Takaaki Enoki
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 05, 1956
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Chuushingura Sono Gi Sono Ai
Overview: Chuushingura from the perspective of Horibe Yasubee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-02
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浅見光彦 軽井沢殺人事件
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Genres: TV Movie Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-02-28
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Kanei Chronicles
Overview: From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of swords. But behind the match a bloodthirsty plot is born. Tokugawa Yorinobu, a corrupt shogunate official plans to assassinate Shogun Iemitsu and take his place. With scheming samurai Yui Shosetsu and ruthless Negoro ninja leader Genyusai, he plans to incite a ronin uprising and cut a bloody trail across Japan, with terrifying Chinese gunboats to back his play. Matsudaira Izu-no-kami, councilor and friend to the shogun, along with master swordsman Yagyu Jubei and ninja master Hanzo Hattori must stop Yui Shosetsu and his army of ronin and ninja assassins from tearing the country in half and taking over the government!
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-19
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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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SAKURAFUMI
Overview: A beautiful but sad story about an Oiran who never smiles. Produced and staged by PARCO Theater.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-05
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Spy Sorge
Overview: A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who like he is attached to the ideals of freedom and rule of the masses. Sorge is able to feed the Soviet Union useful information regarding the Axis allies and their movements in Asia and beyond.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-14
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Heaven and Earth
Overview: Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, Kagetora must find the strength to be as brutal as his opponent, but at what cost?
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-24
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Sleeping Bride
Overview: Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a patient there. A nurse remarks that the girl is 'Sleeping Beauty', and Yuuichi believes that a kiss from a prince will wake her, just like the story. Yuuichi returns to see Yumi every day, says 'Wake up, I'm the prince' and kisses her. Ten years later he restarts his daily ritual to see Yumi, one day she wakes up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-29
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Mango and the Red Wheelchair
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-27
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Cannonball Wedlock
Overview: 24-year-old OL Chie Ikeshita's (Yuriko Yoshitaka) motto is to try various things to enjoy life. Chie spends her time accordingly to her motto. Chie Ikeshita then starts to date 5 different men and adjusts herself to the different situations. Up to this point, Chie never thought about marriage. She changes her thought after her friend Toshiko Hamaguchi (Anne Watanabe) gets married. Chie takes the advise of Toshiko and decides to marry one of the 5 men. She must now whittle down her choice to one man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-01
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Kaidan
Overview: Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-04
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Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
Overview: Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general Takeda Shingen. Takeda Shingen has proven himself in battle but there’s an even more capable person in his family, his father Nobutora (lit. Samurai Tiger). The son exiles the father and so the old patriarch goes to Suruga to serve the Ashikaga shogun in Kyoto. Decades later, Nobutora, now 80 years old, learns that Shingen is in trouble and the old man returns home to keep the Takeda family alive as a new leader seeks to usurp leadership of the Takeda’s and starts a fight with the great warlord, Oda Nobunaga.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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Unmei no gyakuten: Nusuma reta kigyô himitsu!
Overview: Kazuhiko, a game software planner, resigns and decides to go independent after a trade secret leak to a rival company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-10
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Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion
Overview: Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by two young men. Ten years later, she crosses paths with her former step-sister, who is soon poisoned to death, Iori being the prime suspect.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-21
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Ino Tadataka: Meridian dreams
Overview: Biographical story, based on life of Ino Tadataka, a Japanese measurer and cartographer. Ino Tadataka travelled the length and breadth of Japan on foot for 17 years from the age of 55 to perform his surveys. The accuracy of his maps also owed much to the fact that he was the first surveyor in Japan to combine measurements on the ground with observations of the heavens. Ino started the work as a private individual but earned the confidence of the Shogunate and it eventually turned into a national project. His maps were later used for many years as the foundation for maps made by modern survey techniques.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-17
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Itosato
Overview: The story is set 155 years ago, during the battles that ended the Shogun era and through the eyes of young Itosato, we gather an interesting glimpse into a world surrounded by the most arcane women, who for the times they were destined to live, were very similar to the women of today; displaying leadership and strength within the bounds of a society at large. Itosato is a "TENJIN,' who is a courtesan in training just beneath the rank of TAYOU, which carries an Aristocratic title of Supreme Entertainer in the old capital city of Kyoto. There are two more women who play a key role in this story and all three women are in love with men who are commanders within the infamous special police task force, Shinsengumi. A task force that was organized to protect Shogun government under the command of the Kyoto Military Commissioner.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-15
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Adan
Overview: Biopic of painter Tanaka Isson
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-05-20
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Moon Over Tao: Makaraga
Overview: A retired warrior comes to see his former lord and learns that someone is making indestructible swords from some unknown metal. He is sent together with a swordsman to investigate the source. Along the way they meet a young girl working as a beekeeper. She is later witness to the appearance of three strange females from another dimension. They are searching for a lost weapon that has landed on earth and as one of them lay dying she enlists the girl to help them control the strange beast/weapon. Meanwhile the warrior and the swordsman learn that an old nemesis has created the swords from the shell that surrounded the alien weapon. Soon the alien beast/weapon is awakened and battle for control ensues.
Genres: Action Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-11-29
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Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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Fusa
Overview: Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-04-01
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Spring Snow
Overview: Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngsters amongst the aristocracy and rich of early twentieth century Japan.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-09
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Chosyu Five
Overview: Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and studied in Britain in 1863 while Japan was still under sakoku (鎖国 "locked country").
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-22
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Hazan
Overview: Biopic of ceramic artist Hazan Itaya (1872-1963).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-02
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Saulabi
Overview: In this sweeping swordplay saga from Korea, a dedicated band of warriors from the Baekje Dynasty travel to Japan in hopes of mending the broken Heaven's Sword and restoring Baekje to its former glory. 30 years later, the only surviving warrior Woo-do vows to complete the task by seeking out Kanemaru, the master of swords, and bring the Heaven's Sword back to life. SAULABI is a spectacular Samurai epic with action choreographed by longtime Akira Kurosawa collaborator Eizi Takakura (Samurai Fiction).
Genres: Action War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-02-22
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Oshorin
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-03
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Shimamori Tower
Overview: Together with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa during the war, Arai Taizo (Murakami Jun), the chief of police of Okinawa Prefecture, goes beyond his duties and strives to protect the lives of the citizens of the prefecture. As the ravages of war intensify, the two, who each carried a heavy cross during the Battle of Okinawa, desperately devote themselves to saving the lives of the Okinawan people, with the belief that "life is precious." A human drama, set in Okinawa at the end of World War II, depicting the preciousness of human life. Directed by Igarashi Sho of One Step on a Mine, It's All Over.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-22
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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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Remembrance
Overview: The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-23
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Asami Mitsuhiko: Genji Monogatari Satsujin Jiken
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Genres: TV Movie Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-12
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Ai・Mai・Me
Overview: Kaoruko, the daughter of a doctor and attending a prestigious high school in Fukuoka, was vaguely anxious about the future. She's even more scared when her friend Natsumi invites her to membership-based prostitution club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-28
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Sakurada Gate Incident
Overview: Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-16
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Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Overview: In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's because of his great sword techniques. However, a group within the feudal clan which supported to use guns considered Kojiro an obstacle in their goals and has the well-known ronin, Miyamoto Musashi, fight him. Now because of political gain and greed, two honorable men are to fight to the death on Ganryu Island.
Genres: TV Movie Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Hyakunen no kei, watashi ni ari
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-03
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The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma
Overview: "Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Genji Hakaru. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Ryokuzono Miyasutokoro is obsessed with Genji and eventually becomes a spirit. Yu Kao, who is from the lower class, give comfort to Genji's emotional wounds. Writer Murasaki Shikibu is jealous of Genji and is eventually ordered by Seime Abe to write a work ...
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-12-10
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
Overview: Izumi Hoshi is senior in high school, but she led a small yakuza group in her past. After killing her uncle's murderer with a machine gun, her yakuza group disbanded. Izumi now lives an ordinary life as a high school student and works as a manager at a cafe. A dangerous situation soon awaits for Izumi.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-05
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Mr. Osomatsu
Overview: The Matsuno brothers return to the big screen, this time in live-action and portrayed by the members of the Japanese boy band Snow Man! Osomatsu ends up meeting the CEO of a multi-trillion yen company, who wants to adopt Osomatsu as his own! The other brothers find out, and of course, they can't let that slide without a fight...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-25
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Noh Mask Murders
Overview: The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
Overview: A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-08-21
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Jeanne d'Arc
Overview: In 1429, a young woman donned armor and entered the battle, recapturing Orleans, which become had a stronghlod for the English. Two years later, a solidier who witnessed her dead, visits King Charles VII of France to report the incident. The young woman's name is Joan of Arc, who had reecived a divine revelation at the age of 13. What did the voice of God bring Jeanne? Why did she choose to accept death, even she was given the opportunity to live? The unknown nature of Joan of Arc's "life" is now revealed .....
Genres: Fantasy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-28
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Overview: A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-11-08
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The Wind Carpet
Overview: Japan and Iran are not in close relationship. More than 4 centuries ago, however, Persian carpets were used in the festival of Takayama, a historic city in mountainous area of Honsyu. A man planned to resume the carpet in the festival, and asked Kinue, a Persian carpet designer, to design it. Kinue's husband, Makoto, is a carpet importer. They send the design to Iran to weave the carpet. But just before Makoto goes to Iran to receive the carpet, Kinue dies of a traffic accident. A month before the festival, Makoto went to Isphahan, Iran, to receive the carpet. He brings his daughter Sakura, who does not open her heart after she lost her mother. To surprise, the carpet production has not even started. It will take 3 months from the start. For Makoto it means he betrays not only the festival planners but also his late wife.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-07-11
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Shibuya Story
Overview: Biopic of yakuza Noboru Ando, based on his autobiography.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-05
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Hanjiro
Overview: Japanese history explodes across the screen in the life story of Hitokiri Nakamura Hanjiro, one of the great heroes of the Meiji Restoration. From his earliest beginnings as a country samurai raising sweet potatoes whose exceptional sword skills impressed Saigo...
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-09
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Journey of the Sky Goddess
Overview: Takako Kojima works as an announcer in Tokyo, Japan. She is tired of living in Tokyo and she doesn't see a bright future for herself. One day, she is assigned to cover a festival in Minamiosumi, Kagoshima Prefecture. Takako spent her childhood in the town of Minamiosumi and this will be her first time going there in many years. Takako reluctantly covers the festival, but she is changed by the people there.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-09
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Hear the Sound of Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-23
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Ninomiya Kinjirou
Overview: Ninomiya Kinjirou is a biopic follows the life of the eponymous character, an 18th century peasant boy who worked to rescue over 600 poor villages and hamlets from financial ruin by developing new economic policies.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-01
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Fukuzawa Yukichi
Overview: Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is one way more global one. His struggle against patriarchal mindset leads his school to become one of the oldest universities in Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-24
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Mio's Cookbook
Overview: When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cooking and eventually became a cook. Meanwhile, Noe has become an oiran (high-ranking courtesan).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-16
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Shadow Warrior Tokugawa Ieyasu
Overview: Tokugawa Ieyasu is killed at the Battle of Sekigahara. Jirosaburo Serada, who travels all over the country, becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu's shadow warrior and runs country….
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-02
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Kindachi Kosuke: The Devil Comes and Blows the Whistle
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Genres: Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-05
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The Story of Dan the Puppy
Overview: Elementary schoolgirls find a puppy and decide to take care of it. Learning and giving lessons in supportive-ness, loyalty, and friendship.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-14
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Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma
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Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-01-25
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Dear Heart
Overview: Mizushima Shinji is staying a highlands for his health with his wife Miwako after he recieved a heart transplant. But his tender personality turns to violent. In fact, he got a a serial killer's heart.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-05
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The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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Isha Sensei
Overview: The true story of Isha Sensei, the only doctor in her hometown Oisawa Village (now Oisawa, Nishikawa Town) in Yamagata Prefecture, a remote area at the time, where there was no doctor.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-09
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Chesuto!
Overview: Hayato, a boy in the 6th grade, hides the secret that he can't swim. Every summer, he pretends to be sick, so he could avoid school swimming tournaments. But, as it is the last year in the elementary school, he can't escape from swimming practice and is forced to participate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-19
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Overview: In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed police of the shogunate in Kyoto. Very few knew that Souji was not a boy, but a woman. Souji loved the vice-leader of the armed police, Toshizou Hijikata. Souji suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis and coughed up blood during a battle. Toshizou helped her but said that he did not care for the girl with a smell of blood. Souji had a real talent for swordsmanship and no one but Ryouma Sakamoto could compete with her. Ryouma was a liberal intellectual and tried to carry out a revolution without blood. However, the bloody Meiji Restoration broke out and Souji killed Ryouma who lost his dream. Because a friendship had sprung up between Toshizou and Ryouma, Toshizou got angry and slashed at Souji with a sword. Unwillingly, she unsheathed her sword and thought that she might get love if she was killed by the man she loved.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-06
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Overview: In the inner chambers of the Shugun's castle, 3,000 men attempt to vie for the affection of the female shogun. Based on the 4th-6th volumes in the manga series "Ooku" by Fumi Yoshinaga.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-22
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疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-04
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警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 －炎上－
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-04-01
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Yume Camera 2
Overview: Second part of the Fujiko Fujio omnibus TV drama special production.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-03-02
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サラリーマン金太郎【暁】編
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-10
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サラリーマン金太郎【魁】編
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-02-07
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