Mari Hayashida
Also Known As: はやしだ まり
Biography: Mari Hayashida (林田 麻里, Hayashida Mari, December 29, 1978) is a Japanese actress from Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Her agency is Lucky River. In 2013 she won the Kinokuniya Theater Award.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Omuta, Fukuoka, Japan
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Riding Uphill
Overview: A former pro-baseball player finds his passion again in Keirin, a professional bicycle racing sport.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-26
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Taisho Roman Tanteitan -Eden no Utahime-
Overview: In the sixth installment of Taisho Roman Tanteitan, Kai Todo, "the Japanese Sherlock Holmes," takes on a serial murder case.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-05
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Chakushin 2
Overview: A detective is asked by a young woman to investigate a stalker. As the investigation proceeds, a suspect who has been persistently and repeatedly harassing her comes to the forefront of the investigation. The detective began recording the stalking behavior on video.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-05
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Takeshis'
Overview: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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Air Doll
Overview: A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Junichi. She starts to date Junichi and gets a job at the same store where he works. Everything seems to be going perfectly for her until something unexpected happens.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-26
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The Shoreline
Overview: Two immortals and a woman who repeats re-encarnations, are caught in a curse that has over a thousand years. They meet every 100 years. Sosuke doesn’t know who he is but has recurrent dreams about a woman he has met on a beach. A beautiful love story where the past is intertwined with the present and needs closure.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-03
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Cold Bloom
Overview: Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s accidental death, which marks the start of a personal recovery that mirrors the town’s for Shiori as well as forgiveness of surviving coworker Takumi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-13
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Route 225
Overview: Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are the same as in their own world, but their parents are missing from home and are only contactable when using one particular phonecard.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-11
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XXX Kiss Kiss Kiss
Overview: Five stories of romance, farewells, bitter love and stolen kisses...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-05
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Lapse
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-16
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Swing Girls
Overview: A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's brass band.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-11
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Cult
Overview: Three female idols appear on a television show to investigate an exorcism. An exorcist with psychic powers named Unsui claims that the show’s subjects, the Kaneda family, are cursed by a demon that’s too powerful for him to banish on his own, so he calls in a fellow exorcist to help. Soon, a reckless ghost hunter enters the fray as the three idols witness a series of terrifying events.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-20
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Sketches of Life
Overview: Ryota Tanaka, a young man who was struggling to become a manga artist in Tokyo, came back to his hometown in Fukuoka, feeling the limits of his dream. It was a part-time job at the local life extension zoo that introduced Ryota, who was in the old friend's room, without relying on his parents' home. While working with the director Noda and veterinarian Aya Ishii, Ryota knew that this is a rare zoo in the world that puts emphasis on “animal welfare” that puts animal health and happiness first. However, the management of the garden is in a critical situation due to the budget reduction, and Ryota decides to draw a comic again to convey this effort with her own picture...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-15
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Achilles and the Tortoise
Overview: Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-20
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Backdancers!
Overview: A cadre of backup dancers is left astray when their star singer moves on with her life and marriage. They each had their own ambition and hope, which subconsciously rested on the star power of the singer. When plan A does not work, they cling to plan B. When that does not work, in an act of desperation, they are assigned to plan C by their agency. A fight and unprofessionalism seems to put the Backdancers on permanent ice.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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Where Love Goes
Overview: Junior high schoolers Sudo Ai and Sosuke Ito live together as a patchwork family in a small town in Hokkaido, all thanks to Ai’s mother, Yumi, creating an environment of love. Bullying and the harsh environment cannot pierce that safety until Yumi dies. Cast adrift, the kids are separated, Ai is taken to Tokyo by her father, and Sosuke is left behind.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-15
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Page 30
Overview: The four actors gathered in the studio spent three days rehearsing their 30-page script. They were told they would perform onstage on the fourth day. The cast has yet to be decided. Although they are upset about being in a closed environment with their smartphones and watches ripped away, the four devote themselves to rehearsals in order to obtain the roles they want to play. A second-rate actor, an unpopular actor, a bad actor, and an actor who can no longer find satisfaction in acting as directed. Their no-turning-back situations are gradually brought to light during rehearsals, revealing the women’s respective natures. Their performances collide as they give all they’ve got for their acting careers in this space where there are no rules nor even a director or producer. The fourth day arrives. As the masked audience watches, will they be able to show their true natures as actors and deliver a successful stage performance?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-04-11
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