Yoichiro Saito
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Adult: No
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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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The Mourning Forest
Overview: A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-29
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Call Me Chihiro
Overview: An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-23
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Insomniacs After School
Overview: No one seems to understand Nakami. His nights are restless, his days sleepy, and his time at school is isolating. Yet all that seems to change when he encounters his carefree classmate, Magari, dozing off in their high school’s abandoned observatory. Not only is Magari friendly, she’s also a closet insomniac. Together they find solidarity in their shared condition, using the observatory to nap as needed. When their unsanctioned use of the space is discovered, the only way to save their refuge is to revive the school’s long defunct astronomy club. As they work together and get to know each other, their bond grows ever stronger, but hidden truths threaten to cut their budding friendship shot.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-23
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Eureka
Overview: In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-18
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Tokyo Eyes
Overview: The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.
Genres: Romance Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-09
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Karaoke Terror
Overview: One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-08
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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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The Sylvian Experiments
Overview: Dr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian and Japanese guinea pigs that had been found in the basement of a wrecked hospital. Out of the blue, there is a white light and when they look back, they see they children Ota Miyuki and Kaori staring at the light. Years later, Miyuki vanishes from the Tama Medical University Hospital and her sister Kaori, Miyuki's boyfriend Motojima and detective Hirasawa are seeking her. However, Miyuki and the teenagers Kazochi, Takumi, Hattori and Rieko have been submitted to a nightmarish experiment by Dr. Hattori and her team with tragic results.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-10
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By The Window
Overview: Inagaki Goro plays a freelance writer married to his editor wife (Nakamura Yuri), who he discovers is having an affair with the popular novelist she is responsible for at work. Although troubled, he can’t bring himself to confront his wife. He later meets a high school novelist at a literary award ceremony, and–drawn to the award-winning book–he inquires about the model it’s based on, thinking he’d like to meet that person…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Maguro no shippo
Overview: When his internet business fails and leaves him in heavy debt, Ryota takes a position on a tuna fishing boat set to sail on New Year's Day 2000. In the meantime, he lives indifferently.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-04-22
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Tokyo Marigold
Overview: Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from overseas, she requests to enter into a relationship with him for just one year.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-05-12
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Aesop's Game
Overview: Three girls - Miwa, an introvert who's best friend is her turtle, Saori, a rich girl from a celebrity family, and Koyuzu, a member of a revenge agency - wind up in a complex rivalry with one another.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-08-16
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The End of Puberty
Overview: In a noisy classroom, biology teacher Madoka proceeds with his lesson in a small voice.He is unable to look the students square in the face nor admonish them for talking or sleeping in class. Only Tsubura looks upon him with a smile. Very much infatuated with Madoka, she records his idiosyncrasies in her biology notebook through illustrations--tapping his hand on his chin is proof that he is annoyed; messily tugging at his hair when he is at his wits' end. Tsubara, fearful of being forgotten after she dies, only eats things loaded with preservatives so that even if she dies, her body will not rot. Believing such things, Tsubara, thinking that "combining Mr. Madoka who has no one with me who needs someone would surely be perfect," gets the wild idea of a genital exchange with Madoka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-29
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Talking About The Ghost
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-01
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Like a Desperado Under the Eaves
Overview: The main character Akihiko lives in an old apartment. He plays the guitar and sings his own pieces on the street, but this cannot be called his dream. He has a girlfriend. The owner of the apartment next-door constantly repeats Buddhist prayers night and day. On the floor above, there lives a strange middle-aged man who wants to be kicked out of the apartment. Such an ordinary day exists. Akihiko is standing still on the street at dawn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-26
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Searching for Meaning: Jeonju Digital Project
Overview: Akihiro, who lives in an old apartment building in Tokyo, makes songs and sings on the streets; Fei, a street musician who makes a living making a living by making the Iranian traditional instrument 'Daf', but does not neglect to play every night; A film director who travels around Seoul with a digital camera .
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Sad Vacation
Overview: Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old friend in jail and a young illegal immigrant. Eventually his life reaches a turning point.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-08
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The Pavillion Salamandre
Overview: Four beautiful sisters are entrusted with taking care of Kinjiro, a giant salamander and national treasure. Rumors spread that Kinjiro is an impostor, so a genius x-ray technician is sent to run some tests.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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Love Ghost
Overview: Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about an anonymous fortune-teller have anything to do with the tragedies plaguing her high school?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-24
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Utsutsu
Overview: A mysterious woman approaches a salaried man who leads a peaceful family life and tells him, "Your wife is having an affair with my husband." From this mysterious woman's words, the gears of a man's destiny begin to go mad.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-06-01
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Damned Files 7
Overview: This is the seventh volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, actual stories, and accidents that have occurred in various parts of the Tokai region.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-26
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Damned Files 5
Overview: This is the fifth volume of a serial horror drama series of complete episodes produced based on actual stories and accidents.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-26
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Dear Deer
Overview: When Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody believed them. The three siblings lived in a mountain village.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-03
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Yuko's Diary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-07
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Futon
Overview: Tokio Takenaka (48) is a scriptwriter who's lost his passion for his work, and whose relationship with his wife Madoka (37) has turned sour. He spends his days lost in a haze. One day, a girl named Yoshimi Yokoyama (21) barges into his office, saying that she's a huge fan of his work and aiming to be a scriptwriter herself. Overcome by her enthusiasm, he agrees to take her in. As they work together, he begins to sense her talent as a writer, and at the same time, comes to feel sexually attracted towards her. Soon he's writing scripts that he's proud of again, and begins to feel fulfilled in both his private and work lives. But it doesn't take long before he learns about her boyfriend and fellow scriptwriter Hideo Tanaka (20). He becomes madly jealous, but.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-04-14
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Quicksand -reverse-
Overview: This is a contemporary adaptation of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel Manji, reimagined with reversed genders to depict a destructive love story between men and women. Kōtarō Sonoda, unable to give up his dream of becoming a painter, quits his office job and starts attending art school. At school, he encounters a beautiful young man named Mitsuru Usami. Sonoda invites Usami to his home, leading to a physical relationship and growing distance from his wife, Yayoi. However, it is later revealed that Usami has a fiancée.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-24
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All the Long Nights
Overview: Two work colleagues: he suffers from panic attacks, she has extreme PMS. Their company distributes toy planetariums. What may not sound like Ozu Yasujirō is actually precisely that: people are attentive and do each other good, without even realising.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-02-09
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PLAY!
Overview: A bumpy team that suddenly formed challenges the Rocket League national tournament.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-08
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Drowning Love
Overview: Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa. He is the successor of the Hasegawa family. His family is wealthy and is respected in the area. Natsume Mochizuki and Koichiro Hasegawa become attracted to each other, but something changes their fate.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-05
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Parks
Overview: Jun is a university student. She meets high school student Haru. Haru is looking for Sachiko, the ex-girlfriend of her now deceased father. Jun and Haru meet Tokio. Tokio is the grandson of Sachiko and they learn that Sachiko is now deceased. They find an open-reel tape from Sachiko's articles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-22
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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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Monster
Overview: A woman has an ugly face. She has been called 'monster' since childhood. A case occurs in her town that leads to her being ejected and a relocation to Tokyo. She obtains plastic surgery and begins working as a prostitute. She makes some dough and extends the plastic surgery to her entire body. She changes her name and begins a new life. The perfect body leads her to think about men and her hometown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-27
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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 Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage
Overview: There has been a surge in the number of people killing themselves; a mysterious DVD is found on the bodies of the victims... Nozomi falls under the spell of a deadly cult. Yousuke, the policeman she is dating, soon realizes that the cult has something to do with the DVD. Then one day all trace of the group disappear--along with Nozomi.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-26
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Konna otona no onnanoko
Overview: Based on the comic book by Marie Abiko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-10
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MORE
Overview: Yuri, Moeko, and Ai are best friends from high school. Though their twenties were about to end, they believed their eternal world would remain forever. In spite of their will, some misfortunate events such as love, betrayal, memory, regret, and one book with its secret exam their friendship. Those girls get lost in the unveiled story, which is filled with meeting and parting. Scattered life = scattered story will move on any further? A little journey begins now.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-22
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No Matter How Much My Mom Hates Me
Overview: Taiji has been estranged from his mother Mitsuko for years. Due to a meeting with his friend, he looks back at his past with his mother. After not seeing her for years, Taiji sees Mitsuko again. He tries to regain his mother's love.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga
Overview: Live-action adaptation of the "Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga" manga by Akira Miyashita.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-02
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Heaven's Bookstore
Overview: Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-05
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おとり捜査官・北見志穂Ⅱ
Overview: After a series of arson attacks targeting red cars happens in the vicinity of Shiba Park, Shiho Kitami and Detective Hakamada of the MPD's First Investigation Division are asked by the local precinct to help with a stakeout. However, when the entire neighborhood loses power, a murder occurs...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-03
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Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Last Family
Overview: The body of Kou Fujisaki, who fell to her death, is discovered in front of an old building in West Shinjuku. Chief Sakamoto notifies Ushio, who arrives at the scene. Ushio thinks that this must be a murder, but according to Yamaji, who was at the scene before him, an eyewitness testified that Kou had jumped off the roof of the building, killing herself. Kou is someone who has lingered in Ushio's memory - as a suspect...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-07
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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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Jokyoshi Nikki 3 Himerareta Sei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-11
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The Tragedy of W
Overview: The story of a rich family torn apart by the murder of their patriarch, and their heiress being accused of the crime, becomes a play and is acted out by a troupe of actors in Osaka.
Genres: Crime Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-23
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5windows
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-27
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Crickets
Overview: Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a peaceful life in a house on the coast. There she takes care of an old deaf, dumb and blind man as if he were an insect, a child or a pet. He can’t do anything for himself, so she feeds him and accompanies him on his walks. This strong mutual dependency offers Kaoru an escape from society and allows her to free herself from restrictions imposed by common sense.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-23
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Georama Boy Panorama Girl
Overview: Shibuya Haruko is a high school student living in Tokyo. One night, she is instantly smitten by Kanagawa Kenichi, who is lying prone on a bridge. But Kenichi becomes far more interested in a girl he impulsively hits on, Mayumi, over the high-spirited Haruko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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Mellow
Overview: Seiichi is the owner of a flower shop. He enjoys his peaceful single life. Kiho runs the ramen restaurant left to her by her father, but she's thinking of closing it.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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About Miss Azami
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-20
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Waiting for the Pianist
Overview: Pianist wo Machinagara
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-10-12
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BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-03-21
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Look Back
Overview: Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant recluse whose beautiful artwork sparks a competitive fervor in Fujino. What starts as jealousy transforms when Fujino realizes their shared passion for drawing.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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未亡人誘惑下宿
Overview: 1996 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-30
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JAPONICA VIRUS
Overview: Japan in the near future is in turmoil after a new type of “Kanie Virus” outbreak in China has landed in the country. Yoichiro, a young man living in Tokyo, heads for Hokuriku with his girlfriend Rinko to deliver the remains of his brother Koji, who died from the virus, to his hometown. However, when he finally arrives in his hometown, he finds that the atmosphere is even more disturbing.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-30
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ひと夏の隣人
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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女教師 もっと淫らに
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
Overview: A man with family troubles suddenly loses his job and finds a light of hope through a magnificent 1,000 year old community festival that he reluctantly joins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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