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-22
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Overview: The touching and dramatic tale of the relationship between a Japanese family, their dog and her three puppies, set against the backdrop of a devastating earthquake and the ensuing chaos, rescues and heroism.
Genres: Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-08
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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Overview: One summer day, a group of sixth-grade boys have an argument about whether fireworks are round or flat when viewed from different angles and embark on a journey for the answer during the annual firework festival. Meanwhile, one of their classmates, Nazuna, is troubled by her parents' separation and decides to choose one of the boys to run away with.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-12
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Overview: The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on his shop to provide his adopted son Junnosuke with a private space to study for entrance to Tokyo University to set up a career with a major company. He dreams of sparing Junnosuke the struggles that he has faced as a writer. The family continues to rely upon Hiromi's income from her bar. Meanwhile a rival story, The Virus, by a new writer has appeared in the periodical that has been publishing his stories "Boy's Adventure Book" and he fears the new competition. Norifumi Suzuki also receives a new TV, but more of a deluxe model. Mutsuko Hoshino (Roku) is still the principal mechanic in the Suzuki family's auto repair shop, but she dresses up some mornings to go to a nearby street with the hope of a "chance" meeting with Dr...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-21
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Overview: A drab middle-aged man with thoughts of committing suicide and an extraordinary child prodigy plan a fake kidnap in exchange for a ransom of 10 billion yen.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-06
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Overview: It is the second work of the Oita trilogy of Obayashi . Following " Nigori Snow ", Ise Masazo draws a song written by composers and songwriter "Farewell of 22 years old " as a motif and draws a story of love that spans two generations of mother and daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-18
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Overview: A boy, Kamiya Wataru, lives with his father after loses his mother. Suddenly, his father leaves the house for a while on a business trip abroad. His life takes an unexpected turn when a female college student, Hazuki Luna, moves in as a boarding student.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-05
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Overview: When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.
Genres: History Fantasy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-31
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-13
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-14
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Overview: Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-11
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Overview: In this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with his life after college while competing with Kyoko's impossibly perfect tennis coach for her affection.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-25
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Overview: Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of stomach cancer. At his funeral, a motley crew of fellow mahjong players, pachinko parlor employees and former drinking buddies gather to pay their respects and tell stories, revealing aspects of Masato’s life that complicate his sons’ resentment towards him.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-03
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Overview: Based on the comic by Yoshikazu Ebisu, starring Riki Takeuchi, Dan-chan, who plays the role of Takeuchi, challenges the great game of the century, betting on the existence of a certain pachinko parlor
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-20
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Overview: A documentary exploring the history and influence of the alternative manga magazine, Garo, with various artist and director interviews.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-18
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Overview: Battlefield Baseball is a tough game — it doesn't end until all the members on the opposing team are dead. In this game the Gedo High team is composed of blue-faced zombies, and their opponents on the Seido High team know they don't have a chance at beating them unless they can bring back a star pitcher who has a lethal pitch called the Super Tornado, but who has hung up his cleats and has no desire to return to the game.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-19
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Overview: Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his minions: right-hand man and military master Ohmasa (Kishibe Ittoku); stinky priest Daigoro (Takashi Sasano); well-known stranger Ishimatsu Mori (Yoichi Nukumizu); beautiful Masagoro Oiwake (Kazuki Kitamura); and others. As Jirocho's fame spreads, he gains more enemies. Among them are Katsuzo Kurokoma (Koichi Sato), who is one of the most powerful in Koshu, and the villain who is also Ishimatsu's nemesis, Masaru Mima (Riki Takeuchi). A traitor also emerges from the family, Yoshikazu Ebisu (Yoshikazu Ebisu). Meanwhile, Jirocho's wife falls ill and other terrible situations occur. Jirocho falls into a pinch of absolute despair. What on earth will he do? What is the fate of his minions? The Jirocho family will face a fierce battle...
Genres: Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-20
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