Ayaka Onishi
Also Known As: Ayaka Ōnishi, Ayaka Oonishi, Ayaka Ohnishi
Biography: Ayaka Onishi (大西 礼芳, Ōnishi Ayaka, June 29, 1990) is a Japanese actress from Watarai Town, Watarai District, Mie Prefecture. She is affiliated with Tristone Entertainment. Not to be confused with voice actress Ayaka Ohnishi (大西綺華).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Watarai, Mie, Japan
Birthday: June 29, 1990
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Gender: Female
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Startup Girls
Overview: A young female founder runs in to societal barriers during her drive to create startup projects, in a Japanese society that hasn't traditionally accepted entrepreneurs . She finds herself, and maturity along the way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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Whale Bones
Overview: Recently dumped by his fiancée, Mamiya meets a girl on a dating app. However, when he comes out of the shower, the girl is dead on his bed. Upset Mamiya decides to bury the body in the woods, however it mysteriously disappears from his car trunk... When he finds out that she is a popular influencer of the SNS called “Mimi”, he follows her footsteps which she left on Mimi, and slowly becomes attracted to the girl who turns out to be just as lonely as he is.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special
Overview: "Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special" (世にも奇妙な物語 '23秋の特別編) is a Japanese anthology drama that aired on Fuji TV on November 11, 2023. This special presents four unique, mysterious tales. Episode summaries: 1. "The Eternal Two" An assistant accused of murder alters reality with a mysterious button. 2. "False Accusation in Hell" A lawyer defends a deceased man in Hell, uncovering shocking truths. 3. "Transistor Compression Contest" A fierce competition to compress a magazine leads to unexpected rivalries. 4. "Set Your Life's Playlist in Advance" A life-caster builds an AI idol, unveiling secrets from her past.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-11
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Miroku
Overview: Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage years to adult life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-26
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Like the Northern Ray
Overview: Azusa Makabe is a magazine editor who lives in Sapporo, a snowy city located in northern Japan. She has an alcoholic father who gave up on himself because of failure in his career. Keeping a distance from her father and striving to live a different life, she tries hard not to rely on anyone despite. Is she simply self-disciplined, or is she afraid of something?
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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I'll Give It My All ... Tomorrow
Overview: 41-year-old Shizuo Daikoku (Shinichi Tsutsumi) suddenly quits his job at a company to become a mangaka. His family and friends become involved in his new pursuit...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-15
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Pain of The Anonymous
Overview: Struggling to find work and entrenched in a personal health crisis, a former middle school teacher accepts a position as an online content moderator. She is faced daily with death, violence, and abuse—and reminders of unspeakable past traumas. As she becomes absorbed in her work, she endangers her stability, relationships, and psyche. Pain of the Anonymous explores how dehumanization and sympathy clash in a world numb to the plight of its people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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No Place to Go
Overview: Michiko used to work as a live-in part-timer at an izakaya, but suddenly lost her job and her house at the same time due to COVID-19 pandemic. There are no new jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and diners and internet cafes are closed. Michiko is at her wits' end, but there in front of her is a bus stop that stands slightly brightly in the darkness, illuminated only by the streetlights.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-08
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Initiation Love
Overview: Set in Shizuoka and Tokyo, Japan in the late 1980's. Takkun is a university student in Shizuoka attempting to find a job. Mayu is a dental hygienist. They meet through a blind date and begin to date, but Takkun finds a job in Tokyo and goes there. They begin a long distance relationship, but their relationship breaks down.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-23
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Strangers
Overview: A disillusioned office worker finds freedom and a new sense of self after assuming her missing colleague's identity on a dating app, only to find it comes at the cost of much more.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-02
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Narratage
Overview: Izumi is a sophomore university student when she hears from her former high school teacher and mentor Takashi. They were both involved in the school drama club. She liked him. He liked her. Takashi asks Izumi to return to the school and assist with a performance. Will the feelings be rekindled?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-07
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Don't Lose Heart
Overview: Depicts the life of best-selling Japanese poet Toyo Shibata. Toyo Shibata first began writing poems at the age of 92 and published her first collection of poems "Kujikenaide" (″Don't lose heart″) in 2009, which sold over 1.5 million copies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-16
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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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Hand in the Glove
Overview: Wish freedom and feel responsibility. 3days road movie of prince and a girl. It's a romantic story between prince and Levelle Kingdom on an escape journey and a girl living freely in Japanese city, with a stylish Asian taste of colorful and vivid images. The story is set in a city of beautiful mother nature, fashion, artistic architectures, and history
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-11
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The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
Overview: In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-07
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Overview: Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota, she travels to America to find it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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Lenses on Her Heart
Overview: Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile. He gradually falls for Akane, who soothes him with her positive outlook and cheerful disposition, but Akane has a boyfriend who has a limited amount of time left to live.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-15
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Flowers And Rain
Overview: Childhood was complicated for Yoshida and he faces Japanese society as an outsider after his return from London alongside his parents. He feels displaced and frustrated, but soon finds new strength through hip-hop. Under the name of SEEDA, he starts to rap and deals drugs to produce his music while surviving in Tokyo. When he realizes that his new life as a rapper can’t simply undo the connections to his family, it’s too late.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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Made in Japan: Kora!
Overview: The story of an ordinary family where upon the grandmother's death Kanji becomes an alcoholic homebody, Hinako begins acting up and smiling leaves the lip of Haruko. Those are not the only problems either.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-01
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The Curtain Rises
Overview: Saori is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka begins to work at the same high school as a new teacher. Yoshioka performed in plays when she was in college back in Tokyo. Saori, Yukko, Garuru, Nakanishi, Akemi decides to compete in a play competition. Their goal is to make it through the regional competions, but Teacher Yoshioka tells them their aiming low and that they should think about the national competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-28
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Bye Bye
Overview: A short film by Tsuyoshi Muro.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-01
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Acting for Beginners
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-02-22
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