Teppei Koike
Also Known As: 小池 徹平, Koike Teppei, WaT
Biography: Teppei Koike (小池徹平) is a Japanese singer and actor. Koike and Eiji Wentz (ウエンツ瑛士) forms the singer-songwriter duo WaT. The duo released their debut single Boku no Kimochi (僕のキモチ) in 2005.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
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ミュージカル「るろうに剣心 京都編」
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-17
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1789 -Lovers of the Bastille-
Overview: A beautiful love story that bloomed in Paris and scattered in the Bastille. France at the end of the 18th century, where the populace struggled with poverty and the aristocracy drowned in luxury. After his father was murdered by an aristocrat, Ronan, a farmer, fled to Paris and joined the revolutionaries. He gains passionate friends such as Robespierre, Danton, and Desmoulins, and burns hope for a new era. (Toho 2018)
Genres: History Romance Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-09
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Lovely Complex
Overview: Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxieties and interests. Risa, a tall Japanese girl, gets rejected by a boy because she is taller than him. Otani, a short Japanese guy, gets rejected by a girl because he is shorter than her. Obviously these two would make the oddest of couples and would never be a good match for each other right?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-12
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Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories
Overview: Bunsei era, at a time when Edo culture is at its peak, and barely 50 years before the arrival of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Sabu is a cheerful, honest young man who left his hometown with the dream of becoming a policeman. He is an informant to the policeman Saheiji of Asakusa in Edo and stays with him and his daughter Midori. One day, Sabu encounters the cool master swordsman Ichi, who makes a living giving massages, and they become partners in an unexpected way. Although Sabu is still an informant, he and the blind Ichi collaborate in a way that compensates for each other’s shortcomings. Sabu becomes Ichi’s eyes while Ichi becomes Sabu’s right-hand man and solves cases with his well-honed skills of deduction as they search for the truth in difficult cases in Edo. One case starts with the discovery of two dead bodies in the Sumida River. The bodies have diagonal slashes and were left in boxes.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-19
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Death Note: The Musical
Overview: A high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-02
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Psyche
Overview: One day, while the main character is dozing off, he is abandoned by the owner of the shadow that he lives in. This creature who has lost his home wanders through the night city in search of his shadow.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-10
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Kids
Overview: Asato is a young man who returns to a slummy neighbourhood (referred to as 'The Street') to be near his Mum who is in prison. He is able to transfer other people's injuries and is unable to walk past a child with a grazed knee or broken arm without helping them. Asato is protected from street thugs by Takeo, another troubled young man who has issues involving his father who is lying in a coma in hospital. The third member of their group is a young waitress, Shiho, who has her own secret.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-02
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Gokusen: The Movie
Overview: A passionate teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Yankumi, is now overseeing the new students of Class 3D of Akado High School, who still have not opened up to her and are giving her a hard time. Current and former Class 3D students collide in this epic finale to the Japanese TV series.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-11
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Portrait of the Wind
Overview: Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s fatal heart attack. One day at the family photo studio, he finds a kindred spirit in Ayako and the requisite sparks fly between them. The initial portions of the film deal with their budding romance, and it isn’t long before the two become a serious couple, and Ayako is pregnant with Tamio’s child.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-15
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The Homeless Student
Overview: Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience of homelessness when this father suddenly decides to abandon his family. Hiroshi and his older siblings do all what they can to withstand the trouble they encounter along their way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-28
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Genkai in a Black Company
Overview: After the death of this mother, Masao Oneta (Teppei Koike) decides to leave the comfort of his room after years of self isolation and get a job. He lands a position at a small IT firm but doesn't yet realise this company is one of many 'black companies', known for overworking their employees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-21
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Amachan
Overview: Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-01
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Japanese Salaryman NEO
Overview: Shinjo is a new employee at NEO Beer, which is currently ranked fifth in the industry. When NEO’s president demands that they figure out a way to capture the top market share, Sales division chief Nakanishi and his team are struggling to come up with ideas when Shinjo suggests “sexy” as a possible marketing buzzword.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-03
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Sabuibo Mask
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-11
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Hontô ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: 15th Anniversary Special
Overview: Seven scary true horror stories in this 15th anniversary special. The stories are: S Douzan no Onna (Woman from Copper mine S); Satoru-kun; Hannin wa Dare da (Who's the Crmininal?); Sasoi no Mori (Forest invitation); Ude wo Choudai (Give me your arm); Takushi Doraiba wa Kataru (A story from taxi driver) and Yami e no Shikaku (Vision to the Darkness)
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-16
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Lock-On Love
Overview: An endearingly inept guy who has killer looks but zero experience with girls falls in love with a hard-to-get beauty.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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Meters Away, Worlds Apart
Overview: A boy meeting his girlfriend's father for the first time. Visiting a hospitalized high school classmate. The last drink between a failed entertainer and his manager. Combat that ends up in a rap battle. A conversation between sisters at their mother's funeral. An encounter between two random time travelers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-26
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Water Boys 2
Overview: Water Boys was a major sliver screen hit in 2001 that took the Japanese public by storm in depicting high school boys who pour all the passion of their youth into becoming synchronized swimmers. The year 2003 saw the start of a new TV series of the same name that maintained the overall atmosphere of the film while making new developments, and becoming a summer hit with the amazing synchronized swimming feats it depicted. And then in the summer of 2004 a second season of the series with fun and a sense of pathos opened, this time with a new town as the setting and depicting the passion, friendship and love of 32 boys who are absolutely nuts about synchronized swimming.The fascinating synchronized swimming scenes are more powerful than ever. In addition to the scenes of a public performance in the last installment, the show has loads of excitement and thrills throughout.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-06
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Death Note: The Musical
Overview: A high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone’s name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die.
Genres: Music Crime Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-17
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The Confidence Man JP - The Movie -
Overview: In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-17
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Little Ghostly Adventures of Tofu Boy
Overview: Long time ago in ancient Japan, human beings could still see Yokai monsters and were afraid of them. However, as time passed and civilization and enlightenment progressed, people started forgetting about them... Though a son of the leader of all Yokai monsters, Mikoshi Nyudo, an adorable looking monster, Tofu Boy, has no talent in scaring the human beings. He is always scolded by his father and laughed at by his monster friends. One day, he decides to go on a journey to find out about the meaning of his life as a Yokai monster and to see his mother he's never met before.
Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-29
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