Makita Sports
Also Known As: マキタスポーツ, 槙田雄司, Yûji Makita
Biography: Makita Sports was born on January 25, 1970 in Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. He is an actor, known for Outrage (2010), Iribito - Ihôjin - (2021) and Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru (2021). He has been married to Nozomi since July 3, 2001. They have four children.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: January 25, 1970
Age: 55 years old
Gender: Male
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Show Me the Way to the Station
Overview: A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by Ijuin Shizu.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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The Housekeeper Saw!
Overview: Sawagura Nobuko is back housekeeping again in this sequel to the 2014 SP! This time around Nobuko, having been given some pearl earrings as a present sometime before, decides to attend an exhibition for a pearl described as being the world's most expensive one. That pearl is owned by the Iwakura family, who run a large pearl company. While looking at the pearl however, Nobuko is pulled away by a handsome man who seems to have some connection to the family. So when Nobuko finds one of her pearl earrings missing and probably taken by that man, she decides to work as a housekeeper for the Iwakura family until the man shows up again and she can get her earring back. But the Iwakura family that Nobuko is now working for has plenty of secrets beyond just pearls that she'll have to sort out if she wants her earring back...
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-05
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Prior Convictions
Overview: Kayo is a probation officer who forges ahead with her job. Continuing to work closely with ex-convicts, she is assigned to Kudo who had committed murder. As she endeavors to rehabilitate him, Kudo suddenly disappears and emerges as a suspect in a case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-28
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It's Boring Here, Pick Me Up
Overview: The first-person protagonist is a 27-year-old freelance writer who returns to her hometown from Tokyo, and she gets together with high school friend Satsuki and cameraman Suga to see Shiina, who they all admired in high school. Along the way, vivid memories from high school replay in the protagonist's mind.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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パティシエ・ヘンゼル クリスマスの魔法
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-21
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The Long Excuse
Overview: A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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Under the Open Sky
Overview: Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies for a TV show and meets a young TV director Tsunoda. Meanwhile, he struggles to get a proper job and fit into society. His impulsive, adamant nature and ingrained beliefs cause friction in his relationship with Tsunoda and those who want to help him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-11
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Outrage
Overview: When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-17
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Hoshi Shin'ichi Mystery Special
Overview: A collection of five short stories by Hoshi Shinichi
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-15
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Sana
Overview: Takashi Shimizu's newest film is about a mysterious cassette tape containing a melody. People who hear this melody gradually begin to hum it themselves and become involved in a mysterious incident. What is the mystery behind this melody ?
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-11
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The Drudgery Train
Overview: In this offbeat coming-of-age tale, a charming, rebellious high school dropout named Kanta befriends the kind, provincial Shoji. The two bring out the best in each other, each gaining confidence from their friendship - especially regarding pursuit of the opposite sex. The working class Kanta becomes a sort of unruly anti-hero, maintaining his pride, defiance, and self-assurance even as his prospects seem increasingly grim.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-07-14
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Golden Kamuy
Overview: On the Hokkaido frontier, a war veteran and Ainu girl race against misfits and military renegades to find treasure mapped out on tattooed outlaws.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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A Spoiling Rain
Overview: The story is about a film director, Kutani, who lives in the dying pink film industry, and an aspiring screenwriter, Iseki, and their loved one, Shoko, whose dream of a film she has clung to begins to crumble, and how their lives intersect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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鎌塚氏、羽を伸ばす
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Original Language: ja
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Wood Job!
Overview: After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his decision many times, but eventually after passing the training course, he is sent to Kamusari Village for a year of work experience - where he becomes assimilated with the beauty of nature and the warm-hearted people of the village.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-10
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Mondays: See You 'This' Week!
Overview: Akemi Yoshikawa discovers that her whole office is stuck in a time loop, repeating the same stressful work week over and over. Together with her colleagues she has to find out how to break the loop.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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I Alone
Overview: A common horoscope brings a timid middle-aged salaryman and high school delinquent to the center of a political scandal, in which a corrupt incumbent mayor seeks to crush the candidacy of his reformer opponent. This anti-establishment tale blends a punk ethos with absurdist comedy as the unlikely pair finds their existence given new meaning when they work to return a kidnapped baby. Along the way they must fight not only the assault of the mayor’s neoliberal redevelopment of the town, but his bribed police force and yakuza. Under director Sho Tsukikawa’s taut direction, "I Alone"’s mad roller coaster ride plot and outraged self-determination all ring emotionally true, making this one of the year’s biggest discoveries.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-31
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The Virgin Psychics
Overview: After receiving a cosmic blast while masturbating, a virginal teenager gains psychic powers and joins a group of ESP virgins in order to defend the world from evil psychics.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-04
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Sana: Let Me Hear
Overview: During the summer vacation period, temporary teacher Honoka Kimijima is in charge of a supplementary class. One day, a female student suddenly jumps off from the school rooftop and dies in front of Honoka Kimijima. Then she notices a mystery student who is not supposed to be there.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-07-19
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Pink and Gray
Overview: Popular actor Rengo Shiraki dies suddenly. Due to his sudden death, unpopular actor Daiki Kawata attracts the spotlight due to his close friendship with Rengo. Did Rengo Shiraki commit suicide or was he murdered?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-09
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The Noise
Overview: Underground people who exhale toxic gas appear in Tokyo's S-Ward, which is dealing with construction noise from urban development projects. Everyone panic, but it turns out that five middle-aged guys are unaffected by the poisonous gas. They undergo vigorous training to fight the underworld people, but are they going to be able to save the world…?
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-23
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I Am a Hero
Overview: Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant, whose life seem to be stuck around his exhausting but low-paying job, unfulfilled dreams, strange hallucinations and unsatisfying relationships. He sees himself as a supporting character in his own life, has low self-esteem, resulting in frustration. One day, the world as Hideo knows it is shattered by the presence of a disease that turns people into homicidal maniacs, whose first instinct is to attack and devour the nearest human.
Genres: Action Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-23
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Love & Peace
Overview: A man, who once dreamed of becoming a punk rocker, is working as a low salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He's secretly in love with his colleague. One day, he finds a little turtle on the rooftop, naming it Pikadon.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-26
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Ghost Band
Overview: Nishioka, a musician who has lost his passion for music and is living a life of self-indulgence, is fired by his contracted music production company.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-10
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All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City
Overview: High school student Yoshio Kamogawa suddenly gained the power to read other people's minds. One day, he receives mail from Sae Asami in Tokyo asking for his help. Yoshio Kamogawa loves Sae Asami. Yoshio Kamogawa goes to Tokyo and infiltrates the high school where Sae Aami attends. Yoshio Kamogawa then becomes involved in a strife between 3 different groups as he tries to save Sae Asami. Shizuka Tachibana also falls in love with Yoshio Kamogawa.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-03
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Gold Medal Man
Overview: Senichi was born in 1964, when the entire nation was excited about the Tokyo Olympics. As an elementary student, Senichi won a footrace and got a taste of what winning felt like. Since then, Senichi takes part in various competitions including drawing and usually wins. He keeps struggling to win gold medals at competitions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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Saune
Overview: The story of Aufguss (2022) told from the customers' perspective.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-01
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Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 3
Overview: Sawamura, a contract part-timer dragged into a multi-million yen internet business, and Kamo, an office worker who lavished money on a beautiful club hostess, arrive at Cowcow Finance, the office of black-market lender Ushijima.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-22
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Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Overview: A classmate from Ushijima's middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jobless and without a home. Adrift and unable to borrow money from Ushijima, Takemoto heads for Seiai Home where he can stay while doing work.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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Her Sketchbook
Overview: Mami rarely leaves home since she dropped out from middle school. She has been escaping reality by immersing herself in copying her favorite manga and illustrations in her room full of books and comics. Her father, Eisuke, worries a lot about her ever since he divorced with her mother, Mika.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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Mumon: The Land of Stealth
Overview: Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-century mercenary. When the ninja council makes a power play to defeat the young Nobukatsu Oda struggling to step into his father’s warlord shoes as they expand rule across the country, Mumon jumps into the fray to satisfy his new bride Okuni’s demand that he make good on his promises of wealth. Yet Mumon soon finds what is worth fighting for beyond money or nation.
Genres: War Action History Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-01
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Rokuroku: The Promise of the Witch
Overview: A quiet woman receives a social media request from a middle-school friend, who she doesn’t remember fondly. The two meet at a hotel’s restaurant where they find a room numbered 666 containing Rokuroku, a long-neck woman wearing a red kimono.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-27
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Restaurant from the Sky
Overview: Wataru, his woman Kotoe and daughter Shiori are ranchers and dairy farmers in Hokkaido in northern Japan. He is following in his father's footsteps. A visiting chef cooks an unforgettable meal with his ingredients, which prompts the family to open their own restaurant and reproduce the magic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-25
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All Esper Dayo! ~The Lust-filled Love Wars~
Overview: Web adaptation of All Esper Dayo! manga featuring an original story.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-19
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Kuinige Killer
Overview: A family restaurant faces hard times due to customers running out on their bills. In his past, Shogo Kawatani was a premiere athlete. Now, Shogo Kawatani works for the family restaurant. His job is to catch customers who run out on their bills.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-21
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God Tongue: Kiss Pressure Game The Movie
Overview: Hitori Gekidan gets off a crew bus, assuming he will participate in a travel program. He overhears people in the monitoring room announce the beginning of the "24 Hour Kiss Pressure Game." He is then assaulted by attractive actresses pleading for a kiss as well as deadly mercenaries and zombies attempting to kidnap him. Soon he grasps his character and situation. He is Shogo Kawashima aka The Desert Reaper and he is on the run with Aoi Tsukasa (Aoi Tsukasa). For unknown reasons, the Red Shadow, who raised him, wants him back.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-28
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Farewell Song
Overview: Haru and Reo perform as musical duo Haru-Reo. With their indie music, they suddenly get popular. Even with their newfound success, they decide to disband the duo. Haru-Reo go on one last tour together. Their roadie Shima goes with the girls on the tour.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-31
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Temple
Overview: Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.
Genres: History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window
Overview: Bookstore clerk Mikado sees ghosts. When exorcist Hiyakawa pulls him into a cursed murder case, the two uncover dark truths—and the killer’s voice still lingers.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-22
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What Did You Eat Yesterday?
Overview: Kenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his birthday, but the trip ends up uncovering a painful topic.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-03
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Broken Hearts for Sale
Overview: An omnibus recorded in a short film by five film directors with the motif of the song "Kai Band".
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-28
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Kikikaikai! Meishin Tantei File ~Tatari to Noroi no Nazo wo Oe~
Overview: A pair investigates the mysteries behind superstitions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-31
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Aufguss
Overview: A sauna spa that has been in business for 50 years, is about to reach the very last day but without letting know none of their regular customer. An aufgussmeister Toji is preparing for the last aufguss session. Regular customers are puzzled why he is so fired up. This is a story about the special night of a small sauna business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-06
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The Gesuidouz
Overview: From rising cult filmmaker Kenichi Ugana, a misfit horror-themed rock band moves to the Japanese countryside to write the greatest punk anthem in the world.
Genres: Horror Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-05
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鬼平犯科帳 老盗の夢
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Genres: TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-02-08
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