Reiko Kusamura
Also Known As: 草村 礼子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
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Shall We Dance?
Overview: A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-27
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Cat Taxi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-02
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THE LAST GOZE
Overview: A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a goze due to her blindness at seven-years-old, Haru was strictly trained with a parent's affection by her once kind mother, Tome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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The Twilight Samurai
Overview: Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-02
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HOME
Overview: When Koichi Takahasi (Miutani) is transferred from Tokyo to a small village in Iwate Prefecture, they set up hoe in a two-hundred year-old farmhouse. The family is split between those who hate the move and those who are happy. Fumiko (Yasuda), the wife, is unhappy at the change and doesn’t get on with her elderly neighbours, Azumi (Hashimoto) is sad about having to transfer to a new school. Koichi’s mother, Sumiyo (Kusabue), rather likes the new community while young Tomoya Takahashi (Hamada) really enjoys the new move because he can play outdoors. Koichi takes note of the split in the family but finds himself struggling at his new job. Thankfully the house has Zashiki Warashi (yokai) living there who will unite them with their antics. Judging by the poster these antics won’t be terrifying.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-27
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OL忠臣蔵 Chu〜Shin Gura
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-13
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Rent-a-Cat
Overview: A young woman who rents out cats to lonely old folks finds her life turned upside down when a young man from her past shows back up in her life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-05-12
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Super Kamen Rider Den-O Trilogy - Episode Blue: The Dispatched Imagin is Newtral
Overview: When Ryotaro and Momotaros are injured in a fight with an Imagin, Kotaro, Kamen Rider New Den-O, and his Imagin partner Teddy return to help solve the case of a stolen ticket and the mystery of a young woman’s doppelganger! But Owner shatters their partnership when he creates a new contract with Teddy, as the Mantis Imagin rampages! Can Kotaro overcome his loss and discover the truth behind the two Mikus?
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-05
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Pretty Woman
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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セレンディップの奇跡
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-12
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Christmas in August
Overview: A Japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Ki no ue no sogyo
Overview: A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-03-29
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Damned Files 2
Overview: This is the second volume of a series of one-part horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various areas of Japan, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV in July 2003.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-27
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Sleeping Forest
Overview: A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a self defense case, but after an investigation there's doubts in that claim. Then, the director of the Takayanagi Ballet Company is poisoned to death. Are the cases related?
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-02
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Fish Story
Overview: A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" that is foretold to save the world. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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Beautiful World
Overview: A gangster runs a budget nursing home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-16
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Kindaichi Kosuke vs Akechi Kogoro
Overview: The Ganso and Honke are two medical wholesalers which have had a long history of exchanges. They were originally a wholesaler set up by Tokiya Manemon who invented a drug. After he fell ill, he imparted the formula to his two beloved disciples. But the two were at loggerheads and the enmity between them caused a split into two factions, the ‘original’ (Ganso) and the ‘originator’ (Honke). One day, an incident finally occurred. Kiichiro (Endo Kaname), the eldest son of the Honke, launched an attack on the young master of the Ganso, Nagahiko (Oshinari Shugo).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-23
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Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2013
Overview: Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi Summer Special 2013 features five chilling reenacted tales: 1. Terror on the Second Floor: Ryu (Suzuki Fuku) sees a spooky woman at home, but his warnings are ignored until a terrifying encounter changes everything. 2. X Hospital: Intern Naoki (Fujigaya Taisuke) faces eerie events at a hospital rebuilt in a cross shape, where horrors lurk at its ends. 3. Hint of a Shadow: Miwa (Fukada Kyoko) sees black shadows that signal tragedy, including her grandfather's death, and one appears during her job interview. 4. Girls High School Major Panic: Teacher Yosuke (Sakaguchi Kenji) investigates a ghost video and a growing crack at school as strange events escalate. 5. The Doll That Moves: Rina (Sashihara Rino) buys a creepy doll, which seems to move and causes sinister happenings, forcing her to confront its dark secret.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-17
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Orange
Overview: A girl mysteriously receives advice from her future self and as a result her group of friends, along with a newly arrived, troubled classmate, learn how to be better friends and a better community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-12
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An Innocent Witch
Overview: Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-30
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Abraxas
Overview: Former punk rocker Jonen, now a Buddhist priest, seems to have lost the meaning of his life. His manic depression handicaps him further. Music seems to be the only solution for him to exorcise his demons, against all obstacles and sound volume controllers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-09
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The Day Kouhaku Was Born
Overview: This drama focuses on the story of how NHK's famous New Year's Eve program "Kohaku Uta Gassen" came about in 1945, when the country was under General Headquarters.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-21
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Blowing in the Winds of Vietnam
Overview: After Misao divorced, she moved to Vietnam. She has always admired the country. There, she works as a Japanese language teacher. She learns that her brother-in-law is taking her mother with Alzheimer's into a facility. Misao decides to take her mother to Vietnam instead. At first, her mother is uncomfortable adapting to life in a strange land. Her mother comes around though and embraces the warm people in Vietnam. One day, her mother is injured and Misao faces the reality in nursing her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-17
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Majutsu wa Sasayaku
Overview: A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly begin to die one by one. Kazuko learns that one of those deaths is somehow connected to Mamoru (Nakamura Aoi), her younger brother from whom she has been separated ever since their father disappeared 15 years earlier. Although Mamoru knows nothing of his sister, Kazuko is determined to find the killer in order to protect Mamoru and herself.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Quartet
Overview: "Quartet" tells the story of four young musicians as they form a string quartet and pursue fame.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-06
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Someday's Dreamers
Overview: Suzuki Sora is a cheerful country girl from the small town of Bie. She made a promise to her father, and following this promise applies and is accepted for a magic intership in Tokyo, where she will face the life in a big city. While training to get better with her magic, she meets a mysterious boy also practicing to become a mage. While he can not use magic that well and he seems distant and cold at first, Sora’s fate intertwines with his and the two are thrown together, learning a lot of new things about life and each other.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
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Tokyo Boy
Overview: Minato is a young girl who was traumatized at a young age by being abandoned by her parents and left with her senile grandmother. She frequently corresponds with a pen-pal named Night, a boy about the same age as her that she's never actually seen in person. Although Minato and Night are very different - Minato is upbeat while Night is brooding, they get along anyway and she regularly updates him on the happenings in her daily life. Minato is even willing to confide in Night that she's falling in love with a boy she's recently met named Sho.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-09
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Itsukaichi Story
Overview: Yuri, who works for a company that specializes in collecting information for television programs, visits Akiruno city in Tokyo, where Itsukaichi-cho and Akikawa-shi merged at the request of the station, and it is now only fifteen years after the merger Start to find out how it changed. Yuri who started interviewing reluctantly, but continues to meet calm land pattern and people, and gradually begins to be interested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-29
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Magnet Man
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-13
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Closet
Overview: In Tokyo, lonely patrons pay to sleep ("soine") with someone. Massage, cuddle, sleep… for comfort and nothing more than the warm embrace of another. Tasuku, a young man fresh out of a relationship, starts a new job as one of the cuddlers. He's nervous and reticent, but soon finds himself with a procession of clients, male as well as female. In his unique position as their companion, he finds himself privy to the true selves they keep closeted. Tender performance and contemplative writing elevate an exploration of the human need for comfort and tenderness, while learning to be true to oneself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Soup Opera
Overview: Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-02
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Gokudô seisen: Jihaado II
Overview: The second installment of the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision of Takashi Miike of "IZO". A hot-blooded yakuza challenges a "holy war" against a company that earns a lot of money in a villainous way. Big actors such as Taishu Kase and Hiroki Matsukata set aside.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-08
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Gokudô seisen: Jihaado III
Overview: The third installment of the hard-line action OV "Gokudo Seisen" series, which presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision of Takashi Miike of "IZO". It depicts the activities of the martial arts yakuza who challenge the major general contractors who are plotting wrongdoing. Actors such as Taishu Kase and Hiroki Matsukata performed well with the men living in Shuraba.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-08
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Child by Children
Overview: Haruna is a lively tomboy in the 5th year at elementary school. One day, while playing with Hiroyuki, a boy whom she has known for a long time, they play a game of putting their private parts together. A sex education lesson given by a new teacher, Yagi, makes Haruna suspect that she might be pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-27
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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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Namonaihi: A Day with No Name
Overview: A human drama about the strange fate of the three brothers, played by Masatoshi Nagase, Joe Odagiri, and Nobuaki Kaneko, set in Nagoya.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-11
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Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Overview: While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-08
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父、ノブナガ
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie Fantasy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-07
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愛を乞うひと
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-11
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