Hairi Katagiri
Also Known As: Катагири Хайри, 片桐はいり, 片桐入
Biography: Born in Tokyo, 1963. Graduated from Seikei University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Japanese Literature. Started acting while working part-time at the Ginza Bunka Cinema, movie theater. Since the 1980’s, she has broadened her appearances to include television and film but mainly on the stage. In recent years, she has appeared on many stage performances directed by Suzuki Matsuo and Shūji Onodera. In TV dramas she has many diverse roles including an “Ama-san” (Sea woman), a teacher, and a scientist. In addition to her acting, she still volunteers sometimes in Kineka Omori, a local movie theater, as a ticket taker. Her latest films are ”Kinema no Kamisama” (release date: August 6th, 2021) and "Koi no Manazashi" (release year: 2021).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: January 18, 1963
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Gender: Female
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Cutie Honey
Overview: When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-29
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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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Kamome Diner
Overview: On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-11
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Wedding High
Overview: What's the biggest event for a couple? A wedding! The goofy but earnest Akito Ishikawa and the always cheerful Haruka Nitta are about to tie the knot. Thanks to the help of their wedding planner Nakagoshi, they've finally made it to the day of the wedding.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-12
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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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Ice Cream Fever
Overview: Four women of different ages work at or frequent an ice cream shop, each dealing with dreams, timidity, inexperience with love, and personal pain, their lives intersecting at the shop.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-14
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Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer
Overview: Graduating at the top of her class, elite detective candidate Jun Shibata is transferred to the section that handles cases deemed "unsolvable" by the department. Her partner, though a well-respected and experienced detective, has grown complacent after unsuccesfully pursuing these cases that many consider an exercise in futility. With her upper class breeding, her colleagues don't expect much from her either, but she suprises them all with her motivation and astounding powers of deduction. Well-constructed mysteries and colorful characters abound in this stylish and edgy police drama.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-01
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No More Comics!
Overview: Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-03-24
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R100
Overview: Ruthless dominatrixes pursue a mild-mannered salesman who wants to get out of his unbreakable contract with a secret bondage club.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-05
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ママ母戦争
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-03
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Damejin
Overview: An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When they hear 'in India one can live without working' they take it seriously. They begin to raise the money to go to India by doing anything but working, such as ripping off stamps from others' letters to sell, robbery at the bank which itself went bankrupt, etc.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-01
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Sayonara Color
Overview: Shohei works as a doctor in a seaside hospital. One day, a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian cancer. Shohei is surprised to recognize Michiko, his first love from high school. Shohei has been leading a dissolute bachelor life, paying for the company of high school girls and dating an older woman who works in a local bar, but in reality, for the last twenty years, he has not forgotten Michiko. Unfortunately though, Michiko doesn't remember him at all. Shohei becomes more and more persistent in his attempts to get her to recall their past. At first she is annoyed by his overtures, but gradually warms to the doctor. Under Shohei's kind and patient care, Michiko's condition improves and her cancer becomes operable. The operation is a success, but now Shohei himself learns that he has terminal cancer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-13
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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
Overview: A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his trusty companion Endo in tow, he sets off on a quest for the elusive insect and along the way meets the mysterious Sayoko, a former dominatrix and habitual wrist-cutter who delights in rubbing wasabi into her wounds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-23
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Female
Overview: 'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, Ryuichi Hiroki, Miwa Nishikawa, and Suzuki Matsuo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-14
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Quartet for Two
Overview: Shotaro and Minako are arguing. Minako has confessed her infidelity to her husband and informs him of her intention to leave him. She has ceased to enjoy living with a submissive husband. Minako, who works for a construction company, loves her job and is progressing in her successful career, while her husband eagerly takes care of the house and the kids. He buys groceries, he cooks, he does the laundry – constantly. The couple’s arguing intensifies until Minaka files for divorce. Their older daughter Mari isn’t that upset by her parent’s problems as she’s more interested in the piano piece she’s got to play with her mother at a concert organised by her music school; admittedly, she’s also rather interested in her music teacher. But her younger brother Toru feels betrayed by his mother and can’t manage to reconcile himself to his father’s role as a housewife. A partial reconciliation occurs at Minako and Mari’s concert, where their entrance on stage is met with loud applause.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-31
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Perfect Days
Overview: Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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Oh Brother, Oh Sister!
Overview: Since their parents died at an early age, Susumu and Yoriko have lived together. Susumu is now 33-years-old and Yoriko is 40-years-old. Both of them have yet to marry. They are like most siblings and they rely on each other. One day, Susumu and Yoriko receive a letter that is sent to the wrong address.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-25
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Death of Domomata
Overview: There are no heroines, there are no heroes. The six girls in this film are victims of their own excess and lack of worth. The film is set in a Drug Rehabilitation Centre. The girls are rehearsing the play 'Death of Domomata' for the annual Christmas Eve recital. On the morning before the recital, Tobe, who plays the leading role, dies suddenly. How do the girls left behind manage to go on with the show and how do they cope with Tobe's death?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Tokyo Blood
Overview: Tokyo Blood is an omnibus film of 4 short stories featuring various characters entrapped in Tokyo landscapes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-30
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The Old Woman Skin
Overview: Before going to Tokyo from her hometown of Mishima, Fukushima Prefecture, Kyoko stopped by at Tsuchiyu Onsen and was handed an "old woman's skin." This allowed her transform herself into an old woman, enabling her to find out what's truly in the heart of the man she cares about ...
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-21
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Okoge
Overview: A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-26
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Circus Boys
Overview: Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside working as a con-man. After a run-in with a local gang of yakuza, he is invited to join their ranks, where he makes the mistake of falling for a boss's mistress. Wataru stays with the circus and works hard to regain its former glory
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-11-23
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Amachan
Overview: Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-01
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A Farewell to Jinu
Overview: Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not to use money at all. Takeharu decides to move to a small village in the Tohoku region. There, he encounters residents who are not so easy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-04
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Fuji Family
Overview: At the foot of Mt Fuji, there is a small old-fashioned shop ‘Fuji Family’ that is a convenience store in name only. It is run by three sisters who are known in the neighbourhood as beauties. Oguni Takako is the dependable eldest sister who supported the family in place of their parents when they died young and is the breadwinner who works at a department store. Uninhibited second sister Nasumi is the complete opposite of Takako in personality and lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-02
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Shin Godzilla
Overview: When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-29
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8 ½ Women
Overview: Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-22
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She's In Love With Picasso
Overview: Kiriko is a curator at the Hakone Open-Air Museum. She gets caught up in a computer virus incident and fights for her life. This drama was produced by Fuji Television to promote its affiliated museums. At the time, it was notable for being directed by the cutting-edge director Koji Enomoto.
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Original Language: ja
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A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
Overview: Although Nobuyoshi and Saki just got married and moved into a new apartment, their relationship still lacks spark. Things start to change as they meet a weird fortune-teller who also happens to operate tours to hell. Without further ado the young couple books a honeymoon trip which takes them to the most bizarre, colorful and fun vision of hell you could ever dream of.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-05-14
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Rose Color's Buko
Overview: Sachiko is an university student. Her nickname is Buko, because she has been negative about everything since she was young. Sachiko believes someday she will meet a man like in a romance manga. Her university life is boring and she spends her time reading romance manga in her room. One day, on Twitter, she meets a man who uses the user ID of Sparrow. He likes reading manga and looks like Johnny Depp. Sachiko makes a date to meet the man. She tries to change herself, but it's not so easy due to various unexpected incidents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-30
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Restaurant UFO
Overview: A high schooler who dreams of leaving her rural town for Tokyo puts out an ad for her job at her family's restaurant. Satoshi Yamaguchi directs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-17
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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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Silence
Overview: In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-23
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Our Meal for Tomorrow
Overview: A 7 year love story between Ryota Hayama and Koharu Uemura from their first date to eventual marriage. Ryota and Koharu are high school students. Ryota is indifferent to people and says very little. Koharu is not afraid of to speak her mind and she has a bright personality. Since a game of rice bag jump, they begin to date. They date at a fast-food restaurant, realize they love each other at a family restaurant and finally swear their love on a dining table with white rice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-07
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Goodbye to Our Kindergarten
Overview: One day, five kindergarten children suddenly disappear from a kindergarten in Tokyo, sending their teachers and parents into a panic. The five of them are connecting on trains and headed to an unfamiliar place for some purpose. Before their journey, they had made a promise to each other “not to cry no matter what happens”
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-30
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Tremble All You Want
Overview: Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming fixation has prevented her from even considering another candidate for boyfriend until an office colleague asks her out.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-23
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Ellie My Love
Overview: Based on the comic by Mako Takami.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-11
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A Sandcastle Model Family Home
Overview: An opportune salaryman moves his family into a model mansion for 12 months; unfortunately, they must allow prospective buyers to trek through their home during business hours.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Nasu Shonenki
Overview: Set in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture in 1954, movie tells the tale of 14 year old boys: their friendships, fights among friends, and rebellions against the school. It also tells the story of the adults who live around the boys. This is a nostalgic, bitter, and sentimental journey into lives in the post-war environment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-04
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My Retirement, My Life
Overview: Michitaro Sano’s wife passed away 18 years ago. Since her death, he has lived with his daughter Yumiko at their home. Now, Michitaro retires from his work. Yumiko though tells him to start doing housework. Michitaro is also surprised to learn that Yumiko has a boyfriend and is considering marriage. Michitaro is unsure how to handle his sudden abundance of free time. He then attends a local radio calisthenics group session.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-09
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School Be-In Bully
Overview: The prestigious private Sakuraryo Gakuen, which has a 90-year tradition, has now lost its glory to the ground, and the back organization of the athletic club, the male “Black Warriors” and the female “Red Warriors”, have made use of them. One girl, Oda Yoko, who has transferred to such a school, sneaks into the principal's room to find out the truth of the death of her best friend, Atsushi Katayama
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-08-25
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Korekara monogatari - Shonen tachi no buruusu
Overview: 片や会社の社長でデザイナー、片やスポーツマンでモデルという道を歩む生まれも育ちも異なる2人の高校生の友情を描く。 One is a designer and company president, the other an athlete and model. Although on different paths in life and from different backgrounds, in high school these two were once good friends. This movie tells the story of their friendship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-18
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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
Overview: A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-01-28
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The Bloody Afternoon
Overview: Anarchic parody of the crime genre set around a bank robbery.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-07-14
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Hold Me Back
Overview: Mitsuko Kuroda is 31 years old and single. She enjoys her life as a single woman. A big reason why she enjoys her single life is that she has counsellor "A" in her mind, which is her other self. Whenever she does not know what to do, "A" gives her the right answers. She believes her happy and peaceful single life with "A" will continue, but she falls in love with Tada-kun. He is a salesperson and younger than her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-12-18
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Love Mooning
Overview: Hiroshi, who runs a mental clinic, has never recovered from the shock of his wife’s suicide. One day, Ayako, a mysterious patient comes to his clinic….
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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Otakus in Love
Overview: Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-20
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Karate Cop 5
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Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-05-16
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Listen to the Universe
Overview: Four pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is a former child prodigy who stopped playing when her mother died. One is a Julliard student. One is a new face and yet comes recommended.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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The Blue Danube
Overview: The soldiers no longer know why they are at war, and when it even started. Daily and dutifully they march to the river and shoot at the opposite village from 9 to 5 – orders are orders after all. They’ve done so for decades. When private Tsuyuki is transferred to the marching band, people keep asking him what use music is in times of war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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A Stitch of Life
Overview: Ichie is the owner of a dressmaking shop. Her grandmother started the shop and now Ichie runs the business. Her clothes are made with an old sewing machine and are very popular. Following her grandmother’s will, Ichie only makes clothes for individuals and turns down offers to turn her clothing into a brand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-31
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It's a Flickering Life
Overview: The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and famous actors. In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the "god of cinema" that Go has worshipped since he was young will transcend time, and work a miracle in the lives of one family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-16
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Making of Cutie Honey
Overview: Behind the scenes of the 2004 film "Cutie Honey". Extra on Blu-ray Box.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-26
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Kaze no Sumu Ie
Overview: A human drama that rethinks what it means to be a family through the images of a couple, parent and child whose paths have crossed.
Genres: TV Movie Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-21
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Kirei kamisama to machiawase shita on'na
Overview: 2001 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-18
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Birdcage of Horrors
Overview: A murder mystery told in one-minute clips — one for each day of the year — filmed specifically for the SEGA Dreamcast console. It tells the story of Nao Tsunoda, a 16-year-old schoolgirl who moves to Tokyo’s Grauenheim apartment complex. One day, Nao’s life turns into a nightmare when she suddenly discovers the headless corpse of her neighbor on the roof of the house — and a chain of brutal murders continues, becoming clear that a psychopath is hunting the apartment building's inhabitants.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-09-01
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Da Dahhhhn
Overview: Sagawa Matsuo is a timid, timid, useless man. His uselessness is so abnormal that everyone feels like they are just looking at him. I felt so irritated that I almost wanted to bully him. She always hangs out with her childhood friend Madoka, and the strong-willed Madoka often overworks and scolds her. Mommy Daddy, the commander of "Mother Planet" far away in the sky, was monitoring Matsuo's movements. "Give this good-for-nothing man some love and courage!" The person who received the orders was a muscular woman named Hercules Reggie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women
Overview: This is an omnibus of six short films by six different directors, whose lead characters are unconventional women. They are "Hijoshi," females who live true to themselves and their desires.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-30
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