Kou Machida
Also Known As: Machizo Machida, 町田 康
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 15, 1962
Age: 63 years old
Gender: Male
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Cat City
Overview: A fantasy world with only cats as far as the eye can see. The awe and fear a person can feel in a world that doesn't know mankind.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-01
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Burst City
Overview: Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
Genres: Action Music Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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Mirrored Mind
Overview: An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-30
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August in the Water
Overview: A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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Āto nanka iranai!
Overview: A film on the meaning of art, Session 1: Kingdom of Inertia, Session 2: 4.6 Billion Years of Solitude
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-20
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Jeonju Digital Project 2004
Overview: Three digital short films: 'Influenza' by Bong Joon-ho, 'Kyo-shin' by Sogo Ishii, 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Yu Lik-wai
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-11-15
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Osaka Story
Overview: Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-26
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Endless Waltz
Overview: Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-07
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Atlanta Boogie
Overview: "Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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赤い犯行 夢の後始末
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-01-31
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Tampon Tango
Overview: The film revolves around a pornographer and several of his actors and actresses. One of the women mentions interest in setting up a scene where tampons are forcibly inserted into a girl's vagina as this kind of scene has 'never been done before.' From there the film delves into a blurry of oddball scenes consisting of penis guitar playing and women placing explosives in their lower regions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Soft Skin
Overview: Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-31
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The Black House
Overview: A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent visits her house only to find that her young son has hanged himself. As he investigates further, more and more people connected with this family start having "accidents," and if he's not careful, he might be next.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-13
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H Story
Overview: An autobiographical docudrama about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-17
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Romantic Mania
Overview: A love story in the style of a psycho-thriller, depicting the relationship between a female police officer who continues to have an affair and the men who surround her, along with the progress of a bizarre incident. Due to various circumstances, the theatrical release was postponed and the work announced as OV was released to the public at a special screening at the Kamemei Painting Theater in Tokyo.
Genres: Romance Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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Robinson's Garden
Overview: Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the civilization she had already left.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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Never Mind a Little Rain
Overview: An in-depth and stylish look at the hardcore punk scene in Japan at the late half of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's. Features bands such as GASTUNK, THE EXECUTE, GAUZE among others.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-29
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pierce LOVE&HATE
Overview: Naho repeatedly enters hotels with random men and kills them before having sex with them. A man, Manabu, stays with her and performs piercings on her breasts. One day, Naho invites a middle-aged man to a hotel as usual and tries to kill him, but ends up failing to do so.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-26
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Minato no Rokishî
Overview: Set in Hakodate in the summer, this is a retro-inspired coming-of-age drama about a love triangle between a sister and brother who are like lovers and a young man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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