Yuta Hiraoka
Also Known As: 平岡祐太, Yûta Hiraoka
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
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Devoted Cookbook
Overview: The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where she learns how to cook. When she turns 18, she moves to Edo (today's Tokyo) where she opens her own restaurant.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-22
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Nana
Overview: Two girls named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo. Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O. hopes to make it big in the music business. Despite their differences, the pair hit it off and become roommates.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-03
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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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Battle Under Orion
Overview: The story of a Japanese sub's last mission during WWII.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-13
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Immersion
Overview: Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting between reality and the virtual world.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-16
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Operation Love Special
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Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-25
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My Sister, My Love
Overview: It is a taboo story about love and incest between twins. It's not about sex, it's about the feelings the two have for one another and how society views them.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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ケーキの切れない非行少年たち
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-04-20
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Bread of Happiness
Overview: A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-28
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Koi to onchi no hōteishiki
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-17
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働くゴン!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-23
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Devoted Cookbook
Overview: It is the Spring of 1814. The restaurant “Tsuru-ka” is gaining much popularity after its chef, Mio, won the prestigious cooking competition. One day, the owner of “Tsuru-ka”, Taneichi, employed young Fuki to be the attendant for customers’ shoes. Mio could fully empathize with young Fuki, who was an orphan and yet was courageous enough to survive on her own. Around the same time, the famous novelist Seiemon started coming to “Tsuru-ka”. Even though Seiemon criticized Mio’s cooking each time, he always returned to the restaurant daily.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-08
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First Love
Overview: A university student kills her father with no apparent motive. But is her claim that she is a liar simply another lie? A psychologist burdened with her own scars seeks to uncover the truth. There, she discovers a fabricated past and the screams of a soul violated by those she loved. Based on the novel by Shimamoto Rio.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-22
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Check It Out, Yo!
Overview: Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon witnessing the crowd reaction, the boys decide to start a rap group of their own to impress chicks—while Toru (Hayato Ichihara) has the added motivation of impressing his older, more sophisticated love interest Nagisa (Ayumi Ito). With only 2 weeks to learn how to play instruments and prepare for their first show, the performance is predictably humiliating. In order to save pride they decide to give it another shot, but this time they ditch the instruments for a sampler and stay truer to themselves. Will Toru be able to capture Nagisa’s heart? Will Yui ever confess her love to Toru or will she just keep practicing her advanced pro wrestling techniques on him instead?
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-04-22
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Be with You
Overview: Takumi and his six-year-old son, Yuji, haven't come to terms with their wife and mother's death. One day, they meet a woman with an uncanny resemblance to her sheltering from the rain near their home.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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Face
Overview: Seira Ino (Emi Takei) is about to make her major label debut as a “masked artist” who does not show her face.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-01-03
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-23
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Witch's Perfume
Overview: Wakabayashi Ema is a temporary employee who works at a banquet hall where glamorous celebrities gather. But, she loses her job after protesting against her superior's sexual harassment towards a junior employee. Wandering, Ema visits a perfume shop run by a mysterious woman named Shirashi Yayoi, also known as the "witch." While helping in the shop, Ema realizes that she holds the key to shaping her future through the words and scents given to her by Yayoi. Ema moves to work for a fragrance company, where she reunites with Ren.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-16
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SWING GIRLS First & Last Concert
Overview: The big band 'Swing Girls & A Boy' formed in the movie 'SWING GIRLS'. This concert will be the culmination of that, and deliver their first and last concert! In addition to the fresh big band jazz of the girls who jumped out of the movie, the folk duo from the film "Coelacanth" appears.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-06
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機捜235Ⅲ
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-16
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Enishi: The Bride of Izumo
Overview: Maki Iizuka (Nozomi Sasaki) works as an editor for a wedding magazine in Tokyo. She is set to marry Kazunori Nakamura (Yuta Hiraoka) next month, when her grandmother dies. Her grandmother was like a mom to Maki. While Maki arranges items left by her grandmother, she discovers a box made from empress tree. The box contains a white bridal Kimono and marriage registration forms. The marriage registration forms are mostly empty, except for the name "Soichi Akiguni" filled into a blank. Maki becomes curious about Soichi Akiguni and decides to go to her hometown Izumo in Shimane Prefecture. There, she meets a young fisherman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-31
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Handling Method for Grumpy Women
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-15
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GTO: New Year's Special
Overview: A mother leaves three kids in the care of Saejima and it's up to Onizuka and the gang to track her down. Meanwhile Miki is having some problems with her dad all the while a handsome and mysterious cram school teacher appears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-02
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Koujin
Overview: It has been 100 years since the Battle of Sekigahara. The Nagatsuno domain and Koyama domain at the southern edge of Tohoku have been at odds for a long time. Soya Danjo , the Nagatsuno domain’s chief retainer, keeps invading and plundering the Koyama domain. His deeds trouble his sister Akane. One day, a young boy from the Koyama domain is covered with injuries after being attacked by an unknown monster. He escapes to a Nagatsuno village and is brought to Akane by the wandering samurai Sakakida Soei. The approaching monster strikes fear. Together with Sakakida and painter Kikuchi Enshu, Akane musters wit and courage to fight against the monster and uncover the mystery of its birth in order to protect her people.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-17
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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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Tokyo Friends: The Movie
Overview: Rei Iwatsuki moved from her hometown Kōchi to Tokyo to pursue her dreams. On arrival, she found a job as a waitress in a restaurant and met guitarist Ryuuji Shintani. Ryuuji liked her voice and invited her to join his band as the vocalist, The Survival Company (also known as Sabakan). The two started a relationship but then broke off when Rei wanted to write her own songs. Rei met other girls also working in the restaurant, Hirono, Ryoko and Maki, all in pursuit of their own dreams, and became good friends with all of them. One day, Rei receives news that Takashi was seen in New York and she decides to go look for him...
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-12
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Trick: The Movie 2
Overview: Ueda employes Yamada to go a mysterious island in search of a girl (played by Maki Horikita) that disappeared 10 years ago. They discover the island is run by Kobako Sachiko, who can appear and disappear via boxes, among other strange powers.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-10
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Happy Dining Table
Overview: On the first day of school for third-year junior high student Nakahara Sawako (Kitano Kie), her father (Haba Yuichi, Off Balance) announces that he is quitting his teaching position and absolving from all parental responsibilities. For Sawako, this is only the latest episode in her family's parade of problems. Three years ago her father attempted suicide, and since then, things haven't been quite the same, with her mother (Ishida Yuriko, Miracle in Four Days) moving out and her studious older brother (Hiaraoka Yuta, Be With You) giving up school. Amidst the family drama, Sawako finds her own balance, working hard in school and developing a romance with cheerful transfer student Oura (Katusji Ryo, Aegis). But more obstacles lie ahead, changes that will throw her already fragile life further awry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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Specialist 2
Overview: A mysterious code written with letters and numbers is found on a street in Kyoto. Yoshito Takuma (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and Chinami Anekoji (Kaho Minami) begin to investigate. They discover that something happened at the place where the code was found on stickers and they also discover a dead body. A man known as "Writer" is suspected of being the culprit. To find the man known as "Writer," Yoshito Takuma infiltrates into Shiga central prison. --asianwiki
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-08
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Specialist 3
Overview: Shu Kubota is killed by someone with a baseball bat. A metal bat and an old toy are found at the crime scene. Detective Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) with the special investigation unit goes to the crime scene to investigate. There, Detective Yoshito realizes that he made the old toy about 10 years ago when he worked at the public relations divsion of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Department. Detective Yoshito decides to solve the case by himself and without the help of his partner Detective Chinami (Kaho Minami). --asianwiki
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-28
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Specialist 4
Overview: Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) becomes famous in Kyoto because of his ability to solve cases. The special investigation unit receives a request to investigate a case revolving around the kidnapping of a costumed performer. He plays a non-official character of the Arashiyama area, located on the western outskirts of Kyoto. Nobody takes the kidnapping case seriously, but Yoshito says the case could be real and it might be related to a crowdfunding site.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-12
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L
Overview: L stopped enjoying life as a little girl. She flees abuse at the hands of her adoptive parents and heads for the big city. There, L's life is wrecked by a string of bad relationships, and she takes the fall for a friend who commits murder and ends up in jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-25
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It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
Overview: A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-15
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Neck
Overview: Tomokazu Shudo has his first ever crush on Sugina Mayama, a senior student. Tomokazu has troubles confessing his feelings to the popular student, but one day, he is invited to the research lab where Sugina Mayama works. Tomokazu hopes to use this meeting to express his true feelings for her. To Tomokazu's surprise, when he arrives he first sees a big wooden box in the middle of the dark lab. Sugina tells Tomokazu that he looks scared and then proceeds to push Tomokazu into the box!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-21
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Christmas on July 24th Avenue
Overview: Sayuri Honda (Miki Nakatani) claims she has no interests in love affairs. She refuses to take things as they are for she fancies her harbor town of Nagasaki as Lisbon, Portugal. But on Christmas, encouraged by the season of romance, she tries to materialize her once-in-a-lifetime love with the man of her dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-03
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Presents: Sea Urchin Rice Cracker
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-10
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Kids Return: The Reunion
Overview: Set 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. Shinji attempted to become boxer and Masaru a yakuza. They both tried to rise to the top of their respective fields.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-12
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A Day Beyond the Horizon
Overview: The daily lives of troubled youth in Okinawa.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-29
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Strawberry Night: After the Invisible Rain
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Genres: TV Movie Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-26
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Dance, Subaru!
Overview: Subaru and her twin brother Kazuma share a dream in becoming ballet dancers, but their passion is discouraged by their father. After Kazuma's death from a hereditary illness, dancing became Subaru's only happiness and she yearns to lose herself in dance. Her life takes a dramatic turn when she runs into cabaret owner Isuzu, who recognizes the talent in Subaru and trains her in her nightspot. But to become a professional ballerina, Subaru has to overcome harsher challenges than merely satisfying the cabaret drunkards. Spurred on by her rivaling dance companions, Subaru enters an international dance competition, to vie for recognition and a scholarship to any top ballet company in the world. Subaru and her companions soon discover that there are more to compete than the championship, and tests of friendship, betrayal and self-worth come one after another. Gradually the youngsters learn about themselves as dancers, as persons and as friends.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-19
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Kisou 235 II
Overview: A connection is found between a string of arsons and a 12 year old murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-19
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Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
Overview: The mysterious life of Princess Nouhime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-17
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金田一耕助シリーズ・悪魔の手毬唄
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-05
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A Conviction of Marriage
Overview: Serial killer Shinju Shinagawa , called "Shinagawa Pierrot" for her clown makeup at arrest 3 years ago, remained silent during her first trial. Child consultation center worker Arata Natsume suddenly gets a request from Takuto Yamashita, the child of one of the serial killer's victims, who informs him that he's been corresponding with Shinagawa in his name in order to find out what she did with his father's missing head. Arata pretends to be an elite civil servant but finds that the Shinagawa he meets is different from the one he expected. When she realizes he isn't the sender of the letters, she goes to leave. In a panic, Arata, who never planned on getting married, blurts out "Let's get married!"
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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Johnny's Jr. Our Survival Wars
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-01
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REQUIEM
Overview: The gears of fate set in motion by the death of a young friend in their youth. A composer, tormented by the intertwining of love and friendship, struggles to find the 'Promise Sonata.'
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-02-28
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