Ayaka Maeda
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kakogawa, Kanagawa, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: August 18, 1983
Age: 41 years old
Gender: Female
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Solaris
Overview: Shot while the director was still in college, the film is a remake of the Russian film of the same name. The man's dead ex who had committed suicide appears in front of him. The ghost has a cross-like scar on her wrist.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Like a Dragon: Prologue
Overview: In 1970s-era Japan, three children, Kazuma Kiryu, Akira Nishikiyama, and his younger sister, Yuko Nishikiyama, are raised together in Shintaro Kazama's Sunflower Orphanage. In the summer of 1980, Yumi Sawamura, a young girl whose parents were accidentally shot and killed during a gang's shootout, joins them in the orphanage. Following a yakuza tradition, the honorable Kazama secretly raises orphans whose parents he has directly or indirectly killed. In return, the children love him as a father and he eventually inducts the teenage Kiryu and Nishikiyama into the Dojima Family, a Tojo Clan affiliate of which he is a senior officer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-24
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Boy Meets Pusan
Overview: A youth drama in which a young man visiting Busan, South Korea falls in love with a Japanese woman. Debut film directed by Masaharu Take.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-22
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The Last Supper
Overview: A plastic surgeon who excels at his job hides a dark secret. After finally succumbing to his desire to taste human flesh, the surgeon soon finds himself addicted to the taste of his patients' skin, which leads him to discover further culinary delights at a seedy restaurant with some highly dubious special dishes. Murder and mayhem ensue as the demented doctor continues to find new and gruesome ways to satisfy his appetite.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-12
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Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
Overview: A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts becoming more like her and tearing her world apart.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-24
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Dead Girl Walking
Overview: Sayuru is an ordinary teenage girl. But one day everything changes when she learns that she apparently died. Even though she is dead, she is still in the mind and wandering around at home on days like a ghost. But her family is ready to do anything to get rid of the ghost.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-02
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Enclosed Pain
Overview: Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act of brutality keeps them extremely close together until an older couple occupy the house where their secret was buried.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-25
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L'amant
Overview: When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom she calls A. B and C) keep shifting in ways that redefine power and sex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-05
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Seventh Anniversary
Overview: Each time Lulu is heartbroken small stones come out of her body. The doctor tells Lulu they are kidney stones. She collects them in memoriam of love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-22
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White Panic
Overview: One day, when three guys and one girl wake up in the morning, they're all in a small room filled with the white powder, naked. Why were they gathered? What does this room mean? Who brought them here? How to escape from it?
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-06
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Arigatou
Overview: In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-25
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BORDER LINE
Overview: Three storylines interweave in Border Line. Kurosawa (Murakami Jun) finds himself driving a taciturn young man named Matsuda (Sawaki Tetsu) halfway to Hokkaido, after accidentally knocking him off his bike; their fragile bond can last only so long. The housewife Aikawa Misa (Aso Yumi) tries desperately to hold her family together when her husband gets laid off and her son is so frightened of bullies at school that he throws up in the car; she’s reduced to taking a McJob in a convenience store. And Miyaji (Mitsuishi Ken), who collects debts for a yakuza gang, gets into trouble when his partner Kitajima puts personal need above duty.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-28
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Nibanme no kanojo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-27
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Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment
Overview: Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-15
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Shibuya Kaidan: THE Riaru Toshi Densetsu
Overview: 8 episodic series from the Shibuya Kaidan series.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-21
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Strawberry Shortcakes
Overview: Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-23
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Revolver - Blue Spring
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-01
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Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
Overview: Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.
Genres: Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-02
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Reawaken
Overview: A lonely accountant adjusting to big city life, a struggling manga artist forced to conclude her series and a millennial convenience store clerk without direction; three women decades apart all bound by one inescapable fate.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-25
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SIMPLE LIFE SYNDROME
Overview: This film is based on a novel by Araki Sumishi, who has gained a following mainly in Kobe. It depicts the true feelings of a young man who is troubled by the value of its existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-02
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When I Become Silent
Overview: Kyoko is an aspiring writer whose artistic vision is yet to be formed. When her girlfriend Rie asks her to move in with her, Kyoko begins to wonder about their uncertain future as a lesbian couple in Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-10
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Custom Made 10.30
Overview: Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima with her mother, she is a high school student, but moonlights at a Japanese cabaret-club. After her mother remarries and moves to Yamaguchi Prefecture, Manamo lives by herself in Hiroshima. One day, her younger sister Minamo returns from London to visit Manamo. It is ten years since they have lived together, and they argue every day.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-29
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Akiba
Overview: A Japanese film about a bunch of otaku (or the cool cinema versions) in Akihabara who form a company and find themselves pitted against an evil corporation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-23
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The Suicide Manual
Overview: After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-24
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