Akio Yokoyama
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toyama, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: September 26, 1930
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 20, 2014
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The Ballad of Narayama
Overview: In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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Molester Diary: A Man Who Kept Stroking Ass
Overview: A manga artist stumbles into the sleazy world of perverts who stalk trains looking for women to molest. He discovers quickly that he is very much one of them and even finds love along the way. The first in the alarmingly long-running Molester Diary series.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-12
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Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
Overview: After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang war erupts. With his former gang in danger of being exterminated, will his loyalties draw him back in?
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-14
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Yamada baba ni hanataba o
Overview: Yamada is the old mistress of a prestigious all-girl high school, who finds a natural enemy in Kamizaki, an outgoing first-year student. However, during Yamada's blind date, their bodies are inexplicably switched
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-15
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Gensen-Kan Inn
Overview: An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube . In the first segment, Tsube encounters a dotty old man named Ri after renting a tumble-down cottage in the country. The following day, Ri, his equally weird wife, and his two squalid children move into his house. Soon the wife is stealing the cucumbers in his garden while the two kids devour all the food in the house.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-24
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Sekushî purin: Kuse ni narisô
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-12-25
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Into the Faraway Sky
Overview: A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being stirred up by a fight amongst its people over constructing an airport. This is a tale of three young people exploring youth and friendship as they reach out into the sky.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-18
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Barefoot Gen Part 3: Battle of Hiroshima
Overview: Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-07-05
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April Fish
Overview: A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-05-31
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Ame no meguri ai
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-21
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Adrift in Tokyo
Overview: A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-10
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Headphone Lullaby
Overview: The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-10
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Villain Field
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-29
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The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
Overview: Youth suspense movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-12-11
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An Ocean to Cross
Overview: Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-01-26
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Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case
Overview: A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are being kidnapped and sold into bizarre kinky sex games to rich industrialists by a megalomaniacal corporation. One of the young deputies becomes involved and finds a friend of his (the boyfriend of the searching woman) is involved.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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About Her Brother
Overview: Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-30
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After Life
Overview: On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-17
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Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland
Overview: Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the outside world, or will coming face to face with this fairy-tale setting only drive her further inside of her subconsciousness?
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Overview: A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams of a music career, the duo rockets to stardom.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-06-15
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Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Ōshū Adachigahara
Overview: Fleeing the Ōnin War, Tomone and her daughter Shiori are saved by Ukyō Fujiki. While taking shelter in a house, they are attacked by a greedy servant, Shichibee, but Shiori defends her mother, injuring him. A year later, Tomone and Ukyō reunite and fall in love, but Shichibee, now a bandit leader, returns and brutally murders Tomone and Shiori in Ukyō’s absence.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-05
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