Tarô Suwa
Also Known As: Tarou Suwa, Taro Suwa
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: August 09, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Summer Memories: An Abnormal Happy Killer
Overview: OV version of the comic "Summer Memories" based on Naoki Yamamoto. Kawanaka (acted by Takuji Suzuki), who was arrested in another case, started talking about the murder school girls. Detective Kuroda is gradually at the mercy of Kawanaka's madness...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-08
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot
Overview: Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-02-16
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The Promised Land
Overview: A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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Stop the Bitch Campaign Reboot
Overview: Based on the legenday cult Japanese comic “Stop The Bitch Campaign” by Hideo Yamamoto (“Ichi the Killer”) and Tetsuya Koshiba (“Remote”), a fierce battle between the beautiful high-school girls and the middle-aged man erupts once again.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-03
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Toriko: kyoku sai no shō
Overview: The unofficial sixth film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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In the Wake
Overview: Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence for another crime, and he surfaces as a suspect but detective Tomashiro can't nail down conclusive proof.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-01
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Uzumaki
Overview: The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-11
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God Bless You
Overview: A debt collector is forced to confront his inner child when assigned a sweet but mentally challenged new recruit, who mirrors all his actions.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-04
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Fear and Trembling
Overview: Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-12
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The Quiet Don: A New Chapter Volume 2
Overview: Quiet Don Volume 2
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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Demonlover
Overview: A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-06
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Paranoia
Overview: An erotic horror starring Tomoko Takabe, where sensuality and fear swirl. Kumi, a clinical psychologist, heads for a villa surrounded by a deep forest. However, murder cases begin to occur one after another in an isolated villa where communication equipment is destroyed.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Jam Films 2
Overview: Jam Films 2 features 4 short films by different Japanese directors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-24
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A Tender Place
Overview: Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka disappears, which throws Kasumi's life into turmoil. Years later, Yuka remains missing, and Kasumi journeys back to Hokkaido with Utsumi, a terminally-ill former detective, and tries to follow any leads she can.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-07-14
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I’m a Cat Stalker
Overview: Haru works at a part-time job for a bookstore. Her dream is to become an illustrator and she also loves cats. One day, after a cat named Chibutomu disappears from the bookstore Haru canvasses the neighbourhood in search of Chibutomu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-04
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The Machine Girl
Overview: The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-02
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Cop Festival: New Beginning
Overview: Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-24
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The Devil's Cop Festival
Overview: Fifth installment of Deka Matsuri omnibus series. Six films
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-11
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Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri
Overview: Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. 10 films made under the conditions "The main character must be a female detective" "the film must be less than 10 minutes long" "at least five gags must be included"
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-22
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Wandering Warriors
Overview: A chivalrous action that shows the solid acting and unique presence of Riki Takeuchi
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-20
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Conquest 2
Overview: Second film in the 'Conquest' series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-12
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Conquest 3
Overview: The third entry in the 'Conquest' series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-07-16
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Conquest 4
Overview: Fourth entry in the 'Conquest' series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-06
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Conquest 5
Overview: Fifth entry in the 'Conquest' series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-10
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Conquest 7
Overview: Seventh film in the 'Conquest' series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-19
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Conquest 6
Overview: Sixth film in the 'Conquest' series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-02
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Sleeping Bride
Overview: Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a patient there. A nurse remarks that the girl is 'Sleeping Beauty', and Yuuichi believes that a kiss from a prince will wake her, just like the story. Yuuichi returns to see Yumi every day, says 'Wake up, I'm the prince' and kisses her. Ten years later he restarts his daily ritual to see Yumi, one day she wakes up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-29
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Rampo Noir
Overview: An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-11
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Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
Overview: In the year 20xx, scientifically created zombies roam the world in record numbers. Despite this, Aya is determined to track down her father's killer, a person who was once close to her. With sword in hand and wearing nothing but her trademark bikini and cowboy hat, she sets off to settle the score.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-26
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Christmas on July 24th Avenue
Overview: Sayuri Honda (Miki Nakatani) claims she has no interests in love affairs. She refuses to take things as they are for she fancies her harbor town of Nagasaki as Lisbon, Portugal. But on Christmas, encouraged by the season of romance, she tries to materialize her once-in-a-lifetime love with the man of her dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-03
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Another Heaven
Overview: A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-04-29
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Death Penalty
Overview: Detective Yasagure, who has deviated from the organization, uncovers the shameful part of the police and knocks out the corrupt organization.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Death Penalty 2
Overview: A shocking, problematic work that dares to confront the corruption of modern Japan!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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Death Penalty 4
Overview: Inside the police there is a special investigation for consecutive police motorcycle cases. Yuji's investigation reveals that homeless people and girls are suffering from the murder game!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-14
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Eko Eko Azarak: Awakening
Overview: The fourth movie in the highly sucessful Eko Eko Azarak series. Following the events of the second movie, Misa discovers, along with the rest of Japan, the strength of her newly acquired powers when she and her friends are attacked in the woods…
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-28
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Saigo no gokudō
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-25
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Street of Gravestones
Overview: A pair of siblings visit a friend in a remote town with a strange effect on its inhabitants; when they die, they transform into gravestones.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-30
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Cold Fish
Overview: Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-29
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Shikoku
Overview: Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayori, died several years ago and that Sayori's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has gone almost insane with grief. After seeing Sayori's ghost several times during the night, Hinako consults with some local experts on the paranormal and discovers that Sayori's mother has something planned for her daughter...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Don's Road 6
Overview: The sixth 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Don's Road 7
Overview: The seventh 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-21
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Don's Road 12
Overview: The twelfth 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-08
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Don's Road 13
Overview: The thirteenth 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-05
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Don's Road Final
Overview: The final 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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Don's Road 14
Overview: The fourteenth 'Don's' Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-15
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Tomie: Rebirth
Overview: Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-24
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Voyeur target 1 Beautiful secretary who took off her uniform
Overview: Voyeur Sutekichi Mamiya. A secret professional who makes full use of hidden cameras and eavesdropping devices to record men and women's foolishness and sell them off. Mamiya, who chose the employee's girls' dormitory as his new workplace, targets her domineering secretary, Saeko Kurahashi, and begins to follow the whole story of her unprotected acts from everywhere.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Confined Breeding
Overview: Reika and Yurika are sisters who live in a mansion deep in the woods and repeat the ritual of "breeding" when they find their prey. Today's prey is Suzuki, a young man who got lost in the forest and got caught in a trap set by Reika. The spectacle that jumped into his eyes when he was confined in the mansion was a middle-aged man who blindfolded Yurika and Reika's son while enjoying Yurika's appearance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Ultraman Orb the Movie: Let Me Borrow The Power of Bonds!
Overview: Ultraman Orb teams up with Ultraman X to battle the evil witch, Mulnau, who seeks to add Earth to her jewelry collection, with the help of Orb's long-time rival, Jugglas Juggler!
Genres: Action Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-11
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Some Kinda Love
Overview: The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a beauty obsessed by UFOs.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-25
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The Accomplice
Overview: This hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro Kiuchi. 8 years ago Brazilian mafioso Carlos had brought the Japanese yakuza organization to its knees. He breaks out of prison while being transported back to Brazil and then begins to seek to get even with the organization.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-10
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Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Accel
Overview: While settling into married life with Akiko, Ryu is brought into a case involving a woman named Katsuragi Aoi, a member of a pickpocketing ring with most of her teammates murdered from unknown masked vigilantes that Ryu fought as Accel. As the details of the case begin to unravel, Ryu is framed and Akiko believes that he may not be faithful to her. As the clock ticks down, Ryu must solve the case, clear his name, and save his marriage before everything comes to an explosive end!
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-21
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Gamera the Brave
Overview: A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle that grows into a new version of Gamera. But will it become powerful enough in time to defeat the rampaging monster Zedus?
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-11
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Ramo Trip
Overview: Film on the life of Ramo Nakajima, part adaptation of his short stories, part documentary
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-25
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Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
Overview: A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts becoming more like her and tearing her world apart.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-24
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The Guard from Underground
Overview: A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.
Genres: Thriller Horror Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-16
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Kuro
Overview: Three young people in Tokyo. Kuro is a girl working a part-time job at a bakery. Eito is a photographer. Gou is a theater director. These three individuals meet by coincidence and, as a means to escape reality, begin living together at a deserted inn near the sea.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-21
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Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 7
Overview: The seventh 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-02-25
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Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 8
Overview: The eighth 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-25
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Mother
Overview: A publishing company is working on a book about Umezu’s life. The lead editor, Sakura, knows that Umezu’s late mother Ichie was very influential to his work. As the investigation continues, bizarre incidents begin occurring one after another. Soon, the grudge of a mother who should be dead sparks mounting fear around Umezu.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-09-27
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4 / Cat-Nekobun no Yon
Overview: A short omnibus created by four young creators on the theme of "drawing the people of Ichii who use a certain station where a cat lives".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-12
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Kanto Gangster Federation: Chapter 2
Overview: The second 'Kanto Gangster Federation' film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-06
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Gokutsuma Ninkyodo Yasha Dance
Overview: 2001 original video.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-07-20
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The Slave Ship
Overview: Onimata Kan is famous for two things: a successful career writing S&M erotica, and hosting the erotic gatherings aboard what has come to be known as the Slave Ship, where the main attraction is the auctioning of the services of sexual partners willing to fulfill any desire. So if it's all consensual, there's no harm, right? At least, that's what Onimata believes until he learns that one of the frequent auctionees has gone insane, and that her husband believes the cause is related to a stalker she acquired. Are the activities aboard the Slave Ship somehow to blame? Fearing the answer, Onimata goes to investigate the mysterious Kitagawa, and soon learns that his own writings only hint at the extremes to which some will go.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-03-06
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Seventh Anniversary
Overview: Each time Lulu is heartbroken small stones come out of her body. The doctor tells Lulu they are kidney stones. She collects them in memoriam of love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-22
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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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Dark Water
Overview: A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-19
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The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September
Overview: Ryo once rode with a biker gang; ever since his friend Tetsuji died riding in September, he's retired from biking, trying to forget the past.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-05
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Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare
Overview: 20 years after their battle with the Evolians had ended, a new threat appears to threaten the long-lasting peace that the Abarangers have enjoyed. For the first time in a long while, they transform to fight but the public seems to think their actions are barbaric acts of destruction. In the Reiwa Era, is the justice they once fought for now considered an outdated style of heroism?
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-01
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Pandemic
Overview: ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other variety of virus? As the situation worsens and more cases begin arriving, a medical officer from the World Health Organization named Eiko Kobayashi is dispatched to the area. At the rate the virus is spreading, the entire city’s transportation system and infrastructure would be brought to a halt within 3 months. Within 6 months it could spread to tens of millions of people--reaching a death toll far worse than any war.
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-17
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Heart, Beating in the Dark
Overview: A boy and girl struggle to understand their place in 1980s Japan, retiring to copulate and probe each other for answers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-02-20
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An Obsession
Overview: Police detective Sosuke is shot down while chasing down a suspect. While he is unconscious, his gun is stolen. He recovers, but loses his wife and resigns from the police force. All of a sudden, his lost gun used in a series of crimes.
Genres: Drama Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-20
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Two Punks
Overview: Centering on a young drifter almost casually drawn into violence--a crime drama about a boy and a man equally ill-equipped for criminal life and straight society. Neither wants to be a Yakuza, but normal life presents problems.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-21
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The Spirit of the Dead
Overview: Anyone who touches the doll will be cursed by the "corpse spirit". Will you be slaughtered? Or will you be released from the haunting? The game of survival for life begins!
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-22
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Dirty Maria
Overview: Murakami's partner Mayumi has gone missing. He fears that she could have run off with another guy or gotten into difficulty by involving by herself with a 'telephone relationship club', a solution which hooks up strangers trying to find easy, anonymous sex, no concerns asked.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-29
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Costume Players
Overview: Whenever Ami and her step-brother, Hiroshi accept one another in bed, the telephone rings; advising them of their parents’ death. 12 months later, Ami resides with Hiroshi and his spouse, Mariko. Apparently, they are delighted but there is indisputable pressure among Ami and Mariko. One day, Mariko gets angry at Ami for always following into their bed room without permit. Giving up her calm, Ami blurts out that she has a connection with Hiroshi…
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-01
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Fighting Express Vol 1: Battle Run
Overview: They are "Behind-the-Scenes Delivery Specialists" who can deliver any kind of packages to anywhere in Japan. They run through dangerous areas and they fight with anyone standing in the way! Akane (acted by Yuka Kosaka), a would-be journalist, is chased by a shady black-suited group as she has an evidential document which can prove an assembly man's crime. So she runs to FIGHTING EXPRESS, which can deliver packages with special secret circumstances.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-28
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Welcome Home
Overview: Yuriko, once a concert pianist, now practices home-making while husband Takashi stays out late with co-workers, leaving her to decay into severe mental illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-10
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The Enchantment
Overview: A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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Mobile Detectives: The Movie
Overview: Although they are still teenagers, the Zenigata Sisters are detectives, and have a grandfather in the Inspector General. They possess an uncanny knack for solving crimes, but no one knows that they are investigators. The Zenigata Sisters have been busy solving crimes around the nation, and are faced with a case surrounding their own family. Unless three crimes are solved, the perpetrator threatens to escalate his crimes. It is then that Rui, Mai and Rei begin receiving mail on their cell phones from the police department. The trap set by the perpetrator has the sisters stumped. Will they be able to solve the crime in time?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-04-04
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Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman
Overview: Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if she was pretty. The victim’s response would almost always lead to their violent death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-16
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Saru phase three
Overview: Minoru is diagnosed with cancer and undergoes surgery, but it is soon discovered that the cancer has spread to his lymphatic system and he is prescribed anti-cancer drugs. He is soon plagued by severe side effects such as vomiting, skin rash, and hematuria, and begins to distrust hospitals.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-17
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LONESOME VACATION
Overview: This is Lonesome Vacation
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-07
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Alter Ego
Overview: Three aspiring young Japanese models are on their very first fashion shoot at an abandoned school one hot summer day. Without warning, strange events begin occurring around the set that causes the models and photo crew to question their sanity, as one by one they begin to die agonizing and painful deaths that are seemingly caused by none other than themselves.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-07
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GACHI-BAN: SUPER MAX
Overview: Yanki (Japanese delinquent) Hayato, is on his way with his senpai, (upperclassman) Yocchan to a so-called “resort” job with good pay, food, and housing. Hayato, not being able to commit to work, meets another Yanki who’s trying to work hard and form a family. Meanwhile, Yocchan ends up falling for the lunch lady at the “resort”... Will she be the one for him?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-31
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Zero Woman: Final Mission
Overview: A famous businessman's links with organized crime are looked into by the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police, with the investigation being headed by a highly trained, extremely violent and very beautiful female officer. When not having shoot-outs with the crime syndicate thugs trying to kill her, she spends most of her time in her apartment, wearing lingerie and taking showers. A sub-plot involves the businessman's S&M-obsessed daughter.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-25
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毒婦／妖しい炎
Overview: Erotic drama depicts the psychology of a middle-aged woman who gradually develops a lust for a young girl whom she had envied.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Cat and Salt, or Sugar
Overview: Ichiro is a 32-year-old man who has voluntarily become his mother's "pet," retreating from the flow of life suggested by society: university, career, marriage, parenting, home ownership. His quiet life at home (with an alcoholic father) is interrupted when the ex-boyfriend of Ichiro's mother and his "white idol" daughter move in. Under a cramped roof, the five search for happiness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-23
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Nora
Overview: Yukio Kasai (Sometani Shota) is running through the mountains to escape something, when suddenly he is accidentally hit and knocked unconscious. The man driving is Shigeru, a single father who lives nearby in a small rural fishing town. Shigeru then offers Yukio a strange proposal, whilst he recovers he can ‘help repair a boat’. Yukio is however haunted by nightmares and just when he starts to feel comfortable, his tragic past catches up to him with dire results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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2nd Virgin Road
Overview: The story is about Mayumi and a jobless youngster who enters her life. Mayumi is a rape victim, and is often haunted by the painful memories of her past. Mayumi chances upon this youngster, strikes a chord with him, and slowly shares her troubles and past memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-21
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Zero Woman 2005
Overview: The Metropolitan Police Department '0'section, known as an organization in the police department that investigates a closed case. Well-trained detective in the '0' section, Rei, is looking for her memory that was lost during the training, while also investigating a human traffic which young woman being a victim. One day, classified killer virus was seized by rising terrorists. To investigate this case, public safety sent Sarah Kodama who specializes in molecular biology and computer, to work with Rei but Rei refuses to work with Sarah. Sarah was curious about mysterious Rei, so she starts to collect Rei's information and goes to see Rei's former boss, Asami. However, the man who appeared in front of Sarah was an assassinator who contemplates destruction of '0' section. What happens to Sarah...!? What is in Rei's lost memories!?
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-03
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Crazy Lips
Overview: After her brother is accused of murdering four people, his sister, desperate to prove his innocence, goes to a psychic for help. The price they ask, however, is far more than she expected, and the answers they give her are nothing she could ever have imagined. And what is the FBI doing investgating a murder in Japan?
Genres: Comedy Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-26
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Christmas in August
Overview: A Japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Noise
Overview: Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) begins to produce black fig on Shishikari Island. Because of his well received product, the island is close to receiving a 5 billion yen grant from the government, which is part of the goverment's policy to reinvigorate rural economy. The residents of the island are excited, but their peaceful days changes by the appearance of Mutsuo Komisaka. Keita Izumi and his friends Jun Tanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) and Rookie Police Officer Shinichiro Moriya are suspicious about him. One night, Keita Izumi's daughter goes missing. Due to that, Keita Izumi, Jun Tanabe and Shinichiro Moriya happen to kill Mutsuo Komisaka. They decide to hide Mutsuo Komisaka’s murder to protect the future of the island and their families. It turns out Mutsuo Komisaka was a psycho killer. Police officers come to Shishikari Island to catch Mutsuo Komisaka.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-27
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Zero nendai zenkei
Overview: Kumiko Hoshizaki’s “Akane Sasu Heya” is the story of Maki, a 20-something temp who is sick of her boring job and life in general. The rather bizarre solution she comes up with is to conceive a child behind her boyfriend’s back. Makoto Nagahisa offers the much more impressionistic “Frog.” The story meanders around a bunch of unrelated characters, using experimental techniques like repeated scenes, hallucinatory visuals, blurred shots and disconnected sounds. Lastly, we have “Bouquet Garni,” a much more conventional work from director Junpei Hatano. The plot is centered on a reporter, the relative of a kidnapping victim, and a woman who is obsessed with the case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-01
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N45゜
Overview: Omnibus film, set in a fictional town at 45゜N latitude: Wonder Rubbish; Pao-san to no fukushu; Jonetsu no koya; Kaze wa, dotchi ni fuite iru
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-15
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Hen Nasty Oedo Emaki Revenge
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-22
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License to Live
Overview: Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Hole
Overview: An omnibus film consisting of four stories on the theme of "holes" by four directors.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-10
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Be Sure to Share
Overview: Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it's too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced connecting to his strict father who was also his teacher and soccer coach. With a consuming secret of his own, Shiro, now in his late twenties and about to get engaged, must eventually learn how to share the pain of it with his loved ones.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-01
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Stop the Bitch Campaign
Overview: Tokyo’s Valentine Call is a special kind of phone club. Older salarymen pay to wait for calls from teenage girls, discreet meetings are arranged, and handfuls of yen are exchanged for a quick session of enjo kosai, or paid sex with a high school girl. Plenty of girls are doing it—some to make money for fancy, fashionable clothes and accessories, others to set a trap to rob and brutalize the old perverts. But the Valentine Call staff, horny young Ogisu and the vaguely sinister, makeup-coated Mr. Kuni, have a nasty plan of their own. Listening in on the enjo kosai calls, they conspire to trick the girls into giving them free sex. Mr. Kuni even has a twisted concept behind this scheme. He calls it enboku, his campaign to humiliate the teenage girls, drive them away from prostitution and purify Japan.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-03
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Into the White Night
Overview: A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji. As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji ...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-29
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Overview: Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-22
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Bad City
Overview: Kensuke Sonomura directs the legendary Hitoshi Ozawa in this ultimate V-Cinema actioner. Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor and starts eliminating opponents from the rival mafia, a former police captain serving time for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force to arrest him.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-05
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Heart, Beating in the Dark
Overview: This new version of Nagasaki's Yami utsu shinzô (1982) is neither a remake nor a sequel. It is both those things, and at the same time it is also a documentary, a portrait of the consequences of passing time, and an occasionally very funny reflection on what the hell the point is of all this filmmaking business anyway. Shigeru Muroi and Takashi Naito, back then young hopefuls willing to take chances, now among the most established and recognisable actors in Japan, return to play the roles they assumed in the 1982 film, each of their characters having gone their own way. Alongside, another young couple (Honda and the ever-brilliant Eguchi) find themselves in the exact same situation as their older counterparts 25 years earlier. Their paths cross, an opportunity arises: for the elder two to redeem part of their own lives, for the younger couple to find a helping hand in their darkest hour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-02
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Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Ichi Ya
Overview: "Shin Mimibukuro," which has greatly influenced numerous Japanese horror works such as "Ring" and "Ju-on," is finally being fully adapted into a complete visual format for the first time. The directors include Takashi Shimizu of "Ju-on," Hideo Nakata of "Ring 0," actor Shiro Sano, and Akio Yoshida, the veteran of TBS dramas such as "Kamaitachi no Yoru," all of whom are distinguished talents in the horror world. The cast is also spectacular, featuring a diverse array of talents such as Rina Uchiyama, Kaoru Okunuki, Nao Omori, Mako Ishino, Hitomi Miwa, Riko Kurita, Nobuto Okamoto, and Ikkei Watanabe.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-02-03
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Gore from Outer Space
Overview: A mother is accused of murdering her daughter but when she tells her tale, things don't seem to make sense. Her husband says they have no daughter, there's a psychic that can trace phone calls, a blonde who sings the US anthem, a house with no bathroom, some Lynchian dream sequences, aliens, breeding experiments, very quirky FBI agents, and some other random events.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Heaven's Story
Overview: A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is eventually placed back into society so that he can kill him with his bare hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-02
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Hysteric
Overview: In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a short temper and no visible means of support. Amour fou blooms between them, and a year later they're living together, with Mami taking part as Tomo abducts, tortures, and kills one of their neighbors. Eventually the cycle of crime goes too far for Mami and she leaves Tomo, but several years later, he arrives at her home to disrupt her life with her new husband. Hysteric was directed by Takahisa Zeze, who previously received critical acclaim for the film Kokkuri. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-07
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Believer
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-12
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Ghost Theater
Overview: Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-21
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Conquest
Overview: A massive yakuza war begins when the most powerful clan in Kansai plans to conquer all control of the country after attacking several headquarters of other clans in Japan and China.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-11
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Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Overview: In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-14
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Raining Blood
Overview: One day, Naoto receives a package. Inside he finds a book, ‘LIVE’. At the same time, he receives an image on mobile phone of his mother being kidnapped and a call from a mysterious man. “If you don’ t want us to inject the killer virus in your mother, find the hints hidden in the novel and head for the goal in the death race!” Naoto starts running to save his mother with the book in his hand.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-10
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Goku-Oni
Overview: The legend of Yokudo Gokuki
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-21
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Our Homeland
Overview: From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just a short period. For the first time in 25 years, Sonho is reunited with his family in Tokyo after being allowed to undergo an operation there. Sonho’s younger sister Rie is at the centre of the film, and is not hard to recognise as the director’s alter-ego. In her documentaries DEAR PYONGYANG and SONA, THE OTHER MYSELF, Yang Yonghi told the story of her own life, and how, at age six, she experienced the departure of her three older brothers, who left their family for Pyongyang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-07-01
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Silk
Overview: French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs. After a long journey, Hervé finally arrives at a village where he can buy them. He becomes infatuated with a young concubine and goes to great lengths to see her again. But, when war breaks out in Japan, the concubine flees, forcing Hervé to return home to his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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Sixteen
Overview: A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-26
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Unloved
Overview: Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko's new lover is fascinated by Eiji's power and social status... A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters "unloved".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-05
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Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: 2008 Summer Special
Overview: Summer 2008 special of Scary True Stories (Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi).
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-26
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Life Back Then
Overview: Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments. Now as a young adult Kyohei takes a new job. He works for a company that specializes in cleaning out the homes of recently deceased individuals. With his new job Kyohei meets co-worker Yuki (Nana Eikura). Yuki has also experienced a traumatizing event as a teen and has also shut herself away from the world. These two young people form a bond as they go through the homes of the recently departed people. They gradually open up to each other and in the process to the world. Yet, their fragile psyches may or may not be ready for such changes ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-19
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Chaos
Overview: A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house while he sends the ransom demand. When he returns home that night, however, he finds her laying dead on the floor. In a panic he buries her body deep in the woods and tries to return to his ordinary life. One day, he thinks he spots her walking down the street. Is his mind playing tricks on him, or has she somehow returned from the grave?
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-06-30
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Roleless
Overview: Miyamatsu, who works as a cable-car operator, is also a film extra. Through his different characters he has been living the life of a stranger, only playing that part. Finally he comes face to face with his own life, the one he had lost. Debut film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-16
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Strawberry Shortcakes
Overview: Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-23
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The Lowlife
Overview: Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-25
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The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Overview: Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-03-01
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Penance
Overview: The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-29
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The Forbidden Play
Overview: A boy, after tragically losing his mother in an accident, performs a resurrection spell in the hope of reviving her. However, he ends up awakening something evil.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-08
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The Killer Angel Revenge
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-06
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Portrait of the Beast
Overview: The man was called the "Manslayer Demon. One day, he stabs a rival gang member to death in the dark. A rookie female cameraman happened to capture the moment. The man was sentenced to five years in prison for the scoop footage and is tossed about by the passage of five years. Gradually, the man is forced to leave his home, but he soon regains the eyes of the "beast" he once was...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-09
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Sadako
Overview: A psychologist connects her missing brother to the strange case of a mysterious little girl believed to be Sadako reincarnated.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-24
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64: Part 1
Overview: 1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-07
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Dogs
Overview: A tough woman is dragging a weaker man deeper and deeper into crime. Woman cop Miki is chasing a wanted man when she stumbles on a crashed car and sees the driver, Koichi, ignite spilled petrol to kill himself and his passenger. She drags Koichi to safety, but the passenger dies. Miki says nothing to challenge the inquest finding of `accidental death', and when she visits Koichi in hospital he begins to understand that her complicity in his crime implies a sexual invitation. But a gumshoe has photos of the crash, and the only way to stall his blackmail is to kill him, the first of several murders...
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-30
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The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Overview: Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed, Kei Watanabe challenges a war against the yōkai.
Genres: Fantasy Family Adventure Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-01
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Yakuza Taxi
Overview: The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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GACHI-BAN: WORST MAX
Overview: Fourteenth instillation in this violent action series about a delinquent youth. A straight-shooting ruffian lets his anger loose at the vileness of a young loan shark. Directed by Motoki Takashi, who has handled numerous films in the series. Hayato (Kubota Masataka), who has earned respect for his fighting prowess at a sketchy modeling agency, starts working as bodyguard for the charismatic delinquent-style model Reo (Arai Atsushi). But, Reo has a dark side of running a loan shark operation, and brutally calls in loans by making female debtors sell their bodies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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Barren Illusion
Overview: In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi. He searches for violent ways to reactivate his life, she dreams of escaping abroad; both volunteer to test a new drug which may provide a cure.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-12-11
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Psycho Doctor
Overview: Yoshioka Gynecologist is a women’s clinic that has a good reputation in the neighborhood. The medical examination by Dr. Yoshioka was trusted by many patients. However, Yoshioka, who collapsed due to too much overwork, became a wheelchair, and now Goro Kuroda and Yoshioka’s wife Eri have taken over the hospital. Goro and Eri are enthusiastically examining today. However, Kuroda had a serious secret.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-02-22
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Solanin
Overview: Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Taneda is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-03
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Disregarded People
Overview: Young man, Yusuke Mamiana, fed up with his life meats a unattractive ugly girl, Kyoko, at his hometown. Out of his impulsive desire, he had a relationship by nearly raping her. They started to live together and gradually feel 'Family' attachment in each other. As time passes, Yusuke starts to think more about 'Happiness' of his family and himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-20
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Orochi - Blood
Overview: The story of Orochi revolves around the life of the Monzen family. Aoi Monzen, a famous, but aging, movie star and Kazusa and Lisa Monzen her two daughters. Aoi hopes for them both to take over her legacy as a star, but Kazusa does not live up to her expectations. The mother is always pitting the girls against one another competitively. As a result, as the years pass, the love the sisters shared grows to a hidden hatred. When another girl named Orochi saves the girl's mother from a terrible accident a bizarre chain of events is set in motion spanning many years. The atmosphere in their estate builds up until Orochi reveals a terrible truth that the family must keep hidden from the world. Orochi serves as the narrator of the story. The movie is based on a Kazuo Umezu manga series which ran from 1969 to 1970.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-20
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Leave in Summer
Overview: Nana runs an inn called Nakajima-so in a seaside town. One day, a young man named Fujii Shuntaro comes to visit and reveals that his girlfriend stayed at the inn one year prior, just before she died. Following in the footsteps of his lover, Nana takes on the role of guide and joins Shuntaro as he wanders the town.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-23
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The Leg Lover
Overview: Pinku film released in 1997.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Law of Asuras
Overview: Saji (Motomiya Yasukaze) and his junior Tera (Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki) are members of the Kicchou Clan, a fearless yakuza group known for its long history within Yokohama. The pair are close with the captain of the group, Godou (Ozawa Kazuyoshi), whom they admire as being a devout follower of the yakuza ideal of chivalry, and the three function much like a close-knit trio of brothers. The Kicchou-kai have so far maintained a balance with the rival Hama Family, who have territory across the river. However, tragedy begins to march on Saji, Tera, and Godou when suddenly the Chairman of the Kicchou Clan is assassinated by a member of the Hama Family ...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-25
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Burst City
Overview: Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
Genres: Action Music Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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Will You Die in the Chimpira Dream Chara!
Overview: Three mean and a woman connected by a strange encounter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-04
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Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Banchou Soccer
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-23
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Young Thugs: Chinatown Romeo and Juliet
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Madly
Overview: Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US, India, and Australia. All forms of love are on display in this anthology. And all manners of feelings expressed from jubilance to depression are done so strongly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-14
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Shin Godzilla
Overview: When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-29
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Flower
Overview: Flower, the legendary assassin. He is cruel, ruthless and has no mercy on women or children. He is said to have honed his killing skills in Mexico and to disappear after leaving a flower at the scene of a murder. No one knows what this means, but Flower's name has become an urban legend in the underworld. One day, Momoko, a female assassin, receives a request to eliminate Flower and confronts him. However, her true identity is completely different from the rumour.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-07
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Flower 2
Overview: Flower. Flower (Osawa Mikio), a kind-hearted assassin who offers flowers to the dead, has been hiding out in a safe house with the help of his friend Momoko (Ayano). Flower is in hiding because Mother (Mizutani Kei), the leader of the dark assassin army he once belonged to and escaped from, and her men are after his life. What is their purpose?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-11
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The Great Clash - Endless War 2
Overview: The war between the Morisada clan of the Keihin Rengo and the Fujioka Sogyo of the Kurokawa clan seemed to have ended when Yasuda, a young leader of the Morisada clan, killed Fujioka, the leader of the Fujioka Sogyo. However, Fujioka's last words and the murder of Kunimoto, whom he had looked up to like a parent, caused Yasuda to vow to assassinate Kurokawa clan leader Nishino, without regard for his insulation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-05
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The Great Clash - Endless War
Overview: Yasuda, a young head of the Morisada clan of the Keihin Union, wonders if the murders of his gang member Iwami and his girlfriend were the work of Fujioka, the head of the Fujioka Sogyo clan of the Kurokawa clan. However, the truth is that the assassinations were carried out by Narita, a young head of the Kurokawa clan, at the request of a member of the ruling party. Narita plots to turn the disturbance into a war between the Morisada clan and Fujioka Sogyo...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-06
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Premonition
Overview: While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five-year-old daughter Nana in the obituary section.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-02
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Reincarnation
Overview: A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-07
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Hatsuko's World
Overview: 15-year-old Hatsuko (Higashi Ayu) lives with her elder brother in a humble town house. Their mother died when they were young, and the father disappeared. The brother (Shioya Shun) left high school before graduation to work at a factory, but spends their meager house-keeping money on adult entertainment. Hatsuko, who is poor and has no friends, finds emotional support in Mishima (Sano Kazuma), a boy in her class, who helps her with her study to go to a high school together. However, Hatsuko's brother causes trouble at the factory and gets the sack. Hatsuko gives up her dream of going to high school. In spring, the modest relationship continues between Mishima, now a high school student, and Hatsuko who works at a biscuit factory. One day, Hatsuko's long-gone father reappears. In a drunken frenzy, he sets fire to the house to go and rejoin the mother, leaving Hatsuko without a place to live. Hatsuko leaves the town on her own, drawing strength from the promise of marriage with Mishima.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-12
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Door III
Overview: Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets her plenty of gropers but no buyers. One day while venturing down a narrow stairwell, she injures her ankle and happens upon Mitsuru who works for some mysterious foreign company. Decked out in high goth style -- complete with long inky black hair and mascaraed eyes -- Mitsuru cuts quite an odd figure, yet his seductive though menacing ways make him difficult for Miyako to resist. Escorting her to his office to treat her ankle, Miyako notices that his all-female staff seem more glassy-eyed and soul-deadened than the average office workers. In fact, they seem almost like zombies. Later, weird things start happening. Mitsuko finds vomit on her doorstep, she seems to be tailed by a shadowy woman in a red dress, and most strikingly, she finds herself utterly powerless against Mitsuru's advances.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-04-13
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Adult Drop
Overview: Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime, but this just upsets Ann. Yoshi's relationship with Ann is now awkward. Yoshi doesn't know exactly why, but Ann becomes absent from school frequently. One day, during their summer vacation, Yoshi hears that Ann has dropped out of school.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-04
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Kawaikatta Inu, Anko
Overview: A short film by Aya Igashi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-01
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Anarchy in Japansuke
Overview: A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift from stores while she works as a prostitute. She strikes up a relationship with a convenience-store clerk, and the two eventually settle down together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-23
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Zombie Snake
Overview: A family are haunted by a Hebi Onna, a fabled demonic undead Snake Woman.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-14
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Sayonara Midori-chan
Overview: Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the shallow but charming Yutaka, she willingly succumbs to his lascivious advances only to discover afterward that he already has a girlfriend by the name of Midori. Even so, Yuko's feelings for Yutaka continue to grow regardless of his aloofness. Before long she finds herself reluctantly cajoled into working as a hostess in a small karaoke bar. Fatalistically accepting his dalliances with flames old and new, she perseveres not so much in hope of a more substantial relationship, but rather out of fear of losing him. There are other men out there waiting for her -- kinder, more considerate and eagerly available. But for Yuko, there is only the non-committal, yet torridly magnetic Yutaka. Why him? Not even Yuko seems to know the answer.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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Our Highland Hotel
Overview: Ayumi Aizawa is a lonely young man without a family. He works at Forest Hyde Press Hotel as a cleaner. His deceased grandfather Kenzaburo worked at the same hotel. When his grandfather worked at the Forest Hyde Press Hotel, the hotel was well known for its extreme hospitality. Now, the hotel is nothing more than an ordinary hotel. New manager Ryuuya Sawashiro then attempts to bring the hotel back to its glory days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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A Weapon in My Heart
Overview: A detective and his partner track down a call girl with information about a drug cartel. After taking her into custody, they are attacked by cartel members. The detective and the woman manage to escape, but they are soon hounded by a professional hitman hired to eliminate them and recover the heroin stolen by the woman.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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IKKA
Overview: The family of 20-year-old Ohta is celebrating his birthday in a restaurant. What was supposed to be a happy familiar reunion turns into a big mess.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-13
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Shield of Straw
Overview: Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-25
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Adrenaline Drive
Overview: A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-02-18
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Laughing Lucky Cats
Overview: Hitomi Takagi (Fumika Shimizu) and Akako Honda (Rena Matsui) are members of comedy duo “Akako to Hitomi.” The created the comedy duo about 5 years ago, but they are still not very popular. Everyday, they perform manzai to a regular audience in a corner of a small theater. One day, Hitomi and Akako catch a middle school student trying to steal Hitomi’s bicycle. Since then, their fate as a female comedy duo begins to change.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-29
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Nouveau Riche
Overview: A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-07
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble
Overview: Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero
Overview: Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-21
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The Outer Way
Overview: The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya gangster practices.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-06-05
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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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Currency and Blonde
Overview: A university professor's secret passion: a fetish for "blonde hair." His fantasies gradually escalate into reality.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-22
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Munashiidake
Overview: A story of a married couple, Koji and Shizuko. They have purchased a piece of land to build their new home after being married for five years. Despite Koji's excitement. Shizuko stays calm. One day, Koji receives word that Shizuko has been in an accident. She was found with an unknown man when she was supposed to be traveling with her friends...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-01
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Mr. Long
Overview: Long is a Taiwanese killer known for his sword skills. After Long fails a Tokyo mission, he moves to a small town where no one knows about him.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-22
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Helpless
Overview: Yasuo is a gangster just released from jail. Believing his boss double-crossed him, enraged Yasuo is on his way to find the boss. But before setting out for the dangerous trip, Yasuo asks Kenji to take care of his mentally challenged sister, Yuri, and a mysterious black bag.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-27
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Through Their Eyes
Overview: A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected dogs and cats at animal shelters. The story is told through the eyes of tormented vets who are relentless in their efforts to change the system to serve these animals with dignity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-02
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Another Side
Overview: This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side" of life as they face romantic conflicts and the suicide of a fellow student.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Wild Side
Overview: In four chapters, the film anatomises the chaotic life of a radio agony uncle.who is having simultaneous affairs with a sado-masochistic call-girl and the wife of an aggrieved tour-bus driver
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-30
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The Last Coffin
Overview: A strange crossword puzzle starts circulating amongst Chiri's friends, and they soon begin getting murdered one by one in horrifying ways. At night, Chiri can seemingly view their deaths in her dreams, causing her to lose sleep. Depressed and confused, she wanders into an old orphanage where she spent her childhood and uncovers a long-forgotten link to her past that may help her unravel the mysterious and tragic events occurring around her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: jv
Release Date: 2003-08-29
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Areno
Overview: 'We have to kill him', the wife and her lover thought. When three childhood friends reunite, it doesn't take long before two of them feel the woman's husband is in their way. They push him into a lake, but the boat capsizes and all three are thrown into the water. The lovers reach the shore, but the husband is nowhere. Has he drowned? They decide to wait at a lakeside hotel for his body to be found.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-21
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The Quiet Don: A New Chapter
Overview: Mild-mannered Shizuya Kondo lives a normal life, occupied with his dreary office job as a women's underwear designer. But, he also happens to be the only son of the leader of the biggest criminal organization in the Kanto region... and when his father is murdered by a rival gang, Shizuya is forced to become the new head of his yakuza family! Working as a businessman by day and a yakuza boss by night, Shizuya finally begins to realize his true potential. But, things take an unexpected turn when Akemi, his secret office-crush, is suddenly kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-05
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After That
Overview: Film director Shunichi Nagasaki reflects on a near-fatal motorcycle accident that occurred while shooting his commercial feature debut The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-05-29
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Back of Happy Street
Overview: A journalist, his pyromaniac girlfriend, and an ex-baseball player team up to rip off a gangster, with violent consequences.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-21
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Five Million Dollar Life
Overview: Mirai Takatsuki is a seemingly normal teenager, but when he was a child his life was saved from a terrible illness thanks to magnanimous donations from the local community that paid for his medical bills. Ongoing media attention and the pressure to excel have prompted Mirai to have suicidal tendencies.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-20
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Hayabusa
Overview: May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-01
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My Retirement, My Life
Overview: Michitaro Sano’s wife passed away 18 years ago. Since her death, he has lived with his daughter Yumiko at their home. Now, Michitaro retires from his work. Yumiko though tells him to start doing housework. Michitaro is also surprised to learn that Yumiko has a boyfriend and is considering marriage. Michitaro is unsure how to handle his sudden abundance of free time. He then attends a local radio calisthenics group session.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-09
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SEARCH
Overview: A man who has lost his memory returns to his hometown and encounter several people from his past and present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-27
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Wet Red Thread
Overview: Shigeru meets Ichimi at a club and they get involved. Her yakuza husband complicates matters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-06
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Hana-Dama
Overview: Transfer student Mizuki is bullied mercilessly by her classmate. Nevertheless, she is always able to maintain her composure. Kirie, who is also bullied, becomes interested in Mizuki and longs for her. The two become close.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-18
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Himizu
Overview: After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-05
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Yumeko's Nightmare
Overview: There's no limit to what you can see in your dreams...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-09
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Maneater
Overview: A young man suspects that his new lover is cheating on him. All is not what it seems.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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People of Twilight
Overview: A woman runs a “mistress service” and interviews young women for “dates” with men. Various couples get together but someone is following and watching them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-20
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Attack on a Bakery
Overview: Two young men are hungry, so they decide to rob a bakery. Adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-18
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Stare
Overview: Dead bodies with eyeballs ruptured are continuously found. Their direct causes of death are heart attacks and they acted like they were possessed right before their deaths. Mizuki is a university student. Her friend dies in front of her. Meanwhile, Haruo’s younger brother dies. Mizuki and Haruo begin to investigate together. They learn that Eiko holds a key to the mystery. Soon, Eiko's eyeballs rupture and she dies by a heart attack. Before she dies, she mentions the word "Shirai-san.”
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-10
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Waiting for the Moon
Overview: Yumi is a victim when the triple disaster of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown occur in Japan of 2011. She is a guest of her aunt now. She finds a job at a local bar and works under the owner Sugiya, a man who has amnesia and barely recalls anything except his recipes. The two begin to develop feelings for one another.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-23
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Cat-Eyed Boy
Overview: A film adaption of the manga Cat Eyed Boy by famous horror manga artist Kazuo Umezu. The film follows a strange boy with cat like features.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-16
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Muga Shozoku
Overview: In the wilderness of Iga, Japan, a young robotics student named, SHIN, ignores the warnings of his sensei, TAKU, and takes it upon himself to unleash the power of an ancient book called MUGA. This mysterious power is also desired by, RYU, of the ONISHI GROUP -- a military tech company that will destroy anything in its way to possess it.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-12
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Forbidden Island
Overview: Rei, a beautiful psychotherapist confronts a crazy cult evil group, known for their brainwashing methods.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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Ju-on: The Curse
Overview: When elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom, he finds himself at the doorstep of an anonymous suburban house that harbours a horrible secret, and into which all who enter are doomed.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-11
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Ju-On: The Curse 2
Overview: On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put up for sale, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-25
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Wild Life
Overview: An ex-boxer working for a game parlor owner gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn't understand. Before long he's caught between two yakuza bosses and a mysterious thief who motivation is unknown. Add in the boss' daughter who has a crush on him and watch him struggle to make sense of it all and come out alive.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-04-05
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Red Post on Escher Street
Overview: A genius film director, Tadashi Kobayashi holds an audition for his new film project. Several actors and actresses answer the open call, but most will only be cast as extras. Can the film come to a completion without accident?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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Ring 2
Overview: While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Dancing Mary
Overview: Kenji is the youngest member of a team in charge of building a large shopping center. But, to create the new complex, an old dance floor must be destroyed, and every effort to tear down the building is boycotted by a mysterious power. In fact, there is a rumor that the place is cursed, and the construction team thought about hiring exorcists, but none of them seems to find the solution.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Adventure Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-03
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Foreboding
Overview: Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father there. Etsuko becomes worried about Miyuki's state of mind, and she takes Miyuki to the psychiatric hospital where her husband, Tatsuo, works. There, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of "family." Later, Etsuko tells Tatsuo that she is not comfortable with Dr. Jirō Makabe. Tatsuo introduced her to Dr. Makabe earlier at the hospital. Etsuko has a feeling of unease about her husband working with Dr. Makabe. One day, Etsuko hears Dr. Makabe state "I came to Earth to invade."
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-11
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Cure
Overview: A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-27
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Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi
Overview: Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. Due to a series of unfortunate events, she brings shame to her family and has to leave her hometown. Shuichi (Tasuku Emoto) killed his drunken father to save his mother. After he is released from prison, he begins to work at a small factory in Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-24
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Eyes of the Spider
Overview: Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter's murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his innocence, before killing and burying him. He returns to his ordinary life feeling listless and hollow, until he encounters a man that introduces himself as an old friend. The man offers Nijima a new job, and subsequently introduces Nijima to his band of hired killers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-11
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Long Goodbye: Tantei Furui Kurinosuke
Overview: Kurinosuke Furui (Ryu Morioka) grew up at an orphanage. He now works as a private detective. One day, he receives a request. The request is to collect money which was stolen by a woman who killed herself. During Kurinosuke Furui's investigation he uncovers a shocking truth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-20
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Sayaka: The Cute & Careless Girl
Overview: How does a teenage girl shed her virginity? She is horny, curious and dying to have sex. It is so bad that she cannot take her eyes off the teacher's crotch. Well, the usual and time-honoured way is the answer. She joins a virgins' club at school and practices showing off her body, underwear and up-skirt. It is not so easy though. It takes practice, but she has little time before she and the boy she is tutoring get together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-03
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NO CALL NO LIFE
Overview: Adapted from Kabei Yukako's novel of the same name. After being guided by a mysterious message from the past on a cellphone's answering machine, Umi encounters Mahiro, a delinquent at her school. They gradually come closer, but more messages appearing on the answering machine will unveil past secrets...
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-05
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Rinco's Restaurant
Overview: After a bad breakup, a young woman returns to her hometown and opens a menuless restaurant. A young woman in her mid 20's becomes so heart broken she loses her voice. To recover, the woman decides to go back to her hometown and stay with her free-spirited mother whom she has not been very close to in the past. The young woman then decides to open a restaurant which accepts only one customer a day, allowing for thoughtful preparation for that customer.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-06
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Stop the Bitch Campaign: Hell Version
Overview: In Tokyo, prostitution in the name of "Enjo Kosai" is in fashion among some high school girls. A mysterious man Kuni lament such girls but cannot deny a strong desire for them. He punish the girls by having sex with them without paying them. He calls this operation "Stop the Bitch Campaign" for public justice. Working in a sex trade shop where abnormal people are satisfied with their lust. Aoi tries to find out the man who raped her desperately in the past. One day, Aoi meets Kuni.
Genres: Drama Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-02
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Meatball Machine
Overview: Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-23
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Be The World For Her
Overview: Love story between a cloned boy and bullied high school girl.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-14
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Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
Overview: Kai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve cases using their reasoning abilities. It's also a secret that these girls are detectives. One day, the three high school girls receive a call from Nanba Kazuhiro of the Metropolitan Police Department. A letter was received in which the writer threatened to kill the popular idol group Morning Musume. Kai, Mei, and Yui go to the Morning Musume concert to guard them. After the concert, Mei is with members of Morning Mutsume on the tour bus, but Mei suddenly disappears.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-05
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Sweet Whip
Overview: When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility treatment, but she also has another side.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-21
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Sharaku houmu outotsu tantei-dan
Overview: Former detective Gunpei Wakatsuki (Masao Kusakari) and former big thief Otomatsu Sekiya (Takashi Sasano), who live in the luxury elderly housing with care “Sharaku Home”, are a trio of 6th grade elementary school students, Isamu Tachikawa. Meet (Keita Ninomiya), Shota Inoki (Sotora Motomura), Chika Takami (Himena Negishi). One day, a baby is taken away at an obstetrics and gynecology clinic run by Isamu's father, Hiroshi Tachikawa (Takeyuki Yue). During the three minutes his mother went to the kiosk, she disappeared.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-18
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Wordholic Prisoner
Overview: A wordholic man, acting as the chief editor by a certain publishing company, is confined by the writer who wishes to publish.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-13
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Last Scene
Overview: Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently announced her retirement from acting in order to get married. Feeling frustrated and helpless, Ken turns to alcohol as he begins to provoke fights, attempts to lure a girl into bed, and argues with his wife, who came to visit him at the studio. All she says is thank you and leaves Ken puzzled. Ken Mihara, once a budding young star, takes a job as an extra. Although he's past his prime, he still manages to infuse a young filmmaker with the motivation to pursue her dreams as a director.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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Humming Life
Overview: There are many different kinds of lives in this world. When everyone is gone only the afterimage remains.Ai has only recently came to Tokyo. In this unfamiliar city she is a little bit upset. One day lead by a mysterious stray dog she finds a letter inside a hole in the tree trunk. Tomohiro who works night hours at a nursery hadleft it there. Ai being encouraged by this letter writes a letter back and leaves it in the hole. This was the beginning of their strange correspondence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-19
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Under the Turquoise Sky
Overview: Takeshi grew up spoiled in an affluent family. One day his businessman grandfather Saburo sends him to the grasslands of Mongolia where he is to search for a daughter born out of Saburo's relationship with a local woman after the Second World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-26
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End Call
Overview: The Devil has a phone number, and if you call him on your mobile phone at midnight, he will grant your wish. In return however, he will control your life for the duration of the call.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-01
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新任女教師 放課後の求愛授業
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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Undercurrent
Overview: Kanae's husband disappeared without a trace while on a union trip. Though usually headstrong and independent, the woman becomes plagued with worry over what happened to him, and is unable to move on with her life. Thus, Kanae decides to hire a private investigator, and keeps running the public bathhouse to the best of her abilities. As he tries to figure out the truth about her husband, Kanae must deal with the stress from a work-intensive job, meddlesome neighbors, and recurring nightmares in which she is drowning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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School Ghost Story F
Overview: A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of three stories : Rei Video & Hoken-shitsu by Hideo Nakata and Haiko Kidan by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-07-19
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Columbo of Shinano 4 - The Karuizawa Forked Road Murder Case
Overview: The fourth in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and mannerisms of famous American TV detective Columbo, based on a series of novels by popular mystery author Yasuo Uchida.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-24
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0093: Masao Kusakari On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Overview: A James Bond Parody
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-13
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Wolf: Running Is Sex
Overview: First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every primal desire whenever they may arise. He takes on a mate, a woman intrigued by his personage or lack thereof, and they live in his den in central Tokyo. As time goes on, we see how this animal clashes with modern man, and the consequences of their coexistance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-20
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Woman in Witness Protection
Overview: Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murder she witnessed. Under the watch of two dedicated cops, Biwako struggles to maintain her career, her public image, and her personal life as she prepares for her new role on the witness stand.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-27
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Kuu Ie
Overview: An omnibus film featuring short horror stories directed by Toru Kamei and Minami Nagasaki. It includes "The Devouring House", where a couple who buys a cheap, second-hand property begins experiencing strange phenomena, ultimately leading to the disappearance of the entire family. The second story "Psychic Vision" follows four men and women who meet through a suicide pact website and face terrifying experiences.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-05
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Hard Days
Overview: After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a mysterious witness.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-05-19
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Tales of Terror: Final Night 1
Overview: This is the first volume to include the final series of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the true-life ghost story book “Shin Mimibukuro. It contains all 10 episodes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-05
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The Complex
Overview: Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu, the handyman cleaning up the old man’s apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-13
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Happy Together –All About My Dog–
Overview: A series of short stories explore the connection of love between dogs and people.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-22
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Tales of Terror: Cow Woman
Overview: The cow woman is believed to be the sign of a huge catastrophe that is about to occur. It is said that she dies when the catastrophe is over. In some regions, the cow woman is worshiped as a prophet who warns of future misfortune. Asuka, who has joined a training camp, decides to head off to the site of an unsolved murder together with her four classmates. It is there that they find an isolated house where they manage to be let in by making up an excuse. However, once inside.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-07
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Men of Rage
Overview: The second installment of a V-Cinema sports drama, directed by Kurosawa in 1994, following "打鐘" (Dakan) from 1993, which was based on Yamamoto's manga and directed by Komatsu Takashi. While there is no direct narrative connection between the two films, they share thematic similarities. The protagonist, Wataru Tachibana, a self-destructive yet genius keirin cyclist, is once again passionately portrayed by Nishimura. This time, Wataru fiercely competes against a rival known as the "Prince of Keirin," who is also the heir of a powerful conglomerate. Kurosawa directs with intense and dramatic storytelling, capturing the protagonist’s burning determination.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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