Momiji Yamamura
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Birthday: October 27, 1960
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Gender: Female
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西村京太郎サスペンス 秋葉京介探偵事務所～狙われた男～
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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Wonderwall: The Movie
Overview: A university orders that old, decrepit Konoe Dormitory be rebuilt, to the opposition of the students who still occupy and maintain it. Movie version with additional scenes of the 2018 NHK's drama show.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-04-10
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Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Autumn 2021 Special
Overview: Stories: Did Daruma fall down?, An Accident Property, seven wonders of a certain school, Evil Sound Invitation
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-23
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Romantic Lake Mashuko Murders
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Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-07
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Fly Me to the Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love
Overview: People of Saitama Prefecture, who have been persecuted by Tokyoites for a long time, stand up for their freedom. Thanks to Momomi Hakuhodo (Fumi Nikaido) and the Saitama Liberation Front, laissez-passer is abolished. The people of Saitama Prefecture can once again enjoy their peaceful daily lives, but the Saitama Liberation Front heads toward its next goal. This leads to a big case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-23
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草津・殺しのトライアングル
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-13
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Inspector Totsugawa's Requiem
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-29
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The Woman Who Disappeared From Her Red Car
Overview: Katsura Aya (Shiratori Yasuyo), a young and popular actress, is kidnapped. Igarashi (Honda Hirotaro), the president of the production company, calls Totsukawa (Mihashi Tatsuya) and Kamei (Aikawa Kinya) of the police. Totsukawa and Kamei learn that the kidnapper's name is Aoi Hebi (Blue Snake) and that Aoi Hebi is asking for one million yen for ransom.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-29
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The Burning Bride
Overview: Risako, a model, is poisoned at a fashion show. After Detective Kariya finds out that Onishi, the PR manager of the apparel maker sponsoring the show, was being blackmailed by Risako, Kariya interrogates him. While his lover, a model named Haruka, worries, the doubt regarding Onishi is cleared up. Several months later, a bride is killed by being burned alive inside a locked room.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Misa Yamamura Suspense: Kyoto Good Luck Tour Murder
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-30
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Spring Has Come
Overview: Riko, who will begin university in Tokyo in spring, journeys there from Hiroshima in February with her father to find a place for her to live. On their travels, they meet various colorful characters. The father remembers his late wife, and raising his daughter alone. Their fun time together is tinged with the knowledge that it is about to end. Rakugo performer Kyotaro Yanagiya appears in his first leading film role, and rising star Anna Ishii plays the sensitive Riko. The eccentric supporting cast includes Romi Park, Akihiro Kakuta, Keiko Yanagawa, Kei Ishibashi, LaSalle Ishii, and Momiji Yamamura.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-24
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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 66: Kushiro-Obihiro Murder Route
Overview: The strangled dead body of Hiroshi Hatano, accounting section chief at the longstanding apparel company Edaka International, is discovered in his apartment in Tokyo. At the scene, Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei find out that a mysterious email stating "I'll be riding the Super Ozora 5 tomorrow" was sent to the victim's cell phone the night before. The sender, Manami Furuya, an employee of Edaka International's Planning Section, has strangely terminated her cell phone service and hasn't shown up to work that very morning. Immediately afterwards, Totsugawa is astonished to receive a report from the Hokkaido police stating that the body of a man, stabbed to death, has been found on the Super Ozora 5 limited express. The man is Yuuki Nakamura, a bar employee from Tokyo, who seems to have flown from Haneda Airport to Sapporo and then boarded the Super Ozora 5, which connects Sapporo and Kushiro. Totsugawa has the feeling that this can't be a coincidence...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-02
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Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery 67: Murder in Hakone - Leaves & Mountains
Overview: Detective Kamei of the First Investigation Division receives a request from lawyer Shinichi Nakamura, the son of his deceased close friend, to re-investigate a car accident. Akiko, the wife of Yasuo Furuki, a painter from Hakone, died in the accident 5 months earlier by crashing into a guardrail. Nakamura's client, Akiko's younger sister Yuki Izeki, suspects that she was actually murdered by Furuki for insurance money. Overwhelmed by these thoughts, Yuki had sent an email reading "I'll never forgive that man. I'm going to kill him and avenge my big sister," announcing a murder to Nakamura. In the middle of their conversation, Nakamura receives a call from Hakone PD confirming that Yuki had turned herself in that morning...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-08
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited
Overview: The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a succession conflict threatens to break out.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-15
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Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery - Soya Honsen Murder Incident
Overview: While returning from a business trip to Hokkaido, Detective Kamei of the MPD greets a middle-aged traveler in the waiting room of Minami-Wakkanai Station but is ignored by him. On the limited express to Asahikawa, the same man happens to entrust Kamei with a floppy disk before dying. The floppy contains his investigative notes on a murder that happened two years ago...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-10
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Hanaikusa
Overview: The tale of hardship, love, determination and life of Mineko, a young maiko (apprentice geisha) in the Gion district of Kyoto.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-23
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Appassionata
Overview: This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-14
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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata
Overview: Inspector Totsugawa of the First Investigation Division goes to Tsuruoka in Yamagata to attend the wedding of the son of Inspector Mukai, his former colleague who now works for the Yamagata Prefectural Police. While sightseeing at Mt. Haguro after the ceremony, he notices a young woman drawing him in her sketchbook. She introduces herself as Yuka Shiraishi and says she came to draw the Dewa Sanzan. Signing the drawing of Totsugawa next to the five-story pagoda with her initial, a 'Y' in the corner, she gives it to him as a present. The next morning, the corpse of a young woman who has been stabbed is discovered in a forest in Tsuruoka. When Totsugawa, on his way back, hears that a sketchbook signed with a 'Y' was found at the scene, he follows Mukai there. However, the body is not Yuka, the woman Totsugawa had met, and while no items pointing to her identity are found, the sketchbook is the same one Yuka had the day before.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-09-20
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Kyotaro Nishimura's Mystery: Railway Inspector 16
Overview: Six high school tennis clubmates, including railroad investigator Noriko Hanamura, are going on a day trip to Kawaguchi Lake. However, one of them, Ayako Hirayama, does not show up even after the arranged time for the meet-up has passed. Magazine writer Yumi Tachiki, who planned the trip, calls Ayako but gets no answer, so Noriko and the others, believing Ayako will catch up with them, proceed to their destination. Even though Yumi and Noriko call Ayako many times, she does not answer. Yumi receives an urgent work request after arriving at Tenjozan Park by ropeway, so Noriko and the others return to Tokyo leaving Yumi at the mountain. None of them had any contact with Ayako the entire day. That night, Noriko receives a call from the Yamanashi Prefectural Police informing her that Yumi's body has been found stabbed in Tenjozan Park. One of the ropeway employees happened to witness a mysterious woman wearing a hat and a mask following Yumi down the mountain trail that evening...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 72
Overview: University professor Kenzo Oshima (Hisamatsu Nobumi) is stabbed to death by someone in an alleyway in Tokyo, and Inspector Totsukawa (Takahashi Hideki) and Detective Kamei (Takada Junji) of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Department's Investigative Division 1 arrive on the scene. According to the first finder, the victim died after saying "Totsukawa...". Oshima was famous as the leading authority on mitochondria, but he had never met Totsukawa... Totsukawa is puzzled, but begins to investigate, and discovers that a suspicious man has been caught on a security camera near the crime scene. Seeking a clue, Totsukawa and his colleagues interview associate professor Hayase Yumi (Kurotani Yuka) and the president of a biotechnology company, Koji Nakazono (Nakamura Shunsuke), who was assisting them in their research, to find out what happened. They find out that the man caught on the security camera is none other than their childhood friend, Akaike Shogoro (Matsuo Satoshi).
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-26
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Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku
Overview: Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by Tsubaki's daughter, Mineko, and believes in her father's innocence, witnesses a bizarre fortune-telling session at the Tsubaki mansion. That night, another murder occurs within the mansion. A visual adaptation of Seishi Yokomizo's gothic horror.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-23
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Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-31
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出るトコ出ましょ!
Overview: Shizuka Kamei is a young high school student whose family is in deep debt since the disappearance of her father. After being expelled from her high school because of her money problems, she finds a part-time job: here she is an assistant to a lawyer, Nonaka Hiromu, who fantasizes about the uniforms of high school girls.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-22
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The Devil Wears Ju-Ni Hitoe Kimono
Overview: Rai, a frustrated student and part-time labourer, is wandering home after setting up a museum exhibition on the classic novel "The Tale of Genji". There is a blinding flash of light and he finds himself mysteriously time-slipped into the Heian period, the setting for the famous novel. Armed with a pamphlet on the history of the period and a bottle of headache tablets he passes as an onmyoji (magical protector of the capital) and is hired by the emperor’s wife Nyogo Kokiden. Fearless and coldly analytical she plots to have her son take over the Emperor’s position. Rai is expected to help. This light-hearted historical fantasy is a treat for lovers of sumptuous kimono.
Genres: Fantasy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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The King of Minami 33
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-27
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