Hidetoshi Nishijima
Also Known As: 西岛俊秀, 니시지마 히데토시, هیدتوشی نیشیجیما
Biography: Hidetoshi Nishijima (born March 29, 1971) is a Japanese actor. He is widely regarded as one of Japan's leading actors in numerous films and television drama series. He has appeared in a wide range of films from epic science fiction films such as Shin Ultraman (2022) to small-scale art films such as Dolls (2002). He is best known internationally for his leading role in the film Drive My Car (2021). He received the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor for the film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hidetoshi Nishijima, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: March 29, 1971
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Gender: Male
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Dolls
Overview: Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-12
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チーム・バチスタSP2011～さらばジェネラル！天才救命医は愛する人を救えるか～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-02
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Loft
Overview: A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly discovered mummy and a ghostly presence in her house.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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Kidnapping
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-02
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Tony Takitani
Overview: A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-27
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Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
Overview: There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He has his son and daughter in tow and works hard for them. The folk in the area try to help. A couple of years pass and the older son moves back to Tokyo, attends school and works part-time. The daughter commutes to the city to attend school. She wants to become a nurse. To become a registered nurse she needs to study a further three years. This takes money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-22
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Vacation
Overview: The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-07
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License to Live
Overview: Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie
Overview: Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases for Madarame Law Firm. Atsuhiro Sada has become the director of the law firm. One day, the law firm receives a request about a case that took place 15 years ago. The case was about a poisonous wine incident.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-30
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Goodbye, Someday
Overview: Higashigaito Yutaka is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines. In three months, he will marry Michiko, a relative of the airline's founder, and though he doesn't love her, he knows he could be CEO one day if they wed. In Thailand, Yutaka meets Touko at a bar and is instantly drawn to her. His relationship with her only intensifies as the wedding date approaches. Eventually, he decides to break up with her and calls Michiko in front of her. Touko is disappointed, and the next day she leaves for New York. Yutaka and Michiko reunite in Thailand and proceed with their wedding. Twenty-five years later, Yutaka and Michiko are married with two sons. But Yutaka still harbors memories of Touko in his heart. Yutaka visits Bangkok on business and goes to the Oriental Hotel where he had stayed with Touko-and finds she is now in charge of VIP guests there. They realize their love for each other remains, but reality pulls them apart once again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-23
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special
Overview: ***Fushiawase wo Anata ni (We Bring You Misfortune) A woman sees a company called "Fushiawase wo Anata ni" (we bring you misfortune) promoting a new sales concept: giving its clients misfortune to motivate them to seek greater happiness. ***Kuuhaku no Hito (Blank Person) A woman wakes up in her bed every morning not remembering the events of the past night, and finding that someone has moved around the things in her room. ***Jigoku wa Manin (Hell Is Full) As there is no more room in hell, the evil/sinful find they cannot die. ***Kako kara no Nikki (Diary from the Past) A struggling author chances upon a diary which changes his life. ***Aketekure (Open Up!) A woman's husband dies in a car accident, but that same evening he is heard pounding on the door for someone to let him in.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Horror Science Fiction Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-20
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Su-ki-da
Overview: Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-25
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2016 Spring Special
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Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-28
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実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還
Overview: Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines with his subordinates Corporal Shimada (Yanagiba Toshiro) and Private First Class Kozuka (Nishijima Hidetoshi) since the end of the Pacific War, without knowing the war had ended. Eventually, the two men die, unable to fulfil their duty to their homeland, and Onoda is left alone, but when a rescue team is sent out from the home country, he does not obey the order to return, believing it to be a diversion by the enemy, as the form of the return order is different. However, an encounter with adventurer Norio Suzuki (Masato Sakai), who has come from Japan to look for Onoda, leads to Onoda's return to his homeland in March 1974, 30 years after the end of the war, after completing his intelligence work on Lubang Island.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-13
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Chloe
Overview: Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls ill.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-15
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tokyo.sora
Overview: Six women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst they can. For them, every little moment becomes a ritual of the ordinary and the exciting, a balancing act for their dreams and hopes as the days perpetually tug on their heartstrings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-26
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People of the Isono Family ~Ms Sazae 20 years from now~
Overview: It's 20 years later and the Isono family is having a rough time. Katsuo is facing a series of professional setbacks. Wakame is having a tough time coming up with original designs. Tarao is in the process of job hunting but can't find what he wants to do. Sazae wants to do her best to return happiness to her family in the face of an impending storm during the Bon Odori competition.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-24
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Goodbye Cruel World
Overview: Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the Sugiyama Clan for money laundering. This one night only gang succeed in robbing them blind and though they were supposed to go their separate ways after splitting the money, the five end up being hunt down by a detective hired by the clan and clan members themselves. An ending nobody ever even dreamed of.
Genres: Crime Documentary Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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2/Duo
Overview: The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-10
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Canary
Overview: Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-20
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The Wind Rises
Overview: A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
Genres: Drama Animation Romance War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-20
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The Diary from the Past
Overview: A writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who has an artistic crisis purchases a stack of diaries written by a teenage girl (Yû Aoi) who is fatally ill. Living in different time lines both are able to communicate via writing diaries…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-07
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Memories Corner
Overview: Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big earthquake from 1995. Fifteen years after the disaster the city’s wounds have finally disappeared but the former victims continue to suffer. Among them is Kenji whose past is hiding a secret that only Ada is willing to hear...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-08
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Cut
Overview: Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-12-17
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Strawberry Night
Overview: Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work. Reiko than becomes involved in a murder case named "Strawberry Night" due to the mysterious use of those words surrounding the case ...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-25
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Tokyo Rendezvous
Overview: A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
Overview: The super unconventional lawyer is back! Our new friends are comic book girls! And the biggest enemy of all! The strongest lawyer who manipulates the prosecution behind the scenes sets out to prove the devil... Take on a case that is 100% impossible to prove!
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-29
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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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Genome Hazard
Overview: Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all his memories are gone and finds himself acting like someone else. What is his true identity?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-24
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More Painful than Rain
Overview: Ayami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and is beginning to think that she would rather live her life for work than marriage. Just then, she meets Kurasawa, who works at the same company, and they soon find themselves drawn to each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-29
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In The Still Of The Night
Overview: A drama depicting the whereabouts of two pairs of lovers who meet at a cafe at night and intersect. Yamagata, an unsuccessful actor, lies to Yuko, who lives with him, that he is filming, and kills time at a cafe late at night. One night, he meets painter Uehara and his lover, Aya, and leaves the city to escape the boredom of everyday life. However, the two do not have enough passion to call it an escape, and after spending the night at the hotel, they return to their respective partners. However, Yamagata is stabbed by Uehara, who is furious. Yuko and Aya head to the hospital with Mushi no Soku Yamagata in the car. Eventually, Yamagata dies, and the two leave him behind. And at that moment, Yamagata came back to life...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-01-25
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The Artful Dodgers
Overview: Three young Japanese drop-outs are comically adrift in New York
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-24
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Down the Road: The Making of Drive My Car
Overview: Spanning locations in Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Hokkaido and featuring interviews with cast members and rare behind-the-scenes footage, it captures the creative collective journey of the filmmaking team.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-18
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Dogs & Cats
Overview: Suzu lives with Furuta, her fiance, but one day she leaves home without saying a word. She moves into the apartment of her friend Abe, but he has gone abroad and Yoko now lives in his apartment. Suzu and Yoko, who have known each other since childhood and have both always loved Furuta, thus find themselves sharing the same home.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-04
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Freesia: Bullet Over Tears
Overview: In the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executioners are permitted to kill criminals by the requests from their victims. People who are to be executed are notified of the execution time and date in advance and they are allowed to have their own guard.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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Broken Heart
Overview: Eight love stories start and end in an amusement park.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-21
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Team Batista the Movie: The Portrait of Kerberos
Overview: Physician Kohei Taguchi and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare investigator Shiratori soon become involved in major reforms to the death investigation system of the country and localities when a letter arrives threatening the destruction of Tojo University Hospital and Kerberos Tower in 3 months. Before the pair are able to uncover the truth, an unprecedented rash of suspicious deaths occur which can’t be explained through autopsy. On the day of the AI (Autopsy Imaging) Center’s opening and introduction of a revolutionary new MRI machine called “Leviathan”, further incidents rock the medical community.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-29
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Kanikôsen
Overview: On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-04
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Pacchigi! Love & Peace
Overview: In 1974, during the height of the recession, a Japanese Korean family relocates to Tokyo to raise money and seek better treatment for their ill son.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-10
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MARKS
Overview: Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on...
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-22
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House of Himiko
Overview: Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry with her father but in need of money, Saori travels to the House of Himiko, a nursing home established by her father for gay men. Over time, a tenuous relationship begins to develop between Saori, her father, and Haruhiko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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Three Year Delivery
Overview: Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her third year, to the bafflement of all around her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-28
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Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
Overview: The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning of all kinds.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-23
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Making of Drive My Car
Overview: Program about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with actors Reika Kirishima, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki Okada, Park Yu-rim, Jin Dae-yeon, and others
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-19
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Hameln
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Fish on Land
Overview: A college senior (Mirai Moriyama) takes a bicycle trip for his last summer vacation. On his trip he comes across drive-in "HOUSE475" and its manager Seii (Hidetoshi Nishijima). The college senior then helps out at the store and becomes influenced by his experience at "HOUSE475".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-18
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Love/Juice
Overview: Twenty-something lesbian Chinatsu shares a one-bedroom apartment with heterosexual Kyoko. Although Chinatsu and Kyoko have a passing attraction, Kyoko is mostly interested in men, especially one who tends the fish in a pet store, who despite her efforts, doesn't seem to be interested in her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-06-01
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Zero Focus
Overview: Spurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a murder mystery.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-14
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What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
Overview: One day, Shiro's all-time favorite idol Mami Mitsuya suddenly appears right in front of him! Even though this meeting left him excited, his partner Kenji ends up unhappy. Moreover, the appearance of a new partner and Shiro's work situation have led to the relationship between the two changing...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Ougon No Toki - Kintaro Hattori Story
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Genres: Drama History Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-30
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Love of Sawako 2: 1000 Miles Away
Overview: A romantic drama about a modern woman's thirst for romance. Sawako Fujitani has beautiful legs and is a successful "leg-talent," but on the contrary, she has a complex about them. Then there is Shinpei Yoshida, a very popular scriptwriter, who is struggling with the future development of his show and is trapped both physically and mentally. The two meet in a counseling room...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-27
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Mozu The Movie
Overview: Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who terrorizes Japan by insinuating himself into people's dreams and the collective psyche of the Japanese people.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-07
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Kubi
Overview: Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-23
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Serpent's Path
Overview: A mysterious woman teams up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge. Together they kidnap members of an organization and torture them to find out what really happened.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-14
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Poison Berry in my Brain
Overview: Ichiko is a 30-year-old unemployed woman. She meets Ryoichi at a drinking establishment. Even though he is a lot younger than her, she can't forget him. Meanwhile, Ichiko has 5 different characters in her brain that governs her actions. The 5 characters are Yoshida, Ishibashi, Ikeda, Hatoko and Kishi. These 5 character then have a fierce meeting. Yoshida presides over the meeting as the chairman. Ishibashi is the optimist. Ikeda is the pessimist. Hatoko is the character that lives in the moment and Kishi thinks about the past.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-09
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All About Suomi
Overview: The wife of a tycoon, Suomi, suddenly disappears. Upon learning of her disappearance, assembled at the mansion where her husband lives are five men who have loved her. But they each describe their version of "Suomi" very differently, both in appearance and personality. So, who exactly is the real Suomi?
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-13
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
Overview: A married couple living in a house that seems to be inhabited by supernatural beings and beetles. The first of six movies in the Kazuo Umezz's Horror Theater.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-06-18
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Creepy
Overview: After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-18
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While the Women Are Sleeping
Overview: Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest arouse the curiosity of the couple.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-27
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Kura
Overview: In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her disability in order to save her family's sake business.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-10
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Sayonara Midori-chan
Overview: Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the shallow but charming Yutaka, she willingly succumbs to his lascivious advances only to discover afterward that he already has a girlfriend by the name of Midori. Even so, Yuko's feelings for Yutaka continue to grow regardless of his aloofness. Before long she finds herself reluctantly cajoled into working as a hostess in a small karaoke bar. Fatalistically accepting his dalliances with flames old and new, she perseveres not so much in hope of a more substantial relationship, but rather out of fear of losing him. There are other men out there waiting for her -- kinder, more considerate and eagerly available. But for Yuko, there is only the non-committal, yet torridly magnetic Yutaka. Why him? Not even Yuko seems to know the answer.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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The Last Recipe
Overview: A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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Falling Camellia
Overview: During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife wish was for him to go back to his clan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-28
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Umi de no hanashi
Overview: Kaede's life is changed when she discovers that she is the product of her father's affair. She tries to confide in Dr. Nishijima, a lecturer that she has feelings for.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-16
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Haru, Bânîzu de
Overview: Tsutsui, an office worker, marries Hitomi, who has a son from a previous marriage. However, one day, he realizes that something is missing in the life he chose.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-19
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Going Home
Overview: Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight years. Miyuki is back in town with her daughter Chiharu, after leaving a failed marriage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-26
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Casshern
Overview: Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankind's hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. This live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-24
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async - first light
Overview: A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. The people falling asleep in this film are all his friends, he sent cameras to friends and asked them to shoot. Apichatpong often carries Digital Harinezumi camera with him, and completing a lot of works with this camera. This work was first exhibited at the WATARI Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (Japan, 2017).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-01
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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
Overview: Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One day, they receive devastating news of their daughter falling into a coma after a near-drowning accident at a pool. The doctors declare her brain dead with no prospect of recovery and the couple must decide if they should donate her organs to others in need or to wait until her heart stops beating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-30
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Oz Land
Overview: Kurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is connected to the business network. The new work is out in the country and there is not much else to do or places to go. The go-to employee is one Yoshiko. Kurumi wants to be successful and valued and is eager to learn from Yoshiko. All is not as it seems on the surface however.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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Penguin Highway
Overview: A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-17
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Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
Overview: This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly successful 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. This special focuses on Police Inspector Takayama Ryosuke (Kagawa Teruyuki) who had been secretly supplying police information to the organized crime group, the Oda-gumi. Once a young street thug, Takayama was taken under the wing of Oda Hironari (Kohinata Fumiyo), the leader of Oda-gumi. Dressed, fed, and educated, Takayama was instructed to become a police officer and work as a mole for the group. Now, he is tasked to get close to Suenaga Mari (Aoi Yu), a daughter of an influential politician.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-27
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Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen
Overview: Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their fates intertwined.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-15
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Aircraft Carrier Ibuki
Overview: The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and occupy parts of the Hateruma archipelago. Members of the Japan Coast Guard are detained. Under the extremely tense situation, the Japanese government sends Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and an escort fleet to the area. Ryota Akitsu is the captain of the Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and Toshiya Niinami is second-in-command. It is now 6:23 am. and Japan faces one day which they never have before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-24
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Oka wo koete
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-17
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A Painful Pair
Overview: Ryo and Natsu love each other immensely. They are also able to feel each other's pain. Their relationship is troubled when Ryo allows himself to be seduced by an office employee.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-07
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Silver Angel
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-18
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Strawberry Night
Overview: Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work. Reiko than becomes involved in a murder case named "Strawberry Night" due to the mysterious use of those words surrounding the case.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-11-13
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Voices in the Wind
Overview: Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out on a long, eventful journey to her home town, where she lost her family in the flood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-24
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Shin Ultraman
Overview: The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly meets a giant silver humanoid who starts appearing every time a space monster attacks!
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-13
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Somewhere on Earth
Overview: Yutaka, tired of his writing job, is asked by his landlord to save his rundown apartment building from demolition by converting it into a variety store called "The End of the World". Through this, he meets Huma, a high school student detached from her friends and parents, who finds it is the only place she can find any calm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-17
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The Cold-Blooded Trap
Overview: Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-11
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Last Scene
Overview: Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently announced her retirement from acting in order to get married. Feeling frustrated and helpless, Ken turns to alcohol as he begins to provoke fights, attempts to lure a girl into bed, and argues with his wife, who came to visit him at the studio. All she says is thank you and leaves Ken puzzled. Ken Mihara, once a budding young star, takes a job as an extra. Although he's past his prime, he still manages to infuse a young filmmaker with the motivation to pursue her dreams as a director.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
Overview: NHK TV Special
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-27
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Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie
Overview: At the end of the TV series of the same name, it is revealed that the husband works for the Public Security Bureau, and their marriage is a cover to keep her under surveillance. In spite of his mission, he falls in love with Nami and tries to convince her not to get involved in other people’s affairs. She is being monitored as a state-level security risk, and the bureau is unwilling to tolerate any more trouble from her. However, to save a friend, Nami runs out of the house and risks everything she has to confront the enemy. When she comes home, she finds her husband pointing a gun at her! A gunshot echoes through the quiet, upscale neighborhood…The movie picks up where the controversial ending of the drama series left off!!
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-19
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Silent Tokyo
Overview: On Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set up a bomb at Ebisu in Tokyo." A contract worker for the TV broadcasting station and a housewife are accused by the Ebisu police as being the culprits. During this chaotic situation, a mysterious man silently watches as everything unfolds. A video clip is then uploaded to an online video website. The video contains a demand to talk with the Prime Minister during a live broadcast or a bomb will be detonated at 6 pm in Shibuya, Tokyo. Who is behind the bombings and who will stop them?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-12-04
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Ghost Pub
Overview: One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is just being dramatic, he promises and tells her to go to sleep. When he wakes the next morning, however, Shizuko is dead. Sotaro keeps his promise, until one day he meets Satoko. The two quickly fall in love, and agree to get married. Their first night together, however, is interrupted by Shizuko, who is angry over her husband's broken promise. Sotaro and Satoko must find some way of appeasing the spirit before she drives them from their home.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-29
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Mario
Overview: It's the year 2023. The development of artificial intelligence has come a long way in recent years. When a policeman gets seriously injured and won't be able to recover his consciousness, a scientist decides to implant an artificial intelligence called "Mario" inside his brain. The final command for this newborn man: Be free. When he sets out on his little journey to understand the concept of being free, being human, he meets the 16 year-old son of the scientist who is about to take his own life... The two of them form a precious bond.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-17
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Drive My Car
Overview: Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-18
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Strawberry Night: After the Invisible Rain
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Genres: TV Movie Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-26
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What Did You Eat Yesterday?
Overview: Kenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his birthday, but the trip ends up uncovering a painful topic.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-03
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Seraphim Night
Overview: Directed by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a half Korean/Japanese man and a hermaphroditic woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-02-03
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Peeping Tom
Overview: Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was his own death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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Prodigy
Overview: Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point where she hates playing the piano. Her father was also a piano virtuoso, but mysteriously disappeared from her life at a young age. Because of her father's disappearance Uta's mother had to move out of their posh home and into a far modest working class neighborhood. In this working class neighborhood there is a local grocer. The grocer's son Kikuna Oto happens to be a budding musician, but lacks the drive to truly succeed. That is until Uta Naruse comes into his life...
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-20
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Self and Others
Overview: In 1983, photographer Gocho Shigeo met an early death at the young age of 36. The view we see reflected in Gocho’s photographic images has become more profound over time since his death and has struck a chord in people’s hearts. While focusing on Gocho’s collection of photographs Self and Others, the film also visits places associated with him, creating a collage with the manuscripts, letters, photographs and voice recordings remaining in an attempt to capture “one more gesture”—a theme pursued by Gocho through photographic expression. This film is neither a critical biography nor a monograph on the photographer. Rather, we are offered a new perception. As if mesmerized, the photographs Gocho left behind captivate us in their gaze.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-28
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Sometimes Repentance
Overview: The latest film by Tetsuya Nakashima. Based on the novel by Bunzo Uchikai.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-06-01
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