Aki Maeda
Also Known As: 前田 亜季, 마에다 아키, Maeda Aki, 前田亚季, 前田亞季, Аки Маэда, آکی مائدا, آکی مائِدا
Biography: Aki Maeda (前田亜季 Maeda Aki, born 11 July 1985 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress and singer. She has an older sister named Ai Maeda. She is perhaps best known in the west for her role as Noriko Nakagawa in the controversial 2000 film "Battle Royale", which she reprised for its sequel "Battle Royale II: Requiem". She graduated from Hosei University in 2008.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tōkyō, Japan
Birthday: July 11, 1985
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Gender: Female
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Battle Royale
Overview: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-16
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Battle Royale II: Requiem
Overview: It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-05
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Linda Linda Linda
Overview: Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival's rock concert—including a classic '80s punk-pop song by the Japanese group The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda".
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-23
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The Cat Returns
Overview: Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Animation Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-19
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Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet
Overview: Based on the Best Selling Anime Series "SAIKANO" Shy coed Chise (played by Aki Maeda from Battle Royale) is madly in love with high school athlete Shuji. The two share a bond which only intensifies when war breaks out in futuristic Japan. But Chise has a secret that - if revealed - would not only destroy her relationship but would also put her life at risk. Chise is not an ordinary teenage girl, she is actually the ultimate weapon of mass destruction, a genetically engineered cyborg built specifically for extreme military use. When she goes into battle, Chise strikes fear in everyone around her, including her own troops. Her boyfriend must never know.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-28
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Making of 'Battle Royale'
Overview: An abundance of footage from the shooting of Battle Royale and cast and crew discussions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-01
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Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
Overview: The late Kinji Fukasaku directed "Battle Royale" - his 60th movie - at the age of 70. This film follows the shooting of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-13
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The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II
Overview: Prolific director Kinji Fukasaku died suddenly during the production of Battle Royale 2. His son and screenwriter Kenta took over as director and completed the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-10
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Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem
Overview: Behind the scenes of Battle Royale II
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-05
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Onihei side story: The Final Chapter - The Fourth Wife
Overview: Inomatsu, a carpenter with a reputation as a skilled craftsman, has a wife named Oritsu. Oritsu is deeply in love with Inomatsu and believes that the purpose of her life is to devote herself to her husband day and night. However, Oritsu is Inomatsu's fourth wife. In fact, he is a robber and thief. As a carpenter, Inomatsu usually sneaked into merchants' houses and carried out robberies. For him, wives are just a tool to deceive the public...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-09
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ドラマSP 松本清張「鬼畜」
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Genres: TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-24
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Haunted School 2
Overview: Sequel to the 1995 film Haunted School aka Gakkou no Kaidan. Similar to the first, in that it's about a group of youngsters that get stuck in a haunted school and have to deal with an assortment of ghosts.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-20
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Out of This World
Overview: Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge between the tenor saxophonist, a disillusioned ex-soldier, and a bitter GI whose brother was killed in the war. And when the band plays the prohibited "Danny Boy" during a birthday bash for a sergeant whose son Danny had died a year ago, everyone must confront a past they'd rather forget.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-07
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Mokuhihan
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-08
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Aokigahara
Overview: Set within the Aokigahara forest on Mount Fuji, a famous location for suicides. Follows the love and life between a man and woman.
Genres: Drama Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-12
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必殺仕事人2013
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Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-17
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安楽椅子探偵と笛吹家の一族
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-13
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Kasha
Overview: Shunsuke Honma is a detective from the #1 investigation team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Shunsuke takes a leave from work due to an injury. One day, his relative comes to see him and asks him if he can find his missing fiance Akiko Sekine. Shunsuke takes on the job and enlists the help of Detective Sadao Ikari. The detectives soon uncover the shocking truth behind the missing woman.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-05
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Haunted School 3
Overview: Third installment of the "Gakko No Kaidan" series follows the trek of several elementary school students as they wander into an alternate world that exists on the opposite side of a school mirror. Nishida Naomi (the hapless teacher in "Gakko No Kaidan 2") returns as the teacher who accompanies the children on their journey into the surreal universe.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-07-19
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Shokuki
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 1998.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Overview: With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-06
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Romance Of Darkness
Overview: Rikka Nikaidou is a cute and innocent girl sees two persons vanish into thin hair...
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-05-27
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Omokage
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-27
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School Ghost Story G
Overview: A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of four stories, two of which serving as prequels to the Ju-on series.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-27
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The Boy Who Saw the Wind
Overview: Amon is a boy who can control the wind. Branik, ruler of the Empire of the Golden Snake, wants Amon's power to complete the ultimate weapon and sends his troops to capture the boy. Amon, using his talents, manages to runs away with Maria, one of the People of the Sea. Together, they try to stop the Empire of the Golden Snake from destroying and conquering everything.
Genres: Adventure Family Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-22
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Pride
Overview: Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo as a family man who fought to defend Japan and Asia from western colonialism but was ultimately hanged by a vengeful United States.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-23
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Harami: White Fear
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-11-19
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Case 17
Overview: One evening, a married couple comes to the Itami Law Office. Narumi Suzumura, six months pregnant, and her husband Takuya have come to ask Itami to take the case of Narumi's mother, Kimiko Torii, indicted for the murder of her second husband, company president Takefumi Torii. Kimiko married Takefumi 19 years ago, making him Narumi's stepfather. The couple are questioning whether Kimiko had the intent to kill...
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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When a Tree Falls
Overview: A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son’s death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunders by multiple people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-21
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High School Girl's Friend
Overview: Genichiro, a lonely retired man living with his son’s family who mostly ignores him, feels closest to his granddaughter who is in highschool. Through her, Genichiro meets another high school girl, Mina, who also feels ignored by her family. She is also troubled by her friend’s pregnancy and the bankruptcy of her father’s company. Unlike her friends, Mina has an ungilded view of life and finds herself comforted by Genichiro’s wisdom. Genichiro likewise is happy to be making a difference in someone’s life.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-07-14
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Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
Overview: Higuchi Ichiyo is the first female professional novelist in Japanese literature. This tanpatsu drama is a biography of her personal life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-01
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Motherhood
Overview: When pregnant Mia Sakaguchi falls from a staircase at the shrine, she is transferred to 1994 and immediately admitted to a mental institution, because no one believes her that she is from the future. There she is confronted with the shocking truth that the mentally ill are forcibly sterilized. In order to protect her unborn child, she tries to escape from the institution.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-03
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Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
Overview: A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. When the military fails to control the situation, Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary. However the battle may result in Gamera losing his bond with both Asagi and humanity.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-12
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Overview: Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-15
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Silver Rain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-28
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The Return
Overview: Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation of a story by novelist Shuhei Fujisawa. A traveling gambler known as “Funeral Uno” he is now 86 years old and returning to his hometown for the first time in 30 years. Partly told in flashbacks, he is forced to face his lifelong nemesis, Boss Kyuzo, a vile yakuza portrayed by another superstar of samurai cinema, Atsuo Nakamura! Before the two old gamblers can settle a 30-year-old score they must put their lives on the line in a game of dice that can only lead to a bloody sword duel the likes of which has never before been seen! Superb performances all around in a film loaded with surprises and exciting swordplay!
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-04
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An Artist of the Floating World
Overview: In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-30
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A Madder Red
Overview: 7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her husband's death. She has since raised her son Junpei by herself. Junpei is now a middle school student. Ryoko also cares for her father-in-law, who lives in a nursing home and she also runs a cafe. Her care is in a difficult situation due to Covid-19, while Junpei experiences bullying at school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-21
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I Never Shot Anyone
Overview: Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face - a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is... he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-03
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Samurai Gangsters
Overview: Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his minions: right-hand man and military master Ohmasa (Kishibe Ittoku); stinky priest Daigoro (Takashi Sasano); well-known stranger Ishimatsu Mori (Yoichi Nukumizu); beautiful Masagoro Oiwake (Kazuki Kitamura); and others. As Jirocho's fame spreads, he gains more enemies. Among them are Katsuzo Kurokoma (Koichi Sato), who is one of the most powerful in Koshu, and the villain who is also Ishimatsu's nemesis, Masaru Mima (Riki Takeuchi). A traitor also emerges from the family, Yoshikazu Ebisu (Yoshikazu Ebisu). Meanwhile, Jirocho's wife falls ill and other terrible situations occur. Jirocho falls into a pinch of absolute despair. What on earth will he do? What is the fate of his minions? The Jirocho family will face a fierce battle...
Genres: Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-20
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