Takuma Otoo
Also Known As: 오토오 타쿠마, Takuma Otoo
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hokkaido, Japan
Birthday: March 21, 1976
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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After School
Overview: A middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura, disappears. Then, a hired private detective appears and ask Jinno's help to find Kimura.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-24
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Sensuikan Cappellini-gou no bouken
Overview: Based on a real story during WWII where Japanese naval soldiers met Italians who were in the submarine Comandante Cappellini used to transport strategic materials to and from Japan.
Genres: Drama War Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-03
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Howl's Moving Castle
Overview: Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-09
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Dare to Stop Us
Overview: In Spring 1969, 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film director Koji Wakamatsu gathers there with young talented people who are all fascinated with movie making. When they are not making movies, they spend their time smoking, drinking alcohol, scouting for actresses and looking for material for their next film. When filming begins, everybody immerses themselves into the production and will do everything on the filming set from running, shouting to acting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-13
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TEAM NACS FILMS N43°
Overview: TEAM NACS tries out film directing for the first time! Introducing 'N43°'! From Hokkaido to you - a message card from the five members of TEAM NACS. Each member has written and directed a different short movie for this 5 movie omnibus, where the keyword is their beloved native island of 'Hokkaido'! Witness each of their individual creative skills, and watch as their unique perspectives are put on display. Every part of these 5 stories, down to the themes, casts and genres, varies greatly in order to give you a continuously engaging and fun viewing experience! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be shocked, moved and refreshed by this new film series!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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Yatsuhakamura
Overview: During the Sengoku period, villagers brutally killed eight samurai, and in the Taisho era, the head of an old family murdered 32 villagers in the Eight-Tomb Village. Terada Tatsuya, who had long been estranged from the Terada family, returns as its successor. However, this return is the beginning of a tragedy. Grandfather, half-brother, monks, nuns... one after another, people related to the family are murdered. Yet, the truth remains elusive. In the midst of this, Tatsuya stumbles into a massive cave system. What he sees there is a wax figure of the head of the Terada family wearing the samurai armor. Meanwhile, Kindaichi, who has uncovered the secret of Tatsuya's birth, finds himself at the same cave. At that very moment, Tatsuya is cornered deep within the cave by villagers who fear the curse.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2014 Fall Special
Overview: An omnibus special comprised of five segments.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Science Fiction Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-18
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The Sunday Runoff
Overview: A comedy about how the world of politics really works! Tsutomu is a secretary for a member of the Japanese Parliament. After the latter suffers a heart attack, his daughter Yumi is chosen to fill his place in the next election because she seems easy to control. However, her unpredictable behavior soon throws the campaign out of control.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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Once Hit the Bottom
Overview: Tachibana was once in the limelight as a nature photographer famous for a TV program following his adventure but forced into debts from his agency. Alone and without dreams, he abandons his camera and spends his life paying off the debts. But one day, from taking a photo of his mother's friend, his life with a camera starts moving again. Tachibana, now in 40s, starts a studio at a share residence and seeks for his resurrection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-08
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Lesson in Murder
Overview: Masaya is a university student, but he attends a school that's not his ideal school. His days are generally gloomy. One day, he receives a letter from serial killer Haimura. He was convicted for nine murders and received the death penalty. Back when Haimura was committing his murders, he ran a bakery store. At that time, Masaya was a middle-school student and a customer at his bakery store. According to the letter, Haimura confesses to having committed eight murders, but he insists that he did not commit the last murder. Masaya begins to investigate the last murder case involving Haimura.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-06
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Shimoarai kyōdai no supuringu, hazu, kamu
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-04
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man-hole
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-03
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Torihada 2: yofukashi no anata ni zotto suru hanashi wo
Overview: For no apparent reason, four strangers find themselves with a rope around their necks, balancing on an unstable chair. They will quickly realize that each of them has the code to remove the padlock blocking the rope of their left neighbour. But just when they were about to exchange the codes, one of the four people will make a revelation with serious consequences...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-27
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Whisper of the Heart
Overview: Shizuku Tsukishima is a 3rd grade middle school student. She likes reading books. Shizuku meets Seiji Amasawa who is in the same grade and school that Shizuku attends. At first, she does not like him, but she becomes fascinated with his pursuit of his dream. Seiji also knows Shizuku's dream is to become a novelist. They vow to each other to achieve their dreams. Ten years later, Shizuku gave up her dream of becoming a novelist and now works as an editor for a publishing company that specializes in children's books. She struggles in her daily life at work. Meanwhile, Seiji is abroad and still pursuing his dream.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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Anniversary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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When Marnie Was There
Overview: Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
Genres: Animation Drama Family Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-19
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One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia
Overview: The Foxy Pirates challenge Luffy’s crew in the New World, but the fun and games go belly-up when the Navy’s most brilliant tactician steps in. Before the Straw Hats even know what hit them, they wind up on the island of Nebulandia, an infamous death trap for Devil Fruit users. Luffy must team up with his Davy Back nemesis for a harrowing rescue mission when Zoro, Sanji, and some Foxy Pirates are held hostage!
Genres: Action Animation Adventure Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-20
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THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY
Overview: Oda Nobunaga and Nōhime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil and water, making for a somewhat unhappy marriage. When Oda's enemy, Imagawa Yoshimoto, attacks Owari with his vast army, Oda is devastated by the overwhelming gap in military strength. However, Nohime encourages him not to despair, and the pair draw up a tactical plan that will allow them to overcome the odds.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-27
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The Rakugo Movie
Overview: Rakugo Eiga is a film featuring Japan's traditional art, 'rakugo' as its theme. It is a modern adaptation of three rakugo tales presented in three short films.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-06
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My Home Hero the Movie
Overview: Seven years have passed since family man Tetsuo Tosu survived a fierce battle with a criminal organization. However, Tetsuo's peaceful family life begins to crumble once again when a sudden landslide uncovers an old sin.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-08
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Bushido
Overview: Kakunoshin Yanagida (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) was a samurai, but he was forced out of the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived in poverty with his daughter Kinu (Kaya Kiyohara). Despite being poor, he never gave up his pride and honor that he held as a samurai. Even when playing the board game Go, which is his hobby, he always plays in a fair manner. Because of a case, the truth behind the false accusation is revealed. Kakunoshin Yanagida is shaken and filled with rage. He decides to take revenge, even if it means he will be torn from his daughter.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-17
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Gene Waltz
Overview: Doctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in a challenging environment with clinics shutting down due to lack of doctors and the system itself breaking down. Dr. Rie then helps an infertile woman conceive with a surrogate mother which is prohibited in Japan...
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-05
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Terminal
Overview: The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a motion picture. A lawyer burdened with an inexpiable sin, and an accused woman who seals her past and keeps it a secret. In Kushiro, Hokkaido, the pair who chose a faraway town as the terminal station of their lives encounters and develops a moving drama by starting new lives. Koichi Sato enters new territory his performance, while Tsubasa Honda plays a serious character which creates a new image for herself. Machiko Ono, Shidou Nakamura, Shigeru Izumiya and other talented cast members join in the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-07
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Moriyamachu Driving School
Overview: Kiyotaka Sato (Shuhei Nomura) is a university student. He is sociable, but he looks like he doesn't have interest in those around him. During his summer vacation, Kiyotaka Sato plans to get his driver's license to impress schoolmate Matsuda (Yukino Kishii). At this time, a yakuza boss (Ken Mitsuishi) orders Todoroki (Kento Kaku) to get his driver’s license. Todoroki doesn't show his feelings outwardly. Later, Todoroki drives a car without a driver’s license and he hits Kiyotaka Sato. To cover up the accident, Kiyotaka Sato is placed in a car and taken to away. He arrives at an unofficial driving school. The driving school is run by the Uehara family. There, Kiyotaka Sato and Todoroki learn that they graduated from the same high school. They spend their summer at the driving school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-09
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What if Tokugawa Ieyasu Becomes Prime Minister
Overview: In the year 2020, when Covid-19 is rapidly spreading around the world, chaos ensues and people's daily lives are completely upended. A virus outbreak suddenly occurs at the prime minister's office in Japan. This leads to the prime minister's sudden death. The Japanese government then puts in place an unprecedented plan, which is to bring back the greatest leaders from Japan's past through AI holograms and form a super cabinet with them. These famous individuals include Ieyasu Tokugawa (Mansai Nomura), Ryoma Sakamoto, Nobunaga Oda, and Hideyoshi Toyotomi. People are stunned and at the same time go crazy over the endless execution of policies by this new legendary cabinet. Risa Nishimura (Minami Hamabe) wants to become an announcer and currently works as a TV reporter for a broadcasting station. She approaches a government spokesperson, Ryoma Sakamoto (Eiji Akaso), for an exclusive scoop. Due to an unexpected case, she realizes that something is going on behind this cabinet.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-07-26
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11 Rebels
Overview: Set in the mid-19th century, this period action film centers on 11 prisoners who are ordered to defend a fortress from the government’s army so their past crimes will be forgiven.
Genres: Action Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-01
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Gold Medal Man
Overview: Senichi was born in 1964, when the entire nation was excited about the Tokyo Olympics. As an elementary student, Senichi won a footrace and got a taste of what winning felt like. Since then, Senichi takes part in various competitions including drawing and usually wins. He keeps struggling to win gold medals at competitions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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Twisted Justice
Overview: Starting in 1970s Hokkaido, the film charts the moral descent of Detective Moroboshi over three decades, the young cop quickly gets a bit too cozy with the other side of the law when his senior colleague Murai teaches him the ropes and ruts of the police business. Soon, he swaggers and rants through the streets of Sapporo a lean, mean, sex‐crazy bully, indistinguishable from a yakuza.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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Dawn of the Felines
Overview: A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-14
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Sekigahara
Overview: The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-26
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Shield of Straw
Overview: Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-25
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Risking it All: The Spirit of the Men in Orange
Overview: Yamakura of the Kobe Fire Department aspires to wear the vaunted “orange” uniform of an elite rescue force that only 3% of all firefighters can attain. But to do so, he and his fellow trainees must suffer through the most rigorous training. As Yamakura and his fellow trainees grit their teeth and complain, their superior officer, Sakurai, impresses upon them the lessons of the Great Hanshin Earthquake (Kobe Earthquake) 20 years ago as “the only time we ever lost.” What happened on the front lines of rescue that day and in the aftermath? What raced through the hearts and minds of rescuers as they tried to get a handle on unimaginable disaster? The shocking facts pour from Sakurai’s mouth in hopes of preparing the recruits for the unforgettable event that awaits them.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-19
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Sunny
Overview: It has been 14 years since the murder of an elementary school student by a classmate. At the time, Akari was deified by the name Sunny, "the cutest murderer in criminal history". Two men, abduct Akari. Holding her captive, they upload pictures and video of her on the internet. Meanwhile, Akari makes every effort to escape from her prison.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-17
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The Blood of Wolves
Overview: Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-12
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Killing for the Prosecution
Overview: Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office that deals with violent cases, where he will work with Takeshi Mogami, whom he admires. When a money lender is killed and it is suspected that someone from Mogami’s past is the perpetrator, the team prepares to do his best in order to prove the alleged criminal’s guilt.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-24
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Whistleblower
Overview: A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-01
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Talking the Pictures
Overview: Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a performer that provides live narration to silent films.
Genres: Comedy History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-12-13
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Blade of the Immortal
Overview: Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine.
Genres: Action Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-29
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Sea of Revival
Overview: After a man gets fired from his work at a printing plant, he moves with his couple to her hometown in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. There, the woman opens up a beauty salon. They enjoy peaceful days, but small problems occur which leads to an irrevocable situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-28
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River
Overview: Five old friends meet again at a school reunion and discuss their painful memories. The friends then run into an old acquaintance who was an exchange student. The exchange student tells the friends about a new drug able to erase memories, but they have to steal it from his factory ...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-29
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One Night
Overview: A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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Love x Doc
Overview: Asuka Goda is a 40-year-old pastry chef who runs a sweets store. She works with pastry chef Seiya Hanada, who is younger than her, and Kenichi Gonda, who wants to become a pastry chef. One day, Seiya Hanada confesses to Asuka Goda about his feelings for her. Her situation brings back bad memories to what happened 5 years earlier. At that time, Asuka Goda was in an affair with store owner Junji Awai and also in a relationship with gym trainer Shunsuke Nomura. Asuka Goda decides to go to mysterious "Clinic Love Doc." The clinic lets people know everything about love with a gene test.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-11
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Stolen Identity 2
Overview: A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the truth. He goes to see serial killer Yoshiharu Urano in prison.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-21
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WARRIOR ~唄い続ける侍ロマン
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-21
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Silver Rain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-28
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Last of the Wolves
Overview: After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one evil person who gets released from prison, the situation drastically changes.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-20
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
Overview: In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge.
Genres: Action Adventure History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-23
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Demon City
Overview: Framed for his family's murder and left for dead, an ex-hitman will stop at nothing to exact revenge on the masked "demons" who have taken over his city.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-02-26
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