Hidetoshi Kawaya
Also Known As: 川屋せっちん, Secchin Kawaya, Setchin Kawaya
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
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Museum: Introduction
Overview: Hitoshi Kudo is a journalist who covers various murder cases. One day, his daughter is kidnapped by the frog man. In order to safely rescue her, Kudo is cornered by one unreasonable instruction after another.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-12
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Black Kiss
Overview: Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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The Strange Saga of Hiroshi the Freeloading Sex Machine
Overview: Sex Machine tells of the affable but simple Hiroshi, who during one sweltering summer in a small, parochial town, moves in with his girlfriend, Haruka. Their lovemaking is as athletic as it is bizarre but a dark storm comes looming when Haruka's ex boyfriend comes knocking at the door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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Domestic
Overview: A suspense film based on the original manga by Shuichi Sakabe starring popular gravure idol Shoko Hamada and sexy idol Aino Kishi. Haruka and Nozomi, childhood friends who meet again by accident. Nozomi, who believes that Haruka is to blame for her unhappy half life, sets a gruesome trap
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-07
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The Projects
Overview: Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a housing project in the suburbs of Osaka. However Hinako (Naomi Fujiyama) and Seiji (Ittoku Kishibe) couldn't care less. Having moved in just six months ago after the closure of their herbal medicine shop, the old couple is reluctantly putting their life back together. But when Seiji disappears, the apartment rumor mill churns: divorce, murder, dismemberment? As the story spins out of control, and a mysterious man with a parasol puts in a tall order of natural remedies, the truth turns out to be even more fantastic than gossip. Ranging from incisive comedy of errors to absurdist adventure to moving late life romance, "The Projects" is one of the biggest surprises of the year.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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Married Female Banker
Overview: Pink film by Hiroyoshi Takishima.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-09
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Naniwa Kinyudo - Haibara knocks on the door of Imperial Finance!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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Is This Heaven?
Overview: An alcoholic and his wife explore a beach site in a strange afterlife. Here they meet a number of odd characters who remind them of their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-26
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Suncream and Windchimes
Overview: A couple falls in love again through strange encounters and awkward situations during a hot summer. Hajime sees his wife in the street wearing strange clothes. When asked, she says it wasn’t her. Hajime then installs cameras to monitor his wife and that’s just the start of his paranoia. His interactions with people become more twisted, leading him to question reality. Whimsical, odd and surreal, with great black-and-white cinematography.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-02
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くりいむレモン 旅のおわり
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Fireworks
Overview: Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-30
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Love Exposure
Overview: The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-31
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Charisma
Overview: A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-10
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Inagawa Junji no Anata no tonari no kowai hanashi: Fuyu no Kai
Overview: Junji Inagawa, Japan's most famous horror storyteller, presents this hair-raising omnibus horror film. Saori, who has started living alone for the first time in her life, comes home one day feeling tipsy and falls asleep at the kotatsu... Includes the first episode "Yuki-chan" starring Mayumi Ono and three other episodes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-25
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Abnormal Experience: The Sixth Sense
Overview: Yuki is a sought-after hooker, who also has a special ability: she can see ghosts! Yuki is very distraught by the ghost images, and it starts affecting her performance at work. One of the ghosts makes an attempt to communicate with her and ask her for help. Yuki tries to find out what he's attempting to say and assist him, with the hopes that this will allow her to stop being troubled by what she sees.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-26
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Kagiganai
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-08
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The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Overview: Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-03-01
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Shinpei
Overview: An older brother who can't fit into society, a father who has given up on his future, and a younger sister who is tied to the house. This is the story of the small steps these three people take. The Great East Japan Earthquake suddenly changed the peaceful daily life of the people of Fukushima. Many people lost their homes and jobs due to not only the earthquake and tsunami, but also the nuclear accident, and left Fukushima. This is the story of a family living in the aftermath three years later, in Fukushima, where deep scars remain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-08-17
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Ike-ike Densha: Hamete, Ikasete, Yamenaide!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-30
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Himizu
Overview: After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-05
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The Forest of Love
Overview: A con man and a would-be filmmaking crew force themselves into the lives of two grief-scarred young women. But nothing is as it seems.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-10
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The Cold-Blooded Trap
Overview: Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-11
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Cream Lemon: Ami's Diary
Overview: On her 18th birthday, Ami Nonomura wants to meet her father and brother who live far away. While searching for her brother's house, she is attacked by a thief, but is helped by Hiroshi Tazaki. They fall in love but discover that they are siblings.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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Tokyo Zombie
Overview: Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestation in Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-10
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Unlucky Monkey
Overview: A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-18
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Tokyo Adios
Overview: The semi-autobiographical story of a underground comedian in Tokyo, with a cast that features acts performing in the underground circuit today.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-11
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Reiko and the Dolphin
Overview: the life of a husband and wife who lost their only daughter in the Great Hanshin Earthquake. Director Imaoka Shinji depicts among the streets of Kobe the restoration of the couple's relationship after the death of their daughter causes the deterioration of their relationship and subsequent divorce.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-08
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Antiporno
Overview: Young artist Kyoko wreaks havoc on everyone that she encounters when Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-28
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Sidonie in Japan
Overview: Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer, is mourning her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, the city of shrines and temples. As they travel together through the Japanese spring blossoms, she slowly opens up to him. But the ghost of her husband follows Sidonie: she will have to finally let go of the past to let herself love again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-01-11
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The Summer Days with Catfish
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-02-08
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Knuckle Girl
Overview: Following the story of Ran, who confronts a mysterious organization by participating in a no-rules deathmatch after discovering her missing younger sister Yuzuki is involved in a crime. With danger at every corner, Ran must trade in her boxing gloves for brass knuckles. Will she save her sister?
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-25
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Four Days Tokyo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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Nōpan chikan densha mie chatta!!
Overview: Tadashi dropped out of high school and was living an aimless life while working at a record shop. He has a sex friend named Akemi. Tadashi, whose hobby is molestation, approached a girl today in search of prey. She introduced herself as Kyoko, who was in the same class as him in high school. She then told him about a friend who had an affair with a married man and got pregnant, and was worried about her. A few days later, Tadashi was told that Kyoko had died when he was in his second year of high school...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-25
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