Mayuko Iwasa
Also Known As: 岩佐 真悠子, Iwasa Mayuko
Biography: Iwasa Mayuko is a former Japanese actress and entertainer born in Tokyo. She formerly belonged to Platinum Productions. As an actress, she is best known for her roles in "Galcir" and "Deep Love". She was scouted in Shibuya in 2003. At the age of 16, she was selected as "Miss Magazine 2003" and made her debut in the entertainment world. She was an active and popular gravure model for a time. As an actress, she starred in the 2004 TV series "Deep Love". That same year, she won the 42nd Golden Arrow Graph Award for her success as a gravure model. In 2014, she won the 23rd Japanese Professional Movie Awards for Emerging Actress for her performance in "Passion (Junan)". On October 1, 2020, she reported on her own Instagram her retirement from the entertainment world. At the end of September of the same year, she revealed that after retiring, she would work towards being a long-term care worker.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nerima, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: February 24, 1987
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Gender: Female
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2009 Fall Special
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-05
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Milocrorze: A Love Story
Overview: Three tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead Ovreneli Vreneligare was just a little boy, he fell in love in the park. Sharing a juice box with the stunningly gorgeous Milocrorze, he took her home to his cat, Verandola Gorgonzola, and made her his girlfriend until the fickle beauty abandoned him, and he covered the hole in his heart with a pot lid he found lying on the ground. This is only the beginning of his story but it’s not the end of his heartbreak. MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY is a candy-flavored anthology of hopeless l’amour, and it has many victims.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-18
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Cult
Overview: Three female idols appear on a television show to investigate an exorcism. An exorcist with psychic powers named Unsui claims that the show’s subjects, the Kaneda family, are cursed by a demon that’s too powerful for him to banish on his own, so he calls in a fellow exorcist to help. Soon, a reckless ghost hunter enters the fray as the three idols witness a series of terrifying events.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-20
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Beautiful Female Panther: Body Sniper
Overview: A popular fashion model, Hikari Fujimi, has more than one identity. To avenge her parents, who were killed by the leader of a crime syndicate, she received training to become an assassin from Nirasaki, her father’s right-hand man. With multiple personalities-- herself; a woman with superhuman skills; and an innocent girl who repents her sins-- she changes at will.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-08
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Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze
Overview: An omnibus featuring four stories about the four seasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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Nihon de Ichiban Kowai Hanashi Edo Kaidan
Overview: This DVD contains the first "horror period drama" recorded at Nikko Edo village, in pursuit of authentic terror. Episode 1: A Broken Promise Episode 2: Ubume Episode 3: Tales of the Peony Lantern
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-22
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009-1: The End of the Beginning
Overview: In a universe where the Cold War never ended and growing conflicts result in the rapid advancement of technological warfare, the cyborg spy Mylene Hoffman of the 00 Organization battles the agents of the Eastern block in a game of high tech espionage.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-07
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Passion
Overview: A singular deadpan comedy, The Passion tells a story of a young woman raised in a convent named Frances-ko (Mayuko Iwasa), after Saint Francesco. Distressed by not knowing about love and sex, she calls out for a sign from above, but instead hears a voice from below. A human-faced growth speaks to her from between her legs, constantly berating her, calling out "Woman, you are worthless!" Mr. Koga, as she names it, continues the verbal abuse, yet Frances-ko somehow adapts, forming an adversarial yet symbiotic relationship. This bizarre film, based on Kaoruko Himeno's acclaimed 1997 novel of the same name, is skillfully directed by Ryoko Yoshida, lensed by veteran cinematographer Akiko Ashizawa, grounded by Iwasa's show-stopping performance and enlivened by the hilarious Kanji Furutachi, who lends his voice to the chauvinistic Koga. The soundtrack boasts an unmissable eclectic score by legendary experimental musician and composer Otomo Yoshihide.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-07
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Valley of Dreams
Overview: A laid-off designer returns to her home town after five years away.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-12
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The Scissors Massacre
Overview: Three sisters grow up on a chicken farm in a small town in Gifu. The oldest sister, Yukie Sawada, is engaged to be married, the middle sister, Sachiko works at a beauty salon and the youngest, Mayu, is on the track team in high school. Their happy, carefree lives are changed forever when Yukie's ex-boyfriend Suzuki commits an atrocious crime. Half-crazed and bent on revenge against the Sawada family, Suzuki mistakes Mayu for Yukie and pours acid all over her face. Overwhelmed by physical and psychological trauma, Mayu sinks deeper into depression and isolation, unresponsive to her sisters encouragement. Meanwhile, chilling news of a serial murderer, who preys on the alumni of Mayu's high school, sends shockwaves through their small town...
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-22
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Detective Conan Drama Special 1: The Letter of Challenge
Overview: In order to uphold his title of High School Detective, a teen sleuth must protect his classmates from kidnapping after receiving a threatening letter.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-02
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Her Granddaughter
Overview: Tsugumi Dozono works at a large electronics company in Tokyo. She likes to spend long vacations at her grandmother’s house in the countryside. When her grandmother dies, Tsugumi Dozono decides to live in the house full-time, and to work from there as well. However, one day she encounters a middle-aged man in the house, who tells Tsugumi that her grandmother gave him a key to the annex house when he was her student. The two share the property, although Tsugumi still does not know the exact relationship that her grandmother had with this man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-14
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Sugar & Spice
Overview: Recently graduated from high school, 17-year-old Shiro decides to put off college and work at a gas station instead. Shy and introspective, Shiro understands he is at a turning point of his life, but is unsure of what lies ahead. Though his parents disapprove of his decision, he has the support of his flower child grandmother who declares that a gas station is a romantic place for life's drifters. Surely enough, soon a new co-worker, college student Noriko, drifts into Shiro's life. He falls headfirst into a bittersweet first love that ushers him into the world of adulthood.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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Overview: Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups and seize their money. One day, the Chief of Police becomes aware that 2.5 million yen in seized money is missing. He orders Shintarou and Koichi to bring the money in by tomorrow morning. Shintarou and Koichi are in big trouble. They then read an article about a pension fund embezzlement case involving 6 billion yen. The prime suspect of the pension fund embezzlement case spent most of that money, but he has 2.5 billion yen left.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-01
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Sayonara Midori-chan
Overview: Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the shallow but charming Yutaka, she willingly succumbs to his lascivious advances only to discover afterward that he already has a girlfriend by the name of Midori. Even so, Yuko's feelings for Yutaka continue to grow regardless of his aloofness. Before long she finds herself reluctantly cajoled into working as a hostess in a small karaoke bar. Fatalistically accepting his dalliances with flames old and new, she perseveres not so much in hope of a more substantial relationship, but rather out of fear of losing him. There are other men out there waiting for her -- kinder, more considerate and eagerly available. But for Yuko, there is only the non-committal, yet torridly magnetic Yutaka. Why him? Not even Yuko seems to know the answer.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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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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Detective Conan Drama Special 2: Confrontation With the Men in Black
Overview: Shinichi Kudo returns as the young Conan to investigate a murderous letter sent to a beauty pageant winner who demands affection.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-17
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The Groaning Drain
Overview: Set in a house in the suburbs, the film uses black humor to depict the horrors caused by a strange drainage pipe that drags people in.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-31
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Misa Yamamura Suspense: Kyoto Good Luck Tour Murder
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-30
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Swing Girls
Overview: A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's brass band.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-11
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Come Back! Tensou Sentai Goseiger: Last Epic - The Gosei Angels are National Idols?!
Overview: While dealing with the harassing public, the Goseigers face a new enemy along with old revived foes.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-21
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Overlord: Bloodline of Brutality III
Overview: The Naito Shinjuku Family, a hereditary organization where only those of the Washio bloodline can inherit leadership. Under a calculated scheme, Wakagashira Yuki Kanemaru eliminates the 12th-generation leader, Gunji Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa), in a bid to fulfill his fateful mission of establishing Washio Kiyoharu (Kazuyoshi Ozawa), Gunji’s long-buried sworn brother, as the rightful 12th leader. In a shocking turn, Kanemaru engulfs the Naito Shinjuku Family in flames and meets his end through self-immolation. As Shateigashira Hosa (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) pushes to restore order by advocating for Taiga Washio (Haruto Ochiai) as the 13th leader, the situation spirals further out of control with the release of Shuyu Ohgami (Norimasa Tomie), a former Naito Shinjuku Family member, from prison...!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-25
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Overlord: Bloodline of Brutality IV
Overview: In order to fulfill the fate and great cause of placing his sworn brother, Kiyoharu Washio (Kazuyoshi Ozawa), who had been buried in the darkness until now, as the 12th generation leader of the Naito Shinjuku family, Yuki Kanemaru (Masaya Kato) covered the office with flames and ultimately met his end in self-immolation. Just as he passes away, former 12th generation underling, Hideyoshi Ogami (Norimasa Fujie), is released after serving a long prison sentence. This leads the Naito Shinjuku family into a three-way struggle: Toki Reiji (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) and his faction who support Taiga Washio (Haruto Ochiai) as the 13th generation, the faction led by Akira Shiba (Kunihiko Ida) who seeks to put Seiharu in power and rewrite history, and Ogami’s faction. Finally, the president of the Osaka Namba-kai, Masami Yukimura (Takashi Ukaji), reveals himself, and the story is about to connect to a new bloodline!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-25
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Overlord: Bloodline of the Wolf Pack V
Overview: As the Naito Shinjuku family’s split conflict deepens into even greater chaos, Reiji Toki (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) is defeated after a battle beyond human understanding with Kiyoharu Washio (Kazuyoshi Ozawa). In this dire situation where Reiji’s life hangs in the balance, a tense atmosphere begins to spread even within the faction supporting Taiga Washio (Haruto Ochiai). Tetsutake Yu (Takashi Kuroishi) grows suspicious of former violent crimes detective Shinichi Akiba (Yasukaze Motomiya) acting alone and locks him up. However, this is part of a scheme by the faction led by Akira Shiba (Kunihiko Ida), who wants to place Seiharu in power and rewrite history. Amidst this turmoil, Hideyoshi Ogami (Norimasa Fujie) steadily strengthens ties with the president of the Osaka Namba-kai, Masami Yukimura (Takashi Ukaji), and the chaotic three-way struggle intensifies!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-25
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