Taijirō Tamura
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Taijirô Tamura is known for Cure (1997), Perfect Days (2023) and 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: September 25, 1948
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Male
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The Light Shines Only There
Overview: A man has thrown away love and a woman has given up on love. The two souls meet in a brief summer in the northern city of Hakodate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-16
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Old Narcissus
Overview: 74-year-old Yamazaki, having been handsome as a young gay man, grows narcissistic of his beauty and is unable to bear his own aging. One night, Yamazaki meets a young and beautiful man named Leo. Having loved only himself during his long tumultuous life, Yamazaki falls in love with another person. Through this love, he finally begins to forge the relationships he failed to carve during his youth with his friends and family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-05-20
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Cat Taxi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-02
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The Sun
Overview: A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-02-17
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The Name
Overview: Having failed with his business and gone absolutely penniless, Masao (45) divorced with his wife, and is currently leading a hopeless life in Ibaraki. One day, a mysterious high school girl, going by the name Emiko, showed up before Masao. Every now and then, Masao would be toyed around by Emiko, but little by little he started taking a liking to her loveliness. As days went by, Masao started opening up to Emiko – something that he rarely did to others. However, there was just something about Emiko – something that bothered Masao - that wouldn’t go away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-30
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Permanent Nobara
Overview: Naoko returns home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako runs the only beauty parlor in town. The local women go there to pass the time lamenting their bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-22
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Villon's Wife
Overview: This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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A Story of Anna
Overview: A young woman escapes from a city in the near future, where people's anger is medically controlled, and drifts away to a lonely island. It is the developer of the emotion-controlling medicine who finds her and marries her. Her memory is erased and she starts an entirely new quiet life as a different person. But an unexpected incident happens; many people get hurt; the truth is revealed; then she falls in love... And this is a comedy after all!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-10
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Maria's Breast
Overview: Mao, who can tell when someone will die when she touches them, offers her own body to dying men. One day, Tachibana, whose wife committed suicide after Mao said she would die, draws close to her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-14
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The Fish with One Sleeve
Overview: Hikari, a trans woman, works and lives in Tokyo, but despite being understood by her friend and coworkers, there remains an underlying lack of confidence and feeling of unfulfillment. She makes the decision to contact her high school crush, Takashi, hoping that he will see her for the person she is now.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-10
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Winny
Overview: In the early days of the Internet, a case arises from an innovative software and the developer is falsely arrested by the police. This film is based on the true story of the men who fought against the authorities to protect the future and the rights of engineers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-10
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My Brother, The Android And Me
Overview: A lonely researcher doubting his own existence builds an android which looks exactly like himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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Mind and Body
Overview: A few years ago, when Tomomi (Hiroko Akune) was on the way home from school, she saw her friend Keiko (Misaki Mori) about to be raped by a man. Tomomi hit the man in the head with a stone and saved Keiko. In the present, Keiko, has buried her past, sells her body in Tokyo. One day, Keiko is contacted by Tomomi. They haven't spoken since their high school graduation. They meet and Keiko lets Tomomi stay at her apartment. Soon, the bizarre lives of the two women begins, with Tomomi also selling her body.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-11
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Old Narcissus
Overview: An old picture book writer named Yamazaki, having been handsome as a young gay man, grows narcissistic of his beauty. But now, can't bear his own aging. One night, Yamazaki meets a young and beautiful man named Leo. Yamazaki collapses during an S&M session with Leo, and reveals his agony. But it's lost on young Leo. Yamazaki turns to hurting himself in order to bear his own reflection in the mirror...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-27
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A Lush Life
Overview: The story involves an aloof thief, a young man who turns to God after his father’s suicide, a manipulative marriage councilor, a man who recently lost his job, and several others whose lives become intertwined in various unexpected ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-13
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なれない二人
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-08-23
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Perfect Days
Overview: Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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Evil Does Not Exist
Overview: Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-06
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Saaya's Box
Overview: With the power of a magic box that makes things disappear, a little girl gets exactly what she wants: her mother's sole attention. She soon learns, however, that her little brother is important too. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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The Clone Returns Home
Overview: Kohei Takahara, an astronaut who dies in the line of duty, is legally resurrected as a clone: however, contrary to the scientists' expectations, he reverts to his childhood memories when his twin brother drowned sacrificing his life for Kohei. Kohei's clone discovers the body of his former self mistakenly believing that it is his deceased twin. Reliving his tragic past, he sets off carrying his corpse body to the beautiful hometown where he lived with his now dead mother.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-19
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Fumiko's Legs
Overview: When older man Tsukakoshi asks Unokichi to paint it is of his mistress, the geisha Fumiko. Tsukakoshi loves the feet and legs part of Fumiko's anatomy. The fetishism gives the art student a commission to put his talent to use.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-10
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Hajimari mo owari mo nai
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-14
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Diary of a Beloved Wife: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Overview: Chiho has prohibited her husband, Takahashi, from smoking while she is trying to become pregnant. Takahashi hasn’t told his wife he was laid off, and has a paid sexual encounter with a high-school student, attracted by the pungent odor of her cigarettes, Peace Regulars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-23
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I Will Fly to the Sky on a Wheelchair
Overview: (I will Soar to the Skies in my Wheelchair ) Hasebe Yasuyuki is living his life carelessly alone in his apartment, until one day, he jumps from the top of a building escaping a street gang and injures his spinal cord. And the doctor tells him that he can't walk anymore. His mother, Haruko, hurries to the hospital for her son, however Yasuyuki is on bad terms with her, so he asks her to leave him alone. There he meets an ill kid in the hospital named Ishii Daisuke who is living his life positively, and the store staff Katou Kumi, who always smiles even though she had a sad past. He gains confidence and decides to start his rehabilitation. After Yasuyuki is discharged from the hospital, he starts relying on everybody everywhere, so he falls into despair and starts thinking of committing suicide seeing no future for himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-25
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Motherhood
Overview: When pregnant Mia Sakaguchi falls from a staircase at the shrine, she is transferred to 1994 and immediately admitted to a mental institution, because no one believes her that she is from the future. There she is confronted with the shocking truth that the mentally ill are forcibly sterilized. In order to protect her unborn child, she tries to escape from the institution.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-03
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MiLK
Overview: A woman, born in a cowshed, grows up working a dairy farm. Suffering under the gaze of her male coworkers, she longs for the attention of the newspaper delivery boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-11-19
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Cure
Overview: A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-27
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