Mantaro Koichi
Also Known As: 小市 慢太郎, Koichi Mantaro
Biography: Mantarō Koichi (小市 慢太郎 , Koichi Mantarō), born on February 15, 1969 in Osaka, is a Japanese actor. He occasionally does voice work for anime and TV dramas. He's affiliated with Gekidan M.O.P., an agency that mostly assigns work for live action movies and TV series. His bloodtype is B.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Birthday: February 15, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A Long Goodbye
Overview: Mari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They help prepare their mother for his farewell and prepare themselves for the emotions to follow.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-26
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One Left Hand Shot
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-14
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Concent
Overview: In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are sketchy at best, yet no one has any answers. When she starts having hallucinations involving his ghost, however, she seeks some psychological help, eventually uncovering some things that she may have wished she'd left covered.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-02
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No-Pants Girls: Movie Box-ing2
Overview: No Pants Girls is a 3 segment film directed by Sono Sion, Shô Tsukikawa and Reiko Saito. They deal with girls discovering sexuality, through their innocent eyes. The actors and actresses are the same in the three films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-04
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Neck Bowed in the Rain
Overview: Baijaku Nakamura takes the lead in a film where he has to dodge pursuit from a hostile gang whilst also helping out a family of innocent people who run a noodle store. More importantly, this was one of Ren Osugi’s last films.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-21
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Yatsuhakamura
Overview: During the Sengoku period, villagers brutally killed eight samurai, and in the Taisho era, the head of an old family murdered 32 villagers in the Eight-Tomb Village. Terada Tatsuya, who had long been estranged from the Terada family, returns as its successor. However, this return is the beginning of a tragedy. Grandfather, half-brother, monks, nuns... one after another, people related to the family are murdered. Yet, the truth remains elusive. In the midst of this, Tatsuya stumbles into a massive cave system. What he sees there is a wax figure of the head of the Terada family wearing the samurai armor. Meanwhile, Kindaichi, who has uncovered the secret of Tatsuya's birth, finds himself at the same cave. At that very moment, Tatsuya is cornered deep within the cave by villagers who fear the curse.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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Walking My Life
Overview: A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met for years, to write farewell letters to his family, relatives and friends...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-27
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Pink Subaru
Overview: The Arab-Israeli sushi chef Elzober can finally fulfill his dream: to buy a brand new black Legacy. But the day after the purchase the car is stolen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-04-16
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The Sunday Runoff
Overview: A comedy about how the world of politics really works! Tsutomu is a secretary for a member of the Japanese Parliament. After the latter suffers a heart attack, his daughter Yumi is chosen to fill his place in the next election because she seems easy to control. However, her unpredictable behavior soon throws the campaign out of control.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Overview: In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-20
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A Samurai Chronicle
Overview: A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-04
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Death on Gokumon Island
Overview: Shortly after the end of the war, Kindaichi Kōsuke, visiting a remote island in the Seto Inland Sea, arrives at the powerful Kitō family on the island guided by the monk Ryouzen. There, Kindaichi encounters a beautiful woman named Sanae and encounters three sisters with unconventional and outlandish appearances that don't quite fit the island's atmosphere. And then, one evening, the youngest sister disappears... Kindaichi Kōsuke is rebooted into action!
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-19
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Ai wa mieru: Zenmô fûfu ni yadotta chiisana inochi
Overview: Ueto Aya's is Juri Tatematsu. She's blind like her husband. They give birth to a child, despite fears and opposition from their parents. Raising the child, Juri keeps pushing herself towards her dream of becoming a professional musician. She made her dream come true.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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Piece: Fragments of a Memory
Overview: Kamen Rider OOO stars Shu Watanabe and Ryosuke Miura reunite in the first Toei Hero Next project, a sci-fi mystery about a traumatized former elite reporter named Tomoki Chino and a mysterious photographer with five personalities named Rei as they solve a mystery involving people who turn into stone and die. This case is also related to Tomoki's lover who died three years ago.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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Perfect Blue
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-18
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Karaoke Terror
Overview: One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-08
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Care Nin 2: The Flower in Your Heart
Overview: Kei Omori is a caregiver who has left his previous job at a small-scale care service to come work at a large-scale nursing home. But he is unable to hide his tremendous discomfort with a management style that prioritizes efficiency and risk control in the name of accommodating large numbers of residents. It is under these circumstances that Mieko, an elderly woman living with dementia, moves into the nursing home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-04-03
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Tokyo Refugees
Overview: When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment, he becomes one of Japan’s many ‘net cafe refugees’, barely scraping by each day with temporary and part-time work. Even though he’s still in Tokyo, his circumstances drive him to see and experience his home city in new ways. Trying to survive, Osamu gradually acquaints himself with the ‘invisible’ spaces occupied by the wanderers and homeless of Tokyo… people just like himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-22
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Locomotive Teacher
Overview: Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost after the accident and eventually decides to teach again on a small island where his mother was born. The children there on the island quickly name him "Kikansha Sensei" (Teacher Locomotive) after learning he is mute. The parents on the island are mostly hostile to Seigo Yoshioka, believing he is incapable of teaching their children. But with Seigo Yoshioka's determination and kindness, a strong bond develops between the students and the mute teacher, which then changes the parents' opinions of Seigo Yoshioka. Suddenly, tragedy then strikes ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-31
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Antenna
Overview: Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-10
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The Vulture
Overview: A Japanese company is being targeted by a Chinese financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms - in other words, a vulture. A Japanese financier/former vulture Masahiko Washizu is recruited to fight the threat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-06
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Sixteen
Overview: A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-26
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Blossoming Into a Family
Overview: “I never got to feel the warmth of a loving family.” That is what Seishiro notes down in 1948, who was adopted as a child by the idealistic Eichiro. In 1980, Izumi works at a bank and she lives with her mother Ito. Twenty-two years later, in the evening on a winter night and the day before Izumi is to marry, her mother tells Izumi about her late father's dream, Seishiro. Her father's dream was of Izumi's marriage. Izumi reminisces about her loving father. What happened in the meantime? In reversed chronological order this movie tells a story about a man who had much to give and what he got in return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-21
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Gassoh
Overview: In the year 1868, three young men join the elite Shogitai division of the Shogunate. The Shogitai fights to the end and opposes the dismantling of the feudal military dictatorship known as the Bakufu system.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-26
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Ghost Theater
Overview: Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-21
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Till Death Do Us What?
Overview: Kota and Yoko have known each other for 17 years. They finally get married and Yoko becomes pregnant. During her pregnancy, Yoko feels ill and gets a checkup. She learns that she has terminal cancer. Yoko is able to give birth and they try to smile everyday until her very last day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-30
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Samurai Shodown 2
Overview: The story mainly revolves on Nakoruru and her humanistic ideals: she believes that anyone with a heart has the right to live peacefully. Shiki, though apparently free from Yuga's influence, is recognized as a threat for the sorceress' return and it was through Nakoruru's reasoning that previously saved her life from Haohmaru. Nakoruru finds her and then struggles to peacefully defend her from her pursuers, which include Haohmaru, Galford, and Asura.
Genres: Action Animation Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-06-25
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Reincarnation
Overview: A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-07
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Ichigo Chips
Overview: Ichigo no kakera deals with a female manga artist Ichigo Nekoda (Miyazawa), whose career is heading into a downward spiral as she can't reinvent the success of her 12 year old hit the Cherry Road. Now in her early 30's she's become quite fond of alcohol and egoism to some annoyance of her loyal manager Tomoko (Kajiwara), who isn't willing to leave her side even though the financial strains of her client are also becoming her personal burdens. Ichigo still gets greeted by her female fans and willingly signs autographs, but getting praised for work that she's done over a decade ago doesn't digest as smoothly as one would assume. Her on and off man, who happens to also be her editor steers toward the off days more than usual as he also grows tired of Ichigo's uninspired ways. But when the going gets tough, Ichigo heads down to a transvestite bar where she's more than welcomed with words of wisdom and a few hard drinks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-19
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Platonic Sex
Overview: When Aoi is gang-raped by her classmates and kicked out of her home by her own parents she sees no reason to continue living. Before she commits suicide, however, she receives an email on her cellphone from a man named Toshi addressed to a girl named Ai. The message simply thanks the girl for being alive, but this specific message has an effect on Aoi and she decides to keep on living. Without many options, Aoi resorts to everything from paid dating to porn to earn money and meets a lot of less than reputable characters. Throughout it all though she looks toward Toshi as her hope for happiness and the two form a relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-20
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The Sparkling Amber
Overview: The bobbed-head Ryoko is a shy middle school student. She has been living with her dad, just the 2 of them ever since her mother died of an illness. It was in this Aizawa household that 3 months ago, suddenly, that the Kansai dialect wielding Michiko with her hair fastened tightly above her head came in. This is the story of amber of the three whom were like a family and yet not.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-24
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Stake Out
Overview: The fourth chapter in the Love Cinema series, is a story of a cloistered and obsessive character who is confining and closed. When many suicides occur in an apartment building the police are by to question a female resident.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-20
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Radiance
Overview: The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-27
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Scarecrow and Racket: Aki and Tamako’s Summer Vacation
Overview: A 3rd year transfer student from a Tokyo middle school, was emotionally hurt in the soft tennis club she belonged to at her previous school. Unaware of this, Tamako pesters Aki to teach her soft tennis. Together, they go about creating a court on the campus of a closed-down school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-04
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Before a Falling Star Fades Away
Overview: A 21-year-old university student lost her boyfriend in a sudden accident and she can't get over him, but she begins to change thanks to her family and her friend Takumi, who shares a very similar past with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-21
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Perfect World
Overview: Tsugumi Kawana (Hana Sugisaki) works at an interior design company. She happens to meet her first love Itsuki Ayukawa (Takanori Iwata) from her high school days. He is now an architect and in a wheelchair because of an accident. --asianwiki
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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For Love's Sake
Overview: Shiori is a star university student with an incredible palate for wine who dreams of studying winemaking in France. However, to her dismay she is assigned to a rural sake brewery for her internship. To make matters worse, upon arrival she discovers that the brewery owners don’t exactly want her around. However, as it becomes clear that Shiori will be sticking around, she tries to make the best of things and begins to pitch in at the brewery, perhaps even warming up to the idea of drinking sake. And when the brewery owner falls gravely ill, and his upstart son Kanji is forced to take the lead, Shiori may provide the spark that can save the brewery and change her own life in the process..
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-20
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Colors of Wind
Overview: Yuri leaves Ryo with mysterious words. Ryo goes to Hokkaido knowing that his doppelganger magician is missing. Ryo realizes Yuri was also the magician’s lover and he learns magic. The story that crosses over two identities, illusion and magic.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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Prison Gate Island
Overview: In 1946, on a fictional island called Gokumon-tou, located in the Inner Sea of Seto, the famous detective Kindaichi intended to pass his convalescence after the invitation of his war buddy Kitou Chimata, the successor son of the powerful clan of the Kitou Family. But Kindaichi arrives alone, bringing the bad news of Chimata's death. However, the truth is that Kindaichi is not on the island to recover. Before Chimata died, she uttered the words: "My sisters will be killed!" Indeed, as the three sisters are murdered one by one in horrible and strange ways, Kindaichi desperately tries to find the culprit and in the process discovers the intrigues of the family, secrets, island mentality, discrimination, and eccentricities, With the backdrop of the turbulent postwar period.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-19
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Only the Cat Knows
Overview: Masaru and Yukiko have been married 44 years. They have three children who live independently from them. Masaru and Yukiko enjoy their peaceful days, but, one day, Yukiko tells her daughter Naoko that she wants to divorce Masaru.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-10
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Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Overview: Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
Overview: Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-09-13
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Care Nin
Overview: Kei Omori did not have anything he wanted to do with his life. Without any specific reasons, he enrolled in a special nursing school. After his graduation, he begins work at a small-size multi-functional facility as a care worker. He has a hard time communicating with the elderly people with dementia. For the first time, he is placed in charge of 79-year-old Keiko Hoshikawa who has dementia. With the help of the staff and trial-and-error, he develops a relationship with Keiko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-17
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Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic
Overview: The intertwined love story of four young people on Christmas night.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-22
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Sniper
Overview: Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in an undercover operation that puts her at risk. Her achievement immediately becomes the talk of the precinct, but no one approaches her because of her past. Ryoko is determined to bring criminals to justice. She takes on “The Prime Ministerial Candidate Snipe Case” which took place 15 years earlier.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-02
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The Hidden Blade
Overview: Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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My Friend "A"
Overview: Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-25
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Somebody's Xylophone
Overview: A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-10
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Fukushima 50
Overview: Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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The End of Summer
Overview: The story, set in the heady post-war 50s into the early 60s , revolves around a love triangle between Tomoko, long playing the mistress to married older writer Shitto and the new stud who comes into her life, Ryota Kinoshita. Tomoko is sick and tired of her relationship with writer Shingo, who is married and has children. Shingo is a talented writer, but has yet to be recognized by the public. Tomoko then enters into a sexual relationship with younger man Ryota Kinoshita, but Tomoko is not satisfied.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-31
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Mellow
Overview: Seiichi is the owner of a flower shop. He enjoys his peaceful single life. Kiho runs the ramen restaurant left to her by her father, but she's thinking of closing it.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Fall Special
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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The Tokyo Wind Orchestra
Overview: Shiori Higuchi works at a town hall in Yakushima Island. She is in charge of a plan to hold a concert for the famous Tokyo Wind Orchestra. 10 members of the orchestra from Tokyo arrive on Yakushima Island, but they are not from the famous Tokyo Wind Orchestra.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-12
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Error
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-10
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Osaka Love & Soul
Overview: Osaka Love & Soul (TV film) Drama 2010, 75 min
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-11-06
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Memory's Technique
Overview: Karen is an ordinary high school student in Tokyo, but she sometimes recalls pieces of her childhood memories that she did not know before. During the process of getting her passport for a school trip, Karen views her family register. She learns that she had an older sister Yukari, who died at the age of 4. Karen also learns that her parents are not her biological parents and that she was adopted. Karen now wants to learn about herself. She lies to her parents and tells them that she is leaving on the school trip. Instead, she travels to Fukuoka where she was born. Her classmate Satoi Hogari accompanies her.
Genres: Romance Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-27
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We're Both Grooms
Overview: About the wedding day of Seto Ryosuke, an elementary school teacher, and Aikawa Mizuki, a lemon farmer. Right before the ceremony, Mizuki finds out that his partner didn't tell his parents, relatives, and friends that he is marrying a man. This discovery starts a series of events the two have to face, like a furious outburst of Ryosuke's father, a big fight between heads of the two families, as well as an appearance of Mizuki's ex-boyfriend.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-13
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