Ryosei Tayama
Also Known As: 田山涼成, 高山良一, Ryōsei Tayama, Ryousei Tayama, 타야마 료세이, 田山凉成
Biography: Ryôsei Tayama (田山 涼成, Tayama Ryōsei, August 9, 1951) is a Japanese actor and talent born in Midori Ward, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture. His real name and old stage name is 高山 良一. He is represented by SIS Company.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: August 09, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Kekkon shiyou yo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-02
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The Housekeeper Saw!
Overview: Sawagura Nobuko is back housekeeping again in this sequel to the 2014 SP! This time around Nobuko, having been given some pearl earrings as a present sometime before, decides to attend an exhibition for a pearl described as being the world's most expensive one. That pearl is owned by the Iwakura family, who run a large pearl company. While looking at the pearl however, Nobuko is pulled away by a handsome man who seems to have some connection to the family. So when Nobuko finds one of her pearl earrings missing and probably taken by that man, she decides to work as a housekeeper for the Iwakura family until the man shows up again and she can get her earring back. But the Iwakura family that Nobuko is now working for has plenty of secrets beyond just pearls that she'll have to sort out if she wants her earring back...
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-05
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Rain Fall
Overview: A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-04-24
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Mr. Tadano's Secret Mission: From Japan With Love
Overview: Tadano is assigned by the chairman Kurokawa to protect and check the personal affairs of a young idol, Sylvia , who is the main character at the "Flower Earth Festival 2008" organized by Denodo. Sylvia has been threatened by someone to resign from the main character role. Tadano starts investigating while supporting Yamanishi, the event organizer. However, Tadano is struck down by a mysterious giant of a man. Yamanishi, who has obtained important information, is murdered, and Sylvia is kidnapped. Tadano realizes that Anzai, Yamanishi's right-hand man who has been eyeing the chairmanship, is the mastermind behind this. Tadano rescues Sylvia and brings her to the event venue.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-06
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恋に唄えば♪
Overview: A young department store worker discovers a magical lantern which contains the spirit of Tsuboi, a genie who has just one last chance to help someone on Earth.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-03
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GTO: Fall Special
Overview: The special will be set several months after the events of the drama. "Onizuka" learns of the imminent closure of the "Smile Duck" orphanage ("White Swan" in the original manga) due to a certain city development plan and some conflicts of interest for the politicians involved. Of course, he cannot let that happen, and together with his students from class 2-4, he will do everything possible to protect the orphanage.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-02
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Ranma ½
Overview: Akane is the youngest of three daughters for Soun Tendo. Her father Soun Tendo runs a dojo for martial arts. Akane hopes to carry on her father's dojo into the distant future. Meanwhile, Akane has been selected to marry Ranma, the son of her father's long time friend Genma. Akane and Ranma's relationship has developed into a love and hate relationship. Also, Ranma isn't your typical boy. While on a training journey Ranma fell into the Spring of the Drowned Girl and now changes into a women whenever cold water is splashed on him. Warm water will allow him to revert back to a male. Problems arise when Akane's father declares that the successor to their dojo must be a male. Now, Akane and Ranma (being a man only half of the time) must find a secret spring that can cure him of his curse.
Genres: Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-12-09
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Hot staff: Kaikan sex kurinikku
Overview: One day, a man who is sexually impotent (only with his wife) ends up switching places with a sex counselor who looks exactly like him. Depicts a "love story" between husbands and wives with a lot of twists and turns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-04
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GTO: New Year's Special
Overview: A mother leaves three kids in the care of Saejima and it's up to Onizuka and the gang to track her down. Meanwhile Miki is having some problems with her dad all the while a handsome and mysterious cram school teacher appears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-02
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Rope and Breasts
Overview: A husband and wife are on the road doing a traveling BDSM show at various seedy locations. The wife is getting bored with the show and wants to quit. But while on tour in Kyoto a wealthy man and his proper looking wife invite them to do a private show. Little do they know that their stage routine is just child’s play compared to what the couple have in mind for them.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-01-07
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波の塔
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Genres: Mystery Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-23
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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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Throws Out My Hometown
Overview: Aiko and Meri are best friends. But they are to be apart in the next spring, because Aiko is going to Tokyo to attend the university there. In their home town, they meet various people. A bus driver looking for his runway daughter. A young man who can not decide what he should do about his job and marriage. A middle-aged housewife who doesn't see the meaning of their marriage life anymore..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-01
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Gray Sunset
Overview: Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his affliction serves to deepen family ties. Japan's submission to the 58th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-10-10
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The Rest of Our Lives
Overview: To fight the first signs of dementia, the same illness that took the life of his beloved wife, 71-years old Kenji joins the Long and Healthy Life Club, where he befriends the eccentric Mr Hashimoto. His biggest fear is becoming a burden to others, while Hashimoto struggles to come to terms with his failing body. In their quest to stay healthy, they decide to take a swimming class where they meet Kaori, a once-professional athlete turned swimming teacher. Like Kenji, Kaori struggles with the fact that she’s past her peak, but through the swimming lessons, they both find a new perspective on life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-23
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Koichiro Uno's Moist and Steamy
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-11-10
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Emergency Room 24 Hours Special 2002
Overview: After surviving from an incident of Cruise ship hijacking, both doctor Tamaki and the boy injured in the incident, Ryota Inamoto, suffered from different degrees of PTSD. Meanwhile, Doctor Chiharu Kanbayashi's wife is about to give birth to their first children. Would these doctors and patients succeed in overcoming their problems and welcome a happy new year?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-31
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Essential Information for a College Girl
Overview: The erotic adventures and troubles of several female college students.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-24
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Uno Koichiro no nurete modaeru
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-01-05
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Eight Ranger
Overview: Set within the devastated city of Eight City, the Eight Rangers protect the city and go against the evil Dark Kuruseido.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-07-28
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I Just Didn't Do It
Overview: A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-20
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Tokyo Rhapsody
Overview: "Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the music that defined two generations of post-war Japan. Although the term survives, it has a strong connotation with a simpler, pre-"Economic Bubble" era when Japanese people shared a common identity in the reconstruction of their nation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-12
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Tora-san Makes Excuses
Overview: Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his love interest or "Madonna".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-26
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Deadball
Overview: Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, deadly fireball pitch, Jubeh swore off baseball and became a criminal and now, at 17, has been sent to the Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory for hardened criminals. Headmistress Ishihara, the granddaughter of a World War II Nazi collaborator, runs the institution with an iron fist and the enthusiastic help of her sadistic assistant, Ilsa. After arriving at the hellhole, Jubeh soon learns from governor Mifune that his long-lost, younger brother Musashi had also done time there after a murder spree, but had since died mysteriously…
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-23
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Female Prisoner: Caged!
Overview: A young woman who escaped from prison is eventually captured and brought back. The evil warden decides to make her a pet project and tries to break her down with torture, gang rape and by turning her friends against her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-09-16
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Ekiro
Overview: An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is charged with the investigating the missing person case. Det. Yobuno quickly finds more mysterious as he delves into the case, but a woman named Keiko Fukumura (Eri Fukatsu) surfaces who may hold the key to case.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-04-11
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GTO: The Graduation Special
Overview: The national university entrance examination is coming up and the students of Class 3/4, which Onizuka Eikichi (AKIRA) is in charge of, enter exam mode. Onizuka who conducts career counselling for the students with assistant form teacher Fuyutsuki Azusa (Takimoto Miori), questions their mentality of aiming for a good university in order to get into a good company.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-02
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A Scene at the Sea
Overview: A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by his also deaf girlfriend, he persists against all odds.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-19
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Yunagi City, Sakura Country
Overview: Thirteen years afterward, I wonder if those who bombed Hiroshima are looking at me and saying: 'We did it! We were able to kill another person!' They should be," murmurs Minami (played by Kumiko Aso), one of the two leading female characters in Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni, as she lies dying in 1958, her life brought to a premature end by sickness resulting from her exposure to atomic bomb radiation. This is a story about those who at least initially survived the first U.S. atomic bombing of 1945 and their descendants in contemporary times. The film, based on a comic by Fumiyo Kono, jumps between the two time frames and quietly depicts the sorrow and mortification experienced through the everyday lives of laid-back and soft-spoken Hiroshima people. Only a few scenes of the bombing and the ensuing devastation are featured.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-28
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Night Time Picnic
Overview: Takako's high school has a unique tradition. Every year, the school's 1000 students walk 80 kilometers in 24 hours. As this is her final year of high school, Takako decides to work up the courage to talk to her stepbrother You, whom she has never spoken to before. Classmates who are unaware of their relationship read something more into their awkward overtures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-30
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Sadako 3D
Overview: Akane is a high school teacher who hears a rumor from her students that there is actual footage on the Internet of someone's suicide. The footage is said to drive anyone who sees it to also commit suicide. Akane does not believe the rumor at first, but when one of her female students dies after viewing the footage, she and her boyfriend Takanori are fatefully drawn into the horror that has been created by the man who appears in the suicide footage, Kashiwada. Kashiwada's intention is to create chaos in the world by bringing back Sadako and the power of her curse. Now Akane has to fight against Sadako and Kashiwada to save the lives of herself and Takanori.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-05-12
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Half a Confession
Overview: Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its characters than we had anticipated. It begins when Soichiro Kaji (Terao), a retired detective, walks into police headquarters and confesses to the murder of his wife. We learn that the victim had prematurely developed Alzheimer's after the tragic death of their son, and in her suffering, had asked to die. The police chiefs would be far more content to take him at his word if it were not for a conspicuous hole in his story: 48-hour gap between the alleged murder and his confession. Fearing a public relations nightmare, they are eager to bury the incident and keep the press in the dark.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-10
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Chinyuki
Overview: Genzo is a monk on his way to Tianzhu (early East Asian name for India). Along the way, he happens to visit a house and meets an old couple. The couple has an adopted son, Taro Yamada (Kenichi Matsuyama). They ask Genzo to rehabilitate Taro who makes trouble with his magical power. Genzo takes Taro and travels to Tianzhu.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-27
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Last Cop The Movie
Overview: Based on the German TV series "Der letzte Bulle."
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-03
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Randebû!
Overview: Meguru, a young woman, comes to the big city in pursuit of her acting dreams. On her way to an audition, she stumbles on a ringing cell phone lying in the street. She picks up the phone. There's a young man in the other end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-15
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The Rainbow Seeker 2
Overview: Sequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan. There, he falls in love for a single mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-27
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Detective Conan Drama Special 2: Confrontation With the Men in Black
Overview: Shinichi Kudo returns as the young Conan to investigate a murderous letter sent to a beauty pageant winner who demands affection.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-17
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The Black Swindler
Overview: There are three kinds of swindler. One, called the "WHITE SWINDLER", finds a mark and steals money. The "RED SWINDLER" preys on the other sex and steals a mark's body and soul. Then there is the "BLACK SWINDLER". Ignoring ordinary marks, targeting only the white and red swindlers, and preying on their flesh grown fat and corrupt with the money they have stolen, he is the worst of them all. There is a boy who once became a victim of a swindler and lost his family. Later, he turns into the most hideous "black swindler" to deceive only other swindlers. His name is Kurosaki. This time, he is requested by Reiko, whose daughter is sick, to hunt down a swindler named Ishigaki, who has defrauded her of money. But, behind Ishigaki, there is actually a bigger swindle which has even destabilized the Japanese economy…
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-08
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48 Hours of Terror - When the Clock's Hands Turn into a Knife
Overview: When the clock's hand turns into a knife, parent-child bonds are torn!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-18
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Flight Attendant: Scandal
Overview: Four female flight attendants embark on some salacious misadventures: A few go to a company singles party to cavort with some pilots, while the lovely Misako embarks on an adventure all her own after meeting a street fortune teller...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-03-16
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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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Woman's Trail: Wet Path
Overview: A stripper reluctantly returns to her manager and husband with her new lover in tow. The lover tries to claim her but after escaping a beating he takes to the road alone meeting several women along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-12
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When a Tree Falls
Overview: A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son’s death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunders by multiple people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-21
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Koichiro Uno's Wet and Riding
Overview: Yoko is a housewife who's frustrated by her husband's lack of virility. She finds solace in erotic daydreams, the ministrations of a condom salesman and, eventually, the partner-swapping lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-08
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Sadako 3D 2
Overview: Five years have passed since the events of Sadako 3D. Akane is pregnant with a child with her boyfriend Takenori. However, Akane dies after giving birth to her daughter. When Takenori's sister Fuko takes up the task of caring for Akane's daughter, the infamous cursed video resurfaces. During her investigation, Fuko learns about the legend of Sadako's daughter...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-30
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A White Ship
Overview: Shizuka (Mami Nakamura) is a young school teacher. She moves to a small village by the sea, near her own home country. The elementary school she is assigned has only 20 students. But her last assignment was not very successful and she has lost the confidence. One day, a student finds a white ship sailing on the sea, far from the school. They begin an investigation and finally identifies the ship. It's a cruiser called Rainbow Love. 'Why don't we write a letter to the captain?' Shizuka proposes. And everyone gets excited...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-06
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Bed-In
Overview: Without knowing their names a man and woman have sex. Afterwards they introduce themselves and begin an affair. The woman feels empty without a man. The man is married with a child but he needs more than what his wife can provide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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Preparing For the Picnic
Overview: A collection of shorts spun off from the movie "Night Time Picnic" that take place on the day before the movie's events. On the last day of high school, ten young people explore their feelings while participating in a "walking festival" in which 1000 people walk 80 km over the course of the day. This collection includes 9 episodes by 6 directors, including "Murishi" starring Mikako Tabe and "Unrequited Length" starring Rosa Kato.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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Translucent Tree
Overview: Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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Your Eyes Tell
Overview: A tragic accident lead to Kaori's blindness, but she clings to life and the smaller pleasures it can still afford her. She meets Rui and begins to talk to him. Rui was once a promising kickboxer, but something happened in his past. Kaori's smile brings out a change in Rui. However, the two are connected in more than one way. Rui attempts to do what is right.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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High School Teacher
Overview: Hamura entered a high school as a biology teacher. Unexpectedly, one of his students, Mayu, fell in love with him. The forbidden love between the teacher and the student began to sprout. Hamura was worried that his relationship with Mayu would be misunderstood, so he tried to escape. However, he later understood Mayu’s tragic life and that the two could not be separated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-06
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Maitresse
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-19
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Happy Flight
Overview: A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew all support a single flight. They have only one mission: to secure the safety of the passengers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-15
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Soup Opera
Overview: Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-02
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Onna no Naka no Kaze
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-09
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Postman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-22
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Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy
Overview: "Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy" centers around five friends who are residents in a Tokyo apartment complex. Now senior high school students, the five friends live the wild life in Harajuku before encountering unforeseen surprises.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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Beyond the Memories
Overview: Kanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a car accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Kanna then meets Roku Akazawa, who also carries a painful experience from his past. When Roku was an elementary school student, a girl who was with him got into an accident and died. Because of that incident, Roku carries a heavy sense of guilt. When they meet, time, frozen since that day, begins to tick again.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-26
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Tokyo: Level One
Overview: Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-13
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連結部分は電車が揺れる 妻の顔にもどれない
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-30
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Keijitachi no Natsu
Overview: The TV movie follows a detective with a burning sense of justice who risks his life to pursue a corruption case involving the prime minister's office.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-01
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Afterschool Diary: Kitten Contract
Overview: Convenience stores are meeting rooms for high school girls after school. Keiko, Miki, and Ayaka are planning a pajama party at their favorite convenience store. Then, a note appears on the store's message board giving away a kitten. Keiko calls the number but the voice is an older man...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-30
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Terror Theater '92
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 1998.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-16
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吹く風は秋
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-23
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朧の森に棲む鬼
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Original Language: ja
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