Maho Yamada
Also Known As: 山田真步
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: September 29, 1981
Age: 43 years old
Gender: Female
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Tomorrow's Dining Table
Overview: 3 women are happy and busy raising their boys named Yu. Due to some little thing, their lives fall apart. Their anger and anxiety unconsciously head towards their sons Yu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-28
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You, Your, Yours
Overview: 3 men fall in love with a woman. They change themselves to whom their love admires. The men become famous Japanese musician Yutaka Ozaki, popular American actor Brad Pitt and historical political figure Ryoma Sakamoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-07
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Hard Days
Overview: After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a mysterious witness.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-05-19
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A Band Rabbit and a Boy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-14
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The Long Excuse
Overview: A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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Your Turn to Kill: The Movie
Overview: Newlyweds Nana and Shota move into an apartment. Two situations, different from the drama series, take place: "What if Shota attends the resident's meeting and not Nana?" and "What if exchange murder game doesn't begin?"
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-10
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The Cursed Sanctuary X
Overview: Kaname Azuma is sick of her marriage life with her husband and she decides to divorce him. She leaves Japan and travels to South Korea. There, she visits her brother Teruo's villa. Teruo is surprised by Kaname's sudden visit, but after he hears of her marriage life, he lets her to stay with him. Somehow, Teruo and Kaname happen to enter The Cursed Sanctuary X.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-19
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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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(Ab)normal Desire
Overview: Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard for diversity, the story unites characters trying to hide abnormalities: a prosecutor who is worried that his pubescent son is a shut-in, an introverted saleswoman with a peculiar habit, and a student tortured by feelings she can’t express. In a world fill with abnormalities, what if it’s actually normal to be abnormal?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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Love Strikes!
Overview: Set one year after the drama series "Moteki." 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto doesn't have money, dreams or a girlfriend. He has left his job at a staffing firm and is attempting to start a new life by working as a writer for a news site. Suddenly, Yukiyo experiences "moteki" - a period when a man becomes suddenly popular with woman. Cute magazine editor Miyuki, pure and naive office worker Rumiko, beautiful shop assistant Ai and beautiful, but tough co-worker named Motoko all become interested in Yukiyo. He tries to calm down, but is shaken by the interests of these women.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock the Movie
Overview: Based on the feature-length novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" written by Arthur Conan Doyle, which is the movie version of the TV drama "Sherlock" broadcast on the Fuji TV series in 2019.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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8000 Miles 2: Girls Rapper
Overview: With Saitama no rappa 2 (AKA 8000 Miles 2 – Girls Rapper), Yu Irie tells the story of amateur girl rappers who dream of a small big-time. The film opens with Saitama 1 B-boys, Ikku and Tom coming to town. They run into young Ayoma (Maho Yamada), inspiring her to gather her girlfriends and work up their rap routine.
Genres: Drama Crime Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-26
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MURAMASA Chapter 11: Kamui
Overview: The eleventh installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-21
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How Selfish I Am!
Overview: Even though Kumiko realizes that she won’t be able to patch things up with her former lover, she ends up preparing a meal for him. Though she lives only for going to the concerts of her favorite band, Mie curses her nonexistent luck when she’s forced to do overtime on the day of a concert. Although Tsuda somehow lives off of doing day labor, he does not have any friends and is unable to establish interaction with society. In his indolent lifestyle, Rikuo only knows how to express himself through violence. The clumsy lives of these characters intersect.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-26
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Odayaka
Overview: Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who is in a divorce, is worried that her daughter is exposed to radiation. Yukako is also afraid of radiation and tries to convince her husband to move. The two become friends after Yukako tries to save Saeko after a suicide attempt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-22
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Kōsoku o Oritara
Overview: A silly and serious midnight road TV movie produced by NHK.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-19
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The Workhorse and The Bigmouth
Overview: 34-year-old Michiyo Mabuchi (Kumiko Aso) and 26-year-old Yoshimi Tendo (Shota Yasuda) meet at a screenwriting class. Michiyo Mabuchi, who is called "Basyauma", works hard to become a writer, but can't see a future for herself as a screenwriter. Meanwhile, Yoshimi Tendo is a bigmouth who never tries hard at anything. These two people fall in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-02
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The 8-Year Engagement
Overview: Hisashi and Mai are a happy couple in their 20s who are engaged to be married. But three months before their wedding, Mai becomes seriously ill. Her heart stops momentarily, and she falls into a deep coma. Hisashi visits Mai at the hospital every day before work. With no idea if or when she will ever awake, Mai’s parents encourage Hisashi to find someone else, but he refuses to give up and continues to pray for her recovery. As if his prayers are answered, Mai begins to regain consciousness several years later, and even utters a few words. But tragically, she has suffered brain damage and has no memory of Hisashi.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-16
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Afro Tanaka
Overview: Hiroshi Tanaka sports an intense perm which looks like the afro hairstyle favored by some African-Americans back in the 1970's. He doesn't get his hair done at a hair shop, he was actually born with his hair like that. For freedom, Hiroshi moves to Tokyo. He works hard there and, even though he turns 24, he still doesn't have a girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-18
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My Sunshine
Overview: Two young skaters, polar opposites in personality, team up to train for a figure skating duo, their growing bond blurring the lines between partners and more as winter unfolds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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Sound of Waves
Overview: Umi’s hearing is so sensitive that even notes played slightly out-of-tune give her a headache. Violinist Yuko arrives from Tokyo to play a concert on Umi’s small island near Okinawa, and gradually befriends the girl. Both struggle with friendships and family relationships, but are brought together by music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-30
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Japanese Girls Never Die
Overview: While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a template which is painted on each wall of a small suburban town.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-03
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Redder Than Yesterday, Bluer Than Tomorrow: Cinema Fighters Project
Overview: The fourth instalment of LDH Pictures, Cinema Fighters project. This time with all the main characters of the six short stories being portrayed by the members of Generations from Exile Tribe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
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Cloud
Overview: Ryōsuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-27
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Random Lives
Overview: Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved in a fight and a murder, a bus incident which affects those who survive it, fishing, cherry-blossom viewing and more
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-28
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Poetry Angel
Overview: After Tsutomu Tamaki graduated from high school, he has worked at his family farm and raises ume (plum). He becomes interested in a class for “poetry boxing” and decides to take the class. There, he meets a female high school student who has her own problem.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-20
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Dream of Illumination
Overview: Noboru runs a real-estate agency in a provicial Hokkaido mountain town. He is despised by the locals for his aggressive business practices. His daughter, Nana—a high school senior—bears the brunt of their anger; and yet, she resolves to stay after graduation, even though her father wants her to leave with him for Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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Love Disease
Overview: Young single mother Emiko (Saori Seto) uses factory worker Shinnosuke (Amane Okayama) for money. They met through an online dating website and Shinnosuke is completely in love with her. Meanwhile, Emiko's ex-husband is demanding money from her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-06
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The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
Overview: In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-07
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Areno
Overview: 'We have to kill him', the wife and her lover thought. When three childhood friends reunite, it doesn't take long before two of them feel the woman's husband is in their way. They push him into a lake, but the boat capsizes and all three are thrown into the water. The lovers reach the shore, but the husband is nowhere. Has he drowned? They decide to wait at a lakeside hotel for his body to be found.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-21
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Fumiko's Legs
Overview: When older man Tsukakoshi asks Unokichi to paint it is of his mistress, the geisha Fumiko. Tsukakoshi loves the feet and legs part of Fumiko's anatomy. The fetishism gives the art student a commission to put his talent to use.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-10
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My Retirement, My Life
Overview: Michitaro Sano’s wife passed away 18 years ago. Since her death, he has lived with his daughter Yumiko at their home. Now, Michitaro retires from his work. Yumiko though tells him to start doing housework. Michitaro is also surprised to learn that Yumiko has a boyfriend and is considering marriage. Michitaro is unsure how to handle his sudden abundance of free time. He then attends a local radio calisthenics group session.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-09
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Waiting for the Moon
Overview: Yumi is a victim when the triple disaster of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown occur in Japan of 2011. She is a guest of her aunt now. She finds a job at a local bar and works under the owner Sugiya, a man who has amnesia and barely recalls anything except his recipes. The two begin to develop feelings for one another.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-23
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Somebody's Xylophone
Overview: A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-10
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After the Sunset
Overview: Little Towa lives with his parents Satsuki and Yuichi in a coastal town on Nagashima. Yuichi is a fisherman, Satsuki runs a restaurant. What Towa doesn’t know is that he is adopted. As a baby, he was abandoned in an internet café, completely emaciated. While his new parents are secretly fighting for custody of him and want to protect him from his past, the family’s happiness begins to falter. Satsuki and Yuichi aren’t the only ones who are worried about Towa’s future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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Fictitious OL Diary
Overview: On a gloomy Monday morning, my week begins. Although I (Bakarhythm) am sleepy, I put on my make-up and I leave home for work at a bank. I take the subway filled with passengers and get off on the nearest subway station from work. I meet Maki Fujikawa (Kaho) at that subway station. She is my closest colleague at work. While talking with each other, we get to our workplace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-28
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Bridal Battle of BUSU
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-15
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Himeanole
Overview: An ordinary man plays matchmaker to his friend only to realize the girl being pursued is being stalked.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-28
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Hold Me Back
Overview: Mitsuko Kuroda is 31 years old and single. She enjoys her life as a single woman. A big reason why she enjoys her single life is that she has counsellor "A" in her mind, which is her other self. Whenever she does not know what to do, "A" gives her the right answers. She believes her happy and peaceful single life with "A" will continue, but she falls in love with Tada-kun. He is a salesperson and younger than her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-12-18
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Go to see Pinkerton
Overview: Yuko, a former leader of the five-member idol group Pinkerton, with the help of man named Matsumoto, tries to reunite the now-disbanded group.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-20
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The Last Day
Overview: This is the last day of a divorcing couple, living in Zushi, a small town located 40miles south of Tokyo. While the wife tries to let the day pass, the husband asks her out for a walk. They walk separately without a word, but they start to share a feeling to make the last day to be a good one. The more they get closer, however, the more they realize the relationship is already over.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-10
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Shirumashi
Overview: A short film by Takeshi Fukunaga.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-01
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