Tsurutaro Kataoka
Also Known As: 片岡鶴太郎, かたおか つるたろう, Shigeo Ogino, 荻野繁雄, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Toshio Hagino, 카타오카 츠루타로
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Overview: Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-02-04
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Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Ghost & Drive: Super Movie Wars Genesis
Overview: Shortly after Shinnosuke Tomari (Ryoma Takeuchi), Kamen Rider Drive, eradicates the Earth of the 108 Roidmudes, he is put on a special assignment to investigate paranormal activity elsewhere in the city. He heads to the temple Daitenkū-ji to speak with witnesses Akari Tsukimura (Hikaru Ohsawa) and Onari (Takayuki Yanagi), but as he is interrogating them, a Gamma appears and steals an Eyecon from the temple, prompting Takeru Tenkūji (Shun Nishime), Kamen Rider Ghost, to fight it, even though to Shinnosuke it seems that Kamen Rider Ghost is fighting no one at all as he cannot see the Gamma
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-12
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No More Comics!
Overview: Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-03-24
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Sada
Overview: The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-11
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Devoted Cookbook
Overview: It is the Spring of 1814. The restaurant “Tsuru-ka” is gaining much popularity after its chef, Mio, won the prestigious cooking competition. One day, the owner of “Tsuru-ka”, Taneichi, employed young Fuki to be the attendant for customers’ shoes. Mio could fully empathize with young Fuki, who was an orphan and yet was courageous enough to survive on her own. Around the same time, the famous novelist Seiemon started coming to “Tsuru-ka”. Even though Seiemon criticized Mio’s cooking each time, he always returned to the restaurant daily.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-08
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Hana's Miso Soup
Overview: Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes one day when he meets the irrepressible Matsunaga Chie by accident. Just as their relationship is blossoming however, Chie tells Shingo that she has breast cancer. Shingo determines to marry Chie right away, but she'll have to go through surgery and cancer treatments firs...
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-30
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Dora-heita
Overview: A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-13
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Listen to My Heart
Overview: A radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, "Love Letters from the Drawer" to assist people who need an extra push to send out their simple yet very important message for their loved ones. The show was inspired by her own experience after reading a letter from her father after he died. Through her radio show, various characters come to light as everyone awaits for a miracle to happen. A miracle which can occur only by them expressing their true feelings... The movie is full of emotions and music plays an important part of it. It has a great cast that represent the many faces of love. Parents, sons, lovers, and friends. The movie takes you to several locations within Japan, you can get a look at the beautiful coast and shrine, as well as the city sights
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-10
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A Story of Modern Chivalry
Overview: A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of revenge for his great friend.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-08
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Sharaku
Overview: A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-02
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Tulips in October
Overview: Detective Ushio is called in to the murder of an elite heart surgeon, who was stabbed twice at a cluster of vending machines in a parking lot.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-22
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実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還
Overview: Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines with his subordinates Corporal Shimada (Yanagiba Toshiro) and Private First Class Kozuka (Nishijima Hidetoshi) since the end of the Pacific War, without knowing the war had ended. Eventually, the two men die, unable to fulfil their duty to their homeland, and Onoda is left alone, but when a rescue team is sent out from the home country, he does not obey the order to return, believing it to be a diversion by the enemy, as the form of the return order is different. However, an encounter with adventurer Norio Suzuki (Masato Sakai), who has come from Japan to look for Onoda, leads to Onoda's return to his homeland in March 1974, 30 years after the end of the war, after completing his intelligence work on Lubang Island.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-13
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The Last Reunion
Overview: After Isao has reached retirement, he receives a phone call from an ex- elementary school classmate Norio inviting him to a reunion. During the reunion, none of them can claim to have had a wonderful life since graduating from primary school and have their respective problems now. It leads them to rethink that their lives are far from over and that there is still hope for them even at this stage of their lives. They encounter many unexpected happenings during the journey which reminds them of the excitement they experienced as kids and find new hope in their bleak lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-26
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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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Super Hero Wars GP: Kamen Rider #3
Overview: The evil organization Shocker alters history by sending their newest creation, Kamen Rider 3, to defeat Kamen Riders 1 and 2 back in 1973. In the alternate present, Shocker is more powerful than ever, and most of the Kamen Riders are now either imprisoned or brainwashed to work for them. One such brainwashed Rider is Shinnosuke Tomari who thanks to his partner Kiriko Shijima, remembers the truth and joins forces with the remaining Kamen Riders who are still at large to make a stand against Shocker and put history back on its proper course.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-21
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One Last Bloom
Overview: Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies. When hotheaded young boxer Shogo asks for Jin’s help to get him back into the ring after an unfair loss, the two men decide to seize their final chance at glory. A boxing film so authentic that it inspired co-star Yokohama Ryusei to qualify as a pro boxer, Zeze Takahisa’s boxing drama is one of the veteran director’s most crowd-pleasing films thanks to the touching father-son bond at its core.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-25
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One Way Love
Overview: A housewife who has been married for 20 years, she arrives in downtown Tokyo eager to start over to straighten out her life.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-04
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Maniac Hero
Overview: Nakatsu was laid off at his company and now works part-time at a convenience store. One day, Nakatsu forms a vigilante group to protect his town with Toshida, who has a mysterious physical ability, Kanari, who is a female high school student with excellent information gathering abilities, and Kusaki, who wields hammers under his sleeves. As they punish evil doers, the group gains popular support and flourish.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-07
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Light of Intricate Patterns
Overview: Yuri appreciates her son Kazuma's passion of figures, but worries about his ability to get along with the group. Yuri, who works as a writer, visits Edo Kiriko glass atelier to cover an article. Through the lessons she learns from the father and son artisans she meets during her interview, she begins to think about respecting Kazuma and developing his potential.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-22
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The Discarnates
Overview: Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-09-15
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Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Drive & Gaim: Movie Wars Full Throttle
Overview: Gaim: It begins on the planet Kouta and Mai reside. Suddenly a mysterious enemy appears, then heads for their friends back in Zawame City. What is the enemies’ plan to release the curse of the Over Lords and Helheim? This being has even driven Kouta, who has become an existence like-God. Find out how the series continues after the events of the last episode. Drive: A legendary thief, the Special Unit, and Drive are locked in a showdown. How does the Drive Driver (Mr. Belt) fit in to all of this?
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-13
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Detective Ushio VS Case Reporter Saeko at the Terminal Station
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
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Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future
Overview: After witnessing a strange explosion, Shinnosuke Tomari is later visited by a young man claiming to be his son Eiji Tomari from the year 2035. Eiji warns Shinnosuke that a year from now, Mr. Belt's AI will go berserk and lead to the Roidmudes overtaking humanity. However, Shinnosuke cannot immediately deal with this new information when the evil Kamen Rider Dark Drive also comes from the future, causing enough mayhem that leads to Shinnosuke being framed for it and becoming the public's most wanted.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Drama Family Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-08
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Yojo no jidai
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-10-29
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Hanagatami
Overview: Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war's gravitational pull.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-16
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Terminal Station Series - Umbrella of Goodwill
Overview: Masanao Ushio and other detectives from Shinjuku West PD discover the strangled dead body of a woman in an empty building in West Shinjuku in Tokyo. According to her husband Takeshi, the murdered Chieko Akiba was a top salesperson at the insurance company where she worked, but quit her job three months ago and planned to open a beauty salon after buying the building which happens to be the crime scene. The call history on her mobile phone reveals the victim answered a call at 8:16 PM and is presumed to have been murdered immediately afterwards. However, Ushio is surprised to hear who was on the other side of the call: Kyoko Yamano, a woman who accompanied Ushio under an umbrella on a rainy night one year ago and whose husband was killed by someone that very night...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-26
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Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Survivors
Overview: The body of Kazuyoshi Kawagishi, a construction company worker, is discovered stabbed to death in Shinjuku Central Park in Tokyo. Detective Masanao Ushio of Shinjuku West PD begins an investigation and finds that the murdered Kawagishi was an honest person who didn't have any troubles. Kawagishi worked for a company in Kofu City in Yamanashi, leaving behind his wife and daughter on Awaji Island in Hyogo. He seems to have started working as a laborer 3 years ago, having fallen on hard times when the company went bankrupt. Saeko Kawamura, Ushio's reporter friend, calls him wanting to talk about the case. According to Saeko, Kawagishi was one of the survivors of the "bus hijack arson case" that happened three years ago. In the bus hijack arson case, a man who was hallucinating under the influence of dangerous drugs set fire to an intercity bus going to Shinjuku and departing from Kofu Station...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-09
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Happy Family Plan
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-16
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Murder Credit - Final Destination Series
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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Shunichi Doba Suspense Deviation ~First Investigation Division/Keiji Sawamura~
Overview: Sawamura Keiji (Sorimachi Takashi) of Kanagawa Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division, who is confined to office work while he is under treatment for insomnia, is hurriedly summoned by Taniguchi Goro (Hashizume Isao) the head of the First Investigative Division. A third case in a series of bizarre murders which have stoked public fears has occurred at a park in a residential district, and he is roped in to assist.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-15
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Izo
Overview: Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
Genres: Action Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-07
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Turning Point
Overview: A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-06-18
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I Don't Have a License!
Overview: A popular movie star named Hiroshi Nanjo faces a huge problem in filming his new action flick when they find out he hasn't got a license to drive. He is sent to a driving school and...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-02-11
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Destination Station Series - Homicide Assignment
Overview: 911 receives a call from a young woman reporting the death of an acquaintance at a hotel, and Detectives Ushio and Ogami of Shinjuku West Police Station rush to the scene!! The caller is eventually identified as Megumi, a woman whom Detective Ushio's wife Sumie had met by chance, but Megumi too has been killed...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-13
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Hanaikusa
Overview: The tale of hardship, love, determination and life of Mineko, a young maiko (apprentice geisha) in the Gion district of Kyoto.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-23
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Last Love
Overview: Akira was a sax player in New York, but retired from it because of his wife's sudden death. One day, Akira Agawa met Yui Uehara, a young woman who works for the cleaning station, and eventually reunited in New York. Since then, they have opened up their hearts and are gradually attracted to each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-16
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Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Overview: In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitants and stumbles upon a stage play written by an enigmatic student of her ex-boyfriend.
Genres: Fantasy Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-05-12
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Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Last Family
Overview: The body of Kou Fujisaki, who fell to her death, is discovered in front of an old building in West Shinjuku. Chief Sakamoto notifies Ushio, who arrives at the scene. Ushio thinks that this must be a murder, but according to Yamaji, who was at the scene before him, an eyewitness testified that Kou had jumped off the roof of the building, killing herself. Kou is someone who has lingered in Ushio's memory - as a suspect...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-07
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Labyrinth of Cinema
Overview: When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.
Genres: History Fantasy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-31
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Rose Against the Odds
Overview: The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up until his first title fight in Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-29
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Tales of the Bizarre: Vol. 3
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Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-21
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Sazae-san 3
Overview: A TV special movie aired in Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-02
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Shuriken Sentai Ninninger vs. Kamen Rider Drive: Spring Break Combined Special
Overview: Five flashy Roidmudes seem to be causing a “thick air” event, and when Shinnosuke goes to investigate, turns out the problem was being caused by a yokai. After arresting the red one, Shinnosuke starts interrogating. He claims to be a ninja fighting yokai and that he’ll show Shinnosuke. While this uneven pair squabble, Kyuemon Izayoi and the Roidmudes were putting a terrible plan in progress.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-29
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Seiichi Morimura Mystery Special Shuchuchueki Series 37 No Retirement Age
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Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-01
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Mr. Lady Cinderella at Dawn
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-10
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The Motive
Overview: Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-18
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Apron Stage
Overview: About a group of itinerant actors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-02-10
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Shadow Warrior of Nobunaga Oda
Overview: In Tensho 9, as Oda Nobunaga nears the unification of Japan, he assigns trusted generals to conquer remaining regions. Meanwhile, a peasant farmer named Sahei, resembling Nobunaga, is chosen by Hideyoshi and Sen no Rikyu to act as Nobunaga’s shadow. Furious at the idea of a double, Nobunaga confronts Sahei, who courageously performs the "Atsumori" dance, impressing Nobunaga enough to accept him as his Kagemusha. Sahei’s first test as the shadow warrior comes at a memorial service for the Oda family.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-03
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The Brightest Sun
Overview: When a private detective is murdered, a former colleague and a trainee detective are sent to investigate. Along the way, they uncover a tragic truth that triggers memories from their own haunted pasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-06-01
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Koya no Shomei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-27
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Kiheitai
Overview: A period drama at the end of the Edo period, featuring Shinsaku Takasugi, who organized the Kiheitai and led the Meiji Restoration to success, and depicts the turbulent life of the young samurai of the Choshu clan at the end of the Edo period.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-30
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