Shinobu Tsuruta
Also Known As: Shinobu Tsuruta, Arashi Kannin
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: February 14, 1946
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Male
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The Second Love
Overview: Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi's younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo is continually suspicious of her fidelity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-08
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Faces
Overview: Juzo Kimura is a wandering Ronin with a past. 15 years later, after winding up in Edo, he becomes a sword teacher to support his wife and daughter. But he has a dark side to him; at night, he becomes an assassin for hire. The fates of men living double lives cross in the shadows of Edo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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Like a Beast
Overview: The second popular explosion! The man who aims at the top of the organization with indomitable fighting spirit has transformed into a ferocious beast! A powerful hero that shines like a comet!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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Taboo X Perversion
Overview: A young woman has feelings for her older cousin but he is obsessed with blonds. When a European temptress comes for a visit his fantasies come true. But he soon finds out that she likes it really kinky.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-09-07
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Seiko's Juicy Thighs: Public Bath Beauty
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-29
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Sannen-me no Uwaki
Overview: A young couple with marital problems are beset by an office lady temptress, amorous paramours and the swingers next door.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-08
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The Long Darkness
Overview: A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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金田一耕助ファイルⅡ 獄門島
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-26
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Spectacle of Buds
Overview: A weak willed man teams up with a stripper after her stage show partner runs off with another dancer. He is obsessed with her unique inverted nipples and they soon develop a successful stage show around them. But then the old partner returns…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-26
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Boiling Point
Overview: Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-15
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The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
Overview: A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-02
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I Are You, You Am Me
Overview: 9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-17
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Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 36
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-13
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The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt
Overview: #31 in the King of Minami series. A washed-up yakuza named Fukunaga borrows money from Manda, unwittingly involving him in a sinister murder plot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-21
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Seven Days War 2
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-06
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Uno Koichiro no nurete manabu
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-06-10
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Nozoki
Overview: An old married couple with bedroom problems become upset over the sexual antics of their daughter and a visiting randy couple. But then the part-time lovers of the couple show up and complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-09-16
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金融腐蝕列島 再生
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-13
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Seiko no futomomo: Za chiagāru
Overview: An awkward girl tries out for a university cheerleading squad and ends up getting an extracurricular education in growing up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-07-23
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The Rainbow Seeker
Overview: A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-28
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Free and Easy 15
Overview: Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-08-21
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Top Stripper
Overview: A naive delivery boy becomes infatuated with a girl who works at a local strip joint. Despite his daily attendance and attempts to get her attention she remains indifferent until one day she invites him onstage...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-15
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Overview: Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-18
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Defeat the Devil!
Overview: A one part drama/made for TV movie starring Rie Miyazawa
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-06
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再雇用警察官4
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-04
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必殺仕事人2018
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-07
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Tulips in October
Overview: Detective Ushio is called in to the murder of an elite heart surgeon, who was stabbed twice at a cluster of vending machines in a parking lot.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-22
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Overview: In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-23
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Free and Easy 17
Overview: Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-05
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Free and Easy 20: Final
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-26
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I Don't Have a License!
Overview: A popular movie star named Hiroshi Nanjo faces a huge problem in filming his new action flick when they find out he hasn't got a license to drive. He is sent to a driving school and...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-02-11
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My Secret Cache
Overview: Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, resulting in a suitcase stuffed with cash falling into a nearby river. For the remainder of the film, Sakiko begins a desperate quest to retrieve the money.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-02-15
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Play it, Boogie-Woogie
Overview: A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-07
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Scent of a Spell
Overview: A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that she’s escaped from a violent husband. but there’s more to her story than she's willing to tell at first.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-27
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Yakyukyo no uta
Overview: Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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Love and Death
Overview: Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the circumstances, they try to not act on their attraction. However, as time goes by, they realise that, perhaps, they cannot be without each other. Will the forbidden love affair move forward and can they finally be with each other?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-05
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Free and Easy 10
Overview: Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-08
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Free and Easy 16
Overview: Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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Kachô Shima Kôsaku
Overview: Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-03
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Snowland Revisited
Overview: Kunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets Geisha Moeko, and she gives him power to face life one more time...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-19
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Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 37 - Mystery of Double Homicides from Tokyo to Hamamatsu
Overview:
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-07
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Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 38
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-29
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Bonds
Overview: Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-06-06
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オフィス妻のさけび
Overview: Natsuko is witnessed carrying on an affair with her boss, Misawa, by the unmarried Chieko. However, Chieko dies by falling and is found about ten days later in the shrubbery in front of the company. It is revealed that Chieko led a flashy private life and frequented a host club. Moreover, it seems that she was having an affair with Division Chief Yamazaki.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-05-25
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An Ocean to Cross
Overview: Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-01-26
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People of Twilight
Overview: A woman runs a “mistress service” and interviews young women for “dates” with men. Various couples get together but someone is following and watching them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-20
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The King of Minami Returns: A 250 Dollar Promise
Overview: A man who borrowed money from Ginjiro commits suicide. He had been laid off by the unethical Naniwa Advertising Co. A new recruit is also suffering.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-15
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Red Scandal: Affair
Overview: While on an errand for her husband a young wife does a little impulsive shoplifting. But she is caught and soon finds herself blackmailed into working once a week at a high-class brothel. Her husband starts to suspect something so when he finds out where she works during the day they both find it adds excitement to their marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-12-24
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Room of Shame
Overview: After an accident a husband becomes impotent. To help solve the problem of having a sexy wife with an overabundance of desire he invites his three best friends to help out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-19
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A Certain Seductive Summer
Overview: Saeko had an affair with Kuno, a photographer, but after the car they were driving in had an accident, she has withdrawn into a villa in Shonan. One day, she meets Shinji, who rides his motorcycle in front of her beach villa every day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-07
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The Eternal Fountain
Overview: The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji Kuramoto who confesses to murdering his wife. While following Kuramoto's action in Yamanaka and being sure of his innocence, Yamauchi remembers his wife who passed away 12 years earlier.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-16
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Free and Easy 18
Overview: Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-08
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Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
Overview: A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-23
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Henshin Mou Hitori No Watashi
Overview: A suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a free-spirited life, forcing a restaurant owner to raise funds because of the Shinjuku incident. An office lady who impulsively jumps out of the company because she can't stand the sarcasm of girls at the company witnesses a motorboat accident. However, the accident was treated as suicide...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-07
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The Central Quicksand
Overview: A tremor struck the Information Industry Bureau of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The prosecution arrested a local contractor on suspicion of bribery, and then the brunt was directed to the Information Industry Bureau. The interviewee was Akihiko Kurahashi (Shinobu Tsuruta), the leader of the non-carrier group. Previously, Kiichiro Yamada (Ken Ogata), a clerk who lived next door in the government building, couldn't help but sympathize with Kurahashi, who had succeeded in his career.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-04
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Afternoon of the Evil Spirits
Overview: An ancient evil spirit resurrects in the modern age and possesses a beautiful woman.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-03
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A Class to Remember II
Overview: The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-19
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吹く風は秋
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-23
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Koya no Shomei
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-27
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Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami
Overview: Genjuro’s crime was assassination, his punishment was to survive a faked execution and lose his home, lose his identity, and emerge as Maboroshi Shinigami, the Phantom Assassin. When his wife is kidnapped and tortured to reveal his whereabouts and dragged to the executioner for crucifixion by corrupt clan officials, Genjuro faces an army of swords to save her. Evil men aim to frame Genjuro for another murder. For their scheme they need only one thing, Genjuro’s dead body. Genjuro will have to cut down their swordsmen and challenge Sarashina Gunpei, deadliest blade in Japan in a final blood-soaked battle.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-19
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The Drifting Classroom
Overview: An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story unfolds, the diminishing student body weathers this apocalyptic crisis while searching for clues about their surroundings, and dealing with psychological breakdown and dangerous exterior forces.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-11
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