Yoko Chosokabe
Also Known As: 長曾我部蓉子, 長曽我部蓉子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: February 22, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Black Kiss
Overview: Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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Apartment Wife: Adultery in broad daylight
Overview: Asako, who has been married for eight years and has no children, is dissatisfied with her husband who comes home late every night, but she lives peacefully with him after he stops his unfaithful habit. However, a man she meets at a bowling alley with her neighbor Michiko and a beautiful woman who Asako's husband is interested in, cause changes in their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-11-28
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Retribution
Overview: A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins to question his identity. His realization of what seems to have really happened results in something much more sinister and larger in scope, and it leaves his psyche scarred.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-24
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The Princess Blade
Overview: Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her own right, she learns the gruesome truth about the death of her beloved mother and joins forces with a mysterious rebel leader.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-15
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Urban Spirit Legend: Croionna
Overview: Nikkari works for a small tailor in a small town and supports her younger sister Yuki. Yuki has a boyfriend named Oshima, who works for an estate agency, but after learning of her illness, Oshima has been gradually pulling away from Yuki of late. Just then, the story comes to a startling conclusion when Yuki discovers that she is pregnant.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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The Sylvian Experiments
Overview: Dr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian and Japanese guinea pigs that had been found in the basement of a wrecked hospital. Out of the blue, there is a white light and when they look back, they see they children Ota Miyuki and Kaori staring at the light. Years later, Miyuki vanishes from the Tama Medical University Hospital and her sister Kaori, Miyuki's boyfriend Motojima and detective Hirasawa are seeking her. However, Miyuki and the teenagers Kazochi, Takumi, Hattori and Rieko have been submitted to a nightmarish experiment by Dr. Hattori and her team with tragic results.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-10
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The Faceless Dead
Overview: What if an unknown stranger somewhere impersonates you and lives life? 24-year-old TAKIGAWA Misaki (TODO Umi) aspiring to be a non-fiction writer, receives a strange phone call saying TAKIGAWA Misaki is in a coma in a hospital. Learning that someone has posed as Misaki, she visits the hospital and finds an unexpected person. She begins to discover the woman's real name and the reason why she had to be someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-28
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World's End / Girl Friend
Overview: Shinnosuke and Misawa are joint managers of a Bonsai shop. Suddenly Shinnosuke's childhood friend Haruko turns up. She has split up with her boyfriend and finds herself out on the streets. Shinnosuke starts to like her and really wants to cheer her up, but he can't manage to express his real feelings or stop picking up other women. Misawa is dumbfounded by Shinnosuke's behavior but also has complex feelings of love for his friend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-10
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The Grudge 2
Overview: A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo, a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong, and strange things begin happening in a Chicago apartment building.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-12
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Apartment Wife: Lost Cat
Overview: As a newspaper reporter listens to the confession of a wife who murdered her husband, the film shockingly depicts the process by which she discovers why she killed her husband, why she started working on street corners, and how she became deeply immersed in an affair that began as prostitution to relieve boredom...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-06-26
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You are not me
Overview: Deconstruction of the Daughter of Salome
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-03
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Ring 2
Overview: While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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House of the Ghosts ~Kanako Inuki's World of Fear~
Overview: Ghostly horror film based on the original story by horror manga artist Kanako Inuki, adapted from various horror episodes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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A Pale Woman
Overview: In order to be with the man she loves, Kim goes back to Japan from Korea. The man saved Kim from darkness, when she was little. But he was raised by Kim's mother under the dark world. Now, he is involved in the criminal world. To protect her love, Kim makes a dangerous plan to get the man from her mother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-10
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Noroi: The Curse
Overview: A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-20
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Teke Teke 2
Overview: The story of Teke Teke, the ghost woman with no legs, continues. Conflict arises between a group of high school classmates, and Teke Teke starts hunting them down one by one.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-21
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A Wild Namahage
Overview: One day, 300 year-old Namahage is caught in a trap. While being transferred he manages to escape. Wandering through the suburbs of Tokyo, Namahage meets 11-year-old Mamoru and he moves in at the boy's house without Mamoru's mother's knowledge. Mamoru struggles to hide Namahage from his mother. Meanwhile, bad pet shop traders seek out to capture Namahage.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-23
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The Sparkling Amber
Overview: The bobbed-head Ryoko is a shy middle school student. She has been living with her dad, just the 2 of them ever since her mother died of an illness. It was in this Aizawa household that 3 months ago, suddenly, that the Kansai dialect wielding Michiko with her hair fastened tightly above her head came in. This is the story of amber of the three whom were like a family and yet not.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-24
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Demeking
Overview: When he is hit by a car on the street, the young man Daikoku foresees the monster Demking appearing at the end of the century. In preparation for the coming confrontation with the Demeking, he organizes a modern-day Seven Lucky Gods composed entirely of antisocial people. This is a utopian epic that, despite the ridiculousness of the story, is the most powerful depiction of the motifs seen in the first two films, which attempt to play on the sense of apocalypse through unrealistic imagination, while staying within a tenuous sense of reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-08
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Occult Bolshevism
Overview: A film that takes the theme of psycho-phobia. The film visualizes a forbidden psychic experiment that is a "departing" process to a world of madness, aimed at "spiritual revolution".
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-10
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Village on the Village
Overview: Left alone by his music group, Nakanishi lands in a peaceful but strange village. He laughs and drinks with it's residents until the alcohol seems to have a supernatural effect on him ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-08-06
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Yumeko's Nightmare
Overview: There's no limit to what you can see in your dreams...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-09
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World's End / Girl Friend
Overview: Shinnosuke and Misawa are joint managers of a Bonsai shop. Suddenly Shinnosuke's childhood friend Haruko turns up. She has split up with her boyfriend and finds herself out on the streets. Shinnosuke starts to like her and really wants to cheer her up, but he can't manage to express his real feelings or stop picking up other women. Misawa is dumbfounded by Shinnosuke's behavior but also has complex feelings of love for his friend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-10
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Fellatio Angel: Mascot in White Uniform
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-08
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Humming Life
Overview: There are many different kinds of lives in this world. When everyone is gone only the afterimage remains.Ai has only recently came to Tokyo. In this unfamiliar city she is a little bit upset. One day lead by a mysterious stray dog she finds a letter inside a hole in the tree trunk. Tomohiro who works night hours at a nursery hadleft it there. Ai being encouraged by this letter writes a letter back and leaves it in the hole. This was the beginning of their strange correspondence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-19
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Sea of Madness
Overview: A horror film directed by Hiroshi Takahashi. After winning an overwhelming number of seats in the National Diet, the Prime Minister of Japan, Shintarō Makabe, is about to undertake a constitutional revision to remove Japan's Article 9 (forbidding the building of a military). However, this leads to conflict with his wife. Meanwhile, the President of the United States has been cursed. (Description translated from Amazon.co.jp)
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Tokyo Marigold
Overview: Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from overseas, she requests to enter into a relationship with him for just one year.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-05-12
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