Machiko Washio
Also Known As: 鷲尾 真知子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kanagawa, Japan
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Castle in the Sky
Overview: A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Animation Action Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-02
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浅見光彦 軽井沢殺人事件
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Genres: TV Movie Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-02-28
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The Red Spectacles
Overview: Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but now the "Young Lady of Fate" will guide him on his journey.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-07
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花実のない森
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-29
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The Lawyer of Shimane
Overview: The story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of Japan. Nakama plays the role of the hard-working and righteous Yamazaki Mizuho, who travels around by bicycle to help her clients.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-14
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Adrift in Tokyo
Overview: A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-10
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Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
Overview: As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started.
Genres: Animation Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-11
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Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter
Overview: Mitsuhashi Yukio is a passionate PR man for a sanitary product manufacturer. A single father, he is raising his two children, a daughter in high school and a son in middle school. His daughter, Hana, has mixed feelings about her father, who suddenly became popular on social media because of a menstruation PR video he did for his company. One day, Yukio says on a variety show that he knows his daughter’s menstrual cycle, which leads to Hana running away from home because of rumors popping up at school. Can he fix the relationship with his beloved daughter? How will the two overcome this hurdle?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-24
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Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi - Special 1
Overview: The first special of the Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi drama series.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-08-27
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Ōoku
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-22
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The Political Game
Overview: This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. Noritaka Sakamoto was in charge of photography, and Kentaro Haneda was in charge of music direction. It depicts how an honest candidate aiming for a clean election campaign gradually collapses in the face of various realities. Kiyokawa, the mayor of Higurashi City, died at his lover's house. Yoshihiko announces that he will conduct a clean election campaign, but his sponsors and backers are reluctant.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-03
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My Neighbor Totoro
Overview: Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-04-16
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Baian Fujieda the Assassin
Overview: An adaptation of the Shotaro Ikenami novels, set in the historical Edo period, and centered on Fujieda Bayan, a medicine man and doctor by day, but ruthless killer for hire by night. His tools of the trade are the same in either job: acupuncture needles that leave no trace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-04
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Urusei Yatsura: Only You
Overview: Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle's shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle's culture, this is viewed as a marriage proposal. Eleven years later, Elle returns to Earth in order to marry Ataru — by which time not only had he forgotten the events of his childhood, but he was also going out with Lum. The rest of the plot focuses on Lum's attempts to prevent the marriage. The film was directed by Mamoru Oshii who was mad at the many requests that the producer made of him to alter the movie. Rumiko Takahashi considers this film her favorite and it is the most true to the original series.
Genres: Animation Romance Science Fiction Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-11
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Shinrei Shokudō 2
Overview: This is the second installment in a psychic omnibus horror series depicting fears associated with food. Mizuki goes on a first date with the boy of her dreams, and they eat pancakes together, but she collapses. The next thing she knows, she is abducted by Yamada, a clerk at the pancake shop. Mizuki desperately escapes, but her hands are covered with mushrooms, and it seems that the man she dated has another woman. ...... Includes "Black Pancake," "The Manner of the Sanma Murder," and three other
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-03
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The Life of Guskou Budori
Overview: A young boy named Guskou lives in the countryside with his parents and little sister. A string of droughts and other natural disasters tear the family apart, and Guskou is forced to leave home and seek his fortunes on his own. Driven by a desire to improve the quality of life of his poor countrymen, he eventually joins a group of scientists called the Ihatov Volcano Department; he takes part in scientific projects to fight the natural disasters that drove him from his home.
Genres: Drama Family Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-07-16
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シャンハイムーン
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-03
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Hot Road
Overview: Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives herself as being worthless to others, she engages in acts of juvenile delinquency. One day, a transfer student from Yokohama named Eri introduces her to Hiroshi Haruyama, a reckless youth who’s a member of the “Nights” motorcycle gang. Kazuki finds herself increasingly drawn to Hiroshi over time, but he soon becomes leader of the Nights and gets caught up in a conflict with a rival gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-16
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Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
Overview: The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning of all kinds.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-23
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Urusei Yatsura: Remember My Love
Overview: The third film finds Ataru transformed into a pink hippopotamus, which sends Lum chasing after the wicked magician responsible, with catastrophic results. With Lum gone, her friends decide that there is no reason to remain, and so Tomobiki slowly returns to normal. The highlight of the film is a high speed chase scene with an angry Lum flying after the mysterious Ruu through the city at night and into a hall of mirrors (and illusion ). Ataru's true feelings for Lum are probably more obvious in this film than any of the others.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Comedy Fantasy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-26
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Those Swell Yakuza
Overview: Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-06-11
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Urusei Yatsura: Inaba the Dreammaker
Overview: It is summertime, and Shinobu laments not having a boyfriend. She then happens upon a young man weak from hunger, and wearing a rabbit costume. She gives him a carrot, he expresses his gratitude by hitting on her... and she hits back. The young man leaves behind a key to another dimension where everybody's possible futures exist. Lum and Ataru join Shinobu to find the bunny boy, and happy futures for themselves.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Animation Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-18
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The Black House
Overview: A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent visits her house only to find that her young son has hanged himself. As he investigates further, more and more people connected with this family start having "accidents," and if he's not careful, he might be next.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-13
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Love on a Daily Basis
Overview: The lives of a young yakuza and his girlfriend.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-17
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Botchan
Overview: Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher. The assistant principle there wields absolute power. Botchan has a hard time dealing with his fellow teachers and the students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-03
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MAROKO
Overview: Theatrical anime movie created from the OVA 'Gosenzosama Banbanzai', written and directed by Mamoru Oshii.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-19
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Urusei Yatsura: Lum the Forever
Overview: While performing in a student film, Ataru cuts down Tarozakura, a large, ancient cherry tree. Strange things begin to happen all across Tomobiki: a mountain appears out of nowhere, spring changes to winter, and Lum loses her powers, while those around her act as if she doesn't exist.
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-02-25
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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 66: Kushiro-Obihiro Murder Route
Overview: The strangled dead body of Hiroshi Hatano, accounting section chief at the longstanding apparel company Edaka International, is discovered in his apartment in Tokyo. At the scene, Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei find out that a mysterious email stating "I'll be riding the Super Ozora 5 tomorrow" was sent to the victim's cell phone the night before. The sender, Manami Furuya, an employee of Edaka International's Planning Section, has strangely terminated her cell phone service and hasn't shown up to work that very morning. Immediately afterwards, Totsugawa is astonished to receive a report from the Hokkaido police stating that the body of a man, stabbed to death, has been found on the Super Ozora 5 limited express. The man is Yuuki Nakamura, a bar employee from Tokyo, who seems to have flown from Haneda Airport to Sapporo and then boarded the Super Ozora 5, which connects Sapporo and Kushiro. Totsugawa has the feeling that this can't be a coincidence...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-02
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Urusei Yatsura: Raging Sherbet
Overview: Lum & her girlfriends are invited to Neptune by Oyuki. There she shows them her new business venture at a ranch of flying sherbets, birds capable of producing sherbet cones from their beaks. Ran convinces Oyuki to let her borrow one, her goal is to make some quick cash selling sherbets on Earth. Unfortunately, the combination of being overworked and a hot summer day has made the sherbet extremely cranky, even from its refrigerated cage. It breaks from its cage and escapes, but not before attacking Ran and Lum, and trashing Benten's brand-new bike by shooting sherbet cones at it. Now it's up to Ran to retrieve the sherbet before Benten blasts it out of the sky, and more importantly, before Oyuki finds out.
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-02
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Urusei Yatsura: Goat and Cheese
Overview: Mendou recounts an old story that warns, “Don’t take pictures in front of the statue of Great-Grandfather’s Goat, or terrible things will happen!” When his father does just that, only Sakura and Onsen-mark the Teacher can ward off the horrifying consequences of an ancient family curse… or can they?
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-21
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Urusei Yatsura: Terror of Girly-Eyes Measles
Overview: Ten gives Ataru an alien disease, the contagious "Girl Measles," (which makes the victim's eyes turn big and twinkly, like the eyes of young girls in much of manga and anime), and when Ataru's girl-hunting spreads the virus all over Tomobiki Town, chaos ensues!
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-21
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Urusei Yatsura: Ryoko's September Tea Party
Overview: Ryoko throws a tea party for her friends. Flashbacks reveal the pasts of Ryoko's various guests.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-09-24
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Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter
Overview: It seems that Lum's grandfather made an agreement that should he have a daughter, she would be married to a traveling merchant that he met. Now, the merchant has come to collect due. Ataru is tricked into thinking that Lum wants to leave, and so, in a moment of anger, says he hates her. Arguments erupt, and Lum decides that she must know the truth of Atarus feelings. As for all the questions of importance for the Onis, a game of tag begins, one that Ataru can win simply by telling Lum I Love You. However, in the end his pride may end up dooming him. So begins the series of events that will at long last decide the future and fate of Ataru and Lum.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-01
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Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling
Overview: Lupika, an alien princess, is in love with a tofu seller. To make him love her too (at least, announce his love. He obviously fears the social taboo of a tofu vendor marrying a princess), she needs to get a love potion, which is in a certain temple. Legend has it that the only person that can obtain this love potion is the most lecherous man in the universe. That man turns out to be Ataru Moroboshi. Lupika kidnaps Ataru to make him get the potion, and Lum and her friends go out to search for Ataru.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-16
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Dr. Hikojiro
Overview: One day, Hikojiro receives an emergency call from inn proprietress Shino Ogawa to examine Tadahiko Mori, a guest complaining of stomach pain. Mori, who owns an art gallery in Tokyo, has come to Kyoto on a trip with his only daughter, high school student Nanami. Hikojiro gives him his business card, telling him to contact him if the pain comes back. However, the next day, Mori is found dead...!
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-03
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Dr. Hikojiro 2
Overview: One day, Hikojiro goes to visit Sayo Kujo, an old lady who has been hospitalized. Sayo has been told that she has a year to live by assistant professor Natsuhiko Moriwaki, and insists on returning to the house she was born and raised in. It so happens that Hikojiro will be the one to treat her at home from now on. At the university hospital, Hikojiro runs into a familiar face - Hazuki, the daughter of Tetsuji Tonoyama, the man who taught Hikojiro how to make takoyaki. Hazuki is now a nurse at the university hospital and Hikojiro is surprised to see a strange poster on the hospital bulletin board that implies she's having an affair with Moriwaki. The hospital is currently preparing to elect a new chief surgeon, and the candidates are assistant professors Moriwaki and Shinsuke Noguchi, heads of the first and second surgical department. Both of their factions have been publishing defamatory statements about each other.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-01
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Something Like It
Overview: Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he gets to date the beautiful sex worker he meets that day, and a younger high school rakugo aficionado is also vying for his attention. But for clumsy, heart-on-his-sleeve Shintoto, life doesn’t stay rosy for long.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-12
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Invitation of Lust
Overview: Hirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders through the city like a shadow. One day, he meets Masako and they begin an affair. Masako is in an unhappy marriage with Yazawa, who is also cheating on her with a younger lover. The tension builds up to an unforgiving, yet quiet climax...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-05
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Hakuro no Shibijin
Overview: The wife of a famous resident of Kamakura awakens to carnal passion . . . And when her blood cools down it's because she's been murdered!
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-26
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Surgeon Makoto Saeki's Homicide Chart
Overview: Saeki, a doctor at a small local clinic, receives a visit from Sayaka, the younger sister of his late friend, who informs him about her wedding. However, a few days later, Sayaka is found suspiciously dead inside her own apartment with a white ribbon wrapped around her neck!
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-03
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Urusei Yatsura: Catch the Heart
Overview: A mischievous spirit gives Ran a heart-shaped candy that causes a magical heart to appear over the head of whoever eats it. And whoever catches that heart captures the heart of the person who ate the candy! And if there's one thing the Urusei Yatsura crowd can do, it's play catch!
Genres: Animation Comedy Romance Science Fiction Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-27
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Congratulatory Speech
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-28
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Detective Conan: The Mystery of the Legendary Monster Bird
Overview: This story takes place 100 days before Kudo Shinichi became Edogawa Conan. Kudo Shinichi, a high school detective, arrives in Jugoya Town with Mori Ran and others. In this town a legend exists, claiming that a gigantic bull-headed shrike attacks the townspeople and kills them. The town was about to hold a festival in 3 days to put the giant bird's spirit to rest. While being led on a tour of the bull-headed shrike Shrine by Sonoko's parent's friend, Mr. Wakura, a crime related to the legend occurs. Starting with Kosaka, member of the Wakura family are slowly murdered in the same way...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-15
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Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
Overview: In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but Shūzō suddenly passes away. Momoko is dumbfounded by being alone again. She begins to go to the library and borrows books. This changes her life.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-15
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Ōoku supesharu ~ mō hitotsu no monogatari ~
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-29
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愛しのチィパッパ
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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