Junko Abe
Also Known As: 吉永淳, Jun Yoshinaga, Абэ Дзюнко, 阿部 純子, あべ じゅんこ
Biography: Junko Abe formerly known by her stage name Jun Yoshinaga, is a Japanese actress and model.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Birthday: May 07, 1993
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Gender: Female
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Ring Wandering
Overview: In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t draw the extinct wolf well and struggles to develop the story. One winter’s day, Sosuke finds an animal’s skull while digging foundations at a construction site and takes it home. Is it a Japanese wolf’s skull?
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-02-19
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Yes, I Can't Swim
Overview: Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and people, still he decides on the spur of the moment to enroll in a swimming class. There he encounters the teacher Shizuka Usuhara, who ignores his last-minute hesitation and enrolls him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-10
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Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Overview: Set in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and fought against the Meiji Restoration.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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Remember to Breathe
Overview: One day, Hiroko accidentally starts a small fire while she is cooking. Although it does not lead to a serious incident, it does result in her going to stay with her eldest daughter, Yuko, for whom Hiroko has never been the mother she wanted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-11
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Bagmati River
Overview: Natsuki, a young woman working for a publishing company, receives an anonymous postcard with a picture of Mt. Everest printed on the back. It reminds her of her brother Kenji, a well-known mountain climber who went missing 2 years ago attempting to climb Everest, who she hasn’t seen in 10 years. Why did Kenji ever go to the mountain? What kind of person was he? Natsuki realizes she doesn’t know her brother at all, but she believed the postcard to be sent by him, and decides to got to Everest to find the answers to her questions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-06
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My Hawaiian Discovery
Overview: Minori Oyamada, a put-upon editor at a travel-guide publishing company, is asked by an old friend to plan her forthcoming wedding party in Hawaii. After persuading her boss that it will be a work trip, Minori departs for Hawaii with the intention to find and marry a rich man. But when Minori arrives, she encounters three different men who complicate her original goal...
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-14
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A Man with Style
Overview: Miyata lost his wife early on and single-handedly raised their two children. One day he notices a change in his physical condition, and decides that it must be stomach cancer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-18
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Redder Than Yesterday, Bluer Than Tomorrow: Cinema Fighters Project
Overview: The fourth instalment of LDH Pictures, Cinema Fighters project. This time with all the main characters of the six short stories being portrayed by the members of Generations from Exile Tribe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
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The Limit of Sleeping Beauty
Overview: Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she has was the time spent with her lover Kaito.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-21
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Still the Water
Overview: On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his birth, Kyoko must come to grips with her mother’s terminal illness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-01
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The Man from the Sea
Overview: A man is found washed up on a beach in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, suffering from amnesia and speaking in broken Indonesian and Japanese.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-26
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Dawn Wind in My Poncho
Overview: Three friends who will soon graduate from high school decide to take one last trip together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2016 Fall Special
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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The Prisoner of Sakura
Overview: With all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from opposing countries. The film is a love story set in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku against the historical backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War. The movie is centered around the romance between a Russian officer, a war prisoner in Matsuyama, and a Japanese nurse who find themselves on opposing sides of the war. It is a kind of "Romeo and Juliet story of the Russo-Japanese War".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-22
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The Blood of Wolves
Overview: Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-12
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The Chasing World 2
Overview: Teenager Tsubasa Sato returns to the parallel universe where demons are out to kill every person with the last name of Sato.
Genres: Mystery Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-05
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Miss Osaka
Overview: Ines, who wants to change who she is and become someone else in order to cover up her insecurities. When she accompanies her boyfriend Lucas on a business trip to Norway, Ines meets a half-Japanese tourist, Maria, who instantly fascinates her. Suddenly Maria disappears, and Ines seizes the opportunity to replace her – she declares herself dead and travels to Japan in order to take over Maria's identity. There, she will get a job at Miss Osaka, the same nightclub where Maria used to work. A game of broken boundaries, lost identities and the dangerous balance between reality and the past has begun, and Ines must abide by the new rules by avoiding the more obscure paths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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Wasao
Overview: Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller's blog. Heartwarming drama starring Wasao himself turns part of the life of this former stray into an original story. Setsuko, who runs a grilled-squid shop in a fishing village at the foot of the Shirakami mountains, decides to take in a large dog with a long, unruly fur that has shown up in town. She names the dog Wasao and showers it with affection, but Wasao at that time doesn't take to Setsuko.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-05
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461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son
Overview: Kazuki Suzumoto is divorced and he lives with his 15-year-old son Kouki. Kouki is in a susceptible time. The father feels guilty about his son. Kouki then fails his high school entrance exam. In the spring of the following year, Kouki barely passes his high school entrance exam. Kouki mentions to Kazuki that he likes his father's lunch box. The father and son make a promise to each other. Kazuki promises that he will make a lunch box everyday for Kouki. Kouki promises that he will never skip school.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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The Voice of Sin
Overview: Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Daughters
Overview: Two women are flat-mates and friends in Tokyo. One is an event manager and the other works in the world of fashion marketing. The result shows that one is pregnant one day. The woman decides to give birth out of wedlock. It is a major decision, which is the harbinger of not just a change in their lives, but also their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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Samurai Marathon
Overview: When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-22
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Lifeline
Overview: Ryosuke runs a used car dealership in the sticks, some way outside Tokyo. He inherited the business, and doesn’t enjoy running it. When a girl is dumped by the driver of a car on the road outside his forecourt, his life starts to turn upside-down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-17
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Home Away From Home
Overview: A taxi driver, a young girl and a backpacker simultaneously experience a wonderful journey in Tokyo, where they find connections to their own homes in Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia.Throughout their journey, they run into the same Japanese woman named Akiko. Meanwhile, a writer in Paris recalls her encounter with Akiko in Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-02
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Hazard Lights
Overview: Sugai works as a driver at a chauffeur service company at night. On the night of a full moon weekend, he is told to pair up with a newcomer Kariya. Kariya is a mysterious young guy who gives a silly quiz to Sugai while they work. Sometime later, a drag queen comes to the office and asks for Sugai, saying that someone is trying to kill him. Sugai actually has a past that he could never forget. His colleague tells him that on the night of a full moon weekend something bad would happen...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-15
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Midnight Loners
Overview: As Aoki stands at the bus stop, a woman leaves a gift bag by his side. The woman, Satomi, had just attended the wedding of her first love. Aoki chases after her, thinking she forgot her luggage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
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