Maki Sakai
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Maki Sakai (坂井 真紀) (born 17 May 1970 in Taito, Tokyo) is a Japanese actress. The fourth rehouse girl of Mitsui, she has starred in a number of TV drama series such as Daburu kitchin (1993) and Watashi no unmei (1994). She is a graduate of Jumonji Junior College.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Taito, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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The Water Flows to the Sea
Overview: High school student Naotatsu travels to live at his uncle's house. In the pouring rain, he is picked up at the nearest station by a strange adult woman named Sakaki who guides him to an unexpected share house where a life together begins.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-09
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United Red Army
Overview: Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into despotism, and the URA's leaders begin to arbitrarily persecute their followers, a harrowing ordeal that culminates in violence and murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-26
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Father of the Milky Way Railroad
Overview: Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and becomes obsessed with farming, jewelry and religion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-05-05
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OL忠臣蔵 Chu〜Shin Gura
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-13
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孤独のグルメ 大晦日スペシャル 京都・名古屋出張編
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-31
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Soup Opera
Overview: Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-02
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MY (K)NIGHT
Overview: Three women in Yokohama who have their own troubles and thoughts and are seeking salvation. They relied on the “date therapists” to heal the women, save the world, and be lovers for one night.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-01
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謎のFLYING SAUCER FAKE OR LOVE?
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Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-10
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謎のFLYING SAUCER 2
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Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-30
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The Samurai That Night
Overview: Five years after a hit-and-run accident kills his wife, a distraught metalworker comes face to face with the man behind the steering wheel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-17
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僕が笑うと
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-26
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Too Young To Die!
Overview: After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Music Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Overview: Set in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and fought against the Meiji Restoration.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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Let's Go Karaoke!
Overview: Satomi Oka is worried about his final choir competition but is accosted by a shadowy gangster, Kyouji Narita, who demands karaoke sessions with him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-01-12
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The Fallen Angel
Overview: The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide his alienation. He feels incapable of belonging to the human society, especially so by society's refusal to take him seriously. He then follows a descent into alcohol, drugs, & suicide ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-19
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I Am What I Am
Overview: Kasumi doesn't know what love is and she doesn't have any feeling of romance. Due to her sister's marriage, her mother arranged a formal marriage arrangement without her permission. At the meeting, she met a man who is just seeking a friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-16
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Analog
Overview: Satoru Mizushima is a designer, who prefers traditional things like handmade items and handwritten works. One day, he happens to meet a mysterious woman, Miyuki Miharu, at the cafe named Piano. She seems to have similar values to him and he is attracted to her. Satoru asks for Miyuki's cellphone number, but she doesn't own a cellphone. They make a promise to meet at the cafe every Thursday. Since then, Satoru and Miyuki meet every Thursday and their relationship develops romantically. Satoru decides to propose Miyuki, but she doesn't show up at the cafe.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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怪談新耳袋 〜幽霊屋敷と呼ばれた家〜
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Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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Mokka No Koibito
Overview: Japanese film directed by Jinsei Tsuji
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-30
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Acacia
Overview: "Acacia" revolves around Sekiji Ishida (Antonio Inoki) a former professional wrestler now a lonely retired man. Sekiji then strikes up a friendship with a reserved young boy.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-12
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Paris Tokyo Paysage
Overview: Junya and Nanami have been in a relationship for 15 years. They make a documentary together, but, due to differences of opinion, they decide to break up. Nanami stays in Tokyo, while Junya leaves for Paris to find inspiration for a new creation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-09
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Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai San Ya
Overview: The hotel room where he stayed on a business trip, where no one was supposed to be but him.......13 scary stories including "Another One".
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-31
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The Code
Overview: For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a group of stellar detectives lead by the genius code breaker Detective 507. When an unknown client enlists 507 to crack his most difficult programming code yet, the detective embarks for Shanghai where he crosses paths with a sniper, an informant, the head of the Blue-Dragon Mafia, and beautiful singer on the run, Meilan. As 507 stumbles deeper into a twisted quagmire of intrigue he discovers the sad truth behind the mystery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-09
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Non-ko
Overview: Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores. Her father is always in a stubborn rage, her mother is always trying to calm things down. However, Nonko’s married sister, who already has a daughter, scathingly says of Nonko, “It’s all over for her.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
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Green Mind, Metal Bats
Overview: The film follows Nanba, a shunned outcast who doesn’t have a girlfriend, any money or prospects, a turnaround from his glory days in high school when he played on the baseball team; his former teammate Ishioka, who is now a policeman because of an elbow injury; and baseball fanatic Eiko, a hopeless alcoholic who spends more of her time drunk than sober. The three share an intense love of baseball — and their destinies are forever intertwined.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-26
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Yûri
Overview: Masayuki meets Nanami, who is on a journey with a refrigerator named Ullie. Nanami's Iranian friend Amir is helping her haul the refrigerator which contains Nanami's dead boyfriend. Masayuki joins the journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-06
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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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Time Leap
Overview: Time travel film
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-07
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Maruyama, the Middle Schooler
Overview: Katsuya Maruyama is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimoi, a single father who moves into the same apartment complex. Tatsuo Shimoi is a bit of an enigma: he doesn't get along with the housewives in the apartment complex and doesn't appear to work. Through his encounter with the mysterious single father, Katsuya grows as a person.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-18
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Drop
Overview: "Drop" tells the story of a boy named Hiroshi Shinanogawa, who grew up in the 1980s. He became inspired by the Be-Bop High School manga and decided to become a delinquent. Hiroshi dropped out of a private middle school and transferred to a public school There he joins up with a delinquent gang.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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Kano
Overview: A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-27
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Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie
Overview: 8 short stories comprise this anthology movie, based on the Tales of Terror TV series. The segments are, in order: The Night Watchman (directed by Akio Yoshida), Wisps of Smoke (Kosuke Suzuki), Gloves (Hirohisa Sasaki), The Weight (Kosuke Suzuki), Full-Length Mirror (Ryuta Miyake), Line of Sight (Keisuke Toyoshima), The Promise (Keita Amemiya) and Hisao (Shun'ichi Hirano).
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-08-21
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Do Unto Others
Overview: A community is shocked when the bodies of an elderly man and the manager of a home-visit nursing centre are found. The passing of 42 elderly patients is connected to Shiba, a caretaker recognised for his affection and dedication.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-24
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After the Fever
Overview: Sanae, who went to prison after failing to kill her ex-boyfriend six years ago, meets Kenta, a forest ranger, and gets married. Sanae and Kenta's married life takes a new turn when the wife of Sanae's ex-boyfriend appears. Sanae still can't forget her ex-boyfriend, and Kenta is having a hard time dealing with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-02-02
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Dreaming in Between
Overview: Facing an unacceptable reality, a teacher is trying to reclaim relationships with his family, students and former friends. Reassessing his past, he contemplates how to go on with his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-09
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Redder Than Yesterday, Bluer Than Tomorrow: Cinema Fighters Project
Overview: The fourth instalment of LDH Pictures, Cinema Fighters project. This time with all the main characters of the six short stories being portrayed by the members of Generations from Exile Tribe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
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Sagi no Ko
Overview: Set in Nagoya, Japan in 2019, the story follows Mitsuyo, an elderly woman who receives a fraudulent call from someone posing as her daughter. Having been scammed before, she alerts the police, leading to the arrest of 14-year-old Kazuto, a receiver in the operation. Kazuto works for Daisuke and Toyama, who believe scamming the wealthy is a way to return "dead money" to society. When Toyama is arrested, Daisuke attends his trial to ensure silence. There, Mitsuyo testifies, revealing that years ago, she was deceived by Daisuke himself, leading to her husband's suicide. Confronted with the true consequences of his crimes, Daisuke realizes that phone fraud not only steals money but also destroys families and lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-23
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Hatsuko's World
Overview: 15-year-old Hatsuko (Higashi Ayu) lives with her elder brother in a humble town house. Their mother died when they were young, and the father disappeared. The brother (Shioya Shun) left high school before graduation to work at a factory, but spends their meager house-keeping money on adult entertainment. Hatsuko, who is poor and has no friends, finds emotional support in Mishima (Sano Kazuma), a boy in her class, who helps her with her study to go to a high school together. However, Hatsuko's brother causes trouble at the factory and gets the sack. Hatsuko gives up her dream of going to high school. In spring, the modest relationship continues between Mishima, now a high school student, and Hatsuko who works at a biscuit factory. One day, Hatsuko's long-gone father reappears. In a drunken frenzy, he sets fire to the house to go and rejoin the mother, leaving Hatsuko without a place to live. Hatsuko leaves the town on her own, drawing strength from the promise of marriage with Mishima.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-12
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Manga Ka Hori Mamoru
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-08-30
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I’m a Cat Stalker
Overview: Haru works at a part-time job for a bookstore. Her dream is to become an illustrator and she also loves cats. One day, after a cat named Chibutomu disappears from the bookstore Haru canvasses the neighbourhood in search of Chibutomu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-04
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The Wife of Gegege
Overview: A woman from rural Japan marries a struggling cartoonist in Tokyo. Their life is difficult before he finds success, but at least they're together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-11-20
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Genius Detective Mitarai: Abstruse Case File
Overview: Kiyoshi, a brilliant detective, inquiries on mysterious cases with his childhood friend, Ishioka, a novelist.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-07
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700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police
Overview: After one of their group is caught for speeding a group of trouble-making teenagers decide to prank the local police officer. It starts with simple speeding pranks but gradually moves to more elaborate and bizarre pranks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-05
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The Flowers of Evil
Overview: A high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes but is witnessed, which sets off a chain of events that send his life and the lives of others around him out of control.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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Black School Rules
Overview: Sōra is a high school student who is basically invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya, who is an unpredictable character that often surprises those around him. Sōra and Chūya both have feelings for the same classmate, Kio Machida. The Machida girl refuses to come to class, because she doesn't want to dye her naturally brown hair black. Their school has unreasonable school rules, especially about uniforms, which include requiring all students to have black hair. Sōra and Chūya decide to stand up to change their school's black school rules so that Machida won’t have to repeat a year of school from missing too many classes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Show Me the Way to the Station
Overview: A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by Ijuin Shizu.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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My Friend "A"
Overview: Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-25
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Asura Girl: A Blood-C Tale
Overview: In prewar Japan under the military regime, a bloody battle between the extremely oppressive Special Higher Police and villagers begins!
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-26
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Rooftop Apartment
Overview: Asako is determined to live her life with her own will after witnessing her best friend’s divorce and former manager’s death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-21
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461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son
Overview: Kazuki Suzumoto is divorced and he lives with his 15-year-old son Kouki. Kouki is in a susceptible time. The father feels guilty about his son. Kouki then fails his high school entrance exam. In the spring of the following year, Kouki barely passes his high school entrance exam. Kouki mentions to Kazuki that he likes his father's lunch box. The father and son make a promise to each other. Kazuki promises that he will make a lunch box everyday for Kouki. Kouki promises that he will never skip school.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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Aka Medaka
Overview: One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi. He had found his calling. After his resistant parents relented to their son’s pleas, Danshun at age 17 became an apprentice of Danshi, the man dubbed a “wunderkind” and “genius” of the rakugo world. He soon realized however how hard the training was, and embarked upon a rigorous existence in which he had to deliver newspapers to earn a living. Living with hardship and joys, Danshun and his fellow apprentices would eventually rise in the rakugo world. A resplendent cast comes together to depict the rough and tumble world of a man who loved rakugo above all else and was destined to fulfill a dream.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-28
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108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba
Overview: Screenwriter Goro Kaiba is horrified to learn via Facebook that his wife Ayako is having an affair. Furthermore, her post about the affair has received 108 likes. Absolutely furious, Goro Kaiba contemplates divorcing his wife, but he estimates he will have to pay her half of his assets, about 10,000,000 million yen, in a divorce. To get revenge, Goro Kaiba decides to use that money on a epic one month womanizing streak. His goal is 108, the number of likes his wife received on social media.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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Runway
Overview: Midori is in her late 30's and is a cutout picture artist. She has anxiety about her future. Takano is a 25-year-old bureaucrat at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. He is under a heavy workload and he becomes lethargic at his workplace. One day, he sees a list of people who committed suicide due to temporary employment. On that list, he becomes interested in a 25-year-old young man who killed himself. Takano begins to investigate the background of that young man. --asianwiki
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-20
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The Brightest Roof in the Universe
Overview: 14 year-old schoolgirl Tsubame is into university student Toru. She sees him in her area and really wants to be his. She struggles with how to inform him of her love. Then her stepmother becomes pregnant and she is distracted with that development. The one reliable part of her life is the calligraphy class she attends, but then she runs into a woman.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-04
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Fictitious OL Diary
Overview: On a gloomy Monday morning, my week begins. Although I (Bakarhythm) am sleepy, I put on my make-up and I leave home for work at a bank. I take the subway filled with passengers and get off on the nearest subway station from work. I meet Maki Fujikawa (Kaho) at that subway station. She is my closest colleague at work. While talking with each other, we get to our workplace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-28
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Peaceful Death
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-25
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Brothers in Brothel
Overview: During some era, on an island that exists somewhere in Japan, there are people who exist there who feel confined. Idle days pass for men and women unable to connect, and women who can not grasp the importance of such connections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-16
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Ren'ai Aru Aru
Overview: A movie based on 3 stories and each woman struggling with their own romance problems. Story 1: Shanai Renai Aru Aru Michiyama Kiyomi (Kuroki Meisa) has lived with the belief that romance with a person who is close to her will devastate her life ever since her bitter memories of the past. She has vowed in her heart not to have an office romance. But after she is designated as a staff of some project with Tamaki Kenichi (Fuchikami Yasushi), the distance between the two of them quickly shrinks. Story 2: Single Mother Renai Aru Aru Ever since her divorce from her husband, Akai Hitoe (Sasaki Nozomi) has raised her 5-year-old son, Atsushi (Ebizuka Yukiyasu), on her own
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-24
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Every Trick In The Book
Overview: Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his life targeted by underworld kingpin Kurata. Is his story fact or fiction? His editor, Nahomi Torikai, decides to verify whether his latest work is mere fiction based on real-life experiences. She looks into a family that vanished, a post office worker who went missing, a shady load of cash, the whereabouts of the doves, and the fateful encounter from that night... A series of shocking facts are revealed from Tsuda’s stories. Why did the counterfeit money end up in Tsuda’s hands? What is the “ending” that Tsuda wished to portray?
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-27
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That Person Disappeared
Overview: Set in an apartment building where many people are rumored to disappear one after another, the story begins when Maruko, a young delivery worker, accidentally discovers the secret of a suspicious resident. He and his older colleague Arakawa, who is an aspiring novelist, try to discover the resident's true identity. But in the end, the two got into an unexpected big incident.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-20
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Suppin Hero
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-02-24
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One Last Bloom
Overview: Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies. When hotheaded young boxer Shogo asks for Jin’s help to get him back into the ring after an unfair loss, the two men decide to seize their final chance at glory. A boxing film so authentic that it inspired co-star Yokohama Ryusei to qualify as a pro boxer, Zeze Takahisa’s boxing drama is one of the veteran director’s most crowd-pleasing films thanks to the touching father-son bond at its core.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-25
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Seaside Serendipity
Overview: In a coastal town attracting artists, 14-year-old Sosuke and his friends stay busy painting and helping with school projects. As carefree children interact with secret-laden adults, the sunlit ocean reflects their contrasting struggles—kids embracing challenges while adults seek elusive answers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-02-17
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