Manami Higa
Also Known As: Higa Manami , 히가 마나미, 比嘉爱未, ひが まなみ
Biography: Manami Higa is a Japanese actress. Higa's mother was a model. She graduated from Okinawa Prefectural Central High School. Her break as an actress came when she was selected in an audition of 2,156 people to star in the NHK Asadora Dondo Hare in 2006.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Okinawa, Japan
Birthday: June 14, 1986
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Gender: Female
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Saru Lock: The Movie
Overview: Saru is a talented young locksmith who unlocks any kind of lock. He is, however, a complete fool when it comes to women. One day a girl Mayumi asks him to open a safe full of stolen money. Knowing nothing about it, Saru takes the money briefcase with Mayumi and finds himself with yakuza gangsters and also police in hot pursuit.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-27
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Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final
Overview: Movie based on the Emergency Interrogation Room series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
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Love and the Grand Tug-of-war
Overview: Following the 2009 financial crash, Waseda University graduate Takeshi lost his job in Tokyo and retreated to his family home in Sendai. While he resumed his role as heir to the family construction company with a diligent attitude, his hidebound father resents that his son left and that at the age of 35 Takeshi is still single. However, wider events will force father and son to overcome their differences as the Otsunahiki, a great tug-of-war featuring thousands of participants, will pull them together in a family tradition just as Takeshi meets Jiheyun, a beautiful Korean doctor on an exchange programme... The ties of family bind people tightly as characters struggle with the push of their own ambitious urges and the pull of family commitments but the Otsunahiki ropes things together in a family drama rich with events and the culture of Sendai, that will tug and the heartstrings of viewers whilst providing to the desire to visit the beautiful and storied region.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Prisoner/Terrorist
Overview: During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leaving him captured. Exposed to maltreatment in prison, he slowly loses his grip on reality as he is forced to confront his ideological convictions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-02
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The Pearl Legacy
Overview: Harumi comes to terms with her mother’s passing and gets embroiled in the hunt for a legendary 600 million yen pearl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Master Sake Brewers
Overview: The artisanal techniques that Japan has cultivated over its long history are disappearing day by day, along with the lights of the lives of these artisans. Hiroshima is a city where sake brewing is thriving. Senzaburo Miura, the "father of ginjo-shu" who made Japan's first ginjo-shu (sake made from rice at a polishing ratio below 60%), is the pride of Hiroshima. Senzaburo's spirit of "try one hundred times, improve one thousand times" overlaps with that of the Japanese people who survived through the prewar and postwar periods. Now, the spirit of Japanese master craftsmanship is shared with the world from Japan.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-25
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We Were There: First Love
Overview: We Were There follows the 10 year romance between Motoharu Yano & Nanami Takahashi. During their high school days, Motoharu Yano was the most popular boy in school, but can't get over the death of his girlfriend from a car crash. Nanami Takahashi falls in love with Motoharu Yano and must deal with his inability to let go of the past.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-17
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We Were There: True Love
Overview: During the 2nd year of high school in the winter season, Yano transferred from Kushiro to Tokyo due to a family matter. Yano and Nanami promised to meet again. A couple of years later, Nanami is busy finding a job, while Yano's friend Takeuchi supports her. in the beginning, Yano and Nanami kept their relationship, even with the long distance between them, but Yano suddenly stops contacting Nanami.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-21
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The Sound of Vietnam
Overview: The Vietnamese orchestra was founded in 1959 to join people through music, unstopped by war and borders, but it had been facing difficulty surviving. Then in 1992, to rebuild the orchestra, fueled by the belief that "first-class countries have first-class orchestras," the orchestra leader invites Japanese conductor Sakura Kazuo to Vietnam to be their conductor. Together with interpreter Morioka Yuko, Kazuo works to overcome cultural barriers and aims to build a first-class orchestra while interacting with the unique Vietnamese members.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-02
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Letters from Kanai Nirai
Overview: Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has not come back, Fuki receives birthday cards from Masami every year on her birthday. On Fuki's fourteenth birthday, Masami promises to confess everything when Fuki becomes 20 years old. After her graduation from high school, Fuki moves to Tokyo to work as a camera assistant. Fuki starts off her hectic life in Tokyo, and soon, her nineteenth birthday comes. As usual, she receives a birthday card from Masami. A year later...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-28
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Delivery of Death
Overview: Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an ex-bureaucrat and was recently released from prison. 7 years ago, Shohei was arrested for embezzling 1 billion yen. The investigation seven years ago was able to track down 700 million yen but unable to locate the remaining 300 million yen. Now, the chief editor is sure Shohei will go to wherever the remaining 300 million yen is hidden.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-30
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Kanon
Overview: Ai Kishimoto, Yukari Miyazawa and Akane Kishimoto are sisters. The sisters live apart in Kanazawa, Toyama and Tokyo, but they gather together to attend their grandmother's funeral. There, they learn about their mother whom they know as deceased. While seeking out the the truth about their mother, the sisters face their own problems, but take a courageous step forward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-01
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Fly, Dakota, Fly!
Overview: In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an emergency landing on Sado Island. The residents on the island have heard stereotypes of the British soldiers and have mixed feelings about the their new "guest." Nevertheless, for the next 40 days the islanders take care of the crew members until the plane can take off once again. This includes Chiyoko Morimoto who is the daughter of the inn owner where some of the British crew members stay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-05
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My Teacher
Overview: Hibiki Shimada, a normal 17-year-old high-school student, still does not know how to fall in love—although surrounded by love "experts"—until one day she realizes she's fallen in love with her hot and nice 26-year-old teacher, Itō. She then takes a path to make her teacher understand how she feels for him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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Code Blue: The Movie
Overview: A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians are assigned to this latest medical system. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, witness the fragility of life, and they grow personally and professionally.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-27
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Shunichi Doba Suspense Deviation ~First Investigation Division/Keiji Sawamura~
Overview: Sawamura Keiji (Sorimachi Takashi) of Kanagawa Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division, who is confined to office work while he is under treatment for insomnia, is hurriedly summoned by Taniguchi Goro (Hashizume Isao) the head of the First Investigative Division. A third case in a series of bizarre murders which have stoked public fears has occurred at a park in a residential district, and he is roped in to assist.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-15
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Tsuyoki ari
Overview: Based on the novel "Tsuyoki Ari" by Seicho Matsumoto In her past, Isako Sawada ran a restaurant. She then met Nobuhiro who is 31 years older than her and an executive of a corporation. They eventually married. Nobuhiro owns a large mansion and his money is managed by housekeeper Saki Tsubaki. Isako Sawada doesn't like that arrangement, but she hides her contempt because she has a plan. Her plan is to become a widow in 3 years and inherit one billion yen from her husband. Isako Sawada schemes to have Nobuhiro die in an apparent natural manner and she is having a relationship with another man.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-02
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The Best Skilled Surgeon 2017
Overview: Maverick pediatric surgeon Mikoto Saijo agrees to work under his mentor, but only if he's allowed to care for a teenager with a risky pregnancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-23
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Doctors~The Strongest Doctor~2021 New Year SP
Overview: 『DOCTORS』is back! Played by Sawamura Ikki, Surgeon Daisuke Sagara is back again during the new year of 2021. Masanobu Takashima, the director of the group, is preparing for the 100th anniversary of his Dojo General Hospital. However, the management condition of the deficit continued...Reiko hanamura, who was in charge of the loan section, was hospitalized at the hospital...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-10
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Promise of death
Overview: Detective Suguro is enjoying a stay at a luxurious hotel in Wakayama. Also staying at the hotel is an unusual family led by rich widow Mrs. Hondo. She acts like a tyrant around her children, who are afraid of her and are at her beck and call. Unfortunately, a tragedy strikes the Hondo Family while on a hike to a local shrine. Mrs. Hondo, who was supposed to be taking a rest on the way, is found dead. Kawahara Daisaku, the chief of the local police station, asks Suguro to help with the investigation of Mrs. Hondo’s death.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-06
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Contents of the Desk
Overview: A man tutoring a high school girl for her university entrance exam becomes obsessed with her.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-21
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大川と小川の休日捜査
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-30
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