Tasuku Nagaoka
Also Known As: 永岡 佑
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Birthday: January 07, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Seventeen
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Ako is fascinated by the paintings of her classmate Shun, and during her adolescence, when her ego begins to emerge, she becomes enamored with him. However, at 17, Shun has changed from the man she was attracted to at that time, and Ako struggles with a sense of inferiority and dislike toward herself, Shun, and others who are left behind in the past and becoming adults.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-15
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Kakera: A Piece of Our Life
Overview: The story of the relationship between a college student whose relationship with her boyfriend is going nowhere and a bisexual medical artist who makes prosthetic body parts. Haru is a college student ignored by her boyfriend yet believes she is still in love with him. One day at a café, Haru meets Riko, a medical artist (prosthetist) who creates body parts in order to disguise clients’ missing pieces, lost due to accident or disease. Both were alone, but struck up an immediate friendship and closeness. Riko doesn't care about gender when it comes to relationships, and believes that love itself is the most important thing a human can achieve. Haru struggles in her life between friendship and a deeper relationship with Riko.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-07
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Seaside Lover
Overview: As men and women around the age of 30 struggle to reach their dreams, they also go through trial and error in love. This work, which depicts the encounter and parting of such a man and woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-25
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End Call
Overview: The Devil has a phone number, and if you call him on your mobile phone at midnight, he will grant your wish. In return however, he will control your life for the duration of the call.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-01
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Odd Final
Overview: 2018 original video.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-25
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Dragon Black
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-19
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Tsukineko Ni Mitsu No Tama
Overview: Oosumi, a dummy artist, makes the figure of Mari who is the wife of a gangster called Kurokin. Oosumi decides to run away with Mari, but Mari disappears. One night, Kaako, a musician's wife, meets a ghost cat and she is possessed by Mari's spirit.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-16
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Kids
Overview: Asato is a young man who returns to a slummy neighbourhood (referred to as 'The Street') to be near his Mum who is in prison. He is able to transfer other people's injuries and is unable to walk past a child with a grazed knee or broken arm without helping them. Asato is protected from street thugs by Takeo, another troubled young man who has issues involving his father who is lying in a coma in hospital. The third member of their group is a young waitress, Shiho, who has her own secret.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-02
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My Town of Hot Baths, Hidden Treasures, and Delicious Ramen.
Overview: When they find out their community is plagued by debt, three high schoolers in an old country town set out in search of some ancient buried treasure.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-05-26
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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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Moon and Cherry
Overview: When an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and mouse with a naïve college student. As they venture into more and more unpredictable territory in the bedroom, he begins to think she might be using him as a test subject for her fiction more than anything else.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Tears of Kitty
Overview: Eiji Morioka is legendary fighter, he is the 3rd and last Japanese boxing medalist. His life story is told from the eyes of his daughter Haruko, who is involved in checkered life of Eiji. Touching true story full of love.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Overview: In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-14
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Sun and Bolero
Overview: Starring Rei Dan, this is the third film directed by Yutaka Mizutani. Riko Hanamura (Rei Dan) is the leader of a local amateur symphony orchestra, which has been active with members who love music very much. However, Riko is not doing well, and she finally decides to disband the orchestra after 18 years of operation. She plans to hold the last farewell concert...
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-03
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Humanoid Monster, Bem
Overview: Bem, Bela and Belo arrive at a new town plagued by a series of mysterious, unsolved cases which, as they discover, are caused by another youkai, one more powerful than they have ever encountered. The story will also focus on Belo's first love, and his increasing desire to become human. In the meantime, Bem and Bela have found a way to become human, but are conflicted about whether to let just Belo turn human, or along with Belo, become humans themselves.
Genres: Mystery Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-15
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ペットドクター花咲万太郎の事件カルテ
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-26
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Wet Woman in the Wind
Overview: Dissipated Tokyo playwright, Kosuke has retreated to the countryside after deciding that he's done with women, but the indefatigable cat-in-heat Shiori has other ideas, clinging to Kosuke like his shadow.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-17
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DRAGON BLACK 第２章
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-25
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Light Ahead
Overview: Kii, a young woman who isn't good at studying or sports, finds her passion in life through amateur photography. While trying to take a good shot one afternoon, she meets fledgling singer Yuu by chance and together they move towards the light of accomplishing their dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-23
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Making of Love Exposure
Overview: Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-25
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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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8000 Miles 2: Girls Rapper
Overview: With Saitama no rappa 2 (AKA 8000 Miles 2 – Girls Rapper), Yu Irie tells the story of amateur girl rappers who dream of a small big-time. The film opens with Saitama 1 B-boys, Ikku and Tom coming to town. They run into young Ayoma (Maho Yamada), inspiring her to gather her girlfriends and work up their rap routine.
Genres: Drama Crime Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-26
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The Temptation Came at Stormy Night
Overview: Romantic fantasy about the ruckus that ensues after a mother and daughter switch bodies. Director Imaoka Shinji wrote the script for The Drudgery Train and has worked on numerous erotic films. Housewife Suda Sawako (Takaki Mio) is dissatisfied with her husband Kenzo (Haruta Junichi). Meanwhile, her daughter Yasuko (Ishikawa Yumi) is going out with Kitamura Mitsuru (Nagaoka Tasuku), a struggling musician. When Sawako visits Yasuko's apartment one day, her built-up frustrations explode and she gets into a physical altercation with her daughter.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-08-09
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Homesick
Overview: Two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Murai braves danger and wanders through the no-go zone in order to spend time with Jun, his eight-year-old son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-06
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Sukiyaki
Overview: Kenta Kurihara (Tasuku Nagaoka) is sent to prison for battery. In his cell he is referred to as the "newcomer." Meanwhile, Kenta is bummed out with simple meal offerred in prison. The four other prisoners in his jail cell have no problems eating his food. On lunar new year's day the prison offers the traditional Osechi-Ryori dish. The inmates in the cell gather to play a game that has become an annual ritual. They compete for items from each other's dishes by boating about the most delicious things they have ever eaten. Shunsuke Aida (Motoki Ochiai) begins their game by talking about a dish which his mother made ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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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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NO CALL NO LIFE
Overview: Adapted from Kabei Yukako's novel of the same name. After being guided by a mysterious message from the past on a cellphone's answering machine, Umi encounters Mahiro, a delinquent at her school. They gradually come closer, but more messages appearing on the answering machine will unveil past secrets...
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-05
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11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate
Overview: On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of masterpieces and a controversy that echoes to this day. The man was Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's greatest and most celebrated novelists. With four members of his own private army - the Tatenokai - Mishima had taken the commandant hostage and called upon the assembled military outside the Ministry to overthrow their society and restore the powers of the Emperor. When the soldiers mocked and jeered Mishima, he cut short his speech and withdrew to the commandant's office where he committed seppuku - the samurai warrior's death - tearing open his belly with a ceremonial knife before being beheaded by one of his colleagues. What was Mishima truly trying to express through his actions? And what did he witness during his final moments?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-05-20
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AWAKE
Overview: Eiichi wanted to become a top shogi player and attended a shogi player training center run by the Japan Shogi Association. At the training center, he could not beat Riku, who is extremely talented in the game, and Eiichi eventually gave up on becoming a shogi player. To live a more normal life, he enrolled in a university. Because he spent most of his time playing shogi, he has a hard time adjusting to campus life. He does not have any friends at school. One day, Eiichi comes across an AI based shogi computer program. The computer program is more creative and stronger than he expected. This piques Eiichi interest in computer programming, specifically for shogi games. He visits an AI research club and meets senior student Isono. He learns about computer programming from Isono and makes a new goal for himself. Eicchi now wants to write a top shogi computer program. A few years later, Eiichi wins a computer shogi competition. He receives a request to play against Riku.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-12-25
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Leaving Home
Overview: Ten years ago Keisuke went to Tokyo to become a musician. He receives a call from his far off hometown informing him of the funeral for his older brother who went missing while fishing at sea. Having lied he achieved success in Tokyo, Keisuke is hesitant but nevertheless returns home. Gathered at his parent's house are his father who lives alone; his brother's ex-wife; Hiroshi, a classmate who was the last to see his brother; and Hiroshi's younger sister Nagi who bears a limp.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-08
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Futon
Overview: Tokio Takenaka (48) is a scriptwriter who's lost his passion for his work, and whose relationship with his wife Madoka (37) has turned sour. He spends his days lost in a haze. One day, a girl named Yoshimi Yokoyama (21) barges into his office, saying that she's a huge fan of his work and aiming to be a scriptwriter herself. Overcome by her enthusiasm, he agrees to take her in. As they work together, he begins to sense her talent as a writer, and at the same time, comes to feel sexually attracted towards her. Soon he's writing scripts that he's proud of again, and begins to feel fulfilled in both his private and work lives. But it doesn't take long before he learns about her boyfriend and fellow scriptwriter Hideo Tanaka (20). He becomes madly jealous, but.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-04-14
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Koya no Shomei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-27
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