Rie Tomosaka
Also Known As: 友坂理恵, 渡边理惠
Biography: Rie Tomosaka (ともさか りえ, Tomosaka Rie) is a Japanese actress and pop star from Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, born on October 12, 1979 in Nagano-shi, Nagano. She works for Itoh Company. From 1996 to 1997, she has also released music under the name Eri Sakatomo (さかともえり, Sakatomo Eri).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: October 12, 1979
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Gender: Female
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The Files of Young Kindaichi: Snow Yaksha Legend Murder Case
Overview: Hajime Kindaichi is working a part time job as an assistant to a TV station for the filming of a shock show. They have invited celebrities in Segori Village and are planning to scare them by playing pranks on them such as fake deaths. However, a threatening letter arrives and soon, a real murder occurs broadcasted in front of everyone.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-12-30
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special
Overview: ***Replay A man sees his dead girlfriend through his digital camcorder. ***Inochibi (Life Force) A nurse is able to save dying patients with her 'life force'. ***Ame no Houmonsha (The Visitor in the Rain) A woman visits her sister on a rainy night to celebrate her birthday, but finds a stranger in her house who may be a murderer at large... ***Okusanya-san (The Wife Seller) A man stumbles upon a shop selling perfect wives. ***Imakiyo-san (Mr. Imakiyo) A student finds a spirit called Imakiyo in his apartment, and he has to obey three rules or suffer the consequences...
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Horror Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-28
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A Boy and His Samurai
Overview: A samurai from the Edo Period time travels to present day Japan where he meets a divorcee and her son. Soon, he discovers a passion for making pastries.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-31
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Worst by Chance
Overview: Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts around and meanders through life until a death reminds him of his heritage and so begins a journey to South Korea.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-13
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Sing Salmon Sing
Overview: High school student Kasumi Ogino is a member of the school choir and after years of praise for her singing voice thinks she is the absolute bee’s knees. When the object of her desires, classmate and photographer Junichi Makimura, asks Kasumi is he can photograph her singing she accepts, thinking this means she is beautiful as well. However the end result is a comical shot of Kasumi with her mouth wide open, which Makimura likes to a hungry salmon! Distraught by the ensuing humiliation, Kasumi quits the choir, until she is encouraged to return by an unlikely counsel - the brutish leader of thuggish rival all male choir, Hiroshi Gondo.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-05
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Chloe
Overview: Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls ill.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-15
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Aiki
Overview: When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and depression. No boxing ring or martial arts club will take him on -- that is, until an aiki jujitsu master helps the young man develop techniques uniquely tailored to a wheelchair. What starts off as a sad film revs up into an exciting and fun series of epiphanies in which the young man realizes his situation isn't as hopeless as it seems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-29
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The Files of Young Kindaichi: School's Seven Mysteries Murder Case
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-08
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Crying 100 Times - Every Raindrop Falls
Overview: Shuichi had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi has a fateful meeting with Yoshimi. They enjoy happy times together and Shuichi thinks about marrying Yoshimi. Then Yoshimi becomes sick. A sad truth is hidden in the lost memory of Shuichi.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-22
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The Files of Young Kindaichi: Legend of the Shanghai Mermaid
Overview: Kindaichi is off on yet another case, this time in Shanghai. When the father of a Chinese friend of the young Kindaichi is murdered at the circus, it is up to the ever-resourceful and clever young high-school detective to solve the case. But hidden in the background is the 4000 year-old legend of the Shanghai Mermaid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-13
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Good Bye, My Secret Friend
Overview: Based on Saibara Rieko's manga, Ike-chan to Boku (a.k.a. Good Bye My Secret Friend) tells the heartfelt story of a young boy named Toshio and his imaginary friend Ike-chan. Toshio's floating blob of a friend has two big eyes and a mouth, and changes colors and sizes depending on the mood. When Toshio is sad, she turns small. When Toshio makes friend with a girl, she turns bright red from anger. Ike-chan stays by Toshio's side as he grows older, but the day he finds his first love, Ike-chan disappears from his life. Child actor Fukasawa Arashi (Helen the Baby Fox) takes the leading role in this affecting fable about childhood, friendship, and growing up from director Ohoka Toshihiko. Popular actress Aoi Yu voices Ike-chan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-20
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Taiga Dorama ga Umareta Hi
Overview: Commemorating the 70th anniversary of TV broadcasting in Japan, and the 60th anniversary of the Taiga drama, this special depicts the struggles of creating the first Taiga drama.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-04
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結婚に一番近くて遠い女
Overview: Beppu Sumire is a wedding planner who works for True Love Bridal (TLB), a well-established wedding hall. Her late mother, Sakura, showered love on her and would always tell her that she is lovely. After she passed away, Sumire lived with her father, Tetsuro. Sumire gave up on her own romance long ago because of her disappointing looks. But she works hard with a smile even when she gets scolded by her stern superior, Umemiya Hitomi, her impertinent junior, Sudo Yuri, pins trouble on her, and her relationship with her father is not working out, in order to bring smiles to many people’s faces.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-06
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April, Come She Will
Overview: Shun Fujishiro is a psychiatrist and works at a university hospital in Tokyo. He is engaged to Yayoi Sakamoto. One day in April, when he is about to marry Yayoi Sakamoto, he receives a letter from his first love Haru Iyoda. They dated 10 years ago. Suddenly, his fiancé Yayoi Sakamoto disappears.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-22
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1980
Overview: A former idol becomes a teacher at the high school she graduated from, but her new career is threatened by an expose book her ex-manager is planning to publish.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-06
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Poison Berry in my Brain
Overview: Ichiko is a 30-year-old unemployed woman. She meets Ryoichi at a drinking establishment. Even though he is a lot younger than her, she can't forget him. Meanwhile, Ichiko has 5 different characters in her brain that governs her actions. The 5 characters are Yoshida, Ishibashi, Ikeda, Hatoko and Kishi. These 5 character then have a fierce meeting. Yoshida presides over the meeting as the chairman. Ishibashi is the optimist. Ikeda is the pessimist. Hatoko is the character that lives in the moment and Kishi thinks about the past.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-09
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Oh My Zombie!
Overview: Five years have passed since Japan's Great Zombie Panic. The confusion of those days is gone and people have finally regained their ordinary, peaceful lives. One day, out of nowhere, a zombie appears and becomes trapped in a house. Six people have spotted the zombie, including the home-owner couple, a cheeky high school boy, a boring small-factory owner, a suspicious young intern and a woman who insists she is the zombie's wife.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-05
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Abraxas
Overview: Former punk rocker Jonen, now a Buddhist priest, seems to have lost the meaning of his life. His manic depression handicaps him further. Music seems to be the only solution for him to exorcise his demons, against all obstacles and sound volume controllers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-09
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Policeman and Me
Overview: Kako, a 16-year-old high school girl, goes to a mixer pretending to be 22. While there, she meets Kouta who at first has a very intimidating aura. But once he saves her from an awkward situation, she wants to know more about him as does he. That is until he finds out she isn't 22. The next day Kako runs into him again, but this time he's working as a police officer. Kako still wants to get closer to Kouta, but he isn't interested or is he?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-25
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Go! Anpanman: The Adventure of Happie
Overview: A dodeca tree-dwelling boy named Happy travels afar to look for Anpanman with the aim of becoming his apprentice. But he is ddisillusioned with doing good everyday and teams up with Baikinman to lure Anpanman to the dodeca tree. But watching Anpanman fight Guringa shows him what real strength is...
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-16
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Sunny: Our Hearts Beat Together
Overview: A group of friends from high school days reunite for once more time before one of them dies from cancer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-31
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A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic
Overview: Saki's father is an alcoholic and her mother is a follower of a new religion. She sees her father's strange behavior and her mother's loneliness. Her family is collapsing, but Saki struggles to look for her future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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Tomoko no baai
Overview: Based on the comic by Minako Fujino. Played as a double feature with That's Cunning! Shijo saidai no sakusen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-10
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Sadako
Overview: A psychologist connects her missing brother to the strange case of a mysterious little girl believed to be Sadako reincarnated.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-24
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Mellow
Overview: Seiichi is the owner of a flower shop. He enjoys his peaceful single life. Kiho runs the ramen restaurant left to her by her father, but she's thinking of closing it.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2012 Spring Special
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-21
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Samurai Gangsters
Overview: Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his minions: right-hand man and military master Ohmasa (Kishibe Ittoku); stinky priest Daigoro (Takashi Sasano); well-known stranger Ishimatsu Mori (Yoichi Nukumizu); beautiful Masagoro Oiwake (Kazuki Kitamura); and others. As Jirocho's fame spreads, he gains more enemies. Among them are Katsuzo Kurokoma (Koichi Sato), who is one of the most powerful in Koshu, and the villain who is also Ishimatsu's nemesis, Masaru Mima (Riki Takeuchi). A traitor also emerges from the family, Yoshikazu Ebisu (Yoshikazu Ebisu). Meanwhile, Jirocho's wife falls ill and other terrible situations occur. Jirocho falls into a pinch of absolute despair. What on earth will he do? What is the fate of his minions? The Jirocho family will face a fierce battle...
Genres: Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-20
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