Satoko Abe
Also Known As: 安部聪子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: July 12, 1965
Age: 59 years old
Gender: Female
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Tadon and Chikuwa
Overview: A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-05
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Tokyo Lullaby
Overview: Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He gives no explanation of his absence and his family asks no questions. It is only through the questions that a young writer named Asakura, who is secretly in love with Hisako, poses of local shop owners, that we learn that Hamanaka's disappearance may be related to the fact that the woman everyone thought he would marry, Tami - who runs the cafe across the street from the Hamanaka electric store - had ended up tying the knot with another man who died soon thereafter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-20
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Last Room
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-07-06
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The Crossing
Overview: 14-year-old Takuya lives in a rural town near mountains and rivers. His 29-year-old uncle Koji works as a graphic designer in urban Tokyo. Koji's father dies and Takuya is arrested for attempted robbery-the two young men must now face a crucial crossing in their lives. The concluding chapter to director Higashi Yoichi's "boy and river" trilogy, the film highlights contemporary themes like family, adolescence, and the healing properties of nature. The wild but beautiful Kuma River stars as a threatening symbol for the boy's rite of passage. Supernatural beings reign in the mountains above the village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-29
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Randen: The Comings and Goings on a Kyoto Tram
Overview: A writer from Kamakura named Hiraoka Eisei is researching supernatural stories but finds himself revisiting memories from a previous visit to his wife’s home town. Ogura Kako,a shy local woman, is asked to help an actor from Tokyo practice speaking with Kyoto intonation and, after the lesson, he asks her to show him around Arashiyama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-24
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The End of Summer
Overview: The story, set in the heady post-war 50s into the early 60s , revolves around a love triangle between Tomoko, long playing the mistress to married older writer Shitto and the new stud who comes into her life, Ryota Kinoshita. Tomoko is sick and tired of her relationship with writer Shingo, who is married and has children. Shingo is a talented writer, but has yet to be recognized by the public. Tomoko then enters into a sexual relationship with younger man Ryota Kinoshita, but Tomoko is not satisfied.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-31
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Breakable
Overview: The story of a ménage à trois between the editor of a magazine, his girlfriend, and his young sister.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-14
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Child by Children
Overview: Haruna is a lively tomboy in the 5th year at elementary school. One day, while playing with Hiroyuki, a boy whom she has known for a long time, they play a game of putting their private parts together. A sex education lesson given by a new teacher, Yagi, makes Haruna suspect that she might be pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-27
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Drive My Car
Overview: Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-18
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