Tetsuya Bessho
Also Known As: 別所 哲也
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shizuoka, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: August 31, 1965
Age: 59 years old
Gender: Male
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Solar Crisis
Overview: A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence and a Japanese pilot at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-06
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Pure Japanese
Overview: Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he comes across a senior high school girl Ayumi who is being harassed consistently by Chinese brokers and the local yakuza. He decides to protect her from them. However, after this incident, he comes to develop a mindset of seeing violence as a way to gain the affirmation and approval of others thus gradually loses himself and behaves in an extreme manner.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-28
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Parasite Eve
Overview: A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wipe out humanity.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-02-01
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Thirteen Steps
Overview: A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-02-08
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Messengers
Overview: Naomi Shimizu is a young career woman working for Enrico Dandolo, an Italian fashion house. That is until one day the company declares bankruptcy. Accustomed to living in luxury she tries to make a run for it with the last remaining company asset, a red Alpha Romeo sports car. Unfortunately she recklessly collides with an bicycle messenger. Lacking any funds to pay for a settlement, she end up having to work as a bicycle messenger.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-08-21
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Godzilla vs. Mothra
Overview: Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately a meteorite has awoken a hibernating Godzilla as a three way battle for the Earth begins.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-12
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Heart and Yummie
Overview: Heart is a tyrannosaurus who is found and raised bv a herbivore mother. After learning his true nature as a meat eater, he runs away from home and finds a baby ankylosaurus egg that hatches and thinks Heart is his father. After accidentally naming the baby Yummie - thinking he looked tasty - their love for one another tests the bounds of nature vs. nurture.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-16
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461 Thank-you's: Father and Son Bonding through Bento of Love
Overview: In 2010, a musician, Watanabe Toshimi was planning to go back to his hometown in Fukushima to do farming. His son Toui was going to re-take high school entrance exam which he had failed the previous year. Both looked forward to starting new chapters in their lives. In 2011, Toshimi had to cancel his plan because of the Great East Japanese Earthquake. His hometown was within 20 km of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant. To cheer up his father, Toui who passed a high school entrance exam promised him to go to school every day. Toshimi promised Toui to make him bento every day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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Until the Break of Dawn
Overview: High school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a "tsunagu," an intermediary for people who want to reach the dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-10
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スケート靴の約束 ～名古屋女子フィギュア物語～
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-25
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The Mystery of Rampo
Overview: Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-27
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Basara: The Princess Goh
Overview: Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-11
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AIBOU: X-DAY
Overview: Detective Kenichi Itami from the The National Police Agency and Akira Iwatsuki from the cyber investigation team investigate a complex murder case. The victim was under investigation by the cyber investigation team. As Detective Kenichi Itami and Akira Iwatsuki delve deeper into the case, pressure from around makes their investigation even more difficult. Secretly, a national financial doomsday scenario is carried out under the plan of "X Day".
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-23
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Death Note: The Musical
Overview: A high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-02
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Art of Fighting
Overview: After events involving a home invasion, a house cat, an ancient artifact, and an unpaid electrical bill, martial artist Ryo Sakazaki and his best friend Robert Garcia must fight their way into the Southtown underworld to save Ryo's sister Yuri from the crimelord known as Mr. Big.
Genres: Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-12-23
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Lies
Overview: This is the story about the life and artistic views of a designer through an interview that’s replete with poetic dialogue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-28
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
Overview: A musical adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-12-31
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A Brief Message from the Heart
Overview: A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-23
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Ultraman: The Next
Overview: First Lieutenant Shun'ichi Maki of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force is a prestigious F-15 Eagle jet pilot (or "driver" as he is called in the film). A lifelong fan of flying since he was a child, being a pilot is his ultimate dream. Unfortunately, his duties distance himself from his wife, Yoko, who always ends up being neglected, and his son, Tsugumu, who has a congenital blood disease and has a high risk of dying at a young age.Maki decides to quit the Air Force to devote more time to his family and to spend whatever is left for his son. He takes a part-time job as a commercial tour guide run by a kindly group of people who allow him time to work and to also take care of his family.
Genres: Family Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-18
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Toki no kagayaki
Overview: Yuka came to work as an intern nurse at a hospital and she met Shunichi again. They were school friends, and she liked him. But, she found out that Shunichi had an osteosarcoma.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-03-18
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Winds of God
Overview: After a car crash, a comedy duo wake to discover themselves in an army infirmary. At first they think they are in jail, then slowly realize that it is August 1945 and their colleagues are actually training for one-way flights to American battle ships.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-29
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Cover as Many Waves as Possible
Overview: The year is 1982, and the place is Shōnan in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. A group of passionate young people operate a beach radio station for the local community.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-31
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Ramen Shop
Overview: Masato is a young ramen chef in Japan. When he finds his late mother's journal after the sudden death of his emotionally distant father, he takes it with him to her native country, Singapore, hoping to piece together the story of his family and his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-29
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MAKOTO
Overview: Based on the comic by Mamora Goda.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-19
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Tatsumi
Overview: Animated film based on the life and stories of Manga writer Yoshihiro Tatsumi who revolutionised the art form with darker, more adult stories. The film animates several of his stories.
Genres: Animation History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-15
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The Killers from Paraiso
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-05-14
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Ekiden
Overview: Two former teammates on a college relay team, find themselves pitted against each other in track competition and in love when they enter rival companies and fall for the same woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-18
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The President's Christmas Tree
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-23
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Mother Lake
Overview: Set in 2036, famous photographer Fujii goes to a museum near Lake Biwa. He remembers a time twenty years earlier where he had believed that there was a dinosaur, Biwasshi, living in the lake and he had tried to convince people of this.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-05
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