Nao
Also Known As: 奈緒, 本田なお, Nao Honda, 나오, نائو
Biography: Nao (奈緒, February 10, 1995) is a Japanese actress, voice actress and former model from Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Her former stage name is Nao Honda (本田 なお, Honda Nao). She is currently affiliated with Irving.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: February 10, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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My Daddy
Overview: Kazuo Mido is a pastor at a small church. He lost his wife 8 years ago and raises his only daughter, a junior high school student, singlehandedly. When she is diagnosed with an illness, he undergoes a drastic change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Love Stories from Fukuoka 13: Beyond Your World
Overview: The university student Sota falls in love with a girl at the library at first sight. However, she was born deaf. Determined not to give up, Sota starts learning sign language and they fall in love. Will they be able to overcome the fact that they live in different worlds?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-23
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Home Sweet Home
Overview: Kenji and Hitomi Kiyosawa decide to have a smart home built for their family, one which is able to regulate the temperature of the entire house with a single air conditioner unit located in the basement. But shortly after, gruesome incidents start happening in and around the house…
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-01
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Your Turn to Kill: The Movie
Overview: Newlyweds Nana and Shota move into an apartment. Two situations, different from the drama series, take place: "What if Shota attends the resident's meeting and not Nana?" and "What if exchange murder game doesn't begin?"
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-10
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The Last 10 Years
Overview: Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love – until she meets a man named Kazuto Manabe at a school reunion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-04
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DOORS
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-16
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Tang
Overview: Ken Kasugai has been deserted by his wife, because he was absorbed in a game. One day, missing child robot Tang appears in front of him.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-11
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Snow Country
Overview: Depicts the love story between an idle author and a provincial geisha.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-28
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My Broken Mariko
Overview: Shiino one day finds out that her best friend Mariko has committed suicide. After snatching Mariko's urn from her abusive father, Shiino heads to Marigaoka Cape, a place Mariko always wanted to go.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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演じ屋 reDESIGN
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-30
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The Yin Yang Master Zero
Overview: During the Heian period, Abe no Seimei trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration with Minamoto no Hiromasa arises to solve a strange phenomenon.
Genres: Fantasy History Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-04-19
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#Manhole
Overview: Kawamura is a promising young man with everything going for him. On the eve of his wedding, he falls into a deep manhole. Despite sustaining a debilitating injury, he is determined to attend his wedding as planned, and resorts to social networks for help.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-29
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Confession
Overview: Two old college pals, Asai and Jiyong, make their annual pilgrimage up a mountain in the middle of winter in honor of their friend Sayuri who disappeared there 16 years earlier. However, Jiyong seriously injures his leg in the middle of a violent blizzard. Overcome by cold and pain, he asks Asai to let him die here and save his own life. First, though, he confesses to a horrible secret that has been eating away at him. He was the one who killed Sayuri that fateful day, out of jealousy. The problem, if there is one, is that Asai finds a cabin nearby that they hadn’t seen because of the blinding storm. Once inside, the murderer's confession takes on a whole new dimension, and let's just say that the elephant in the room is more of a mammoth. To say that it's going to be a long night would be an understatement.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-31
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Sensei's Pious Lie
Overview: Misuzu Hara (Nao) works as a high school teacher and prefers to keep a distance from her students. In her past, she was raped by her best friend’s boyfriend Hayafuji after he found out she liked him. She didn't report the crime to the police and she didn't tell anyone else what happened. She still suffers from the trauma from what happened, but she continues to have a forceful relationship with Hayafuji who is now her best friend’s fiancee. One day, a rumor spreads that her student Yuki Niizuma is in a secret affair. Misuzu Hara, as his teacher, has a meeting with him to provide counseling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-07-05
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Arrogance and Virtue
Overview: The story centers on Kakeru Nishizawa and Mami Sakaniwa, two people who find each other through a dating app, and decide soon after to get engaged. After their engagement, Mami suddenly disappears. In trying to find her, Kakeru must confront a side of Mami's past that he might not have wanted to know.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-27
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Kawaikatta Inu, Anko
Overview: A short film by Aya Igashi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-01
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Samurai Marathon
Overview: When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-22
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Ringside Story
Overview: Kanako is dating Hideo. He is an unpopular actor. They have dated for 10 years with Kanako supporting him. She has worked at a bento factory, but she loses her job. Kanako begins to work as a staff member for a professional wrestling organization and becomes attracted to the sport.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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Ame Onna
Overview: A young woman tormented by reoccurring nightmares of a black-clad woman committing suicide on the train tracks during a very rainy day. The dreams take on an even more sinister aspect when Rika returns to her hometown on the anniversary of her mother's death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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Stolen Identity 2
Overview: A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the truth. He goes to see serial killer Yoshiharu Urano in prison.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-21
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Mio's Cookbook
Overview: When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cooking and eventually became a cook. Meanwhile, Noe has become an oiran (high-ranking courtesan).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-16
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Haruka's Pottery
Overview: Koyama Haruka was an office worker who lived an unremarkable life, but one day she comes across a large platter of Bizen ware on display at a department store. Little by little, even at work and on her days off, Haruka is unable to think about anything but Bizen ware. With her heart filled by an inexpressible zeal, she heads to the city of Bizen in Okayama Prefecture and excitedly visits the creator of the large platter, Osamu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-30
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My Favorite Girl
Overview: Kato, a scriptwriter, is in love with Miho—but he can never manage to muster up enough courage to make the relationship anything more than a platonic friendship. Seemingly oblivious to Kato's feelings for her, Miho is always calling him up and spilling her guts about her own love problems. She's in love with someone else, it turns out, but Kato swallows his pride—hearing about it all is almost too much to bear, but he wants to be with Miho as much as he can.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-14
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SIGNAL: The Movie – Cold Case Investigation Unit
Overview: The story continues from the Japanese SIGNAL drama series. In 2021, a limousine taxi driver causes an accident on a highway, and a high-level government official dies in the accident. The cold case investigation unit, including Kento Saegusa and team leader Misaki Sakurai, have doubts about the case. Meanwhile, in 2009, administrative officers die consecutively in car accidents. The police announce these deaths as accidents. Takeshi Ōyama believes that these deaths were not the product of simple accidents. At 11:23 pm, a walkie-talkie turns on and makes a connection between the future and past. Kento Saegusa and Takeshi Ōyama face the threat of bioterrorism.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots
Overview: Horigai spends her boring days waiting to graduate from college. As she hangs out with friends, she begins to realize the violence and sorrow behind their ordinary lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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Stigmatized Properties
Overview: Yamano Yamame, an entertainer who can't sell, is unreasonably told by his seniors that he should live in the accident property because he will put it on TV, and he moves to the property where the murder occurred due to his appearance on TV and the low rent. At first glance, the room was a normal room, but a mysterious white object was reflected in the image of the room, and the sound was disturbed. The program in which Yamame appeared became lively, and Yamame moved around the accident property in search of new material. Yamame, who encounters various mysterious phenomena in the room where he lives, makes a big break as an "entertainer who lives in the accident property".
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-28
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A Stranger in Shanghai
Overview: China is tumultuous in 1921 when the famed Japanese author of "Rashōmon", Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, visits Shanghai as a correspondent. Here he encounters revolutionaries, courtesans and much more…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-12-28
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Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me?
Overview: Sawako works as a manga writer. Her husband of five years, Toshio is also a manga writer. On a summer day, Sawako begins to write her new manga. The story for her new manga deals with adultery. The manga describes Toshio having an affair with her editor and Sawako having an affair with her driving instructor. Toshio reads Sawako's manga with fear and jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-10
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Double Booking
Overview: Yuji double booked an online date with two lovers at the same time on the same day. The two women are Aya, an office worker and Maya, a college student. While Yuji gets himself busy, trying to seek help from social media and the internet, he ends up getting stucked in a situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-28
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Mari and Mari
Overview: Norio and his girlfriend, Mari Tanabe, have been dating for three years. They lived a peaceful life until one summer day, where Norio comes home to experience a peculiar sensation. The moment he sees the strong sun rays shining into his apartment, he realizes that Mari isn’t there. Instead, he finds an unfamiliar-looking woman who tells him that she is here to live with him. The eerie pale-skinned woman then introduces herself as Mari..
Genres: Mystery Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-04
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The Sound of Grass
Overview: Kazuo Kudo returns to his hometown of Hakodate with his wife because of his autonomic ataxia. Kazuo, who is not able to work and has to attend the psychiatry regularly, continues to run in the city of Hakodate for mental treatment on sunny days and rainy days. When Kazuo comes to communicate with the young people he meets on the street, something begins to change...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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Medicine メディスン
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-06
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