Ruka Ishikawa
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Biography: Ruka Ishikawa is a Japanese actress. Before acting, she was a model while attending Sophia University. She took an interest in acting after taking an acting workshop in college then subsequently joining production company Cheese Film as an actress where she trained for 6 months. Her debut was a stage play "SUGAR WORKS". However, her first appearance on video was in 2019 for "Colorless" as part of an "unfinished movie trailer awards" contest where director Takashi Koyama discovered her on Instagram. The trailer won 1st place which lead to the trailer being turned into a full movie thus also being her movie debut. She won best new actress award from the Japanese Movie Critics Award for her lead role in "Colorless". In 2020, she transferred to Sony Music Artists. (Source: Japanese Wikipedia)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: March 22, 1997
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Gender: Female
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Where is the Mind
Overview: Atsushi limps and escapes from a closed facility for drug addicts. He has only one goal: to kill his wife. Straying around, he is hit on a country road at night. When the driver gets out to check on him, Atsushi takes the opportunity and steals his car. Completely surprised, he notices the middle school student Nanako in the passenger seat. Actually on the way to a hotel room with her customer, the young girl desperately clings to her key ring: the only thing she has left of her mother. Deeply wounded by life, the unequal couple embarks on a journey into the unknown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-19
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Shrieking in the Rain
Overview: At a movie studio in 1988, rookie director Hanako Hayashi is making her directorial debut, the erotic As Far as Love Will Take Us. She's under pressure from her producer and crew. When she is about to shoot the climax of the film, numerous problems arise. To make matters worse, the set is visited by a censor from the Film Certification Committee, and the key scenes end up being cut out to avoid an R rating. Can Hanako realise her dream?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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Sayounara
Overview: When Yuki's classmate suddenly dies, rumors begin to spread about her death and the relationships between Yuki and her classmates are disrupted amidst grief and forced normalcy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-20
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Ichiko
Overview: On August 12, 2015, Hasegawa proposed to Ichiko. Ichiko is moved by Hasegawa's proposal and sheds tears, but the next day, she suddenly leaves home, seemingly shocked after seeing the TV news. Where did Ichiko go? Hasegawa reports the disappearance to the police, and the detective in charge of the investigation tells an unexpected story.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-08
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Girls of the Thirteenth Month
Overview: Kazuho Anamori, a high school girl, was unable to fit in with her class because she was reluctant to withdraw. One day, by chance, she met Miko Karakida, who was born with heart disease, and they became closer. However, six months later, the shrine maiden died while in the hospital. A letter arrives at Ichiho who is sad. "I have a story about Miko Karakida. Come to that room tomorrow night.” What is the story about the shrine maiden? Ichiho goes into the school building at night. A mysterious transfer student, Rin Ukima, who appeared at the same time as the death of the shrine maiden, was waiting there.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-15
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Qualia
Overview: Yuko Tanaka, who "married into" the Tanaka family, a family running a poultry farm, led a modest life despite being mistreated by her sister-in-law, Satomi Tanaka. One day, Saki Watanabe, the mistress of Yuko's husband, Ryosuke Tanaka, applies for a live-in employee position at the poultry farm. Unaware that Saki is her husband's mistress, Yuko, who conducts the interview, decides to hire her. Thus begins a strange cohabitation, including the husband's mistress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-18
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Aitsu o yoroshiku
Overview: Koharu (26) is looking for a new job and she has older brother, Taichi (29 years old) who has taken care of Koharu in place of her mother who died in an accident when she was young. One day, Taichi disappeared from the sight of her family. Koharu and Taichi's fiancée Aki (age 25) head out to find Taichi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-19
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Anger Girl
Overview: Nico, a girl who has closed her mind from noise and whose only emotional support is her favorite coffee shop, one day meets Ryota, a boy who is being abused by his parents. Nico, who had been abused herself, could not forgive Ryota's parents.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-16
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Soiree
Overview: Shota came to Tokyo to become an actor but has a side hustle in petty crime. On a trip back to his hometown in Wakayama he meets Takara, who is being assaulted by her father just sprung from prison. Soon they pair up and hit the road to escape.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-28
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Colorless
Overview: A bittersweet love story depicting the end of the romance between an amateur model named Yuka and Koyamada, a photographer who wants to capture her real face.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-04
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Shell and Joint
Overview: Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-22
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The Japanese Doll
Overview: University students Yuri and Masato accept a peculiar invitation to a campground party, but things turn deadly when a cursed doll starts to attack.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-15
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Beats Per Mizu
Overview: Sumiko is a university student who is blessed (or suffers) from a special ability to instantly grasp the BPM (beats per minute) of almost anything. One day she meets a boy who inexplicably sends her own BPM off the charts!
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-26
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Aesop's Game
Overview: Three girls - Miwa, an introvert who's best friend is her turtle, Saori, a rich girl from a celebrity family, and Koyuzu, a member of a revenge agency - wind up in a complex rivalry with one another.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-08-16
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A Girl on the Shore
Overview: Keisuke Isobe and Koume Satou live a rather dull life. But when Koume's crush breaks her heart, their situation becomes quite unordinary. She starts a "no-strings-attached" relationship with Keisuke, whom she had previously rejected, both finding solace in the other in order to fill the emotional voids in their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-20
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Raindrops From The Sun
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-10-19
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This Hamburguer Has No Pickles
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-02-16
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