Kanata Hongo
Also Known As: Hongou Kanata, Kanata Hongô
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: November 15, 1990
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Overview: In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
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Nana 2
Overview: Two girls with the same name but very different personalities share an apartment in this sequel to Nana. The rising fame of Nana Osaki's band, the Black Stones, is beginning to take a toll on the best friends' relationship. Meanwhile, Nana Komatsu struggles to make sense of her love triangle with Black Stones' guitarist Nobu and rival group Trapnest's bassist Takumi.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-09
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Shin Kamen Rider
Overview: A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, an Augmentation made by SHOCKER, and Ruriko Midorikawa, a rebel of the organization, escape while fighting off assassins. What’s justice? What’s evil? Will this violence end? Despite his power, Hongo tries to remain human. Along with freedom, Ruriko has regained a heart. What paths will they choose?
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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The Prince of Tennis
Overview: Twelve year old tennis prodigy, Ryoma Echizen attends the distinguished school of Seishun Academy Middle School with his eyes set on being on the regulars team of the tennis club, which the school is famous for.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-05-13
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Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love
Overview: Satoru, a wheelchair-bound elementary student, locks himself away from the outside world after his mother dies. His father designs a remote-controlled robot to go to school for him, allowing him to interact with people and do normal things.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-09
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The Blue Bird
Overview: Higashigaoka Junior High School is in turmoil as one of the pupils, Noguchi, who had been bullied, attempted suicide last term. On the first day of the new term, a substitute teacher arrives to take the second year class. When the teacher, Murauchi (Hiroshi Abe), introduces himself, the pupils are surprised by his stutter. He has a speech impediment. Unable to speak eloquently, Murauchi faces his pupils with ‘words of truth’. His first instruction to the pupils is to return Noguchi’s desk and chair to the original place in the classroom. Every morning Murauchi greets the empty desk, “Good morning, Noguchi.” This causes a ripple beyond the classroom and among other teachers and parents, but Murauchi will not stop doing it. Eventually the day comes when Murauchi must leave.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-29
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Goth
Overview: Itsuki and Yoru share a passion for the dark and death, making them the perfect choice to track down a serial killer who is roaming the streets.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
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Until the Lights Come Back
Overview: A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-11-19
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Gantz: Perfect Answer
Overview: Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.
Genres: Action Mystery Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-23
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Kamiki Ryunosuke 25th Anniversary DVD
Overview: Documentary detailing the making and shooting of the 25th Anniversary book. There are talk sessions with four actors who have spent a lot of time with Kamiki in private and public life. He discusses his thoughts on acting with Sometani Shota, the actor of his generation who Kamiki respects the most. He visited his alma mater, Horikoshi High School with his high school classmate/ best friend Nakamura Hayato. He also met up with his childhood friend Shida Mirai and have a great time talking about his personal life with Kanata Hongo, who they feel is very close to each other. (Source: @neet21_)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-24
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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Final Alchemy
Overview: The Elric brothers’ long and winding journey comes to a close in this epic finale, where they must face off against an unworldly, nationwide threat.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-24
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The Last Supper Detective Tono Kazuyuki and the Seven Suspects
Overview: On the first day of opening, a small Italian restaurant is set on fire, killing three customers, and the unidentified survivor, who was injured and taken to hospital, somehow escapes. Detective Tono and his team, who are renowned for their interrogation skills, realise from evidence left at the scene that there are still survivors who have fled the scene. After obtaining information about the customers from the owner-chef, who was slightly injured, Tono visits the suspects, but they all seem to be acting strangely and are hiding something. The hidden relationship between the suspects, who seemed unrelated, is then revealed.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-05-14
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Usogui
Overview: Madarame Baku is a mysterious gambler. His nickname is Usogui (literally The Lie Eater). Club Kakerou is the top illegal gambling den, where gamblers vie to become the best in their profession. Seeing through the lies of others, Madarame Baku challenges a variety of high stakes games at Club Kakerou.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-02-11
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Attack on Titan
Overview: 100 years ago, titans suddenly appeared on Earth. Soon, human civilization veered on collapse due to the titans. Humans then built a giant wall to defend themselves. Within the giant walls, humans lived in peace, but, 100 years later, the giant wall is broken.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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Tokyo Slaves
Overview: Brother and sister are drawn into a thrilling game of survival, in which they use a bizarre device called SCM to turn others into their slaves.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-28
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Moon Child
Overview: Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's footsteps as a vampire with the gift of eternal life and the curse of blood thirst. Over time, their tight friendship becomes corrupted because of their rivalry and love for the same woman.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-19
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Silk
Overview: French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs. After a long journey, Hervé finally arrives at a village where he can buy them. He becomes infatuated with a young concubine and goes to great lengths to see her again. But, when war breaks out in Japan, the concubine flees, forcing Hervé to return home to his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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Danganronpa The Stage ~Kibō no Gakuen to Zetsubō no Kōkōsei~
Overview: Theatrical play based on the Danganronpa video game as performed at Nippon Seinenkan on October 30, 2014.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-12
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Danganronpa The Stage 2016 ~Kibō no Gakuen to Zetsubō no Kōkōsei~
Overview: The second stage play based on the original Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc video game.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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Attack on Titan II: End of the World
Overview: Eren Yeager leaves to restore a break in the wall destroyed by a Titan. He comes under attack by the Titans and is cornered. Shikishima comes to his aid. The titans never stops attacking. Eren is now injured and tries to protect Armin, but is swallowed by a titan. A Titan with black hair appears and begins to expel the other titans.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-01
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ノンレムの窓 2024・春
Overview: "Non-rem sleep" means deep sleep. Are the three mysterious short stories that we broadcast this time a dream? Or is it real? Dreams and reality, reality and unreality ... The mysterious bakarhythm world that goes back and forth between them is the "non-rem window."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-31
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Returner
Overview: A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-31
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Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy - Hope Arc
Overview: The Future Foundation is in shambles after the Final Killing Game and the revelation of the true culprit. As a desperate plot arises from one of the survivors to rid the world of despair once and for all, the remaining Future Foundation members must band together to stop this atrocity from taking place. Fortunately, they find themselves with help from a group of unlikely allies as they race against the clock to stop their world from being changed. In this finale to the Hope's Peak storyline of the Danganronpa series, the players in this neverending death game begin to understand the true meaning behind despair, hope, and atonement.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-29
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Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy - Hope Arc
Overview: The Future Foundation is in shambles after the Final Killing Game and the revelation of the true culprit. As a desperate plot arises from one of the survivors to rid the world of despair once and for all, the remaining Future Foundation members must band together to stop this atrocity from taking place. Fortunately, they find themselves with help from a group of unlikely allies as they race against the clock to stop their world from being changed. In this finale to the Hope's Peak storyline of the Danganronpa series, the players in this neverending death game begin to understand the true meaning behind despair, hope, and atonement.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-29
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Gantz
Overview: After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-11-29
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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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Another Gantz
Overview: Before finding out the Perfect Answer, discover Another Gantz. Aired on Nippon Television network before the theatrical release of Gantz: The Perfect Answer, this film is an alternate perspective version of the first Gantz film from the same writing-directing team of the two-part theatrical film. In addition to condensed scenes from the Gantz film, Another Gantz features a new subplot that follows an investigative journalist not included in the theatrical film. Delving deep into the mystery, Another Gantz offers another piece towards solving the complex puzzle that is the world of Gantz.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-22
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Inuyashiki
Overview: A middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Fullmetal Alchemist
Overview: Two alchemist brothers go on a quest for the Philosopher's Stone after an attempt to revive their dead mother goes horribly wrong.
Genres: Fantasy Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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Kingdom
Overview: Set in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has a dream of becoming a great general Shin has a fateful encounter with young King Eisei. King Eisei aims to unify all of China.
Genres: Action Adventure War History Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-19
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Diner
Overview: A former murderer and genius chef along with a waitress come together with a group of fantastical assassins in a diner. A girl with a hollowness in her heart, who believes that she belongs nowhere, is thrust into a series of attacks where she must struggle to find her will to live.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-05
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Hyouka: Forbidden Secrets
Overview: Energy-conservative high school student Houtarou Oreki ends up with more than he bargained for when he signs up for the Classics Club at his sister's behest—especially when he realizes how deep-rooted the club's history really is. Begrudgingly, Oreki is dragged into an investigation concerning the 45-year-old mystery that surrounds the club room. Accompanied by his fellow club members, the knowledgeable Satoshi Fukube, the stern but benign Mayaka Ibara, and the ever-curious Eru Chitanda, Oreki must combat deadlines and lack of information with resourcefulness and hidden talent, in order to not only find the truth buried beneath the dust of works created years before them, but of other small side cases as well.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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Strayer's Chronicle
Overview: In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing stress upon expecting parents and when the baby was born, provoke the baby into mutations and develop their special abilities. The other method involved birth to babies having abilities of animals and insects. The special abilities were derived from gene manipulation. Subaru, Saya and others were born from those experiments.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-27
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2009 Spring Special
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Genres: Fantasy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-30
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Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!
Overview: Ash Ketchum wakes up late one morning after having broken his alarm clock in his sleep. He eventually makes it to Professor Oak's lab, but is told that the three starter List of Pokémon (Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander) have already been taken by Trainers who were on time. However, Oak reveals that he has one more Pokémon, an Electric-type named Pikachu. Despite its volatile and feisty personality, as well as its refusal to get inside a Poké Ball, Ash happily takes Pikachu for his journey.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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Fururi
Overview: Chinatsu is a 28-year-old office worker who lives life on auto-pilot, until a mysterious boy appears to her. He tells her that if she answers five riddles, he will make her dreams come true.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-01
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Fall Special
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Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-10
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Broken Heart of the 56th Year
Overview: Apprentice chef Saori Nakagawa suddenly travels to Tokyo in 1964 to meet Ryuichi Kikuchi, a cook. From Kikuchi who devotes himself to cooking, Saori learns what is really important. The love of two people over 56 years.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-11
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Death Come True
Overview: In a hotel room, there is a man lying on the bed. He wakes up to the piercing sound of the phone ringing. Picking up the phone, he hears a message from the hotel concierge, “If you have any trouble, please visit the front desk.” He doesn’t even know why he is in the hotel. In fact, he doesn’t remember anything at all. As he begins to look around, he suddenly finds a woman tied up and unconscious. The evening news on the TV shows the man himself, allegedly wanted as a serial killer. Then comes the sound of knocking on the door. "A new wave interactive movie game" where your actions, and the ending of the story, are determined by your choices.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-25
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Rin
Overview: Kouta Noda is a 2nd grade high school student at a village. A transfer student, Tendo, from Tokyo becomes Kouta Noda’s classmate. Tendo has a mysterious mood. The two teens becomes friends and spend time having fun, but, one day, one of Kouta's friends disappears. There is a local village legend that one kid will disappear every 100 years.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-22
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Cinema Angel
Overview: A 122 year old movie theater is going to be closed. The staff members, visitors and friends of the old cinema will see the last days of the building and it's history. Then the appearance of a mysterious old man triggers confusion.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-31
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Darwin Goes!?
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-08-20
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