Mariko Akama
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: August 26, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Make the Devil Laugh
Overview: Kazuma kills his father in order to protect his mother and younger sister from violence. He begins life at a halfway house with an aim toward social rehabilitation and also works diligently at a scrap mill, but society has labeled him a “murderer”. Gradually, Kazuma loses hope.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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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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Kid Mon: Real Name Unknown
Overview: In a small town with a big red bridge, a run-down apartment, which everyone calls a haunted house, stands still. A few days before the summer break begins, two high school girls, Kaede and Azusa, find a boy living in the abandoned place by himself. Naming him "Mon", they take care of him without being noticed by anyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-28
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Bldg. N
Overview: Urban legend horror film based on the true story of the "Ghost Apartment Incident" that occurred in Gifu Prefecture's Tomika Town in 2000.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-22
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Takano Tofu
Overview: Tatsuo and his daughter Haru run Takano Tofu Store in Onomichi. They begin their work before dawn every day. They carefully select beans to make their tofu. While they have peaceful days, Tatsuo worries about his daughter being alone after his death.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-23
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Orange Lamp
Overview: Tanno Tomofumi, diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's at the age of 39, Orange Lamp followed a married couple's nine years after realizing that life has no reason to surrender to an disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-30
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Hell Dogs
Overview: Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-16
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Piano in a Storeroom
Overview: Two sisters living on a peach farm in Koori town, Fukushima Prefecture,are opposites. Haruka Miyamoto feels less beautiful than her sister Akiba Miyamoto and hates being compared to her. She finds comfort in playing a piano in a barn. A year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, she decides she wants to be a pianist. Akiba, for her part, moved to Tokyo to attend college. When she moves back to Koori, Haruka is unsettled and memories connected to the disaster she has tried to forget resurface.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-09
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Care Nin 2: The Flower in Your Heart
Overview: Kei Omori is a caregiver who has left his previous job at a small-scale care service to come work at a large-scale nursing home. But he is unable to hide his tremendous discomfort with a management style that prioritizes efficiency and risk control in the name of accommodating large numbers of residents. It is under these circumstances that Mieko, an elderly woman living with dementia, moves into the nursing home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-04-03
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Greatful Dead
Overview: Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-31
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Reminiscence Journey
Overview: A 48-year-old unsuccessful actor confronts his past when he undergoes hypnosis after a mysterious teenager hands him a note.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-11
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Yakuza
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-12-12
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Killing for the Prosecution
Overview: Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office that deals with violent cases, where he will work with Takeshi Mogami, whom he admires. When a money lender is killed and it is suspected that someone from Mogami’s past is the perpetrator, the team prepares to do his best in order to prove the alleged criminal’s guilt.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-24
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Red Spyder Liles
Overview: The three Aoi sisters live in a luxurious Japanese house. One night, Kotoko, the eldest, wakes up when she feels a presence stirring in the darkness. Her right eye gets pierced by a nail flying from the darkness. However, when the sisters check, both the nail and the eye wound have disappeared. Only leaving a bloodshed. The three sisters, who witness terrifying supernatural phenomenon, contact Jin Teshigahara, a worshiper, and his assistant Ryoan Suzuki for an exorcism. Teshigahara tells them that a curse placed on their ancestors is about to destroy the Aoi sisters. However, the exorcism ceremony was just the beginning of the Aoi sisters' 26 years of hellish revenge.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
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The 11 Words Murder
Overview: A series of suspicious deaths, starting with that of her boyfriend Kawazu Masayuki, prompts mystery novelist Yuki Rikako to investigate. She discovers that all the victims were once passengers on the same cruise ship a year ago and involved in an accident that left one man dead. Rikako must find out what really happened during that outing before more casualties result.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-10
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Watashino Jinsei Nanoni
Overview: A promising rhythmic gymnast is diagnosed with a spinal cord disease and becomes paralyzed from the waist down. She is devastated. With the help of music, she will work toward a new dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-14
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If Tomorrow Comes
Overview: Daisuke is in the 2nd grade of high school and he plays on his school's baseball team. Daisuke then takes part in a gourmet contest with 3 of his friends and 2 girls, including Miki, from a nearby girls' high school. The gourmet contest is held to revive the village.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-21
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Murderous Intent in the Pacific
Overview: A ferry captain named Sugisaki (Takahashi Hideki) and his first officer, Kojima (Funakoshi Eiichiro), participate in a photoshoot conducted by camerawoman Yamaka Shiori (Ohama Tomoko) of the ferry. The ferry reaches Miyazaki and Sugisaki and Kojima go to the hotel where a showing of Yamakawa's photos is being held. Yoshizawa (Nakajima Hisayuki), a magazine editor, is waiting for Yamakawa at the hotel.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-26
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Enoshima Prism
Overview: Shuta (Sota Fukushi), Saku (Shuhei Nomura) and Michiru (Tsubasa Honda) have been best friends since they were kids. Tragedy strikes the friends when during the winter of 2010, Saku dies from a heart attack. After Saku's death, Shuta and Michiru become more distant. On the third year anniversary of Saku's death, Shuta boards a train in the Enoshima subway. Somehow, Shuta travels back in time to 2010, before Saku died from a heart attack. Although Shuta is confused by the time change, he attempts to save Saku by changing the past.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-10
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Chronicle of My Mother
Overview: Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-28
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Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
Overview: Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the publisher and subordinates and runs the ship well. Chatting with his direct boss he picks up a certain vibe. Did he misunderstand that the magazine is doomed and will be terminated? If so, he is not going down without a fight. He will fight to make it through and keep his, and the others', jobs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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Yukiko a.k.a
Overview: Yukiko, a 29-year-old elementary school teacher in Tokyo, struggles with student communication and personal insecurities. Overlooked in the “Favorite Teacher Ranking” and uneasy about her boyfriend’s marriage hints, she finds solace in hip-hop. Yet, in her first rap battle, she is completely overwhelmed by her opponent. This story follows Yukiko’s journey to discover the meaning of living authentically.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-01
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Goodbye, Grandpa!
Overview: A 20 something girl Yoshiko is having sex with her boyfriend when a shocking telephone call arrives - grandpa has passed away. The lightning from clear sky doesnt derail only the life of Yoshiko but summons the rest of the dysfunctional Haruno family to the ancenstral country house to pay their respects to the deceased - and unleash their quarrels between themselves and with the world at large.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-29
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