Denden
Also Known As: Ogata Yoshihiro, Yoshihiro Ogata, でんでん
Biography: Denden (でんでん Denden, born Yoshihiro Ogata (緒方 義博); 23 January 1950) is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1981.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chikushino, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: January 23, 1950
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Uzumaki
Overview: The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-11
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Gu Gu, the Cat
Overview: Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as her assistant Naomi watches on with concern. Naomi is a young woman in her early twenties, who has her set of worries about love and future. Then one day, Asako meets a new cat, Gu Gu, which brings new joy and vitality to her life. What is more, she finds potential for love in a man named Seiji. Like Asako, Naomi, too, embarks on a new life plan.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-06
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Kabei: Our Mother
Overview: Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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Beef tongue set meal with seafood bowl of Onagawa in Sendai
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-08-03
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Insomniacs After School
Overview: No one seems to understand Nakami. His nights are restless, his days sleepy, and his time at school is isolating. Yet all that seems to change when he encounters his carefree classmate, Magari, dozing off in their high school’s abandoned observatory. Not only is Magari friendly, she’s also a closet insomniac. Together they find solidarity in their shared condition, using the observatory to nap as needed. When their unsanctioned use of the space is discovered, the only way to save their refuge is to revive the school’s long defunct astronomy club. As they work together and get to know each other, their bond grows ever stronger, but hidden truths threaten to cut their budding friendship shot.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-23
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Cure
Overview: A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-27
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Cold Fish
Overview: Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-29
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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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The Bastard and the Beautiful World
Overview: The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. Fujiko is running as fast as she can, being chased after by a creepy masked man called Mad Dog. They meet a talented pianist on the way. A mysterious relationship develops between Utagui, a little girl who eats songs to live and an artist who can't sing anymore. A married couple sets off on a journey to find the right arm of their dead son. As they finally reach a beach in Okinawa, they find? Bastards come together on a night dancefloor for a show.
Genres: Action Comedy Fantasy Romance Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-06
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Gotoshi Co. Ltd. II
Overview: The second 'Gotoshi' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-08
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Gotoshi Co. Ltd. III
Overview: The third 'Gotoshi' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-12-03
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Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case
Overview: The fourth 'Gotoshi' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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Nobunaga Concerto: The Movie
Overview: Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the Sengoku period of 1549. There, Saburo meets Nobunaga Oda who looks and sounds just like Saburo. Nobunaga Oda is the son of a warlord and magistrate of the lower Owari Province. Nobunaga Oda though is physically weak and he asks Saburo to take his place. Then, Saburo as Nobunaga Oda attempts to unify the country of Japan.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-23
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Boys on the Run
Overview: A socially awkward salesman for a toy-capsule company tries to change his nerdy ways when a slick rival moves in on the beautiful co-worker he loves.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-30
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Kunoichi Financial Road
Overview: 1999 financial movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-21
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Dororo
Overview: Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge the death of her parents.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-15
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Like Someone in Love
Overview: An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-15
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The Daimon
Overview: Based on the popular comic of the same name by Tetsumi Doko, who is known for drawing such as "Dochinpira", Tashiro, a man who swings between Katagi and gangsters. A chivalrous entertainment depicting Monjiro's way of life is born.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-07-22
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Love Revolution
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Genres: Romance Action Crime Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2018-12-06
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Watcher in the Attic
Overview: A 2006 film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-04
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Something Like It
Overview: Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he gets to date the beautiful sex worker he meets that day, and a younger high school rakugo aficionado is also vying for his attention. But for clumsy, heart-on-his-sleeve Shintoto, life doesn’t stay rosy for long.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-12
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Mountain Woman
Overview: Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of humans ascend after passing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-30
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Denden Interview
Overview: Interview with actor Denden on Himizu
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-03
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Memory Sculptor
Overview: The wife of a wealthy man hires memory erasing agents to erase the memory of the young lover with whom he is having an affair, but soon realizes that the young lover will stop at nothing to keep the man's love for her alive.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-03
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Ten: Akagi Shigeru Funeral Arc
Overview: Three years after Tozai Ikusa (mahjong tournament), Hiroyuki Igawa receives a letter that Shigeru Akagi’s funeral ceremony will be held. Hiroyuki Igawa attends the funeral, but he is surprised when Shigeru Akagi appears at his own funeral ceremony. Shigeru Akagi states that he is ready to die in a few hours. He then faces the people, including Takashi Ten, whom he played at Tozai Ikusa.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-11
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Someday
Overview: The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the performance when his estranged wife and former best friend arrive back in town...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-16
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Don't Call It Mystery: The Movie
Overview: One day, a talkative college student with a natural perm, Totonou Kunou (Masaki Suda) visits Hiroshima for an art exhibition, and there meets a teenage girl, Shioji Kariatsumari, who says she is a friend of Garo Inudo (Eita Nagayama). “Would you work for me? Lives and money are at stake. I’m serious.” She offers Totonou a part-time job, which turns out to be related to the succession of an enormous inheritance. Totonou decides to help her out, only to get involved in an inheritance battle of the noble and shady Kariatsumari family, where people have been killed for generations. Multiple dark sides and mysteries of the family are laid out behind the inheritance. What truth is buried there?
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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Himizu
Overview: After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-05
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7 Days of Himawari & Her Puppies
Overview: Set within an animal shelter, where if the owner of an animal doesn't claim their pet in 7 days, the animal is put to sleep. Himawari, is a female dog and a mother. She tries to desperately save her baby dogs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-15
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The Kiyosu Conference
Overview: After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political decision. The meeting was known as the Kiyosu Kaigi.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-09
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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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A Turtle's Shell is a Human's Ribs
Overview: Based on Satoshi Kawasaki's encyclopedia which illustrates what it would be like if the human body acquired the bodily mechanics of various animals.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-28
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Journey of a Dying Wife
Overview: December 1999 The article in which the man was arrested was only small on the social side of the newspaper. It was a crime against abandonment and to death. The man put his wife's wife on a wagon car and wandered around Japan for nine months. In the fall of 2000, the diary of hisanori Shimizu, the man arrested, was described in the monthly magazine "Nishio 45", and it was called a big echo. The memorandum, which has been postponed, sold almost 150000 copies of word by word As of 2011, it has been about 2 00000 long sellers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-26
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The Serialist
Overview: Ippei Akabane (Takaya Kamikawa) is an unpopular novelist. He barely makes ends meet writing serials novels under different pen names. Daigo Kurei (Shinji Takeda) is on death row. He killed four women twelve years ago. During his murdering spree, he sent pictures of his decapitated victims with flower decoration to the police. The murders and photos caused widespread panic in Japan. One day, Ippei is contacted by Daigo from prison. He asks Ippei if he wants to interview him and write his memoirs. Soon, more women are killed in the same grisly manner as the serial murders from twelve years ago. Now, Ippei becomes the prime suspect of the police and Ippei must quickly find the real murderer. Based on the novel "The Serialist" by David Gordon (published by Simon & Schuster; Original edition on March 9, 2010).
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-15
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Kanikôsen
Overview: On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-04
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Judge!
Overview: After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a judge at the world's biggest advertising competition in Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-11
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Kazoku gokko
Overview: Different people and five different families are acting out various scenarios, scripts and what-ifs. First there is the four Suzuki family members, who are not, sitting around a table in isolation. Then there is the unveiling of a will and what happens when it is read out, there are the sisters who are at it against each other, then there is the funeral that does not go according to plan and more.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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Rental Family
Overview: ~~ Adapted from the novel "Human Rental Shop" (人間レンタル屋) by Ishii Yuichi (石井裕一).
Genres: Drama Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-10
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I Am Makimoto
Overview: Sou Makimoto works in the "send-off" department at the city hall. The department's main responsibility is to hold funerals for people who die alone and bury them at a cemetery. Makimoto doesn't like to socialise with his colleagues or listen to them. By doing his job, he meets various people and slowly begins to change his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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Tokyo!
Overview: Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-16
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A Boy Called H
Overview: Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio, "A Boy Called H" follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh, nicknamed "H". His father, Morio runs a tailor shop. With the onset of World War II, their family must endure difficult times. Nevertheless, H is filled with curiosity and a sense of justice. Based on the autobiographical novel "Shonen H" by Kappa Senoh (published by Kodansha, July 9, 1999).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-10
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Drowning Fish
Overview: When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate "Oboreru Sakana". The "big guns" are a misfit duo of ethically questionable characters who must infiltrate a gay nightclub and "fit in" while they search for clues. What ensues is both hilarious and action-packed. Oboreru Sakana is a rather ambitious and often hilarious contemporary crime thriller. Its narrative swings from the grisly to the humorous and pulls in as many pop culture elements as it can manage.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-02-03
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Pika**nchi Life Is Hard Dakara Happy
Overview: Sequel to the 2002 film Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy, starring members of boy band Arashi.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-01
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Tokyo Tribe
Overview: In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. The simmering tension between them is about to boil over into all-out war.
Genres: Music Science Fiction Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-30
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Killers
Overview: A psychotic executive triggers a journalist's dark side, and they begin to form a strange bond through the internet.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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The Parades
Overview: A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has died and is now confined to a realm of restless spirits.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-02-28
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Yakuza Apocalypse
Overview: When young protege Akira Kageyama is bitten by his dying vampire boss, Genyo Kamiura, he must get used to his new powers before seeking revenge.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-21
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The Last Reunion
Overview: After Isao has reached retirement, he receives a phone call from an ex- elementary school classmate Norio inviting him to a reunion. During the reunion, none of them can claim to have had a wonderful life since graduating from primary school and have their respective problems now. It leads them to rethink that their lives are far from over and that there is still hope for them even at this stage of their lives. They encounter many unexpected happenings during the journey which reminds them of the excitement they experienced as kids and find new hope in their bleak lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-26
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Mugonkan
Overview: A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, featuring artworks by students before they were sent to fight in WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-27
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Amachan
Overview: Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-01
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Suzuki Sensei
Overview: Teacher Akira Suzuki breaks away from long-held customs and norms at his school. He tries hard to have the ideal classroom by using his own "Suzuki method". The new semester begins. His homeroom 2-A class is about to have a student council election and preparations for a school festival. A man then takes a female student hostage...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-12
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Princess Sakura
Overview: One evening, Princess Sakura is attacked by a man. At that time, the Princess could not see his face. and only sees a tattoo on his body. Because of that that night, Princess Sakura falls in love with the man. In order to find the man she gives up everything and gets the same identical tattoo. The princess then works as a prostitute. Meanwhile Gonsuke is the man who attacked Princess Sakura. He also stole a scroll and, because of that, he is chased by assassins.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-29
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Lowlife Love
Overview: Tetsuo is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against his 'artistic integrity'.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-02
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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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Sound of Waves
Overview: Umi’s hearing is so sensitive that even notes played slightly out-of-tune give her a headache. Violinist Yuko arrives from Tokyo to play a concert on Umi’s small island near Okinawa, and gradually befriends the girl. Both struggle with friendships and family relationships, but are brought together by music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-30
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Mr. Inukai Keeps a Dog
Overview: Tamotsu Inukai is a married middle-aged man with a wife, daughter and son. Mr. Inukai has a strong dislike for dogs, but while he is working on the island his family takes in a Samoyed dog to fill in the father's absence, the family decides to raise the dog. At first Mr. Inukai opposes the family taking the dog in, but he can't persuade his family to abandon the dog. When Mr. Inukai arrives back in Tokyo, he now has to has to live with the Samoyed dog. Can he?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-25
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ぼくが命をいただいた3日間
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-05
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Love Tomato
Overview: Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage have all met with failure. Through a friend, Masao meets Liberty (Ruby Moreno), a Filipino woman working in Japan. When they decide to get married, Masao borrows money from his Agricultural Association and travels to the Philippines for the wedding - only to discover that it was all a scam. Stranded in Manila with no money, Masao ends up staying to work. One day he meets a beautiful farmer's daughter, Christina (Alice Dixson), reawakening not only his chances for love, but also his love for farming.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-05-13
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SPEC: Heaven
Overview: Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by postulating the "SPEC" of the unknown criminals and then deduce the criminal's unknown "SPEC" to make arrests. A mystery occurs when bodies are found on a cruiser in the ocean. Saya Toma and Ryo Kase of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department are brought in to solve the case.
Genres: Crime Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-07
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Destruction Babies
Overview: Taira is a disaffected youth from a seaside town reveling in violence. Enamored by his strength, Yuya joins his crusade in attacking strangers. Meanwhile, Taira's brother looks for him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-31
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The Daimon 2
Overview: The second in the series about a former businessman who rises in the world of the yakuza. Monjiro Tashiro sets out on his path. As war with the Hamaike clan escalates, Ishimaru, the chairman of the Ishinokai, is shot dead by an assassin. Monjiro's girlfriend is also taken hostage.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-05
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The Daimon
Overview: Based on the manga of the same name, this hard-boiled action drama depicts the life of a man torn between being a respectable civilian and a respected yakuza. Monjiro Tashiro, a salesman for an event company, is asked by a woman who appears out of the blue to find the truth behind the death of her best friend. Monjiro is forced to cooperate...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-05
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MARKS
Overview: Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on...
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-22
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Something Like, Something Like It
Overview: Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his search for Shintoto.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-16
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The Incredible Truth
Overview: An artist named Jiajia promised to show her girl friend Wei Ling around in Japan but eventually fails to show up for no reason. After Wei Ling goes and gets accommodated in a family-run hot spring hotel of Shimizu, Jiajia's Japanese boyfriend, she begins her endless weird experience as if she's haunted, and the hotel even sinks into a series of horrible homicides, in which the victims are all family members of the Shimizu's without exception. Every clue found is connected to Jiajia.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-04-28
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Red Shadow
Overview: The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and defeat the enemy to build a world of peace. Akakage, Aokage, and Asuka are rookie ninjas under the tutelage of Shirokage. Their life is a series of perilous missions that entail intrigue, deception and intimidation.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-11
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Cut
Overview: Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-12-17
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Tatara Samurai
Overview: In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so that he can help protect his village from attacks by the various clans which want the high-quality steel made there.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-20
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Living in Two Worlds
Overview: Dai grows up in a small town, interpreting for his loving deaf parents, until he moves to Tokyo in search of his own independent life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-20
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Shippu Rondo
Overview: An illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. The university lab can't even call the police because the secret nature of the weapon. The school lab then receives a message stating that the entire country is now being held hostage and they must pay a ransom of 300 million yen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-26
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A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
Overview: Although Nobuyoshi and Saki just got married and moved into a new apartment, their relationship still lacks spark. Things start to change as they meet a weird fortune-teller who also happens to operate tours to hell. Without further ado the young couple books a honeymoon trip which takes them to the most bizarre, colorful and fun vision of hell you could ever dream of.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-05-14
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Dark Society in the East
Overview: A story about the activities of Southeast Asian Mafia gangs in Shinjuku. Ryosuke Kano is an ex French Foreign Legion soldier and is now a cocaine smuggler and dealer. He is acquainted with Larry, a Japanese American, but he turned out to be an undercover cop from New York.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-05-15
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Mumon: The Land of Stealth
Overview: Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-century mercenary. When the ninja council makes a power play to defeat the young Nobukatsu Oda struggling to step into his father’s warlord shoes as they expand rule across the country, Mumon jumps into the fray to satisfy his new bride Okuni’s demand that he make good on his promises of wealth. Yet Mumon soon finds what is worth fighting for beyond money or nation.
Genres: War Action History Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-01
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Pro Bono
Overview: A young, mentally retarded boy is wrongfully accused of murder, but his family lacks the means to hire an attorney to defend him. The boy’s sister, Kiriko, pleads with an accomplished attorney named Otsuka to defend her brother pro bono. But because of Otsuka’s busy schedule and other priorities, he refuses to take the case. Lacking a proper defense, Kiriko’s brother is eventually convicted of murder, and dies in prison. From that point on, Kiriko is determined to take revenge against Otuska.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-07
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Meikyu Sousa
Overview: Detective Yoichiro arrives at a crime scene involving the brutal murder of three family members to find a young five-year-old boy hiding in the closet. The discovery of the young boy takes Detective Yoichiro back to his own tragic childhood when his parents were killed in a fire. Without any real clues, the murder investigation continues unsolved. That is, until another murder takes place one year later, this time with a mother and son as the victims. And evidence found at the scene links the killer to the murder that took place a year ago.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-10
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Ah, Wilderness: Part 1
Overview: Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-07
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Ah, Wilderness: Part 2
Overview: Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-21
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Black Rose
Overview: While investigating a murder case, Kamiki Kyoko finds out the truth behind the death of her father who was a police officer which leads her to the dark secrets within the police force. In order to solve the case and take revenge for her father, Kamiki and her supervisor Orihara must battle the odds against the strong forces trying to cover up the truth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-19
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Blue Hour
Overview: Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom and yearnings creep in the dreamlike blue hour, transcending into a lyricism of self-realization – at once whimsical, agonizing and yet hopeful.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-28
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Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
Overview: 2004 film
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-08-22
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A Lone Scalpel
Overview: Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst the town’s people. Some of his colleagues become so jealous they are resentful and waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity to crucify him. Soon they get their chance as Dr Toma considers performing a controversial operation…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-05
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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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-02
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Fumiko's Legs
Overview: When older man Tsukakoshi asks Unokichi to paint it is of his mistress, the geisha Fumiko. Tsukakoshi loves the feet and legs part of Fumiko's anatomy. The fetishism gives the art student a commission to put his talent to use.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-10
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The Games Teachers Play
Overview: The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-25
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The Other House
Overview: High school junior Hagi (17) quits school and is spending a lot of time at home when his father reveals that he has another house with a mistress. His father wants to end the relationship and asks Hagi to get the woman to move out. Hagi gets to know his father's mistress, and grows up in the process-
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-27
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The Forest of Love
Overview: A con man and a would-be filmmaking crew force themselves into the lives of two grief-scarred young women. But nothing is as it seems.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-10
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Be Sure to Share
Overview: Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it's too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced connecting to his strict father who was also his teacher and soccer coach. With a consuming secret of his own, Shiro, now in his late twenties and about to get engaged, must eventually learn how to share the pain of it with his loved ones.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-01
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The Land of Hope
Overview: An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents must evacuate, but the family lives on a farm, with only half of the area designated as an evacuation area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-20
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Shooting Stars in the Twilight
Overview: Hiromi works in a posh French restaurant. One day, he meets an ordinary-looking old man who has a discerning palate. He is no ordinary cook, and can pinpoint the exact problems with Hiromi's dishes. His name is Tatematsu Ippei, a legendary chef renowned for his work in France once upon a time. After a food poisoning mishap, his fiance Sophie had left him and he cut himself off from the culinary world. Hiromi is engrossed with Ippei's cuisine and asks for lessons. Meanwhile, Sophie, now the wife of the director of a top tableware manufacturer, comes to Japan. Ippei cooks a banquet for her using Hiromi's restaurant as a front. Sophie notices that the food is made by Ippei, her former lover. The two meet and enjoy a short-lived reunion, but go on to live their own separate lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-18
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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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Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Overview: In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-14
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It Stopped Raining
Overview: A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized, however, by a car accident on a rainy day after they go out together, and wakes up with short term memory loss, where she cannot remember anything beyond the present day. Yukisuke tries to live close to her as before but the lack of collective memory starts to stagger him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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Life: Untitled
Overview: Follows a group of female escorts who are living life as best they can.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-02
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Not Quite Dead Yet
Overview: After Nanase's father drops dead due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days, she is named the president of his pharmaceutical company. Nanase endeavors to prevent her father's enemies from prematurely cremating his body before the drug can wear off and allow him to revive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-20
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Ju-On: The Curse 2
Overview: On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put up for sale, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-25
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Ju-on: The Curse
Overview: When elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom, he finds himself at the doorstep of an anonymous suburban house that harbours a horrible secret, and into which all who enter are doomed.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-11
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Pikanchi Half: Life is Hard Tabun Happy
Overview: Pikanchi Half is a spin-off of the two previous movies in the Pikanchi series, showing the five friends, now in their 30s, having a reunion as they are running into problems with family and work
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-08
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Love and Other Cults
Overview: Ai's mother sends her to live with a cult commune, where she remains for seven years. After the cult is broken up by the police, Ai struggles to fit in with society.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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Hakata Movie: Chinchiromai
Overview: A musical- style comedy movie set in Hakata.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-21
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Tokyo Sonata
Overview: A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-27
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Stardust Over The Town
Overview: Story of the struggling chorus group "Yamada Osamu and the Hello Nights", who gain an unexpected new member in the young Ai, who pursues her dream of becoming a singer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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Unlucky Monkey
Overview: A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-18
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Last Winter, We Parted
Overview: An ambitious, young freelance journalist takes on the closed case of a famous fine arts photographer whose beautiful female subject died on set in a gruesome fire.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-10
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DV: Domestic Violence
Overview: Shogo (Kenichi Endo) and Yasuko (Yuka Hanabusa) are happily married. Until one evening when he slaps her in the face for reconsidering the promise she made before their wedding: to quit her job and devote herself to domestic chores once the knot was tied. From that first instance of aggression, things rapidly spiral out of control. Mounting violence becomes the new order of the day between the couple. (from midnighteye.com)
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-05
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Yuukai Houtei: Seven Days
Overview: 39-year-old Meiko Amabuki (Nanako Matsushima) works as an attorney. She is married to Goro Aizawa, but they are separated. They have one daughter. Meiko Amabuki decides to file for divorce. They battle over custody of their daughter. One day, Meiko Amabuki's daughter is kidnapped. The kidnapper demands that a suspect in a murder case Eiji Kunimitsu receive a not guilty judgement. Meiko Amabuki only has 7 days before that trial ends.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-07
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Ibu wa hatsukoi no yō ni
Overview: An office lady (Yasuko Tomita) who has a bitter memory of Christmas Eve breaks up with her affair partner (Shoji Sadaoka) and finds a new love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-16
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What the Snow Brings
Overview: Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jockied by Makie, a legendary jockey's daughter) in a draft-horse race held in his childhood home of Obihiro on the island of Hokkaido.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-28
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SPEC: Zero
Overview: High school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. Detective Akio Kondo came and told her "your family has a high possibility that they were killed by people who have spec." That was the first time she heard of "spec". 6 years later, Saya Toma, who has never forgotten what the Detective said, decides to become a detective. She returns to Japan after receiving training by the FBI in the United States. Saya Toma is assigned to work unsolved cases in the Public Security Bureau. Meanwhile, because of Satoshi Chii's scheme, Juichi Ninomae considers Saya Toma his parents' enemy and tries to push her to the edge. Satoshi Chii's scheme has also caused Saya Toma and Juichi Ninomae to forget that they are brother and sister. The siblings are headed to a life-staking fight. A girl named Maho Ueno becomes involved in their fight. To protect Maho Ueno, Saya Toma uses "spec".
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-23
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Maestro!
Overview: Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou appears in front of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-31
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Double Trouble
Overview: Chief Iizuka, who works at the Cultural Center, misunderstands two chorus groups with similar names and double-books the concert hall on New Year's Eve. Although they talk to each other, neither of them gives up a step and develops into a big problem. Iizuka, who has lived his life with a "no-nonsense" attitude, finds himself in the middle of two groups and at a loss for words.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-02
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Golden Slumber
Overview: When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer.
Genres: Action Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-30
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Climber's High
Overview: On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accident, Yuuki, in charge of this crash report at a local newspaper, faces a string of decision-making moments. What are news and a reporter? How should a man do his work and survive in a corporate hierarchy? What do family and friends mean to him? An intriguing story, which keeps the audience on the edge of tension and reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-05
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The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
Overview: In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-09
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Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire
Overview: Story of Rikidozan, a sumo wrestler who can only achieve limited success in Japan because he's half Korean. But when Rikidozan goes to the United States and discovers professional wrestling, he becomes a hero back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-12-15
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The Hitman Blood Smells Like Roses
Overview: A woman is being attacked by the yakuza of the Mitsuyoshi group ... A man with a pistol appears dashingly and shoots the yakuza without question now the yakuza want him dead
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-14
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Dots and Lines
Overview: Jutaro Torikai is a senior detective set to uncover the truth behind an apparent double suicide.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-24
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Eureka
Overview: In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-18
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月と嘘と殺人
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-27
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Making of Tokyo Tribe
Overview: Documentary on Sion Sono's Tokyo Tribe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-15
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