Kaori Kobayashi
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 23, 1958
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Gender: Female
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Turning Point
Overview: A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-06-18
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Typhoon Club
Overview: Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-31
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Natsu no pēji
Overview: Three young country boys are beginning to drift apart as friends. In the summer, they set off to have an adventure in the mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-17
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Arashi Tatsunari
Overview: Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts a woman's difficult choice for love. Ayako, played by Yukiyo Toake, is an international conference coordinator. Torn between her childhood sweetheart (played by Kenji Sawada) and her English professor (played by Noboru Nakaya), Ayako will seek answers to love, marriage, and choice.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-25
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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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Fushin no Toki
Overview: Suspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-28
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Dogra Magra
Overview: A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-10-15
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Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw
Overview: A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-31
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It's Easier Than Kissing
Overview: After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-01-28
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Hadashi no seishun
Overview: Youth movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-12
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The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Overview: Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-07
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Investigation of a Typical Love
Overview: The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who doesn't take on anything other than background checks for marriage and looking for cats. One day, a request for a job that belongs to him comes in. It is from Masako, a married woman who suspects her husband of having an affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-21
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Goodbye for Tomorrow
Overview: People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-23
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Ōoku: Hyakka ryōran
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-08
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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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