Yuumi Kawai
Also Known As: 河合 優実, یومی کاوایی
Biography: Yuumi Kawai is a model signed to the talent agency Dongyu and was born in Tokyo. Her debut as an actress took place in the TV drama "INHAND" in 2019, and the first movie she starred in was "A Beloved Wife" in 2020. She is an active model with multiple CMs and appears on MVs.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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Unfeigned Happy Ending
Overview: Eimi, who came to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school, invites her sister Yu, who lives in her hometown of Shiga, to move to Tokyo with her. She is reluctant at first, but suddenly accepts and soon after goes missing. One day Eimi meets Hiyori, whose sister is also missing. Everything changes when the police contact her to inform her that they have found the body of a young woman in Lake Biwa, but the body is that of Hiyori's sister, not Yu. Together Eimi and Hiyori search for the murderer, but things take an unexpected turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-17
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Modern or Anarchy
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-01
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Plan 75
Overview: In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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To Be Killed by a High School Girl
Overview: Higashiyama Haruto is a 34-year-old Japanese history teacher who combines good looks with an honest and friendly personality. When he has been assigned to Nitaka High School, a school for advanced students, Haruto immediately attracts the attention of his female students. But he has a secret that he cannot tell anyone; he wants to be killed by a beautiful high school girl. Obsessed with such a bizarre desire, Haruto approaches four beautiful girls of different types, Maho, Aoi, Kyoko, and Aika, according to the perfect crime scenario he has devised. Who among the four is the high school girl that Haruto has been longing to be killed by for nine years?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-01
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A Hundred Flowers
Overview: Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them. One in particular, when he believed she had disappeared, haunts him terribly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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Winter Rose
Overview: Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted delinquents, and begging money from his friends. His parents, who run a shipping business transporting earth and sand for reclamation by boat, manage to get by, despite the dwindling number of jobs and lack of successors over time. Jun showed no interest in his parents' business, and the father and son hardly ever spoke to each other. One day, one of Jun's friends is attacked by someone and an unexpected person emerges as the culprit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-03
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A Man
Overview: Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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Sayonara, Girls.
Overview: 2 days until the “Last Graduation Ceremony” of high school, the building was to be demolished. Each student accepted their “farewell to youth” and moved forward with regret and hope in mind. One student visits the library to meet her secret admirer who is also her teacher, one calls her boyfriend with a strained relationship due to the distance of their colleges, one is trying to expose a secret that she hid for the last 3 years, and the last student, Manami, has to give a speech during the graduation ceremony but couldn’t overcome her pain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-23
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The Lines That Define Me
Overview: Sousuke Aoyama is a college student who suffers painfully from the loss of his parents in a traffic accident. He meets Kozan Shinoda, a suibokuga (India-ink painting) artist, at an exhibition. Kozan becomes interested in Sousuke and surprisingly accepts him as his disciple. However, Kozan's niece is dismissive of Sousuke and declares to compete with Sousuke for the "Kozan Award." Although Sousuke seemed uninterested in painting at first, he gradually becomes drawn to it by each stroke he draws...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-21
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Just Remembering
Overview: A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love story inspired by a Jim Jarmusch masterpiece, set in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-02-11
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April, Come She Will
Overview: Shun Fujishiro is a psychiatrist and works at a university hospital in Tokyo. He is engaged to Yayoi Sakamoto. One day in April, when he is about to marry Yayoi Sakamoto, he receives a letter from his first love Haru Iyoda. They dated 10 years ago. Suddenly, his fiancé Yayoi Sakamoto disappears.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-22
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Underdog: Part One
Overview: Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira fell off the path to greatness but still tries to crawl his way to the top. Omura Ryuta is a youngster who grew up in foster care. Miyagi Shun, a TV celebrity with famous parents, takes a shot at boxing as part of a TV show. Three underdogs with very different back stories put their pride on the line as they exchange blows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-27
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A Girl Named Ann
Overview: A drug-addicted girl from an abusive family finds hope through kind people but her grim reality strikes back just as she sees a glimmer of light.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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Kami no Ko wa Tsubuyaku
Overview: One family changes as they join a religious group. Kinoshita Haruka is forced to engage in her religious activities by her mother, Aiko, who is an avid believer and forbids her from making friends or participating in events at her school. Her father Shinji distances himself from religion and tells his daughters, Haruka and her younger sister, Inori, the importance of "believing in yourself." When Shinji suddenly falls ill, their "belief" begins to waver.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-03
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Drive In California
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-27
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In Her Room
Overview: Susume is a young dentist who can’t communicate well with people since childhood. One day, he meets and falls in love with a woman named Miyako. She invites him into her lush, forest-like apartment, and he, though awkwardly, gradually becomes closer to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-10
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Look Back
Overview: Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant recluse whose beautiful artwork sparks a competitive fervor in Fujino. What starts as jealousy transforms when Fujino realizes their shared passion for drawing.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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Desert of Namibia
Overview: Desert of Namibia follows a bipolar young woman who burns the candle at both ends. A portrait of an unidealized Tokyo gen-Z, that surprises with its incredible energy and irreverence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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見つめ
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-14
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Hakkenden
Overview: Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story is about eight warriors who, each carrying a jewel, gather together as if guided by fate and embark on a harsh journey to fight the curse of the Satomi family. Hokusai is drawn into the story that Bakin is telling, and visits Bakin on various occasions to hear the rest of the story, and a strange relationship between the two begins. The serialization becomes Bakin's life's work, with the idea of "rewarding good and punishing evil in a world where evil is rampant," but after 28 years, as the story finally approaches its climax, Bakin begins to lose his sight. With the completion of the story in doubt, he receives an unexpected proposal from his daughter-in-law. Will the story ever be completed?
Genres: Drama Fantasy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-10-01
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A Balance
Overview: While documenting a controversial tragedy that shook her community, a filmmaker must put her morals to the test when a perverse secret in her own life is revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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It's a Summer Film!
Overview: Barefoot and her friends decide to make a samurai movie, gather a unique cast and staff for the production, and try to screen it at their school festival.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-06
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Sasaki in My Mind
Overview: The story of a would-be actor, his larger-than-life classmate and their friends. Unfolding their past and present, Sasaki in My Mind looks head-on at adolescent sparkle and the pathos of bygone days.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-27
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A Beloved Wife
Overview: A comedic portrait of an unhappy marriage between an unemployed screenwriter and his wife who's supported him for 10 years, based on the writer/director's own autobiography.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-28
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Rolling Marbles
Overview: Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of Shibuya, Ai dreaming of a model, Mizuho working for the editorial department of a magazine, and musician Erika live together. This story is about the modest cohabitation of the three.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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Love Nonetheless
Overview: Koji runs a second-hand bookstore. He likes female drummer Ichihana, but, suddenly, female high school student Misaki appears in front of him and keeps confesses her feelings for him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-02-25
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AREA
Overview: A short film by Tsubasa Seki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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She Taught Me Serendipity
Overview: The romance between a lonely college student and who seems to be the girl of his dreams is burdened by the sudden arrival of cruel fate.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-04-25
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Teki Cometh
Overview: Gisuke is a retired college professor. His wife has passed away, and he is now living alone in an old Japanese-style house. One day, an unsettling message appears on his computer saying that the enemy is coming.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-17
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Renoir
Overview: Suburban Tokyo, 1987. 11-year-old Fuki’s father, Keiji, is battling cancer, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-06-20
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A Bad Summer
Overview: Sasaki is a sincere civil servant, working at city hall. Due to his timid personality, he can't properly deal with nasty people, including a single mother on the verge of giving up her own child, another civil servant pressing him to have a physical relationship, and a person who receives welfare benefits unfairly. His passivity leads him to get caught up in a terrible crime.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-03-20
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I Want to Be Killed by a High School Girl
Overview: A man has an obsession that, if he is to die, it would be by being killed by a high school girl. With his strange obsession in mind, he decides to become a teacher.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-01
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