Akio Kaneda
Also Known As: かねだ あきお, 가네다 아키오, Akio Kaneda
Biography: Akio Kaneda (金田 明夫, Kaneda Akio, October 13, 1954) is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He is 165 cm tall, weighs 68 kg and has blood type O.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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I Don't Have a Grave!

Overview: An actress visits a university hospital for research and mistakenly believes she has only six months to live. Having grown up alone with no family grave, she is shocked by the words of a film crew member and decides to search for a grave befitting a famous actress. She disguises herself and joins a bus tour organized by a cemetery company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-07
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The Funeral

Overview: When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-11-17
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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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Swap Shinsatsushitsu: Mitsu-shibuki

Overview: A sexually frustrated young wife is determined to find a way to excite her impotent husband. She goes to a sex clinic for help and has various erotic adventures.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-02-22
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志村けんとドリフの大爆笑物語

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-27
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Usuge no 19-sai

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-12
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Sannen-me no Uwaki

Overview: A young couple with marital problems are beset by an office lady temptress, amorous paramours and the swingers next door.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-08
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Eve's Flower Petal

Overview: A young woman wanders aimlessly around a beach resort and has sex with various men.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-07-27
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金田一耕助ファイルⅡ 獄門島

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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-26
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Rinbu

Overview: Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's novel, "La Ronde", many people are having sex in a variety of ways. A girl and her boyfriend go to a pool bar where she is served a free cocktail drink courtesy of a man who wants to date her. Another guy challenges her boyfriend to a game with the girlfriend being the prize. Three men are fighting over the young woman and a winner takes the girl. It ends up as four guys and the woman in a hotel room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-09
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Tange Sazen : The Jar Worth One Million Ryo

Overview: Tange Sazen: Hyakuman Ryo no Tsubo is a remake of a classic 1935 film of the same name by Yamanaka Sadao. Tange Sazen, the one-armd, one-eyed ex-samurai swordsman is the creation of Hayashi Fubo and was one of the most popular characters of the era. This remake is helmed by freshman director Tsuda Toshio, starring Toyokawa Etsushi as Sazen and Wakui Emi as Ofuji, his quick-witted wife. This marks the 34th film in the series of Tange Sazen, and involves an Urn that is worth a million Ryo!.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-17
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All Under the Moon

Overview: A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-06
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The Woman of S.R.I.: The Movie

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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-03
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スケート靴の約束 ~名古屋女子フィギュア物語~

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-25
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Door To Door

Overview: Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all of his effort into working as a door-to-door salesman. Despite the pain attributed to his cerebral palsy, he walked eight to ten miles a day to meet his customers and achieved the highest sales for his company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-29
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Shiofuki Ama

Overview: A resilient clam diver lives way she wants despite hostile villagers and the various men that share her bedroom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-21
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The Enchantment

Overview: A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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Hateshinaki zecchô

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-05-20
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Marathon

Overview: Remake of the 2005 South Korean movie "Marathon", this special is about an autistic boy guided by his mother and his coach in training for a marathon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-20
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Debauchery: Salome's Lips

Overview: A female college student who would have ended up in an ordinary life, ordinary sex, and eventually an ordinary marriage is drawn into an unusual sexual experience by chance. She's a private tutor who intervenes between a son and his mother. This strange love triangle creates a skewed sexual relationship. Nikkatsu depicts the subtleties of female psychology, which sways subtly in such a perverted world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-15
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Hand

Overview: Sawako enjoys taking photos of older men and making scrapbooks with them. Although the men she has dated have always been older than her, she has been unable to speak well with her father and they have grown apart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-16
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Ushijima the Loan Shark

Overview: Mirai Suzuki (Yuko Oshima) becomes responsible for her mother's debt which is owed to loan shark Kaoru Ushijima (Takayuki Yamada). To begin paying off her mother's debt, Mirai begins working at a dating cafe. Meanwhile, Jun (Kento Hayashi) is the ambitious and greedy company president for an event group. To borrow money, Jun visits Kaukau Finance owned by Kaoru Ushijima.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-25
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Uno Koichiro no Shûdôin Fuzoku Joshi-ryô

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-09
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Uno Koichiro no Hotel Maid Nikki

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-03-15
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Uno Kôichirô no uwaki nikki

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-10-04
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Mokuhihan

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-08
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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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Beautiful Sisters: Flesh Slaves

Overview: A man on the run from the police takes two sisters hostage in their dental office apartment. He makes himself at home sexually abusing them and getting food service. But the sisters are resilient and quietly develop a plan for revenge.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-01-18
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Confess to Your Crimes

Overview: The story tells of the granddaughter of the political family Uta, who is kidnapped. The kidnappers' demand is not money, but for the politician to hold a press conference and confess to the crime. Kentaro Nakashima plays the protagonist, Koji Uta, the second son of the Vice Minister of the Cabinet, Seijiro Uta (played by Shinichi Tsutsumi). Despite his reservations about his father's actions, he reluctantly takes on the role of his father's secretary, and the kidnapping incident plunges the Uta family into unprecedented predicaments.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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私は屈しない〜特捜検察と戦った女性官僚と家族の465日

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-31
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Handling Method for Grumpy Women

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-15
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A Bride for Rip Van Winkle

Overview: A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-26
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Sugar & Spice

Overview: Recently graduated from high school, 17-year-old Shiro decides to put off college and work at a gas station instead. Shy and introspective, Shiro understands he is at a turning point of his life, but is unsure of what lies ahead. Though his parents disapprove of his decision, he has the support of his flower child grandmother who declares that a gas station is a romantic place for life's drifters. Surely enough, soon a new co-worker, college student Noriko, drifts into Shiro's life. He falls headfirst into a bittersweet first love that ushers him into the world of adulthood.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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Mokuyou no Kaidan'97: Akuryou Gakuen

Overview: Haruka Renkoji is a bright and innocent high school girl. However, she is actually the descendant of an exorcist who has exorcised evil spirits for generations. She unwillingly gets involved in various ghost incidents and exorcises evil spirits that are unable to rest in peace and wander around.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-01
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Snow Jack

Overview: A blackmail arrives at Appi ski resort. “We demand 30,000,000 yen as consolation money for the destruction of the environment. If you do not respond to the demand, a time bomb set on the ski slope will be detonated.” If the bomb goes off, it will not only hurt the skiers but trigger an avalanche and cause a major catastrophe. The general manager of the ski pistes, Kurata (Ken Watanabe) pleads for an immediate shutdown of the ski site and reporting to the police, but the president of the ski resort gives priority to business interests and decides to negotiate with the blackmailer. And a negotiation process for a despicable ransom case with a massive hostage of all the skiers at the resort begins.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-02
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Shikei Kijun

Overview: Do criteria exist for the death penalty? Yusuke Mito, a law faculty lecturer who did not become a lawyer even though he passed the bar exam, the famous lawyer Kojiro Otomo who advocates the abolition of the death penalty, and the public prosecutor Mariko Nagase studied law together. Each have their own thoughts about the death penalty. One day, Otomo’s wife is murdered by someone. Shinzo Sabae who is resentful of a lawsuit that Otomo had been in charge of, is arrested as a suspect. Otomo reverses the stance he had had until now and seeks the death penalty against Sabae. This prompts Mito to make the decision to become a lawyer and stand in the court. However, the first case Mito takes charge of is the defence of Sabae, who murdered the wife of his good friend, Otomo…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-25
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Wada Akiko satsujin jiken

Overview: "Don of the entertainment world" Wada Akiko was killed by someone's hand! The Japanese archipelago swaying in shocking news! And the entertainment world .... Those who are "motivated to kill" are field managers, talents, singers, cultural men, program staff, pachinko parlor staff ... more than 1,000 suspects!
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-12
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Anmitsu Prosecutor Investigation Files 1 - Prosecutor's Tears Dry Off

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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-13
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Onna Jimuin: Shikijo Seikatsu

Overview: The reasonable happy life of an unmarried librarian goes to hell after she meets a pregnant young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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Lady's Triangle

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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-09-16
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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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Kasha

Overview: Shunsuke Honma is a detective from the #1 investigation team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Shunsuke takes a leave from work due to an injury. One day, his relative comes to see him and asks him if he can find his missing fiance Akiko Sekine. Shunsuke takes on the job and enlists the help of Detective Sadao Ikari. The detectives soon uncover the shocking truth behind the missing woman.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-05
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Kiri no hi

Overview: Kiri no Hi (霧の火) is a Japanese television drama which originally aired on Nippon Television (NTV) on August 25, 2008. Directed by Nozomu Amamiya and with a screenplay by Yō Takeyama, it starred Etsuko Ichihara and Karina Nose. The story takes place in Maoka City, Karafuto, Japan (Currently Kholmsk, Sakhalin, Russian Federation) during the final year of the Pacific War. Nine telephone operators in Maoka took their own lives by taking potassium cyanide when the Soviet Union invaded the city on August 20, 1945.
Genres: TV Movie War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-25
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Room of Shame

Overview: After an accident a husband becomes impotent. To help solve the problem of having a sexy wife with an overabundance of desire he invites his three best friends to help out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-19
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Fukushima 50

Overview: Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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High School Teacher

Overview: Hamura entered a high school as a biology teacher. Unexpectedly, one of his students, Mayu, fell in love with him. The forbidden love between the teacher and the student began to sprout. Hamura was worried that his relationship with Mayu would be misunderstood, so he tried to escape. However, he later understood Mayu’s tragic life and that the two could not be separated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-06
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Shinjuku Boy Detectives

Overview: In the streets of ultra-modern Shinjuku, Sosuke, a young would-be detective, all of a sudden attacked by a monster robot and falls unconscious. Determined to unravel the mystery, Sosuke joins forces with four members to fight against the robot. Will they be successful?
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-29
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Top Stripper

Overview: A naive delivery boy becomes infatuated with a girl who works at a local strip joint. Despite his daily attendance and attempts to get her attention she remains indifferent until one day she invites him onstage...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-15
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Hazard Lights

Overview: Sugai works as a driver at a chauffeur service company at night. On the night of a full moon weekend, he is told to pair up with a newcomer Kariya. Kariya is a mysterious young guy who gives a silly quiz to Sugai while they work. Sometime later, a drag queen comes to the office and asks for Sugai, saying that someone is trying to kill him. Sugai actually has a past that he could never forget. His colleague tells him that on the night of a full moon weekend something bad would happen...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-15
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

Overview: In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed police of the shogunate in Kyoto. Very few knew that Souji was not a boy, but a woman. Souji loved the vice-leader of the armed police, Toshizou Hijikata. Souji suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis and coughed up blood during a battle. Toshizou helped her but said that he did not care for the girl with a smell of blood. Souji had a real talent for swordsmanship and no one but Ryouma Sakamoto could compete with her. Ryouma was a liberal intellectual and tried to carry out a revolution without blood. However, the bloody Meiji Restoration broke out and Souji killed Ryouma who lost his dream. Because a friendship had sprung up between Toshizou and Ryouma, Toshizou got angry and slashed at Souji with a sword. Unwillingly, she unsheathed her sword and thought that she might get love if she was killed by the man she loved.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-06
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Toyama Shōgawa kai satsujin jiken

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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-24
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未解決の女 警視庁文書捜査官~緋色のシグナル~

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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-28
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His Bad Blood

Overview: From a first feature director Koichiro Oyama who worked as an assistant director for Hideo Nakata's "Kaidan" (2007), the film is about a man with crime records living with his own son without knowing their real relationship. Starring Ikkei Watanabe "Suspect X", the film won Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival's Audience Award, whose last year's winner was a smash hit zombie film "One Cut of the Dead".
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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