Nobu Morimoto
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Birthday: September 23, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Pretenders
Overview: It depicts two high school girls trying to change the atmosphere of the world with their ideas by setting up a camera in the town and transmitting the footage via SNS.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-16
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Ghost Storyteller
Overview: During an interview backstage at a “Kwaidan” event, Junji answers questions about the terrifying banned footage of a ghostly encounter that he recently experienced. While shooting his movie, there was an inexplicable feeling that something horrible was descending amongst them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-09-20
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Spotlight
Overview: A filmmaker gets into a dispute over the content of his film. This angers the chairman of a major company in the industry so much that the filmmaker is almost kicked out of the business. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, he is visited by an 18-year old girl. She brings 30 million yen in cash with her, and asks him to make a film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-22
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Step Up Love Story: Double Love
Overview: After three years of marriage and a bit more knowhow about sex, this bumbling couple seem set. But when jealousy sets in, the real trials of love begin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-10
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Urban Spirit Legend: Croionna
Overview: Nikkari works for a small tailor in a small town and supports her younger sister Yuki. Yuki has a boyfriend named Oshima, who works for an estate agency, but after learning of her illness, Oshima has been gradually pulling away from Yuki of late. Just then, the story comes to a startling conclusion when Yuki discovers that she is pregnant.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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Nagareboshi
Overview: Natsuko has been in a cold relationship with her husband, Kensaku, for many years. One day he dies suddenly, leaving Natsuko alone with a wizard, Mari, who appears and offers to grant up to four wishes. Natsuko requests to go 50 years back in time to the past before she met her husband. There, Natsuko meets young Kensaku, her young self, and her father Shintaro. Natsuko pretends to be someone she is not and attempts to uncover hidden truths while living in the past. What awaits Natsuko at the end of her time travel? And what will be her last wish to the wizard?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-22
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Kazoku gokko
Overview: Different people and five different families are acting out various scenarios, scripts and what-ifs. First there is the four Suzuki family members, who are not, sitting around a table in isolation. Then there is the unveiling of a will and what happens when it is read out, there are the sisters who are at it against each other, then there is the funeral that does not go according to plan and more.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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37 Seconds
Overview: 23-year-old comic book artist Yuma, physically disabled due to profound cerebral palsy and emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overly protective mother, forges her own unusual path to sexual awakening and independence while at the same time discovering love and forgiveness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-09
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Konkatsu Battle Royal
Overview: In 2015, the Japanese economy has collapsed due to global recession. While unemployment rates are over 35 percent, 150,000 people commit suicide every year. In such conditions, a TV program, 24-hour Marriage Battle Royale, skyrockets to unprecedented fame and popularity, where people are set on fire on camera. It’s the ultimate in extreme programming, an ordeal of marriage hunting where women in debt play games to marry famed celebrities abroad, with the losers facing humiliation and could be death. Hana Shinjo, a has-been idol, makes a desperate stab at a new life by applying to the show as a contestant. When accepted, she finds herself pitted against a single mother, a former business owner, a club hostess, a rogue, a high-school girl, and an assorted mob of heartless, cold-blooded women. A frenzied battle for life itself now begins.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-23
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Nonmetal Night
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-15
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Kaeshi
Overview: After ten years in prison for a high school classmate's murder, Koji gets out and joins the yakuza. But his victim's father has him on his radar. Seiji tries to get on with his life after losing his daughter and wife. Ten years later he learns that his daughter's killer has been freed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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Kaeshi 2
Overview: After ten years in prison for a high school classmate's murder, Koji gets out and joins the yakuza. But his victim's father has him on his radar. Yamai is released thanks to Akiko but the search for Miyake's killer begins. Security camera footage reveals Seiji to be the culprit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-25
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The Hungry Lion
Overview: A high-school teacher is arrested for having sexual relations with a minor. Young Hiromi finds herself in the eye of the storm when she is suspected of featuring in her teacher’s leaked sex video and her innocence is questioned by everyone around her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-15
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Going the Distance
Overview: Asahi and Kaori are a happy couple and plan to marry soon. But Kaori’s mother looks down on a prospective son-in-law who grew up in an orphanage and works as a boxing trainer. Things become more complicated when Asahi tries to help his best friend Hiroto who has been scammed by a shady businessman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-29
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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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Goodbye Silence
Overview: Set at a time where entertainment like music, movies and novels are all banned. Mizuto and Tokio work at a factory making screws. Their lives are monotonous. One day, they discover a place where music has been preserved and they are attracted to music. They learn of “Sanoba Noizu” where music is performed secretly and dream of going there. They meet Hikari whose father was killed for having music.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-27
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Nurse's Confession
Overview: Yukiko is a nurse working at a general hospital. Because of the long, hard hours she keeps, she is under a great deal of stress. One day, she meets Kenta, a handsome patient hospitalized with a broken leg. After an unexpected turn of events, they end up having a bout of wild, hospital sex. Yukiko falls madly in love with him and has never felt so happy. Meanwhile, Taeko, Yukiko's fellow nurse, is dating an intern who is heir to a fantastic fortune. Taeko shows all her skills in sadomasochistic play as she trains Dr. Yamada to obey her every command. Kaori, a humble, somewhat square nurse, releases her daily stress with bouts of shopping which only drag her deeper into debt. Then she starts working as an "actress" at the Image Club.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-04-09
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Nemosu Idol Sosenkyo Battle
Overview: Members of a group of idols "Houkago Puritei Seitokai" are abducted in Akihabara and are entered to participate in a webcast game where the talents of the Idols are determined by a general election of the spectators. Each round the winner advances, but the loser will be subjected to rape, humiliation and death. Who will reign the title of Number one?
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-03
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Crazy Samurai Musashi
Overview: In 1604, Miyamoto Musashi attacked the Yoshioka family at their dojo and defeated master Seijūrō and his younger brother Denshichirō in two duels. To save their reputation, the Yoshioka family decides to fight back with all 100 family members and hire an additional 300 samurai. Now Musashi sets out to defeat all 400 enemies in his most famous battle.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-21
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Black Tears
Overview: Tomomi applies make-up in the shadow of the company. There was a sexy mole around his eyes. Tomomi stood on the street corner to repay the debt from the dark money and was attracting customers. And every time the act was over, the customer had him write a mole on his body. And the mole of that commandment surely increased ... On the other hand, Yui, a single mother who works at the same company, cheered on her own painful life while knowing Tomomi's behavior. The president's son, who noticed these two people, flickered Yui's head and called him to the conference room to devour his body. Then, in order to reveal Tomomi's back face, she approaches Yui ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-23
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3 Feet Ball and Souls
Overview: A group of four decides to commit suicide using gigantic fireworks. But every time the fireworks explode, they find themselves back in time before they carried out the plan. They suspect the cause to be the young age of one of the members and try to convince the high school girl to quit.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-23
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Demolition Girl
Overview: A high-school girl who lives in a rural town in Japan struggles to define her own way in life. To help her impoverished family she works as a video fetish performer which leads to problems for her and her family with a criminal underworld.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-23
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Come and Go
Overview: Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah Wai. His eighth feature explores the lesser-known aspects of the Asian melting pot city through the eyes and experiences of a dozen characters who struggle to find their place in society: among them a Nepali refugee with dreams of opening a restaurant, a Burmese student struggling to make ends meet while working two jobs, and a Taiwanese sex tourist who travels to meet his favorite adult video actress.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-19
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Love and Other Cults
Overview: Ai's mother sends her to live with a cult commune, where she remains for seven years. After the cult is broken up by the police, Ai struggles to fit in with society.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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Small, Slow But Steady
Overview: A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-16
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The Gun
Overview: An aimless college student comes upon the aftermath of a murder scene one night, and without thinking, grabs the titular weapon. He takes it home and keeps it safely hidden away, but curiosity gradually begins to consume him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-17
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The Fish with One Sleeve
Overview: Hikari, a trans woman, works and lives in Tokyo, but despite being understood by her friend and coworkers, there remains an underlying lack of confidence and feeling of unfulfillment. She makes the decision to contact her high school crush, Takashi, hoping that he will see her for the person she is now.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-10
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