Kyūsaku Shimada
Also Known As: 嶋田 久作, しまだ きゅうさく, Shima-ku, Kyusaku Shimada, Shimada Kyūsaku
Biography: Kyūsaku Shimada is a Japanese actor. He was originally part of the Tokyo Grand Guignol Theater group, formed by artist Norimizu Ameya. He stayed with the group until its dissolution in 1986. One of the productions the group undertook was an adaptation of the occult novel Teito Monogatari (Hiroshi Aramata) where Shimada played the lead role Yasunori Kato. He has appeared in films such as Makoto Shinozaki's 0093: Her Majesty's Masao Kusakari and Takahisa Zeze's Pandemic.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Totsuka-ku, Japan
Birthday: April 24, 1955
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Gender: Male
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The Promised Land
Overview: A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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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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future past perfect Pt. 3 (U_08-1)
Overview: a quiet autumn night in tokyo. a man stops his car at a shop front with a number of vending machines to get a last drink of tea on his way home. he inserts a coin, but instead of the usual procedure, the machine starts performing its own peculiar performance...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Double Suicide Elegy
Overview: Mashiro works for a law firm in Kagurazaka. It takes 2 hours for him to commute one way. Kyoko works at the counter in a real-estate agency in Yurakucho. It takes 2 1/2 hours for her to commute one way. They meet each other in a 'double-suicide room' in Nishi-Shinjuku on a pre-arranged day. They are in love and planning to die together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-26
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With You Who Wanted to be a Star : Another Story
Overview: Spinoff of "Hoshi ni Naritakatta Kimi to" that aired right after the original series, but with different developments and endings to the story.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-05
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Pure Japanese
Overview: Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he comes across a senior high school girl Ayumi who is being harassed consistently by Chinese brokers and the local yakuza. He decides to protect her from them. However, after this incident, he comes to develop a mindset of seeing violence as a way to gain the affirmation and approval of others thus gradually loses himself and behaves in an extreme manner.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-28
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Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle
Overview: Once again, Musashi has encounter Ultraman Cosmos. Now Ultraman Cosmos has gained some new modes to defeat Scropis. Musashi has joined Team Sea to save the Blue Area. But there is mysterious evil monster, Sandros, who wants to destroy the Earth. Now it is up Musashi and Ultraman Cosmos to defeat Sandros and who’s the other Ultraman?
Genres: Action Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-02
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Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet
Overview: When he returns to Earth to attend the wedding of his friend in Saipan, Musashi meets a beautiful girl named Shau who claims to come from the bottom of the sea. Just then, Monster Scorpis reappears in the sky above the island and Musashi faces the monster in order to protect the girl. What is the girl's true form? And what is the strange shadowy form that follows the monster Scorpis?
Genres: Action Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-03
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THE LAST GOZE
Overview: A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a goze due to her blindness at seven-years-old, Haru was strictly trained with a parent's affection by her once kind mother, Tome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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Jam Films 2
Overview: Jam Films 2 features 4 short films by different Japanese directors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-24
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Dragon Head
Overview: Teru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially destroys the train and blocks a tunnel. When Teru awakes, he finds all his classmates and teachers are dead.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-30
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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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Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri
Overview: Third installment of the Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 11 films made under the conditions: "the main character must be a detective" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes" "at least five gags must be included"
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-24
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The Clone Returns Home
Overview: Kohei Takahara, an astronaut who dies in the line of duty, is legally resurrected as a clone: however, contrary to the scientists' expectations, he reverts to his childhood memories when his twin brother drowned sacrificing his life for Kohei. Kohei's clone discovers the body of his former self mistakenly believing that it is his deceased twin. Reliving his tragic past, he sets off carrying his corpse body to the beautiful hometown where he lived with his now dead mother.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-19
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Kissho Tennyo
Overview: A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale, who uses her supernatural power to control people, especially men.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-30
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TOMA #2
Overview: When Toma decides to place his father, who suffers from dementia, in a facility, he discovers an instant camera filled sith memories in his father's room that he had forgotten to develop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-11
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The Princess Blade
Overview: Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her own right, she learns the gruesome truth about the death of her beloved mother and joins forces with a mysterious rebel leader.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-15
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Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
Overview: The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the young daughter of a samurai killed fighting these demons, accepts a mission to travel to Mt. Fuji and defeat the evil spirits. Accompanying her on her journey are two veteran warriors who served her father, and Tarō, a young kappa, or river spirit, whom she has adopted as her little brother. Along the way, the two warriors have doubts about Tarō’s loyalties, and the young kappa himself must decide if he will stand with his own species or with the humans who have cared for him.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-08
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London no Yamamoto Isoroku
Overview: In 1934 (Showa 9), Maj. Gen. Yamamoto Isoroku was ordered to be the chief representative of the preliminary negotiations for the Disarmament Conference to be held in London. If negotiations break down and Japan becomes isolated from the international community, the gap with Britain and the United States will deepen, and it may eventually become a war. Knowing the mighty national power of the United States and thinking that war should be avoided, Yamamoto is forced to make a tough decision with the speculation of senior military personnel who want to withdraw from the disarmament system and hope for a path to arms race. Under such circumstances, Yamamoto comes up with a secret plan!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-30
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SAKANAQUARIUM ADAPT ONLINE
Overview: SAKANAQUARIUM ADAPT ONLINE is a live concert experience from Japanese rock band sakanaction, created specifically to showcase concepts and feelings they have had to cope with and embrace over the course of the pandemic. Past hit songs like アイデンティティ ("Identity"), 『バッハの旋律を夜に聴いたせいです。』("Bach no Senritsu o Yoru ni Kiita Sei Desu"), and 新宝島 ("Shin Takarajima") are performed, along with new songs such as 月の椀 ("Tsuki no Wan"), プラトー ("Plateau"), and ショック！("SHOCK!").
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
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Die Silbermaske
Overview: Sabine is able to transform into a silver superhero through the power of the Ring of Nibelungen. She travels to Japan where she searches for her father and battles the forces of Dr. Caligari.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-23
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Not Quite Dead Yet
Overview: After Nanase's father drops dead due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days, she is named the president of his pharmaceutical company. Nanase endeavors to prevent her father's enemies from prematurely cremating his body before the drug can wear off and allow him to revive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-20
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Overview: The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-30
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Rainbow Kids
Overview: A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-15
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Ramo Trip
Overview: Film on the life of Ramo Nakajima, part adaptation of his short stories, part documentary
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-25
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Dark Tales of Japan
Overview: Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-22
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Snake Girl
Overview: Yumiko has been invited by her cousin to spend summer vacation in a rural village. Once they arrive, she is mad to feel very unwelcome by the mysterious locals who keep referring to her as "Snake Girl."
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-11-26
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First Gentleman
Overview: Hiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist (expert on birds). His wife is Rinko (Miki Nakatani). She is the leader the minority opposition party. One morning, Hiyori is about to travel to an isolated island to watch birds on a 10 day trip. Before he leaves, Rinko asks him if she becomes the prime minister would he be inconvenienced. Hiyori then goes on his bird watching trip. During this time, he is completely isolated from the outside world. When he returns home, his wife Rinko is now the prime minister of the country. She is also the first ever female prime minister of Japan. Suddenly, Hiyori is now the first gentleman of the country. He decides to support his wife, but he finds himself caught up in unexpected circumstances.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Wandering Brain
Overview: A psychological suspense based on the novel of the same name by Naoki Prize-winning author Tsuyoshi Osaka. Psychiatrist Aiko Minamikawa was asked to conduct a psychiatric evaluation on a man named Oiwake who assaulted a woman. At that time, a series of murders targeting women who cut off her eyelids after killing them occurred.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-12-04
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百日紅の下にて
Overview: Almost all of the dialogue and narration is extracted from the original story, and there are no particular deviations from the original storyline, but the images tend to be devoid of reality. For example, the scene in the ruins of the mansion where Saeki and Kindaichi talk to each other is somewhat fantastical, and Kindaichi's appearance is also unrealistic. In addition, Saeki and Yumi's sex life is represented by the 'dancing futon'. The behaviour of those attending the first anniversary of the death of Saeki and Yumi is unnaturally exaggerated.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-26
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Kashi bōto jū san-gō
Overview: Although greatly abbreviated and simplified, and in a back-and-forth sequence, almost all of the dialogue and narration is based on words extracted from the original story. The setting of the original film (1957), in which long-distance calls are connected to a switchboard so that the recipient knows where the call is coming from, has been eliminated, and the public telephones are digital telephones installed after 1996. Other alterations include the following.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-18
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Tonbi
Overview: Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed after his wife died in accident. Since that time, Yasuo, who never experienced parents' love himself, has to raise his son Akira alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-08
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The Code
Overview: For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a group of stellar detectives lead by the genius code breaker Detective 507. When an unknown client enlists 507 to crack his most difficult programming code yet, the detective embarks for Shanghai where he crosses paths with a sniper, an informant, the head of the Blue-Dragon Mafia, and beautiful singer on the run, Meilan. As 507 stumbles deeper into a twisted quagmire of intrigue he discovers the sad truth behind the mystery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-09
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Skin #5 Video Mix M.M.M.
Overview: A young man discovers a floppy disk hidden in the urn that houses his father's ashes. He and his friends access the floppy disk, which asks them a series of questions. Upon successfully answering them, two bizarre figures appear with body parts hanging out. The young man is also reunited with his dead father whose mind and soul seem to have possessed a giant, terrifying machine.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-03
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What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
Overview: A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.
Genres: Comedy Drama Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-02-04
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The Courier
Overview: At the beginning of the 19th century, Japan was under a policy of national isolation. A group of Dutch scholars who wanted to open the country secretly completed a copy of a map of Japan under shogunate control. They sent a young Dutch scholar, Michi-an, as a secret envoy to deliver the copy of the map to the Dutch. Michi-an, hiding himself and making his way through the deserted winter mountains, but the mountain guardians, led by Takayama, had begun hunting in the mountains with a description of Michi-an's appearance arranged by the shogunate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-22
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Welcome to Toei Slaughterhouse
Overview: The film follows Saki (Momotsuki), Mei (Kudo), and Kaho (Teramoto), the members of the budding idol group called Wish as they are set to appear in the sequel of Toei's hit movie, Yugami. Toei Movie Studios is a place where a lot of popular movies and dramas are filmed, but this studio also has an untold secret.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-13
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Shodo Kyouju
Overview: Kamikawa Katsuji, a bank employee, is married to Yasuko, the daughter of a rich family and lives an ordinary married life. But he keeps a lover, Kamiya Ayako, a nightclub hostess, behind his wife’s back and is mired in a web of lust. His life takes mysterious turns after becoming Katsumura Hisako’s disciple. The beautiful and elegant Hisako, a calligraphy instructor, possesses the special ability to tell the fortune of people by looking at their calligraphic styles.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-03-23
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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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Kamen Rider: The Next
Overview: Bent on the destruction of the human race, the secret underground organization Shocker secretly planned to plunge the world into chaos. But they didn’t count on the revolt of both of their experimentally “reconstructed” human beings, the Kamen Riders. Two years after their first battle with Shocker, a 3rd Rider arises to confront them, known only as “Version 3.” The arrival of the third Kamen Rider will hurl the heroes into their most terrible battle yet and the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-27
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Switch
Overview: Prosecutor Komazuki Nao from the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors Office’s Minato Mirai branch and lawyer Tsutaya Madoka (Matsu Takako) from the law firm Yokohama Gold dated for seven years since the time they were in school. Even after they broke up, they have continued to be hopelessly linked to each other.
Genres: Crime Romance Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-21
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Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill
Overview: Ataru, who suffers from “savant syndrome,” has the power to discover, observe, see through, and deduct microscopic evidence of unsolved cases. Why does he always go to the criminal sites? What explains his strange behavior? Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds with Ataru and a woman named Madoka, who is a killer. The woman possesses the same extraordinary memory and deductive reasoning abilities as Ataru. Who is she?
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-14
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Sad Vacation
Overview: Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old friend in jail and a young illegal immigrant. Eventually his life reaches a turning point.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-08
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Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
Overview: Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for one year before his death.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-09-14
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Nagi's Island
Overview: After her parents’ divorce, ten-year-old Nagi moves with her mother to a small island in Setouchi. Traumatic visions of her alcoholic father Shimao abusing her mother trigger panic attacks. She slowly regains her ability to smile, while trying to help the islanders with their own burdens. A funny, sweet, and tender coming-of-age drama with a rich range of memorable characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-19
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Tales of Terror: Final Night 2
Overview: The second volume of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the real-life ghost story book “Shin Mimibukuro,” includes the final series. It features notable actresses such as Mari Hoshino of “Sayonara Midori Chan” fame. It includes all 10 episodes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-05
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Maestro!
Overview: Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou appears in front of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-31
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Half a Confession
Overview: Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its characters than we had anticipated. It begins when Soichiro Kaji (Terao), a retired detective, walks into police headquarters and confesses to the murder of his wife. We learn that the victim had prematurely developed Alzheimer's after the tragic death of their son, and in her suffering, had asked to die. The police chiefs would be far more content to take him at his word if it were not for a conspicuous hole in his story: 48-hour gap between the alleged murder and his confession. Fearing a public relations nightmare, they are eager to bury the incident and keep the press in the dark.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-10
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The Chef of South Polar
Overview: When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-07
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One Summer's Day
Overview: Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city child looking forward to a summer of reading comic books and playing video games. Instead, he is bundled off to his grandparent's house on the Inland Sea. His grandfather, Yuta's parents explain, has been acting strangely as of late -- he eats the offerings in the family altar and once tried to lead attendants at a funeral in a rousing round of calisthenics. Since his mother and father are swamped with work, and his elder sister (Nana Sano) is studying for college entrance exams, Yuta has been asked to look after Grandpa. The old man takes Yuta on a tour of Onomichi, regaling him with 70 years of its history. Along the way, Grandpa slips in and out of the past, increasingly unable to discern between the two.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-03
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Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Go Ya
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-08
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The Woodsman and the Rain
Overview: A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-11
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A Watcher in the Attic
Overview: In 1923, in a cheap Tokyo rooming house, a languid young man named Goda was feeling bored with his life. One day while playing dress up with a woman’s wig and lipstick, he accidentally loosens a ceiling board in his closet. Climbing up, he discovers a dimly lit passageway under the roof leading to the resident’s other rooms. Soon he is scampering about like a ninja, making knotholes and moving ceiling boards for a better view. What he sees are the intimate acts - sadistic, criminal or vaguely mad - that reveal infinitely more about his fellow roomers than the various fronts they present to the world.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-25
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Tokyo!
Overview: Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-16
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Joker Game
Overview: Set along a backdrop of a fictitious second world war at an international city in Asia. In Japan, Lieutenant Colonel Yuki (Yusuke Iseya) recommends the creation of spy training school "D Kikan". Meanwhile, Kato (Kazuya Kamenashi) is facing capital punishment for his refusal to follow a superior's order. Kato is then scouted by "D Kikan". He goes through a harsh training regiment and faces his first mission as a spy. In order to seize American ambassador Graham's confidential documents "Black Note." Kato infiltrates into an international city. A battle to gain possession of the "Black Note" ensues between Kato, a mysterious woman named Rin (Kyoko Fukada), the British Spy Agency, the Soviet Spy Agency and the radical army in Japan.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-31
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Happiness in August
Overview: Teru, a 17-year-old high school student, goes to live at a relative's house in Okinawa after the death of his mother. He becomes aware of a mysterious and powerful force within their family. Then, one day, he encounters a mysterious man with the soul of a tree?! The story of a mystical journey, against the backdrop of spirit-filled Okinawa Island.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-02
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Naoko
Overview: Naoko meets Yusuke while staying on an island for medical treatment. Yusuke's graceful athletic figure captivates her eyes and she falls in love with him. But their relationship is soon broken after Yusuke's father dies while trying to save Naoko from drowning. The memory of Yusuke leads Naoko to the track, and six years later, they meet each other again at a Marathon competition. Naoko decides to become a manager to help Yusuke, a gifted runner, and they embark on training together to heal their sorrows from the past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-18
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Angel Home
Overview: The "Himawari So" ("Sunflower House") is a group home for mentally underdeveloped adults. Manga artist Itpon Aijo (Naoto Takenaka) begins to work at the "Himawari So". He moves into the home with his daughter Mako (Shihori Kanjiya), who is mentally underdeveloped. Uyan (Takayuki Takuma) is a resident at the group home. Uyan and Mako begin to develop feelings for each, but Itpon becomes worried about them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-19
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Rakugo Story
Overview: Haruki Masato is a shy youth who gets swept away when he happens upon a rakugo performance. He knocks on the door of rakugo master Imadoka Shoroku in Tokyo’s old downtown and somehow gets taken on as a disciple, and embarks on a path to become a rakugo comedian under the name of Imadoka Koharu.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-12
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Freesia: Bullet Over Tears
Overview: In the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executioners are permitted to kill criminals by the requests from their victims. People who are to be executed are notified of the execution time and date in advance and they are allowed to have their own guard.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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Time Trip App
Overview: In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu wants to avoid useless bloodshed and sends a peace envoy to Takamori Saigō, but Katsu Kaishu is unable to get a response from Takamori Saigō. One day, Katsu Kaishu meets high school teacher Mikako and her student Masaya who is captivated by the shogunate. Mikako and her student Masaya tells Katsu Kaishu that they are from the future. Katsu Kaishu takes care of Mikako and her student Masaya, while Mikako hopes to go back to the future where she came from.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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Heaven's Story
Overview: A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is eventually placed back into society so that he can kill him with his bare hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-02
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Route 225
Overview: Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are the same as in their own world, but their parents are missing from home and are only contactable when using one particular phonecard.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-11
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The Road Less Travelled
Overview: Kazunari Katsuki (Gaku Sano) lied to his classmate that Tokyo stinks. Because of his comment, he goes to Tokyo alone. On his way back, he misses his flight back to Kumamoto. Kazunari only 3,400 yen in his pocket. He becomes confused about his missed flight. At that time, Masami Tanaka (Kaoru Sugita), who works at an airport souvenir shop, talks to Kazunari. On Kazunari's unusual trip back to Kumamoto, he meets many different adults and begins to think about his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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Penance
Overview: The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-29
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Murder on D Street
Overview: Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-16
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Talk to the Dead
Overview: Having lost her beloved father at an early age, Yuri lives with her mother and younger brother. Yuri's mother meets a new man, but they are deeply in debt and forced to leave their home. Yuri is then forced to take a job as a call girl to support her brother. One day Yuri's brother becomes ill but since Yuri has to work, she unwillingly leaves him at home. When she returns, she finds him dead in the bathtub. Her heart is scarred with regret and she suffers with a pain that will never go away. After some time has passed, Mayu, a colleague of Yuri's, tells her about a mysterious mobile app that is rumored to enable its user to talk to the dead. Yet, it comes with a warning: Never reply if the dead soul says, "I want to see you." Because she blames herself for her brother's death and will do anything to tell him how sorry she is, Yuri downloads the app and reaches out to her dead brother. Meanwhile, the app's users begin to die.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-02
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Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
Overview: A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-23
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Cape Nostalgia
Overview: Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are beginning to blow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-29
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69
Overview: Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-10
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Walking With The Dog
Overview: Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who's loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace in the dog, whom he calls Tamura, and uses it to mend fences with his ex, who's distracted by her mother's debilitating illness. A trip to a hospital reveals Tamura's ability to comfort dying patients, leading to dog and master attending the real-life Japanese Therapy Dogs training school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-27
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Happy Ending Story
Overview: High school student Mikiko travels back in time to the future using a time machine built by Monjiro, the physics club advisor. What awaited her there was the reality that her best friends, Yoko and Tatsuro, were already married and were on the verge of breaking up. Mikiko returns to the modern world with the help of future Monjiro to mend their relationship.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-25
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K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Overview: In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
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Uneasy Encounters
Overview: A five-part comedy and horror anthology
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-23
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Memories of Matsuko
Overview: While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-05-27
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Night Time Picnic
Overview: Takako's high school has a unique tradition. Every year, the school's 1000 students walk 80 kilometers in 24 hours. As this is her final year of high school, Takako decides to work up the courage to talk to her stepbrother You, whom she has never spoken to before. Classmates who are unaware of their relationship read something more into their awkward overtures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-30
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Tales of Terror: Final Night 1
Overview: This is the first volume to include the final series of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the true-life ghost story book “Shin Mimibukuro. It contains all 10 episodes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-05
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The Apology King
Overview: Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simple arbitration to a national crisis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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Dear Hinagon
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-30
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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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Let's Go to the Hospital
Overview: When a hard-driving copywriter (Hiroyuki Sanada) discovers his comely wife (Keiko Saito) is involved in a scintillating game of strip rock-paper-scissors with some guy clad only in a pair of boxer shorts and Mickey Mouse ears, he is less than happy. When the stranger tries to make a run for it, a fight ensues between the two men, and they accidentally tumble down several flights of a concrete stairwell. One hurried ambulance ride later, the copywriter finds himself in a private teaching hospital equipped with the latest gleaming gizmos. Meanwhile, a young internist (Hiroko Yakushimaru) girds herself for her first emergency room case -- the battered copywriter. After giving a curt bow and a nervous "Good Evening," she accidentally jams a syringe into his bloody wound. Soon the absurdity of their situation, along with their medical misery, binds the two men and their blundering nurse together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-07
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64: Part 1
Overview: 1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-07
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25
Overview: Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups and seize their money. One day, the Chief of Police becomes aware that 2.5 million yen in seized money is missing. He orders Shintarou and Koichi to bring the money in by tomorrow morning. Shintarou and Koichi are in big trouble. They then read an article about a pension fund embezzlement case involving 6 billion yen. The prime suspect of the pension fund embezzlement case spent most of that money, but he has 2.5 billion yen left.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-01
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Nejirin bou
Overview: A woman as the main character, love and friendship, and one of the
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-27
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Labyrinth of Dreams
Overview: Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-02-15
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Laughing Lucky Cats
Overview: Hitomi Takagi (Fumika Shimizu) and Akako Honda (Rena Matsui) are members of comedy duo “Akako to Hitomi.” The created the comedy duo about 5 years ago, but they are still not very popular. Everyday, they perform manzai to a regular audience in a corner of a small theater. One day, Hitomi and Akako catch a middle school student trying to steal Hitomi’s bicycle. Since then, their fate as a female comedy duo begins to change.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-29
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Tomie: Revenge
Overview: A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-16
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Munashiidake
Overview: A story of a married couple, Koji and Shizuko. They have purchased a piece of land to build their new home after being married for five years. Despite Koji's excitement. Shizuko stays calm. One day, Koji receives word that Shizuko has been in an accident. She was found with an unknown man when she was supposed to be traveling with her friends...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-01
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Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
Overview: In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation with a young detective Ichimura and his investigations lead him to Father Tolbeck as a suspect. But the police are forced to move very discreetly as the time was right after the Second World War, when a sensitive situation that involves Western people and religion is likely to become an international issue. The investigation leads to an unexpected discloser of a shadowy business behind the church that reflects the uncertainty of the time.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-19
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Love Is Five Seven Five
Overview: A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-26
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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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Patisserie Coin De Rue
Overview: A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aiming to become a high-calibre pastry chef, she is determined to overcome both her past and the challenges ahead. Pastry critic Tomura is a frequent visitor to Coin de Rue. Moved by Natsume's persistence, he slowly begins to confront his own painful past aided, of course, by mouthfuls of tasty pastries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-11
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4.50 from Paddington
Overview: Toko Amano worked as a detective, but to take care of her sick husband she quit her job. After her husband passed away, Toko Amano now works as a crisis management expert. 3 days ago, Toko Amano's former mother-in-law rode on an express train with beds. She witnessed a man strangling a woman and told the train conductor, but he thought she imagined it. The police later searched for the woman's body, but could not find her. Toko Amano boards the same express train that her former mother-in-law rode. She looks for the dead body.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-24
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The Ice Ruts
Overview: Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person she has blood relationship in this world, but he is going to die soon. Mayu has just started a new life as a detective at the Criminal Investigation Division which deals mainly with murder cases soon, and has to handle with two corpses of old men continuously. One corpse found frozen buried in the snow and the freezing sea. Soon with a detailed investigation she finds out a connection between the two cases which seemed to be completely different at first glance. It was just the breach to open a history of an incident which had origin back to the 1960s in Aomori Prefecture. Growing more and more as a detective, Mayu has to unravel the mystery of a case which goes beyond time and space and which ends in Hokkaido with a result that no one expected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-05
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We Are Not Alone
Overview: Businessmen competing for international building contracts in this globe-trotting comedy-adventure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-03-13
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Oka wo koete
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-17
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Bird Call
Overview: A timid girl high school student, Sonoko Ishii (Emi Suzuki), has two important friends at her high school. They are Sonoko's boyfriend Satonaka (Kei Tanaka) and her best friend Miyuki (Erika Okuda), a delinquent high school student. Sonoko is suffering from depression due to "bullying" by a girl in her class. Miyuki, on the other hand, is a "wrist-cut" addict due to a terrible experience she had in her childhood. Satonaka is a good guy who tries to support them both. Then one day, unexpectedly, Satonaka and Miyuki have a big accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-18
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The Blood of Wolves
Overview: Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-12
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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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Silver Angel
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-18
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Tokyo: The Last War
Overview: The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government decides to consult spiritual psychics to aid them in winning the war. Unfortunately, the resentment and agony of the souls of the fire-bombing victims culminate together to revive the evil Onmyoji, Yasunori Kato. Only a young, psychically imbued apprentice of the priests will dare fight against the evil magic user. However, can this lone man possibly contend with Kato's overwhelming power?
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Blue Hour
Overview: Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom and yearnings creep in the dreamlike blue hour, transcending into a lyricism of self-realization – at once whimsical, agonizing and yet hopeful.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-28
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Blossoms Bloom
Overview: Work life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began to slip by the wayside. As his elderly father begins to show signs of dementia, Shunsuke takes the family on a trip in a desperate attempt to pull them together before it is too late. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Masashi Sada's short story of the same name received the awards for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Music at the 1st Asia International Film Festival in Taipei.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-05
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Shin Ultraman
Overview: The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly meets a giant silver humanoid who starts appearing every time a space monster attacks!
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-13
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Time Scoop Hunter
Overview: A reporter is sent through time and space to document the lives of Japanese people at various times in history. This time, he is sent to unwrap the mystery of Azuchi castle which was built by Oda Nobunaga, one of the most famous shogun of all times, and lost within merely three years after its completion.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-31
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The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
Overview: In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-07
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Before The Leaves Fall
Overview: An elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was the inspiration for the painting.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-23
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Sada
Overview: The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-11
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Prayer Beads
Overview: This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are revolving around bad karma and terror.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-08
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The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Overview: Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-07
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No Way Back
Overview: When FBI Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the person responsible. Mafioso Frank Serlano believes Zack is responsible for his only son's death in the same operation and kidnaps Zack's son to hold as bait. The action gets wild when airline stewardess Mary is taken hostage to add what seems an another insurmountable problem for Zack. There appears to be no way out.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-12
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Farewell for Today
Overview: Kouta Fujioka is a 29-year old man who has a good family, including his father who always supports him, his mother who enjoys cooking, and his older sister with her bright personality. He also has a girlfriend named Etsuko Tanebe. Kouta wants people to eat delicious foods made by him and begins a job as an apprentice chef at a restaurant. One day, Kouta suddenly passes out and is sent to the hospital, where he is diagnosed with malignant lymphoma, completely changing his life. Given three months left to live, Kouta makes up his mind, with the support of his family and those he meets at the hospital, to accept his fate and "face a proper death".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-24
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Si-Sei 2 -The Fallen Spider-
Overview: A tattoo changes a woman. A tattoo changes a man. Tattoo is everything ... Asami, a woman who breaks into an affair with a man who has a wife the name is Ninomiya, a man who leaves the house apart from his wife and is inviting a self-development seminar to live today. The two who atoned for the past and asked for salvation met by chance. Asami, who decided to carve a tattoo by her own choice, entrusts her skin to a genius skin carver, Kokari. Eventually, a splendid woman's tattoo leaps on her back, which dramatically changes herself. Tattoo greatly changes Ninomiya's way of life and captivates the sculpture that dreams of the completion of tattoos. Eventually, the fate of men and women who were tossed by tattoos began to fluctuate greatly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-13
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Soup Opera
Overview: Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-02
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Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
Overview: A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-07
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Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
Overview: A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-11
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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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The Motive
Overview: Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-18
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A Madder Red
Overview: 7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her husband's death. She has since raised her son Junpei by herself. Junpei is now a middle school student. Ryoko also cares for her father-in-law, who lives in a nursing home and she also runs a cafe. Her care is in a difficult situation due to Covid-19, while Junpei experiences bullying at school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-21
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Abacus and Sword
Overview: Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation of the Inoyama family, a wealthy family known for finance & accounting. He is also a gifted mathematician and uses the abacus with extreme skills. Naoyuki works under the declining Kaga domain. Because of this, Naoyuki and his wife Koma suffer hardships as their stature and wealth dissipates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-12-04
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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Overview: Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome's good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double crossing.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-05-13
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Orochi - Blood
Overview: The story of Orochi revolves around the life of the Monzen family. Aoi Monzen, a famous, but aging, movie star and Kazusa and Lisa Monzen her two daughters. Aoi hopes for them both to take over her legacy as a star, but Kazusa does not live up to her expectations. The mother is always pitting the girls against one another competitively. As a result, as the years pass, the love the sisters shared grows to a hidden hatred. When another girl named Orochi saves the girl's mother from a terrible accident a bizarre chain of events is set in motion spanning many years. The atmosphere in their estate builds up until Orochi reveals a terrible truth that the family must keep hidden from the world. Orochi serves as the narrator of the story. The movie is based on a Kazuo Umezu manga series which ran from 1969 to 1970.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-20
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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Overview: Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.
Genres: Drama Adventure War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-21
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Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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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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All the Things We Never Said
Overview: Atsuhisa Yamada is an ordinary man, with a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. He is close to his childhood friend Takeda. One day, Atsuhisa Yamada leaves his office during work hours and goes back home early. There, he witnesses his wife and an unknown man having sex, but Atsuhisa Yamada is unable to express his feelings like anger, frustration, and depression. His relationship with his wife and his friend Takeda becomes distorted.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-03
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Teacher and Stray Cat
Overview: Following the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat called Mii, who was being fed by his wife, not only continues to drop by, but also seems to be visiting the altar Kyoichi has set up for his deceased wife. While uncomfortable with the cat and its visits, he nonetheless takes up a search when Mii goes missing. The endeavour connects him with the town's folk and reveals that he is not alone.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-28
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
Overview: Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for spies. Hoping for some excitement in her life, she decides to give them a call.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-02
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Forbidden Siren
Overview: A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and give them a breakdown of the local rules; most important: do not go outside when the island's siren starts wailing.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-11
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The Battling Angel
Overview: Police struggle to uncover Klein, a powerful criminal organization. Asuka, a young detective, is assigned to contact and escort Hatsumi, a mistress of the drug lord Kimikuni, but they are ambushed, leaving Hatsumi brain-dead and Asuka near to death. However, the police concoct a top-secret plan to infiltrate Klein by transplanting Asuka's brain into Hatsumi's body.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-23
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In the Pool
Overview: A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-21
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Columbo of Shinano - Dead Person's Echo
Overview: The first in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and mannerisms of famous American TV detective Columbo, based on a series of novels by popular mystery author Yasuo Uchida. One day, Detective Takemura Iwao, also known as Shinano's Columbo, becomes the first person to discover a dismembered murder case. At first glance, the case appears to be a simple murder caused by a financial dispute between an uncle and nephew, but Takemura, who is suspicious of this view, pursues the culprit with a dogged investigation in order to unravel the criminal's meticulous plan!
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-17
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Oliver na Inu, (Gosh!!) Konoyarou Movie
Overview: Movie adaptation of the TV series 'Oliver na Inu, (Gosh!!) Konoyarou'. To be released in 2025.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
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National Treasure
Overview: Set after the war in Japan, when the country experienced rapid economic growth, Kikuo is born into a yakuza family. His strange fate leads him to be eventually taken in by a kabuki theater actor. He experiences turbulent times, but his talent as a kabuki actor blossoms.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-06-06
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The Yin Yang Master Zero
Overview: During the Heian period, Abe no Seimei trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration with Minamoto no Hiromasa arises to solve a strange phenomenon.
Genres: Fantasy History Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-04-19
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Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet - Young Musashi Chapter
Overview: An alternate version of Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet, which was created due to the arrest of the film's star, Taiyo Sugiura. New scenes were filmed that are primarily set in the past. Musashi Haruno, now a middle school student, continues to pursue his dream to become an astronaut, which is also a promise he made with Cosmos. However, he is on the verge of despair because space development gets canceled due to a rocket accident. A mysterious girl named Shau appears in front of Musashi. She invites him to a mysterious parallel space and shows him a vision of what will happen to him 10 years from now. He witnessed a crisis of Earth's destruction caused by Sandros, the worst destroyer in the universe!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-09-07
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Saiyûki
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Original Language: zh
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Neighbor X
Overview: The “ultimate love” that aims at “tolerance” and “symbiosis” will be sublimated and ask questions to the chaotic society of today.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-01
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Dumbeast
Overview: How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb Animal) to the big screen in all its wacky tragicomedic glory. The one and only Asano Tadanobu sports a seriously nerdy bowl haircut to play the leading role of simple-minded novelist Dekogawa who has mysteriously disappeared. Dekogawa wrote an autobiography about his youth that reveals not only his past, but also some of his childhood friends’ best-forgotten secrets. In order to keep the skeletons in the closet, these buddies of yesteryear try to silence him permanently. But no matter how hard they try to kill Dekogawa, he just keeps coming back – because he’s simply too thickheaded to die!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-16
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