Ryuju Kobayashi
Also Known As: Ryûju Kobayashi
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: May 30, 1989
Age: 35 years old
Gender: Male
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Windows
Overview: A young couple has lived together for five years, and they share daily lives even without passion or financial stability. One day, they learn that she’s pregnant, and start to consider how to plan their future.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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Tokyo Butterfly
Overview: There was a popular band with four students. After the band was offered a major contract, they broke up after a minor mistake. 6 years later, they are living their lives in their late twenties with troubles: Marriage, work, human relationship. They meet again and finish a song that they couldn't complete.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-11
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Lonely Glory
Overview: Haruka, a young recognized female entrepreneur, was forced to retire from her company due to the abuse of her authority. For her pride, she attempts to sell her family home and starts her new business, despite her two brothers and a sister living and running a small restaurant at the house.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-31
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Unfeigned Happy Ending
Overview: Eimi, who came to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school, invites her sister Yu, who lives in her hometown of Shiga, to move to Tokyo with her. She is reluctant at first, but suddenly accepts and soon after goes missing. One day Eimi meets Hiyori, whose sister is also missing. Everything changes when the police contact her to inform her that they have found the body of a young woman in Lake Biwa, but the body is that of Hiyori's sister, not Yu. Together Eimi and Hiyori search for the murderer, but things take an unexpected turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-17
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Firing The Lighter Gun
Overview: Not far in the future , the second nuclear accident happened in Japan. The Town next to it remains the same. Tatsuya works for the yakuza, Ryo who was in prison, and Mari the sex worker started living together. The misfit, the outcast, trying to survive and suffer in this world. This is a story of people who lost their place where they belong. Is there gonna be another day?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-07
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Pain of The Anonymous
Overview: Struggling to find work and entrenched in a personal health crisis, a former middle school teacher accepts a position as an online content moderator. She is faced daily with death, violence, and abuse—and reminders of unspeakable past traumas. As she becomes absorbed in her work, she endangers her stability, relationships, and psyche. Pain of the Anonymous explores how dehumanization and sympathy clash in a world numb to the plight of its people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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Guilty of Romance
Overview: In a Tokyo love hotel district, a woman is found dead in a derelict apartment. As police investigate, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To break away from the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model enacting sex in front of a camera. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade that she's still the doting wife she's supposed to be.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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Rageaholic
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Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-26
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A Rainbow-colored Trip
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-25
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Tokyo Sunrise
Overview: Ren struggles with the death of his longtime friend Kaoru. He finds a painting of a girl that Kaoru left behind. Ren sets out on a journey to find the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-24
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Gekijō-ban: Hontō ni Atta Kowai Hanashi 2016
Overview: Film version of the popular horror series "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi", in which horror stories collected from the public are made into films.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-29
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Double Life
Overview: Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by lectures about French writer Sophie Calle and begins to follow her neighbor Ishizaka. Tama soon discovers that her neighbor Ishizaka is having an affair. She becomes excited about discovering his secret. Her relationship with her boyfriend Takuya and her professor Shinohara changes.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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Someone
Overview: 5 university students gather to exchange information on their job search activities. They encourage each other and post their thoughts & worries on Twitter, but behind that they have a lot on their minds. Takuto Ninomiya observes those around him. His roommate Kotaro Kamiya has a bright personality and communicates well with others. Mizuki Tanabe is Kotaro Kamiya’s ex-girlfriend. Takuto Ninomiya has feelings for his roommate's ex-girlfriend. Rika Kobayakawa is determined to land a job. Takayoshi Miyamoto is critical of job-seeking activities, but he later tries to get a job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-15
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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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The Eye's Dream
Overview: Maya is a photographer. She takes photos related to the eyeball. Kunio is a neurosurgeon and an independent documentary film director. He is interested on making a documentary about Maya. A mysterious eyeball collector watches for Maya's own eyeballs.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-30
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Broken Pieces
Overview: Kaede is fed up with routine chores at her workplace and the relationship with her boyfriend. Her mood brightens when Takuya, with whom she and her brother Ryuta were befriended in childhood, returns to her home town. After reuniting, the friends spend a great time together. But when Ryuta’s girlfriend Yuki gets pregnant, confessions are made that change their relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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A Crimson Star
Overview: When fourteen-year-old Yo is hospitalized she gradually develops feelings for Yayoi who is a nurse tending her. However, Yayoi leaves the nursing profession in favour of prostitution. Yo is disappointed, but turns to the older woman after she is the subject of unrequited love from her mother's man. The two grow closer and Yo is about to find out what motivates Yayoi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-01
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Kisspeptin Chronicles
Overview: Can we ever be freed from the "curse of love" that dictates "women must be pretty and fall in love"? A humorous and at times affecting chronicle of an artistic girl’s life and loves from elementary school, through university, into young adulthood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-02-14
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