Also Known As: 川瀬 陽太, Yōta Kawase, Youta Kawase, かわせ ようた
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Birthday: December 28, 1969
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Gender: Male
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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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Overview: A mother, daughter and two of their friends live in an old Western-style house in Suginami. As secrets are revealed, they face challenges together.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-30
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Overview: Omnibus by three young directors in the spotlight of Japan’s independent film industry, dealing with the theme of “lost virginity.” Yoshida Koki, whose film {Household X} was an official selection for the Berlin International Film Festival’s Forum, depicts a woman in her thirties losing her virginity. Kazuyo (Masaki Sawa) is a 35-year-old pharmacist living quietly on her own. One day, her interest is piqued by the pseudo-sexual harassment approach of Ryo (Yanagi Shuntaro), a high school youth, and her body gets a taste of sexual desire.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-05-12
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Overview: Having failed with his business and gone absolutely penniless, Masao (45) divorced with his wife, and is currently leading a hopeless life in Ibaraki. One day, a mysterious high school girl, going by the name Emiko, showed up before Masao. Every now and then, Masao would be toyed around by Emiko, but little by little he started taking a liking to her loveliness. As days went by, Masao started opening up to Emiko – something that he rarely did to others. However, there was just something about Emiko – something that bothered Masao - that wouldn’t go away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-30
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Overview: Shinjiro, who runs a humble detective agency using a coffee shop in a certain town as his office, gets into trouble at a dark gambling den and is forced to take on a troublesome job by Kyoichi, an executive of the Kasahara clan, a yakuza gang he knows well. The task is to investigate an arson case that is suspected to involve the Chinese mafia Barretto, with whom the Kasahara-gumi has a rival gang. In addition, Shinjiro is asked by Michiko, whose Filipino parents were deported in the past, to search for her best friend, a Kurdish woman who mysteriously disappeared. However, as he pursues the two cases, he finds himself caught up in a war between two huge underworld organizations.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-16
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Overview: Akihiko Kobe, a first-year high school student with a stutter, is a target of bullying in his class and spent his days depressed. Akihiko lives at home with a face that can not endure anything and kills God in his brain every day. One day, I accidentally see a classmate, a brilliant and intelligent girl student, Mitsuri Nanao killing a cat. Kuri was inspired by the blood she saw during her period and had a desire to see the blood of others. Kuri then tells Akihiko that she has a desire for murder and proposes to kill the bullying group. The two begin to kill, and go east to escape, killing them. New generation youth splatter road movie
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-17
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Overview: Shotaro, the company president, is fishing by the lake, where he meets the sickly Mayumi and her mother, Misako. Mayumi and Shotaro love each other. Three months later, Misako visits Shotaro and asks him to hold Mayumi, who has been sentenced to her death without knowing the man. Shotaro and Mayumi get married and fall in love night after night... Akira Kawamoto's scenario based on Sanyutei Encho's masterpiece rakugo "Kaidan Botan Toro" is directed by veteran Akira Fukamachi. Bringing the taste of Japanese ghost stories to pink movies, the film has a unique flavor. Fresh Minami Aiyama, veteran Satomi Shinozaki, Yoko Satomi and others are showing good performances with the right people in the right place.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-27
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Overview: Asako, who has been married for eight years and has no children, is dissatisfied with her husband who comes home late every night, but she lives peacefully with him after he stops his unfaithful habit. However, a man she meets at a bowling alley with her neighbor Michiko and a beautiful woman who Asako's husband is interested in, cause changes in their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-11-28
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Overview: Haruka, a young recognized female entrepreneur, was forced to retire from her company due to the abuse of her authority. For her pride, she attempts to sell her family home and starts her new business, despite her two brothers and a sister living and running a small restaurant at the house.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-31
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Overview: 1999 J-horror film released by Toei
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-06-11
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Overview: An entry in a series focused on "love" and "erotica," in which six creators from multiple fields - from film and TV to direct-to-video and manga - compete. The debut film by Director Ito Ippei who worked as an assistant director to Imaoka Shinji, it portrays the love between a real hottie who has the attractiveness to enslave men, and a pure-hearted man. Toda (Hiroshi) meets Haruna (Haruna Hana) who is in pain after being dumped. Toda sees similarities between Haruna and a stray kitten he saved that day, and hopes he will bump into the sad woman again someday. His wish comes true, but at an unexpected place.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-23
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Overview: Professional mahjong player Akari Asada couldn't accept her rival Yumi Shimamura's suicide. Asada proceeds with the investigation to uncover the truth. He finds out that the real cause lies in Takagi, the chairman of the All Japan Federation, known as the Don of Mahjong. Takagi used his power to steal the bodies of many female mahjong players. In order to stop Takagi's misdeeds, Asada presents him with a challenge that if he wins in a mahjong match, he will be forced to resign. With the cooperation of the legendary female mahjong player Kawagoe, Asada begins intense training with the goal of "defeating Takagi". A spectacular mahjong showdown that no one has ever seen has begun!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-07-17
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Overview: Shoko Morimura (Aika Yukihira) is a 36-year-old single mother who has been in a "friendship" with Kazuki Kitada (Sho Aoyagi), whom she met again at a high school reunion. For some reason, a 17-year-old girl, Saki Yamada (Akari Takaishi), whom Kazuki was taking care of, grows jealous of Shoko and causes an incident. This leads to a break-up, and Shoko is disappointed in Kazuki's defense of the young Saki. Second part of a two-part film adaptation of the popular manga by Yoriko Minato. Directed by Hideo Jojo of On the Edge of Their Seats fame.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-04
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Overview: A love story about a man who finds hope for life in an encounter with a woman, played by sexy actress Ayane Ryokawa.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Overview: Heinous. Two wolves haunted by the past. Can you hear the gunshot?-Is it his voice?- Starring: Ichizo Matsuda ("The Emblem of the Yakuza", "The Rule of the Yakuza") x A non-stop action with a gorgeous cast What kind of life will a yakuza who has lost his memory live?
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-20
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Overview: Sequel to 'Solitary Scream'.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-17
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Overview: Kanichi works at wet tissue company in Mito, Japan. He runs into Gondo. 10 years ago, Gondo was fired from his job as a teacher for secretly filming others. He is now with Mihari who works as a hostess. He took away her away from Tokyo. Kanichi falls in love with Mihari at first sight and takes her away from Gondo. Meanwhile, due to a female student on the video Gondo secretly shot, an unexpected disturbance is created.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-13
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Overview: The films plot hinges on a bizarre love triangle involving a loser ventriloquist, his assistant & a blind woman - Hikari is blindly (literally) in love with Daisuke, a failing ventriloquist yet when she finally musters up enough courage to meet him face to face and present him with some flowers backstage she mistakes his assistant for him. For some reason Daisuke and his assistant decide to follow through with the mistaken identity farce which leads to some amusing complications, particularly in the bedroom.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-12
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-21
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Overview: Shoji runs a store in a desolate town in northern Japan. After the death of his wife, he longs to end his life so that his daughter will receive his life insurance money. But suicide is not covered by his contract, so he seeks help and meets Saki, who is also suicidal. Yoshitaka Kamada raises profound questions about life, death, and the importance of humanity.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-10
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Overview: A marriage is weaker without something in common. Sayoko (SHINDO Manami) is a seemingly carefree woman but she hides doubts about her marriage behind her cheerful demeanour. After five years of being in Tokyo, it is apparent that she has little in common with her husband and so she begins scoping out apartments which is how she meets Yohei (YOSHIMURA Kaito), a real estate agent who is nursing a broken heart. As they tour properties, Sayoko's girlish charms work their magic on the downhearted man and she convinces him to look for the wife who abandoned him but their journey brings the two closer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-13
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Overview: In the winter of 1922 (Taisho 11), a poet and social activist Nakahama Tetsu returned from a wandering journey to reunite with Furuta Daijiro and other comrades. They organized an anarchist organization “Guillotine Society” dreaming of revolution. For their ideal, they targeted the Prince of Wales who visited Japan, but failed in all their attempts. Matsuura Emile, a soba selling mysterious woman with all foreseeing eyes, comes and goes before them. In September of 1923 (Taisho 12), under martial law, anarchists Osugi Sakae and Ito Noe whom members of Guillotine Society adored were taken by Captain Amakasu of the military police, and killed. When they learned of the murder, members of Guillotine Society swore vengeance, and rose up… Then, transcending time, at a cafe, music rings loud….
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-16
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Overview: Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of humans ascend after passing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-30
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Overview: In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal and playful story about chasing dreams, disillusionment and the inner lives of professional artists. Closer to playing two sides of the same coin than tackling a dual role, Ikematsu Sosuke embodies two versions of Minami – the naïve upstart and the jaded pro – who magically cross paths as they become entangled with a cast of colourful characters in the seedy alleyways and jazz clubs of Ginza over a single night.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Overview: Yuzo (Ito Takeshi) abandons his family and lives with his mistress Saeko (Masaki Sawa). Despite being on the verge of turning fifty and still in part-time employment, he prefers to chase dreams rather than face reality. One day, Saeko falls for a young man she meets on the street, and disappears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-15
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Overview: Walking out on her husband after discovering his infidelity, Akemi Kudo (Konatsu) finds refuge in a comic-book shop, where she meets Kyoko Ito -- a would-be manga artist. Soon the unbridled Kyoko introduces Akemi to a new world of sensual experiences, but their fragile friendship is put to the test as Akemi contemplates returning to her two-timing spouse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-06-10
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Overview: A Japanese giallo about a murderous driver roaming the street in search of prey.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-16
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Overview: After a happily married couple running a hot spring resort are awakened to their sadomasochistic desires, their relationship will never be the same.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-01
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Overview: Bangkok, 2015. Ozawa, a Japanese man who had nowhere to go, meets Luck, a woman has reached the height of her glory on Thaniya Street, a place that flourishes by servicing only Japanese men. Through a trip to trace the scars of colonialism, they look for paradise that we had lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-08-12
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Overview: While Junichi, Yoshii, and the others are removing the mines with a mine detector in hand, Junichi steps on a mine and does not return home. Yoshii goes to Junichi's wake and meets his wife, Mikayo. Yoshii had a history of committing murder because he was upset by his wife's infidelity. He and Mikayo also...
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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Overview: After completing his time in a juvenile detention center, Daiki Imanishi returns to his hometown in Ibaraki. Upon hearing that his former cellmate, Ken Kohinata, is in danger, Daiki, along with two companions he met in the detention center—Kaito Sakaguchi and Ryuichi Maki—causes trouble at every turn as they head to Tokyo in a stolen car to save Ken.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-04
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Overview: A housewife who has been married for 20 years, she arrives in downtown Tokyo eager to start over to straighten out her life.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-04
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Overview: A shy young secretary is intrigued by her new neighbor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-24
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Overview: The story is about a film director, Kutani, who lives in the dying pink film industry, and an aspiring screenwriter, Iseki, and their loved one, Shoko, whose dream of a film she has clung to begins to crumble, and how their lives intersect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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Overview: Set in a metropolis in the 21st century, this unique erotic drama depicts youth colored by sex, drugs, and violence with a touch of science fiction.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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Overview: Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman works in bar and is a former prostitute. Many years ago, her father sold her to a brothel due to the family's severe financial hardships. The writer and the woman then agree to live as husband and wife until the war ends. The woman doesn't feel sexual pleasures due to her past, while the man lusts for the woman's body. Meanwhile, Ohira (Jun Murakami) fought for Japan in China. He participated in unconscionable acts against civilians in the name of war. He returns to Japan with only one arm. Ohira then begins to prey on innocent women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-27
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Overview: One day, Yoshii, who follows a woman who molested him on a train and commits a break-in robbery, meets Yuriko, who is living in seclusion while enduring severe domestic violence from her husband, and the two are drawn to each other. The two eventually connect and find peace, but an unfortunate incident and a connection to a crime Yoshii committed in the past throws the wheels out of gear.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-02
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Overview: Yoshioka is a struggling sensual novel author. His wife, Michiru, believes in his talent and supports him. Unable to cope with his lack of success, Yoshioka becomes dependent on alcohol and women, causing much grief to Michiru, but she never leaves his side.Yoshioka vows to change and immerses himself in writing, finally publishing a novel and receiving an award. Months pass and one day on the beautiful Ishigakijima island, a drunk Yoshioka visits a local bar and tells the proprietress, Megumi, the story of how he disappointed his wife and eventually lost her in an traffic accident. Seeing the extent of his grief, Megumi tells Yoshioka about the Ishigakijima legend about a special “fragrance satchel”. If you take the satchel with you and go to a particular lighthouse, you will be able to meet a person who has died one last time for a short duration, until the smell of the satchel fades away. She hands him this fragrance satchel.
Genres: Romance Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-08-20
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Overview: An alcoholic and his wife explore a beach site in a strange afterlife. Here they meet a number of odd characters who remind them of their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-26
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Overview: Five suicidal people meet on the Internet and form a 'suicide group'. They arrange to meet at one of the member's homes to spend their last hours together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-09
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Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-26
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-11-02
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Overview: Asako and Yamada, after getting drunk for the first time and going straight to the hotel, spend a hot night, but they are separated by a fire that has started. The fireman Sudo saved Asako and fell in love with her at first sight. A sensual drama depicting a strange love triangle between a female beautician and two men, which began with a fire in the hotel of love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-04
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Overview: This is Uminari
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-28
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Overview: Hiroto works at a construction site, Futaba works at a flower shop, and daigo works at a design studio. their life seems to flow as usual, but something begins to change when they think about today and what awaits them in the future. this is a story about youth, about love and everything connected with it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-08
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Overview: This is Futari Shizuka
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-04
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Overview: A surprising and humanistic drama that questions the meaning of happiness through the strange fate of one man who caused an accident. One night, a taciturn and clumsy man working at a scrap iron factory in the suburbs of Tokyo, causes an irreparable accident with his colleague. The two try to hide the incident but the man’s fate takes a turn for the worse and his colleague and family are faced with threats to their survival. A psychologial thriller that reveals the ills of Japanese society along with the darknesses of the human heart based on a script full of surprises written by the director Dai Sakō. Tomomitsu Adachi, who plays the lead role, exudes an eerie charm, and is flanked by many of Japan's best supporting actors such as Yutaka Matsushige and Shohei Uno.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-13
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Overview: Junko runs a Thai restaurant left by her late husband. Yuuji is a furniture maker who has recently divorced. One day, Junko buys a handmade table via mail order from Yuuji. The table is all perfect except the doll, which was sent as a bonus, is missing its head. Learning that, Yuuji insists to send back the missing head parts to Junko. Eventually, the two can sense a connection between them as they start interacting with each other through email. Will romance blossom once again between the two people who're halfway through their lives?
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-13
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Overview: A cloudy riverbank. Kazuko, a one-piece woman with a floral pattern, stands under the viaduct. She was abandoned here when she was young and raised by a homeless man who lives there. Yoshio offers an engagement ring to his girlfriend Sachiko, but he gets confused. As he was frustrated and walking along the night road, Kazuko, who was standing under the guard and selling his body, called out and headed for a love hotel with her. Kazuko accepts rough acts as they are. After the fact, Yoshio opened the ring case in front of Kazuko and showed it. She couldn't help feeling destined because she never thought that such a day would come. A few days later, Yoshio also visited the riverside village, and Kazuko said goodbye to the homeless man. Kazuko was greeted by Yoshio's parents, Takeshi and Yoko, with joy and tension in her heart. Even though she knew her poor upbringing, her parents kindly accepted her because she wouldn't hide it from her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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Overview: Mizuki, born as conjoined twins, works at a hospital, but the director, Sato, takes advantage of her weakness, as she needs artificial dialysis, and makes Mizuki his mistress. However, Sato's wife, Mikayo, discovers his infidelity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-16
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-01
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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Overview: Adapted from the manga series "Ore to Sex Sureba Ureru" (俺とSEXすれば売れる) by Kaho (香穂).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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Overview: A member of the high school art club called Sakuko falls into the sea while sketching a boat. Witnessing the incident, Saibara creates a painting titled "Drowning Sakuko" and wins an award at a contest, leading the painting to be displayed at school. Moreover, Saibara takes the liberty of announcing that she will paint Sakuko for her next piece during a newspaper interview. Frustrated by the situation, Sakuko gives up on her artistic path and attempts to create a new work with the motif of a "boat" in her home, which is scheduled for demolition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-23
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Overview: Yuji and Akiko are newlyweds. Yuji dreams of being a movie star. He lands the lead role in a Pink Eiga soft-core sex film. The director requires him to have sex with the actress. Akiko goes to her high school reunion and is raped by a drunken guy, and then hooks up with her ex-high school love. A dark and comedic look at contemporary relationships and the pitfalls of married life. The story was written by Locarno International Film Festival, Golden Leopard Prize Winner, Masahiro Kobayashi. (Pink Eiga)
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-01
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Overview: Ryohei, a gay gangster, dreams of becoming a full-fledged gangster, even though he is bossed around by his elder brother Yamabe. One day, Yamabe accidentally kills Morishima, a member of the gang's leadership. Thinking that he will be killed by the gang if he continues like this, Yamabe takes Ryohei with him to an abandoned house deep in the mountains to dispose of Morishima's body...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-05-04
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Overview: This story follows the journey of an ill-fated young man whose ambition is to be a professional antiques dealer. A hard-up young man, who makes his living by selling old items in flea markets, meets a nurse and he falls in love with her. He decides to become a successful antique dealer. So he participates in a huge auction in the mountains but he makes a fool of himself. At the same time he ends up being in the netherworld, and hovers between life and death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-24
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Overview: Directorial debut by Kiridoshi Risaku, an accomplished film and cultural critic and author of "Miyazaki Hayao no ‘sekai'" and "Kaiju tsukai to shonen: Ultraman no sakka tachi". Mikoto (Mikoto) and Takashi (Sumori Ryubun) graduated from the same high school. Now in their twenties, they meet by coincidence and hit it off, and they decide to spend the night together. But Takashi invites her not to a love hotel, but to their former high school. Mikoto has only bad memories from high school, and she realizes that Takashi also is looking for a chance to redo his teenage years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-02
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Overview: A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is eventually placed back into society so that he can kill him with his bare hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-02
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-26
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Overview: A sensual fantasy about a middle-aged man who receives a phone call from the dead and tries to rebuild his life. Under the direction of veteran director Akira Fukamachi, who is being reevaluated, popular actress Yoko Satomi gives a sexy performance as the Zenkoto Fighter wearing costumes and items that recreate the period. Hiroshi (Tomohiro Okada), a 53-year-old dull office worker, is cheated on by his wife (Yasaki Wakamiya) and is shunned by his daughter (Yurika Iwashita). After being fired, Hiroshi drifts into a tunnel where he gets on the phone with his comrade Mariko (Yoko Satomi), who was supposed to have died 30 years ago, and dreams of a different life with her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-04-26
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Overview: Yuko Tanaka, who "married into" the Tanaka family, a family running a poultry farm, led a modest life despite being mistreated by her sister-in-law, Satomi Tanaka. One day, Saki Watanabe, the mistress of Yuko's husband, Ryosuke Tanaka, applies for a live-in employee position at the poultry farm. Unaware that Saki is her husband's mistress, Yuko, who conducts the interview, decides to hire her. Thus begins a strange cohabitation, including the husband's mistress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-18
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-19
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Overview: A story of finding a place to root yourself when life’s obstacles have dispirited you. Chang-su, a former equestrian athlete for the South Korean national team, was forced to give up on his dream early. He finds himself working at a quarry in the rural town of Minawa in western Japan, where he lives with Minami and her infant daughter. Yamabuki, a teenage girl, begins to stage silent protests that blossom into community action, much to the dismay of her policeman father. The quiet surface of this rural town is gradually peeled off to reveal frustration and loneliness that, once given a voice, begin to connect people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-05
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Overview: Osamu Kogure spends his days in near poverty, but he keeps going by taking odd jobs. After being forced by an unscrupulous co-worker who enjoys manipulating people, he decides to commit a robbery with a woman. The robbery goes wrong, and Osamu loses an arm. Now, that arm will come to life, turning into something monstrous.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-01-27
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Overview: Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-25
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Overview: Misaki, who is not satisfied with her husband, feels surprised satisfaction every night when she sees a scene in which her husband, Chae Sung shares her forbidden love with her brother Sana. Then one day, Misaki, who actually met Chae Sung, the main character in the dream, falls in love with him and has a happy time. However, when he finds out that he has entered the drama [woman of his brother's] world without knowing himself, Misaki becomes confused.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-21
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Overview: 1726, Sanchu, Okayama Prefecture: farmers negotiate with the feudal domain in order to seek exemption from rising taxes. Infighting leads to suppression by the samurai class, and the farmers band together for battle. It’s a moment of injustice, setting the stage for bravery and sacrifice. However those daring characters remain largely offscreen in Juichiro Yamasaki’s brilliant film. Instead, the cowardly protagonist Jihei (Naohisa Nakagaki) faces a crisis of the risks of rebellion and its aftermath that resonates with our contemporary moment. In this rare independent jidaigeki, Kenta Tawara’s beautiful digital B&W photography channels and refigures luminaries of classical Japanese cinema, boasting rapturous animated sequences by Tomomichi Nakamura and experimental score by Ayako Sasaki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-22
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-09
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Overview: A spin-off short of "Helldriver," dealing with survivors in the dangerous northern territories.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-11
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-27
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Overview: Sachiko and Yoshida are newlyweds, and have just moved into a newly-constructed apartment with completely white rooms. It’s reasonable to expect that they would be enjoying their newlywed life, but Sachiko is refusing to go along with Yoshida’s sexual demands. One day, Yoshida’s junior colleague, Kato, shows him a video. Its title is White Room: Evening Classroom Inspection, and in it a girl is shown holding a photograph of her mother against her thigh while engaged in fondling. But the astounding thing is that it is a room in their newly-constructed apartment! Yoshida stealthily takes the video home, but Sachiko sees what it contains.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-30
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Overview: The film tells the story of Aiko, a 35-year-old mute woman who works in a bowling alley, and her brief romance with Yoshioka, a younger man who works as a postal carrier. The two meet when Aiko accidentally knocks Yoshioka off his bicycle, and they have a sexual encounter soon after. Aiko begins preparing lunchboxes and giving them to Yoshioka at his workplace as a way of expressing affection, which she cannot do verbally.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-20
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Overview: Film director Karen is invited by his childhood friend Sudo, a famous film director, to film a movie in Mexico. Karen is surprised and delighted by the suddenness, but feels something is wrong and blurs her words. Her best friend Aya, who was taught by her girlfriend to live freely, was dissatisfied with her inarticulate appearance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-26
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Overview: High school students Isaki and Hiramasa can't stand being bored. One day, while walking across town, they bump shoulders with two other people. An argument ensues and, as usual, Hiramasa is ready to fight. Hiramasa is supremely confident when it comes to fighting. An unusual thing happens though, Hiramasa gets knocked out ...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-18
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Overview: Kaito is a university student who moved to the city because of its cheap rent. While killing time at home, a beautiful woman suddenly appears in front of him. Kaito and the woman continue to have sex, but Kaito senses something is wrong.
Genres: Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-11
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Overview: A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform a hit. While things work out in the beginning, this young psychopath quickly becomes more trouble than the gang expected. Will they be able to rid themselves of him, or will they be his next victims?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-10
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Overview: A sensual drama that depicts the relationship between a female teacher with a special sexual fetish and a student with whom she has a deep connection. This is the debut work of director Toshiya Konami, who also directed Hideo Josada. Starring Iori Furukawa, an accomplished actor, this is an ambitious work that distinguishes itself from the standard tutor movie by focusing on the perspective of the main character who faces a dilemma. Nozomi (Iori Furukawa), who was forced out of her teaching job for some reason, is on her way to visit her mother's grave in her hometown when she reunites with her beloved teacher Yoshihiko (Yota Kawase), who had remarried her classmate Sanae (Riri Kuribayashi). I decide to work as a live-in tutor for his stepchild, Atsushi (Yuya Kaneko).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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Overview: A couple of men and women who look happy. However, each of them was living another life that the other did not know. Their words, which at times seem to betray their own feelings, crystallize into a dry ending.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Overview: A man is released from prison after 10 years of incarceration. He wants to regain control of his life, but his former boss, a demon named "Master", doesn't see it that way...
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-02
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Overview: A romance about a man and a woman who, due to an unexpected event, end up switching bodies. Despite coming from completely different backgrounds and environments, the two try to overcome the various difficulties that arise from their body swap.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-07-06
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Overview: 36-year-old Shoko Morimura (Aika Yukihira) is raising her daughter on her own while working as a temporary worker. At a high school reunion, she reunites with her first love, obstetrician-gynaecologist Kitada Kazuki (Sho Aoyagi), and has a one-night stand with him. Shoko is once again excited, but becomes upset when Kazuki proposes that she become his "sex friend." Part one of a two-part film adaptation of the popular manga by Yoriko Minato. Directed by Hideo Jojo On the Edge of Their Seats, the film depicts the emotions of a man and woman who spend the night together at a class reunion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-21
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Overview: Takashima is a young struggling actor who wants to be a film director. The film follows his chance encounters and career highlights (and lowlights!) as he strives to reach the top, and details his attempt to create the perfect film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-28
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Overview: Yuji is an engaged businessman, who decides to grope Asuka, a pretty young girl, on a busy Tokyo commuter train. The cheap thrill turns expensive as Yuji discovers she took this opportunity to steal his wallet. Later on, Asuka finds Yuji and approaches him with an indecent partnership proposal. This film is another quality installment from the Chikan Densha Groper Train series – the longest running film series in the world. (Over 500 Groper Train films have been made!)
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Overview: Kiriko is a beautiful woman working in a quiet hot spring town. The owner of the inn, Goro, is attracted to her beauty and asks her out, but she refuses. Meanwhile, Imai, a detective staying at the inn, recognizes Kiriko's face and investigates her past on his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-08-27
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Overview: A married woman, Kazuyo, enlists the services of the private detective, Rokusuke, to see if her husband Norio is cheating. Kazuyo says whenever her husband cheats on her, he then comes home and has sex with Kazuyo, to hide it. However, since her husband broke up with his mistress, her own sex life has taken a big hit. In her frustration, she seduces detective Rokusuke. Soon after that, Norio starts cheating again - this time with another woman. The woman bears a striking resemblance to detective Rokusuke's wife. Now, he's faced with a difficult choice.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-09
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Overview: After the explosive demise of their last subject, scientists must look for a replacement on whom to continue their bizarre experiments with brain-altering drugs.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-28
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Overview: Yukio and Suzuka are a couple living together. Yukio keeps working and quitting his job to write novels, and Suzuka is anxious about their future. Yukio's father, Shigeru, was a popular novelist, but he was a man who never cared about his family, beating and cheating on the young Yukio. Yukio still harbors mixed feelings toward Shigeru, who has already passed away. Suzuka soon begins to feel uncomfortable with Yukio's words and actions...
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Overview: When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-29
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Overview: Maya is a photographer. She takes photos related to the eyeball. Kunio is a neurosurgeon and an independent documentary film director. He is interested on making a documentary about Maya. A mysterious eyeball collector watches for Maya's own eyeballs.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-30
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Overview: Nishioka, a musician who has lost his passion for music and is living a life of self-indulgence, is fired by his contracted music production company.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-10
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Overview: Yoshii, who was serving time in prison for murdering his wife, followed women he had molested on trains and made a living by robbing houses, but then he met Yuriko, who was being abused by her husband...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-02
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Overview: Ito, a film director with no money and no woman, is agonizing every night over a violent love affair he hears from a neighbor who has recently moved in. One day, his neighbor, Honda, comes to visit Ito. He had apparently eloped with the daughter of a yakuza and was asking Ito to hide her for him. Ito tried to say no to the dangerous offer, but the 300,000 yen was too much to resist, and he ended up accepting the offer...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-25
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-08-17
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Overview: Murakami's partner Mayumi has gone missing. He fears that she could have run off with another guy or gotten into difficulty by involving by herself with a 'telephone relationship club', a solution which hooks up strangers trying to find easy, anonymous sex, no concerns asked.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-29
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Overview: After the death of his wife, Yukio has become more and more paranoid, believing that he is being followed and watched at all times. Yukio's late wife, before her death, was seeing and sleeping with another man. Not only did Yukio know about the affair, he would watch them have sex. Unbeknownst to his wife, his peeping on her became like a fetish. As the film progresses, Yukio goes to see a counselor to try and figure out his phobia and discover his deep repressed thoughts about his wife. In comes Akemi, Yukio's ex-girlfriend from almost a decade prior. Akemi is unhappy with her marriage and seeks the warm embrace of Yukio, which only furthers his descent into madness.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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Overview: A man is waiting alone in a snow-covered house deep in the mountains. the woman was supposed to meet him days before but she hasn't arrived and the man waits on, believing that the woman will still come. As the hours pass the man's mind slips in and out of reality as he fantasises on her and her sexuality. His body grows numb from the cold and he begins to drift from reality to a dream world where his imagination knows no limits.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-22
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Overview: Mao, who can tell when someone will die when she touches them, offers her own body to dying men. One day, Tachibana, whose wife committed suicide after Mao said she would die, draws close to her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-14
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Overview: Nagano has had a sickness of the heart for 40 years and has been hospitalized at the mental hospital in Fukushima. However, during the evacuation when the Great East Japan Earthquake hit on March 11, 2011, knowing that he’s already completely healed, he makes his way back out to into the world. Having been hospitalized from when he was in his teens until his fifties, his story is like that of Urashima Taro, the Japanese fisherman who went beneath the sea as a young man and returned to an unfamiliar world. However, his heart from long ago is for the first time full of feelings to meet the woman he loved. Before long, Nagano learns that the woman has taken refuge in Tokyo and lives with her son and his wife, and sets out on a bike headed for Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-09
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Overview: Middle-aged salaryman Ichiro Sasaki (Mitsuru Hirata) hears of the death of his childhood friend Okabe (Takeshi Itoh). Okabe left a message for Ichiro right before his death. From the message, Ichiro learns the truth of a sad cast from the past and that Okabe liked Ichiro's first love Sachi (Aoi Kirishima). When they were young, Okabe got everything he wanted, but Ichiro could not do anything about what he wanted. After Ichiro meets a young woman named Haru (Kanako Mizumoto), his passion for the younger days begins to revive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-17
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Overview: A fugitive man and woman (Kawase, Kawana) come to an island to retrieve their son (Iwasaki), who the woman has given to a foster family, but the son's foster parents are policemen (Ito)... The suspense surrounding the retrieval of the son is made unusual by the location shooting on the vast and desolate Miyakejima Island and leads to an allegorical drama about the essential desires of human beings. This was Kawase Yota's first appearance in a Zeze film, and he has since become a regular actor. The title of the film at the time of its first release was Sukebe Tenkomori.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-07-28
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Overview: Junko, who has precognition, predicted her senior's death and disappeared from her fiancé's life. Five years later, Junko, who works in a peep-shop, reunites with Kazuki and rekindles their love, but tragedy soon ensues. Hotaru Hatsuki, one of the most popular actresses of the 1990s, gives a strong performance in this poignant tale of a woman's attempt to escape her fate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-12
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Overview: No Good Men follows Kumiko, a young and attractive woman that works at a travel agency, and moonlights as an insatiable, sex-hungry mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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Overview: Based on the world of Taiyo Matsumoto's manga "Tekkonkinkreet" this film sublimates the story of a young girl crow and a seagull living a free and unrestrained life into a mythological tale. In the mysterious futuristic landscape of the waterfront subcenter when there were few leisure facilities, the film powerfully depicts the struggles and battles of the vital life force that pervades the city.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-26
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Overview: Two wives who leave their husbands behind and go on a hot spring trip, and two husbands who play homosexual games because it's not fair for them to be the only ones enjoying it. In contrast to the wives, who warm each other's bodies with hot water and lesbian play, the husbands cool each other's bodies by facing each other naked on a dark table with a bottle of sugar. There is another couple in danger of getting married because their parents disapprove of their relationship, but these two also change their mind, saying that marriage is between them. The story focuses on the liberation and change of consciousness of these three couples, who audaciously kiss on the street to get warm, and rethink their love and freedom.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-28
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Overview: The tale follows the intentional non-adventures of quiet Tachibana (Takeshi Ito), a Tokyo drifter who has worked in a suburban sausage shop for several years without forging any real friendships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-18
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Overview: What lasts longer, the time before birth or the time after death? In the 1990's, Kenjo dies in a terrorist gas attack. His girlfriend Haruka is killed by a man she meets as a street prostitute. In 2002, Kenji and Haruka who should already be dead, meet again and a new story begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-15
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Overview: A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift from stores while she works as a prostitute. She strikes up a relationship with a convenience-store clerk, and the two eventually settle down together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-23
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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: A young man, involved with a gang of hoodlum exploiting vulnerable elderly men to steal their retirement money, experiences social disenchantment, alienation and confusion mostly due to a lack of dreams and fulfillment of ambition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-30
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Overview: When he is hit by a car on the street, the young man Daikoku foresees the monster Demking appearing at the end of the century. In preparation for the coming confrontation with the Demeking, he organizes a modern-day Seven Lucky Gods composed entirely of antisocial people. This is a utopian epic that, despite the ridiculousness of the story, is the most powerful depiction of the motifs seen in the first two films, which attempt to play on the sense of apocalypse through unrealistic imagination, while staying within a tenuous sense of reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-08
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Overview: Schoolgirls on the verge of adulthood know that boys can be feckless and girls treacherous. Three friends gather around a Ouija board to call forth the spirit of Kokkuri. Masami has a boyfriend, Akira; Hiroko, who is nervous about the séance, wonders if she should take the plunge into sex; Mio is haunted by her mother's suicide. She also has a secret life as the voice of a midnight talk show host, the sexually-charged Midori. Mio must explore her past and her new feelings. Can she hold off the power and predictions of Kokkuri to enter adulthood, or will the destructive and romantic side of teen spirit be too powerful?
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Overview: A road trip with a rebellious son, a reckless brother, and an uncontrollable pet turtle goes crazy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-12
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Overview: Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to helping an elderly woman, they're forced to interact, confronting their differences and similarities as well as their deepest secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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Overview: Aspiring child actress Nanoka (Nanoka Hara) hopes to follow in her late mother's footsteps and become an actress. She is more talented and pretty than her rivals, but she finds it difficult to land parts. One day, she hears that a play, which her mother performed, will be staged again. She takes part in the audition to play the lead role which her mother also played.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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Overview: Etsuko (Rinko Kikuchi) was given the post to take charge in the launch of a web media site which specifically deals with the theme “the streets and the town of Tokyo”. So her recent daily routine was to walk around town searching for materials that may be suitable for the plan. One day she runs into a sake barrel stacked in a shrine in Kagurazaka (Shinjuku District, Tokyo), and she finds herself immediately interested in sake and it’s history with the Kagurazaka area. She decides to do a research, and calls photographer and long time friend Ikeda (Yota Kawase), and starts her quest for the secret of the fascinating sake and the historical town. For Etsuko, who had been stressed out by her busy work, her idea of gathering interesting informations and meeting people for her job turned out becoming an exciting journey which eventually leads Etsuko to reconcile with her peaceful heart and mind, which had always been her nature.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-16
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Overview: A rural gentleman's peaceful life takes a turn for the worse when a couple from Tokyo move to his neck of the woods.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-01
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Overview: "Parallel universes, doppelganger, world lines, reality, truth, jealousy, delusion, adoration, truth, regret, love, dreams, memories, borders. I don't understand it … I just want to see you!" The newly discovered planet Emanon emerges one night at the sky. A weird customer brings Mika a strange present from his journey to "Agartha". And she... is still unable to cope with the sudden parting of Teru.
Genres: Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-30
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Overview: During winter break elementary school teacher Kyoko Uno gives supplemental lessons to her student Teppei, who is behind in school. Kyoko has an unusual bond with Teppei's mother Mie. Meanwhile, Kyoko's son Sanshiro is supposed to be at an overnight sports camp, but Kyoko finds out that he was caught shoplifting.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-16
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Overview: Yoshikawa, a truck driver, married a woman named Yuriko on the advice of his boss. One day, however, Yuriko is killed by a street pervert. Since then, every woman he meets reminds him of his late wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-24
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Overview: Two private detectives investigate cases of young men of rich parentage getting abducted and raped until a ransom is paid.
Genres: Mystery Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-01-03
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Overview: One day, it's decided that all people with blood type B have to be killed. There are people in black costumes who chase after and kill everyone with blood type B. Tsukasa is one of those people. Together with her friend Yui she tries to stay alive and staying alive means running because hiding isn't a solution. On the hunt, they meet Masaharu and together they decide to fight against those black costumed creatures.
Genres: Mystery Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-05-19
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Overview: Nobody knows where they came from. They parasitize in human beings, take control of them and change their bodies into hideous monsters (Necro-borg). The Necro-borg fight each other until the other dies. Where did they come from? To what end? Yuji and Kaoru, whom both have dark secrets within themselves, get caught up in the horrific battles of Necro-borg. What will their fate be?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-19
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Overview: Three girls - Miwa, an introvert who's best friend is her turtle, Saori, a rich girl from a celebrity family, and Koyuzu, a member of a revenge agency - wind up in a complex rivalry with one another.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-08-16
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Overview: Akira Kurosawa is a nerdy movie buff who works on low budget romantic comedies while dreaming of becoming a horror master. After being abused by his mentor, “the master” he finally decides he’s had enough and opens a door allowing an evil spirit to wreak revenge on those who have been cruel to him. But much like the movies he loves, once a spirit is unleashed – it can’t be controlled and starts to kill everyone!
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-12-06
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Overview: Atsushi is a journalist specializing in writing about adult film actresses. He meets Hanako, who seems different to other adult film stars and soon a relationship develops. Meanwhile, Hanako’s younger sister, Asuka, arrives to stay and falls in love after a chance meeting at a club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-03
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Overview: Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When the local gang has its treasured cauldron stolen, a war to find it begins involving the thugs, a 12 years old kid, a prostitute and a pickpocket, including the giant cauldron used to feed the destitute: The symbol of Kamagasaki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-18
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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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Overview: Years have passed since the first film. Goro never got over the death of his partner and continues to drown his misery in alcohol. His latest work as a private detective involves spying on a man suspected of adultery by his wife. She happens to be right, but he's cheating on her with a male university student and not another woman. When that student turns up dead shortly after Goro delivers his results, he is initially indifferent. But then he's absudcted and beaten to within an inch of his life by people who clearly want to ensure his silence, and that changes things. Turns out, his past once again comes back to haunt him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-02
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Overview: Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-02
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Overview: “Hana-Dama”—a flower in the wasteland. This flower is a symbol of earthly desires and every human is overwhelmed by desire and their rationality collapses wherever the flower is in bloom. And even today, the “Hana-Dama” continues to blossom profusely somewhere in the world. The story is set in a film theater, the facility keeps on closing one after another during recent years. The last day has come to a film theater which has been maintained by a film-loving owner, the staff, and their unique audiences. The symbol of human desire, “Hana-Dama,” blossoms at the theater and instigates people’s erratic behavior. Upon facing its closure, tremendous chaos that will be noted in the history of Japanese film takes place within this film theater.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-27
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Overview: Shot in the historic city of Nara, this film depicts the growth and conflicts of a talented 14-year-old female sprinter with a complex family background.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-13
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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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Overview: Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-11
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Overview: A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized, however, by a car accident on a rainy day after they go out together, and wakes up with short term memory loss, where she cannot remember anything beyond the present day. Yukisuke tries to live close to her as before but the lack of collective memory starts to stagger him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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Overview: Naomi (Makoto Nishiyama), who returned to a small town because her adoptive father was about to die, met her brother-in-law, Hiroyuki (Hideyuki Kamada), again. Both of them have a history of becoming a man and woman, and Naomi feels an uncontrollable feeling for Hiroyuki. After that, she reunited with her childhood friend Yoshio (Yuya Matsuura) who also returned to the town....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-01
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Overview: A vampire, Brado, becomes responsible for taking care of a girl, Setsuna, in exchange for his life saved by the evil that created her. The evil tells him that if she doesn't have sex for a hundred days, she'll become a full-fledged vampire, and Brado will be able to gain complete control of her. However, if he breaks the promise, both of them will die, so he reluctantly takes on the care of her. While he sleeps, Setsuna begins going to nearby town and gradually learns how precious human lives are through her observations. When she meets a young priest in a church, her affection to humans becomes stronger-- and trouble begins to brew when Brado realizes that she is falling for the priest.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-29
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Overview: On March 11th 2011, a massive earthquake strikes eastern Japan. Shoko (TAKEKOU Aya), who works at a shoe store in Tokyo, is unable to contact her boyfriend Masashi (ISOBE Yasuhiro) who lives in the worst-hit region. As aftershocks continue, she finally gets through to his brother who tells her that Masashi has become mentally unstable. Despite her desire to go to his side, she is urged to break up with him for her own sake. As Shoko struggles to come to terms with her feelings for Masashi, he suddenly appears before her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-09
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Overview: Shoko, a married woman, works in a hospital as a nurse. One day, one of the patients happens to meet an old boyfriend, Tagawa. Shoko learned from her nurse that Tagawa is terminal cancer and can only live for 3 months. However, I couldn't tell Tagawa, so I don't know. The hospital says to give up treatment and just go home. She makes a decision because she wants to do something for Tagawa ...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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Overview: Kaori (Nori Sato) runs a small piano studio. One of her students is Yuu (Uwa Ishibashi). On the way from a recital, Kaori is sexually assaulted by Yuu's father (Kentaro Furuyama). Kaori later learns Yuu has also been sexually abused by her father. Kaori and Yuu share each other's pain and eventually Kaori decides to fulfill Yuu's wish.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-11
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Overview: The yakuza have their best days behind them and are only a shadow of themselves. The old rituals seem out of date and their tattoos make them outcasts of society. The inexperienced student Ryō stumbles into their ranks by chance, and before he knows it, he becomes entangled in dark machinations. He quickly succumbs to the fascination of omnipotence fantasies and hedonistic decadence and sinks deeper and deeper into a parallel world of prostitution, blackmail and violence. However, there is one thing that Ryō has not considered in his naivety: once yakuza, always yakuza!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-21
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Overview: After attempting to meet someone new on a dating website, Chihiro starts talking to Makoto, who is asking around about a string of suicides. She agrees to meet with him, as she knew one of the girls that recently passed. After the two begin to connect a bit, Makoto gets an e-mail from Chihiro, saying she doesn't see a purpose to continue living.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-02-02
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Overview: Documentary director Yuko portrays a school violence incident from three years ago that resulted in suicides, while she was teaching classes at her father’s cram school. As her documentary project progresses, Yuko discovers a hidden truth and becomes deeply involved in the lives of the families pained by that secret truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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Overview: Japanese pink film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-28
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Overview: Elementary school boy Hiroto doesn’t have any talents or dreams for the future. One day he sees a wrestling match by popular masked wrestler Dynamite Wolf, and for the first time becomes enthusiastic. He decides to ask Dynamite Wolf to teach him how to fight. Meanwhile, Dynamite Wolf’s foray into politics has become big news… This energetic coming-of-age drama is the first entertainment film by a director who has worked on self-documentaries and POV horror. The star is Kawase Yota from “Rolling” by TOMINAGA Masanori. With strong support from Dotonbori Pro Wrestling, a match scene was shot with 200 extras, taking “Dynamite Wolf” beyond the realm of a typical low-budget movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-16
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-28
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Overview: Older brother Kenichi and younger brother Takashi had not seen each other for a while, but they meet at their estranged father's funeral. The father had moved to a small town and remarried and has a daughter, who is supposed to be their half-sister. Her whereabouts are unknown, as she left home at a very young age. One of the brothers mistakenly meets her, under very strange and disturbing circumstances...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-27
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Overview: Junichi is a drug dealer who has no place in society and wanders the streets. The only thing that makes him feel alive is running and sex. Kumiko is raped by the misanthropic Junichi, but for some reason she is attracted to him and falls in love with him. However, after being chased by the detectives, Junichi disappears from Kumiko's life and starts working at a factory in the town where she washed up...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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Overview: One of the 2nd season of "Love & Eros CINEMA COLLECTION" where various directors draw their love stories on the theme of sexuality and love. Starring Kurumi Morishita, a former popular AV actress, she depicts the mysterious experience of an old woman. Yuka, who lost her husband Kozo in a car accident shortly after getting married, loses her age due to the shock. Her daughter, Ayaka, has grown up to be nearly 30 years old, but Yuka's appearance remains almost the same as Ayaka's. One day, Yuka takes care of a woman named Emi who was drunk on the roadside, and Emi gives her a spell to thank her. The next day, Yuka finds an unfamiliar door in the basement of the library where she works, and meets Kozo, who died 30 years ago, at the door.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-08
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Overview: Yasuko and Shizuka, friends and coworkers, come to be so much more after a terrible incident involving Shizuka’s boyfriend. After an intense fight that left Shizuka with a black eye, she takes her revenge by bludgeoning her boyfriend in the head, leaving his lifeless body on the bathroom floor. Yasuko pledges her support to Shizuka and tells her its all going to be ok, and that she will help take care of the body. The two women share a bed while staying with Yasuko’s sister, and things start to get hot and heavy.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-28
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Overview: Satoko, a married woman who repeats flings using a dating site using her mobile phone. One day, she meets Atsushi, a designer blinded by an accident, and suddenly begins to take care of him and love grows between them.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-08
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-26
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-04-10
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-28
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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Overview: A high-school girl who lives in a rural town in Japan struggles to define her own way in life. To help her impoverished family she works as a video fetish performer which leads to problems for her and her family with a criminal underworld.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-23
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Overview: Aimi, a mistress who never talks to customers. Although her appearance and play content have been well received, she continues to be cut off from the store due to his unfriendliness, and she is changing stores. One day, Aimi was cut off again and decided to live in an accident property with a shared toilet without a bath, which has a low rent. Aimi, who became a town, meets Kaoru, who sells a mysterious "Shishu", and Eguchi, a theoretical physicist who talks about parallel worlds, deepens exchanges, and has a mysterious experience in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-17
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Overview: Fashion model Haruka is faints during the shoot due to food restrictions. On the way back, she hears the voice of the butcher Anharu with whom, she realises, she shares the gift of telepathy. Haruka is frightened but she gradually resolves the situation with Anharu. Haruka and Anharu, both of whom are married. eventually grow closer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-29
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Overview: Set in 1945 at the end of World War II. Saku arrives on Kakeromajima as the head of navy special forces. He is admired by the children on the island and he is interested in learning the island song as well as drinking with his men. Toe is an elementary school teacher on Kakeromajima and she has feelings for Saku.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-29
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-09
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Overview: A couple become unwilling accomplices in sex and murder.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-02
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Overview: Naho repeatedly enters hotels with random men and kills them before having sex with them. A man, Manabu, stays with her and performs piercings on her breasts. One day, Naho invites a middle-aged man to a hotel as usual and tries to kill him, but ends up failing to do so.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-26
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Overview: Tomomi applies make-up in the shadow of the company. There was a sexy mole around his eyes. Tomomi stood on the street corner to repay the debt from the dark money and was attracting customers. And every time the act was over, the customer had him write a mole on his body. And the mole of that commandment surely increased ... On the other hand, Yui, a single mother who works at the same company, cheered on her own painful life while knowing Tomomi's behavior. The president's son, who noticed these two people, flickered Yui's head and called him to the conference room to devour his body. Then, in order to reveal Tomomi's back face, she approaches Yui ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-23
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Overview: Shinji Imaoka, the director of “Waiting for you,” starred Ayane Suzukawa, a popular sexy idol, and a unique sensual drama depicting the struggle of a woman whose husband was kidnapped by a giant Tsuchinoko. The couple, Ichiro and Sonoko, are attacked by a human-sized Tsuchinoko in the mountains, and only Ichiro is taken away. Sonoko rescued by Tsuchinoko Hunter Kurikoma descends alone, but Ichiro's colleague Segawa cannot believe Sonoko's story. Eventually Sonoko goes to find the giant Tsuchinoko's den again to meet Ichiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-27
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Overview: Momoko is nervous but enthusiastic about joining the movie company she has longed for. However, she was late from the first day and was struck by Reiko, a female employee who is famous for her talent. On the other hand, the president liked Momoko and took care of it. But it was an adult filmmaking company! Although she was worried about the gap with the company she had envisioned, she was excited to have her seniors teach her work, and she was further exposed to the passion of the people involved and grew up every day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-21
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Overview: A 40 year old shut-in who lives with his mom runs away from home and meets interesting people.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-26
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Overview: Aya Mitsuru, a magazine writer who is worried about her work being ridiculed by her cohabiting boyfriend, Hajime Otsuka. After having sexual intercourse with Aya, Hajime Kuzu goes out to the city at night. One day, Aya finds out that Hajime goes to a sex shop and goes to see his favorite sex shop, Karen Shinohara, pretending to be an interviewer. Aya hits off with Karen and makes a plan to discipline Hajime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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Overview: A girl became an adult at the Akemi bar. Having been kicked out by her family and lacking a social circle, a girl walks alone in the city. A wife and a husband who are bar owners take her under their wings just as if she is one of their own. This girl offers her wiles and love to customers. The regular customers of the bar like her, which helps her gain confidence and have hope again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-14
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Overview: Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by the government, with the intention of re-socialising them. Aside from the few who know about the project, the general townsfolk has no idea of the former convicts' identities. Tsukisue is the pleasant and efficient municipal official put in charge of the programme. As he slowly learns about their past, a body is discovered.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-03
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Overview: In 2030, AI is everywhere including the medical field, finance and security. Artificial intelligence has become essential in people's lives. They have come to completely trust AI, but artificial intelligence becomes out of control and it causes disaster.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-31
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Overview: An omnibus recorded in a short film by five film directors with the motif of the song "Kai Band".
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-28
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Overview: Those who want to die seek refuge in a mysterious café in this feverishly strange Japanese debut.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-17
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Overview: What is life like at a Japanese university? Four "friends" drift in and out of their friendships and face boredom, uncertainty and disengagement. And something more dangerous.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-21
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Overview: Asakura Kotomi's last film serves as her official farewell and was partly filmed as the adult star's send-off. A woman was a regular office lady when she had an affair with her boss. She quit her job however and subsequently met an old friend. She was connected to a new position being a counselor as a result. She would counsel men at the customers' houses. Clients are men who have no friends or families and suffer from sexual dysfunctions. She proved to be helpful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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Overview: Nami Matsushima is used as a spy by her first real boyfriend, a police detective named Sugimi, to investigate a drug smuggling ring. However, her role is discovered and she is raped by several drug dealers. It emerges that Sugimi was simply using Matsushima as a pretext to obtain a bribe from the Yakuza. Seeking revenge, Matsushima makes a failed attempt to stab Sugimi on the steps of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police headquarters. She is sentenced to do hard time in a women's prison, where she is given the number 701.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-30
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Overview: A short film by Daichi Watanabe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-01
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Overview: A heartbreaking love story of a man who falls in love with a woman who, due to certain circumstances, has an affair lasting only one month.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-01
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Overview: Rumi, married into a farming family, grows increasingly frustrated with her husband's lack of interest in their nighttime intimacy. Her only escape is karaoke nights with her fellow farmer wives at a local snack bar. One day, she learns that an elderly couple she met at the bar is on the verge of falling victim to a phone scam. Determined to stop the fraudsters, Rumi takes action to bring them down.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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Overview: An fantastic anthology made by Katsuya Tomita, Masanori Tominaga and Tetsuya Mariko for the 4th Okinawa International Movie Festival in 2012.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-09
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Overview: Syo and Han, colleagues, are out enjoying a relaxing day fishing, when they happen upon Mayumi and Misako, a very attractive young woman and her mother. Mayumi suddently faints, and the two men rush over to help. Her mother explains that she is very ill and only has months to live. Han invites them back to his place to rest. Mayumi and Han clearly are attracted to each other, and after a specific request from Misako, they sleep together. Things are about to take a turn from intriguing to weird, and even frightening, as Mayumi and her mother are not what they seem. A classic Pink love/horror story!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Overview: Kawai Joji, an aspiring screenwriter who has won a screenplay competition but has yet to make his professional debut, meets a beautiful woman, Naomi, in a rundown bar one day. Naomi says she is working at the bar while aiming to become an actress. On another day, Joji is asked by his screenplay instructor if he would like to write a screenplay for a film based on Tanizaki Junichiro's "A Fool's Love" on his behalf. Joji is determined to succeed this time, but struggles to write the script. Meanwhile, Joji meets Naomi again, and the two of them quickly become closer, but...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-29
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Overview: Follows the final days of left-wing terrorist Satoshi Kirishima, who died in 2024 after evading capture for 49 years.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-03-15
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Overview: Izumi had just lost her husband Nishimura. Nishimura had fallen down the stairs while drunk. One day, she found a tape with a woman's voice among his belongings. Izumi suspected it was evidence of an affair. A few days later, Izumi met Nishimura's friend Fujii and played the tape for him, asking if he knew who Nishimura was having an affair with. Fujii said he had no idea who the voice was, so it wasn't necessarily an affair. However, Izumi suspected that Nishimura had whistled the same tune as the woman on the tape, and that he thought she was a boring woman compared to that woman. Fujii took the tape and said he would dispose of it. One day, when Izumi returned home from shopping, Ayaka, who she had passed in the hallway of the apartment building, was whistling the tune. That night, Izumi had a nightmare in which Nishimura and Ayaka were making love. The next day, Izumi approaches Fujii, wanting to get revenge on Nishimura for betraying her.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-25
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Overview: Anata wo matteimasu is a feature-film comedy directed by Shinji Imaoka (Underwater Love, Uncle’s Paradise, Frog Song, Lunchbox, The Woman of Shinjuku).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-24
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Overview: A photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of the world through a cardboard box placed over his head.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-08-23
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Overview: The “ultimate love” that aims at “tolerance” and “symbiosis” will be sublimated and ask questions to the chaotic society of today.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-01
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Overview: The grudge of a girl who committed suicide after being betrayed by her friends and having her virginity taken away from her attacks sex traffickers one after the other in this erotic horror film.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-22
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