Maki Nishiyama
Also Known As: 西山真来
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: July 31, 1984
Age: 40 years old
Gender: Female
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Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 4・Area ∞
Overview: The 4th volume of Eros Suspense that depicts the terrible living hell that unfolds in a secret cell. Noriko, an underground idol involved in a conspiracy, is imprisoned in an isolated prison "Area ∞". It is a terrifying cell where the worst rape murderer, Yoshida 3 brothers, has been imprisoned...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-02
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Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman
Overview: 1st Entry in a mockumentary series from Koji Shiraishi. Depicts a TV crew as they cover the urban legend of "Kuchisake-Onna" or "Slit-Mouthed Woman".
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-07-04
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Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Preface: True Story of the Ghost of Yotsuya
Overview: From the team's previous work, director Kudo is now convinced of the existence of parallel universes. But now, a new video posted convinces the group to learn the truth about a mysterious woman with a swollen face.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-02
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Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Preface: True Story of the Ghost of Yotsuya
Overview: From the team's previous work, director Kudo is now convinced of the existence of parallel universes. But now, a new video posted convinces the group to learn the truth about a mysterious woman with a swollen face.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-02
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Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Final Chapter
Overview: Eighteen months have gone by and Kudo and Ichikawa are still lost in a parallel universe. When they vanished, a giant appeared in the sky above Shinjuku.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-11
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Mononoke Hospital
Overview: At an abandoned hospital with a psychic spot, psychic researcher Misawa gathers persons and listens to strange phenomena that occur around him. By collecting 100 ghost stories, Misawa is trying to summon real spirits.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-02
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The Ideal Way To Spend A Holyday
Overview: When a holiday lasts for so many days, it becomes somewhat difficult to understand. Suddenly, a foreigner carrying a strange statue runs through. "Come on!" Urged by the chasing voice, the woman suddenly started running, without knowing why... A prince from an unknown country who has studied in Japan, a coffee shop owner who lost his spouse, a former friend who "accidentally" killed her husband... An adventure with nowhere to go begins. While wandering from one street corner to another, the woman eventually returns to the place where her endless holiday began.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-30
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Yamabuki
Overview: A story of finding a place to root yourself when life’s obstacles have dispirited you. Chang-su, a former equestrian athlete for the South Korean national team, was forced to give up on his dream early. He finds himself working at a quarry in the rural town of Minawa in western Japan, where he lives with Minami and her infant daughter. Yamabuki, a teenage girl, begins to stage silent protests that blossom into community action, much to the dismay of her policeman father. The quiet surface of this rural town is gradually peeled off to reveal frustration and loneliness that, once given a voice, begin to connect people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-05
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Futari Shizuka
Overview: This is Futari Shizuka
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-04
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A Rainbow-colored Trip
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-25
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Please
Overview: Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too!" series, which is set after FILE-02.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Once the One
Overview: One night, yu meet kanae who lives and paints in an old Japanese house. a story about two lonely people on a summer night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-01
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Natsu no musumetachi: Himegoto
Overview: Naomi (Makoto Nishiyama), who returned to a small town because her adoptive father was about to die, met her brother-in-law, Hiroyuki (Hideyuki Kamada), again. Both of them have a history of becoming a man and woman, and Naomi feels an uncontrollable feeling for Hiroyuki. After that, she reunited with her childhood friend Yoshio (Yuya Matsuura) who also returned to the town....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-01
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IMPOSSIBILITY DEFENSE
Overview: At a certain park, there is a mysterious man, who has red eyes and a black suit, that people can go to and request him to kill someone. His assassinations can never be blamed on him because he takes no illegal action. His strength is in the power of suggestion and the arrangement of events. He accepts these requests, all the while privately mocking the foolishness of those whose unwise wishes he grants.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-01
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Shell and Joint
Overview: Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-22
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Asako I & II
Overview: Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-01
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Breath of Rokkasho
Overview: Japanese society is without ideals - Two men and one woman, who grew up in a religious organization in , meet again and question their own ideals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-02
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I Am a Weapon
Overview: A piano teacher struggles with the dark legacy of his family: he once witnessed his father beating a man to death. Fearing a genetic inclination for violence he struggles to stay sane when he is pulled down the dark path of an illegal firm that sells revenge for hire.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-01
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Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! The Most Terrifying Movie in History
Overview: In this sixth installment, director Kudo enlists the help of powerful psychic Dogen , physicist Masahiko Saito, and idol Akari, to make a big movie while investigating the abandoned "Tatari Village", where anyone who enters goes insane or dies.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-03
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Sanchû Uprising: Voices at Dawn
Overview: 1726, Sanchu, Okayama Prefecture: farmers negotiate with the feudal domain in order to seek exemption from rising taxes. Infighting leads to suppression by the samurai class, and the farmers band together for battle. It’s a moment of injustice, setting the stage for bravery and sacrifice. However those daring characters remain largely offscreen in Juichiro Yamasaki’s brilliant film. Instead, the cowardly protagonist Jihei (Naohisa Nakagaki) faces a crisis of the risks of rebellion and its aftermath that resonates with our contemporary moment. In this rare independent jidaigeki, Kenta Tawara’s beautiful digital B&W photography channels and refigures luminaries of classical Japanese cinema, boasting rapturous animated sequences by Tomomichi Nakamura and experimental score by Ayako Sasaki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-22
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Odayaka
Overview: Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who is in a divorce, is worried that her daughter is exposed to radiation. Yukako is also afraid of radiation and tries to convince her husband to move. The two become friends after Yukako tries to save Saeko after a suicide attempt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-22
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My Technicolor Girl
Overview: Nagano has had a sickness of the heart for 40 years and has been hospitalized at the mental hospital in Fukushima. However, during the evacuation when the Great East Japan Earthquake hit on March 11, 2011, knowing that he’s already completely healed, he makes his way back out to into the world. Having been hospitalized from when he was in his teens until his fifties, his story is like that of Urashima Taro, the Japanese fisherman who went beneath the sea as a young man and returned to an unfamiliar world. However, his heart from long ago is for the first time full of feelings to meet the woman he loved. Before long, Nagano learns that the woman has taken refuge in Tokyo and lives with her son and his wife, and sets out on a bike headed for Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-09
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The Modern Lovers
Overview: A married Japanese man living in the country agrees to meet with an ex-lover in Tokyo, leading him to question his life choices.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-27
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Hell Girl
Overview: Tormented and bullied people can access a special website, run by a Hell Girl who will enable them to take revenge on their torturers. The price for such a service is only that the person must join their torturer in damnation.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-15
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Wife of a Spy
Overview: It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he’s up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a game in which she enigmatically conceals her intentions.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-16
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Noriko no Baai
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-28
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A Crimson Star
Overview: When fourteen-year-old Yo is hospitalized she gradually develops feelings for Yayoi who is a nurse tending her. However, Yayoi leaves the nursing profession in favour of prostitution. Yo is disappointed, but turns to the older woman after she is the subject of unrequited love from her mother's man. The two grow closer and Yo is about to find out what motivates Yayoi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-01
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Keita Never Die
Overview: Keita Shimabukuro, a younger brother of Aki Shimabukuro who sells her body for a living, crashes in his sister's place. An evil plot by Sachi, the daughter of the leader of the Kimura gang, ends up with Keita dumped into a river. His body is washed ashore in heaven, where he sees his father Mitsuo, with whom he has lost touch for many years. By an unexpected twist of fate, Keita is resurrected but in the body of his sister. Now they have to share the same body with each other.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-15
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Good bye
Overview: Kimi lives with her boyfriend in a cold northern Japanese village on the Aomori coastline near the nuclear power station where he works. One day he becomes radioactively contaminated and leaves but the girl stays behind with her father.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-31
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Dual City
Overview: 2034, Japan is divided into North and South parts. In the South, people live a peaceful life, while conflicts are going on in the North. For Yoriko, a nurse in the North, her sole consolation is to visit where she can access her late daughter’s lifetime information. One day, Yoriko is abducted, but she learns that dead individual’s total memories are preserved as in the South,a nd that her daughter is still alive in that form.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-09
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The Kamagasaki Cauldron War
Overview: Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When the local gang has its treasured cauldron stolen, a war to find it begins involving the thugs, a 12 years old kid, a prostitute and a pickpocket, including the giant cauldron used to feed the destitute: The symbol of Kamagasaki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-18
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Psychology Counselor
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Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-25
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