Hideko Hara
Also Known As: Noriko Watanabe, はら ひでこ, 原 日出子, 原日 出子, 하라 히데코
Biography: Hara Hideko, born as Noriko Watanabe, is a Japanese actress and voice actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: November 10, 1959
Adult: No
Gender: Female
TMDb-Id: 109662
IMDb-Id: nm0361665
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Known For
Shall We Dance?
Overview: A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-27
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Before the Vigil
Overview: Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. Matsuoi then thinks of his wife's lovers. Matsui goes to those men and informs them of Tatsuya's condition. The other women in the lives of those men are shocked and begin to re-examine their views of their men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-15
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26 Years Diary
Overview: Based on a true story, Shyon (Lee Taesung) travels from Korea to broaden his horizons, studying in Japan he meets Yuri (High and Mighty Color's lead singer, Maakii). Both share similar interests in music and sports as they become closer while dealing with language and racial barriers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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Popran
Overview: Tagami, a once successful manager of a manga distribution has run out of luck and now he must catch a mysterious high-speed fly within 6 days to regain it back.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-14
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We Couldn't Become Adults
Overview: Prodded by a friend request, a feckless forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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Catch Up
Overview: An investigation into the obsession of a former detective the loser of life!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-07-10
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Uchū no natsu
Overview: After losing her parents, Kanako moves in with her grandmother in a town by the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-04
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Not Quite Dead Yet
Overview: After Nanase's father drops dead due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days, she is named the president of his pharmaceutical company. Nanase endeavors to prevent her father's enemies from prematurely cremating his body before the drug can wear off and allow him to revive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-20
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The Last 10 Years
Overview: Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love – until she meets a man named Kazuto Manabe at a school reunion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-04
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P. P. Rider
Overview: Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-11
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Overview: Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-10
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In the Wake
Overview: Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence for another crime, and he surfaces as a suspect but detective Tomashiro can't nail down conclusive proof.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-01
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According to Our Butler
Overview: Master Kaei, the heir to the affluent and well-regarded Karasuma family, is back at home in Japan after a period of studying in the United Kingdom. Back at the mansion he has Kisaragi Soma to serve him. Soma is efficient and intelligent beyond his station. There is something unusual afoot and the two men need to counter it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-17
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The Moon
Overview: Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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Great Absence
Overview: It's about the reunion of a long-estranged father and his son amid lost memories and scattered fragments of lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-07-12
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Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze
Overview: An omnibus featuring four stories about the four seasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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A Class to Remember II
Overview: The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-19
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Switch
Overview: Prosecutor Komazuki Nao from the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors Office’s Minato Mirai branch and lawyer Tsutaya Madoka (Matsu Takako) from the law firm Yokohama Gold dated for seven years since the time they were in school. Even after they broke up, they have continued to be hopelessly linked to each other.
Genres: Crime Romance Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-21
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Surely Someday
Overview: Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's upcoming festival. When the festival is abruptly concealed, they come up with a dimwitted strategy of faking a bomb threat to the school in order to force the principal to change his mind. Their plan seems to work at first, but when a real bomb goes off, the group is forced to take responsibility for the explosion and they are kicked out of school. Three years later, more details of the incident is revealed as the youth look back on the past.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-17
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Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-20
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Tulips in October
Overview: Detective Ushio is called in to the murder of an elite heart surgeon, who was stabbed twice at a cluster of vending machines in a parking lot.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-22
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Cheers Heaven
Overview: Teenage girl has to decide if she is capable of being captain of the school's cheerleading squad. Suddenly the team lost the support and inspiration.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-03
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Hogi-Lala
Overview: Set in the near future. Children who are contaminated by radiation poisoning face the fate of being cast into the sea. However, one boy manages to survive and drift to Hogi-Lala Island, where only children live.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-20
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Handling Method for Grumpy Women
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-15
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Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill
Overview: Ataru, who suffers from “savant syndrome,” has the power to discover, observe, see through, and deduct microscopic evidence of unsolved cases. Why does he always go to the criminal sites? What explains his strange behavior? Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds with Ataru and a woman named Madoka, who is a killer. The woman possesses the same extraordinary memory and deductive reasoning abilities as Ataru. Who is she?
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-14
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A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
Overview: A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-26
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The Lonely Olympics
Overview: This is a story about the youth of a university student who, by chance, aims to compete in the Montreal Olympics in a single scull (a single-seater boat). Every night he stays up all night playing mahjong and drinking. Masao lives his life aimlessly, and even the university he got into after failing the entrance exam twice is on the verge of repeating the year. One day, a high school classmate and friend who graduated from Tokyo University and got a job at a top bank is invited to his wedding reception, and Masao is invited as well. However, Masao feels uncomfortable with the glamor of the surroundings, and when Rie, who is also attending, comforts him, he blurts out, half-jokingly, that he might compete in the Olympics.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-20
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A Brief Message from the Heart
Overview: A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-23
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The Boy Who Saw the Wind
Overview: Amon is a boy who can control the wind. Branik, ruler of the Empire of the Golden Snake, wants Amon's power to complete the ultimate weapon and sends his troops to capture the boy. Amon, using his talents, manages to runs away with Maria, one of the People of the Sea. Together, they try to stop the Empire of the Golden Snake from destroying and conquering everything.
Genres: Adventure Family Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-22
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Rage
Overview: A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-17
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Lying to Mom
Overview: Suzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his needs. When she discovers that Koichi has killed himself, the shock is so great she loses consciousness and her memory of that day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
Overview: A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-01
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When a Tree Falls
Overview: A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son’s death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunders by multiple people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-21
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Tomato No Shizuku
Overview: With their hair salon business now on track, longtime couple Sakura and Makoto mull over inviting Sakura's estranged father to their upcoming wedding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-14
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The Greatest Man in the World
Overview: Remake of classic samurai film of 1932
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-25
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Supermarket Woman
Overview: A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-15
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You Were Unknown Then
Overview: Kazumi is a successful music composer in Tokyo. He receives a telephone call from his mother and is told about his former teacher's death. Getting on to a train to attend the funeral, Kazumi’s thoughts wonder back to his youth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-04-01
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Korekara monogatari - Shonen tachi no buruusu
Overview: 片や会社の社長でデザイナー、片やスポーツマンでモデルという道を歩む生まれも育ちも異なる2人の高校生の友情を描く。 One is a designer and company president, the other an athlete and model. Although on different paths in life and from different backgrounds, in high school these two were once good friends. This movie tells the story of their friendship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-18
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Rooftop Apartment
Overview: Asako is determined to live her life with her own will after witnessing her best friend’s divorce and former manager’s death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-21
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My Grandma
Overview: Home-design sales representative Tomohiro lives with his wife and their son. As his job involves houses, it is his motto to take great care of the family who live in the house. However, he has been working so hard that he has forgotten to cherish his own family. When he looks after a client who wants to leave her father-in-law in a nursing home, it reminds him of his grandmother whom he loved so much. Father's death, grandmother's struggle with disease, and home care - those were grueling times, but the memories have become invaluable for Tomohiro. He realizes his family is the most precious thing of all. On a day off, he and his family decide to visit his mother who lives alone in their old hometown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-06
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Town Without Sea
Overview: It is a youth film about the boys in their late teens spend before they become adults. Sho and Tiaga, who grew up in the same neighborhood since they were little, are in their last year of high school. They are also the duo who beat the drums at town festivals. However, Taiga announces that he will not play drums this year to prepare to go to college. Sho, who has no plan of his future, cannot think straight. Like The Blue Bird by Maurice MAETERLINCK, the film tells the story of the youth realizing that happiness is not far away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-12-04
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Suicide Forest Village
Overview: One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-05
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Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 10
Overview: Kyosuke (Masaomi Kondo) and his sister Nobuko (Yoko Moriguchi) were invited to the 10th anniversary party of the travel agency "Pigeon". At that seat, Ayako, the younger sister of President Gentaro, is shot dead. Other venues included Gentaro's brother-in-law, Palau branch manager Kiriyama, secretary manager Anna, and Miyo, who runs a restaurant on Palau Island. A few days later, Nobuko goes on a trip to Palau. She is kidnapped by someone in the field, and Kyosuke and other related parties rush to her. In Palau, there was Toshinosuke, the founder of Pigeon and retired. He was once a detective called "Sakuradamon Demon", but was accused of being arrested 15 years ago and was ousted from the Metropolitan Police Department. It was Kyosuke who proved his innocence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-29
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Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight
Overview: A drama depicting the whereabouts of love between men and women in their 40s, who reunite at an alumni association and begin dating.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-18
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Prison Girl
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-04-18
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Nekonade
Overview: The highly disciplined human resources manager Taro Onizuka starts to heal and change as he raises the kitten he found in a park.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-28
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All the Things We Never Said
Overview: Atsuhisa Yamada is an ordinary man, with a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. He is close to his childhood friend Takeda. One day, Atsuhisa Yamada leaves his office during work hours and goes back home early. There, he witnesses his wife and an unknown man having sex, but Atsuhisa Yamada is unable to express his feelings like anger, frustration, and depression. His relationship with his wife and his friend Takeda becomes distorted.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-03
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Ultraman R/B The Movie: Select! The Crystal of Bond
Overview: The mysterious Ultraman, Tregear, has suddenly appeared in Ayaka City. Tregear asks what one would do to make their dreams come true, prompting Katsumi to search for his own dream. As a monster appears for the first time in a year, Ultraman Blu and Ultraman Rosso are joined by Ultraman Geed to face off against this new threat. Walking towards their dream with the heart of the Minato family in hand, Ultraman Gruebe is born.
Genres: Action Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-08
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Watashi ga watashi de aru tame ni
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-10
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Or Utopia
Overview: Japan, 2024. The Earth is dominated by a mysteriously giant creature (That Thing) and the group of 12 survivors has formed an uneasy community out of necessity to survive Two years later, Hirayama, the hotel owner, is found dead. Is it suicide or murder? As they search for the truth behind his death, the past and the secrets of each individual are revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-16
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Neighbor X
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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Koya no Shomei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-27
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The Fish with One Sleeve
Overview: Hikari, a trans woman, works and lives in Tokyo, but despite being understood by her friend and coworkers, there remains an underlying lack of confidence and feeling of unfulfillment. She makes the decision to contact her high school crush, Takashi, hoping that he will see her for the person she is now.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-10
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Faceless
Overview: Kaburagi was arrested as a suspect in a brutal murder case, but he escapes. He continues to hide and move all around Japan. During this time, he meets Sayaka, Kazuya and Mai. Detective Matanuki is on the trail to capture Kaburagi. He interrogates the people who met Kaburagi, but they all describe Kaburagi differently from each other. Kaburagi has been missing for 488 days. Who really is Kaburagi? What is his plan?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-29
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