Ryota Bando
Also Known As: ばんどうりゅうた, 반도 료타, Ryouta Bando
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hokkaido, Japan
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The World for the Two of Us
Overview: The 10-year story of Shinya and her lover, Yui, who struggle as transgender.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-14
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Inubu: The Dog Club
Overview: Hanai Sota is 22-years-old and a university student in the veterinary department. Since he was little, he has always loved animals. His apartment is full of animals that needed help. One day, Hanai Sota saves a dog that was being used in experiments. To save more of the animals, he sets up the "Inubu" club. His friend Shibasaki Ryosuke, among other people, joins the group. Shibasaki Ryosuke also loves dogs and is a student in the same veterinary department as Hanai Sota. They work hard to protect the animals. 16 years later, a report comes out. The report is about Hanai Sota, who was arrested.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-22
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Winter Rose
Overview: Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted delinquents, and begging money from his friends. His parents, who run a shipping business transporting earth and sand for reclamation by boat, manage to get by, despite the dwindling number of jobs and lack of successors over time. Jun showed no interest in his parents' business, and the father and son hardly ever spoke to each other. One day, one of Jun's friends is attacked by someone and an unexpected person emerges as the culprit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-03
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Voice
Overview: Hokkaido, Japan: An old woman -- formerly a man -- lives by a lake in the northern reaches of Japan, gazing at Nakajima Island in its center where her daughter's body was found long ago. She hasn't been able to visit for almost 50 years. Tokyo: A middle-aged man lives on an island where criminals were once exiled in the past, earning a sparse living as a cattle herder. He is descended from such exiled criminals. He raised his only daughter by himself after losing his wife in an accident. One day, the daughter comes home from the mainland, seemingly pregnant but unwilling to explain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-02-09
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One Last Bloom
Overview: Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies. When hotheaded young boxer Shogo asks for Jin’s help to get him back into the ring after an unfair loss, the two men decide to seize their final chance at glory. A boxing film so authentic that it inspired co-star Yokohama Ryusei to qualify as a pro boxer, Zeze Takahisa’s boxing drama is one of the veteran director’s most crowd-pleasing films thanks to the touching father-son bond at its core.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-25
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Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
Overview: Keiko Tsuruoka’s film is at once traditional and contemporary: it gently mixes present-day gender and sexuality politics with the old-fashioned Japanese domestic drama. Traditional lacquerwork kitchenware is the Aoki family’s legacy, handed down to patriarch Seishiro (Kaoru Kobayashi) by his now-ailing father (Masayuki Suzuki). Seishiro expects to pass it in turn to his son Yu (Ryota Bando), but Yu has no interest in the craft—quite unlike daughter Miyako (Mayu Hotta), who loves it dearly. The stage is set for conflict, as established cultural traditions collide with modern mores…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-18
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Wakamusha
Overview: Three young men live and work in a nearly-deserted Japanese city. The three wander the streets, ruminating on the pointlessness of life in the modern age, never quite living up to the deeds of a fallen friend, until one of them goes too far and permanently fractures their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-25
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Fureru
Overview: Childhood friends find a creature with mysterious powers that pushes them to discover the bonds that tie the three students together.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-10-04
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Sisam
Overview: A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s northernmost main island—then called “Ezo” and now known as “Hokkaido”—and the “sisam”, the Ainu word for ethnic Japanese.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-13
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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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12 Suicidal Teens
Overview: Twelve boys and girls gather at an abandoned hospital to die for various different reasons. There, they find the body of a dead boy. The twelve boys and girl attempt to find the person who killed the boy. During their search, the reasons why they want to die are revealed.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-25
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Even: Song For You
Overview: Rin is a popular singer. He is about to propose to his girlfriend Mami, but they get into an argument. Rin runs out of the home and, while walking around, he suddenly goes down in the middle of a crosswalk. Takehito is the vocalist of unpopular indie band "Even" and he happens to see Rin on his hands and knees at the crosswalk. Rin tries to help him get up, but they are involved in a car accident. When Rin wakes up at the hospital, he sees himself laying in the hospital bed unconscious. He realizes that he is in Takehito's body. To Let Mami know that he is in Takehito's body and to send her his love, he begins to write a song with the members of "Even."
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-02
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Family of Strangers
Overview: Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a corpse turns up and a murder has occurred. The culprit fingered is one of the patients.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Howling Village
Overview: After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as ‘Howling Village’ to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family’s dark history.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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It Stopped Raining
Overview: A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized, however, by a car accident on a rainy day after they go out together, and wakes up with short term memory loss, where she cannot remember anything beyond the present day. Yukisuke tries to live close to her as before but the lack of collective memory starts to stagger him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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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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Juken Zombie
Overview: Based on the script that won the 6th Dorama Koshien about students who are turning into zombies one by one at a high school in the mountains
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-20
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Yowamushi Pedal
Overview: Sakamichi Onoda is a high school student. He is an otaku, who loves animation and he is also a loner. Although he isn't good in sports, he decides to enroll in the bicycle racing club. Unexpectedly, he finds that he has a talent for bicycle racing. For the first time, he has a friend. Sakamichi Onoda exceeds his limits and finds pleasure in the sport of bicycle racing.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-14
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#HandballStrive
Overview: The school’s handball club is about to close down. Can social media bring it back to life? Masao Kiyota is a high school student living in Japan’s southern Kumamoto Prefecture. Lacking passion for anything in life, he spends his days like so many youth on his smartphone along with his childhood friend, Okamoto. One day, they upload a photo taken three years previously when they were both part of their school’s handball team. To their surprise, the post goes a little viral. Encouraged, they add the hashtag: “#Handball Full Power” and are swarmed with “likes” from around the country. Amidst the sudden social media attention, Masao and Okamoto set to resuscitating a nearly defunct men’s handball team.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-24
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The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
Overview: In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from the restraints of vassalship. Despite his progressive views and his desire for his estate to remain neutral during the Boshin Civil War, he was bound by loyalty and duty to the clan and was compelled to choose sides.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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Honey Lemon Soda
Overview: Ishimori Uka is very shy and has a hard time making friends. When she was a middle school student, students made fun of her by calling her "stone". Around that time, she met Miura Kai with lemon color hair. Because of him, she entered the same high school. Uka now wants to overcome her shyness and have friends. Kai is a popular student at the school, but he doesn't talk much or seem interested in others. He doesn't know why, but he becomes concerned with Uka. Uka has admired Kai, and she now has feelings for him. Kai has a secret, which no one knows.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-09
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う蝕
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-02-10
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Kubi
Overview: Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
Genres: History Action Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-23
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Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope
Overview: A touching true story which portrays a doctor who selflessly dedicated his personal fortune to spreading the smallpox vaccination for saving people's lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-24
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How to Forget You
Overview: The story of a young composer who lost his lover and encounters grief care, which casually provides support to people in a state of
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-17
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Renoir
Overview: Suburban Tokyo, 1987. 11-year-old Fuki’s father, Keiji, is battling cancer, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-06-20
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Flower Curtain
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-03-08
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