Shungicu Uchida
Also Known As: Shungiku Uchida, 内田 春菊, うちだ しゅんぎく
Biography: Shungicu Uchida, real name Shigeko Uchida, is a Japanese manga artist, novelist, essayist, actress, and singer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan
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Visitor Q
Overview: In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, ‘Q’, a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changing their lives for the better, finding a balance in their disturbing natures.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-17
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A Lying Woman's Daybreak
Overview: Yuriko's happy life as a piano teacher is suddenly changed when her cheat is unveiled. She starts working at Bento store but soon after co-workers at Bento store know about her secret.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-17
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The Curtain Rises
Overview: Saori is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka begins to work at the same high school as a new teacher. Yoshioka performed in plays when she was in college back in Tokyo. Saori, Yukko, Garuru, Nakanishi, Akemi decides to compete in a play competition. Their goal is to make it through the regional competions, but Teacher Yoshioka tells them their aiming low and that they should think about the national competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-28
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The Tang of Lemon
Overview: Twenty-year-old Kaori, an aspiring accessory designer, spends her days troubled by her mother's violence and excessive meddling. Meanwhile, forty-year-old secretary Kaori, whose daughter is a shut-in, can't stop shoplifting and having casual sex.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-15
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Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World
Overview: Despite the fact that Kyoko's a girl herself, approaching women on the streets and asking them to pose nude for her proves to be quite a chore. At first she accosts every pretty girl that walks by, until Miho catches her eye. Feeling that she has that certain something special, Kyoko insists that Miho pose for her. Her own life floating rudderless after the separation of her parents, Miho accepts, half entertaining the idea to get back at her father, who has gone on to form a new family and who hasn't been in touch with her in years. The two girls walk around town, Kyoko snapping pictures and listening to Miho's stories. Gradually the two young women begin to sense a mutual attraction. When the time comes to get down to the nitty gritty of the nude shots, the girls' defences come down along with their clothes.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-12
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Gemini
Overview: When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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Weather Woman
Overview: Keiko, a young, newly hired weather woman, is eager to give her channel's flagging ratings a boost. She decides a panty shot might do the trick, so during her forecast she lifts her skirt, thereby capturing the attention and the hearts of viewers. Keiko's stunt creates such a stir of excitement over the weather report that viewers begin religiously turning in to see what she'll do next. However, this showboating routine earns the ire of Kaori, the beautiful and ambitious daughter of JTV's chairman. Jealous of her success and aching to take over the weather report, Kaori is willing to do just about anything to get what she wants.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-16
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Face
Overview: Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that sends her tumbling into fugitive life.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-12
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At the Mercy of the Darkness: Ayano's Bizarre Delusions
Overview: Ayano is trapped in a loveless marriage with a guy who redefines the word jerk. She works at a company selling English learning materials and is suffering from increasingly disturbing hallucinations.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-19
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Garo Video: Telegram
Overview: Garo cartoonists Dynamite Crazy Party. A live concert centered around Garo cartoonists
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-22
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Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
Overview: There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, worked, and shared experiences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-23
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Sanka: Nomads of the Mountains
Overview: It is 1965, a time of rapid economic growth for Japan and also a time when the people called Sanka, a nomadic band of outcasts, were fading away. Having arrived at his father’s countryside estate from Tokyo to focus on preparing for his high school entrance exam, a lonely 15-year-old named Norio (Rairu Sugita) encounters three Sanka, first teenage Hana (Naru Komukai), then her father Shozo (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) and her grandmother. Taken under their wing and drawn to their simple and rugged lifestyle, Norio begins to spend his summer days fishing in the rivers and catching snakes in the bush for food. He also witnesses how they are discriminated against by people like his authoritarian father who rejects their illogical lifestyle. With bad blood already existing between Norio and his father, and a hopeless desire to become one with the Sanka, Norio is forced to confront the cruel reality of his age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-16
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Balloon Relay
Overview: A middle school student named Kozue finds a red balloon with an SD card attached to it. On the SD card is an invitation to the wedding of two complete strangers. In order to escape her daily doldrums, Kozue decides to go to the wedding with her classmate, Kikuchi. However, along the way they cross paths with a pair of suspicious men, a mysterious girl, and a strange cop. When they finally make it to wedding, they get drawn into the fray of yet another unexpected situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-23
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Missing
Overview: Depressed and in debt, Santoshi tells his young daughter that he is going to find an infamous serial killer and collect a reward. However, when Santoshi disappears without a trace, she starts to fear the worst and begins searching for him.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-21
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Young Thugs: Going My Way
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Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-25
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Karaoke Terror
Overview: One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-08
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Hameln
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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The Girl of Silence
Overview: 14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her rescue when she really needs it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-17
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39 settoudan
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-17
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Thermae Romae
Overview: The story follows a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One day, he discovers a hidden tunnel underneath a spa that leads him to a modern Japanese bath house. Inspired by the innovations found there, he creates his own spa, Roma Thermae, bringing in the modern ideas to his time.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-28
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Kanikôsen
Overview: On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-04
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Desire
Overview: Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic new film from a remarkably skilled cast about "the beauty of sensualism."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-11-19
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Moon and Cherry
Overview: When an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and mouse with a naïve college student. As they venture into more and more unpredictable territory in the bedroom, he begins to think she might be using him as a test subject for her fiction more than anything else.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Midori
Overview: Midori is a coming-of-age drama set amongst the heady high school world of peer rivalry and sexual awakening, featuring an emotionally-detached high-school girl who, her parents dead, lives with her brother and his overprotective wife. After being sent out of class due to a dizzy spell, she becomes acquainted with Shun, a boy in the class below, in the school sanatorium. As the two begin feigning illness together on a regular basis, their uncomfortable flirtations soon blossom into a full sexual relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-29
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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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Hakobune
Overview: This is Hakubune
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-11
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Grey Crow
Overview: Together with a girls camping club, Tamae sets out on a trip to a mountain where it is said that a long-nosed goblin lives. According to rumors, the goblin once was a boy who by mistake killed his own mother and has since been abducting people who have burdened hearts. The girls, who end up getting lost in the mountain, meets the mysterious boy Tsubaki. But who is he really?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-21
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Akko's Secret
Overview: 5th-grader Atsuko Kagami, nicknamed Akko, comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Wanting to grow up beautiful, she gets a job at a cosmetics company, and finds true love. What will Akko do to keep the company afloat and her secrets hidden? Only her technical magical compact can help!
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-31
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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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A Missing Part
Overview: Every day, Jay travels the length and breadth of Tokyo in his taxi, looking for his daughter Lily. In the 9 years since he has separated from his wife, he has never been able to get custody of his daughter. Having given up hope of ever seeing her again, he is about to move back to France when Lily hops in his cab. But she doesn't recognize him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-13
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Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead
Overview: After a nuclear attack in Tokyo, the female population is attacked by infected males who have become sex-crazed zombies, hungry for human flesh. Officeworker Momoko and nurse Nozomi seek shelter in a Shinto Shrine, where they meet housewife Kanae and school girl Tamae. With no choices left to them, the group of girls decides to take a stand and arm themselves with assault rifles and explosives to fight off hordes of horny zombies. What is the secret to killing the zombies for good?
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-07-13
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Evil Dream
Overview: The bus driver Nakatsuka Yukihiko saw in his dream the sexual fantasies involving one of his regular female passengers - Noriko Otomo. On the other hand, she sees the same dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-28
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Saikin Chouchou wa...
Overview: Based on Shungicu Uchida's manga of the same name, which features themes of occultism and multiple personalities.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-10
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Cain's Descendant
Overview: Munakata has an unrelenting guilt from killing his mother when he was 15 years old. After being imprisoned for 10 years, he is released and heads to Yako, a small industrial town, to work as a machinist. Living in a tiny apartment, he is tasked with secretly creating a gun out of an old TV remote control and unknowingly destroys the fragile balance of the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-24
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Sex & Onmyoji
Overview: An office lady gets possessed by the vengeful spirit of Doman Ashiya and faces off against Seimei Abe's distant relative Seiko with the fate of all of Japan at stake.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-05
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Nightmare Detective 2
Overview: A story of the unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave victims psychologically devastated.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
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The Vanished
Overview: A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-25
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The Torture Club
Overview: The "Torture Club" is an official after-school activity at the private school Saint Honesty Gakuen. Yuzuki has no idea about the club when she enrolls, and gets abducted by the club members and hauled off the club-room. There, she finds out that upper-class student Aoi, her secret idol, is in the club, and decides to join, but…
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-19
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My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Overview: A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected, come down with the disease, which leads to death. They have no way of fighting against this infection filled with fear and despair. The media calls the disease the "Lemming Syndrome".
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-18
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Otakus in Love
Overview: Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-20
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The Rail Joint : Can't Stay Faithful To My Husband
Overview: A film from "Spring," the fourth group of works from the Love & Eros CINEMA COLLECTION 2nd season. Humorously depicts the emotions of a housewife troubled by her sexless marriage. Homemaker Ryoko (Komatsu Miyuki) is irritated with her husband (Tayama Ryosei), who doesn't help out with household chores or child rearing. Ryoko starts working part-time for fun, and meets aspiring actor Yahata (Kaai Gamo). Having reaffirmed her identity as a woman, Ryoko fans Yahata's delusions about love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-30
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24 Years Old Love
Overview: Kimura Tamiko, an unemployed twenty-four-year-old, decides to transform herself on the occasion of her birthday. First she tries to get rid of her virginity, and invites Makoto, who she met through an online dating service, to a love hotel. But it turns out Makoto is gay.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-29
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Gumi. Chocolate. Pine.
Overview: Kenzo and his high school friends live in anguish, believing that there is something that sets them apart from everybody else.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-22
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Akame 48 Waterfalls
Overview: A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-25
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