Gin Pun Chou
Also Known As: Teruko Yoshida, 吉田輝子, Guin Poon Chaw, Ginpun Chou, Gin-chan, Ginpuncho, Guin-Poon-Chaw, Yoshida Teruko
Biography: Gin Pun Chou (means Silver Butterfly), whose real name is Yoshida Teruko is a Japanese actress, she also did a lot of acting, starting in 1981 in the company of her husband Yorozu Ikuta (who is also a writer). She owns her own television show "The Tetsuko Room" on TV Asahi.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: May 13, 1952
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Female
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巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
Overview: An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsubei discovers the body of a man whose face has been crushed and his fingerprints erased. Tetsubei describes the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the body, including his own theory, and is angered by Lieutenant Yukari. That night, Tetsubei visits the shop of Kanako, whom he has a secret crush on. There, Mizutani, Kanako's husband, who has been missing for seven years, appears.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-05
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The Pretenders
Overview: It depicts two high school girls trying to change the atmosphere of the world with their ideas by setting up a camera in the town and transmitting the footage via SNS.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-16
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The World Laughs
Overview: This is a human drama written by Keralino Sandorovich showcasing people fascinated with and obsessed with laughter in Shinjuku in the mid-1950s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-07
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The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
Overview: Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself and his senile grandmother — whose intersecting lives yield both sorrow and a fragile, yet enduring, hope for a brighter future. (TIFF)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-09
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Honey and Clover
Overview: Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-22
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Another
Overview: After a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara turns to a mysterious girl who holds the key to the dark mystery.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-04
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Sunflower
Overview: Reunited by the death of a friend, a group of former schoolmates reassess themselves and their earlier times together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-29
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What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
Overview: A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.
Genres: Comedy Drama Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-02-04
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I’m Glad to Be Alive
Overview: Professional boxer Sota Kusunoki has gained popularity for his fighting style, where he goes headlong into his opponents. However, years of fighting have taken their toll on his body, and he is forced to retire by a doctor's stoppage. He takes the opportunity of his retirement to marry his girlfriend, Sachiko, and start a new life, but he is completely useless in society and is made acutely aware of the harsh reality of his situation. One day, a mysterious man who claims to be a fan of Sota's receives an offer to fight in an underground martial arts tournament, where he will fight for a large sum of money and where his desires are thriving... The prospect of fighting once again revives his almost forgotten excitement, and his adrenaline surges as if to fill the emptiness in him. Will the madness and honesty of a man obsessed with fighting have a happy ending or a bad one?
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-13
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Filament
Overview: Due to his short fuse, Kyota is never able to hold a job for very long. Instead, he wastes his days with his dead-beat friends, Takuji and Ringo. Meanwhile his father is a cross-dresser, and his little sister Akemi is a dangerous sleepwalker who is trying to divorce her dangerous yakuza husband. When their mother returns after abandoning them 10 years earlier, Kyota lashes out. But as their dysfunctional life together begins, something happens that changes this family's destiny forever.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-03-22
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Worlds Apart
Overview: Makio Kōdai is a shy 35-year-old woman. She works as a novelist. One day, her sibling and her sibling's married partner die in a car accident. Makio Kōdai attends their funeral and meets her 15-year-old niece Asa Takumi, who is now left alone due to her parents’ death. The other relatives at the funeral speak insensitive words around Asa Takumi. Makio Kōdai gets furious at them and decides to take in her niece. Makio Kōdai, who has problems having relationships with other people, and Asa Takumi now begin to live together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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狩矢警部シリーズ 特別編「京舞妓VS狩矢警部〜乱れ傘の舞殺人事件」
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-25
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My Uncle
Overview: Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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Human Scramble: Rain
Overview: Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-05
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The Island of Cats
Overview: Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on the small island and enjoys relaxing days with his childhood friends including Iwao and his cat Tama. Daikichi has a son Tsuyoshi who lives in Tokyo. Tsuyoshi worries a bit about his father living alone on the island, but Daikichi is content with his life. After his close friend passes away, Daikichi worries about his physical condition. His daily life begins to change. Based on manga series "Neko to Jiichan"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-22
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Night's Tightrope
Overview: Yuki is a 2nd year high school student. She volunteers at a paediatrics ward for her summer vacation, because she wants to witness the moment a person dies. She got that thought after feeling envious of a transfer student's story of seeing a friend's dead body. Yuki has friend named Atsuko. She was bullied in the past and has anxiety issues. She volunteers at a nursing home for her summer vacation, hoping that she will gain courage if she sees the moment a person dies.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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Asura Girl: A Blood-C Tale
Overview: In prewar Japan under the military regime, a bloody battle between the extremely oppressive Special Higher Police and villagers begins!
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-26
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Ryuji
Overview: Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy money, it's a difficult transition.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-29
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The Cinderella Addiction
Overview: Fukuura Koharu works at a child welfare office and plunges into despair overnight. Then she meets Daigo, a private-practice doctor raising his 8-year-old daughter on his own. She resolves to build a happy household, but things don't go as expected.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-05
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Aristocrats
Overview: Hanako Haibara was born and raised in the city of Tokyo. After she gets dumped by her boyfriend, while in her late 20's, she goes on blind dates to find a man to marry. Miki Tokioka was born in a province. She studied very hard and entered a prestigious university in Tokyo. She experienced difficult financial times, but she now works at an IT company. Due to a man, Hanako Haibara and Miki Tokioka meet each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-26
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Ao to Shiro de Mizuiro
Overview: Uchiyama Kaede and Shiina Kasumi used to be best friends. Now in high school, Kasumi grew more popular than Kaede, which has led her to continually bully her ex-best friend. One day after school, Kaede meets Kishida Takumi, a bike thief who's especially talented in picking locks. She asks him for a favour: if he could possibly open the key to the school roof. Meanwhile, the arrival of a new teacher seems to bring changes to the school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-01
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Megumi no Sekai
Overview: A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is questioned.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-19
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People Without a Fort
Overview: After female high school student Furuya Meiko is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide, police investigate and discover that she was involved in prostitution. The night before Meiko's death, her secret job was exposed and broadcasted to the public by well-known journalist Nagasaka Fumio on a very popular news program. Filled with anger and confusion, her boyfriend, Yahiro Kiichiro vows to get revenge on Nagasaka.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-07-08
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