Ryoko Takizawa
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: January 01, 1969
Age: 56 years old
Gender: Female
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Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman
Overview: Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if she was pretty. The victim’s response would almost always lead to their violent death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-16
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Angel Dust
Overview: A police psychologist suspects her former lover of serial murders on the Tokyo subway.
Genres: Horror Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-09-23
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Female Detective Riko: Goddess Eternity
Overview: Second Female Detective Riko Movie
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-09
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Intimate Space
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-24
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Blessing Bell
Overview: Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-08
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Kanikôsen
Overview: On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-04
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Dangan Runner
Overview: A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience store. The store's clerk, a washed-up rock star, chases the thief and literally runs into a Yakuza to whom he owes money. Thus begins an all-night, three-way pursuit through the streets of Tokyo.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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Postman Blues
Overview: Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting his little finger off.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-16
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Have a Nice Day
Overview: Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment
Overview: Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-15
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The Cursed Photographs of the Ikeda Aristocracy
Overview: It was on the day of her reunion with Sachiko, a classmate from her high school days, that Miki began to feel a presence. That night, Sachiko took out a snapshot.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-02
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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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Love of Sawako 2: 1000 Miles Away
Overview: A romantic drama about a modern woman's thirst for romance. Sawako Fujitani has beautiful legs and is a successful "leg-talent," but on the contrary, she has a complex about them. Then there is Shinpei Yoshida, a very popular scriptwriter, who is struggling with the future development of his show and is trapped both physically and mentally. The two meet in a counseling room...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-27
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Boy's Choir
Overview: A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo, convinces him to join the choir.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-28
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The Rocking Horsemen
Overview: It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-31
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Female Detective Riko: The Virgin's Deep Abyss
Overview: The film centers on Riko Murakami, a tough-as-nails detective who is also the single mother of a young boy. At work, she has hit a wall investigating a grisly murder in a hotel room. In her private life, she sweats her son's impeding "park debut" -- when she introduces her son and herself to the young mothers of her neighborhood. Most give her strange almost hostile looks except Sachiko (Keiko Unno), who says her kid is in the hospital. While her son gambles about the playground, Riko and Sachiko exchange child-rearing war stories and soon become friends. Then she learns that the prime suspect of her case is none other than Sachiko's husband. Moreover, she learns that Sachiko's son was in fact the center of a kidnapping case several years ago and the child has been long thought of as dead. Her husband and the detective in charge of child's case both have their own secrets, and soon Riko finds herself and her son threatened.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-19
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Birthright
Overview: Mika, who grew up in an orphanage, having been abandoned soon after birth, begins to look for her mother Naoko. Finding Naoko living happily with her husband and teenage daughter Ayano, she continues to watch from afar...
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-24
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Three Businessmen
Overview: An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-14
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After the Sunset
Overview: Little Towa lives with his parents Satsuki and Yuichi in a coastal town on Nagashima. Yuichi is a fisherman, Satsuki runs a restaurant. What Towa doesn’t know is that he is adopted. As a baby, he was abandoned in an internet café, completely emaciated. While his new parents are secretly fighting for custody of him and want to protect him from his past, the family’s happiness begins to falter. Satsuki and Yuichi aren’t the only ones who are worried about Towa’s future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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