Jun Miho
Also Known As: 美保纯, みほ じゅん, جون میهو
Biography: Jun Miho (美保 純, Miho Jun, born 4 August 1960) is a Japanese actress. She is affiliated with Knockout. Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1960. In 1982, she won the Blue Ribbon Newcomer Award and the Golden Arrow Graph Award for her role in "Pink Curtain." The following year, she won the Japan Academy Prize for Newcomer of the Year. Since then, she has been active in dramas and variety shows. In 1987, she won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Supporting Actress. Her main appearances include the "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" series and "Kikujiro to Saki." Recently, she has been pursuing the expression of her own unique worldview by working on writing and film production. She is a great actress who is highly valued in the Japanese film industry for her wide range of acting, from playing the criminal in a two-hour suspense drama to playing the mother.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
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Kanei Chronicles
Overview: From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of swords. But behind the match a bloodthirsty plot is born. Tokugawa Yorinobu, a corrupt shogunate official plans to assassinate Shogun Iemitsu and take his place. With scheming samurai Yui Shosetsu and ruthless Negoro ninja leader Genyusai, he plans to incite a ronin uprising and cut a bloody trail across Japan, with terrifying Chinese gunboats to back his play. Matsudaira Izu-no-kami, councilor and friend to the shogun, along with master swordsman Yagyu Jubei and ninja master Hanzo Hattori must stop Yui Shosetsu and his army of ronin and ninja assassins from tearing the country in half and taking over the government!
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-19
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A Crowd of Three
Overview: A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a children's facility. Kenta & Jun now works as part of a demolition crew but become fed up with their jobs. The friends then decide to take a road trip up north to visit Kenta's brother at the Abashiri prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-12
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Karaoke
Overview: Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior high school reunion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-06-12
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Mobius Villain: The Red Room
Overview: Rampo Adaptaton released in 2020
Genres: Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-04-21
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Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
Overview: There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He has his son and daughter in tow and works hard for them. The folk in the area try to help. A couple of years pass and the older son moves back to Tokyo, attends school and works part-time. The daughter commutes to the city to attend school. She wants to become a nurse. To become a registered nurse she needs to study a further three years. This takes money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-22
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Ninja Wars
Overview: A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with those vying for power, particularly the insatiably greedy Lord Donjo. Only the ninja Jotaro can stop Donjo's plan, but to do so, he must first battle the deadly team of "Devil Monks" serving the lord. Will Jotaro succeed in his mission? And if so, will Ukio marry him, thus making him the ruler of the world?
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-12-18
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The Young Blood Typhoon
Overview: On the way home from a small assault incident at a love hotel in Tokyo, Shuntaro Katagiri playfully entered the love hotel with his friend Iwanaka. When I fell asleep, I screamed and screamed from the room. Katagiri, who was full of blood, jumped out of the room after hearing the noise. A running girl, a bloody man, and a muscle man, a yakuza, a mysterious woman. The corridor of the hotel turned into a shambles for a moment, but Katagiri, a karate master, he slammed the place and he broke it. A strange space-This was his first encounter with the girl
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-13
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Haru's Journey
Overview: Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-22
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The Cold-Hearted Sea
Overview: A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Hiroshi Hatayama (畑山博).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-11-17
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Pink Curtain 3
Overview: Cohabitating brother and sister continue their relationships with their lovers from the first two chapters with more teasing of “will they or won’t they”. The third in the "Pink Curtain" series by George Akiyama, which depicts a forbidden love with the power and delicacy of the previous films!
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-25
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My name is Reiko Shiratori! The Movie
Overview: Reiko and Tetsuya continue to live together. Reiko, who was informed by Kyoko that she was engaged to Takada, pretended not to be interested in her marriage, but in her heart, she wanted to marry Tetsuya. Tetsuya, unable to see through Reiko's true feelings, replies, "We shouldn't think about marriage until we're both adults and can live on our own." Meanwhile, Reiko's father, Shotaro, is stricken with cancer and receives a call that he has six months to live. In order to fulfill her father's wish, "I wanted to see Reiko as a bride while I was still alive," Reiko asked Tetsuya to marry him, and Tetsuya hesitated but accepted. However, Shotaro's doctor informs him that the cancer was misdiagnosed. While Reiko is relieved, she does not want to cancel her marriage to Tetsuya, so she proceeds with her wedding preparations without informing the people around her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-19
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Overview: Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-28
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天使と悪魔の美女 江戸川乱歩の「白昼夢」
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Roadside Fugitive
Overview: 'Roadside Fugitive' follows Mighty's non-successful story after '8,000 Miles 1,' at the end of which he parts company with Ikku and Tom, members of his hip hop group, 'Sho-Gung,' and leaves for Tokyo. Will Mighty be able to keep faith in the tiny little soul burning somewhere inside him?
Genres: Drama Crime Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-14
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Kōgen ni ressha ga hashitta
Overview: At a certain high school in Karuizawa, students relied on ordinary local trains for their commute, but with only seven trains running per day, missing one meant spending two or three hours killing time in town. This sparse train schedule on the Shinetsu Main Line
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-29
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Pink Curtain 2
Overview: The second film in the series of a brother and sister and their messy relationship with each other and old lovers. This time, will they or won’t they?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-29
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Missing
Overview: A girl vanishes while walking, leaving her family devastated. As months pass without clues, rumors about her mother's actions intensify online, straining her marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-17
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Porno document: Toruko tokkyû bin
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-02-26
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Orange Examination Room
Overview: A young and beautiful doctor, Maki, comes into the consulting room of a trading company and gets the office excited. Maki receives a lot of unprofessional sex consultations and medical examinations. One day, Maki meets Nakai, the Human Resources manager she has admired for some time, in a bar...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-11-28
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Young Girls' Holding Cell
Overview: An obscure lesser known Nikkatsu Roman Porno Movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-03-26
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Solanin
Overview: Meiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have his band become professional.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-03
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Go Heat Man!
Overview: 17 year old Tokyo pizza delivery boy Kosuke crashes his bike into photographer Reiko and breaks her expensive camera. He promises to deliver homemade pizza to make up for her broken camera. After discovering that Reiko has moved 1,200 km away to her hometown of Nagasaki things become trickier, but Kosuke decides to fulfill his promise anyways by borrowing a moped from his workplace.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-06
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Master Swordsman Hirate Miki - Duel in Tone
Overview: Zoushu Hirate was the acting master of Chibashusaku Dojo in the Hokushinitto style. His wife was dead and had drunk a lot every day. For the sake of money for alcohol, he chased Kanji Amakasa who killed an office worker of Daikansho. While, Kanji hid in the house of Shigekura Sasagawa in a town along the Tone River. Sasagawa family was looking for a good swordsman for the coming fight with the Iioka family.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-17
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Wet Kimono
Overview: In the early Showa period, a young woman named Asako drifts into a certain red light district. She appears in a white dress, straw hat, and white parasol, which is out of place in this area, but what kind of past does she have, and what are her feelings as she drifts there?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-12
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Amachan
Overview: Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-01
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Disregarded People
Overview: Young man, Yusuke Mamiana, fed up with his life meats a unattractive ugly girl, Kyoko, at his hometown. Out of his impulsive desire, he had a relationship by nearly raping her. They started to live together and gradually feel 'Family' attachment in each other. As time passes, Yusuke starts to think more about 'Happiness' of his family and himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-20
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Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Miss Hokusai
Overview: A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.
Genres: Animation Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-09
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The Mohican Comes Home
Overview: Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but failed. Several years later, Eikichi goes home to tell his father, Osamu, that his girlfriend is pregnant. His father curses him out, but he is also excited to have a grandchild. Osamu has a party to celebrate the news, but, at the party, he collapses and goes to the hospital. Eikichi struggles to make his father happy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-09
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The Notorious Bored Samurai 9
Overview: The one who hurriedly ascended the castle upon hearing news of Shogun Tsunayoshi's illness was Saotome Mondonosuke. However, instead of an illness, he was prompted to consider a marriage proposal with Yaehime, a daughter of the Date clan. Yet, this was merely a pretext, as he was requested to investigate the truth behind the rumors of rebellion within the Date clan. Mondonosuke, who took on this task to stave off boredom, accompanied by his retainer Kinai, departed for Mutsu, following the procession of Yaehime returning to her home province. However, remnants of the Toyotomi faction, already plotting the overthrow of the shogunate, had gathered under Kii Koya Bunzaemon…
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-03
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Tomorrow in the Finder
Overview: Takeharu Samejima is a reticent photographer who runs a deserted photo studio. Taiichi Igarashi, a talented photographer captivated by his photos, gives up his brilliant career to become his apprentice. Taiichi, who has even avoided communication with his family, cannot hide his ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Overview: In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-04
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Weekend Shuffle
Overview: First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-23
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Pink Curtain
Overview: Okuyama is a stocker at the supermarket who has no luck with women. His life is thrown upside down when his sister Noriko unexpectedly moves into his small apartment. Okuyama is overcome with lustful thoughts for her, but she regards him simply as a brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-07-23
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北の国から ’95秘密 後編
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-10
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Nurse Diary: Beast Afternoon
Overview: A doctor develops a new scientific breakthrough in female psychotherapy with the discovery of the “Dream Ring,” a device that is inserted into a woman to record her thoughts and dreams. But, one dark and stormy night, the doctor and his assistant end up dead… hanging by ropes from the rafters of their lab. The lovely Reiko suffers from a condition known as “genophobia” (the fear of sexual intercourse), so she is admitted to the Tachibana Clinic for observation. Another group of doctors have the “Dream Ring” device and use it on Reiko to analyze her wildly erotic, and violent, dreams and nightmares. The clinic doctors have more sinister reasons to test this device on Reiko, however, and secretly put her under hypnosis so that the ring is activated at any time she hears the sound of a bell. Can she escape the evil doctors’ experiment and, even if she does, who is that strange person, dressed all in black, following her around?
Genres: Crime Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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Fatal Frame
Overview: High school student Aya Tsukimori becomes cursed and is unable to leave her school dormitory. Meanwhile, many students begin reporting ghost sightings at the school, while others go missing and are later discovered to have drowned mysteriously. Soon, Aya attempts to communicate with fellow student Michi Kazato, who begins investigating the disappearances of her friends.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-09-26
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Location
Overview: The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-22
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A Living Promise
Overview: Yuma Nakahara is the CEO of an IT company and he is a workaholic. He is focused only on expanding his company. He receives a phone call from his former co-worker and friend Kouhei, but Kouhei doesn't say anything. Yuma gets the sense that something is wrong and heads to Kouhei's hometown of Shinminato, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. In Shinminato, Yuma meets other people and becomes involved in the Shinminato Hikiyama Festival. His outlook on life begins to change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-09
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Maiko monogatari
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-11
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Poetry Angel
Overview: After Tsutomu Tamaki graduated from high school, he has worked at his family farm and raises ume (plum). He becomes interested in a class for “poetry boxing” and decides to take the class. There, he meets a female high school student who has her own problem.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-20
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Sure Death 6
Overview: When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play. She recruits the services of an assassin, who by chance encounters an old friend...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-25
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Our Wedding
Overview: On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. The attacker is thought to be an ex-girlfriend of Tsutomu, the groom. He gives two names to the police but these two are still alive. But there is still one woman in Tsutomu's mind...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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Black Dahlia
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Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-20
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Goodbye, Grandpa!
Overview: A 20 something girl Yoshiko is having sex with her boyfriend when a shocking telephone call arrives - grandpa has passed away. The lightning from clear sky doesnt derail only the life of Yoshiko but summons the rest of the dysfunctional Haruno family to the ancenstral country house to pay their respects to the deceased - and unleash their quarrels between themselves and with the world at large.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-29
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L・O・V・I・N・G
Overview: Murder case.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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I Will Never Forgive
Overview: A psychological drama about the consequences of a 15 year old girl's gang rape.
Genres: Drama Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-07
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Uniform Virgin Pain
Overview: After school two virginal high school girls, Mari and Emi, decide to visit a disco club in the red light district. While Mari is dancing to the beat Emi is picked up by two men and sexually assaulted. The next day the two men try to force Emi into prostitution. When Mari finds out what happened to her best friend she burns with revenge… and conceals a razor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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Seicho Matsumoto Drama Special: Face
Overview: Based on a short story by Seichi Matsumoto from 1956 and remake from the 1957 movie of the same name, the story is about an actor who has the opportunity to become a success but 9 years earlier, he had killed a woman with whom he was involved and there was an eyewitness to the murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-29
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Koichiro Uno's Wet and Riding
Overview: Yoko is a housewife who's frustrated by her husband's lack of virility. She finds solace in erotic daydreams, the ministrations of a condom salesman and, eventually, the partner-swapping lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-08
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Kasha
Overview: Shunsuke Honma is a detective from the #1 investigation team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Shunsuke takes a leave from work due to an injury. One day, his relative comes to see him and asks him if he can find his missing fiance Akiko Sekine. Shunsuke takes on the job and enlists the help of Detective Sadao Ikari. The detectives soon uncover the shocking truth behind the missing woman.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-05
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
Overview: The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo, Tora-san’s nephew, who runs into Izumi, his first love, whom he had once promised to marry. The familiar faces of Kurumaya Cafe, which Tora-san’s family ran in Shibamata, also return. Catching up with old friends, it is always their dearest memories of Tora-san which everyone shares on such occasions…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-12-27
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For Him to Live
Overview: Child welfare services take Hiiro away from her parents when they suspect she's being abused. This is a film about family bonds, focusing on society's underbelly through issues like neglect and child abuse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-13
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Yuriko's Aroma
Overview: 30 something year old Yuriko (Noriko Eguchi) works as a aromatherapist at an aroma salon. She uses essentials oils and her hands to soothe her client’s inner well-being. Yuriko also has a secret she can’t tell anyone; She gets incredibly turned on by the sweaty scent of a 17 year old high school student named Tetsuya (Shota Someya). Tetsuya is also the nephew of the salon owner (Jun Miho). Meanwhile, salon client Ayama (Saori Hara) asks to practice aromatherapy, but her real intent is to press her large breasts against Yuriko.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-08
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Kita no kuni kara '87 Hatsukoi
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-03-27
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Lost Serenade
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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Oh! Takarazuka
Overview: Takarazuka is a gym teacher who wants to work in a girls high school in the worst way, and of course, for the worst reasons. He finally lands his dream job on a remote island with an overabundance of beautiful and nubile young girls. Can he win their hearts despite his hair trigger problem?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-12-24
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Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Overview: Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-02
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
Overview: Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and attempts to bring her back to her home. In doing so he encounters a school-reunion group who are traveling to meet their elementary school teacher, which is a reference to the film Twenty-Four Eyes by Keisuke Kinoshita. Tora-san joins them and falls in love with the teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-28
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
Overview: In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-03
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Overview: During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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Tora-san Goes North
Overview: When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-15
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
Overview: A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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Baian the Assassin
Overview: Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, his nighttime persona is that of a highly skilled assassin. For money, he eliminates those whose existence is considered harmful, quietly disposing of them. One night, Baian is mistaken for another doctor by the young swordsman Kosugi Jūgorō and is attacked. He manages to avoid harm, but the doctor Kosugi originally intended to target is connected to the assassination target assigned by Baian’s boss, Hanzaemon Otowa. Baian and his companion Hikojiro begin investigating their target, Chōbei Izuyaya, the owner of a candle shop...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Overview: Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, at night, he is a highly skilled assassin, taking on contracts to quietly eliminate those whose existence is deemed toxic to society. Baian's latest target, assigned by his boss Otowa, is Shirakoya Kikuemon, the head of a powerful organization in Osaka. In the past, Baian had been indebted to Shirakoya, but due to a conflict involving the swordsman Kosugi Jūgorō, their relationship has turned adversarial. After his lover is abducted, Shirakoya storms into Edo. With his life now targeted, Baian resolves to confront Shirakoya in a desperate final showdown.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-06
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星砂の島のちいさな天使 〜マーメイドスマイル〜
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-19
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Forensic Classroom Case File #43
Overview: The mystery of a corpse that suddenly kisses? A female doctor's son is suspected of murder ... Nail patterns and unsolidified blood reveal a perfect crime. When Aisuke, the son of forensic scientist Saki Ninomiya and a newspaper reporter, was interviewing the president of a building management company and his eldest son at a glass-walled cafe, a young woman who approached the store suddenly collapses and died...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-29
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The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Overview: Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi Tournament. At the age of 26, his dream of becoming a professional shogi player collapses due to an age restriction. After he quits playing shogi, he becomes desperate. With the support of his peers, including Yuya Suzuki, and his love of shogi, Shoji Segawa begins to play shogi again. A miracle happens to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-07
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The Boy and the Dog
Overview: New Takahisa Zeze movie, adaptation of the book "Shonen to Inu." To be released in Spring 2025.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-03-20
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Kazu no Fūkei
Overview: Suspense TV movie based on the novel by Seicho Matsumoto, starring Ikko Furuya.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-30
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Amazing Grace
Overview: "Jonan City" is a rural town in the Kanto region. There were five young men who grew up in this small town. Katagiri Ren, Miyagi Taisei, Fujita Hideto, Takasaki Shinya, and Obayashi Yusuke. They were the 26th generation members of the Jonan Ikka biker gang, which has a long history in this town. They were known to the public as "delinquent". But above all else, these 18-year-old boys were bound together by a strong bond. Their way of life shone with the greatest brilliance, brandishing the "now" as their everything, their excess energy, and the crosses in their hearts that they could not bear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-13
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