Nijiro Murakami
Also Known As: Nijirô Murakami, 村上 虹郎, むらかみ にじろう, Nijirō Murakami, Murakami Nijirō, Nijirou Murakami, Murakami Nijirou, Murakami Nijirô, Murakami Nijiro, نیجیرو موراکامی
Biography: Murakami Nijiro is a Japanese actor and voice actor, the only son of actor Murakami Jun and singer UA. His parents divorced when he was nine-years-old and he grew up with his mother, stepfather, and three half-siblings. While still attending preparatory school, he moved to Okinawa with his family. Murakami also studied for some years in Montreal, Canada. He debuted in 2014 portraying the main character of Kaito in the award-winning film "Still the Water", for which he received the Best Newcomer Award at the 29th Kasaki Film Festival. In 2015, he debuted in the television series "Tenshi no Naifu". Later that same year, he starred in the live-action adaptation of the anime series "AnoHana", as well the movie "Wasurenai to Chikatta Boku ga Ita". As a voice actor, he is best known for voicing Hiro Shishigami in the anime series "Inuyashiki". He is currently working under Decade, a Japanese talent agency.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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The Pretenders
Overview: It depicts two high school girls trying to change the atmosphere of the world with their ideas by setting up a camera in the town and transmitting the footage via SNS.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-16
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Lust in a Karaoke Box
Overview: When members of a student club gather at a karaoke box, events don’t unfold in predictable ways, leading to a uniquely absurd ending when dawn breaks.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-05
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Yatsuhakamura
Overview: During the Sengoku period, villagers brutally killed eight samurai, and in the Taisho era, the head of an old family murdered 32 villagers in the Eight-Tomb Village. Terada Tatsuya, who had long been estranged from the Terada family, returns as its successor. However, this return is the beginning of a tragedy. Grandfather, half-brother, monks, nuns... one after another, people related to the family are murdered. Yet, the truth remains elusive. In the midst of this, Tatsuya stumbles into a massive cave system. What he sees there is a wax figure of the head of the Terada family wearing the samurai armor. Meanwhile, Kindaichi, who has uncovered the secret of Tatsuya's birth, finds himself at the same cave. At that very moment, Tatsuya is cornered deep within the cave by villagers who fear the curse.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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愛が世界を救います
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Original Language: ja
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Modern or Anarchy
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-01
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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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Yoru no Agura: Ane to Ototo to Watashi
Overview: Akiko quit being a piano teacher and has been spending her days aimlessly without setting any goals for herself. One night on New Year’s Eve, she and her younger reclusive brother Yukio are summoned by their older sister Haruko to an urgent meeting because their father is dying. Haruko proposes that they join hands and fight against his mistress Midori in order to protect his assets from her. Despite Akiko’s reluctance, she gets dragged into it by Haruko and has to scurry about. However, she gradually comes to know a different side to her two siblings that she had never realised. They eventually end up sneaking into the family home in the middle of the night to steal the safe.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-09
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Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery
Overview: Four years before Silent Parade (2022), Yukawa and Kusanagi investigate the murder of a writer after a video found in his possession piques Yukawa's interest.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-17
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Over and Over Again
Overview: Shuhei passes the telephone booth installed on the side of the railway and goes home. It was a family reunion once a week, but an odd couple who moved in close to me visited me and started saying and acting as if to stir up the family.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-28
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock the Movie
Overview: Based on the feature-length novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" written by Arthur Conan Doyle, which is the movie version of the TV drama "Sherlock" broadcast on the Fuji TV series in 2019.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Overview: Set in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and fought against the Meiji Restoration.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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Still the Water
Overview: On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his birth, Kyoko must come to grips with her mother’s terminal illness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-01
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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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Les Misérables
Overview: This feature drama, produced to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fuji TV, is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic masterpiece Les Miserables set in the 1990s in Japan. In Kobe in 1993, Jun Baba gets taken to a juvenile prison due to a killing of a man who cheated his mother out of all her money in self-defense. One day, he hears that his younger brother, who has been desperately ill, is in a critical condition and breaks out. However, he finds out his brother is already dead. In the depth of despair, he tries to kill himself but is saved by a man who runs a self-support facility. He begins to live at the place, and befriends with Takumi Watanabe aspiring to be a lawyer. In 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake hits and their friendship comes to an end. Crushed under the debris, Takumi persuades Jun to live his life instead. Jun swears to live on assuming Takumi's identity.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-06
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Forget Me Not
Overview: Takashi Hayama is a third year high school student. He falls in love with Azusa Oribe at first sight and they begin to date. One day, Azusa tells Takashi "people who meet me, forget about me several hours later." Takashi doesn't believe Azusa, but by chance he realizes that he forgot about Azusa. So he won't forget Azusa, Takashi begins to leave a note for himself and Azusa.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-28
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AnoHana: The Flower We Saw That Day
Overview: Friends grow apart after a tragic accident claims one of their number. Years later, the dead girl appears to them to ask for their help in crossing over to the afterlife.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-21
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Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 1: Bloody Halloween - Destiny
Overview: Hinata is murdered again by the Tokyo Manjikai Gang in front of Takemichi. In order to save Hinata, Takemichi travels 10 years back in time again. Takemichi has to change a key case that can save Hinata. The key case involves a sad incident that occurred to 6 men, who later formed the Tokyo Manjikai Gang.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-04-21
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Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 2: Bloody Halloween - Final Battle
Overview: The long-awaited sequel to "Tokyo Revengers" will be released in two parts, before and after the film. Once again, Hinata is killed in front of Takemichi's very eyes by the now-militarized Tokyo Manjikai.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-30
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As the Gods Will
Overview: High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.
Genres: Thriller Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-15
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Destruction Babies
Overview: Taira is a disaffected youth from a seaside town reveling in violence. Enamored by his strength, Yuya joins his crusade in attacking strangers. Meanwhile, Taira's brother looks for him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-31
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Sayonara
Overview: The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative brainchild of noted Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata and the leading robotics scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Sayonara" is a remakable android play and has been adapted to feature film by the acclaimed filmmaker Koji Fukada (Hospitalité, Au revoir l’été). In this film project the setting of the story is largely expanded, depicting time and space in a way which can only be achieved in film, examining life and death though the communication between dying human and immortal android.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-21
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Natsumi's Firefly
Overview: Natsumi wants to become a photographer. She takes a bike which her late father left behind and goes to a forest to find a firefly she saw with her father. In the forest, Natsumi meets old mother Yasu and old son Jizo. They run a general store. Natsumi learns how to live in nature from them. She has happy summer days there. One day, Jizo tells her that he became estranged from his son in the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-11
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Mukoku
Overview: Kengo was gifted in Kendo (Japanese martial art) but he quits after a tragic incident. He works as a security guard and spends his days drinking. One day, he encounters a high school student Toru, who has a natural ability in Kendo. Toru revives the spirit of the sport in Kengo and he resumes practice again.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-03
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Overview: In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into the night, Atsuya sees a letter in the mailbox. The letter is addressed to the Namiya General Store and the letter was written by someone to consult about worries. Incredibly, the letter was written 32 years ago. The mailbox is somehow connected to the year 1980. Atsuya and his friends decide to write a reply and place their letter in the mailbox.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-09-23
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Chiwawa
Overview: Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her background or even her real name.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-18
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Isle of Dogs
Overview: In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-23
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The Gun
Overview: An aimless college student comes upon the aftermath of a murder scene one night, and without thinking, grabs the titular weapon. He takes it home and keeps it safely hidden away, but curiosity gradually begins to consume him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-17
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Second Summer, Never See You Again
Overview: Satoshi, who is a high school junior, is doing something against the rules. He is forming a band. Joining him is Rin. They nonetheless perform at the school's cultural festival live in front of their fellow students. There is a mishap and Satoshi travels back in time to the moment when he met Rin.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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Ganguro Gals Riot
Overview: Ganguro gals are the girls in a Japanese subculture who darken their face, whiten around the eyes, work on their hair, have ornate nails and wear high heels and fancy dresses. The film depicts the girls, focusing on one, and has the camera take us from high school to graduation, life in the twenties and later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-30
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Hanalei Bay
Overview: A single mother receives a phone call saying her son had died from a shark attack in Hanalei Bay, Hawaii, where she now visits annually on her son’s death anniversary. One day, she meets two young Japanese surfers who tell her about a young Japanese surfer with one leg.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Overview: Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barely communicates with anyone except Genzo, a young neighbour. Upstream, a large bridge is being constructed. Everyone is excited, but Toichi has mixed feelings about it. One day, Toichi meets a mysterious girl. Having no family and no place to go, Toichi lets her stay with him, but this encounter starts to bring about changes to Toichi's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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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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I Was a "Secret Bitch"
Overview: Hiromi is a 26-year-old single woman. She is popular with guys. Her hobby and specialty is getting men to like her using small talk and a shy persona. If a guy confesses his feelings for her, Hiromi leaves them. Hiromi's sharehouse mate Akira and her friend Aya blame Hiromi, calling her "Kakure Bitch" (a type of women who uses innocence to flirt with men). Hiromi does not care. One day, she takes an interest in Tsuyoshi, who works in the same office. She becomes to like him sincerely.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-12-06
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The Gun 2020
Overview: Toko grew up unloved by her mother Mizuho who continues to adore her deceased son. She lives alone in an apartment the electricity has been cut off and the trash is piling up. One late night, Toko enters a gloomy building in order to escape from a threatening stalker, Tomita. There she finds a handgun. She brings it back home and confirms it is loaded with four bullets. One day, the family living next door who have already been enduring poverty and violence end up murdering a man. Toko helps them bury the man's body, shooting it with the handgun. Toko becomes captivated by the gun itself. She is further entangled in the true circumstances of the incident due to the detective searching for the handgun and a suspicious man Kazunari who knows a secret about the handgun. Toko tries to throw herself into the whirlpool but then the lid is blown off her "past."
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-10
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Soiree
Overview: Shota came to Tokyo to become an actor but has a side hustle in petty crime. On a trip back to his hometown in Wakayama he meets Takara, who is being assaulted by her father just sprung from prison. Soon they pair up and hit the road to escape.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-28
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Overview: Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who carries a huge burden in her heart, his life will change forever.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-04
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Last of the Wolves
Overview: After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one evil person who gets released from prison, the situation drastically changes.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-20
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Sasaki in My Mind
Overview: The story of a would-be actor, his larger-than-life classmate and their friends. Unfolding their past and present, Sasaki in My Mind looks head-on at adolescent sparkle and the pathos of bygone days.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-27
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