Sayuri Kokusho
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: December 22, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Eureka
Overview: In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-18
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Like a Beast
Overview: This work further strengthens the neo-chimpira line of Toei V-Cinema which has a reputation for being more powerful than the movie.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-13
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Like a Beast
Overview: The second popular explosion! The man who aims at the top of the organization with indomitable fighting spirit has transformed into a ferocious beast! A powerful hero that shines like a comet!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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Completed Like a Beast
Overview: Kenji Takeda is back after five years in prison. In the meantime, the yakuza society has disappeared and has been transformed into a world of betrayal!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-12
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Chūzai keiji SP 2017
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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草津・殺しのトライアングル
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-13
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The Men Who Made Ultraman
Overview: A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-21
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Benkei
Overview: At the end of the Heian period, Musashibo Benkei, a warrior monk who hated the Heike clan, was humiliated by his fellow monks and left the mountain monastery. Soon, Benkei competes with the Heike warriors on the Gojo Bridge in Kyoto and takes away their swords. One night he tried to stop a young man who had a beautiful sword on his belt and fought him, but he could not win. Knowing that this young man Ushiwakamaru (Minamoto no Yoshitsune) is looking for an opportunity to overthrow the Heike clan, Benkei asks him to let him join him.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-01-04
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Falling into the Evening
Overview: Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she caused during a shoot for a commercial in which Kengo's good friend, Shibata, nearly lost his life. The memory of this event weighs heavily on Rica's conscience. One night Kengo tells Rica that he has fallen in love with a charming but inscrutable woman named Hanako.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-07
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Catastrophe
Overview: A Salaryman in Hokkaido heads to Tokyo for his daughters wedding, but the fun is just beginning,,,
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-16
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The Goblin of Mt. Kurama
Overview: The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades in hand, searching for pockets of resistance, slaughtering the samurai who sought to bring down the shogunate and restore Japan’s emperor to power. By chance, Murao Mayumi and his sister Shiho, meet samurai Kurata. Murao, seeking his fortune with his sword-arm, will join Shinsengumi, never suspecting his friend Kurata is secretly Kurama Tengu, who hides his face in a black hood, and who will tear a bloody swath through Shinsengumi’s massed blades, to aid the samurai who had taken up the emperor’s cause. Will friend kill friend in a time of war?
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-09
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One Bowl of Kakesoba
Overview: Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New Year's day, a haggard-looking mother and her two adorable moppets poke their heads into the restaurant and ask for a single bowl of kakesoba. Noticing that the trio is looking a little low in the heels, she puts in an extra scoop of noodles. The youngest boy declares that the soba is delicious. The next year, the same threesome appears again asking for one bowl of kakesoba. This time the old man dumps in two helpings. He is struck by how much the youngest looks like their own son who was hit by a truck three years previous. The following year, the three return and this time the mother tells her story...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-02-15
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Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!
Overview: The story revolves around a hardcore Onyanko Club fanatic who decides he wants to kill the girls to prevent the young, cute idols from getting old and married - in a sense, to preserve their youth for eternity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-23
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One Week Friends
Overview: High school student Yuki Hase wants to become close with classmate Kaori Fujimiya who is alway by herself. Kaori Fujimiya refuses to become close with Yuki Hase, because she forgets her friends every new Monday. Even though Kaori tells Yuki why she doesn't want to become friends, Yuki still wants to become close to her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-18
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Murder in the Kairotei
Overview: A woman (Takako Tokiwa) risks her life to exact revenge for her murdered lover.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-24
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Ellie My Love
Overview: Based on the comic by Mako Takami.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-11
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The Juliet Game
Overview: Romantic comedy about a school teacher.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-02-04
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Anthropologist Kumiko Misaki Murder Exam 6
Overview: Restaurant owner Kenji Nagata has been stabbed to death. When the police begin an investigation, a bag of human bones is discovered in Nagata's car and Detective Kajikawa asks anthropologist Kumiko Misaki to perform an examination. She discovers that the deceased was a man in his mid-twenties and that he died more than 15 years ago. Meanwhile, suspicion for Nagata's murder falls on his apprentice chef Ryohei Miyamura due to the murder weapon being a kitchen knife. Afterwards, Miyamura breaks into Kumiko's lab, but manages to escape...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-11
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Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
Overview: Nami, the young madam of a well-established hot spring hotel in Kotohira, is reunited with her childhood friend Kana who has come to participate in an art auction. However, when people with links to the auction start getting killed one after another, Nami sets out to find the criminal with her detective husband Ryohei.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-30
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Shinokubo Story
Overview: Chaejin works as a tour guide in Shin-Okubo while nurturing showbiz dreams. Meanwhile, talent agent Utako tries to think of ways to promote idols Gun Woo and JunQ, new arrivals from South Korea.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-16
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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata
Overview: Inspector Totsugawa of the First Investigation Division goes to Tsuruoka in Yamagata to attend the wedding of the son of Inspector Mukai, his former colleague who now works for the Yamagata Prefectural Police. While sightseeing at Mt. Haguro after the ceremony, he notices a young woman drawing him in her sketchbook. She introduces herself as Yuka Shiraishi and says she came to draw the Dewa Sanzan. Signing the drawing of Totsugawa next to the five-story pagoda with her initial, a 'Y' in the corner, she gives it to him as a present. The next morning, the corpse of a young woman who has been stabbed is discovered in a forest in Tsuruoka. When Totsugawa, on his way back, hears that a sketchbook signed with a 'Y' was found at the scene, he follows Mukai there. However, the body is not Yuka, the woman Totsugawa had met, and while no items pointing to her identity are found, the sketchbook is the same one Yuka had the day before.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-09-20
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西村京太郎スペシャル 日本一周「旅号」殺人事件
Overview: Hiroshi Hamano, a professor at a medical university, is found dead. Going by the results of the autopsy, it appears he committed suicide by jumping off a roof, but going by eyewitness testimony and physical evidence at the scene, Detective Kamei suspects murder. A ticket for a train trip around Japan is found in the professor's pocket. However, nobody then could have known the shocking truth hidden behind the tour the dead man was supposed to attend...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-20
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Fururi
Overview: Chinatsu is a 28-year-old office worker who lives life on auto-pilot, until a mysterious boy appears to her. He tells her that if she answers five riddles, he will make her dreams come true.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-01
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2011 Spring Special
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Genres: TV Movie Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-05-14
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Shin Kyoto Meikyu Annai SP
Overview: Twenty-five years after Tajima, an unfairly treated office worker, filed a lawsuit for the company's collusion, he won the Supreme Court in reverse. Sugiura, who learned this from TV news, celebrates by himself. Twenty-five years ago, Sugiura, who was still a national newspaper reporter, had the history of interviewing Tajima and his wife Midori first and writing an article.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-04
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Tokyo Bordello
Overview: In 1908, a ruined businessman is forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owners of the brothel have hopes to make her a great new addition which will attract the richest of customers. But after several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-29
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