Ren Osugi
Also Known As: Ren Ohsugi, 大杉孝, Ren Ôsugi, Ren Oosugi, 佐伯恭司, Kyoji Saeki, Takashi Osugi, Рэн Осуги, 大杉 漣
Biography: Ren Osugi, born Takashi Osugi, was a Japanese actor. For his work on Cure, Hana-bi, and other films, Osugi received the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Yokohama Film Festival. He often worked alongside Takeshi Kitano and Susumu Terajima.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan
Birthday: September 27, 1951
Deathday: February 21, 2018
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Brother
Overview: A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-13
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La Sombra del Verano - Ilusion in Andalusia
Overview: Set in Andalusia, Spain, the film depicts the fantastic journey of an ordinary housewife who leads an uneventful life in search of a missing writer. While dining out with her husband at a Spanish restaurant, Yoko hears that the writer, Mikiro Shimizu, has disappeared. Yoko comes forward and sets off alone to Andalusia, Spain, to look for Shimizu. On the way, she meets a young man named Yu, who is traveling around the country on a bicycle, and a mysterious woman named Aki, and the three of them follow Shimizu's trail, relying on a manuscript titled "False Blood" and the word "platelo" that he left in his room.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-09
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Woman of the Rumor: Hold Me Until Morning
Overview: The wife of a wealthy manager returns to her suburban house and is suddenly attacked by an intruder. As she suffers through the aftermath of her ordeal many nasty family secrets will be revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-03-13
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MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
Overview: A reworking of MPD Psycho by the author of the original manga Eiji Otsuka edited from the TV show and newly-filmed scenes.
Genres: Horror Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-06
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Lady Joker
Overview: Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama inspired by the unsolved 1984 kidnapping of a Japanese candy company president.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-11
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot
Overview: Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-02-16
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Audition
Overview: Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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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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Dead or Alive
Overview: Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-27
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Exte: Hair Extensions
Overview: An aspiring hair dresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that comes alive, driving those who use the extensions insane or killing them.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-17
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Party 7
Overview: Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. Who will end up with the money?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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Sonatine
Overview: Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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Scarlet Prostitute: Stabbing
Overview: A gang boss orders the execution of a prostitute who witnessed a murder. When the boss' henchman discovers the prostitute is actually blind, he falls in love with her and protects her. The prostitute regains her sight just in time to see the death of her boyfriend. At his funeral, overcome with feelings of mixed joy and grief, she secretly masturbates.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-01
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War of Lie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-10
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Ikiru
Overview: In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-09
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Devoted Cookbook
Overview: The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where she learns how to cook. When she turns 18, she moves to Edo (today's Tokyo) where she opens her own restaurant.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-22
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Give It All
Overview: Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the view of a boat gliding gracefully in the sea inspires her to take up the oar. Since she's rejected by her school's all-male rowing team, she decides to form her own all-women team. Nothing will ever be the same again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-09
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Semi-dokyumento: Tokkun Meiki Dukuri
Overview: The mother is unfulfilled, the father has affairs, the son fantasizes and the budding daughter is growing curious. Just your normal family until a right-wing bi-sexual teacher shows up and causes chaos.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-02-20
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The Twilight Samurai
Overview: Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-02
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Kids Return
Overview: Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-27
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Train Man
Overview: The purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku ultimately started dating with her and chronicled his event and his dates with the woman (who became known as "Hermès") on the Japanese mega-BBS 2channel.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-06-04
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Séance
Overview: A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working with the police as a psychic consultant to "find" the girl. And then, things start to go terribly wrong.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-07
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Tales of the Unusual
Overview: A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group. These include tales of a group stranded in the mountains and haunted by guilt over a death they inadvertantly caused, an emotionally broken chessmaster pressed into playing a real-life game for an eccentric millionaire, a wandering medieval samurai who finds a modern-day cell phone on the ground and a person on the other end asking questions about the past, and a young couple who agree to try a computer simulation of what their future as husband and wife would be like.
Genres: Horror Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Overview: Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-02
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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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Full Metal Yakuza
Overview: After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a robot-human hybrid with a serious thirst for vengeance and the tools to carry it out.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-05
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Postman Blues
Overview: Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting his little finger off.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-16
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Time Slip
Overview: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's segment from 'A Story of Love, Wonder and Horror.'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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Monday
Overview: A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-04-29
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Shinjuku Triad Society
Overview: Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-26
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The City of Lost Souls
Overview: Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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Cop Festival: New Beginning
Overview: Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-24
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Baton
Overview: Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel, human-like robot Apollo (Ichihara Hayato, Rookies) and robot-like human Mikaru (Ueto Aya, Azumi) come upon a stowaway robot with a mysterious "Cipher" chip. Not knowing Cipher's powers, Apollo takes the chip for fun, throwing both him and Mikaru headfirst into a mind-boggling mystery that affects the past, present, and future.
Genres: Action Animation Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-04-28
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Thirteen Steps
Overview: A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-02-08
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Origin: Spirits of the Past
Overview: It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken. The world balance is tipped when a young boy named Agito stumbles across a machine that glowed in a strange blue hue inside a forbidden sanctuary.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Animation Drama Fantasy Romance Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-07
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Can you collect it? 2
Overview: Jin, who has killed is worried about his younger brother Jiro and has returned to the world as a ghost!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-08-13
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Can you collect it? Complete
Overview: Jiro becomes a happy instructor but a shocking suspicion was raised by Owada who took the place of his parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-09-09
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Nightmare Detective
Overview: When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is called to investigate.
Genres: Thriller Horror Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-13
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It's More Radical!
Overview: A yakuza's woman got in a car with Ida, a salesman who has no choice!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-08
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Will You Die in the Chimpira Dream Chara!
Overview: Three mean and a woman connected by a strange encounter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-04
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Chimpira Life
Overview: The chimpira 'Katsuichi' got his hands on the only daughter of the largest daughter in the Kanto region.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-13
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チンピラ仁義 新・極楽とんぼ
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-08
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Eleven Without Honor or Humanity
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-22
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Bondage Sacrifice
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Known As! Pissken
Overview: The thug is now back in Shaba as a legendary hitman!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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Assault Rakugaki Fools
Overview: This exciting work is full of dangerous behind the scenes stories from the sex industry.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
Overview: In 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the author came across diplomatic documents relating to the reversion of Okinawa and was particularly impressed by the handwritten documents of Kazuo Chiba, then Director of the North American First Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which, unlike ordinary bureaucrats, "stood out from the crowd and seemed unique". The name of Chiba subsequently appeared in a number of documents left by former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's secretary, and the author became interested in finding out what kind of person he was.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-30
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Drive
Overview: Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h speed limit even under the extreme situation.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-24
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Tripping
Overview: It's the story of a rebellious Japanese-Taiwanese girl (played by Rena Tanaka from “Kitaro”) who gets transported back to ancient times and embarks on an adventure with a Taoist priest and a thief. On the road, the group encounters numerous dangers, stumbling upon a conspiracy involving a powerhungry sorcerer and the corrupt court.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Vacation
Overview: The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-07
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Eyes of the Spider
Overview: Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter's murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his innocence, before killing and burying him. He returns to his ordinary life feeling listless and hollow, until he encounters a man that introduces himself as an old friend. The man offers Nijima a new job, and subsequently introduces Nijima to his band of hired killers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-11
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Wish Upon a Star
Overview: Japanese TV film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-26
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Getting Any?
Overview: While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-11
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Space Travelers
Overview: Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hostages, there is a terrorist with a hidden bomb. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to pretend to be part of the gang. Surprisingly, the hostages soon enjoy doing so. On that strange day, the bank becomes a tropical paradise...
Genres: Fantasy Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-04-08
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The Exam
Overview: Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes jobless when his company folds. To regain his confidence Togashi decides to join the marathon that is taking place on the very day of his daughter's examination and the all important interview.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-03
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Love of Sawako
Overview: Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. Sawako pretends to be the daughter of an upscale hotel owner and has an affair with Yukio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-17
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Apartment Wife Tied Up
Overview: An erotic drama reflecting the painful lust of two couples living in a residential complex. When a man got drunk, he undressed his wife and tied her up, and was a pervert who enjoyed insidious pleasures. The wife also experienced the joy of abnormal guilt, but was not satisfied with this one and started an affair with a man from the next room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-05-01
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Maborosi
Overview: A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-01
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Scan Doll
Overview: Katsumi, a man who lives a lazy and uninspired life, suddenly becomes addicted to "peeping" to uncover the true identity of his unknown neighbors in the same apartment building, i.e. their abnormal daily lives. In the midst of this, a mysterious high school girl named Mika suddenly jumps into Katsumi's eye. In order to find out what's going on with Mika, who regularly comes to the room of a middle-aged man with no luck, Katsumi uses his high-tech skills to peep into the girl's life, but he soon becomes obsessed with the girl's mysterious charms. What is Mika's true face that he finally sees?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-12
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Shikoku
Overview: Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayori, died several years ago and that Sayori's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has gone almost insane with grief. After seeing Sayori's ghost several times during the night, Hinako consults with some local experts on the paranormal and discovers that Sayori's mother has something planned for her daughter...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Tokyo Eyes
Overview: The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.
Genres: Romance Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-09
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Neck Bowed in the Rain
Overview: Baijaku Nakamura takes the lead in a film where he has to dodge pursuit from a hostile gang whilst also helping out a family of innocent people who run a noodle store. More importantly, this was one of Ren Osugi’s last films.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-21
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Box: The Hakamada Case
Overview: Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested for the June 10, 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka . Iwao Hakamada has always insisted on his innocence and many others also believe Iwao Hakamada has been falsely accused ...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-29
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Dear Friends
Overview: High school student Rina has a bad attitude and thinks that friends are something that you use when you need them. She doesn't have any real relationships and is not even on good terms with her parents. Rina is the clubbing queen and could get any guy she wants with her stunning looks. One day, Rina suddenly collapses and her world falls apart. She finds out that she has cancer. The only one who starts to support her is her classmate Maki. Maki tells that they were friends in primary school even though Rina doesn't remember. Maki wants to get close to Rina and help her like Rina had helped Maki when she had hard times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-03
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Playmate Murder Case Let Me Go to Heaven
Overview: 1990 Original Video.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-27
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New Gokudo Legend: Three Dragons
Overview: A full-scale drama that visualizes a feature-length novel by Koichi Iiboshi from "Battle Without Honor and Justice." It depicts a shocking rivalry set in Shinjuku, the largest entertainment district in Asia, such as robbery, kidnapping, theft, and the murder of a blue dragon sword. Show Aikawa enthusiastically plays a lone wolf gangster. Co-starring Hitoshi Ozawa and others.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Heisei Zankeiden : Battered Slash!
Overview: A man who was trapped by a gangster who was taken over by a sneaky means of life, such as a gangster and a gangster who disappeared from the screen with the era of his work. With the trampled step-in-law and streaks as shields, the last princes of Heisei who sought a place to die at the end show a fierce way of life!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-12
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Weather Woman
Overview: Keiko, a young, newly hired weather woman, is eager to give her channel's flagging ratings a boost. She decides a panty shot might do the trick, so during her forecast she lifts her skirt, thereby capturing the attention and the hearts of viewers. Keiko's stunt creates such a stir of excitement over the weather report that viewers begin religiously turning in to see what she'll do next. However, this showboating routine earns the ire of Kaori, the beautiful and ambitious daughter of JTV's chairman. Jealous of her success and aching to take over the weather report, Kaori is willing to do just about anything to get what she wants.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-16
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Fuckin' Runaway
Overview: Hana, 21-year old, is sent to a mental hospital for attempting a suicide. She suffers from hearing a deep male voice in her head almost everyday that goes, "Twenty yards of linen are worth one coat..." She gradually regains her peace of mind by traveling across Kyushu dragging with her Nagoyan, a guy from Nagoya who is suffering from depression. They take on their journey on Nagoyan's old faithful car, Luce.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-20
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Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
Overview: Tsukasa travels to his home world of the World of Decade, where he discovers the origin of his powers and his true heritage as the leader of Dai-Shocker. The film features all ten of the lead Heisei Kamen Riders, as well as all of the Shōwa period Kamen Riders, leading to a total of 25 Riders.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-08
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Smuggler
Overview: To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-22
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Spring Special
Overview: Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Kao wo Nusumareta (My Face was Stolen) - starring Inagaki Goro 2. Rental Love - starring Iijima Naoko 3. Oikaketai (I want to Chase [Him/Her]) - starring Kyono Kotomi 4. Chozeikin Taisaku Satsujin Jiken (Countering Excessive Taxation Murder Case) - starring Nishimura Masahiko 5. Kage no Kuni (The Country of Shadows) - starring Sakurai Sachiko
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-24
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Fall Special
Overview: Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. *Kagi (The Key) - starring Eguchi Yosuke. 2. Perfect Couple - starring Yada Akiko. 3. Toosugita Otoko (The Man Who Was Too Far Away) - starring Nakamura Shido. 4. Meiro (The Maze)- starring Tanihara Shosuke. 5. Kage ga Omonaru Toki (When Shadows Accumulate) - starring Yashima Norito. * Adapted from a novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-18
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About Love
Overview: Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person. The last one is set in Shanghai with a story about a Japanese man and a Chinese woman. Some of the characters can speak Japanese and some of them Mandarin. Each story encompasses an experience of a foreigner, either from Japan ,Taiwan or China, with a native of the opposite country.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-12
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The King of Minami: Sham Marriage
Overview: #11 in the series, after "Sweet Trap."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-03-11
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The Guard from Underground
Overview: A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.
Genres: Thriller Horror Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-16
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Bounty Dog WANTED!
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-03-01
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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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A New Love in Tokyo
Overview: A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an amateur theatre company along with the receptionist from Ayumi's escort service, while Ayumi is living with her student-boyfriend as he struggles to finally get accepted to college.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-12-17
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Running on Empty
Overview: The beautiful Azami is tired of her penniless and lazy boyfriend, Hideji. Determined to break up with him, she must first get back all the money she has given him over the years. She hatches a plot in which she fakes her own kidnapping to get Hideji to pay a ransom. Things get hilariously complicated when all parties involved act to their own agendas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-20
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Wandering Brain
Overview: A psychological suspense based on the novel of the same name by Naoki Prize-winning author Tsuyoshi Osaka. Psychiatrist Aiko Minamikawa was asked to conduct a psychiatric evaluation on a man named Oiwake who assaulted a woman. At that time, a series of murders targeting women who cut off her eyelids after killing them occurred.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-12-04
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Doing Time
Overview: A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-14
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Bodyguard Kiba
Overview: Naoto Kiba takes on the task of protecting thug Junpei who embezzled 500 million yen from Okinawa's largest gangster gangs, Soryu-kai.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-25
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Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex
Overview: Set in the near future after a nuclear war, the film portrays a man who is searching for his former lover.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-20
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Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
Overview: Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-04-05
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Hitozuma ryôjoku
Overview: Pink film by Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-01
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Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits
Overview: An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a secret conversation between three men, just like him, hiding from the rain. These three conspired to kill Heizo Hasegawa, the head of the arson and robbery police squad, and the head of these three is the outrageous villain, thief and murderer Jingoro Amikiri...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-17
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Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
Overview: 5th installment of the Pantsu no ana video series released by BOMB magazine
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-08
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GTO: New Year's Special
Overview: A mother leaves three kids in the care of Saejima and it's up to Onizuka and the gang to track her down. Meanwhile Miki is having some problems with her dad all the while a handsome and mysterious cram school teacher appears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-02
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Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground
Overview: A female photographer seduces men to kill them for her pleasure.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Arigato, Okan
Overview: Hanako is a mother, who was not enthusiastic when her husband took in two foster children some years ago. He died not long afterward, leaving her alone to care for the youngsters, Koya and Torataro, a task that she rose to with a passion. As the two boys graduate from high school, Hanako has become not only a devoted parent but the neighborhood's most reliable mother in the Osaka style: strong, responsible, irreverent. After the two boys leave school they also leave home, though Torataro continues to work in the family factory. Koya secures employment at a restaurant, where he is forced to put up with the bullying of an older colleague. Unable to take it any more, he runs away, and Hanako and Torataro look for him. They eventually find him pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-06
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XX: Beautiful Prey
Overview: This Japanese thriller finds a sexy policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investigation has led her to a seductive sadist and his equally appealing masochist victim. Falling prey to her suspects' powerful allure, she struggles to extricate herself from an increasingly torrid affair to solve the mystery she set out to investigate.
Genres: Thriller Action Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-17
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Bayside Shakedown The Final: The New Hope
Overview: Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days, Shunsaku Aoshima and his colleagues struggle to unravel the case...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Kumamoto Stories
Overview: Jidai-geki period / folklore type stories that were comissioned by the Kumamoto prefacture of Kyushu island in 1996 and filmed over a period of three years. Kumamoto Monogatari is a 2002 omnibus which includes the three short films: Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu, Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta, Onna Kunishuu Ikki.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-20
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Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 3
Overview: Sawamura, a contract part-timer dragged into a multi-million yen internet business, and Kamo, an office worker who lavished money on a beautiful club hostess, arrive at Cowcow Finance, the office of black-market lender Ushijima.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-22
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Sunday's Dream
Overview: Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy regarding redundancy. However, Shinobu soon gets remarried to Sakamoto depriving Kazuya of a place to stay. He then meets Sachiko who works in a salon where sexual pleasure is offered to men. They promise to have a date on the next Sunday by the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-22
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I Am an S+M Writer
Overview: Kurosaki is an erotic novelist who uses his editor and a hired model to act out scenarios in his living room to use for inspiration in his writing. His wife Shizuko calls him a pervert but on the inside, she feels physically neglected. She tries to make him jealous, while also going after what she desires with someone else.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-02
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The Unbroken
Overview: Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head office after ten years, and continues to struggle. When a National Air Line plane is involved in the worst air disaster in Japanese history, he is assigned to console and provide restitution to the families of the victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-23
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Bayside Shakedown
Overview: Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-31
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School Days with a Pig
Overview: A sixth grade teacher raises a pig with his class.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-31
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Blindly in Love
Overview: Kentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When Kentaro’s parents set up an arranged marriage interview with a girl named Nahoko and her parents, he falls in love for the first time in his life. However, the pair soon run into unexpected obstacles. Nahoko is vision impaired and can’t seem to break free of her doting parents. Meanwhile, Kentaro has no idea how to deal with the surge of new emotions he’s feeling.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-08
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Jingi 13: Hell's Tomb Mark
Overview: After the internal conflict in the Kanto Ichienkai that was once caused by the Takayama group, until the reconstruction of the Takayama group, the Shima of the Takayama group was kept by the sand group led by Hitoshi Yoshiro. There was a group that was aiming at the sima. The Wuryukai under the same Kanto Ichienkai. After the death of his predecessor, this group, who made a name for himself as a servant, began to repeat dirty business after the young head Tange took over his mark. The sand group and the Wuryukai are in conflict over the Shima of the Takayama group. At that time, Kihara, an old friend of the dragon society, comes from Jin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-27
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The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
Overview: Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues. In actuality, the firing is part of a carefully orchestrated plan to set him up as an undercover cop in the Yakuza.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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Gappie, Wear a Tie this Summer
Overview: It is a youth group of third-class university students struggling to get a job at a first-class company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-31
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Loft
Overview: A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly discovered mummy and a ghostly presence in her house.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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Shojo bôkô: Sakareta niku
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-11
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special
Overview: Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Mushi Game (Ignore the Game) - starring Uchiyama Rina 2. Okashina Machi (Funny Town) - starring Yanagiba Toshiro 3. Tokage no Shippo (Lizard's Tail) - starring Kashiwabara Takashi 4. Yogisha no Otoko (Man's Night Train) - starring Osugi Ren 5. Manhole - starring Kagawa Teruyuki
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Thriller Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-03-27
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Kuma-chan
Overview: Kuma-chan, an alien who looks just like a stuffed bear, helps a middle-aged sculptor fall in love with a young actress from a theater company.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-04-24
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My SO Has Got Depression
Overview: Mikio is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio's wife is Haruko. They have been married for 5 years. Haruko draws comics for work, but they do not sell well. She mainly relied on Mikio for support. Meanwhile, Haruko did not notice any changes in her husband. She begins to blame herself for not noticing any signs. Mikio's depression derived from his work. His company has been pressing him to quit the company. After Mikio quits his job his condition improves, but the dynamics of their relationship changes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-08
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Perfect Blue
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-18
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Devoted Cookbook
Overview: It is the Spring of 1814. The restaurant “Tsuru-ka” is gaining much popularity after its chef, Mio, won the prestigious cooking competition. One day, the owner of “Tsuru-ka”, Taneichi, employed young Fuki to be the attendant for customers’ shoes. Mio could fully empathize with young Fuki, who was an orphan and yet was courageous enough to survive on her own. Around the same time, the famous novelist Seiemon started coming to “Tsuru-ka”. Even though Seiemon criticized Mio’s cooking each time, he always returned to the restaurant daily.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-08
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Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 1
Overview:
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-23
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Kahanshin Shôkôgun
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-03
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Rookies the Movie: Graduation
Overview: Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games. Composed of student delinquents, Futakotamagawa High's new Literature teacher Kawato Koichi inspires the Baseball Club to believe in a dream goal once again. For them, it is to play at the Koshien - Japan's National High School Baseball Championship. But, Kawato Koichi and the newly reformed baseball team run into plenty of obstacles along the way...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-30
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April Bride
Overview: On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but keeps the information from her boyfriend. When he finds out, he decides to plan a wedding even though she only has one month to live. Based on the true story of Chie Nagashima, a women afflicted with breast cancer and her husband Taro Akasu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-09
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Flying Rabbits
Overview: Yukari always wanted to become a flight attendant and has just been hired by Japan Airlines. However, due to an unexpected mistake, she has also been recruited to the company's basketball team (the JAL "Rabbits") despite being a lousy at basketball. Forced to divide her time between job training and playing basketball, Yukari makes an increasing amount of mistakes in both areas. Frustrated, she nearly gives up on her dream career, but somehow finds the strength to keep trying both in the skies and on the court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-13
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What I Long For
Overview: High school student Juri leaps to her death. Afterwards, Juri wanders to her house, school and street. She feels loneliness as nobody else is able to see her. She talks to those that she comes across including her mother and classmates, but nobody responds to her comments. Juri then sees a horrifying monster, which she never saw prior to her suicide. She calls the scary monster "Bug Man". When the mind of humans become weak, the Bug Man tempts those to commit suicide. One day, Juri walks along the street as usual. She then meets a girl that is able to see Juri. Juri names the girl Ringo-chan and plays at the park with her. Their happy moments does not last long. When they come back from the park, Juri sees Ringo-chan's mother with a grim face. The Bug Man is standing behind her mother.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-31
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Hana's Miso Soup
Overview: Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes one day when he meets the irrepressible Matsunaga Chie by accident. Just as their relationship is blossoming however, Chie tells Shingo that she has breast cancer. Shingo determines to marry Chie right away, but she'll have to go through surgery and cancer treatments firs...
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-30
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L'amant
Overview: When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom she calls A. B and C) keep shifting in ways that redefine power and sex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-05
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Toruko Document: ogon no kuchibiru
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-04
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Porno document: Toruko tokkyû bin
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-02-26
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UNFAIR: the movie
Overview: When a devoted detective probes the suspicious death of her father, she uncovers massive corruption and finds herself in grave danger.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-17
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Document porno: Shufu baishun o oe!
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-08
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Seifuku baishun: Shôgeki no technique
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-02-06
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Kahanshin report: Atsuku kanjiru
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Document porno: Chikan jôshûsha
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-11
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Document porn: Zetsugi ni naku
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-06-12
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Crying 100 Times - Every Raindrop Falls
Overview: Shuichi had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi has a fateful meeting with Yoshimi. They enjoy happy times together and Shuichi thinks about marrying Yoshimi. Then Yoshimi becomes sick. A sad truth is hidden in the lost memory of Shuichi.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-22
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Dead Run
Overview: Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-17
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License to Live
Overview: Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Charisma
Overview: A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-10
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Black Angel
Overview: Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his daughter, Chiaki. Only the mysterious Ikko, Chiaki's half-sister threatens him. Inspired by a legendary hit-woman, Ikko calls herself the Black Angel and plans to wash away her father's murderer with a deluge of blood.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-30
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The Goofball
Overview: Hisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a housewife who constantly shoplifts at the supermarket he regularly goes. He somehow agrees to help her to look for her run-away son, Masaru. Unfortunate to Hisashi, Masaru starts following his around instead of returning home, after he was found by Hisashi. Then they end up stealing a gun from a police officer! In their course of running away, the similar two who cannot adapt to society very well start to develop a mutual friendship…
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-06-27
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GO
Overview: Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-20
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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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Dangan Runner
Overview: A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience store. The store's clerk, a washed-up rock star, chases the thief and literally runs into a Yakuza to whom he owes money. Thus begins an all-night, three-way pursuit through the streets of Tokyo.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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The Lightning Tree
Overview: Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouting out cherry blossoms). The young woman lived freely in the mountains after she was abducted as a young child. The couple soon fall in love under the Raiou tree, but become acutely aware of their different social positions & the ramifications it has on their relationship.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-22
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Fireworks from the Heart
Overview: On September 9th, the day of the Katakai Fireworks Festival, high school student Hana comes home from the hospital after six months of treatment for leukemia. She then discovers that her older brother Taro has become a social recluse. Taro used to be tender, smart and proud of his younger sister, but now he even turns his back on her and stays in his room. With Hana's help Taro slowly opens up to the world again. Then, with winter approaching, Hana has a relapse with her leukemia. Taro comes to the hospital everyday to visit Hana and soon learns that the Katakai Fireworks Festival is a symbol of happiness for Hana. Taro then takes the initiative to make Hana happy and approaches the town's youth group once more for admittance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-25
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Yellow Elephant
Overview: Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while Ayumu works as a not so popular novelist. One day, a letter arrives for Ayumu. Because of this letter, the couple become estranged...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-02
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Beautiful Mystery
Overview: Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takizawa, takes a liking to the new recruit. After an early “special” training session the two develop a lasting and loving relationship.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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Beauty Rope Cosmetology
Overview: A wealthy college girl is snatched off the streets by a pair of S&M professionals. They methodically break her will with the extensive use of bondage and erotic devices. But who has hired them and for what perverse reason?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-02
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Empire of Kids
Overview: Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi Masu). He's greeted by his friends, Chabo (Ryusuke Matsumoto) and Ken (Bang-ho Cho). They seek to forge their own path through a multitude of rival gangs in Kita and Minami, including the Hokushin Alliance, backed by the yakuza, the Hope Association, and various other minor factions, including Zainichi Korean groups. What follows is a wild, fast-paced story of violence, revenge, betrayal, and discrimination, that never loses its sense of humor.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-07-04
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Abnormal Family
Overview: The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other hand, has an affair with a dominatrix and is obsessed in S&M games.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-06-05
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The Hit-and-Run Family
Overview: Set in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems facing modern Japanese families. Hiroshi accidentally hits a young woman with his car and flees in panic. He confesses to his wife, Yoko, who persuades him to keep quiet as his arrest would mean the end for their already troubled family. Their daughter is having an affair with a married man, their son is being bullied and refusing to go to school and their grandfather is becoming more difficult. Yoko urges the family to move the car into the living room in order to destroy the evidence by taking it apart. Hiroshi finally decides to do the honest thing but a series of bizarre incidents then ensues...
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-19
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We're No Angels
Overview: Rikiya Yasuoka, Ren Ōsugi and Junji Inagawa star in this early straight to video effort from Takashi Miike. Joe (Yasuoka), a lumbering tough guy with a heart of gold, is fresh out of prison, but it's not long before he lands himself in trouble again. The courier company he works for is attacked by a local yakuza gang. Joe takes matters into his own hands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-29
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XX: Beautiful Weapon
Overview: A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her "clients" / targets that she shoots right after having sex with them in her completely darkened bedroom.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-12-22
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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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Requiem from the Darkness: Kowai
Overview:
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-27
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Overview: Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-22
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Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
Overview: After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-07-23
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Falling into the Evening
Overview: Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she caused during a shoot for a commercial in which Kengo's good friend, Shibata, nearly lost his life. The memory of this event weighs heavily on Rica's conscience. One night Kengo tells Rica that he has fallen in love with a charming but inscrutable woman named Hanako.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-07
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Fishes in August
Overview: A refined psychological portrait of youths on their way to maturity
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Kewaishi
Overview: Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival and won the award for Best Screenplay at the 14th Tokyo International Film Festival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-09
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Tracing Jake
Overview: Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to travel around the world, listening to the testimonies of various people of different ages, nationalities, and sighting situations who have seen "Jake".
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-07
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Requiem from the Darkness: Hinoenma
Overview:
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-26
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Stereo Future
Overview: Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film’s obnoxious ham of a star.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-05
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Red Moon
Overview: Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery "Morita Brewery". Eventually, they succeeded in this business and lived happily while raising three children. However, in August 1945, the situation changed completely due to the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-07
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The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
Overview: Remake of a hit film from 1990, "The Cherry Orchard" which Nakahara himself directed, based on a popular comic book from Akimi Yoshida. The story takes place at a prestigious girls high school where everyone is oppressed with rules. One girl who just transferred to this school finds a long lost script of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" which was banned from school 11 years ago. Breaking strict school rules and boundaries, she and her friends decide to perform the play. With sentiment, love and passion, the girls cherish the moment of their life before taking the next step towards adulthood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-08
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Takeshis'
Overview: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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R246 STORY
Overview: The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.7 kilometers long Route 246 passes through Japanese trendsetting areas such as Aoyama, Omotesando, Harajuku, and Shibuya, on its way to Numazu City in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-23
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Where The Legend Lives
Overview: Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted from a day when he discovered ancient ceramics while repairing railroad tracks. Now completely blind, Kohei relies on his wife (Sayuri Yoshinaga) to guide him through the country and read the maps in their pursuit of Yamatai.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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GS Wonderland
Overview: "GS Wonderland" is about the 1960's Group Sounds bands - A Japanese pop movement inspired by the Beatles and other mid-1960's Brit Pop. Three young men set out to start their own band "The Diamonds" when they are signed to a recording contract during their very first rehearsal. Things turn for the unexpected when their agent brings Mick (Chiaki Kuriyama) into the group as their keyboardist.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-15
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Tokyo Rhapsody
Overview: "Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the music that defined two generations of post-war Japan. Although the term survives, it has a strong connotation with a simpler, pre-"Economic Bubble" era when Japanese people shared a common identity in the reconstruction of their nation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-12
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Making of Zebraman
Overview: A documentary on the making of “Zebraman” directed by Takashi Miike.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-15
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Overview: Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-18
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Utsutsu
Overview: A mysterious woman approaches a salaried man who leads a peaceful family life and tells him, "Your wife is having an affair with my husband." From this mysterious woman's words, the gears of a man's destiny begin to go mad.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-06-01
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Chasuke's Journey
Overview: Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in heaven is lived out below. And their employer, God, is increasingly vehement in demanding avant-garde ideas. Take, for example, the beautiful Yuri, a girl who dies in a car crash. Some of the heavenly scribes find this very dull and send former gangster Chas, who has become a heavenly tea-boy, back down to earth with instructions to save Yuri no matter what. And so Chas ends up in Okinawa, gets to know the earth-dwellers, interferes in their fates, becomes celebrated as 'Mr Angel' and is hounded by brutal enemies. His falling in love with Yuri is of course a foregone conclusion. But no one could anticipate what happens next. Not even God himself
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-27
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The River with No Bridge
Overview: A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are continuously harassed by their teachers and classmates through their childhood as a result of their Buraku heritage. In the midst of the 1918 Great Rice Riots in Osaka, Seitaro meets with Asako, the daughter of a rice shop owner, and falls in love with her. She too is of Buraku descent. At the same period, Hideaki, an old friend of the brothers returns to Komori, and he along with Koji and the townspeople create "Zenkoku Suiheisha", the National Levelers Association, an organization pledged to build a bridge over the river of discrimination, making all people equal in every way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-23
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Nekonade
Overview: The highly disciplined human resources manager Taro Onizuka starts to heal and change as he raises the kitten he found in a park.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-28
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Glory to the Filmmaker!
Overview: Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-02
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Sabu
Overview: When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-14
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Revolver - Blue Spring
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-01
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Fancy Dance
Overview: Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-23
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Achilles and the Tortoise
Overview: Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-20
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Tattoo
Overview: An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-05
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Blessing Bell
Overview: Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-08
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Yakuza Taxi
Overview: The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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This is Bonjingumi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-02-25
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続・こちら凡人組
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-25
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Kirikomi
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-08
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Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary
Overview: Warriors called "Saints" are the champions of hope who have always appeared since the Age of Myth whenever evil threatens the world. In this present day story, many years since the long fought "Holy War" we find Saori Kido, a girl troubled by her mysterious powers. She is saved by a boy, Seiya "Bronze Saint" from a sudden attack by an assassin, through the accident Saori realizes her destiny and mission and decides to go to "Sanctuary" with Seiya and his company of Bronze Saints. In Sanctuary they confront "Pope" and wage a desperate battle against the greatest Saints, the "Gold Saints".
Genres: Action Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-21
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Kagura Me
Overview: A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death, until they reconnect over the very same dance.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-24
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Maji! 6: Raging Fire
Overview: Shirogane Maji (Tamotsu Ishibashi), now the head of the Kozugumi, is summoned by Akame Shinzan, the Kozugumi's substitute lender, and is told that there is a movement to revive the Shuyukai, which had been under excommunication. The new Shuyukai is headed by former Shuyukai executive Mikogami (Ryuji Katagiri), who is the new head of the group at the behest of Hirojikai chairman Taichi Hirosaki (Ren Osugi), who bears the same cursive badge of wind as Honkaku. Hirozaki has only one goal: to eliminate Motoki, who has quickly risen to the same position as himself. Immediately, Hirozaki orders Mikogami to begin raiding the territory of the child gang.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-26
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Delivery of Death
Overview: Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an ex-bureaucrat and was recently released from prison. 7 years ago, Shohei was arrested for embezzling 1 billion yen. The investigation seven years ago was able to track down 700 million yen but unable to locate the remaining 300 million yen. Now, the chief editor is sure Shohei will go to wherever the remaining 300 million yen is hidden.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-30
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Matsumoto Seicho Special: Blue Dab
Overview: The sudden death of a journalist stirs up young editor Noriko's curiosity. While investigating the case, Noriko uncovers the dark secrets hidden behind the journalist's death and its relationship to a popular female novelist.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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Japan Lies: The Photojournalism of Kikujiro Fukushima, Age 90
Overview: Documentary on photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-04
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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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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
Overview: Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-12
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Love Letter
Overview: A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-23
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The Interrogator Special
Overview: Yukiko Makabe is the only female interrogator in a department full of men. Their job is to question suspects immediately after a crime, using interrogation skills and psycho-analysis to solve crimes. As the only female in the department, Yukiko has a different perspective and style from her colleagues. This brings her success in her interrogations of suspects, but Yukiko continues to be troubled by an unsolved cold case from years ago.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-27
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Hypnosis
Overview: Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife's birthday. A middle aged detective investigating one of the cases begins to suspect a connection between the three when he discovers that each person mentioned a "green monkey" before they died. With the help of a young psychiatrist he formulates the theory that hypnosis is somehow involved. In the mean time other bizarre "suicides" are reported and the mystery intensifies. Who will be next? What is the truth? Can more deaths be prevented?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-06-05
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Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
Overview: A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-23
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Persona
Overview: Into the bully-infested home room class struts a fearless, ceramic-masked student. Squarely confronting a gang of ruffians, it is soon discovered that behind the mask is none other than Danta, an otherwise weakling student who has heretofore been picked on relentlessly by these same bullies. Donned with his mask, however, Danta exhibits a totally other personality, lacking fear and intimidation. The other students, looking on, soon experiment with the power of masks and find to their glee that behind a facade of anonymity, they experience an overwhelming power to act without the confines of self-consciousness.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-05
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USB
Overview: Yuichiro wants to be an film director but his widowed mother wants him to become a doctor. As radiation leaks permeate the city, he tries to clear his debts by signing up for a dangerous medical experiment...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-06
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Jam Films S
Overview: Jam Films S is a Japanese omnibus movie. It was released by Phantom FIlm in Japan on January 15, 2005. The movie follows 2002’s Jam Films and its 2004 sequel Jam Films 2. This time around, the overall theme is “S” which stands for succession, success, and special. There are seven shorts, all produced by Ryuhei Kitamura. Included are the shorts Tuesday by Kenji Sonoda, Heaven Sent by Ryuichi Takatsu, Blouse by Hitoshi Ishikawa, New Horizon by Ryo Teshima, Suberidai by Yuichi Abe, Alpha by Daisaburo Harada, and Suit by Masaki Hamamoto.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-15
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Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
Overview: In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his lord’s commands. This is the tragic story of one such loyal samurai, whose love for his family forced him to make the ultimate choice of disobeying the wishes of his lord.
Genres: Drama History Action TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-09
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Akko's Secret
Overview: 5th-grader Atsuko Kagami, nicknamed Akko, comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Wanting to grow up beautiful, she gets a job at a cosmetics company, and finds true love. What will Akko do to keep the company afloat and her secrets hidden? Only her technical magical compact can help!
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-31
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Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
Overview: Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to provide a rare glimpse into the life of one of Japan’s most acclaimed screen directors. Includes archival footage from 49 of the films he produced during his career at Shochiku.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-01
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Bitter Honey
Overview: Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and adoring pet for an aging writer seeking greatness. Things quickly get complicated for the odd couple, however, when the writer's deceased former student/lover enters the picture as a ghost and helps Akako realize her own desires, activating her agency and frustrating the one-sided male fantasy the writer is so keen to continue.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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1778 Stories of Me and My Wife
Overview: Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation. Since that time, the couple has always been together and eventually married.One day, Setsuko complains of a stomach ache and is hospitalized. Sakutaro then learns that his wife has colon cancer. Sakutaro takes the advice from his doctor that laughter helps the immune system and proceeds to write a short story for his wife every day. At first, Setsuko was expected to live for only 1 more year, but she lived for 5 more years and Sakutaro eventually wrote 1,778 short stories for his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-16
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Nowhere Man
Overview: Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-02
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Gene Waltz
Overview: Doctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in a challenging environment with clinics shutting down due to lack of doctors and the system itself breaking down. Dr. Rie then helps an infertile woman conceive with a surrogate mother which is prohibited in Japan...
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-05
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Shin Godzilla
Overview: When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-29
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The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
Overview: One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya), only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name. Is Muroi guilty as charged or merely taking the fall? What is the truth behind the murder? Two lawyers, one determined to get Muroi, the other resolved to save him, a feud between two police departments, political power plays and legal trappings, all combine to orchestrate Muroi’s downfall.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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The Land of Rain Trees
Overview: Nobuyuki Sakisaka (Yuta Tamamori) is a salaryman. When he was in middle school student, he read light novel "Fairy Game”. He still has that light novel, because he was so shocked by the ending. One day, Nobuyuki Sakisaka browses the internet and comes across the blog "Rein Tsuri no Kuni.” He learns that the blog writer, Rika Hitomi (Mariya Nishiuchi), also was shocked by the ending in light novel "Fairy Game." Nobuyuki and Rika soon begin to exchange emails. Nobuyuki wants to meet Rika, but she refuses due to her secret.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-21
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A Drop of the Grapevine
Overview: Two brothers work at a small winery in Hokkaido in northern Japan. The older brother is picky and strives for the highest quality to make the best wine possible.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-11
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Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Blood
Overview: Ten years after his greatest triumph, Yabuki has lost the Mafia that was once his to rule. But when a young gangster comes to him for guidance, he discovers that the old rage still burns. It's time for Yabuki's final stand and one last blaze of glory!
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-24
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The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Overview: Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-03-01
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Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting
Overview: A woman is raped on a crowded subway but no one reports it to the police. A TV studio exploits the incident to boost ratings. Even the reporter sent to interview the gang members who committed the crime is victimized.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-07
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Snake Hole
Overview: Due to a past trauma an elegant wife cannot enjoy her husband attentions in bed. Undeterred he hires a B&D master to give him a few pointers on how to reignite her repressed erotic desires.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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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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Door III
Overview: Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets her plenty of gropers but no buyers. One day while venturing down a narrow stairwell, she injures her ankle and happens upon Mitsuru who works for some mysterious foreign company. Decked out in high goth style -- complete with long inky black hair and mascaraed eyes -- Mitsuru cuts quite an odd figure, yet his seductive though menacing ways make him difficult for Miyako to resist. Escorting her to his office to treat her ankle, Miyako notices that his all-female staff seem more glassy-eyed and soul-deadened than the average office workers. In fact, they seem almost like zombies. Later, weird things start happening. Mitsuko finds vomit on her doorstep, she seems to be tailed by a shadowy woman in a red dress, and most strikingly, she finds herself utterly powerless against Mitsuru's advances.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-04-13
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Shall We Dance?
Overview: A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-27
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Dolls
Overview: Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-12
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Dance till Tomorrow
Overview: Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-22
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Kamen Rider #1
Overview: 45 years ago, a man was subjected to the experiments of the secret organization Shocker and became a cyborg. Since that day, the man's sole mission has been protecting humanity and justice from the threat of Shocker. His name is Takeshi Hongo, the first Kamen Rider. After a long battle overseas, Hongo hears a certain girl is in danger and immediately returns to Japan. He then meets Takeru Tenkuji, Kamen Rider Ghost, who had been investigating the girl's whereabouts.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-26
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25
Overview: Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups and seize their money. One day, the Chief of Police becomes aware that 2.5 million yen in seized money is missing. He orders Shintarou and Koichi to bring the money in by tomorrow morning. Shintarou and Koichi are in big trouble. They then read an article about a pension fund embezzlement case involving 6 billion yen. The prime suspect of the pension fund embezzlement case spent most of that money, but he has 2.5 billion yen left.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-01
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Wangan Midnight 4
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-11
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MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
Overview: Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-29
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君の望む死に方
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Original Language: ja
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Wangan Midnight
Overview: Direct to video adaptation of the comic by Michiharu Kusunoki.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-13
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Don't Look Up
Overview: On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai, is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring actresses, Hitomi Kurokawa and Saori Murakami, play sisters in his film. Murai has a crush on Hitomi, the seasoned leading actress, and keeps a photo of her by his bed. The younger and less experienced actress, Saori, is annoying and likes to have recess on the set. The production of the movie is consistently interrupted by strange occurrences and the cast and crew begin to get spooked.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Girl Mistress
Overview: An older yakuza man falls in love with Seru, a high school girl. When he is put in prison, Seru begins working as a prostitute to earn money for the gangster's parole. During her yakuza lover's incarceration, Seru gains a new, young boyfriend. The yakuza discovers the new boyfriend after he is released from prison. Realizing that she will have a better life with her new boyfriend who is not associated with the yakuza, he sacrifices his love for Seru and gives her up.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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The Night the Angel Turned Away
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-10
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Rush!
Overview: A wacky tale of two guys, one Korean and one Japanese who, mistaken for a couple of murderers, take to their heels, thus starting off a adrenaline-pumping (and often zany) adventure with a distorted sense of time.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-23
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Outrage Coda
Overview: Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-07
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Will You Marry My Wife?
Overview: Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He decides to concentrate on the future of his beloved family. Shuji Mimura's final plan is to find the best man to marry his wife Ayako.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-05
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What the War Meant
Overview: The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month period between the Imperial Conference (Gozen Kaigi) on September 6, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-24
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Kaze no Tayori
Overview: Kurumi suddenly gave up opening a cafe with her friend. She hears that her grandfather Takeshi collapsed and goes to visit him in her hometown of Sendai. Takeshi entrusts Kurumi to open a cafe which closed temporarily due to the earthquake, but Kurumi doesn't know what to do. Takeshi hopes Kurumi finds her own way to live. There's not much time left for Takeshi and Kurumi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-30
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Yakuza Ladies: Decision
Overview: Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by greedy Nagoshi, the boss of their rival yakuza family. She has to make a decision to revenge Nagoshi.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-17
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Monster
Overview: A woman has an ugly face. She has been called 'monster' since childhood. A case occurs in her town that leads to her being ejected and a relocation to Tokyo. She obtains plastic surgery and begins working as a prostitute. She makes some dough and extends the plastic surgery to her entire body. She changes her name and begins a new life. The perfect body leads her to think about men and her hometown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-27
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Yakuza Ladies Neo
Overview: Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named Sakura Nishizawa (Rina Koike), who is chased by Azami (Natsuki Harada). Azami is the wife of Kato (Masayuki Imai), boss of the Kato gang in the Saikyo Alliance. Years ago, Azami's lover was murdered by Mitsuru Kiba. To get revenge, she married Kato. Through the girl Sakura Nishizawa, Kotone and Azami unexpectedly meet and become involved in a large conspiracy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-08
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Crazy Lips
Overview: After her brother is accused of murdering four people, his sister, desperate to prove his innocence, goes to a psychic for help. The price they ask, however, is far more than she expected, and the answers they give her are nothing she could ever have imagined. And what is the FBI doing investgating a murder in Japan?
Genres: Comedy Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-26
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Teacher and Three Children
Overview: The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-27
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It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
Overview: A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-15
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Dog Race
Overview: Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't play by the rules. He busts a drug ring, but not before sampling a few of the wares, and he closes down an underaged prostitution ring after enjoying the company of a school girl hooker. One of duties is to shake down sniveling Korean gangster Hideyoshi (Ren Osugi) for information. In spite of their positions on opposite sides of the law, the two discover that they share a fair amount in common. A disregard for the law and the love of a comely prostitute from China named Momo-chan (Makoto Togashi). Though Hideyoshi is running an illegal alien smuggling ring with her and has lusted for her from a far for quite a while, Nakayama manages to bed her first. When she does finally appear in Hideyoshi's bed, she's unfortunately a corpse.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-26
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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
Overview: A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How did this woman know the novel is serialized in the newspaper? And why does she want to start reading it in the middle of the story? Which article was she actually interested in? Sugimoto cannot help making his own investigations about Yoshiko, but the more he searches, the more astonishing facts come to light...
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-12
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Men of Rage
Overview: The second installment of a V-Cinema sports drama, directed by Kurosawa in 1994, following "打鐘" (Dakan) from 1993, which was based on Yamamoto's manga and directed by Komatsu Takashi. While there is no direct narrative connection between the two films, they share thematic similarities. The protagonist, Wataru Tachibana, a self-destructive yet genius keirin cyclist, is once again passionately portrayed by Nishimura. This time, Wataru fiercely competes against a rival known as the "Prince of Keirin," who is also the heir of a powerful conglomerate. Kurosawa directs with intense and dramatic storytelling, capturing the protagonist’s burning determination.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero
Overview: Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-21
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble
Overview: Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Nouveau Riche
Overview: A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-07
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The Chaplain
Overview: Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better person. He is a good communicator with the death-row convicts assigned to solitary cells. Saeki agonizes over whether his words really touches the prisoners and whether he is doing the right thing. Saeki also faces his past which he wants to forget. --asianwiki
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-06
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Specialist
Overview: Kusanagi plays a police detective who gets framed for a crime he didn't commit and had to spend the last 10 years in prison. However, he regains his job as a police officer and makes use of his specialized knowledge on criminal psychology to solve difficult cases.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-18
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Specialist 2
Overview: A mysterious code written with letters and numbers is found on a street in Kyoto. Yoshito Takuma (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and Chinami Anekoji (Kaho Minami) begin to investigate. They discover that something happened at the place where the code was found on stickers and they also discover a dead body. A man known as "Writer" is suspected of being the culprit. To find the man known as "Writer," Yoshito Takuma infiltrates into Shiga central prison. --asianwiki
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-08
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Specialist 3
Overview: Shu Kubota is killed by someone with a baseball bat. A metal bat and an old toy are found at the crime scene. Detective Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) with the special investigation unit goes to the crime scene to investigate. There, Detective Yoshito realizes that he made the old toy about 10 years ago when he worked at the public relations divsion of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Department. Detective Yoshito decides to solve the case by himself and without the help of his partner Detective Chinami (Kaho Minami). --asianwiki
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-28
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Specialist 4
Overview: Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) becomes famous in Kyoto because of his ability to solve cases. The special investigation unit receives a request to investigate a case revolving around the kidnapping of a costumed performer. He plays a non-official character of the Arashiyama area, located on the western outskirts of Kyoto. Nobody takes the kidnapping case seriously, but Yoshito says the case could be real and it might be related to a crowdfunding site.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-12
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Avec mon Mari
Overview: Mitsuko has a prestigious job as an editor at a publishing company, while her husband Tomatsu works as a freelance photographer, but he spends all of his time taking care of housework. One day, Mitsuko suspects Tomatsu is having an affair with Mayu, a model, and immediately throws him out. With no place to go, he moves in with Mayu, disrupting her affair with Nakazaki, who happens to work with Mitsuko.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-06
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Travail
Overview: Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both are also unsatisfied with their partners — Asami is in a slump and is danger of slipping into the C League and she blames her husband Kazuya, and Rina is tired of her boyfriend Hiroki, an unsuccessful musician.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-03-23
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1990 botan-dôrô
Overview: Adaptation of the traditional Japanese ghost story The Peony Lantern.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-13
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Her Island, My Island
Overview: A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-02-15
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Chikan to sukāto
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-05-11
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Our Season
Overview: A gay couple is on good terms with each other. They run a shot bar together and are enjoying their love. Their father was also once a lover, and they vowed to be together in the future, but they split up due to the barriers of the world. They are determined not to follow in the footsteps of their father. One day, at their restaurant, the two fathers meet again for the first time in decades. At first they are at odds with each other, but then the love they once had for each other comes back to life...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-11-01
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The Rape
Overview: Saeko works at a bar, and she is waitng for her lover Huyuhiko who was jailed. One day, Huyuhiko comes back. He starts working, but soon he quit the job and grow desperate. Saeko supports Huyuhiko, but because of the debt, she was raped...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Teacher, Don't Turn Me On!
Overview: Two high school girls, an older sister and a married woman all vie for the attention of a tutor. Needless to say not much studying gets done.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-10-20
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Murder Credit - Final Destination Series
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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For Love's Sake
Overview: Shiori is a star university student with an incredible palate for wine who dreams of studying winemaking in France. However, to her dismay she is assigned to a rural sake brewery for her internship. To make matters worse, upon arrival she discovers that the brewery owners don’t exactly want her around. However, as it becomes clear that Shiori will be sticking around, she tries to make the best of things and begins to pitch in at the brewery, perhaps even warming up to the idea of drinking sake. And when the brewery owner falls gravely ill, and his upstart son Kanji is forced to take the lead, Shiori may provide the spark that can save the brewery and change her own life in the process..
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-20
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The Wicked Reporter
Overview: Matsuzaki is a racing tipster for a sports paper, a lowlife who spends half his time drunk, hangs out with yakuza and other riff-raff, and complicates his sex life by succumbing to advances from his girlfriend's sister.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-19
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Subway Serial Rape
Overview: A man with a briefcase is being pursued by a small yakuza gang. After abandoning his vehicle, the man boards a train where he and the other passengers watch a woman being assaulted by three thugs. Intimidated, the commuters do nothing to help. Later, the victim reports the incident to the police and a witness finally comes forward. When the man hears about rape on the news he takes steps to protect his identity and begins to track the victim.
Genres: Drama Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-05-22
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Prime Minister's Office Lady
Overview: A woman, disguised as an office lady, takes revenge for her dead lover.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-09-21
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Overview: Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off of the money earned by his girlfriend and is more interested in trying to look cool than anything else. He meets Yumeko (Chikako Aoyama), an innocent but dangerous narcoleptic runaway, after she steals his car, and she soon moves in with him. Following the assassination of a high-ranking member by the Kazama Family, Junko is called on to be the lookout while the family gets revenge. However, the other men quickly "zoom", or escape from their duty, leaving the task to Junko. Will he take out Kazama, or will he zoom?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Overview: In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to feel homesick, and returns home to find that almost everything has changed. Noriko is now a bar mama with a lavish lifestyle, Yumeko is nowhere to be found, and his boss (Toru Minegishi) seems to have sinister plans involving Junko and his uncle (Jo Shishido).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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The Vancouver Asahi
Overview: In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of their Caucasian counterparts. But one thing made their lives worth living: baseball. They may be the underdogs, but the Vancouver Asahi baseball team have a sense of fair play and smart tactics that set them apart from the brute force of their opponents. Under the guidance of new team captain Reggie Kasahara, can they be able to rise above all the negativity to win the tournament? This film is based on the true story of Vancouver Asahi, the Japanese-Canadian baseball team that was inducted into The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-09-29
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Secret
Overview: A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transfered into their daughter's body.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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10 Years - A Wife's Betrayal
Overview: Urushibara Kazuki heads to Kyoto to explore the secret of his wife, Saeko, who is hospitalized for terminal cancer.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-25
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The Serial Rape Murderer
Overview: 12 Years ago, Fuyuko, was 7 years old, watched her sister, a high school student, raped and choked to die. Fuyuko never forgets that the man who killed her sister has a red snake tattoo on his thigh. Suffering from the memory and deeply being traumatized, Fuyuko meets the tattooed man by accident and tries to hunt down...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-10
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Majutsu wa Sasayaku
Overview: A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly begin to die one by one. Kazuko learns that one of those deaths is somehow connected to Mamoru (Nakamura Aoi), her younger brother from whom she has been separated ever since their father disappeared 15 years earlier. Although Mamoru knows nothing of his sister, Kazuko is determined to find the killer in order to protect Mamoru and herself.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Passion
Overview: A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-25
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Back Street Girls: Gokudols
Overview: Three male gangsters are forced by their boss into becoming a trio of female pop singers.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-08
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Rain of Light
Overview: This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed themselves up in a mountainous cabin in the dead of winter. By the time the police finally caught up with them, it was discovered that they had murderously turned upon themselves in a bizarre extension of their radical philosophy. This event virtually marked the end of the Student Revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-08
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Saraba Itoshi no Daitoryo
Overview: With the recession still occurring in Japan and the area of Osaka thought to be hit hardest by the economic downtown, Osaka's gubernatorial election occurs. The surprise winner of the election is Sekai no Nabeatsu (Atsumu Watanabe). Three months into his gubernatorial term and with little help from national government, Sekai no Nabeatsu declares Osaka an independent country and takes office as its first President. The Osaka Police then receives a message warning of an impending assassination attempt on the President of Osaka. Police Detectives Hayakawa (Daisuke Miyagawa) and Banba (Kendo Kobayashi) then set out to search for the criminal group. Can the bumbling detectives protect the president? Will there be a future for the country?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-11-06
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Ley Lines
Overview: The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-05-22
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The Village Album
Overview: Hanatani Village in the valley of Tokushima Prefecture is going to be submerged when a dam is constructed. In order to preserve the beauty of the place for future generations, the villagers decide to take photographs of all the families in the village. Kenichi, the only photographer in the village, is put in charge of the project. He calls his son Takashi, an aspiring photographer, to help him with the task. Takashi is puzzled since his father and he are not at all close, but as they visit each family in turn and Takashi sees his father working, Takashi's feelings towards his father begin to change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-23
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Villain
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-30
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Blossoms Bloom
Overview: Work life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began to slip by the wayside. As his elderly father begins to show signs of dementia, Shunsuke takes the family on a trip in a desperate attempt to pull them together before it is too late. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Masashi Sada's short story of the same name received the awards for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Music at the 1st Asia International Film Festival in Taipei.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-05
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Pink Physical Examination
Overview: In a hospital with a near sighted doctor, horny nurses, cosplaying patients and stiffs in the basement the only healing taking place is sexual.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-02-23
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Yoshiko & Yuriko
Overview: Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who was a renowned translator of Russian literature and drama, and Yuriko, who was a feminist novelist and great activist of the post-war democratic literature movement. Both have left huge marks on Japanese literary history. The two women shared a strong attraction to each other from their first meeting and enjoyed a powerful love affair. Yoshiko reveals that she's an out lesbian, whilst Yuriko is married (not altogether happily) to a well-known scholar - a situation she can't walk away from with ease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-07
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Mo-Ruerani
Overview: The owner of an established photo studio, collapses from illness. His son Shinta, who was raised by his divorced wife, comes home. One day, an elderly woman named shows up at the studio and beckons Shinta to come with her. They arrive at a grassy field where Shinta finds about the secret of the "singing voice" that keeps echoing in his memory and about his father's feelings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-06
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The Nearest Place to the Sky
Overview: Kitagawa, a top salesman with an impressive record, is hiding a dark secret—he borrowed the 9 million yen of his record from loan sharks. One day, while being pursued by the Yakuza, he escapes to a rooftop where he unexpectedly meets a mysterious elderly woman and an office worker. Soon, the rooftop transforms into a serene escape, as they find themselves playing nostalgic childhood games like "Kick the Can" and "Red Light, Green Light." But beneath the surface, all three of them are hiding a significant secret...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-15
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Chinpira
Overview: Osamu rescues a girl who was being chased by two punks and is soon mixed up with the Yakuza
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-11
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Asako in Ruby Shoes
Overview: Asako in Ruby Shoes succeeds in providing yet another challenge to views of a homogeneous South Korea by presenting to us the Asian side of modern globalization. The film jumps back and forth from Korea and Japan, with each main character feeling out of place in their respective homes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-12-09
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Aiyoku no hibi: Ekusutashī
Overview: Two people who have suffered the loss of a loved one meet by chance at a train station and lose themselves in a melancholy affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-05-25
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Hitozuma gōmon
Overview: Pinku from 1980. A young man seeks to exact revenge against a group of men that violated his sister.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-05-01
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Sukyanti dōru: nugitate no kaori
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-03
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Boys, Be Ambitious
Overview: Chunba and Kotetsu, grows up in the working class neighborhood of Kishiwada in Osaka in the mid-seventies. Their life in school is a never-ending series of fights and reprisals against rival gangs landing them in trouble with organised crime and in the juvenile court.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-09
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The Taste of Fish
Overview: It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market is where you're most likely to find them. It's the home of Japan's biggest daily fish auction, and it's a place of fierce competition between fish merchants that have been in the business for generations. Based on a comic series, The Taste of Fish follows businessman Shuntaro, who has a successful career in a trading company and is in a steady relationship with girlfriend Asuka. One day, Shuntaro has to help out at the fish wholesaler store run by Asuka's father, and he immediately falls in love with the world of Tsukiji Fish Market. Soon, Shuntaro quits his job and devotes all of his time to running the business while learning about the market's fascinating set of long-standing traditions. However, he must first also learn to distinguish the tastes of different fishes before he can survive in the competitive world of Tsukiji.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-07
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Last Friends
Overview: Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefit their loved ones back home, they are unprepared for the hardships of war. Through their shared trials and sacrifices, they grow closer as friends, and hope to return together to better days. This movie was released in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-03
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Married Woman, Office Lady, School Girl - Take Aim and Attack
Overview: Japanese pink film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Samulife
Overview: Nagaoka is a former high school teacher. He decides to start a school with an ideal learning environment. To achieve this goal, he struggles to make money by running a bar and a publishing company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-07
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Fireworks
Overview: Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her home. During his visit, a suspect shoots one detective dead and leaves Nishi's partner, Horibe, paralyzed. Nishi leaves the police force to spend time with his wife at home, and must find a way to pay off his debts to the yakuza.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-30
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Goddamn!!
Overview: When yakuza member Okamoto (Hitoshi Ozawa) begins to search for Nami (Reiko Yasuhara), a woman he saw in an underground porn video, he finds himself on a path to his own destruction. Action film based on a manga by Takashi Ishii.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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Farewell, Friend
Overview: Wataru and Makoto are two singers and on their way from a performance to an interview when they are ambushed. Their attackers, who identify themselves as the "Noblemen Squad" take Makoto hostage and leave Wataru and their female manager behind. Luckily, the manager's brother (Ren Osugi, here working under the pseudonym Kyoji Saeki) drops by and starts training Wataru so he can rescue his partner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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High School Teacher
Overview: Hamura entered a high school as a biology teacher. Unexpectedly, one of his students, Mayu, fell in love with him. The forbidden love between the teacher and the student began to sprout. Hamura was worried that his relationship with Mayu would be misunderstood, so he tried to escape. However, he later understood Mayu’s tragic life and that the two could not be separated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-06
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Part-Time Detective
Overview: Noriko Yamada is a housewife and mother of five children, she and her husband go through an economic crisis that causes them to have problems with the bank. But while looking for work will Hitoshi befriending Hibino, president of "K & D Research" a detective agency. This will give you the opportunity to spend a trial investigating an infidelity. So get to be a part-time detective Noriko.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-01
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Part-Time Detective 2
Overview: The housewife and part-time private detective Noriko Yamada plays her old tricks again, uncovering mysterious corruption cases. But this time she will solve it adopting the style of "Beatrix Kiddo" from Kill Bill.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-22
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Foreboding
Overview: Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father there. Etsuko becomes worried about Miyuki's state of mind, and she takes Miyuki to the psychiatric hospital where her husband, Tatsuo, works. There, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of "family." Later, Etsuko tells Tatsuo that she is not comfortable with Dr. Jirō Makabe. Tatsuo introduced her to Dr. Makabe earlier at the hospital. Etsuko has a feeling of unease about her husband working with Dr. Makabe. One day, Etsuko hears Dr. Makabe state "I came to Earth to invade."
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-11
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Door II: Tokyo Diary
Overview: Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how good the money is. The job makes her feel free and in control and likes the danger that surrounds her. Her clients vary from normal to weird but her new client: Mr. Mamiya is… different. Mamiya is strange, charming, and very captivating which makes Ai very interested in what he has to offer and what he wants. Mr. Mamiya likes to explore sexuality and the art of S&M which intrigues Ai and continues to meet with him, and their relationship gets deeper and deeper.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-31
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Great Prophecy: The Revival of the Giant
Overview: A V-Cinema tokusatsu movie released by TOEI and Bandai Visual. Creature design by Keita Amemiya. It was originally planned to include Space Sheriff Gavan, but those plans fell through.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Fantasy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-28
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Demon Fighter Kocho
Overview: First live action adaptation of Demon Fighter Kocho
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-04-25
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The Way: Man of the White Porcelain
Overview: The movie is based on the true story of Takumi Asakawa - a Japanese man who entered Korea during the country's occupation by Japan. Takumi Asakawa became captivated by Korean culture and championed the value of such items as the traditional white Korean porcelain.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-09
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Collage of Our Lives
Overview: A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo exhibition in the United States. Having heard rumors that she has died, he follows his curiosity to New York City.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-16
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Parasite Eve
Overview: A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wipe out humanity.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-02-01
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Sexual Beast Sacrifice
Overview: Tomio, a college student, lives in a Western-style house where strange people live, such as his landlady Yukiko and her older brother Kishi, the crook Hosoda, and his idiot wife Tamae, Miyamoto, who lost both legs in the war, his mistress with tattoos, Nozawa, who has no energy, and Shizue, a lover with heart disease. Detective Harada recently discovered the strangled corpses of four women, and while the local residents are suspicious and conducting a secret investigation, a strange incident has occurred, and suspicion falls on Tomio...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-07-01
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Kuroi Shitagi no Onna
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-02-01
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Zebraman
Overview: A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-30
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Gekisatsu Game! Bôjoku
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-01
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Bijo SM Technique
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Postcard
Overview: Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-27
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Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
Overview: Kai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve cases using their reasoning abilities. It's also a secret that these girls are detectives. One day, the three high school girls receive a call from Nanba Kazuhiro of the Metropolitan Police Department. A letter was received in which the writer threatened to kill the popular idol group Morning Musume. Kai, Mei, and Yui go to the Morning Musume concert to guard them. After the concert, Mei is with members of Morning Mutsume on the tour bus, but Mei suddenly disappears.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-05
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Life on the Longboard
Overview: A depressed middle-aged man takes up surfing after he retires.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-10
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Wordholic Prisoner
Overview: A wordholic man, acting as the chief editor by a certain publishing company, is confined by the writer who wishes to publish.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-13
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Last Scene
Overview: Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently announced her retirement from acting in order to get married. Feeling frustrated and helpless, Ken turns to alcohol as he begins to provoke fights, attempts to lure a girl into bed, and argues with his wife, who came to visit him at the studio. All she says is thank you and leaves Ken puzzled. Ken Mihara, once a budding young star, takes a job as an extra. Although he's past his prime, he still manages to infuse a young filmmaker with the motivation to pursue her dreams as a director.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Overview: Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome's good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double crossing.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-05-13
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Chichi kara no tegami
Overview: Inuzuka (Hirotaro Honda), who asked about Mamiko (Rei Dan)'s disappeared father, Shinkichi (Ren Osugi), and her lover, Keiichi (Tetta Sugimoto), was murdered. A "letter" from her disappeared father holds the key.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-23
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Wolf: Running Is Sex
Overview: First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every primal desire whenever they may arise. He takes on a mate, a woman intrigued by his personage or lack thereof, and they live in his den in central Tokyo. As time goes on, we see how this animal clashes with modern man, and the consequences of their coexistance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-20
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Kyouju Luger P08
Overview: A man's life is altered when he comes into possession of a gun.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-29
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Yakuza Blood Wind Record Unreliable Crest
Overview: Tachibana, who was once regarded as the next young leader of the gangster group but lost the promotion battle to rival Yamamoto, is now a central figure in a group of outlaws who have been banished from yakuza society. He was repeating the wrongdoings of. One day, in exchange for 100 million bounties from Yamamoto, he receives a request to crush the Kanto Wide Area Gangster Association and Iron Heart.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-07
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Violent Island: Dirty Money Hijack
Overview: In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together, they get caught in the crossfire.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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Eiko
Overview: Eiko Akimori is a 23-year-old woman who lives alone in an apartment. One day, Eiko is made to buy a big stone ring that brings happiness from a catch sales on the way home from work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-28
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Subway Serial Rape: Uniform Hunting
Overview: On their way to school two sisters are raped by a gang of punks in full view of the passengers on the subway. When one sister commits suicide the other quits school and picks up a yakuza boyfriend who teaches her how to shoot. When the boyfriend is killed by his old gang the girl becomes a cab driver. With a .45 by her side she hunts for the punks who raped her and anyone else who deserves it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-28
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Saigo no Kizuna
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-13
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Goodbye Elegy
Overview: Miyama Akira is a movie director in his 60's. In the past, he left his hometown to chase his dream. When he learns that his friend, who used to talk about their future, died, he goes back to his hometown for the first time in decades. While he walks along the streets there, he thinks about the life of his late friend and gets inspired to write a script about him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-24
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SM Tattoo Production
Overview: Asuka, a wanderer with a magnificent tattoo on his back, incurs the wrath of the Bombers, a motorcycle gang in a port town, and is taken to their hideout along with Akiko, the bar owner where they are staying, where they are beaten up and raped. Nana asks for help from Saeki, who has returned to the town for the first time in five years. Saeki, who loves Akiko, who is now married to Shunsuke, breaks into the hideout and rescues the two. A passionate love burns between Akiko and Saeki, but Saeki coldly brushes her off and sets off on a journey. Asuka also gives up on the town and boards a train aimlessly, but...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-11-01
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Onna: Tarashikomi
Overview: Pink film distributed by Million.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-07-01
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Brutal! Rape Case
Overview: Pink film distributed by Million.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Tying the Newlywed Wife
Overview: BDSM-themed pink film distributed by Shintoho.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Female Teacher: Chain and Bondage
Overview: A female teacher with a heavy past who committed suicide with a fellow teacher in the past, and was the only one to survive. However, the woman who was the fiancée of the dead teacher also committed suicide in despair. The younger brother of the woman enrolls in the school where the female teacher is a student in order to get revenge. There are also men at the school who are always after her body, thinking that such a female teacher will easily let them have sex with her. In desperation in such a world, she accepts the perverse desires of the men...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-01
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Groper Train: Continue
Overview: "Groper Train" distributed by Shintoho.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Humiliation! Mother and Daughter Destruction
Overview: Pink film distributed by Toei.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-21
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Catastrophe
Overview: A Salaryman in Hokkaido heads to Tokyo for his daughters wedding, but the fun is just beginning,,,
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-16
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Attacked Apartment Wife
Overview: "Apartment Wife" pink film distributed by Shintoho.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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FLY！～平凡なキセキ～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-10
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テレサ・テン物語～私の家は山の向こう
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Original Language: ja
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The Exposer - Insurance Investigation
Overview: Hinata (Ryo Amamiya), the managing director of Sakura Fire & Marine Insurance, appears to Tetsu (Ren Osugi), who is hospitalised due to injury. Tetsu accepts a job from his former colleague Hyuga on condition that he pays for his hospitalisation. He tries to expose the fraudulent claims by involving Pussy (Satoko Akina), but at the same time it brings back his own ruthless past.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Terrorist’s Parasol
Overview: When an explosion occurs, alcoholic bartender Kikuchi, who was wanted for a bombing 20 years ago, is suspected. Having lost two friends in the incident, Kikuchi sets out to find the real culprit.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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