Naomi Akimoto
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 13, 1963
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Female
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Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri
Overview: Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. 10 films made under the conditions "The main character must be a female detective" "the film must be less than 10 minutes long" "at least five gags must be included"
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-22
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Die Hard Angels 2
Overview: The female group "Die Hard Angels" of the Police Department's Investigation Division 1 begins a physical investigation to destroy a vicious organized crime. Resulting in run ins with a Zombie-Man. A direct continuance of the story to the first film Die-Hard Angels (Project Zombie Annihilation).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Tokyo Girl
Overview: Miho (Kaho), a high school student, refuses to approve of her widowed mother’s potential husband when they meet each other at a restaurant. As she flounces out of the restaurant, she drops her cell phone. At the moment there is an earthquake and she drops her cell phone down a staircase. The phone is found by Tokijiro (Kazuma Sano), a boy that lives in 1912...
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-23
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Sodom the Killer
Overview: Bad things happen when innocent blood is shed. In the early 1700s, Lord Sodom Ichibei is happily celebrating his wedding day when his wife-to-be suddenly dies. In his search for an explanation, he kills any and every suspect he comes across. When Lord Ichibei tortures and kills two innocent girls, their death brings about a curse on the Sodom family. Three hundred years later, one of Sodom's descendents, Ichiro, is also set to be married. But one of the innocent victims has been reincarnated as Ichiro's sister and she kills everyone at the wedding. This transforms Ichiro into the evil and vengeful "Sodom The Killer", a cursed man hell-bent on slaughter and the world's destruction...
Genres: Fantasy Horror Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-16
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Goggles
Overview: One morning, Haruki comes to school wearing goggles. His classmates make fun of him as usual, but the goggles are meant to hide the bruises from the abuse he received from his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-05
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Atsuhime No.1
Overview: It is 1853. Atsuko, adopted daughter of Shimazu Nariakira of the Satsuma clan and known to history as “Atsu-hime”, is en route by palanquin from her home to the castle of the Shogun in distant Edo. She is not happy with this, however, and resolves to struggle against her fate. In the mountains of Hakone she runs from her procession. Her governess Tae and the woman ninja Mitsu give chace. Continuing on in spite of their entreaties to come back, she looks up as the weird light of a meteor envelops them. The next thing she knows, she has gone 160 years into the future…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-07
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What I Long For
Overview: High school student Juri leaps to her death. Afterwards, Juri wanders to her house, school and street. She feels loneliness as nobody else is able to see her. She talks to those that she comes across including her mother and classmates, but nobody responds to her comments. Juri then sees a horrifying monster, which she never saw prior to her suicide. She calls the scary monster "Bug Man". When the mind of humans become weak, the Bug Man tempts those to commit suicide. One day, Juri walks along the street as usual. She then meets a girl that is able to see Juri. Juri names the girl Ringo-chan and plays at the park with her. Their happy moments does not last long. When they come back from the park, Juri sees Ringo-chan's mother with a grim face. The Bug Man is standing behind her mother.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-31
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Sasakure
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-08
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Seventh Anniversary
Overview: Each time Lulu is heartbroken small stones come out of her body. The doctor tells Lulu they are kidney stones. She collects them in memoriam of love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-22
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Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Kaiki Tsukimono
Overview: The 2010 theatrical two-part series of the immensely popular ghost story franchise. Starring the top idol of Hello! Project, Erina Mano, who takes on a genuine horror challenge. A female college student encounters a strangely eerie woman on a bus, and the mystery deepens as this peculiar figure infiltrates the university.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-04
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Love My Life
Overview: Ichiko and Eri are two beautiful Japanese Uni students who are in a lesbian relationship. Ichiko comes out to her father who tells her he is also gay and her mother was a lesbian.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-09
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Nibanme no kanojo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-27
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Rensakaidan ～a chain of curses～ Vol.3
Overview: A new horror TV drama by six up-and-coming directors, set in a school built on land where a legend of a priestess who was slaughtered by warriors 400 years ago remains... Three high school girls begin to tell a hundred stories and face the horror of a chain of curses...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-04
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Jellyfish
Overview: Based on 16-year-old writer Sarie Hinakura’s award winning story Jellyfish is centered around two adolescent girls disconnected from their immediate environment of school and mates. They first get together while staring into a jellyfish tank at a local aquarium. The relationship that ensues eventually faces tension from the divergent personalities of the two protagonists, one of whom explores a heterosexual relationship with a fellow student. Jealousy and the wrath of a lover spurned are inevitable spillovers.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-31
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I Am Juice
Overview: Two female lovers meet in a college class. After graduation, they run a temp company which is the front for a detective agency dealing in blackmail information.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-13
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The Man in White
Overview: After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-29
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The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion
Overview: A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-21
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Die-Hard Angels (Project Zombie Annihilation)
Overview: A group of female commandos confront evil criminals Zombie-Man and Zombie-Woman.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-01
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Love is Always Almond Pink
Overview: Based on the comic book series by Tamiko Akaboshi.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-11
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The Monster Bus
Overview: Based on the comic book by Hiroyuki Murata.
Genres: Action Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-30
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Home of Acorns
Overview: Slice of life drama about a couple and their young disabled daughter.
Genres: Drama Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Pro Bono
Overview: A young, mentally retarded boy is wrongfully accused of murder, but his family lacks the means to hire an attorney to defend him. The boy’s sister, Kiriko, pleads with an accomplished attorney named Otsuka to defend her brother pro bono. But because of Otsuka’s busy schedule and other priorities, he refuses to take the case. Lacking a proper defense, Kiriko’s brother is eventually convicted of murder, and dies in prison. From that point on, Kiriko is determined to take revenge against Otuska.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-07
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Manila Gokudo Wars
Overview: Shuji Kanzaki, who lives in the underworld of Manila, winds up in a fierce battle with Japan's biggest gangster.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-13
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CONFLICT III
Overview: After a major conflict, Kazuma Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa) becomes the 6th boss of Tendokai, Kanto’s largest yakuza group. Wakagashira Date (Hideo Nakano) and Kurata (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) secure casino rights from the government, but top officials are soon murdered, and Date is framed. The trail leads to Sanko-kai, a Kansai syndicate forming ties with a Korean underworld led by Myojin Akinari (Noboru Kaneko), brother of Washio’s old rival. Sanko-kai’s boss Onizuka (Hiroshi Fuse), who holds a grudge against Washio, launches a political and violent offensive. As Tendokai fights back to reclaim the casino rights, tragedy strikes—Okita (Yasukaze Motomiya) is targeted. Japan’s largest underworld war erupts again—what awaits at the end?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-25
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The Passed Scene
Overview: At the end of October, Sueko Yamane, a widow living alone, is strangled to death in her home in the Togura district on the outskirts of Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture. Money had been stolen, and it appeared to be a robbery and murder. Kaharu Ginsaku (Tomokazu Miura), head of the First Investigative Division at the Ehime Prefectural Police Headquarters, who was in charge of the investigation, did not anticipate that this case would turn out to be an unexpectedly difficult case. At the end of that year, in a forest overlooking the Genkai Sea in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, Kazuo Shimosaka (Shiro Sano) puts his hands around the neck of his girlfriend, Nobuko Mano (Saki Takaoka), and strangles her to death.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-17
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Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Kaiki Nozomi
Overview: The 2010 theatrical two-part series of the immensely popular ghost story franchise. Starring Hello! Project's No. 1 idol, Erina Mano, who takes on a genuine horror challenge. The terror unfolds as it preys on a high school girl who has closed her heart due to her sister's death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-04
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Kai-Ki: Tales of Terror from Tokyo
Overview: Tsukimono - Ayumi Kirishima is a college student who has just completed her second interview with a prospective employer. Ayumi then takes a bus to get to class and comes across a creepy barefooted woman. When the woman startes shaking and hiccuping, Ayumi asks the woman if she is OK. The woman responds with a cryptic remark that hastens Ayumi's departure off the bus. Later that day, the creepy woman appears in front of a window in Ayumi's classroom. All the students become startled by her appearance... Nozomi - The memory of high school student Megumi Fujisawa's 11th birthday still haunts her to this day. On her 11th birthday, Megumi's younger sister Nozomi was found dead. Her younger sister drowned in a lake surrounded by the woods. Since her death, whenever Megumi's birthday approaches she experiences illusions and refuses to go to school. Those illusions attacks Megumi and becomes more fierce.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-04
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Joyū
Overview: 2012 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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