Yuko Tanaka
Also Known As: 다나카 유코, 田中 裕子, Yūko Tanaka, Yuuko Tanaka, Yûko Tanaka
Biography: Yuko Tanaka is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She has won several acting awards during a long career working in both film and television after she graduated from Meiji University.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ikeda, Osaka, Japan
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Birthday: April 29, 1955
Age: 70 years old
Gender: Female
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Princess Mononoke
Overview: Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-07-12
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The Buried Forest
Overview: Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-06-25
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Tales from Earthsea
Overview: Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn't enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause. During his journey, he meets Prince Arren, a young distraught teenage boy. While Arren may look like a shy young teen, he has a severe dark side, which grants him strength, hatred, ruthlessness and has no mercy, especially when it comes to protecting Teru. For the witch Kumo this is a perfect opportunity. She can use the boy's "fears" against the very one who would help him, Ged.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-29
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The Exam
Overview: Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes jobless when his company folds. To regain his confidence Togashi decides to join the marathon that is taking place on the very day of his daughter's examination and the all important interview.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-03
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The Bleep Brothers
Overview: Tatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief, they practice games of manzai, a Japanese comic vaudeville. Tatsuo grows up to be a handsome chick magnet, while Ikuo is nerdy and unappealing. He spies on his brother to get material for their reality porn show. The show is bleeped heavily, and their bleep language becomes trendy and makes them stars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-03-29
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Edo Porn
Overview: The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-12
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Fifth Movement
Overview: When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinist returns to his home and manages to get the orchestra back together for a grandiose performance, saved at the last minute by their original conductor -- and boding well for the future of the die-hard musicians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-19
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Haru's Journey
Overview: Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-22
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Dearest
Overview: The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at the post office before she died.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-25
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Demon
Overview: Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-31
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffers the fate of any women born near the Sacred Mountain: she must leave the Mountain and serve as a priestess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-28
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Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
Overview: Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to provide a rare glimpse into the life of one of Japan’s most acclaimed screen directors. Includes archival footage from 49 of the films he produced during his career at Shochiku.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-01
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Children on the Island
Overview: The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-11
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Homeland
Overview: Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire village is abandoned after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, but Jiro returns there to live. Before long, members of his family come and join him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-01
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Hana's Miso Soup
Overview: Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes one day when he meets the irrepressible Matsunaga Chie by accident. Just as their relationship is blossoming however, Chie tells Shingo that she has breast cancer. Shingo determines to marry Chie right away, but she'll have to go through surgery and cancer treatments firs...
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-30
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Thousand and One Nights
Overview: Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly for her husband. One day she meets Nami, whose husband has also disappeared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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The Whispered City
Overview: Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-07
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Osaka Story
Overview: Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-26
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Midnight Diner
Overview: A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-01
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Backwater
Overview: Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma becomes anxious that he will have inherited those urges.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-07
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The Rainbow Seeker
Overview: A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-28
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Daddy Long Legs
Overview: An orphan girl receives a scholarship for a prestigious school from an anonymous benefactor who she refers to as Daddy Long Legs.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance TV Movie Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-10
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The Firefly
Overview: Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of working as a fisherman in Kumamoto, a provincial seaside city in southern Kyushu, Yamaoka remains reluctant to discuss his wartime experiences with anyone, much less an intrusive reporter looking for a feature story. Then a series of events shake Yamaoka to the core, forcing him to re-evaluate his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-05-01
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Why Not?
Overview: The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-08
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Bōshi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-02
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Monster
Overview: When a young boy begins behaving strangely, shocking truths emerge as the story unfolds through the eyes of his single mother, a teacher who is believed to be responsible, and the child himself.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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The Milkwoman
Overview: Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (KISHIBE Ittoku), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-02
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The Real You
Overview: Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions, Sakuya ventures into uncharted technological territory. He turns to VF (Virtual Figure), a technology that aggregates personal data from one’s life to create a “human” in a virtual space.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-08
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Ghost Story: Flower House
Overview: An eerie statue of the Kannon shedding tears in an old Western-style house. Fifty years of the strange lives of the mothers and daughters who protect the statue of the Kannon.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-16
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Tora-san, the Expert
Overview: Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-12-28
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Amagi Pass
Overview: Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, was visited by a retired policeman who came from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself.
Genres: Crime Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-19
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Capone Cries a Lot
Overview: Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-02-16
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Hibi
Overview: Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-19
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The Island of Cats
Overview: Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on the small island and enjoys relaxing days with his childhood friends including Iwao and his cat Tama. Daikichi has a son Tsuyoshi who lives in Tokyo. Tsuyoshi worries a bit about his father living alone on the island, but Daikichi is content with his life. After his close friend passes away, Daikichi worries about his physical condition. His daily life begins to change. Based on manga series "Neko to Jiichan"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-22
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Haruko's Doll
Overview: In the early days of the Showa era in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture a newborn baby is abandoned with a doll under the eaves of a merchant house along the pilgrimage route in Shikoku. It seems to be a pilgrim struggling to make a living. This baby girl is named Haruko and brought by Tomita Shizuko and Katsuji as the younger sister of their son Ryosuke who is three years apart. When the war begins, 16-year old Ryosuke qualifies for the naval academy and crosses the Seto Inland Sea. After some consideration, Shizuko tells Haruko the truth that they are not real siblings for the first time. Haruko who has had a secret crush on her brother ever since he said that he would protect her, is innocently overjoyed and heads to Hiroshima to convey this to him. The next day, an atomic bomb explodes in the sky…
Genres: Drama Romance History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-04
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The Rape
Overview: Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice system while balancing her home life including romantic relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-05-15
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One Night
Overview: A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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Gift of Fire
Overview: Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing research to save Japan, the researchers there wonder if they should promote the development of weapons as scientists. Research enthusiast Ishimura Osamu tries to experiment purely but is at the mercy of the time period. His brother, Hiroyuki, also has to face the truth of the war. Asakura Setsu wants only to talk about the future. A story based on historical facts about youth during the tragedy of war.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-06
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Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
Overview: In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but Shūzō suddenly passes away. Momoko is dumbfounded by being alone again. She begins to go to the library and borrows books. This changes her life.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-15
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The Homeless Student
Overview: Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience of homelessness when this father suddenly decides to abandon his family. Hiroshi and his older siblings do all what they can to withstand the trouble they encounter along their way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-28
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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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Wild Geese
Overview: In the 39th year of Meiji, a Yucheng, who had lived in poverty since childhood, lived in a house near the ramp in order to become a concubine of usury
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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