Taro Yabe
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Japanese actor, mangaka and former half of the manzai duo 'Karateka.'
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Higashimurayama, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
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Genius Party
Overview: The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of MIND GAME and CAT SOUP fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with “Happy Machine,” his spin on a child’s earliest year. Shinji Kimura’s spookier “Deathtic 4,” meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child’s imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura’s “Limit Cycle” conjures up a vision of virtual reality, while Yuji Fukuyama’s "Doorbell" and "Baby Blue" by Shinichiro Watanabe use understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with “Shanghai Dragon,” takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out for very fun joyride.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-07
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Solitary Scream
Overview: Heinous. Two wolves haunted by the past. Can you hear the gunshot?-Is it his voice?- Starring: Ichizo Matsuda ("The Emblem of the Yakuza", "The Rule of the Yakuza") x A non-stop action with a gorgeous cast What kind of life will a yakuza who has lost his memory live?
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-20
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Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
Overview: Sequel to 'Solitary Scream'.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-17
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Greatful Dead
Overview: Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-31
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ヒノマル♪ドリーム
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-09
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Marriage Hunting Beauty
Overview: Takako (Mei Kurokawa) is a beautiful woman in her 30's and she works as a designer. Takako has only had relationships with married men. She decides to change herself with the help of her manga artist friend Keiko (Asami Usuda). Takako signs up at a matchmaking site. Soon. Takako meets two men and she takes an interest in the two men. Meanwhile, Takako has an argument with her friend Keiko. (Asianwiki)
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-23
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Moonlight Mask
Overview: The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who was this man? Before the war, he had a bright future ahead of him as the proficient and popular rakugoka (comedic story-teller), Usagi Morinoya. However, because of an injury sustained during the war, his face is covered in bandages, and he suffers from total amnesia. As if trying to recover his memory, the man only keeps mumbling in a hollow voice his trademark rakugo, "Sokotsunagaya".
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-26
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Zero
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-31
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Cosplay Detective
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-25
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Love and Other Cults
Overview: Ai's mother sends her to live with a cult commune, where she remains for seven years. After the cult is broken up by the police, Ai struggles to fit in with society.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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Chinyuki
Overview: Genzo is a monk on his way to Tianzhu (early East Asian name for India). Along the way, he happens to visit a house and meets an old couple. The couple has an adopted son, Taro Yamada (Kenichi Matsuyama). They ask Genzo to rehabilitate Taro who makes trouble with his magical power. Genzo takes Taro and travels to Tianzhu.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-27
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Man Gataro Show: Babaa Zone
Overview: Based on the manga by Man Gataro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-19
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Rise of the Machine Girls
Overview: Living in the lawless Ishinari District in a future Japan, sisters Ami (Hina Nagimiya) and Yoshie (Hanakage Kanon) who sold their bodies to help their parents, try to earn a living performing as an idol group in the area. When their performance causes stranger Matsukata (Tak Sakaguchi) a notorious hitman, to notice their condition, the three realize their worth to each other in the fight against Aoyama Dharma (Kimono Negishi), the female boss of a notorious organ harvesting ring in the area. Realizing that even their skills are no match for her army of goons and henchmen, the two are outfitted with special homemade weaponry to their bodies and become the ultimate killers.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-08-17
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Meatball Machine Kodoku
Overview: Nobody knows where they came from. They parasitize in human beings, take control of them and change their bodies into hideous monsters (Necro-borg). The Necro-borg fight each other until the other dies. Where did they come from? To what end? Yuji and Kaoru, whom both have dark secrets within themselves, get caught up in the horrific battles of Necro-borg. What will their fate be?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-19
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Tsubushiya Reika
Overview: "When Ikasama comes out, use your hammer to crush your hands," that is the rule of Ura Mahjong. Reika, a great female sparrow, beat many men and was scared as a crusher. However, as a substitute for Yakuza, Shimizu falls into a mean trap and Reika crushes her right hand. And a year later she came back. In order to save the women who are raped and sold their bodies by making a debt with Ura Mahjong. Before that, it was Shimizu, the nemesis of the relationship. And the last big game begins when the loser loses everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-08
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To the North
Overview: Ken works at the Konbini and Sho is boring - the boys need an adventure, a road trip. Life is too short for monotony. A ride is quickly found and on their way they meet a beautiful girl, a bad man, an affectionate ballet teacher and a singing cook, among others. And all with what is probably the coolest car in the world.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-19
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Tokyo Serendipity
Overview: Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after, the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-18
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The Blue Danube
Overview: The soldiers no longer know why they are at war, and when it even started. Daily and dutifully they march to the river and shoot at the opposite village from 9 to 5 – orders are orders after all. They’ve done so for decades. When private Tsuyuki is transferred to the marching band, people keep asking him what use music is in times of war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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Toshie The Nihilist
Overview: Cryptocurrency exchange secretary Toshie ought to be celebrating the release of her boyfriend from jail. Instead, a freak accident compels her to swim from Japan to Hawaii with the child of an American-Vietcong war hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-15
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