Hidekazu Mashima
Also Known As: Mashi, 眞島秀和, 마시마 히데카즈, 真岛秀和, ましま ひでかず
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: November 13, 1976
Age: 48 years old
Gender: Male
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Hakutaka Shirataka Amane no Investigation File
Overview: A corpse of a clown is found in a park. Detective Shirataka Amane of Musashino Higashi Police Station begins investigating with rookie detective Uzuka Shinsaku. They find a picture of the victim holding a balloon with the number 1 and the letters TTX on social media which indicates pufferfish poisoning. Shirataka intuitively suspects that this is an incriminating statement done by a serial killer, but Chief Investigator Fukukawa Saeko denies her. Detective Kusano Seiya and other personnel of MPD First Investigative Division join the investigation, then a second murder occurs. Shirataka recalls an unsolved kidnapping and murder case from two years ago that she still regrets.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-22
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Chuushingura Sono Gi Sono Ai
Overview: Chuushingura from the perspective of Horibe Yasubee.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-02
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Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri
Overview: Third installment of the Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 11 films made under the conditions: "the main character must be a detective" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes" "at least five gags must be included"
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-24
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Swan's Song
Overview: Mina and Mizuki sisters attended a ballet class in Tokyo. One day, the sisters return home separately, but younger sister, Mizuki, is kidnapped on the way home and discovered as a corpse. On that day, Mina blames herself for returning home, leaving her sister to practice ballet staying. Her mother, Teruko, is also very upset by the news of the discovery of her body, causing deep emotional wounds. The incident was featured on a variety show, and the mother and daughter, who couldn't stand the curiosity of the world, moved to a quiet country town far from the city. Although they started a new life, Teruko is bullied by a mysterious mad woman and Mina is bullied at school. And a mysterious murder case occurs again around them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-09
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実録ドラマスペシャル 女の犯罪ミステリー
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-17
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Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final
Overview: Movie based on the Emergency Interrogation Room series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
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Beauty
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-10
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Love Like the Falling Petals
Overview: Haruto Asakura falls in love with hairdresser Misaki Ariake and asks her out. Watching Misaki Ariake work hard to achieve what she wants, Haruto Asakura, who almost gave up his dream to become a photographer, begins to pursue his dream again, but Misaki Ariake is diagnosed with a disease that ages her 10x faster than normal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-24
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Following the Sound
Overview: Haru, a bookstore clerk, talks to Yukiko pretending to ask for directions. Haru has detected deep sorrow on Yukiko's face. Meanwhile, Haru has been spending days following Tsuyoshi discretely and checking his expressions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-01-05
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The War of Announcers
Overview: Dramatization of The Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) and its announcers activities to support the Japanese military's fight during the war. Based on the facts, depicts the hidden relationship between broadcasting and the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-14
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What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
Overview: A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.
Genres: Comedy Drama Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-02-04
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The Last Three Times We'll Meet
Overview: A love story woven by a loveless mistrust girl, Kaede Tamaki who works for a small video production company, and a mysterious young man Seishiro who is attracted by her . Satomi Oshima and Kentaro Hagiwara, who also teamed up for the currently released movie "30 Minutes to Sayonara", were responsible for the script and directing, respectively.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-31
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In Love and Deep Water
Overview: On a massive luxury cruise ship while at sea, the loyal butler and a mysterious woman cross paths as they try to uncover a murder-mystery that occurs on the ship.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-16
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Bayside Shakedown 2
Overview: The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins taking place, Aoshima jumps at the opportunity to pursue something other than his current case, which he finds less than inspiring. However the powers that be have other ideas, and Wangan again plays host to a special investigation team from headquarters. Aoshima's friend Superintendent Shinji Muroi, assigned by headquarters to assist Okita, is again powerless to help the local officers as decisions are made by the higher ups.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-19
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The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Overview: A university student finds himself wrapped up in the bizarre world of his next door neighbor, learning about his history and relationship with a girl who changed his life.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-23
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Yodaka's Star
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-22
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Switch
Overview: Prosecutor Komazuki Nao from the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors Office’s Minato Mirai branch and lawyer Tsutaya Madoka (Matsu Takako) from the law firm Yokohama Gold dated for seven years since the time they were in school. Even after they broke up, they have continued to be hopelessly linked to each other.
Genres: Crime Romance Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-21
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海の見える理髪店
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-09
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The Dog won't Eat it, but Charlie Laughs
Overview: Tamura Yujiro and Hiyori have been married for four years. They look like a happily married couple, but, Hiyori secretly badmouths her husband on social media page "Husband Death Note."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-23
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It's in the Woods
Overview: Set in an actual forest said to be rife with supernatural phenomena, this next-gen horror film is based on witness accounts of people who saw "It" and the protagonists’ encounter with the mysterious "It".
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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Chong
Overview: A spirited and brave fiction debut by Lee Sang-il, a Korean-Japanese filmmaker, that explores the taboo subject of the relations between Korean immigrants and Japanese in Japan.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-01
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Villon's Wife
Overview: This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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Hero
Overview: After six years away, D.A. Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) returns to his former Josai branch of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, just in time for a brewing storm. Kohei's first case starts out simple enough. The suspect, a blonde-haired security guard, had already confessed to manslaughter, but he suddenly retracts his confession and takes things to court with big-shot defense attorney Gamo (Matsumoto Koshiro). It turns out that the security guard is a key alibi witness in a high-profile political corruption case, and the results of his case will directly affect the next. With the media, politicians, and a special investigative team breathing down his back, Kohei must handle the case with care (and flair) to find out the truth.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-08
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Portrait of the Wind
Overview: Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s fatal heart attack. One day at the family photo studio, he finds a kindred spirit in Ayako and the requisite sparks fly between them. The initial portions of the film deal with their budding romance, and it isn’t long before the two become a serious couple, and Ayako is pregnant with Tamio’s child.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-15
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R246 STORY
Overview: The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.7 kilometers long Route 246 passes through Japanese trendsetting areas such as Aoyama, Omotesando, Harajuku, and Shibuya, on its way to Numazu City in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-23
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Welcome to Our Home
Overview: Kenta Kurata (Masaki Aiba) lives with his father, Taichi (Akira Terao), his mother, Keiko (Kaho Minami), and his younger sister, Nana (Kasumi Arimura) in an isolated home in the suburbs. He works as an unpopular commercial designer. Kenta Kurata possesses a timid personality, which he picked up from his father. Kenta doesn't like his father. One day, while waiting for the train, Kenta warns a man who pushed a woman and cut in line. Kenta is surprised that he spoke out with his normally timid personality. After that incident, Kenta's family home is targeted by an unknown person with flowers from their garden being pulled out and the seat of a bicycle being torn. Also, Kenta's younger sister Nana is stalked by her ex-boyfriend. Kenta and his family try to find out who is responsible.
Genres: Drama Mystery Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-13
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The Broken Commandment
Overview: At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his hometown to serve as an elementary school teacher where he excels and is loved by his students. But he constantly struggles with the secret of his low-birth status and is disturbed by all of the discrimination levelled upon his class. It prevents him from pursuing a romance with Shiho, whom he meets at the temple where he resides, but who descends from a samurai family.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-08
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One Missed Call 2
Overview: A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can the police stop it if it's a ghost?
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-05
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Overview: Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-10
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A Stranger of Mine
Overview: In one long Friday evening, Takeshi Miyata, a straight-arrow businessman, will encounter a number of people (some only fleetingly) who have intertwining fates.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-16
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Fish Story
Overview: A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" that is foretold to save the world. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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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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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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Hula Girls
Overview: Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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Route 225
Overview: Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are the same as in their own world, but their parents are missing from home and are only contactable when using one particular phonecard.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-11
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Reincarnation
Overview: A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-27
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Rainbow Song
Overview: Tomoya Kishida is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his close friend, Aoi Sato. This sparks his recollection of the events in life they shared from meeting at a record store, shooting a short film as part of their university film club, to saying their last goodbyes. Though in love with each other, neither had the courage to confess their feelings before it was too late.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-28
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Scrap Heaven
Overview: The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky, then cross paths again months later.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-08
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Walking With The Dog
Overview: Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who's loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace in the dog, whom he calls Tamura, and uses it to mend fences with his ex, who's distracted by her mother's debilitating illness. A trip to a hospital reveals Tamura's ability to comfort dying patients, leading to dog and master attending the real-life Japanese Therapy Dogs training school.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-27
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Double Suicide Elegy
Overview: Mashiro works for a law firm in Kagurazaka. It takes 2 hours for him to commute one way. Kyoko works at the counter in a real-estate agency in Yurakucho. It takes 2 1/2 hours for her to commute one way. They meet each other in a 'double-suicide room' in Nishi-Shinjuku on a pre-arranged day. They are in love and planning to die together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-26
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SP: The Motion Picture Pre Episode VI
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-05
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Will You Marry My Wife?
Overview: Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He decides to concentrate on the future of his beloved family. Shuji Mimura's final plan is to find the best man to marry his wife Ayako.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-05
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The 11 Words Murder
Overview: A series of suspicious deaths, starting with that of her boyfriend Kawazu Masayuki, prompts mystery novelist Yuki Rikako to investigate. She discovers that all the victims were once passengers on the same cruise ship a year ago and involved in an accident that left one man dead. Rikako must find out what really happened during that outing before more casualties result.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-10
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Pla-Baroque
Overview: Yu Kuroha, a female detective from the Kanagawa PD Mobile Unit, discovers bodies of fourteen men and women frozen to death in a rental container. When the wills of the dead persons were found, her boss decides to treat the case as a simple group suicide. But Kuroha persists that they have to find the leader who assisted this mass murder. She finds out that the number of wills outnumbers the bodies by one. One person did not commit suicide…! Kuroha is a skilled sniper but also a delicate woman who takes refuge in cyberspace. The drama portrays her gaining maturity as a person and a detective by solving the mystery of a group suicide by standing against the mastermind of the case.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-22
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Justice is Blind: The Moving Tale of a Vision-Impaired Lawyer
Overview: Based on the writings of a true life, vision-impaired lawyer comes a story about a blind man who manages to pass the extremely difficult bar exam and earn his lawyer’s license. Long desiring to help the weak, Kensuke Okochi gets a job at an attorney’s office while he and his wife, also blind, look forward to their first child. When a plaintiff in a divorce case decides to withdraw from litigation, Kensuke worries at first that it has to do with his own perceived inadequacies as a lawyer, but a few days later, he is visited by the female plaintiff, Satomi, showing injuries to her body. While it appears an open and shut case of domestic violence with an audio recording as proof, Kensuke detects a “certain scent” coming from the plaintiff which gives him pause as to her real intentions.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-01
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Once Again Sugar & Spice: Case 3
Overview: Case 3 tells the story of Mika, a young woman who after being cheated on gives up on falling in love ever again. However, Yuta, a coworker at her new part-time job beings to make Mika rethink her decision.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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Butterfly Sleep
Overview: Ryoko Matsumura is a popular writer in her 50's. She also knows that she has Alzheimer’s. Ryoko Matsumura begins to teach at a university. She meets a young Korean man in his 20's. They become attracted to each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-12
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Restaurant from the Sky
Overview: Wataru, his woman Kotoe and daughter Shiori are ranchers and dairy farmers in Hokkaido in northern Japan. He is following in his father's footsteps. A visiting chef cooks an unforgettable meal with his ingredients, which prompts the family to open their own restaurant and reproduce the magic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-25
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Mystery Trilogy Special
Overview: This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-30
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Majutsu wa Sasayaku
Overview: A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly begin to die one by one. Kazuko learns that one of those deaths is somehow connected to Mamoru (Nakamura Aoi), her younger brother from whom she has been separated ever since their father disappeared 15 years earlier. Although Mamoru knows nothing of his sister, Kazuko is determined to find the killer in order to protect Mamoru and herself.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Have a Song on Your Lips
Overview: A young piano prodigy, Yuri Kashiwagi, returns to her hometown after several years and joins a middle school to mentor the choir group.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-28
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Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Overview: Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
Overview: Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-09-13
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Make a Bow and Kiss
Overview: Mikami Yota is smitten with the archery of his older schoolmate Kishimoto, a high school senior who heads the archery club. Mikami clumsily conveys his ardent feelings to An, and she tries to respond to his affections. Their feelings are mutual but somehow things don't go smoothly between them, and then other guys appear on the scene to complicate things.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-11
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Hyouka: Forbidden Secrets
Overview: Energy-conservative high school student Houtarou Oreki ends up with more than he bargained for when he signs up for the Classics Club at his sister's behest—especially when he realizes how deep-rooted the club's history really is. Begrudgingly, Oreki is dragged into an investigation concerning the 45-year-old mystery that surrounds the club room. Accompanied by his fellow club members, the knowledgeable Satoshi Fukube, the stern but benign Mayaka Ibara, and the ever-curious Eru Chitanda, Oreki must combat deadlines and lack of information with resourcefulness and hidden talent, in order to not only find the truth buried beneath the dust of works created years before them, but of other small side cases as well.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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Good Bye, Talking Dog
Overview: Reiko teaches at an acting school while working as an actress. Her career has stalled, but she gets a chance to appear in a feature film from a theater group friend who is now a famous actor. Reiko is elated, but then she gets a call from her mother Yukie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-11
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Sniper
Overview: Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in an undercover operation that puts her at risk. Her achievement immediately becomes the talk of the precinct, but no one approaches her because of her past. Ryoko is determined to bring criminals to justice. She takes on “The Prime Ministerial Candidate Snipe Case” which took place 15 years earlier.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-02
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Ossan's Love: Love or Dead
Overview: The story takes place after the TV drama series Ossan's Love (2018). It's been a year since Haruta and Maki pledged their undying love. Haruta has now come back and receives a warm welcome from familiar faces, his boss Musashi Kurosawa and other colleagues. Justice Yamada, a recruit who has been recently assigned to this branch, welcomes him too. One day, completely out of the blue, the headquarter-based project team "Genius 7" shows up at the Second Sales Branch. Project leader Jin Mamiana orders the Sales team to support them in their big project. Maki, who had been transferred and works now at the head office, is among the project team members with Mamiana. Haruta and Maki grow apart, and Haruta teams up with Justice. Then Kurosawa gets involved in an accident and loses his memory, but the loss of his memory is selective and he has forgotten only Haruta. However, when Kurosawa sees Haruta, he falls in love again.. Hilarious and heartwarming, the final battle of Ossan's Love begins.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-08-23
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Swing Girls
Overview: A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's brass band.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-11
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Gomu
Overview: A short film tie-in for One Missed Call 2 by the film's director Renpai Tsukamoto
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-04
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Traces of Sin
Overview: Tanaka is going through a tough time trying to support his younger sister Mitsuko, recently arrested and hold up in jail. As an investigative reporter, he immerses himself into a story about a shocking murder case gone cold; a family was brutally murdered a year ago and the case remains unsolved.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-18
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The Wind in Your Heart
Overview: Video artist Ryosuke visits the suburb of Furano in Hokkaido, where his friend lives, in order to shoot a video. His car breaks down and Ryosuke decides to walk to a house and ask for a phone. The person that opens the door is his former girlfriend and first love Haruka. They meet for the first time in 23 years. Even though Ryosuke knows that she is married, he takes her to his video shooting and they get close. Ryosuke leaves Hokkaido in 2 days and he asks Haruka to spend one more day with him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-17
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Be in Happiness
Overview: Against the backdrop of Hime Island in the Genkai Sea, the film calmly depicts the daily life of the island woven by a pure-hearted young man aspiring to become an actor, a mediocre actor who comes from the city to instruct him in acting, and the unique islanders.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-30
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Ju-on: The Grudge 2
Overview: When the cast and crew of a paranormal TV reality program decide to shoot in the house of the original Saeki hauntings, a series of strange events unfold at the location.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-15
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Silver Rain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-28
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The Door into Summer
Overview: A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-25
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Listen to the Universe
Overview: Four pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is a former child prodigy who stopped playing when her mother died. One is a Julliard student. One is a new face and yet comes recommended.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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Omotenashi
Overview: Cultures meet and values are learnt through the renovation of an inn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-03
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Little Kyota Neon Hood
Overview: Since the great earthquake, Kyota, a 12-year-old boy who lives in Kiryu, never takes off his disaster prevention hood. He's looking forward to having a conversation in Katakoto English with his favorite foreign English teacher Tim, who has returned to town. One day, a woman named Molly comes from the United States. Kyota and his friends were excited by visitors from overseas, but there was a serious problem.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-01
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Torihada 3~ Yofukashi no anata ni zokutto suru hanashi wo
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-02
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A Man
Overview: Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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The Boy and the Dog
Overview: New Takahisa Zeze movie, adaptation of the book "Shonen to Inu." To be released in Spring 2025.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-03-20
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The Yin Yang Master Zero
Overview: During the Heian period, Abe no Seimei trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration with Minamoto no Hiromasa arises to solve a strange phenomenon.
Genres: Fantasy History Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-04-19
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Fugitive Joichiro Kijima
Overview: This work is a spin-off drama from the film " Negotiator: Mashita Masayoshi ," which was released in May 2005 as a spin- off project "Dancing Legend Movie" of the drama " Bayside Shakedown," which was broadcast on Fuji TV in 1997. The story revolves around Inspector Kijima Joichiro, played by Terajima Susumu , who appeared in "Negotiator: Mashita Masayoshi" as the field commander of the special crime investigation unit chasing the suspect on the ground. In the story's chronology, this work takes place before "Negotiator: Mashita Masayoshi," and the final scene of "Fugitive: Kijima Joichiro" leads directly into the opening scene of "Negotiator: Mashita Masayoshi."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-10
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My Beloved Stranger
Overview: Riku Kambayashi was a university student, who wanted to become a novel writer. Minami Maezono was a university student, who wanted to become a singer. They fell in love at first sight and married while they were university students. Now, Riku has achieved his dream of becoming a bestselling writer, but Minami hasn’t achieved her dream of becoming a singer. Minami somehow feels disconnected from her husband, who is busy with his work. One day, a comment by Riku triggers a big argument between them. When Riku wakes up the next morning, he finds that Minami is nowhere to be found. He goes to the publisher for a meeting, but he figures out that he now works as an editor of a literary magazine. More surprisingly, Minami is active as a popular singer-songwriter. Riku is confused by everything that has changed, but he gets busy to get his life back.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-02-28
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His Bad Blood
Overview: From a first feature director Koichiro Oyama who worked as an assistant director for Hideo Nakata's "Kaidan" (2007), the film is about a man with crime records living with his own son without knowing their real relationship. Starring Ikkei Watanabe "Suspect X", the film won Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival's Audience Award, whose last year's winner was a smash hit zombie film "One Cut of the Dead".
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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Visas for Life
Overview: World Wat II broke out shortly after diplomat Chiune Sugihara was assigned to Lithuania. Nazi Germany occupied the western half of Poland and began persecuting the Jews. Lithuania was then annexed by the Soviet Union, and the Japanese consulate was ordered to close. Meanwhile, Jewish refugees who had fled Poland flocked to the Japanese consulate, requesting the issuance of Japanese transit visas. Chiune repeatedly sent telegrams to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting permission to issue visas to the Jewish refugees, but received a final notice that the visas could not be issued. However, with only a month left until the departure deadline, Chiune decided to defy the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' orders and issued visas to the Jewish refugees...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-11
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