Midoriko Kimura
Also Known As: キムラ緑子
Biography: Midoriko Kimura (キムラ 緑子, Kimura Midoriko) is a Japanese actress, born on Sunday, October 15, 1961, in Sumoto, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. She's represented by SIS talent agency.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sumoto, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: October 15, 1961
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Gender: Female
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FLY! BOYS, FLY! 僕たち、CAはじめました
Overview: When Chikara Asakawa was a child, he traveled with his parents and boarded an airplane. He got scared on the airplane, but a female flight attendant gave him courage. Chikara Asakawa became interested in being a flight attendant.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-24
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Pandemic
Overview: ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other variety of virus? As the situation worsens and more cases begin arriving, a medical officer from the World Health Organization named Eiko Kobayashi is dispatched to the area. At the rate the virus is spreading, the entire city’s transportation system and infrastructure would be brought to a halt within 3 months. Within 6 months it could spread to tens of millions of people--reaching a death toll far worse than any war.
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-17
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パティシエ・ヘンゼル クリスマスの魔法
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-21
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実録ドラマスペシャル 女の犯罪ミステリー
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-17
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Shangri-La
Overview: Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-03
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Shinrei Shokudō 2
Overview: This is the second installment in a psychic omnibus horror series depicting fears associated with food. Mizuki goes on a first date with the boy of her dreams, and they eat pancakes together, but she collapses. The next thing she knows, she is abducted by Yamada, a clerk at the pancake shop. Mizuki desperately escapes, but her hands are covered with mushrooms, and it seems that the man she dated has another woman. ...... Includes "Black Pancake," "The Manner of the Sanma Murder," and three other
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-03
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Once Upon a Crime
Overview: While at the royal ball with Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood finds herself in the middle of a mystery. Can she solve the case before midnight strikes?
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-13
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心の傷を癒すということ 劇場版
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-29
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It's Me It's Me
Overview: Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother and pretends to be her son. He then gets the mother to transfer money to his bank account. Soon, Hitoshi gets a lot more than he bargained for.
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-24
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Help of God
Overview: "Kamisama Help!" takes place at an abandoned school where a mass murder occurred 25 years earlier... Several cars of people arrive at the abandoned school "Satogakuin". They are "horror planners" who will convert the school into the ghost house. To kill time staff members roam inside the school and feel a strange sense of familiarity. Atsuo walks around by himself. He becomes stunned when he finds an old picture frame in an office. In the picture, a man dressed in a white outfit looks just like Atsuo. At that moment a mysterious blue hits Atsuo and he loses consciences. He starts to have visions of bodies and ghosts covered with blood and suddenly he goes back in time to August 12, 1985. On that day a Japan Air Liner crashed and Satogakuin teacher Sato Takashi goes on a murdering rampage. Sato Takashi was known as a kind and generous person, but his mind was taken over by an evil entity. That evil entity now tries to take over Atsuo's mind...
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-07
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Ai wa mieru: Zenmô fûfu ni yadotta chiisana inochi
Overview: Ueto Aya's is Juri Tatematsu. She's blind like her husband. They give birth to a child, despite fears and opposition from their parents. Raising the child, Juri keeps pushing herself towards her dream of becoming a professional musician. She made her dream come true.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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Radiation House: The Movie
Overview: Iori Igarashi works as a radiographer at a general hospital. He has been depressed, because An Amakasu, whom he loves, has decided to travel abroad to Washington Medical University to learn more as radiologist. The members of Radiation House encourages Iori. One day, An learns that her father is in serious condition. Her father was the only practicing doctor at a small clinic on a remote island. When An arrives, her father tells her to be a doctor who sees patients as a person and not a disease before he passed away. An decides to stay on the island because of a patient that her father cared about. A massive typhoon soon hits the island and a landslide then occurs. An unknown infectious disease spreads afterwards on the island. Iori knows that An is struggling on the remote island and he makes a decision for An and the residents of the island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-29
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The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Overview: A university student finds himself wrapped up in the bizarre world of his next door neighbor, learning about his history and relationship with a girl who changed his life.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-23
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Chronicle of My Mother
Overview: Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-28
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Counterfeit
Overview: Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to manufacture counterfeit money. She initially refuses, but eventually decides to join the project for the sake of the poor children in the village and her own mentally handicapped child.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-22
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Ah, It's True, You Are Already Gone
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-12
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Parade
Overview: The story of a strange living situation in a 2LDK apartment in suburban Tokyo. There are five residents ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-eight. They are not in any way romantically involved with one another, but one can see subtle hints of affection and friendship among them. In the end, however, none of them really know each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-20
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Onobori monogatari
Overview: A young man moves from the countryside to Tokyo, while experiencing hardships and happiness, in his pursuit to become a comics artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-17
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必殺仕事人2020
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-28
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Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022
Overview: Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022 is a continuation of the Hissatsu Shigotonin series. This was the SP released in 2022.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-09
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必殺仕事人2019
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-10
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The Matsugane Potshot Affair
Overview: When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-24
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Ripples
Overview: Yoriko Sudo believes in a new religious group Midoriinochikai, that worships water. She lives peacefully, devoting herself to the group daily.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-05-26
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Kakekomi
Overview: Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-16
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Pride
Overview: Shio Asami (Stephanie) was brought up in a wealthy family whose mother is a prominent opera singer. However, the bankruptcy of her father’s business forced her to give up becoming an opera singer. Moe Midorikawa (Hikari Mitsushima) entrapped Shio and claimed a victory in an opera contest. A competition of two heroines ensues, placing their pride on the line.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-17
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Thermae Romae
Overview: The story follows a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One day, he discovers a hidden tunnel underneath a spa that leads him to a modern Japanese bath house. Inspired by the innovations found there, he creates his own spa, Roma Thermae, bringing in the modern ideas to his time.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-28
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Parasite
Overview: A stage adaptation of the Korean film Parasite, which changes the setting to 1990s Japan. It ran from June 5th-July 2nd 2023 in Tokyo.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-05
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Deadly Professional 2023
Overview: An epidemic is spreading through the towns of Edo – it spreads via people, and if you get the fever, your face will turn red like a demon, and then you will die. There is no cure in sight, and people’s anxiety is increasing.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-08
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Variations
Overview: Referred to as the Pearl of the Orient, supermodel Miori Reiko has had her fair share of scandals due to her eccentricity and her wild love affairs. One day, Reiko is found dead in her apartment by her housekeeper, Ota Michiko. The medical examiner found traces of potassium cyanide in her body, which kick-started a major police investigation into her death. Who is the true murderer of Miori Reiko?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-02
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The Case of Hana & Alice
Overview: A Japanese girl struggling to fit in at her new school teams up with a reclusive neighbor to find out what happened to an upperclassman who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Animation Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-20
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Thermae Romae II
Overview: In ancient Rome, bathhouse architect Lucius (Hiroshi Abe) becomes famous with designing the original "thermae" (bathhouse). He receives an order to build a thermae in the colosseum to help gladiators recover from their wounds, but faces difficulties. Thus, Lucius travels again to modern day Japan through the time slip. He meets Manami (Aya Ueto) again, who is now a reporter for a magazine which covers bathroom. With the help of the flat face Japanese tribe, Lucius again designs a new thermae. Meanwhile, Emperor Hadrian (Masachika Ichimura) wants to keep the peace with the thermae, but the Senate wants to extend the land by using force. Emperor Hadrian and the Senate now have a confrontation and Rome becomes divided.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-26
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Midnight Diner 2
Overview: The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-05
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My Uncle
Overview: Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Overview: Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara (Kuranosuke Sasaki). One day, film producer Koshimizu brings a movie investment proposal to yakuza leader Shimada. Shimada decide to invest in the film and he assigns Yasuhiko Kuwabara to oversee his investment in the film. Film producer Koshimizu though runs away with their investment money. Keisuke and Yasuhiko struggle to get Shimada’s money back from Koshimizu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-28
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Sekigahara
Overview: The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-26
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My Little Nightmare: The Movie
Overview: New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they have seen new transfer student Kanji in a dream. Yuiko Koto also had a night mare. In her nightmare, a boy that looks transfer student Kanji appeared as a prince. Ayami Mutoi tries to keep that to herself. She actually likes the prince in her dream.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-03
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Our Little Sister
Overview: Three sisters live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father – absent from the family home for the last 15 years – dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral, and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-13
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Killing for the Prosecution
Overview: Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office that deals with violent cases, where he will work with Takeshi Mogami, whom he admires. When a money lender is killed and it is suspected that someone from Mogami’s past is the perpetrator, the team prepares to do his best in order to prove the alleged criminal’s guilt.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-24
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Gintama 2: Rules are Made to Be Broken
Overview: The Yorozuya gang returns to protect the country's shogun when the Shinsengumi police force finds itself in a crisis.
Genres: Comedy Action Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-04
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Mystery Trilogy Special
Overview: This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-30
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One Million Yen Girl
Overview: A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-19
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Don't Cry, Mr. Ogre
Overview: What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his now married pupil is afflicted with terminal cancer. Full of regrets of how he once treated the student the man ponders how to make it up to the man whom he once coached
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-14
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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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Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
Overview: Nanami Ishikawa works as an editor at a publishing company. She travels Hiroshima to go after her father Asahi who left home. During her visit to Hiroshima, she learns about the tragic story of Asahi's older sister Minami Hirano. When Minami Hirano was 13 years old, she was exposed to radiation by an atomic bomb.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-06
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About Her Brother
Overview: Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-30
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Musume Bugyo On-na Ro Hisho
Overview: A woman calling herself Princess Oryu enters the woman's prison. She is Kasumi, the daughter of the famous magistrate, Ooka Echizen, who slowly after hearing each of the prisoner's stories begins to realize the mystery that lies behind what it could be a big conspiracy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-03-24
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Days with You
Overview: Natsuki takes care of her young autistic brother. She then meets her old childhood friend and falls in love, unfortunately he suffers from a serious illness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-14
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Greatest Gift of Life
Overview: Ryosuke lives in a small house in Toshima, Tokyo. Since his wife died, he has adjusted to living alone. He used to teach at a university and he now works as a translator. Meanwhile, Ryosuke has one child, Yuriko. She is married to Shigeyuki, who works as a teacher. Yuriko and Shigeyuki live in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture. One day, Yuriko visits her father Ryosuke without advance notice. Ryosuke is surprised by her sudden visit. Yuriko doesn't give any reason for the visit. Ryosuke only learns that Yuriko isn't sure how long she will stay. They haven't talked as father and daughter in a long time. They begin to live together in a nervous, but warm atmosphere.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-04
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Kitakaze to Taiyo no Hotei
Overview: "Northern Wind and the Sun "as a set of divorce trials of a lawyer of exactly opposite style.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-17
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Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-31
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Nippon no ichiban nagai natsu
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Genres: War Documentary Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-07
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Under the Open Sky
Overview: Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies for a TV show and meets a young TV director Tsunoda. Meanwhile, he struggles to get a proper job and fit into society. His impulsive, adamant nature and ingrained beliefs cause friction in his relationship with Tsunoda and those who want to help him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-11
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Hana & Alice
Overview: Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-13
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Peeping Tom
Overview: Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was his own death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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Prodigy
Overview: Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point where she hates playing the piano. Her father was also a piano virtuoso, but mysteriously disappeared from her life at a young age. Because of her father's disappearance Uta's mother had to move out of their posh home and into a far modest working class neighborhood. In this working class neighborhood there is a local grocer. The grocer's son Kikuna Oto happens to be a budding musician, but lacks the drive to truly succeed. That is until Uta Naruse comes into his life...
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-20
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Otoko no Koto wo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-07
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花まんま
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-04-25
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