Ryoichi Kusanagi
Also Known As: Ryouichi Kusanagi
Biography: Japanese actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Senboku, Akita Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Deathday: August 02, 2023
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ＭＯＫＯにおまかせ
Overview: Adaptation of a Kusugawa Naruo manga.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-11-11
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Abunai Deka Forever The Movie
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-12
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Heisei Zankeiden: Blood Blade Dos Barks!
Overview: A lone wolf yakuza vs detective. It was supposed to be an undercover investigation into the Yakuza organization… A drama of friendship and betrayal between men living in different worlds.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-13
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Doing Time
Overview: A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-14
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Rasuto kyabaree
Overview: A bittersweet coming of age story of a high school girl, her father and the end of an erotic night club. An allegorical requiem for Nikkatsu studios.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-04-23
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The Girl and the Wooden Horse Torture
Overview: Nami is a seemly ordinary high school girl but she has vivid masochistic visions that excite her and practices binding herself tightly with rope. One day she is attacked by two delinquent girls. Muraki, a teacher with a weak heart, sees this and scares them off. Nami’s bizarre hallucinations now begin to feature Muraki abusing her in various S&M situations. Two years later Nami, a college student, meets Muraki on the street and invites him for a drink. He gets drunk and passes out. When he wakes up he finds himself in a S&M themed hotel room where Nami waits to fulfill her desire to be dominated and abused by the man of her dreams.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-12-03
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Marumo Jun no chijo densetsu
Overview: A woman frustrated by her fiancé reluctance for premarital sex sends her on a round of boozing and remembrances of bad sexual encounters. Meanwhile someone is drugging young men late at night and doing unspeakable things to them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-06-15
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Fujun'na kankei
Overview: A shiftless husband who drinks to excess stumbles through relationships with his former lover, his wife and his new young mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-05-11
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One Summer Affair
Overview: The lives of a lively local girl, a female pastor who has a thing for newly married husbands, a pregnant mistress searching for her sugar daddy and a frustrated wandering artist become entwined in the green hills of a mountain resort.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-05
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Hateshinaki zecchô
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-05-20
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College Girls on Friday
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-31
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Kurutta seiyoku-sha: Shufu o osou!
Overview: A man was sentenced to prison for rape. After he was released on parole he had a difficult time finding work. He tried to resist the sexual urges that put him away but his inner beast keeps resurfacing with brutal results. Then one day on his way to another interview he meets a married woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-02-17
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Anne's Lullaby
Overview: A single woman has a series of messy relationships while feeling that her maternal clock is running out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-29
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Sekushî purin: Kuse ni narisô
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-12-25
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Woman in Black Lingerie
Overview: After embezzling money from the company she worked for an assertive young woman and her weak-willed lover go on the run. But she soon craves more than he can deliver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-05-14
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Uniform Girls: The Fruit Is Ripe
Overview: Three high school student girls are on their spring break. They are expecting to get some sex of course. One becomes an adult magazine model. The second one nets a boyfriend. The third one is a little shy and needs helps from her friends. This last girl has fallen in love so her friends take her to his window and, by chance, arrive when mother is performing fellatio on son. The shy and pure third girl is in awe of a mother 'eating' genitalia and wants to give a similar performance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-03
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Zoom Up: The Beaver Book Girl
Overview: A sexually perverse mystery set within the adult magazine industry. A woman is brutally assaulted in an abandoned factory, and her assailant escapes into the darkness after dropping a wad of money. A few years later, a photographer specializing in schoolgirl panty shots meets his match when a mysterious femme fatale volunteers to be his new model. This woman used to be the “queen” of the skin magazines, but she is also hiding a terrible secret and may be a wanted fugitive. Will the photographer escape her sexual grasp?
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-02-20
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Wife's Sexual Fantasy: Before Husband's Eyes
Overview: After a married businessman has his way with a young prostitute he takes good soak in the bath. When he returns to the bedroom he discovers her bloody body. Suddenly two men enter the room with cameras proceed to blackmail him. At first they just want money but when they find out the businessman has a sexy wife she becomes part of the payment.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-10-25
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Yanmama Gambler
Overview: Japan's greatest ever V-cinema franchise touches on life of a single mother gambler this time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-02
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The Lonely Olympics
Overview: This is a story about the youth of a university student who, by chance, aims to compete in the Montreal Olympics in a single scull (a single-seater boat). Every night he stays up all night playing mahjong and drinking. Masao lives his life aimlessly, and even the university he got into after failing the entrance exam twice is on the verge of repeating the year. One day, a high school classmate and friend who graduated from Tokyo University and got a job at a top bank is invited to his wedding reception, and Masao is invited as well. However, Masao feels uncomfortable with the glamor of the surroundings, and when Rie, who is also attending, comforts him, he blurts out, half-jokingly, that he might compete in the Olympics.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-20
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The Discarnates
Overview: Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-09-15
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Gendai sei hanzai: Zenin satsugai
Overview: A girl that lost her life after being gang-raped by gang members revives as a ghost wearing a fox mask in white clothes, and while chanting mysterious words, she kills all of the men that raped her with a Japanese sword.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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Bridal Doll
Overview: At a park a listless young man becomes intrigued by a wandering woman in white as she exits an exhibit of torture at a wax museum. He is slowly drawn into her forbidden world of pain and discipline.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-06
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Angel Guts: Red Classroom
Overview: When Muraki, a porn magazine editor, watches a blue film depicting a gang rape in a school, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress. Quite by chance, whilst looking to reserve a location for a shoot, he happens to encounter her at a love hotel where she works as a receptionist. Her name is Nami and she reluctantly agrees to speak with him, and confesses that it was her in the film. Then, Muraki tells Nami that he wants her to model for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-01-06
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Female Teacher in Rope Hell
Overview: A female teacher spots one of her students being molested by a vagrant. But her rescue attempt fails as the vagrant drags the teacher into an empty classroom and sexually assaults her. The student finds a school employee, a piano tuner, to try and help but all they can offer is some comfort. Later the piano tuner invites the teacher to his house. He wants her to be his obedient loving bride and has built a nice caged apartment in his basement all for her. He subjects her to an endless series of sexual humiliations to persuade her to say yes.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-27
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Detective Story
Overview: A private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murder of a night club owner.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-16
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Overview: Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-02-04
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Woman of the Afternoon: Incite!
Overview: Yuki picks up a gay hitchhiker after leaving her husband's house following an argument. When the hitchhiker discovers his boyfriend having sex with a woman, he decides to keep traveling with Yuki. They reach a diner, which is filled with scummy Deliverance rejects who proceed to rape and torture them.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-14
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Sukeban mafia: Chijoku
Overview: Two tough young street hustlers, Keiko and Kaori, challenge a large organization called the Sukeban Mafia that is involved in drug dealing and prostitution...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-09-06
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Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Overview: Fuyuko, a married woman filled with grief after a miscarriage, has an affair with a younger man and finds herself involved in a robbery plot. For Fuyuko, who is at an impasse, there is no longer "family", "love" and "freedom".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-02-02
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Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga
Overview: Live-action adaptation of the "Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga" manga by Akira Miyashita.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-02
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Dark
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-21
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Kagura Me
Overview: A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death, until they reconnect over the very same dance.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-24
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Prey
Overview: A rock singer who has returned to the U.S. approaches his former musician friends with the soulful sound of reggae that he encountered during his stay in the U.S. However, his friends lost their old energy and were busy chasing only the songs that would sell, and did not pay attention to reggae. Eventually, the lonely and violent rock singer turns to mass indiscriminate murder out of repugnance to the blurred times and humanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-23
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Angel Guts: Nami
Overview: While investigating stories of rape for a magazine article a determined but callus reporter becomes perversely aroused as she meets the women who are suffering through the horror of their experiences. But will she suffer their fate if she goes too far?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-07
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Appassionata
Overview: This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-14
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Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
Overview: A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-01
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Dead End
Overview: A man and woman meet when he pulls her out of an icy fountain that she has just jumped into. But their developing romance is marred by bad friends, money troubles and illegal sex work.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-04
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Koichiro Uno's Dirty Sisters' Barber Shop
Overview: A younger sister helps out in her older sister’s barber shop where the customers get a little too frisky. As the younger sister fends off advances from her brother-in-law the older sister has a rather strange and kinky encounter with the cooking show host she idolizes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Blue Woman
Overview: A frustrated wife who is married to a gay husband has an affair with another man. But she is set up by the husband’s parents who hire a dominatrix and a SM specialist to deal with her infidelity in a rather harsh and pervered manner.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-28
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Young Beast: Secret Pleasures
Overview: Yasuji Hajima runs a butcher shop. When he was younger, he was just as interested in the sex as the next man but lately he has a hard time satisfying his wife who is still oversexed at her age. The Hajimas have one son, Shuichi, who is studying to enter Tokyo University. It is after he sees his parents acting in which he considers an odious manner that he changes entirely and raises the roof in every whichever way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-09
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Harry and His Geisha Girls
Overview: Mr. Harry, who suffers from a "peanut sized" penis complex, comes to Japan to undergo a genital transplant operation, the first of its kind in the world. The operation is a success but Harry soon is involved into a shady plot related to his organ donor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-06-03
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Megumi no Sekai
Overview: A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is questioned.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-19
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Tortured Women's Dark History
Overview: Keiko, a popular actress, lives in hiding in a rural village deep in the mountains with her husband, a former writer, but is given a chance to suddenly become a star again. Her husband begins a relationship with a gangster. The gangsters also take issue with Keiko's beautiful body, and she becomes the target of a violent gang rape. And the incident comes to light...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Apartment Wife: Serial Murders
Overview: Murders of housewives occur one after another in a suburban apartment complex. All of the victims have had an intimate relationship with a certain man, and behind him lies a woman with a past...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-02-28
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No Grave for Us
Overview: A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble...
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-26
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雀鬼 裏麻雀勝負！20年間無敗の男[後編]
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Overview: Shoichi (Kentaro Shimizu) has become the top player in the underworld of mahjong. His daily life is always in danger as he plays for huge sums of money in a single night. The only time he can relax is when he plays mahjong for "fun" at a mahjong parlor. One of the members is Jun-chan, a pimp, but there is something wrong with him... In Shinjuku, where the thoughts of various people intersect, Shoichi's biggest rival appears before him!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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雀鬼 裏麻雀勝負！20年間無敗の男[前編]
Overview: Shoichi Sakurai (Kentaro Shimizu) is a college student who hates mahjong, which ruined his father and mother. One day, unable to refuse his friend's invitation, Shoichi steps into a mahjong parlor and vows to take revenge on the mahjong that ruined his family. He vows to take revenge on his family for their misfortune by playing mahjong, a game he never loses. Shoichi develops a genius technique all by himself. He makes a shocking debut in Shinjuku, but this victory marks the beginning of a 20-year struggle to the death...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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