Mako Ishino
Also Known As: 石野真子, Mako Ishino
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 31, 1961
Age: 64 years old
Gender: Female
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Hachiko
Overview: The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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Ping Pong
Overview: As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-20
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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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Dream Stage
Overview: 20-year-old Ozawa Tsubasa has been helping out in the eatery that her mother Yukiko runs in a port town in the Tohoku region. She loves songs and secretly wishes to become a singer. However, she is on the verge of giving up that dream since it is practically impossible. Seeing her mother keep on working despite the hardships as well as the deserted town, she doubts that dreams and wishes come true. But one day, Tsubasa travels back in time to Tokyo in the year 1975 in an unexpected way. She meets 20-year-old Ozora Tsubasa, a cheerful and positive girl with the same name and dream as her. The unsuspecting Tsubasa had left home and come to Tokyo under the mistaken impression that she was scouted by a television station.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-22
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Love and the Grand Tug-of-war
Overview: Following the 2009 financial crash, Waseda University graduate Takeshi lost his job in Tokyo and retreated to his family home in Sendai. While he resumed his role as heir to the family construction company with a diligent attitude, his hidebound father resents that his son left and that at the age of 35 Takeshi is still single. However, wider events will force father and son to overcome their differences as the Otsunahiki, a great tug-of-war featuring thousands of participants, will pull them together in a family tradition just as Takeshi meets Jiheyun, a beautiful Korean doctor on an exchange programme... The ties of family bind people tightly as characters struggle with the push of their own ambitious urges and the pull of family commitments but the Otsunahiki ropes things together in a family drama rich with events and the culture of Sendai, that will tug and the heartstrings of viewers whilst providing to the desire to visit the beautiful and storied region.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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The Pearl Legacy
Overview: Harumi comes to terms with her mother’s passing and gets embroiled in the hunt for a legendary 600 million yen pearl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 20th: Fireball Booster
Overview: Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger series, the six detectives who fight with cool and burning hearts gather again to face the "Great Plan" that threatens peace on Earth!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger THE MOVIE: Full Blast Action
Overview: The Dekarangers must deal with a mysterious undercover agent from another planet while trying to save her world and Earth from one of the universe's toughest Alienizer gangs.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-11
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Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger VS Abaranger
Overview: The Dekarangers respond to a disturbance in the city. On arriving, they find the area under attack from three brightly-coloured people. They fight them but they steal Machine Bull to chase a crow, which is apparently their enemy. They crash and are arrested by the Dekarangers. At DekaBase, the Dekarangers discover that their prisoners are Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
Overview: Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years later, she seeks out the relatives of the pilots when the piano is old and about to be discarded.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-12
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Hebi no Hito
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-25
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Betonamu Nanmin Shoujo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-25
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Thousand Cranes
Overview: April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts getting tired more easily. She is sent back to the American Base Victory Hospital, where the diagnosis is lymphatic leukemia. And she has no more than a year left to live. Her parents agree with the doctor that Sadako should not be told, but will she find out anyway ?
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-24
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Mahou Sentai Magiranger vs. Dekaranger
Overview: Mahou Sentai Magiranger vs. Dekaranger is the teamup movie between Mahou Sentai Magiranger and Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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Choji Snack Bar
Overview: Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-11-12
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Midnight Demon
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 1984.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-16
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Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: 10 YEARS AFTER
Overview: Eight years after saving the SPD from Agent Abrella's scheme, the Dekarangers parted ways with Ban joining the Fire Squad, Jasmine marrying Hikaru Hiwatari, and Swan working independently while Tetsu, Hoji, Sen, and Umeko continue working under Doggie Kruger. But after an incident occurred that hospitalized Kruger on planet Revaful wherein he was labeled as a dirty cop for an apparent dealing with the Qurlian Crime Family, which went awry with the death of a civilian witness, Tetsu takes over the Earth Branch. Two years later, joined by rookie officers Assam Asimov and Mugi Grafton, who had taken over the positions of Deka Red and Deka Yellow respectively, Hoji, Sen and Umeko encounter a Clementian named Carrie who is being hunted by Mechanoids.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-07
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Dance till Tomorrow
Overview: Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-22
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Bitter Sweet
Overview: Maki, a creative executive with a deep-seated loathing for vegetables, meets Nagisa, a closeted gay vegetarian with amazing cooking skills and they end up as roommates. Being complete opposites, the two initially clash. But Maki falls for Nagisa and his food over time. As they begin accepting the other as they are, a unique relationship flourishes.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-10
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Balloon
Overview: Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-12
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Space Squad: Space Sheriff Gavan VS Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
Overview: Space Squad: Space Sheriff Gavan VS Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger features the return of Yuma Ishigaki from 2012’s Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie and the 2015 Space Sheriff Next Generation films. The first installment will join the two police-themed heroes as they face a massive space crime organization.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-19
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Neet Neet Neet
Overview: Takashi works at a company, but he is tired of his boring days there and quits. At that time, Renchi, who got involved in a dangerous situation, visits Takashi. Another friend, Kinobu, joins them. They all graduated from the same high school. The three friends take a car and leave for Hokkaido. On the way, Renchi takes Takashi and Kinobu to the place where Renchi promised to meet a girl named Tsukiko. Renchi talked to Tsukiko through an online dating website.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-23
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Mitsuhiko Asami Series 35 - Sakurako in the Wind
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-28
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September Sky
Overview: Kobayashi Isamu, a first-year high school student, lives in a family of four with his father, an artist, his mother, an insurance agent, and his sister, an office worker. To make ends meet, he works as a milkman. At school, he is a member of the kendo club and spends his days working out with his seniors. Over time, he has various encounters with a series of girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-02
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Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-10
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Saikin rettō
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-04-04
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Backdancers!
Overview: A cadre of backup dancers is left astray when their star singer moves on with her life and marriage. They each had their own ambition and hope, which subconsciously rested on the star power of the singer. When plan A does not work, they cling to plan B. When that does not work, in an act of desperation, they are assigned to plan C by their agency. A fight and unprofessionalism seems to put the Backdancers on permanent ice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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4 Mysterious Stories
Overview: A four-piece omnibus-style special drama produced by the production staff of "The Really Scary Story" and the JRA Japan Racing Association. 6 people gather at a coffee shop on a winter day. While having fun conversations as usual, they begin to talk about mysterious events that they have recently experienced.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-12-26
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Goodbye Elegy
Overview: Miyama Akira is a movie director in his 60's. In the past, he left his hometown to chase his dream. When he learns that his friend, who used to talk about their future, died, he goes back to his hometown for the first time in decades. While he walks along the streets there, he thinks about the life of his late friend and gets inspired to write a script about him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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孤独のグルメ2021大晦日スペシャル～激走！絶景絶品・年忘れロードムービー
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-31
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