Yuya Matsuura
Also Known As: Yuuya Matsuura, Yûya Matsuura, 松浦 祐也
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Japan
Adult: No
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God Bless You
Overview: A debt collector is forced to confront his inner child when assigned a sweet but mentally challenged new recruit, who mirrors all his actions.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-04
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The World of You
Overview: High school student Yuki suffers from a chronic disease and has lost hope for living. One day she has a life-changing encounter with Aki, her destructive classmate with a beautiful singing voice. Together they decide to form a band with Yusuke who secretly has feelings for Yuki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-29
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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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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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-11
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Ura Aka: L'Aventure
Overview: Machiko can't shake the feeling of emptiness in her day-to-day life as a manager of a clothing store in Aoyama, Tokyo. One day, the casual words of Sayaka, a younger and charismatic store staff, stirs Machiko into creating a secret...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-21
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Zombie Hunter Rika
Overview: When typical Japanese high school student Rika skips school to visit her grandfather, she fails to take into account the fact that his remote village is infested with the living dead.
Genres: Horror Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-18
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First Love
Overview: In the chaotic days of the 1960s, Misuzu, a lonely high school girl from a troubled family, finds sanctuary with her nihilistic brother, Ryo, and his friends. They pass their days hanging around a shadowy jazz cafe bar, indulging themselves in a life of sex, drugs and alcohol.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-10
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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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Disappear
Overview: Ako Togawa and her boyfriend Hiroki were enjoying their youth in high school. They visited their childhood friend Yoshio at his casting press factory. After the death of his father, Yoshio gave up high school but continued to study for college. Yoshio envied Hiroki for dating Ako because Ako was Yoshio's secret love since childhood. One day, three of them agreed to study together in Yoshio's room. While waiting for Hiroki who were coming late, Ako fell asleep. As he peeped at Ako's white panties, Yoshio lost control and took Ako. During her resistance, Ako hit her head and lost conscious. When she woke up, Ako's hands and feet were tied with rope. That was the beginning of her life as a pet of Yoshio. How long will the days of love, desire and confinement alone behind the door last...?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-06-22
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GACHI-BAN: ULTIMATUM
Overview: The invincible Yanki (Japanese delinquent), Monji Mori, leader of the Black Skull Gang, has been released from juvenile prison. Meanwhile, other infamous Yanki, Hayato, has a run-in with the local Yakuza. He barely escapes thanks to a guy who claims to be from the Gold Skull biker gang. Hayato gets caught in the middle as the two Skulls clash in a turf war of the ages.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-06
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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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江戸女刑罰史 ～女郎雲～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-25
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Play Dead
Overview: Traveling to Osaka, Gonzo sees a dead woman inside a small house, but when he investigates, he finds she's not dead after all, and everything becomes a strange game of fun and desire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-05
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Life of Mariko in Kabukicho
Overview: A small bar in Tokyo's red-light district run by an undercover detective with a tragic past links together a group of eccentrics, a search for aliens, FBI investigators, bizarre love affairs and assassins.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-30
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Hard-Core
Overview: The life story of a treasure hunter who lives in the countryside of Gunma in Japan. He is pure and kind, but has no communication skills and has a mind of his own. His sole friend is his co-worker. This man has never had sex. The friends find a robot one day. The robot wants to stay with the men. A bond is formed. The men resolve to change their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-23
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TOCKA
Overview: Shoji runs a store in a desolate town in northern Japan. After the death of his wife, he longs to end his life so that his daughter will receive his life insurance money. But suicide is not covered by his contract, so he seeks help and meets Saki, who is also suicidal. Yoshitaka Kamada raises profound questions about life, death, and the importance of humanity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-10
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Sturm und Drang
Overview: In the winter of 1922 (Taisho 11), a poet and social activist Nakahama Tetsu returned from a wandering journey to reunite with Furuta Daijiro and other comrades. They organized an anarchist organization “Guillotine Society” dreaming of revolution. For their ideal, they targeted the Prince of Wales who visited Japan, but failed in all their attempts. Matsuura Emile, a soba selling mysterious woman with all foreseeing eyes, comes and goes before them. In September of 1923 (Taisho 12), under martial law, anarchists Osugi Sakae and Ito Noe whom members of Guillotine Society adored were taken by Captain Amakasu of the military police, and killed. When they learned of the murder, members of Guillotine Society swore vengeance, and rose up… Then, transcending time, at a cafe, music rings loud….
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-16
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Kyrie
Overview: Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However, her singing voice shakes the hearts of those who listen to her. It is a hymn of compassion played by Luca and the people.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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September 1923
Overview: Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-01
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Owatteru
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-05
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Missing
Overview: Depressed and in debt, Santoshi tells his young daughter that he is going to find an infamous serial killer and collect a reward. However, when Santoshi disappears without a trace, she starts to fear the worst and begins searching for him.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-21
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Almost People
Overview: Four dramas about brothers and sisters, each of whom lacks a certain emotion.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-30
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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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Convenience Story
Overview: Kato is an up-and-coming scriptwriter in the middle of a severe slump. He submits ideas for potential movies but makes no headway whatsoever, and spends his days downhearted and distressed. When he heads out to buy "Dog Man," food for his lover's beloved pooch Cerberus, one thing leads to another and he stumbles into "Ideal Mart," a convenience store where he can find everything his heart desires. There, he encounters a mysterious married woman named Keiko, who gets his creative juices flowing again, but...
Genres: Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-01
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GACHI-BAN Z
Overview: Kinugasa is under attack by a lone Yanki, Goki, who claims to be a member of the Piranha gang. Unable to stop his onslaught, Kinugasa high school is shut down. With Kinugasa’s boss Monji Mori gone, nobody’s there to save them. Desperate for help, Monji’s old friend Taiga Deguchi is called upon for help. Unfortunately for Kinugasa, Taiga isn’t exactly known for his strength...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-09
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Utae! Love Song Furete G Kôdo
Overview: Hiroshi Tsumabiki, a popular street musician, had a crush on him when he was in high school. One day, she brought the sound source to a man at a record company, but was criticized for being unprofessional, and her lack of life experience was also pointed out. The man invites Tsumabiki to a music theater to teach him about a world that is not just beautiful. Unlike the word music theater Hibiki, it turns out to be a long-established striptease theater where her high school sweetheart, Nozomi, appears . Tsumabiki, who can't hide his surprise, meets Nozomi and Nozomi that night in the park and expresses his feelings that he didn't want him to do this kind of work. Nozomi accepts this word and invites her to drink in the room. Nozomi who entrusts her body further. However, his wife did not get up and she could not complete the night . A man from a record company who heard about it introduces a musician who plays music that works for sexual love .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-18
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Otoko-tachi no yume neiro
Overview: Yasu plays guitar on the street every night. A young stranger, Dare, stands in front of him. Yasu instantly feels a faint infatuation with Dare, who expresses a straightforward opinion, and takes him to his apartment, where he has no place to return to. The room was occupied by Yasu's friends Otto and Bohra, a comic duo, and Sekken, who works part-time with Yasu and whose dream is to become a full-time employee. Dare felt comfortable in the atmosphere. Yasu told him to stay as long as he wanted. And soon her feelings for him grew stronger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-07
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Aitakute Aitakute Aitakute
Overview: Junko runs a Thai restaurant left by her late husband. Yuuji is a furniture maker who has recently divorced. One day, Junko buys a handmade table via mail order from Yuuji. The table is all perfect except the doll, which was sent as a bonus, is missing its head. Learning that, Yuuji insists to send back the missing head parts to Junko. Eventually, the two can sense a connection between them as they start interacting with each other through email. Will romance blossom once again between the two people who're halfway through their lives?
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-13
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Nightmare Resort
Overview: College student Sakura (Rikka Ihara) has trouble fitting in with her class. Her childhood friend Satoshi (Taiyu Fujiwara) thinks that a change of scenery is just what she needs to feel better, and along with another childhood friend, Nozomi (Shiori Akita), he invites her to come work a part-time job at a resort inn on an island. The inn is normally run by a husband-and-wife couple, along with a part-timer named Iwasaki.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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Oh, That Person Seems to Be Happy.
Overview: Maki, an office worker at a small local company, has just divorced because her husband cheated her. She has no desire to embark on a new love affair, and the flush of her womanhood is now a dying flame.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-02
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It's in the Woods
Overview: Set in an actual forest said to be rife with supernatural phenomena, this next-gen horror film is based on witness accounts of people who saw "It" and the protagonists’ encounter with the mysterious "It".
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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Beautiful Awakening
Overview: A strange man with saran wrap wrapped his whole body in wrap and played with him with a vibrator. A man who is a vegetable fanatic thrusts a bitter melon into him. A man who is a seafood enthusiast shoves shrimp into his mouth... Right now, he's facing his true self for the first time." At that moment, the man remembered that he had been in a traffic accident...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-23
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Yamabuki
Overview: A story of finding a place to root yourself when life’s obstacles have dispirited you. Chang-su, a former equestrian athlete for the South Korean national team, was forced to give up on his dream early. He finds himself working at a quarry in the rural town of Minawa in western Japan, where he lives with Minami and her infant daughter. Yamabuki, a teenage girl, begins to stage silent protests that blossom into community action, much to the dismay of her policeman father. The quiet surface of this rural town is gradually peeled off to reveal frustration and loneliness that, once given a voice, begin to connect people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-05
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The Beast Hand
Overview: Osamu Kogure spends his days in near poverty, but he keeps going by taking odd jobs. After being forced by an unscrupulous co-worker who enjoys manipulating people, he decides to commit a robbery with a woman. The robbery goes wrong, and Osamu loses an arm. Now, that arm will come to life, turning into something monstrous.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-01-27
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Your Lovely Smile
Overview: A bittersweet, hilarious, enlightening and inspirational road trip through Japanese arthouse cinemas with a heartily independent filmmaker, who also struggles to release his own movies in real life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-12
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The Man Who Was There
Overview: A woman named Saki is discovered covered in blood and sat next to the body of an actor in the elevator hall of a condominium. She smokes a cigarette and seems stunned. The film takes audiences back two years in the past, a time when Saki, a staff member on a film, met the actor, Sho, on set and fell in love. He used her badly and had another woman on the side and so Saki reveals how strong her love is and the event occurs that night we first meet her. A short film directed by Shinzo Katayama, whose debut feature film Siblings of the Cape attracted and was screened in different countries. He also has a credit as an AD on Bong Joon-Ho’s mystery-thriller film Mother and Nobuhiro Yamatshita’s The Drudgery Train. The script is by Yukiko Sode who is responsible for Good Stripes and Aristocrats.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-13
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眺めのいい部屋 覗かれた女
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-23
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Yuko's Diary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-07
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Mad Cats
Overview: Taka, a shiftless young man, sets off on a quest to find his brother Mune. Teaming up with a quirky new friend and an edgy, mysterious young girl along the way, Taka finds himself taking on a pack of vicious monster cats determined to execute unscrupulous pet shop owners.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-01
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No Place to Go
Overview: Michiko used to work as a live-in part-timer at an izakaya, but suddenly lost her job and her house at the same time due to COVID-19 pandemic. There are no new jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and diners and internet cafes are closed. Michiko is at her wits' end, but there in front of her is a bus stop that stands slightly brightly in the darkness, illuminated only by the streetlights.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-08
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Lust in the Rain
Overview: The story centers on Yoshio, a poor and struggling manga artist who lives in Kitamachi. He is sent by Oyaji, the landlord of his apartment who is also engaged in other shady businesses, to help a novelist called Imori move in, and meets a recently-divorced woman named Fukuko. Yoshio is immediately bewitched by her beauty, even though she is already seeing someone else. In the meantime, Imori establishes an advertising agency, borrowing the name of a larger agency from the wealthier Minamicho, in order to sell his novel. Yoshio ends up helping with Imori's efforts, and somehow Imori and Fukuko come to live together with Yoshio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-29
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Dependence
Overview: Hayato comes back to his home village after father breaks his legs and cannot walk anymore. He brings his wife Ami along with him, who had a miscarriage and has been dysfunctional and depressed ever since. Hayato hangs with his old friends and enjoys the life of the village, but Ami is a city girl and is growing lonelier. She finds comfort in the arms of Hayato's father. It's not long before everybody in the small village is aware of their relationship... except Hayato... A drama about betrayal and the illogical nature of love and happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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11 Rebels
Overview: When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fortress against the Imperial army.
Genres: Action Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-01
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Aniki to ore 2: Moeru kikumon
Overview: The second in the gay movie "My Brother and I" series. Kotaro, a high school student, has a stepbrother after his sister gets married. However, he turns out to be Ryoichi, his homeroom physical education teacher, whom Kotaro has a crush on. Kotaro learns from Ryoichi's friend Kasama that the two were sex friends in college.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-17
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Girl In Captivity 2: Hitwoman in Chains
Overview: An assassin-turned-housewife discovers that you can never really outrun your past when she crosses paths with a serial rapist with a taste for murder. Mizuki used to use her skills for seduction to lure men to their deaths. Now, she's about to face-off with her most deadly adversary to date. The only question when she does is which will be more intense - the pain or the pleasure?
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-08
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Sheep in the Night
Overview: A real estate agent, Shinji Sawaguchi finds a fallen meteorite by accident. On the next day, his missing sister Shiori shows up for the first time in ten years. Shinji can't help being agitated by her sudden return. On the other hand, unusual events start happening in his life, and her threatening melody spreads in the town. Including Shinji's fiancé Maki, the development of characters centers around Shiori's mysterious presence felt. Shiori's identity is hidden, and Shinji gets involved in a peculiar situation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-11-16
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Natsu no musumetachi: Himegoto
Overview: Naomi (Makoto Nishiyama), who returned to a small town because her adoptive father was about to die, met her brother-in-law, Hiroyuki (Hideyuki Kamada), again. Both of them have a history of becoming a man and woman, and Naomi feels an uncontrollable feeling for Hiroyuki. After that, she reunited with her childhood friend Yoshio (Yuya Matsuura) who also returned to the town....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-01
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Panorama
Overview: There's a young couple, Haruka and Kenji. One day, Haruka gets disappointed in Kenji, and runs away with their son, Takuya. They forward to Kenji's friend, Mitsuru's house. Yet, Haruka asks her mother, Kiyoko to take care of Takuya, and starts her job hunting, since she can't get along with Mitsuru. On the other hand, there is another young couple, Takuma and Kana. Even though, they look happily married for two years, Takuma hides a secret from Kana. One day, Takuma's co-worker, Akita comes to Takuma's house. Akita suddenly tells one secret to Kana while Takuma is not around. Shocked Kana attempts to reveal the secret on Takuma's way home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-22
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Girls' Encounter
Overview: School girl Miyuri Obara is bullied mercilessly but finds relief in an unexpected friendship with Tsumugi. Yet even as Miyuri's life turns around there's a lingering suggestion that something is not quite right.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-30
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Amy Said
Overview: Twenty years have passed since the sudden disappearance of Amy, who was the femme fatale in her film studies group. Something that Naoko said triggers emotions that were frozen in time for the group's members, who see each other for the first time after a long absence: Asada Iida,Naoko,Okamoto,Miho,Goto and Kizuka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-09-30
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Miyoko
Overview: Based on the life of pioneering manga artist Shinichi Abe, "Miyoko asagaya kibun" starts from the 1970's in Asagaya District of Tokyo where Shinichi Abe began his career with then model girlfriend Miyoko.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-04
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Siblings of the Cape
Overview: A pair of siblings are living together in the outskirts of society. The brother, Yoshio, has a hurt leg, the sister, Mariko, has an intellectual disability and spends most of her time at home. When Yoshio loses his job he does the unthinkable and sells his sister's body in order to pay for food and rent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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The Last Days of the World
Overview: The life of a student named Kanou is transformed when a tiny man informs him that Earth will soon be annihilated. Kanou decides to do just as he pleases with the time he has left, leading to strange adventures that could be real -- or just a dream.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-18
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Farewell Song
Overview: Haru and Reo perform as musical duo Haru-Reo. With their indie music, they suddenly get popular. Even with their newfound success, they decide to disband the duo. Haru-Reo go on one last tour together. Their roadie Shima goes with the girls on the tour.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-31
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GACHI-BAN
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-19
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GACHI-BAN II
Overview: Takumi, the former boss of the Black Black Black Skull Gang, is about to graduate and he chooses Taiga as his successor. During the handover, a transfer student named Monji tries to usurp the throne of the Black Skull Gang.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-26
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The Town of Headcounts
Overview: Pursued by loan sharks, Aoyama is rescued by a mysterious man in orange overalls, and spirited away to “The Town,” where other dropouts hide out from debtors, abusive partners or the police. It’s a perpetual holiday resort where every need is catered to but hidden in it is a sinister conspiracy.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-04
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Planet Mizsa
Overview: Yoshisuke grew up in a small town and his father ran a paper lantern shop. The town itself has beautiful scenery, but Yoshisuke is bored. One day, he goes to a prostitution shop and meets Mizusa. She tells him that she is an alien. They meet each other continually and Yoshisuke asks Mizusa why she works as a prostitute. Mizusa tells him that she stops working as a prostitute, the world will go out of existence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-18
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Beautiful Chick's Photobook: Tainted Schoolgirl Uniform
Overview: A man disembarks a train at a countryside train station. He is from the area. He reminisces about a girl in a school uniform he had met and known. He had left town twelve years ago. He had three close friends while at high school and they always hung out together. They were two boys and two girls. He stole money from his grandparents and ran away to Tokyo to become a film director. He is back because he has become a director.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-20
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Ninja She-Devil
Overview: A female assassin has a special gift. While receiving a secret mission, that will require her special skill, she embarks on a very dangerous mission that forces her to encounter many dangerous enemies.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-25
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State of Emergency
Overview: An omnibus film consisting of 4 short films and a documentary related to COVID-19.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-28
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DONG TENG TOWN
Overview: Singer-songwriter Sora has moved to an apartment complex in Dong Teng Town. In the closet, she stumbles upon a large number of old cassette tapes filled with the "inner voice" of a former resident, Tokio.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-17
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License
Overview: A short film by Yoichi Tanaka
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-20
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A Balance
Overview: While documenting a controversial tragedy that shook her community, a filmmaker must put her morals to the test when a perverse secret in her own life is revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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Emi-Abi
Overview: Up-and-coming manzai stand-up comedy duo Emi-Abi has lost consummate funny man Unno (a surprisingly touching Tomoya Maeno) to an accident, leaving conceited straight man Jitsudo (Ryu Morioka) to contend with his diminished career prospects as a bland, pretty face entertainer. Guided by his manager Natsumi (Haru Kuroki), who demonstrates stronger comedy chops than her own star, Jitsudo comes to learn the circumstances of his friend's passing, as well as the life-and-death stakes of a career in comedy. Demonstrating a careful balance of tone across tragedy and deadpan and gross-out humor, writer/director Kensaku Watanabe expands "Emi-Abi"'s hilarious premise into a strikingly assured meditation on artistic rivalry and self-actualization.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-03
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Leaving on the 15th Spring
Overview: Junior high school student Yuna lives with her father Toshiharu. Her mother Akemi moved to Naha when her older sister entered high school, and Yuna is worried about her father's life after she leaves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-25
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Sweet Bitter Candy
Overview: Sanae (An Ogawa) is a high school girl preparing to take university entrance exams. She isn't very good at socializing. She wants to hurry up and become an adult, but it isn't going very well. Over summer vacation, Sanae's sister comes home from college in Tokyo, and her parents decide to hire a housekeeper. Yusuke (Hoshi Ishida), is rough around the edges and a little scary. The people close to him find him a mystery. As Sanae gets to know him, she begins to feel they have something in common. A journey through sweet love and bitter memories.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-15
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FM89.3MHz
Overview: Okawa Family’s yakuza, Junji, is released from prison, and is told to take over a local radio station by his boss. Junji tries to explain that it is not a yakuza’s job to talk on the radio, but no one listens to him. He reluctantly goes to the radio building, and is met by a young, upbeat girl broadcasting a talk show and playing pop music. Will this seasoned gangster really fit in on such a show?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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The Drudgery Train
Overview: In this offbeat coming-of-age tale, a charming, rebellious high school dropout named Kanta befriends the kind, provincial Shoji. The two bring out the best in each other, each gaining confidence from their friendship - especially regarding pursuit of the opposite sex. The working class Kanta becomes a sort of unruly anti-hero, maintaining his pride, defiance, and self-assurance even as his prospects seem increasingly grim.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-07-14
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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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Nôsatsu Waka-okami: Iroppoi Koshitsuki
Overview: Hanako Kitamura, a delivery health girl who was deceived by a marriage scammer Nobuo Takada and lost her sentence, rolled into a udon shop run by Kazuyoshi Minowa and went to Banda at this shop. Allowed to work as a resident with Rei. Hanako behaves with her own brightness and becomes a popular udon restaurant. Around the same time, Minowa's friend Takanori Gomi continues to worry about the bookstore he runs. Takashi holding his wife Akane decides to close the store. Kazuyoshi gives a farewell to Takashi and Akane who are leaving their hometown to revive. On the other hand, Hanako, who works steadily at the store, fell in love with a serious and gentle sense. Kazuyoshi also began to be aware of bright Hanako. One night, Kazuyoshi confesses to Hanako that his only daughter, Sachi Sudo, is there. Because Kazuyoshi strongly opposed the marriage of Sachi and Kenji, Sachi became with Kenji as if he were running away from home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-01
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Torihada: The Movie
Overview: Hikari Takabayashi is a hardworking call center agent for a home appliance company who apologizes continuously to customers, even to rude callers who call just to verbally insult her. She does, however, hide a secret. A love affair with her married boss. One day she was asked by one of her junior colleagues Mika, to take a call from a middle-aged woman named Kazuyo Miyawaki who calls frequently. Upon returning home exhausted after dealing with the caller, she noticed the nameplate on her neighbor's door, "Kazuyo Miyawaki"...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-13
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Tomoshibi
Overview: A short film by Keitaro Fujimori.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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A Tale Of Winter
Overview: Yamanaka, a screenwriter living in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, falls in love at first sight with Oshima, a graphic designer from Tokyo. Attracted by the ghost of a beautiful woman who seems to be haunting Yamanaka, Oshima roams around snowy Hirosaki with Yamanaka and travels through the world of the script he wrote.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-12-06
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Escape
Overview: In 2024, Kirishima Satoshi, a wanted member of the East Asian Anti-Japan Armed Front, passed away after he gave his own name at a hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-03-15
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My Wife Challenges Guines
Overview: Misaki, who wants to date other men even after marriage, is dating 10 men at the same time with Shinji's approval. Misaki is busy managing her schedule, going on business trips with Kanemoto, an office worker, and then with Tachibana, a college student who she became pen pals with, on the way. Misaki and Shinji are a couple who can't get off on each other, no matter how long they spend together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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まんが島
Overview: The girl asked, "Where is Manga Island?" Only manga artists can set foot on the island. Idle people are not allowed to enter, but Manga Island is also like a besieged city. People outside want to enter, while those inside want to come out. A few manga artists trapped on a small island, accompanied by snakes and insects, perform the horror of a deserted island, and even rush to draft day and night, pouring their emotions and desires onto paper. When it comes to brain block, I finally come up with the legend of mermaid monster Tan and dungboat, and I'm afraid of being taken by someone. Everyone was hungry, afraid of both starvation and exhaustion of inspiration. Struggling with the barren environment, but also entangled with one's own demons. Shouwu Wenxiong initially made a long film, wrote and acted by himself, cleverly transforming the desire, pain, confusion, and joy of creation into a fantasy drift of a group of cartoonists.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-25
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Welcome to the Village
Overview: A young couple decided to start their life together by moving to a remote village. They encounter a very supportive community that does everything it can to make them feel welcome. In spite of that and although they feel the pressure to have a child soon, there is a latent threat. In fact, the village holds a secret that will change their minds. Rural life is no longer idyllic.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-24
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Penalty Loop
Overview: When Jun's lover is killed, he decides to kill her murderer. He's then stuck in a time loop and forced to relive the same day over and over, but he continues to kill the same man every day.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-22
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Chikan densha: Yurete mitchaku o-shiri ai
Overview: Hiro and Fumio are day laborers whose hobby is groping. Today, they had just preyed on an office lady on a crowded train. On the way home, Hiro is approached by Hikozo, a former groper, who is single and lonely, and asks if he would like to become the son of his pseudo-family, showing him a stack of bills. Soon, a pseudo-family is formed, and Hiro, as Hikozo's son, welcomes his wife, Chiharu, keeping the fact that they are in a pseudo-family a secret. Before long, Hiro is enjoying life with this family. However, one of Chiharu's friends is a woman he once groped...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-11
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Lifeline
Overview: Ryosuke runs a used car dealership in the sticks, some way outside Tokyo. He inherited the business, and doesn’t enjoy running it. When a girl is dumped by the driver of a car on the road outside his forecourt, his life starts to turn upside-down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-17
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