Makoto Akatsuka
Also Known As: あかつか まこと, 赤塚 真人
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 19, 1951
Deathday: July 04, 2024
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Kabei: Our Mother
Overview: Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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I Love Peace
Overview: Izumi aims to be the first deaf creator of artificial limbs. One day, her senior co-worker, Kubo, goes to Afghanistan to help give aid to children as a member of an NGO. Izumi decides to go along. In Kabul, the wounds of war are still fresh and Izumi meets a girl named Parizatt who has lost a leg to a mine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-20
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Beauty
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-10
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Wet Sand in August
Overview: Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-25
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The Twilight Samurai
Overview: Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-02
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Hoshi ni katarite
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-10
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Mr. Lady Cinderella at Dawn
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-10
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Goaisatsu
Overview: An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-23
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Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki
Overview: After the war, many filmmakers were expelled from the Japanese film industry due to the Toho Dispute and the Red Purge. Amid such circumstances, there were people who set up their own independent production companies and embarked on film production without relying on corporations. This documentary film focuses on the passionate "spirit of film" of directors such as Satsuo Yamamoto and Tadashi Imai, who, despite many hardships, produced a succession of masterpieces overflowing with humanism and rebellious spirit.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-29
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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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Kim's War
Overview: After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the press inside and explains why he was driven to his crime.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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必殺仕事人2013
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Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-17
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Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
Overview: A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-17
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The Bored Samurai
Overview: Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead with flashy clothes and a handsome face, and is proficient in all the military arts and called Bored Hatamoto. Mikijiro Hira acts as such a hero in history. Mondonosuke is secretly ordered to look into the suspicious movement in Nagoya castle by the Ometsuke, and he found out about the misconduct and sole it. This is a period movie about the hero!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Aoba gakuen monogatari
Overview: 1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-26
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Fight! Dragon (TV Pilot) - Dragon Flies to Hong Kong.
Overview: After ten years Ryuma Shiranui, aka Dragon, returns to Hong Kong to visit the grave of his mentor, Kaizan Fubiki, who recently died from "an accidental fall off a cliff." Shadow, an international organization of assassins who specialize in arranging "accidents" so that their clients will never be suspected of murder, have been contracted to kill Kaimei Lin. The job is given to "Red Tiger" who warns Dragon not to interfere, which of course he does. Red Tiger kidnaps Lin's wife and demands a ransom, intending that when he shows up to pay, both he and his wife will suffer a tragic accident. But Dragon shows up to deliver the ransom instead.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
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Gaki taishō kōshinkyoku
Overview: 1979 Japanese film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-13
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Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit
Overview: When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his many subordinates scattered all over the country to live out the rest of their lives. First, he targets Matsuya, a medicine wholesaler in Nagoya and seduces the master of the shop by using his female subordinate, Nanakake. He then calls upon Sanji, a skilled locksmith to Nagoya, but the bandit Yagura no Fukuemon who is plotting to intercept the thief plots to extract Sanji for a large sum of money. Furthermore, Abe Shikibu, the chief of the firebrand bandit reformatory who is obsessed with Nizaemon's arrest, sends his men to Nagoya.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-29
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Nozomi Witches
Overview: Nozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fellow high school student neighbor Ryotaro Shiba, who decides to join the high school boxing club. Adapted from Toshio's Nobe manga, with the same title.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-17
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Our Teacher
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-24
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Oretachi no toki
Overview: Japanese youth film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-06
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Double Suicide
Overview: Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-24
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Bitter Coffee Life
Overview: The story of a former police officer now retired to run a coffee shop called Bitter Coffee Life. In the long years of the past 20 years, he has been raising the daughter of one of the criminals he arrested as his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-05-12
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The Hidden Blade
Overview: Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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Tokyo kara kita onna no ko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-05-27
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Kôkôsei burai hikae: Tsuki no Muramasa
Overview: Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-07
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Nomugi Pass
Overview: The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-30
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Playtime Never Ends
Overview: A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-05
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Tora-san's Pure Love
Overview: When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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The Village
Overview: This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, being that they are farmers and always busy and not rich, question the wisdom and feasibility of such an idea. A spokesperson for the acting troupe Ms. Kono lays out the whole thing and they must decide. You get little slices of rural life in Japan far, at least in sentiment, from Tokyo. The best thing about this film is that it has heart. The acting is good, but it is really about the simple storyline of outing on a show. Films rarely get made with such simplistic plots these days. Enjoy this little slice of what city people call “the simple life”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-12
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Tora-san Goes North
Overview: When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-15
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Gakuen-sai no yoru: Amai taiken
Overview: A teenage drama film about Makiko Hayashi, a top student who is aiming to get into University of Tokyo, together with a group of other students. She befriends one of the school's misfits, Yoshiyuki Mizuno, which starts to change her life. The film follows the way Makiko Hayashi's life changes throughout the time, from a model student with high ambitions, to someone who is uncertain enough about her future, that she feels the only way out is to start anew.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-11-14
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The King of Minami 17
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-05-11
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The Yellow Handkerchief
Overview: The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants him back at home.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-09-30
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