Satomi Kobayashi
Also Known As: 코바야시 사토미
Biography: Satomi Kobayashi (born May 24, 1965) is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She won the award for best newcomer at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival for Exchange Students. She is married to screenwriter Kōki Mitani. Description above from the Wikipedia article Satomi Kobayashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: May 24, 1965
Age: 59 years old
Gender: Female
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Kamome Diner
Overview: On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-11
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Glasses
Overview: An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter eccentric local inhabitants.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-22
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Godzilla vs. Mothra
Overview: Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately a meteorite has awoken a hibernating Godzilla as a three way battle for the Earth begins.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-12
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After All, I Love Cats the Three Onda Sisters’ Great Kyoto Troubles
Overview: 1990 Original Video
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-21
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Pool
Overview: A story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in Thailand. 4 years ago, Kyoko started to live in Thailand and has been working in a Guest house outside in Chiang Mai, leaving her mother and her daughter Sayo, in Japan. Just before the graduation of University, Sayo sets foot on Thailand to visit her mother with mixed feelings. However, emotional experiences with the people living there changes such feelings toward her mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-12
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Jesus' Ark
Overview: One-episode drama starring Beat Takeshi depicting the turbulent life of the protagonist Takeyoshi Sengoku, based on the "Jesus' Ark Incident".
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-09
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I Are You, You Am Me
Overview: 9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-17
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Tokyo Oasis
Overview: In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people by random chance: she gives a ride to a man named Nagano, whom she has never met before; at a small theater, runs into Kikuchi, a former screenwriter; lastly, meets Yasuko at the zoo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-22
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Tsuyukusa
Overview: Middle-aged Fumi lives a quiet seaside life, she spends her days working at a small local factory, spending time with her neighbor’s son, and attending her sober-lifestyle group. One night while driving home her car is struck by a small meteorite, the odds of which are 100 million to 1. Seeing this as a good omen, Fumi decides she should be open to new possibilities in her life, even perhaps romance…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-29
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Wandering -SASURAI-
Overview: A high school girl becomes convinced that her mother, who was said to have died fourteen years ago, is alive and residing in Hokkaido.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-05-28
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Chûshingura 1/47
Overview: During Japan's feudal period, a noble lord was treacherously killed by a rival. His 47 samurai retainers took their revenge on their master's killer after scattering into society for several years, so as not to be detected. Having completed their task, all 47 then committed ritual suicide. This series, of which this TV movie is the pilot, follows the adventures of one of these samurai as he patiently waits for the chance to fulfill his destiny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-28
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The Deserted City
Overview: After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-02
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Nijiiro no Chalk -- Chiteki Shogaisha to Ayunda Machikojo no Kiseki
Overview: Oomori Hiroto, the chalk company president’s son, returns home after studying overseas a short while and is unsure what to do now he is back in Japan. He joins his father’s company which is struggling financially and clashes with his father over his policy of hiring the disabled. Over time, he gradually understands the “joy of working” from the sincere attitudes of the disabled employees towards their work. Attracting attention in terms of management and welfare as “the most important company in Japan,” they continue to evolve as a company creating products that take considerations into the global environment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-26
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Best Friend
Overview: Aya, who works in a bank, and Sanae, a stylist, jointly rented an apartment and started living together. One day, when the photographer Bunpei also rents a room, three people's common lives start. Aya gradually falls in love with Bunpei.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-15
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Toad's Oil
Overview: The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and those around him as they attempt to cope with the death of his son and somehow find a way to benefit spiritually from the experience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-06
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Pale Moon
Overview: Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job, comes home to an unappreciative husband and has little opportunity to enjoy life. But things change when office gossip about affairs and embezzlement inspire Rika to do the unthinkable. Soon, Rika finds herself filling the void with a university student named Kota and the millions entrusted to her by clients. Is her newfound lifestyle the key to happiness? And if so, how long can it last?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-15
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Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
Overview: Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for one year before his death.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-09-14
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You Alone Can't See
Overview: During Muraishi's time in prison for fraud, he recalls his past and learns a power to penetrate and cure others. Upon release, he goes to Hakodate, where he can find his ex-wife, Kiriko. Though he cures a lot of people on the way and believes that he is the only one to make Kiriko happy, he is being depressed by discovering a guy together with her.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-25
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Mother Water
Overview: Set with three central figures, "Mother Water" describes the daily lives of people near the Kamo River in Kyoto, Japan.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-30
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Passenger
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Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-10-03
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Sing My Life
Overview: Katsu (Mitsuko Baisho) is a 73-years-old woman. She often makes trouble with her biting remarks. While raising a daughter alone, Katsu was unable to live the life she wished for. One day, Katsu goes to a photo studio and takes a picture. She leaves the photo studio, but finds that she is now 20-years-old (Mikako Tabe) again. Katsu changes out of her grandmother clothes, picks out a more youthful style and names herself Setsuko Otori. Later, Katsu decides to take part in a singing contest held in a shopping district. Her singing fascinates the audience and she wins the contest. Katsu begins to move closer to her past dream of becoming a singer.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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Miss Lonely
Overview: Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, or is she real?
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-12
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After the Storm
Overview: Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-21
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小林聡美NIGHT SPECTACLES チャッピー小林と東京ツタンカーメンズ
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-04-06
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Maru
Overview: Sawada graduated from an art university but cannot rely on it to make a living and is working as an assistant to a famous contemporary artist. He lost his independent will and became accustomed to simply doing what he was told. One day, Sawada had an accident on the way to work and lost his job because of an arm injury. When he returned to the room, there was an ant on the floor. After drawing a circle as if guided by an ant, Sawada's daily life begins to be eroded by the circle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-10-18
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Dogs Without Names
Overview: Kanami (Satomi Kobayashi) is a TV director. Her pet Natsu recently died due to a disease. Kanami begins to shoot a film about dogs after her movie director friend suggests the idea. For her movie, she visits an animal shelter and a shelter for dogs rescued from the area around Fukushima. She is touched by the people who work diligently to save the animals.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-31
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Young Girls in Love
Overview: The story of a young girl's first love is told from the heroine's point of view. Surrounded by various people, she finally begins to awaken to her own feelings as a woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-13
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Eien no 1/2
Overview: An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-11-21
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Mountain Days with Tom
Overview: Hana, Toki and Toki’s daughter Toshi begin to live in the countryside. Hana’s nephew Akira, who just graduated from middle school, also lives with them. Doing farm work everyday, Hana and Toki get used to life in the countryside with help from couple Gen and Shiori. One day, Toshi and Akira decide to raise a cat to catch rats. A cat named Tom then begins to live with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-26
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Family of Strangers
Overview: Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a corpse turns up and a murder has occurred. The culprit fingered is one of the patients.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Green Requiem
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Genres: Romance Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-08-20
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Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
Overview: Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the publisher and subordinates and runs the ship well. Chatting with his direct boss he picks up a certain vibe. Did he misunderstand that the magazine is doomed and will be terminated? If so, he is not going down without a fight. He will fight to make it through and keep his, and the others', jobs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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His Motorbike, Her Island
Overview: After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy Ko begins to fear that she is destined to crash.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-26
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The Motive
Overview: Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-18
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