Naoki Kawano
Also Known As: かわの なおき, Naoki Kavano
Biography: Born 1982 in Chiba, Japan, Naoki Kawano (川野直輝) is a Japanese actor and musician.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Inzai, Chiba, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: February 22, 1982
Age: 43 years old
Gender: Male
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Engine Sentai Go-Onger vs. Gekiranger
Overview: The story begins when Geki Red battles Nunchaku Banki after returning from his trip around the world for Natsume's birthday, with Geki Yellow and Geki Blue arriving to provide backup. After sending the Gekirangers into another dimension, the Go-ongers arrive before the Savage Machine Beast departs after his quarry. After clearing a misunderstanding with Geki Violet and Geki Chopper, the two bring them to SCRTC to see Master Xia Fu, with Hant revealing he met Miki at one of his past jobs at the Kyoryuya Curry Shop.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-24
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Mobius Villain: The Red Room
Overview: Rampo Adaptaton released in 2020
Genres: Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-04-21
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Yakuza-Busting Girls: Duel in Hell
Overview: Asami returns exhausted after three years of intense training to become a yakuza hunter. She decides to visit her old master, Inokuma, who runs a bar. However, she finds his place in ruins and nothing is as it was when she left. As it turns out, the local yakuza had turned it into a gambling house and laid claim to the entire area with the help of a cold-blooded killer named Akira. Akira is relentless, and utilizes cruel tactics when anyone dares get in her way.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-27
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Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Feudal Movie Wars
Overview: The story is divided in three portions. The Kamen Rider Wizard portion, Kamen Rider Wizard: The Promised Place, taking place after the finale and defeating Amadum. The Kamen Rider Gaim's portion of the film is titled Kamen Rider Gaim: Sengoku Battle Royale!. A battle royale is being held exclusively for the Armored Riders in Zawame City. In the final portion of the film, titled Sengoku Movie Battle, Kamen Riders Wizard and Beast join Kamen Rider Gaim in the alternate world to stop Kamen Rider Bujin Gaim from acquiring the "ultimate power" he seeks.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-14
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Hard Romanticker
Overview: Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury. Day after day, (fictional) Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums want to kick his ass. While working multiple dead-end part-time jobs, he cruises around town on his scooter in search of gangland trouble: leaping across rooftops with irate hordes of punks in hot pursuit, running off with a fetching belle in a sailor suit, rescuing a schoolgirl from being gang-raped at a glue-sniffing orgy…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-12
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Snowchild
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-29
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Bayside Shakedown The Final: The New Hope
Overview: Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days, Shunsaku Aoshima and his colleagues struggle to unravel the case...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 3
Overview: Sawamura, a contract part-timer dragged into a multi-million yen internet business, and Kamo, an office worker who lavished money on a beautiful club hostess, arrive at Cowcow Finance, the office of black-market lender Ushijima.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-22
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Bayside Shakedown the Last TV: Salaryman Cop and the Last Tough Case
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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The Negotiator: The Movie
Overview: ¥ 260,000,000 is stolen from armored vehicle. The criminals escape into a crowded shopping mall and take over 50 hostages. Reiko Usagi (Ryoko Yonekura) and the SIT members are called in to break the stand-off. When Reiko goes into the shopping mall to negotiate, an explosion suddenly occurs. The hostages panic and run, while the criminals are able to blend into crowd of people and escape. A few weeks later, Reiko is at the Haneda Airport to go on a vacation. She then spots Yusuke Kimoto (Kento Hayashi), a man who was one of the hostages at the shopping mall. Reiko remembers Yusuke's bizarre behavior and her instinct starts kicking in. She decides to follow the man and boards the airplane that Yusuke is taking. Shortly after take-off her instincts prove correct. The airplane is hijacked ...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-11
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Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose
Overview: After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a murder case, bomb threat, and a bus hijacking. Complications also arise between Detective Aoshima and his juniors.
Genres: Action Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-03
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Juken Sentai Gekiranger vs. Boukenger
Overview: The team-up movie between Juken Sentai Gekiranger and GoGo Sentai Boukenger. Gekirangers are visited by Boukengers when someone from space with ultimate power threatens the existence of Earth
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-14
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Flower & Snake: Zero
Overview: Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal video website called "Babylon". Soon, she's bound and tortured along with Shizuko and an oversexed housewife named Ruri.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-17
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The Boat to Heaven
Overview: A young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean everyday. His mother wants him to be a violinist. To make her dream come true, Masahiko goes to Tokyo to learn the violin, and stays with his aunt, Setsuko, in Kamakura near Tokyo. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Masashi Sada's novel of the same name received the 21st Japanese Cinema Reconstruction and Promotion Award and the 46th Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-13
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The Little Girl in Me
Overview: After Kensuke graduated from college, he began to work at a company. He didn't get along with his co-workers and six months later quit his job. Since that time he has stayed in his home for 5 years. One day, Kensuke learns about men who enjoy dressing up as women through the internet. At first he feels uncomfortable about them, but he becomes interested in those men. He begins to exchange emails with cross-dresser Karen who has a charismatic personality.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-01
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New Thursday Ghost Stories Ghost Club: Seven Wonders of School Edition 3
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 1998.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-02
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New Thursday Ghost Stories Ghost Club: Seven Wonders of School Edition 2
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 1998.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-02
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Thursday Ghost Stories Ghost Club: Seven Wonders of School Edition 1
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 1998.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-02
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Thursday Ghost Stories Ghost Club ~ Junior High School Edition 4
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 1998.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-01
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125 Years Memory
Overview: Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away. 95 years later, during the Iran-Iraq War, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. In the morning of 19 March 1985 a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran to evacuate the Japanese. But the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's rescue flight.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-05
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Starry Night
Overview: Sakurai, who recently started working at a real estate agency, is diligent and serious about his job, but he's not very efficient and struggles to close deals. Today, he was once again dragged around by a rocker client, Taguchi, for property viewings, but couldn't get a decision, leaving him feeling down. That night, he falls in love at first sight with a woman who was gazing off from the balcony of a condominium...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-10
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Randebû!
Overview: Meguru, a young woman, comes to the big city in pursuit of her acting dreams. On her way to an audition, she stumbles on a ringing cell phone lying in the street. She picks up the phone. There's a young man in the other end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-15
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Tokyo Nameless Girl's Story
Overview: University student Nozomi tries to get a job. Back in her hometown, she was lazy, but now Nozomi is used to the quicker pace of Tokyo. Nozomi is also experiencing problems with her boyfriend Kameyama, who seems to be travelling at a different speed in life and work. Meanwhile, Saeko works very hard in the advertising field and she is faithful to her boyfriend Tomoya. Yet, on their first year anniversary, Saeko hear's woman's voice on Tomoya's cellphone. Based on the anthology manga of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-16
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XXX Kiss Kiss Kiss
Overview: Five stories of romance, farewells, bitter love and stolen kisses...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-05
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BECK
Overview: Yukio is your average high school student who spends his days going to class and avoiding bullies. That is until he meets Ryusuke, a guitar prodigy. Together with Taira, Chiba, and Saku they form the rock band BECK. As their popularity increases so does the danger as Ryusuke's past catches up with him.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-04
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Love, Life and Goldfish
Overview: Makoto Kashiba is an elite bank clerk and works for a big bank at its Tokyo HQ. Due to a minor mistake, he is demoted to a small branch office in a country town. He is devastated by his situation. There, he meets beautiful Yoshino Ikoma. She runs a goldfish scooping store. Makoto Kashiba falls in love with her at first sight.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-12
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