Keisuke Horibe
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Keisuke Horibe (堀部圭亮, born 25 March 1966) is a Japanese actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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6 LEGS
Overview: A mother, a father and their child are in a dark box. The child is getting a cough constantly. The mother asks the father why we are getting such a strange situation. The father says he can't understand this situation. The bombing sound can be heard from far away. What is happening now?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Party 7
Overview: Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. Who will end up with the money?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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KING GAME
Overview: 5 girls and 5 guys find themselves mysteriously trapped in a room and are forced to play a psychological game of dare.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-28
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Postman Blues
Overview: Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting his little finger off.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-16
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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
Overview: In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a wild chase that leads the audience into a comically violent world.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-15
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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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HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky
Overview: Members of SWORD win against Wangan Rengogun, which is led by Kohaku. The city becomes peaceful again. Nevertheless, the most brutal gangs, Doubt and Prison Gang, appear. They try to dominate the area controlled by SWORD.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-19
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Tokyo Gore Police
Overview: In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-04
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Menstrual Uncle and His Daughter
Overview: Mitsuhashi Yukio is a passionate PR man for a sanitary product manufacturer. A single father, he is raising his two children, a daughter in high school and a son in middle school. His daughter, Hana, has mixed feelings about her father, who suddenly became popular on social media because of a menstruation PR video he did for his company. One day, Yukio says on a variety show that he knows his daughter’s menstrual cycle, which leads to Hana running away from home because of rumors popping up at school. Can he fix the relationship with his beloved daughter? How will the two overcome this hurdle?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-24
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Drive
Overview: Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h speed limit even under the extreme situation.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-24
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The Magic Hour
Overview: A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-07
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Tamami: The Baby's Curse
Overview: A beautiful girl, Yōko, gets lost one night during an air raid and is taken in by an orphanage. Eventually, she is reunited with her own family and goes home to live with them. But there, an unexpected fate awaits her as she is subjected to horrific brutality from these people who are tortured by a past mistake.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-27
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I Really Don't Want to Hear it! Horror Stories from the Mountains: Part 1
Overview: The chilling horror experience that happened in the mountains presented by Kenichi Suzuki of the "It was really there! Curse video" series! The ultimate horror experience presented by the staff of "It was really! Curse Video"! Trauma is inevitable! Five horror experiences encountered at ordinary mountain leisure such as hiking, bird watch, power spot tour!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-06
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Honey and Clover
Overview: Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-22
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Lumberjack the Monster
Overview: After Akira Ninomiya miraculously survives a brutal attack by an unknown assailant wearing a "monster mask," he becomes fixated on finding the attacker and getting revenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-01
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室温～夜の音楽～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-25
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Quirky Guys and Gals
Overview: The movie consists of 4 stories each telling how people survive on life-death choice. The story titles are: Cheering Girls, Boy? meets girl., Claim Night! and The House Full Of 'Abandoned' Businessmen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-15
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Black Art Collection -Testimony-
Overview: Ishino Teiichiro (Tanihara Shosuke) married his wife Sachiko (Nishida Naomi) and took over her family’s clinic in Kanazawa. Although he is a respected doctor and seems to have a happy family life with Sachiko and their two children
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-05-09
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Dog × Police: The K-9 Force
Overview: Yusaku Hayakawa dreams of becoming a detective, but works as a trainer for police dogs. When Yusaku gets an albino shepherd named Shiro, he forms a special bond with him. Everyone says that Shiro does not have the abilities to become a police dog, but Yusaku believes in him and trains him. When a terrorist act occurs, Shiro gets the chance to show what he has learned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-01
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Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor
Overview: Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tokyo district prosecutors' office. He is currently busy with a case involving suspicious donations to powerful politician Yohei Tachibana. Shinichi then receives a mysterious message from his friend Samon Kondo. His friend is in charge of space development at The The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The message talks about a scandal related to space development. Samon soon goes missing after sending the message. Shinichi begins to see a connection between the two cases.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-05
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Real
Overview: Koichi and Atsumi are lovers who have known each other all their lives. A year ago, however, a suicide attempt by Atsumi left her in a coma. Through 'sensing', a type of neurosurgical procedure allowing contact with the intentional aspect of a comatose patient's mind, Koishi tries to find out why Atsumi tried to kill herself, and to bring her back to consciousness. He enters her subconscious, and is told to find a picture of a plesiosaur she drew when she was a child. It turns out that a childhood incident buried in their past will bring their minds together.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-01
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SP: The Motion Picture II
Overview: After the attack on the Chief Cabinet Secretary, the next duty of the fourth office will be to guard the National Assembly building. In the midst of security, Ogata keeps Inoue away from the main conference hall and puts his well-thought-out plan into action, and the parliament building is controlled by SPs and terrorists who support the revolution. Inoue notices something strange and starts to fight against the terrorists to stop Ogata.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-12
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筋トレサラリーマン 中山筋太郎
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-28
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Gekijô-ban: Harapeko Yamagami-kun
Overview: Yamagami-kun, the god of the mountain, likes to eat "human beings! Today, he and Isobe, the god of the sea, are planning to eat "human" again. Will he be able to eat a "human" today?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-03
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Chii-chan wa Yukyu no Muko
Overview: Chigusa and Yuuto always spent time together as children. They enter high school at the same time and happen to be put into the same class. Yuuto's mother ran off and his father is an alcoholic, so it seems as though the only time he can feel any relief from the pain of his life is when he spends time with Chii-chan and can be reminded of the happy little moments from his past.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-19
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Hard Luck Hero
Overview: The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or the other. Filmed as a showcase of the Japanese boy band V6, Hard Luck Hero has food, drink, cars, kickboxing, debt, shooting, theft, blackmail and music.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Life Back Then
Overview: Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments. Now as a young adult Kyohei takes a new job. He works for a company that specializes in cleaning out the homes of recently deceased individuals. With his new job Kyohei meets co-worker Yuki (Nana Eikura). Yuki has also experienced a traumatizing event as a teen and has also shut herself away from the world. These two young people form a bond as they go through the homes of the recently departed people. They gradually open up to each other and in the process to the world. Yet, their fragile psyches may or may not be ready for such changes ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-19
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Ten Nights of Dreams
Overview: Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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Karate Girl
Overview: In Okinawa, Ayaka Kurenai was born in the world’s greatest legendary Karate family. When she was a child, her family was attacked by a mysterious gang that seeks legendary black belt. Her father Soujiro Kurenai was killed and her younger sister was taken in front of her. Time has passed. In Yokohama, she was spending her life as a normal high school girl, hiding her real name and her status as a heir of the legendary Karate family. However, one incident brought her a fateful encounter with her sister who was separated in their childhood. But, her sister was raised as a heartless killing machine by the mysterious gang who took her. .
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-05
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Dangan Runner
Overview: A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience store. The store's clerk, a washed-up rock star, chases the thief and literally runs into a Yakuza to whom he owes money. Thus begins an all-night, three-way pursuit through the streets of Tokyo.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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When the Last Sword Is Drawn
Overview: Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he is forced by the love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support them.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-01-18
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Climber's High
Overview: On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accident, Yuuki, in charge of this crash report at a local newspaper, faces a string of decision-making moments. What are news and a reporter? How should a man do his work and survive in a corporate hierarchy? What do family and friends mean to him? An intriguing story, which keeps the audience on the edge of tension and reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-05
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The Taste of Tea
Overview: A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-17
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Wandering Home
Overview: War photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems Yasuyuki can't give up drinking alcohol. His family gets tired. Yasuyuki is then hospitalized in an alcoholic ward. There he finds comfort living with other patients and having conversations with doctors. With the help of his family, Yasuyuki recovers mentally and physically, but his body has already paid a heavy toll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-12-04
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Love Exposure
Overview: The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-31
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Elevator to the Gallows
Overview: A phone conversation occurs between a man and a woman. They both state their love for each other and that they will do this so they can be together. The woman is in a hotel room with a view of the port. The man is inside of a parked car with a view of the ocean. A man named Colonel appears and hands the man a box with a loaded gun inside. The Colonel states "its a present from the witch". The woman's name is Meiko (Michiko Kichise) and she is the young wife of Takamitsu Temiyako (Takamitsu Temiyako) - president of a large medical corporation. The man in the parked car is Dr. Tokito Takahiko (Hiroshi Abe) an employee of the large medical corporation. This evening, Meiko and Tokito will implement their plan to murder Meiko's husband and frame his death as a suicide.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-09
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Bushido Sixteen
Overview: Kaori is an intense kendo fighter who has been training since she was young. Sanae is a girl who has only participated in kendo casually, but somehow manages to beat Kaori in the final tournament of junior high school. Although Sanae doesn’t particularly care about it, Kaori holds a grudge, setting up a rivalry that bleeds over into high school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-23
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Karate Girl
Overview: In Okinawa, Ayaka Kurenai was born in the world’s greatest legendary Karate family. When she was a child, her family was attacked by a mysterious gang that seeks legendary black belt. Her father Soujiro Kurenai was killed and her younger sister was taken in front of her. Time has passed. In Yokohama, she was spending her life as a normal high school girl, hiding her real name and her status as a heir of the legendary Karate family. However, one incident brought her a fateful encounter with her sister who was separated in their childhood. But, her sister was raised as a heartless killing machine by the mysterious gang who took her. .
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-05
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Ringing in Their Ears
Overview: Yu Irie (8000 MILES 1 & 2) returns with this ambitious flick about an upcoming concert by a reclusive rock group and the managers, obsessed fans, shut-ins, single moms and kindergarten teachers who are affected by it. A true tribute to the healing power of rock and roll.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-02
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One Million Yen Girl
Overview: A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-19
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The Land of Hope
Overview: An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents must evacuate, but the family lives on a farm, with only half of the area designated as an evacuation area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-20
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Aramaki
Overview: A man, stacks of rocks, a forest.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-12
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Sabu
Overview: When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-14
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必殺仕事人2014
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-27
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One-Percenter
Overview: After his devastatingly fast, samurai-style combat approach sets filmmakers against him, a legendary action star films his own movie—on turf claimed by feuding yakuza gangs, including Japan’s deadliest martial arts assassin.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-04-12
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The 8-Year Engagement
Overview: Hisashi and Mai are a happy couple in their 20s who are engaged to be married. But three months before their wedding, Mai becomes seriously ill. Her heart stops momentarily, and she falls into a deep coma. Hisashi visits Mai at the hospital every day before work. With no idea if or when she will ever awake, Mai’s parents encourage Hisashi to find someone else, but he refuses to give up and continues to pray for her recovery. As if his prayers are answered, Mai begins to regain consciousness several years later, and even utters a few words. But tragically, she has suffered brain damage and has no memory of Hisashi.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-16
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SP: The Motion Picture
Overview: At an event hall in Roppongi Hills, there is a charity event for landmine eradication. Kaoru does security with Security Police officers Soichiro Ogata, Eri Sasamoto, Takahumi Yamamoto and Mitsuo Ishida. Kaoru Inoue senses a threatening existence and starts to suffer a severe headache and becomes dizzy. When Kaoru was young, his parents were killed by terrorists and that incident has had an traumatic effect on Kaoru since.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-30
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Ginji The Speculator
Overview: A British comedy in Japanese clothes, with central character Ginji at once earnest farm boy and entrepreneurial savant, finding ingenious and entertaining solutions in a timeless tale of business and found family.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-23
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Desert of Namibia
Overview: Desert of Namibia follows a bipolar young woman who burns the candle at both ends. A portrait of an unidealized Tokyo gen-Z, that surprises with its incredible energy and irreverence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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Downtown Utopia
Overview: Naomi Kishi who has a habit of self-harm, grew up with a mother with an abnormally strong desire for control and was profoundly ill. Naomi's relationship with her mother became unbearable, and she fled her parents' home. She goes to a downtown area where her mother is out of sight. She is caught when she enters an old-fashioned coffee shop, eats and drinks without paying. However, the coffee shop manager does not take her to task and even offers her a place to live. She begins living in a shared house in the downtown area, and gradually regains her true self through contact with unique people she has never met before in her life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-03
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Love Is Possession
Overview: This three-part omnibus spins tales about love featuring surreal characters like ghosts and eccentrics.
Genres: Romance Drama Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-12
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Shippu Rondo
Overview: An illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. The university lab can't even call the police because the secret nature of the weapon. The school lab then receives a message stating that the entire country is now being held hostage and they must pay a ransom of 300 million yen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-26
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Soup
Overview: Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase are struck by lightning and die. They go to the afterlife. There in the afterlife they hear of a legendary soup. If someone drinks the legendary soup, that person is reborn, but the reborn person has no memories of their prior life. Kenichi Shibuya then searches for the secrets in the legendary soup, hoping to be reborn, but not forget his daughter.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-07
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Crime's Blank
Overview: Ando can't accept this his daughter Kana committed suicide. Kana fell from the ledge of a school building and died. Ando attempts to find out the truth behind his daughter's death. He becomes suspicious of his daughter's former classmate, Saki. Saki isn't a typical high school student and she aspires to work in show business. She dominates her high school with her charisma.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-23
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Ghosts vs. Aliens 03
Overview: A two-part feature directed separately by Shimizu and his colleague Keisuke Toyoshima. Unrelated to each other, both have a common goal: to bring ghosts and aliens together in pure, referential and absurdistic delirium, including neo-Nazi specters, zombie yakuzas and nasty aliens.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-25
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Octopus
Overview: Squid have 10 legs. Octopuses have 8 legs. Added together, that’s 18 legs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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Door To Door
Overview: Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all of his effort into working as a door-to-door salesman. Despite the pain attributed to his cerebral palsy, he walked eight to ten miles a day to meet his customers and achieved the highest sales for his company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-29
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Virgin Wandering
Overview: Jun Kanai is a lecturer at the University of Tokyo who despite being in his thirties is still a virgin. One day he reunites with an old student of his and decides that she will be the one to take his virginity but finds out that she will soon be studying abroad.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-08
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HiGH&LOW The Movie 3: Final Mission
Overview: In order to conceal past corruption by the government, the Kyuryu group proceeds on a plan to destroy a street and build a casino. To stop the Kyuryu group, members of SWORD begin to move.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-11
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Eve in Love
Overview: Set within the Tokyo DisneySea theme park, the love lives of various people are told. Gakkun has been preparing for his accounting license exam. Nao Nanami works in the gift wrapping section of a department store.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-24
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Kirisaki Jack no Kokuhaku
Overview: The body of a young woman is discovered in a park in Tokyo with all her organs removed. The case is assigned to Detective Inukai, a usually cool and unemotional detective known for seeing through the lies of others. But Inukai has a young daughter in need of a kidney transplant, so when the first crime is followed by two similar crimes, Inukai is caught between his roles as a detective and a father.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-18
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Hold On, Baseball Team
Overview: An average high school baseball team is weakened when Hiroki, one of the star players on the team, receives a failing grade in school and cannot participate in any of the club’s activities till he passes again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-27
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Sekigahara
Overview: The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-26
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A Lone Scalpel
Overview: Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst the town’s people. Some of his colleagues become so jealous they are resentful and waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity to crucify him. Soon they get their chance as Dr Toma considers performing a controversial operation…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-05
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Shell and Joint
Overview: Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-22
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The 47 Rōnin in Debt
Overview: Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Having no time to mourn his death, samurai Kuranosuke Oishi decides to take revenge on Kira, planning an attack with the help of accountant Chosuke Yato… but they don't have enough in their budget.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-22
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Make the Last Wish
Overview: Koike Minami returns from USA to Japan to accomplish her deceased twin sister's wish to win a competition and sing with Avril Lavigne on the stage in a concert in Tokyo.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-09
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Himizu
Overview: After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-05
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Another World
Overview: Ko, a man in his late 30s, lives in the countryside with his wife and teenage son. Mitsuhiko, who runs a local car dealership, also stayed in his hometown. One day, their mutual friend Eisuke returns from a long military operation and their reunification brings back both pleasant and painful memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-30
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Unlucky Monkey
Overview: A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-18
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Fukushima 50
Overview: Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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Shikasha
Overview: A woman and her child get trapped underground while investigators look for them.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-01
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The Way: Man of the White Porcelain
Overview: The movie is based on the true story of Takumi Asakawa - a Japanese man who entered Korea during the country's occupation by Japan. Takumi Asakawa became captivated by Korean culture and championed the value of such items as the traditional white Korean porcelain.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-09
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Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
Overview: This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly successful 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. This special focuses on Police Inspector Takayama Ryosuke (Kagawa Teruyuki) who had been secretly supplying police information to the organized crime group, the Oda-gumi. Once a young street thug, Takayama was taken under the wing of Oda Hironari (Kohinata Fumiyo), the leader of Oda-gumi. Dressed, fed, and educated, Takayama was instructed to become a police officer and work as a mole for the group. Now, he is tasked to get close to Suenaga Mari (Aoi Yu), a daughter of an influential politician.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-27
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Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen
Overview: Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their fates intertwined.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-15
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His
Overview: Shun and Nagisa first meet and fall in love during their first year of high school. While Shun is graduating from university, Nagisa tells him that he doesn't see a future for them. Despite Shun's strong feelings, they go their separate ways. Years later, Shun is now a store owner, living alone in a rural area. Out of the blue, Nagisa arrives with his six-year-old daughter, Sora. Spending time together, Shun realizes he still harbors feelings for Nagisa. Can Nagisa reconcile with his feelings for Shun, which have been there all along?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-24
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Babin
Overview: In the forest, a man is buried up to his waist and repeats an interminable and incomprehensible monologue. His seclusion is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a little boy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-07
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I Never Shot Anyone
Overview: Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face - a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is... he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-03
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Where Love Goes
Overview: Junior high schoolers Sudo Ai and Sosuke Ito live together as a patchwork family in a small town in Hokkaido, all thanks to Ai’s mother, Yumi, creating an environment of love. Bullying and the harsh environment cannot pierce that safety until Yumi dies. Cast adrift, the kids are separated, Ai is taken to Tokyo by her father, and Sosuke is left behind.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-15
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Kubi
Overview: Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-23
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River Returns
Overview: In 1958, as a deadly typhoon approaches, a young boy embarks on a perilous journey to a haunted mountain pool, determined to calm a sorrowful spirit whose grief has cursed the village with devastating floods.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-03-22
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Stray Dogz 6
Overview: After buying a defaulted loan on the cheap, a loan shark is at odds with himself when he discovers his former lover is married to the missing debtor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-05
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