Kazuaki Hankai
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: August 11, 1958
Age: 66 years old
Gender: Male
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Be with You
Overview: Takumi and his six-year-old son, Yuji, haven't come to terms with their wife and mother's death. One day, they meet a woman with an uncanny resemblance to her sheltering from the rain near their home.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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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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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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Pika**nchi Life Is Hard Dakara Happy
Overview: Sequel to the 2002 film Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy, starring members of boy band Arashi.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-01
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Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2011
Overview: While Suzaki Saika (Ashida Mana) is hospitalised for poor health, her father, Tamotsu (Totsugi Shigeyuki) feels torn that he has to leave here and go on a business trip. A portrait of Saika’s late mother is placed beside her bed. Her mother had died in exchange for bringing her into this world. Tamotsu puts a paper with his mobile phone number written on it inside an amulet and hands it to Saika. He asks the nurse Tokunaga Maki (Minamisawa Nao) to keep an eye on Saika, and leaves for his trip. One night, a young girl calls out to a lonely Saika who cannot get to sleep. A long-haired girl in a wheelchair in the old wing befriends Saika and plays with her everyday. However, by the time Saika realises it, she has awaken from her sleep. Was that a dream? When she talks about the girl in the wheelchair, Maki’s expression freezes. What happened at this hospital?
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-03
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Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke
Overview: Yosuke Misaki used to be a promising prosecutor, but he suddenly quit his job. He begins a new career as a pianist. He knocks on the door of wealthy man Kentaro Katsuki who lives in a peaceful area of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. Kentaro Katsuki lives with his housekeeper Michiko Tsuzuruki (Midoriko Kimura). Kentaro allows Yosuke Misaki to stay at his home. Near Kentaro Katsuki's home, lives the Sanada family. At their home, Haruka aspires to become a pianist. One day, a fatal fire breaks out at the Sanada's house. Later, Yosuke helps Haruka to play the piano again.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-18
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Je t'aime: I Am a Beast
Overview: Yuka, a troubled young woman who suddenly begins working part-time as a high-class call girl, finds unexpected romance while on the job.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-28
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Gold Woman
Overview: A female career banker shatters the glass ceiling of a mega bank by disclosing its shady business to light. Tamaki, the Gold Woman, has worked her way up to be appointed General Manager of the office regarded as the General Staff Headquar- ters of the Bank with an assignment to liquidate its subsidiary by laying off 200 employees in total. Such mentally challenging appointment was made via recommendation by her senior colleague Mai, a smart and foxy woman running ahead of Tamaki in her career. With the help of her male colleague, Tamaki, a lone female wolf dares to challenge the all-male executives to prove what a true business person is all about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-28
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Saru Lock: The Movie
Overview: Saru is a talented young locksmith who unlocks any kind of lock. He is, however, a complete fool when it comes to women. One day a girl Mayumi asks him to open a safe full of stolen money. Knowing nothing about it, Saru takes the money briefcase with Mayumi and finds himself with yakuza gangsters and also police in hot pursuit.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-27
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The Untold Tale of the Three Kingdoms
Overview: A new interpretation of "Records of the Three Kingdoms," which is historical text of the three states of Wei, Shu, and Wu in China.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-12-11
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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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Pikanchi Half: Life is Hard Tabun Happy
Overview: Pikanchi Half is a spin-off of the two previous movies in the Pikanchi series, showing the five friends, now in their 30s, having a reunion as they are running into problems with family and work
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-08
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Otona ni natta natsu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-12
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Turning Tides
Overview: Former delinquent Hiroe leads a dreary existence. She meets a boy named Tatsutoshi whose younger sister was killed in a road accident and tries to cheer him up by creating a fake ritual to bring the dead back to life. To turn her deception into reality, she takes Tatsutoshi on a journey to the seaside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-02
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Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo and the Kyoto Shinsengumi Murder Case
Overview: Kudo Shinichi and Mori Ran are invited to the set of a jidaigeki in Kyoto. On their airplane ride to Kyoto, a murder mystery arises. As well, when they finally reach the set in Kyoto, they become involved in another murder mystery. Will Kudo Shinichi be able to solve the mystery?…
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-04
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The Files of Young Kindaichi: Lost in Kowloon
Overview: Korean foreign exchange student Kim Yong-Dong (Seung-Ri) studies in Hong Kong and works part-time at a hotel. A murder then takes place in the hotel and Kim Yong-Dong is the prime suspect. Hajime Kindaichi (Ryosuke Yamada) works to uncover the truth.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-12
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AIBOU: CSI Files
Overview: Investigator Yonezawa is searching images from the Tokyo Big City Marathon, targeted for a terrorist bomb attack. Within the images he sees his former wife Kazuko, and the following day he learns that dead body that looks like her has been discovered.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-28
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