Shoichiro Masumoto
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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Azumi 2: Death or Love
Overview: Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance with former friend Nachi.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-12
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Versus
Overview: A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-23
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Happy Darts
Overview: The All-Japan Darts Tour has entered the finals. In front of the crowd, Sawada Minako will throw the last dart. Amidst the tension and excitement, Minako recalled the two months of experience.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-08
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Meatball Machine
Overview: Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-23
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ICHI
Overview: Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-25
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Tokyo Gore Police
Overview: In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-04
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Battlefield Baseball
Overview: Battlefield Baseball is a tough game — it doesn't end until all the members on the opposing team are dead. In this game the Gedo High team is composed of blue-faced zombies, and their opponents on the Seido High team know they don't have a chance at beating them unless they can bring back a star pitcher who has a lethal pitch called the Super Tornado, but who has hung up his cleats and has no desire to return to the game.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-19
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Meatball Machine: Reject of Death
Overview: Shortfilm sequel to the movie Meatball Machine. There is no real action but we'll see a bunch of aliens kill both each other and humans.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-07
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Azumi
Overview: In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ultimate assassin.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-10
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Violence Musou: Subliminal War
Overview: The ex-convict protagonist of Versus lives far away from the maddening yakuza when he receives a new visit from the gangsters of the resurrection forest.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-04
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New Type: Just For Your Love
Overview: Yuri, who works at the ticket window at a ferry terminal, is one-eyed. One day, she is held at knifepoint and locked away in captivity by an enigmatic man named Kwon, who has missed a ferry. At the very moment Yuri learns that Kwon has supernatural powers. As Kwon and Yuri become closer to each other, Yuri's friend, Akiyama, accidentally finds the secret of Yuri's supernatural power. Yuri has the ability to go back in time. As the price for her supernatural ability, Yuri becomes blind in one eye. In the meantime, Kwon gets shot by mysterious men. Yuri, who has started feeling affection for Kwon, tries to save him using her special power again.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-22
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Hole
Overview: An omnibus film consisting of four stories on the theme of "holes" by four directors.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-10
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LoveDeath
Overview: A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A violent man holding pure love, Sai and a stunningly beautiful playgirl, Sheila. While Sheila flees with a large sum of money, she is chased by a cool but violent gang, crazy killers and an out of control cop. No one can stop Sai and Sheila's love runaway.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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The King of Jail Breakers
Overview: Masayuki Suzuki (Itsuji Itao) is known as "Datsugoku Oh" (King of Escape) because of his incredible ability to escape from any prison. Even though his ability to escape from prison was unmatched he would normally get caught within a few hours from his escape. He is then sent to Prison Island ... can he escape ?
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-17
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Reincarnation
Overview: A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-27
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Ghosts vs. Aliens 03
Overview: A two-part feature directed separately by Shimizu and his colleague Keisuke Toyoshima. Unrelated to each other, both have a common goal: to bring ghosts and aliens together in pure, referential and absurdistic delirium, including neo-Nazi specters, zombie yakuzas and nasty aliens.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-25
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Flowers in the Shadow
Overview: Shinya is in debt as a result of his gambling habit. He attempts to defraud an old woman with a bank transfer scam, but the woman reminds him of his late mother and they start to relate to each other. Meanwhile, Shinya meets a girl called Hisako in town, and ends up helping her to find out the whereabouts of an unsuccessful comedian, Raita, whom her mother was in love with in her youth. Shinya's father, Ryutaro, is disowned by his son after his wife's death. When Ryutaro meets a homeless man called Moses, he starts living on the street as well. One day when the old woman dies, Moses comes to the deceased and confesses his past. Subsequently Shinya resumes communicating with his father Ryutaro.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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Jellyfish Eyes
Overview: In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There he will discover that every child has the ability to communicate with a fantastic creature, but they are being used in an evil plan to collect the children’s negative energy. Artist Takashi Murakami ‘s debut film is an amazing epic story that is an X-Ray of children’s hopes and fears with the artist’s unmistakable visual style.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-23
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GACHI-BAN: EXPENDED
Overview: Monji Mori comes to Tokyo to meet up with his old friend, Nakajima, who attempts to persuade Monji to come join the local yakuza. Monji quickly runs into some trouble with one of their members, which leads a small screw up to turn into an alleged murder. The yakuza want Monji a dead man. Will his fists alone be enough to escape this dire situation?
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-19
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Maicching Machiko! Begins
Overview: Based on the Maicching Machiko Teacher Manga.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Nervous 2
Overview: Mini-movie featuring characters fom Versus (2000) and a sequel to Nervous (2004)
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-21
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63 Minutes Later
Overview: A spin-off feature from Tokyo Gore Police centering on three characters from the movie who are each given a short story explaining how they became an “engineer”.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-02-27
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