Kaori Takeshita
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Biography: Kaori Takeshita is a Japanese film and theatrical actress. She graduated from the Kansai Arts Theater with an extensive training in acting. Beginning her career on the stage, Kaori appeared in numerous films and has showcased her incredible versatility as an actress, particularly known for portraying mothers. She played the main character in the movie "The Garden Apartment" directed by Umi Ishihara which was nominated at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2019.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
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The Name
Overview: Having failed with his business and gone absolutely penniless, Masao (45) divorced with his wife, and is currently leading a hopeless life in Ibaraki. One day, a mysterious high school girl, going by the name Emiko, showed up before Masao. Every now and then, Masao would be toyed around by Emiko, but little by little he started taking a liking to her loveliness. As days went by, Masao started opening up to Emiko – something that he rarely did to others. However, there was just something about Emiko – something that bothered Masao - that wouldn’t go away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-30
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Father Actor Z
Overview: 52-year-old Mitsuo Mameda, who was living in the depths of his life after failing to manage a snack bar and being in debt and having his wife and children run away from him, decided to step into the world of an AV actor by chance. Mameda, who was given the job of "juice actor", which is located at the lowest level among AV actors, met veteran soup actors Hachiya and Omae there and started living together. Suddenly, Yuria, a popular AV actress, appears before them, and she says that she wants to live with them. Seiji Nakamitsu, a veteran actor who has appeared in more than 500 pink movies, will play the main character, Mameda.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-25
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Ukabu
Overview: The town where Yui lives was once surrounded by a dense forest. The forest has a legend of people being spirited away by the Tengu inhabited there. Yui remembers that 11 years ago Kayo disappeared in that forest. "Back then, I was right next to Kayo. But, why wasn't I chosen...?" Consumed in her thoughts, Yui steps into the last of the forest as if the swaying wind from the trees is calling her in...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-03
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Firing The Lighter Gun
Overview: Not far in the future , the second nuclear accident happened in Japan. The Town next to it remains the same. Tatsuya works for the yakuza, Ryo who was in prison, and Mari the sex worker started living together. The misfit, the outcast, trying to survive and suffer in this world. This is a story of people who lost their place where they belong. Is there gonna be another day?
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-07
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Aichaku
Overview: The lives of an American expat and a half Japanese construction worker living in rural Japan are forever changed over the course of three days as they engage in an unexpected romance.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-04-25
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Don't Go
Overview: Set in a world in which, through a special device, people can see the memories of the dead. A family decides to enter the memory of their father, who has been killed in a car accident in a seaside town, to learn why he had to hide his destination from his family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-17
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Lovely Little Ai
Overview: Ai Shimizu (16) grew up without knowing freedom because her workaholic and toxic father, Tetsuo, constrained her too much. One day, Ai-chan, who has no friends and doesn't know how to dress up, happens to meet Seiko, a cross-dresser. Despite their different life and culture, they become like family and friends. However, Seiko had a secret...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-16
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MaTcH
Overview: An old Japanese mother, Haruko comes to Tokyo from Osaka to see her 30 years old son, Shuji. Her purpose of the visit is setting up a matchmaking for him because he is still a single man. However, Shuji already uses a matching app to find his partner. On the other hand, Haruko cannot trust the app, so she tries to convince him quit using it. There is a huge gap occurs in between the parent and child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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Tears of Persephone
Overview: Futa (Watanabe Shu) relocates from the city to the countryside and is being hassled for loan payments for the farmland and house that he bought. His partner Minori (Goriki Ayame) sees what is going on and pulls out a mysterious ring to use for the repayments. But from there, the two get pulled into a world where fantasy and reality are blurred. Tale of love with a dose of fantasy and mystery from Mystic Shrine Maiden producer Genda Yasuaki and Isobe Teppei, who grabbed the spotlight with F is for Future. Shot by Sone Takeshi of One Cut of the Dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-26
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Tangerines on Cat
Overview: Tomohiro takes his fiance Machiko to his hometown of Aridagawa in Wakayama Prefecture to see his family.Tomohiro’s family includes three siblings. His younger brother Takeshi refuses to go to school. His older sister Yumi isn't interested in their family. Younger sister Sayaka has an inferiority complex and has a fear of dating. There's also Satomi who everybody calls Mama and she does all of the housework. Kayoko is called Kaka and she works as a snack bar manager. Narumi is called Haha and she is a high school teacher. Finally, there's their father Shoichiro better known as Chichi. It's an unusual family, but able to exist in harmony. Due to Machiko's appearance, the family becomes shaken.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-22
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Ichiko
Overview: On August 12, 2015, Hasegawa proposed to Ichiko. Ichiko is moved by Hasegawa's proposal and sheds tears, but the next day, she suddenly leaves home, seemingly shocked after seeing the TV news. Where did Ichiko go? Hasegawa reports the disappearance to the police, and the detective in charge of the investigation tells an unexpected story.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-08
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Cucumber
Overview: Shintaro lives in extreme social withdrawal. One day he receives a homegrown cucumber from the older lady next door, which makes his crippling anxiety falsely convince him that he must reciprocate the gesture.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-11
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Disgraced Heaven
Overview: "A couple with some issues has just moved into the town. Driving through the town, they saw many “weird” people from a car window. They began to wonder why they had decided to come to this place. They stepped in an old Chinese restaurant and...? This is a story about the "Disgraced Heaven" for the failures, a only utopia in a hellhole." -UMMMI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-17
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A Light in the Distance
Overview: Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might strike, everyone has escaped the disaster. She checks her school, but no one is there. She meets her classmate, Fujii, unexpectedly. Fujii asks Mado to find a shelter together. He doesn't want to leave her alone. Both start looking around to see if anyone's left behind: An empty theatre, a movie is still running on the screen. A young girl stands by a desolated pool. A strip show theater with a retired stripper. An old man brushes his shoe in a bowling center continuously. Both guys search everywhere. And finally in the heavy rain, they find shelter in a factory. This is a factory where Mado's father had died in.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-01
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The Garden Apartment
Overview: Hikari is a newly expectant mother cohabiting with her boyfriend Taro. However, their relationship seems to be on the rocks. The couple has had trouble finding steady employment since graduating from college, and mounting financial problems further strain their relationship. Taro has a secret: he’s been relying on his eccentric aunt Kyoko, who has been acting strangely since losing her husband at a young age. Hikari’s first encounter with Kyoko does not go well, but Hikari visits Kyoko’s home unbeknownst to Taro and is introduced to a world where young women take part in bacchanals. This could spell doom for her relationship with Taro...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-30
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Shell and Joint
Overview: Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-22
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Psychoromantic
Overview: A college boy, Tsubasa, often enjoys to chat with his best friend, Makoto, and Makoto’s girlfriend, Risa. However, he suffers financially due to a dismissal of his father from a company he works for, so his friend, Makoto tests his sexual ability by sleeping with him, to introduce him to a money making industry of prostitution. Then, relation of the three dramatically changes.
Genres: Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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Happo-en
Overview: In our lives, you have to endure moments when you don’t know how to behave. In a Japanese wedding, everything proceeds as planned, but you can’t do something else even if you are bored, and you can’t look displeased because it is an auspicious occasion. At the end, liberation should be awaiting…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-23
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Acceleration Map
Overview: A film inspired by Italian author Cesare Pavese’s novel called The Beautiful Summer
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-20
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