Ryoko Kobayashi
Also Known As: Ryôko Kobayashi, 小林 涼子, 코바야시 료코, Ryōko Kobayashi, Ryouko Kobayashi, こばやしりょうこ
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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Windows
Overview: A young couple has lived together for five years, and they share daily lives even without passion or financial stability. One day, they learn that she’s pregnant, and start to consider how to plan their future.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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Pornographer - Spring Life
Overview: Two years after their first meeting, Kijima and Kuzumi reconnect in the countryside, rekindling their bond after years of exchanging letters.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-18
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Wangan Midnight: The Movie
Overview: After losing a street race to Tatsuya Shima's legendary "Blackbird" Porsche 911 Turbo, high school student Akio Asakura purchases a heavily-modified first-generation Datsun S30 Fairlady Z from a junkyard. The car has a dark history of accidents, leading some to believe it's cursed; hence its nickname "Devil Z." Akio also discovers that the Z's first owner shared his first and last name, and was killed in the car during a race with the Blackbird. Meanwhile, fashion model Reina Akikawa joins the rivalry between Akio and Tatsuya with her modified Nissan Skyline GT-R R32.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-12
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Pornographer: Playback
Overview: Kijima and Kuzumi, showing the problems they face as they try to move forward in their lives, and how they drift apart while still yearning to be together. A story of love and life, and fantasies and failures of a novelist and his lover.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-26
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My Father's Tracks
Overview: Taiga Kitamura, who was separated from his mother at an early age, believes that his father's selfishness in devoting himself to the rally hastened her death, and leaves for Tokyo upon entering university. While aiming to become an actor but feeling vaguely dissatisfied, he receives the sudden news of his father's death from his childhood friend Miho Uechi who lives in his hometown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-01
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Gesshoku no Yoru wa
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-25
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Not Alone
Overview: the story of the man who can't find a meaning to live. Mr.Makoto Akai is the chief character who moved to Toyosato Town, the neighboring town, from Ishinomaki City after the East Japan Great Earthquake Disaster. He lost his wife, and two children in the tsunami. So he lives alone and spends gloomily every day. He is thinking of committing suicide because he can`t forget his family. His daily routine is to listen to the recording message from his wife left. One day, he meets a young woman who is in trouble with her bicycle puncture in the street.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-03
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Kamen Rider: THE FIRST
Overview: Takeshi Hongo is a man of extraordinary intellect, but his promising future is about to be maliciously snuffed out by and evil secret society known as Shocker. Reinvented against his will and transformed into a powerful experimental cyborg, Hongo will forever be known as Kamen Rider The First.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-05
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21st Century Girl
Overview: 21st Century Girl is an omnibus feature that is of the girls, by the girls and for the girls. The work of 15 women directors under the age of 30, each of whom contributed an 8-minute film, the package highlights a range of genres, visions and thematic concerns.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-03
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Mokuhihan
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-08
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Overview: Starring Masahiko Nishimura, "MADO(Window)" is an extremely closed, socially conscious drama based on a true story of the actual court case known as “Yokohama Secondhand Smoke Trial" in Japan, This is the first feature film directed by a successful commercial director, Mao. Being a son of the plaintiff, he had a great passion for tackling this sensitive issue caused by chemical sensitivities.
Genres: Drama Family History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-07
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The Door into Summer
Overview: A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-25
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My Happy Marriage
Overview: An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander. But the two learn more about each other, love may have a chance.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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Sensei's Pious Lie
Overview: Misuzu Hara (Nao) works as a high school teacher and prefers to keep a distance from her students. In her past, she was raped by her best friend’s boyfriend Hayafuji after he found out she liked him. She didn't report the crime to the police and she didn't tell anyone else what happened. She still suffers from the trauma from what happened, but she continues to have a forceful relationship with Hayafuji who is now her best friend’s fiancee. One day, a rumor spreads that her student Yuki Niizuma is in a secret affair. Misuzu Hara, as his teacher, has a meeting with him to provide counseling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-07-05
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Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love
Overview: Satoru, a wheelchair-bound elementary student, locks himself away from the outside world after his mother dies. His father designs a remote-controlled robot to go to school for him, allowing him to interact with people and do normal things.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-09
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Adult Drop
Overview: Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime, but this just upsets Ann. Yoshi's relationship with Ann is now awkward. Yoshi doesn't know exactly why, but Ann becomes absent from school frequently. One day, during their summer vacation, Yoshi hears that Ann has dropped out of school.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-04
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Zoo
Overview: Five different directors adapt the works of Japanese author Otsuichi in this collection of unconventional live-action and animated shorts. A woman is murdered under odd circumstances in the title film, "Zoo"; twin sisters are treated differently in "Kazari and Yoko"; two siblings find themselves trapped in "Seven Rooms"; a survivor learns about life and death in "When the Sun Shines"; and parents lose the ability to see each other in "So Far."
Genres: Horror Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-19
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Pink and Gray
Overview: Popular actor Rengo Shiraki dies suddenly. Due to his sudden death, unpopular actor Daiki Kawata attracts the spotlight due to his close friendship with Rengo. Did Rengo Shiraki commit suicide or was he murdered?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-09
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Helen the Baby Fox
Overview: A young boy named Taichi Ogawara finds a fox cub on the side of the road and takes it home as a pet. He discovers it is blind, deaf, and mute. Because of this, he names it Helen, after Helen Keller.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-18
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The Cat in Their Arms
Overview: A 33-year-old supermarket worker at a provincial city used to be an idol, but could not see a future as a singer. Sick of everything, she moved to a provincial town and met Yoshio, a pet cat she saw at a store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-23
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Happy Mail
Overview: An otaku manicurist, an ordinary office lady, a doctor with no love life, and a 30-something still obsessed with an indie idol group all meet through a matchmaking site.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-25
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Leaving the Scene
Overview: Shuichi is engaged to Sanae and they will marry soon. One day, Shuichi is driving a car and his friend Teru sits as a passenger. He is speeding because he is late for a meeting about his upcoming wedding ceremony. On the way there, he hits a woman and flees. The woman dies later and her parents Hikaru and Chizuko Tokiyama are grief stricken. Veteran detective Kozaburo Yanagi and rookie detective Shun Maeda investigate the hit-and-run case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-10
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The King of Minami Returns: A Scrappy Business
Overview: Loan shark Ginjiro is known as the Demon of Minami. Cosmetics maker Kaburaki has his eye on him. Sakagami meets Yulim, who has come over from Korea.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-07
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Breakfast and Dinner
Overview: High school student Takumi lives with his two mothers in a beautiful house in Tokyo. Moving into a house across the street is Sora and her two fathers. One day Takumi and Sora begin a quest to seek answers long hidden and silent in their unconventional families. Takumi sets out to determine the identity of his father, and Sora devises a plan to integrate herself fully into her family. The ordeals of these households stretch the traditional notions of family, convention and tradition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-28
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Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku
Overview: Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by Tsubaki's daughter, Mineko, and believes in her father's innocence, witnesses a bizarre fortune-telling session at the Tsubaki mansion. That night, another murder occurs within the mansion. A visual adaptation of Seishi Yokomizo's gothic horror.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-23
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The Nearest Utopia
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-25
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秀吉、スタートアップ企業で働く
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Original Language: ja
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Chief - Keishichou IR Bunsekishitsu
Overview: ogane Takichi, the CEO of a construction company, is shot dead in the street in Nishi Shinjuku in Tokyo. The only eyewitness, Odagiri Naoto, refuses to cooperate with the police for some reason. Fukamachi Kotaro, a senior member of the IR Analysis Office, is ordered by Nitta Yukihiko, the head of the First Investigative Division, to handle Odagiri. The newly established office was set up on the pretext of tracking and monitoring suspects and witnesses to advance investigations by using the many surveillance cameras and GPS trackers installed in Tokyo.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-15
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Pornographer: Continued Spring Life
Overview: After overcoming differences, Rio Kijima and Haruhiko Kusumi grow closer. But tensions rise when family secrets and outside questions threaten their deepening bond.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-04
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未解決の女 警視庁文書捜査官～緋色のシグナル～
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-28
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