Aimi Satsukawa
Also Known As: さつかわ あいみ, 사츠카와 아이미, Sattsun, آیمی ساتسوکاوا
Biography: Satsukawa Aimi is a Japanese actress and idol. She was discovered by the same Horipro talent scout who discovered Yuka while shopping with her mother in Tokyo at the age of 14. After finishing middle school, she decided to start a career in the entertainment industry. Aimi has appeared in numerous TV shows, movies, radio dramas, bikini and lingerie magazines and calendars.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
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La
Overview: The vocalist of a broken up band tries to get the group back together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-05
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True Love
Overview: Natsumi which has been moved to a deceased mother's family in Izu, to change schools to the same high school as the cousin, driven into lacrosse. But one day, you know the father and his secret.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-09
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Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!
Overview: Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaiting the Wago family members who return home to bury their parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-07
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Dumbeast
Overview: How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb Animal) to the big screen in all its wacky tragicomedic glory. The one and only Asano Tadanobu sports a seriously nerdy bowl haircut to play the leading role of simple-minded novelist Dekogawa who has mysteriously disappeared. Dekogawa wrote an autobiography about his youth that reveals not only his past, but also some of his childhood friends’ best-forgotten secrets. In order to keep the skeletons in the closet, these buddies of yesteryear try to silence him permanently. But no matter how hard they try to kill Dekogawa, he just keeps coming back – because he’s simply too thickheaded to die!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-16
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The End of the Pale Hour
Overview: A young man falls in love with a woman he meets at a party, but when she leaves him, he must face some uncomfortable truths.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-31
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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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Karate-Robo Zaborgar
Overview: An evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominment business leaders to harvest their DNA and only Karate-Robo Zaborgar can save them.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-15
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Confession
Overview: In the silent mountains, surrounded by beautiful mountains on all sides. A man carrying an urn, Iori Kano, appears in front of Mizuki Takahashi, a beautiful woman staring at the fire of a kiln in a humble workshop. Iori is Mizuki's brother-in-law. He has come to inform Mizuki of the death of her mother, Isuzu Kano. For some reason, Mizuki had abandoned her parents' home and was now living a peaceful life with her husband, ceramic artist Tetsuro Takahashi. Iori's appearance cuts through that peace and brings her back to the dark past. Mizuki has been living her life with her past hidden away, but her guilt for Yasuo, her father-in-row, who she had driven to his death, and her love and hate for Isuzu, who she had never reconciled with, lingered deep in her heart. This sense of guilt over her own deeds eventually condemns Mizuki in the form of the ghost of Isuzu, and finally leads her down the path of destruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-08
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Nude
Overview: After graduating high school, Hiromi moves from the coastal town of Niigata to Tokyo in the hopes of becoming a famous actress. Her dream seemingly comes true as a manager scouts her off the street. He recruits her as a model but it's actually to be a "nude" model. It's not exactly what Hiromi was looking for, but she can't turn down the opportunity. As her career dwindles, the manager coerces her to make the jump to AV and Hiromi gains a new identity as Mihiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-18
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Shinobido
Overview: A hidden Ninja village exists deep in the mountain. OKOU who was raised as a lady Ninja is ordered a secret mission by the patriarch..
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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Torihada 2: yofukashi no anata ni zotto suru hanashi wo
Overview: For no apparent reason, four strangers find themselves with a rope around their necks, balancing on an unstable chair. They will quickly realize that each of them has the code to remove the padlock blocking the rope of their left neighbour. But just when they were about to exchange the codes, one of the four people will make a revelation with serious consequences...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-27
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Torihada 4: yofukashi no anata ni zotto suru hanashi wo
Overview: A young woman has decidedly strange hobbies. She has fun calling strangers and hanging up on them. However, one night, she dials the wrong number, and on the other side of the line a pre-recorded voice announces her death for the same day, at 2 hours and 5 minutes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-09
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Help of God
Overview: "Kamisama Help!" takes place at an abandoned school where a mass murder occurred 25 years earlier... Several cars of people arrive at the abandoned school "Satogakuin". They are "horror planners" who will convert the school into the ghost house. To kill time staff members roam inside the school and feel a strange sense of familiarity. Atsuo walks around by himself. He becomes stunned when he finds an old picture frame in an office. In the picture, a man dressed in a white outfit looks just like Atsuo. At that moment a mysterious blue hits Atsuo and he loses consciences. He starts to have visions of bodies and ghosts covered with blood and suddenly he goes back in time to August 12, 1985. On that day a Japan Air Liner crashed and Satogakuin teacher Sato Takashi goes on a murdering rampage. Sato Takashi was known as a kind and generous person, but his mind was taken over by an evil entity. That evil entity now tries to take over Atsuo's mind...
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-07
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Kikaider REBOOT
Overview: In the near future, the “ARK Project” has initiated a program to increase the quality of human life through the peaceful use of robots. Dr. Komyoji, the chief scientist on the project, has developed a process to create a robot with a figurative human “heart” through the installation of a “conscience circuit”, but his plans are violently opposed by researcher Gilbert Kanzaki. When Dr. Komyoji is killed in an apparent accident, his children Masaru and Mitsuko are targeted by mysterious forces within the ARK Project looking to gain control of the scientist’s research data. But the villains are opposed by Jiro, the android with a human conscience who fights for justice as the hero Kikaider.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-24
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The End of Puberty
Overview: In a noisy classroom, biology teacher Madoka proceeds with his lesson in a small voice.He is unable to look the students square in the face nor admonish them for talking or sleeping in class. Only Tsubura looks upon him with a smile. Very much infatuated with Madoka, she records his idiosyncrasies in her biology notebook through illustrations--tapping his hand on his chin is proof that he is annoyed; messily tugging at his hair when he is at his wits' end. Tsubara, fearful of being forgotten after she dies, only eats things loaded with preservatives so that even if she dies, her body will not rot. Believing such things, Tsubara, thinking that "combining Mr. Madoka who has no one with me who needs someone would surely be perfect," gets the wild idea of a genital exchange with Madoka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-29
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Hebi no Hito
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-25
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Teinen Oyaji Kaizou Keikaku
Overview: Tsuneo Shoji has finally reached retirement age, but his wife feels sick when she sits in the passenger seat of the car due to her husband's illness, and his daughter says, "Husband's disease!"
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-25
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Toxic Daughter
Overview: Hagino, her husband Atsuhiro and her teenage stepdaughter Moeka move into a new house. For someone who was not blessed with a warm affectionate family, this was what she had always dreamed of. However, one day while Hagino is out, she receives a call from Moeka asking for her help. She rushes home and finds her house turned upside down, Moeka's clothes torn to shreds and a strange young girl is standing over her, with a pair of scissors in her hand.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-04-05
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Nakitai toki no kusuri
Overview: Five passengers stare at a middle-aged man weeping on a train - a young man with a broken heart, an office worker exhausted from work, a new station attendant, a salaryman who cannot cry, and a lost high school girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-10
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Arch Angels
Overview: Every high school has its misfits, its square pegs, its rebels. St. Michael's Academy, nestled on an impossibly pretty and strangely remote Japanese island, is no exception. In fact, given the atmosphere of strictness, propriety and even subtle menace looming over the elite, aristocratic, Catholic boarding school, it's no wonder Fumio, Kazune and Yuzuko quickly bond over their dislike of the place. With rumors of rich girls being kidnapped in the region, and even more so, their legal guardians, including the school's enigmatic headmaster, Mr. Lawrence, and Fumio's brother are suspicious and on alert. Then an accidental and inexplicable unleashing of magic power infuses the girls with spectacular abilities. When the truth about the kidnappings is revealed, they're going to need them.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-15
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Analog
Overview: Satoru Mizushima is a designer, who prefers traditional things like handmade items and handwritten works. One day, he happens to meet a mysterious woman, Miyuki Miharu, at the cafe named Piano. She seems to have similar values to him and he is attracted to her. Satoru asks for Miyuki's cellphone number, but she doesn't own a cellphone. They make a promise to meet at the cafe every Thursday. Since then, Satoru and Miyuki meet every Thursday and their relationship develops romantically. Satoru decides to propose Miyuki, but she doesn't show up at the cafe.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Living City
Overview: Chieko Sato lives in the seaside town of Ishinomaki where she was born and raised. She has lived a happy life with her fisherman husband and 2 children. Her life changed after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. Her husband has not come back since that day and the lives of her two children have been damaged. Do Hyun once lived in Ishinomaki, but he went back to South Korea. He returns to the seaside town and tells Chieko Sato something about her husband that she did not know.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-03
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Reminiscence Journey
Overview: A 48-year-old unsuccessful actor confronts his past when he undergoes hypnosis after a mysterious teenager hands him a note.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-11
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Naoko
Overview: Naoko meets Yusuke while staying on an island for medical treatment. Yusuke's graceful athletic figure captivates her eyes and she falls in love with him. But their relationship is soon broken after Yusuke's father dies while trying to save Naoko from drowning. The memory of Yusuke leads Naoko to the track, and six years later, they meet each other again at a Marathon competition. Naoko decides to become a manager to help Yusuke, a gifted runner, and they embark on training together to heal their sorrows from the past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-18
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Shibuya
Overview: Go Ayano plays Kazunari Mizusawa, a young photographer gathering pictures of girls in Shibuya for a documentary. Suddenly the constant noise of the bustling crowd is drowned out by a high school girl (Aimi Satsukawa) shrieking in anger. Mizusawa is startled, but also confused by the fact that nobody in the area but him seemed to care or even notice. His fascination with figuring out exactly what makes young girls want to come to Shibuya in the first place makes him determined to find out more about her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-09
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Our Tomorrow
Overview: At a pawn shop called "K" which is known for being a place where backroom deals are conducted, a professional burglar named Ryo Fudo puts together a team with the aim of stealing a legendary cache of gold. Ryo plans to wash his hands of thievery once and for all after this one final job, but conflicting intentions and betrayal soon complicate the situation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-05
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Mister Rococo
Overview: A romantic comedy about a girl who gets over her lost love in her way.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-21
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Youkai Share-house: Hakuba no Οujisama ja Νainkai
Overview: Mio Meguro (Fuka Koshiba) continues her dream of becoming a writer, while living with yokai (folklore monsters) in a share house. She struggles in her job in the editorial department of a publishing company. She proposes plans at her company, but her plans are rejected. A popular AI dating app has become popular, but Mio Meguro isn't interested because of her work. One day, Mio Meguro meets genius mathematician AITO (Ayumu Mochizuki), who was raised in England. She falls in love with him, but her love causes problems for the share house and yokai.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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It's Me It's Me
Overview: Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother and pretends to be her son. He then gets the mother to transfer money to his bank account. Soon, Hitoshi gets a lot more than he bargained for.
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-24
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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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Saitama Kazoku
Overview: A Japanese drama directed by Keihiro Kanyama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-12
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Torihada: The Movie 2
Overview: Shiori Yamauchi finds a letter in her mailbox addressed to a Reiko Miura, who seems to be the previous occupant of her condo unit. She opens the letter out of curiosity. In it were the words, "I want to see you. I love you." A few days later, another letter arrived with the words, "I'll come and see you today after a long time." Scared, Shiori did an internet search for "Reiko Miura" and found out that she was the victim of a stalker murder that happened a year and a half ago.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-10
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A Story of Yonosuke
Overview: The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and commutes to a university in the center of Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-23
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Chain of Flowers
Overview: Based upon the novel by Minato Kanae. The story is about three women who all live in the same countryside town but who never interact with one another even though they are all tied by the same tragedy. While newly-unemployed Rika tries to get her ailing grandmother to take a needed surgery, she also struggles to come up with the money to pay for it. A mysterious benefactor known to her only as "K" might be able to help, but her grandmother is steadfast in telling her to decline it. As Rika searches for clues as to who this "K" is, she increasingly finds that she and two other women are linked not only by a tragedy but a chain of flowers as well.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-17
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Stay Mum
Overview: Chisako Satoya, a writer, and her father, Kozo, had a long-standing feud and had been living apart for a long time. However now that Kozo, who lives alone, has dementia, she returns to her hometown to begin taking care of him.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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Grasshopper
Overview: Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-07
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Himeanole
Overview: An ordinary man plays matchmaker to his friend only to realize the girl being pursued is being stalked.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-28
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Sadako vs. Kayako
Overview: A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the two murderous ghosts: Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-18
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Somebody's Xylophone
Overview: A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-10
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Gaki Rock
Overview: The film's story revolves around Asakusa-born-and-raised Gen, who helps out at his family's strip club. With his friends Makoto, Jimmy, and Mattsun, the four get into fights together, as well as help out with watching out for Gen's family. One night, Gen is told by his father to pick up a woman at the train station. There, he finds the beautiful Chōcho (lit. butterfly), and falls in love with her at first sight. However, he finds out that she is the #1 strip girl in Osaka, and Gen gets eccentric when he finds out that she'll be living in "England Theater," the strip club his father runs.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-28
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Yurigokoro
Overview: Ryosuke has a bright future. He just opened a successful restaurant and hopes to tie the knot soon with his alluring girlfriend. But then his father declares he has pancreatic cancer and his betrothed vanishes without a trace. In his father’s belongings, he discovers a secret diary, which starts with an ominous sentence: “Without remorse, I take a life …” Ryosuke is completely spellbound and reads on, discovering that the document is actually the confession of a murderer.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-09-23
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Unrequited Love
Overview: Childhood best friends. Cousins. Housemates. Coworkers. Eight stories of unrequited love, eight sets of people who weren't meant to be together. Several short films put together under the common theme of One Sided Love: ***My Nickname is Butatchi ***Something Blue ***Asahan no Yuge ***Kataomoi Supairaru ***Usotsuki no Koi ***Ibu no Okurimono ***Radio Personality ***Boku no Sabotin
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-02
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A Loving Husband
Overview: Schoolteacher Yohei is married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years they begin to live by themselves when their son marries and moves out. Then Yohei discovers that all’s not well in his marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-08-25
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Aoi Hitomi to Nuage
Overview: Erika Ichinose, a clinical psychologist, is recruited by the National Police Agency in an attempt to stay one step ahead of a bomb terrorist.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-25
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Revenge Girl
Overview: Miki Takaraishi is a smart and beautiful 24-year-old woman, but her personality is not as good. She falls in love with Yuga Saito who is handsome and comes from a politician family. They see each other romantically, but Yugo Saito dumps Miki Takaraishi. To get revenge on Yuga Saito, she decides to run for prime minister. For her election campaign, she hires Toshiya Kadowaki as her campaign strategist.
Genres: Romance Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-23
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Elevator Trap
Overview: Japanese film directed by Keisuke Horibe. Three seemingly unacquainted men and a woman find themselves trapped in an elevator. As the hours pass and the level of anxiety rise, we realize the elevator trap is in fact a trap, but hatched by which of the parties and for what motive?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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Zenigata
Overview: Two brothers run a bar called Zenigata in a backstreet of a fishing port. At midnight, the bar changes to a lending place, where the brothers lend money and charge high interest. One day, they hire a former boxer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-26
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Dawn Wind in My Poncho
Overview: Three friends who will soon graduate from high school decide to take one last trip together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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The Pod of Good Fortune
Overview: Ryosaku, a struggling actor, endures daily abuse from his wicked wife. One day, the janitor of his apartment gives him a 'The Pod of Good Fortune'. And his life begins to go awry. The sudden death of his abusive wife...suspicion of murder...an impulsive cover-up...same old routine on set...an unexpected visitor...and the body count rises. This fi lm closely follows the daily life of the protagonist as the bizarre and horrifi c drama unfolds. When people are pushed to an extreme situation, it's also the most comical. Full of such aspects, the stor y reveals the secret side of the people surrounding the protagonist. Where will the 'The Pod of Good Fortune' lead this man's unfortunate life? Only the Pot can tell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-25
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Strawberry Fields
Overview: A car accident occurs in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture. Natsumi's (Aimi Satsukawa) classmates Maki (Mitsuki Tanimura), Risa (Yuria Haga) and Mika (Ayu Higashi) die in the car accident. Natsumi becomes isolated at school. Her three friends then come back as ghosts.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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Lights of Kyoto
Overview: Born and raised in Kyoto, 17 years old Takatoyo spends all his summer holidays in his hometown. However, this time will be different. Takatoyo will experience his first love and first challenges, creating memories that will take him out of his ordinary life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-08
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Izakaya Moheji 5
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-27
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Izakaya Moheji 6
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-28
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He Won't Kill, She Won't Die
Overview: When a nihilistic guy crosses paths with a suicidal girl in high school, it marks the beginning of an unusual friendship that might take them both toward healing.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-15
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The Confidence Man JP - The Movie -
Overview: In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-17
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Life: Untitled
Overview: Follows a group of female escorts who are living life as best they can.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-02
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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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Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
Overview: Six Stories based on Six Songs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-22
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2013 Spring Special
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-11
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The Summer of Whales
Overview: Chuya, who spends his days in a local city without any purpose or dream, suddenly decides to go to Tokyo. His best friends: J, Gizmo, and Machida, from high school try to hold a big farewell party on the last day that Chuya spends locally, but Chuya remembers the past. It seems that he is clinging and hesitating to move. There, the three make a proposal for Chuya, but Yumiko, a longing senior who should be active as an entertainer in Tokyo, appears, and Chuya's heart shakes even more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-03
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Two Portraits of MIYAGINO
Overview: In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.
Genres: Drama Romance History Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-29
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Double Booking
Overview: Yuji double booked an online date with two lovers at the same time on the same day. The two women are Aya, an office worker and Maya, a college student. While Yuji gets himself busy, trying to seek help from social media and the internet, he ends up getting stucked in a situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-28
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Asymmetry
Overview: Hokuto's dream is to travel around the world as a professional cameraman. One day, he finds that his hospitalized girlfriend's doctor is his old classmate from high school. The doctor, Shinichiro, and Hokuto used to be very close friends, whom all shared a common love for photography. However, an accident broke their friendship apart, leaving them out of contact until now.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-02
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Every Trick In The Book
Overview: Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his life targeted by underworld kingpin Kurata. Is his story fact or fiction? His editor, Nahomi Torikai, decides to verify whether his latest work is mere fiction based on real-life experiences. She looks into a family that vanished, a post office worker who went missing, a shady load of cash, the whereabouts of the doves, and the fateful encounter from that night... A series of shocking facts are revealed from Tsuda’s stories. Why did the counterfeit money end up in Tsuda’s hands? What is the “ending” that Tsuda wished to portray?
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-27
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Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
Overview: A man with family troubles suddenly loses his job and finds a light of hope through a magnificent 1,000 year old community festival that he reluctantly joins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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