Shogen
Also Known As: Shogen Itokazu , 糸数尚玄
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Naha, Okinawa, Japan
Birthday: June 20, 1978
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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CONTROL OF VIOLENCE
Overview: A three-way battle of hoodlums vs yakuza vs gyoza factory manager! A fierce battleground in Osaka, where territories are fought over with impunity. There, a group of hoodlums, who are in good shape and gaining momentum, have launched a series of surprise attacks on the Yakuza.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-07-25
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Gensan Punch
Overview: Nao Tsuyama, a disabled athlete, refuses to let his articifical leg hinder his dream to become a professional boxer. His remarkable journey takes him from Japan to the Philippines, and specifically the celebrated ‘Gensan’ quarter which has spawned worldwide stars such as the legendary Manny Pacquiao.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-10
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Tokyo Butterfly
Overview: There was a popular band with four students. After the band was offered a major contract, they broke up after a minor mistake. 6 years later, they are living their lives in their late twenties with troubles: Marriage, work, human relationship. They meet again and finish a song that they couldn't complete.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-11
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Joint
Overview: After serving 2 years in prison, ISHIGAMI Takeshi (YAMAMOTO Yikken) spent two years working on a construction site and building up his funds before he returned to Tokyo with the help of Yasu, his best friend. He is determined to try and go straight but before he can do that, he has to raise even more money to break free of the criminal underworld and that requires a deep dive. He enlists his Korean friend Junghi and starts a business selling data for phone fraud to his Yakuza friend Yuki. As the business grows, Takeshi can just about make escape velocity, however, his old ties are holding him back and as a split in a yakuza family signals that start of a war, Takeshi finds himself getting dragged back down to the criminal underworld.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-15
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The Rise and Fall of Park Avenue and the 10 Rooms
Overview: Koza, Okinawa City, which prospered as a gateway town for the U.S. military. Four omnibus dramas unfold at the intersection of Japanese, American, and Okinawan cultures. Dream chasers, losers, wounded, and hangers-on... The city of Koza and its people weave their own stories.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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Intimate Stranger
Overview: A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her, claiming to know her son.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-05
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December
Overview: A divorced husband and wife reunite to fight the release of their daughter's murderer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-18
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Everything, Everywhere
Overview: Director Jay mysteriously disappears in 2019 and leaves behind a hard disc with the film “No Where, Now Here”. Actress Eva follows his steps to find him after she met Jay at the film shoot in 2018 film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-12
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Detective Chinatown 3
Overview: Following the excitement of first Bangkok and then New York, a big murder case takes place in Tokyo. Chinatown master detectives Tangren and Qinfeng are invited to take up the mystery. Adding to the excitement are the other detectives on the CRIMASTER international detective list as well as the current top rank, Q. Yet another hilarious battle of wits is set to take place...
Genres: Action Comedy Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-02-12
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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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Borderless Island
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-01
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Sukiyaki Western Django
Overview: A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Western Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-15
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Lightning Over the Beyond
Overview: Progressing from sound to color, Lighting Over the Beyond is a road movie that traces the roots of cinema and the history of war while asking "What is war?" and "What is an enemy?".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-08
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Bloody Snake Under the Sun
Overview: The film is based on a true story about an Okinawan sansen (3 stringed guitar) player named Ryo and his experiences growing up in Okinawa in 1968. Ryo meets an American military solider named George, and they discover that they have more similarities than differences. The atmosphere of the film is heavily charged with discrimination and prejudice- Okinawans and Japanese (yes there is a difference-big difference in fact), US military and Japanese/Okinawans, officers and enlisted soldiers- and takes place with echoes of the civil rights movement lingering in the backdrop.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-22
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Waiting for Good News
Overview: General store manager Akio (Tetsuji Tamayama) lives a carefree live in Okinawa with his dog, Kafu. One day he receives a strange letter from a woman named Sachi, but that’s not any person he’s familiar with. It turns out that the letter was a response to a joke wish he hung up at a Shinto shrine months earlier. Then one day, Sachi (Maiko) shows up and the two begin a relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-02-28
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TAP: Perfect Education
Overview: In Okinawa, a down-and-out middle-aged yakuza underling named Shidara kidnaps and confines a high school girl named Yui, the daughter of a fellow yakuza’s mistress.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-09
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Twilight Phantom
Overview: Misaki visits her boyfriend Koichi in Okinawa, the southern island of Japan. To welcome the arrival of Misaki, Koichi's friend Jinsei holds a welcoming party at his house. At the party, Misaki learns from the wise granny about the legend behind the bag hanging from the fig tree and the local demon: Kijimuna, which deeply fascinate Misaki. Jinsei then introduces Misaki to a young female writer, Kagemi, who tells Misaki the darker side of the Kijimuna legend. As the local shaman and medium to the other world, Kagemi’s knowledge in local lore gives Misaki much more to wonder about. The quiet life in Okinawa takes a sharp turn with the arrival of Jinsei’s ex-wife Sanae, which leads to a tragic accident. Soon, the parties involved begin to see a vengeful spirit and their peaceful lifes turn into a nightmare.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-09
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A Far Shore
Overview: Aoi has dropped out of high school and gives birth to a baby son with her husband Masaya. They live in Okinawa, the Southern island of Japan where they were both born. To make ends meet, she starts working as a night-club hostess. Masaya loses his job and cannot deal with the family’s responsibilities. Their immaturity and dependence aggravate the relationship and continuous fights lead to a social downfall. Aoi’s bond with her son sets her on a path to find solutions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-09
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Chameleon
Overview: A Filipino transgender woman, Marie, who is drawn into the Yakuza gangster life after befriending Ai, the rebellious daughter of a powerful Yakuza boss. Set against the pulsating background of the 1990s nightlife in Sapporo, Hokkaido, the film charts the almost impossible decisions Marie faced and her tumultuous journey to discovering family, love and ultimately her true identity.
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Original Language: ja
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Redemption of Sin
Overview: After a tragic accident that killed her mother and left her daughter Nirmala missing, Wening embarks on a desperate search for Nirmala, enlisting the help of a podcaster, a Japanese researcher, and a shaman, all while haunted by her mother’s ghost and dark secrets from her past.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-10-17
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Stay
Overview: After losing his job, a recovering addict struggles to survive and meets a free spirited woman, who changes his world, but cannot stay in his life.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-26
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Tokyo Living Dead Idol
Overview: One day an idol is bitten by a zombie and before she is taken into custody, she runs away. She only has 72 hours left until she becomes one, so she tries to find the zombie serum, but high school girl zombie hunter and zombies attack her. Will she make it to the destination within the time limit?
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-09
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Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
Overview: Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money owed. The debt collector offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt & possibly make a boat load of money. Could the debt collector Endo actually be setting up Kaiji? One way or another, for Kaiji it's going to be the night of his life.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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The Dog Bridegroom
Overview: Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and in her personal life. One day, she suddenly hears a voice saying "If you go to Imore Island, you will get what you want.", so she decides to give it a try.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-13
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Enemy Within
Overview: When a Japanese pilot crash-lands on the tiny remote Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau, he is met with courtesy and traditional Hawaiian hospitality from the locals - until they discover he was part of the recent attack on Pearl Harbor. Soon the community is split between those of Japanese ancestry who support the pilot and those of Hawaiian ancestry who oppose them.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-19
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Fancy
Overview: Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a female fan with the name of Moonlit Night's Star (Sakurako Konishi). She sends letters to Penguin. One day, the female fan appears in front of Akira Takasu and Penguin. These three somehow get involved in a battle between the yakuza.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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Okinawan Blue
Overview: A tale of three families on a remote island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-02
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The Room
Overview: Yumi moves into her boyfriend's Tokyo apartment but on the night of the move, he is called away for business in New York. The couple communicates over Skype and over the course of four nights, their relationship descends into an abyss of mistrust and lies. Yumi believes there's a ghost in the room haunting her as her only connection to the outside world is Taka on the other side of the world. Taka believes she's slowly going crazy right in front of his eyes. The story concludes with a shocking twist that will haunt both of them forever.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Kakera: A Piece of Our Life
Overview: The story of the relationship between a college student whose relationship with her boyfriend is going nowhere and a bisexual medical artist who makes prosthetic body parts. Haru is a college student ignored by her boyfriend yet believes she is still in love with him. One day at a café, Haru meets Riko, a medical artist (prosthetist) who creates body parts in order to disguise clients’ missing pieces, lost due to accident or disease. Both were alone, but struck up an immediate friendship and closeness. Riko doesn't care about gender when it comes to relationships, and believes that love itself is the most important thing a human can achieve. Haru struggles in her life between friendship and a deeper relationship with Riko.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-07
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Uzumasa Limelight
Overview: Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-14
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Sexual Drive
Overview: Designer Enatsu worries about his sexless life. Office worker Akane is getting ready to return to work while undergoing rehab at home for panic attacks. Elite advertising agent Ikeyama wants to end his relationship with his lover. A shabby man named Kurita appears before all three with a secret.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-04
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Nighthawks in Bangkok
Overview: Proy, a young waitress has always been curious about a worn-out drifter who often strolls into the cafeteria with no money. One night, seeing the drifter again lost in thought, Proy takes the courage to speak to him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-16
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Come and Go
Overview: Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah Wai. His eighth feature explores the lesser-known aspects of the Asian melting pot city through the eyes and experiences of a dozen characters who struggle to find their place in society: among them a Nepali refugee with dreams of opening a restaurant, a Burmese student struggling to make ends meet while working two jobs, and a Taiwanese sex tourist who travels to meet his favorite adult video actress.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-19
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Samurai of the Dead
Overview: As the end approaches for Japan’s age of military rule, the Tokugawa shogunate brings together a squad of ruthless assassins to defend its representatives in Kyoto. These men were known as the Shinsengumi. Formidable swordsmen with unswerving dedication to their cause, the Shinsengumi think nothing of slashing down their enemies…but what happens when the enemy is the undead?
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-01
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One Last Bloom
Overview: Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies. When hotheaded young boxer Shogo asks for Jin’s help to get him back into the ring after an unfair loss, the two men decide to seize their final chance at glory. A boxing film so authentic that it inspired co-star Yokohama Ryusei to qualify as a pro boxer, Zeze Takahisa’s boxing drama is one of the veteran director’s most crowd-pleasing films thanks to the touching father-son bond at its core.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-25
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Mô Hitotsu no Yanagawa-gumi: Mukuge no Hana
Overview: A live-action adaptation of the story of Shigeo Yanagawa, known as the "Legendary Bare-Knuckle Yakuza"! What kind of life did this incredibly strong man's short existence entail?! Undefeated in bare-knuckle fights, the man who was too strong, "Bare-Knuckle Shige," a.k.a. Shigeo Yanagawa, quickly gained attention even as a high school student for his impressive fighting skills and charismatic personality, becoming a prominent figure in Matsuyama, Shikoku. However, Shigeo himself had no interest in the world of yakuza and was instead aiming to take university entrance exams. Things changed when an attempt was made on the life of Genichiro Kumada, the head of the Kumada family who had looked after Shigeo. This incident drew him into the yakuza world. Shigeo rose to prominence as Matsuyama's top enforcer. The life of Shigeo Yanagawa, a man who left his mark on post-war outlaw history, is now fully brought to life in this live-action adaptation!
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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A Day Begins
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-10-11
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