Baijaku Nakamura
Also Known As: 中村 梅雀, Baijaku Nakamura
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Musashino, Tokyo, Japan
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Kishu Hanshu Yoshimune
Overview: Before Tokugawa Yoshimune, known as the "Ravage Shogun", was the lord of the Kishu domain, before he became the shogun! Yoshimune hides his identity and begins an investigation in the city of Edo in order to find out who he really is. As he grows up, he ends up throwing himself into a turmoil involving the shogunate... This is an entertainment historical drama in which a young 21-year-old named Yoshimune solves the problems of the common people in the city and goes around dealing with merchants and powerful people plotting evil deeds.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-08
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Jōiuchi
Overview: One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-12-05
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Ichikei’s Crow Special
Overview: Adapted from the manga "Ichikei no Karasu” (イチケイのカラス) by Asami Rito (浅見理都). This special is a sequel to the movie of the same name.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-14
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Neck Bowed in the Rain
Overview: Baijaku Nakamura takes the lead in a film where he has to dodge pursuit from a hostile gang whilst also helping out a family of innocent people who run a noodle store. More importantly, this was one of Ren Osugi’s last films.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-21
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金田一耕助ファイルⅡ 獄門島
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-26
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The Blue Light
Overview: Shuichi Kushimori is a 17 year old high school student who lives happily with his mother and stepsister. One day, without warning, his estranged stepfather returns home from a long absence. He quickly falls into a circle of drinking and starts abusing his ex-wife and daughter. When he begins making sexual advances towards Shuichi’s stepsister, Shuichi is compelled to take matters into his own hands.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-15
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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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Bakumatsu Aibou-den
Overview: A single bullet cuts through Kyoto in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate right before the restoration of imperial rule. Who plotted to assassinate Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who is about to become the last shogun of Japan? Was it the faction wanting to overthrow him or the rebels within the shogunate? Mutual enemies Sakamoto Ryoma, the wandering samurai, and Hijikata Toshizo, a deputy leader of the Shinsengumi and vassal of the Tokugawa clan, receive a secret order to track down the culprit. They are given a mere two days.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-03
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Onihei side story: The Final Chapter - The Fourth Wife
Overview: Inomatsu, a carpenter with a reputation as a skilled craftsman, has a wife named Oritsu. Oritsu is deeply in love with Inomatsu and believes that the purpose of her life is to devote herself to her husband day and night. However, Oritsu is Inomatsu's fourth wife. In fact, he is a robber and thief. As a carpenter, Inomatsu usually sneaked into merchants' houses and carried out robberies. For him, wives are just a tool to deceive the public...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-09
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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Overview: A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-15
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Distance
Overview: On the third anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-05-26
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Free and Easy 15
Overview: Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-08-21
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The Setting Sun
Overview: A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-15
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Korosuna
Overview: Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, is watching Omine, who lives with him, from Kichizo, a resident of the same tenement house and a boatman. is asked to Kichizo and Mine have eloped and got married, but she feels empty in her boring daily life, and she wants to take a break by crossing the bridge over the river. On the other hand, Kichizo forbids him from crossing the bridge, fearing that his whereabouts will be known to others. Zenzaemon superimposes the appearance of these two people on the appearance of his former self and his wife, whom he killed himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-28
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必殺仕事人2014
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-27
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機捜235Ⅲ
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-16
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ホリデイ～江戸の休日～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-06
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Fuyu no Hi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-06
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Free and Easy 17
Overview: Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-05
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Free and Easy 20: Final
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-26
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A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
Overview: Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, including friendly truck driver Sumire and a mysterious mountaineer girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-11
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Bunny Drop
Overview: Daikichi learns that his recently deceased grandfather has an illegitimate daughter with an unknown mother. The girl's name is Rin and she is just 6 years old. Everybody in Daikichi's family looks at the girl as an embarrassment and wants no part of her. Daikichi, annoyed by his family's attitude, decides to raise Rin by himself. Even though Daikichi himself has no experience raising a child and is still single.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-20
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Momikeshite Fuyu 2019 Natsu: Natsu demo Samukute Shini Soudesu
Overview: Shusaku, who is the second son of the Kitazawa family, is going through hard times. He fails his job interviews for a patisserie position, which he hopes to become. Except for Shusaku, the other family members have gained the same social positions and financial status as they had. Hirofumi, who is the first son of the Kitazawa family, comes back from Los Angeles. As a doctor, he learned new techniques using A.I. in Los Angeles. Hirofumi states that artificial intelligence will become a big part of human life in the future. He brings A.I. Kenji and A.I. Sayuri to the Kitazawa family.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-29
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Kids on the Slope
Overview: Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—form a friendship through their love of jazz music.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-10
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Free and Easy 10
Overview: Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-08
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Free and Easy 16
Overview: Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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Nobunaga's Coffin
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-05
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Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
Overview: A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends him as he sets up his shop, Kyo-ya and in spite of the difficulties stemming from cultural differences between the two ancient capitals including the favored taste of tofu itself, they eventually marry and become the owner of a tofu shop on a more respectable street. Behind the rock-solid business of Kyo-ya, their son, Eitaro bears the brunt of other tofu shops' animosity toward Kyo-ya's refusal to comply with Edo's way of running business and starts to frequent a gambling hall run by the mysterious "Boss", which throws the family into a critical situation that threaten to pull them apart...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-31
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Inspector Souichi Habu 4 ~The Man Called Poisonous Habu~
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-05
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Guard Center 24
Overview: The Security Guard Center sets the stage for this drama that stars Mamoru Shinomiya, a newly-hired emergency responder. Together with his brilliant colleagues, all of whom have colorful personalities, they tackle one emergency after another with flying colors and restore the safety and security of their clients and the public.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-16
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Iwane: Sword of Serenity
Overview: Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in the tragic death of two of his best friends from childhood. He decides to leave his domain, parting with his fiancée Nao, and becomes a vagrant masterless samurai with nothing more to lose. Iwane drifts to Edo, filleting eels during the day and working as a bodyguard at night for Imazuya, a reputable money exchanger. He gradually wins the trust of the people around him because of his mellow nature, the chivalrous way he treats everyone with courtesy, and his skills of swords. One day, he learns that Imazuya is being targeted in a conspiracy to sabotage a new monetary system implemented by the government, and Iwane decides to protect the people who have given him support.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-17
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Designated Lawyer
Overview: Suspicions fall on politician Tagane Seizo over the sale of nationally owned land to a social welfare service corporation back in 2010. Seizo Tagane is then given immunity for his testimony, but people become furious that he was not going to be prosecuted. A committee of prosecutors meets and concludes that Seizo Tagane should be prosecuted. An outstanding lawyer Yui Hitotsugi takes the prosecutor's position in the case with the help of the prosecutor Tachibana.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-23
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Home Sweet Home
Overview: "Home Sweet Home" deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening dementia, abandon him at a group home for the elderly. When, racked by guilt, they return to retrieve him, they discover to their surprise. . .
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-14
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Kindaichi Kousuke File: The Tragedy of Meiro-so
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-09-30
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Kohaku no yume
Overview: a TV drama special based on the life of SUNTORY's founder Shinjiro Torii
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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Free and Easy 18
Overview: Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-08
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Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
Overview: A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-23
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Last of the Wolves
Overview: After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one evil person who gets released from prison, the situation drastically changes.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-20
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Kah-chan
Overview: Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering comment even amid national tough times (the region is in famine) What Okatsu tells no one is that she saves so that a friend can start his own business once he's released from prison.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-10
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Black Lizard
Overview: Set in the future where it is commonplace for high tech crimes to get through cyber defense, Iwase Shobei, a wealthy man and well-known collector of gems, asks private investigator Akechi Kogoro to provide personal protection for his daughter Sanae. Iwase has been warned that she will be kidnapped. The mysterious phantom thief Kurotokage, who deftly replaces precious gems with imitations, stands in Akechi's way. However, Kogoro catches on that Madam Midorikawa, the owner of an exclusive hotel who has give shelter to Sanae, is actually Kurotokage, and prevents Sanae's abduction. However, he is hampered by a trick laid in the entire hotel and fails to catch her. At that moment, the thief and famous investigator secretly fall in love. Akechi chases Kurotokage and eventually learns about her tragic past and surprising identity. Although swayed by forbidden love, both have a final showdown at Kurotokage's secret museum which houses her collection. Who will be the victor?—Jdrama Weblog
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-12-29
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Kisou 235 II
Overview: A connection is found between a string of arsons and a 12 year old murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-19
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Onihei Gaiden: The Night Rabbit
Overview: Bandit leader "Night Rabbit" Kakuemon has always kept the rule to "never kill, never rape, never steal from the poor", passed down to him by the gang's previous leader. He has never been arrested, and for that, he always thought he would have a peaceful death. But one day, after talking to a young one-armed homeless girl, he decides to break up his gang and turn himself in.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-03
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Ikkyu-san
Overview: The mischievous adventures of the historical Zen monk Ikkyu as a child.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-30
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Yamanaka Shizuo-shi no songen shi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-14
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One Day in January
Overview: Every year on the fourth of January, Shobei's soba restaurant serves "Sanada Soba"; soba noodles topped with grated spicy daikon radish. Even regulars refrain from coming to the restaurant because of the extra spicy soba. But on year, a stranger comes in and finishes the bowl, announcing that it tastes familiar. The man begins to visit every year on the 4th of January to eat Sanada Soba. Shobei develops a warm feeling towards the peculiar customer he interacts with once a year.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-17
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小ぬか雨
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-13
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小さな橋で
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-02
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Musical 「Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu」
Overview: Stage adaptation of the manga and anime "Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu".
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-04-23
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