Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo
Birthday: August 09, 1935
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Share house
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-12
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Tale on Tokai Chivalry
Overview: The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between two men who rise and fall in a black stream, trying to live a real human life, violating the cruel laws of the passing generation.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-12
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Kikujiro
Overview: Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and unique characters along the way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-06-05
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Somebody's Flowers
Overview: A neighbor dies when potted flowers fall from a balcony of an apartment complex. A man whose father suffers from dementia begins to question if it really was an accident.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-31
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Taboo
Overview: Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-12-18
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Codename: Tomoko
Overview: An action in which a former CIA female operative captures a revenge drama that unfolds against a huge secret organization.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-01
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Ponyo
Overview: When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-19
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Nemuremitsu
Overview: Omnibus about three actresses from different generations
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-05
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あとかたの街〜12歳の少女が見た戦争〜
Overview: Yuki Ozawa is approaching her 50's and she has now began working on her first serialized manga. The theme of her manga will be based on her mother's personal war experience, who was only a 12 year old girl at that time. Yuki wants to create a piece that will pass down the memories of war to the future generations. With her editor, Sato, she goes to Nagoya to visit her mother, Ai (Ozawaai) to learn more about her mother's experience. At first, her mother reacts negatively to Yuki's request but soon she begins recalling her memories of love, life and the lives that were lost because of the air raids over Nagoya.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-14
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Bewitched in Tokyo SP
Overview: Christmas Special following the series.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-21
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-23
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Wool 100%
Overview: A drama of two aging women who live a solitary life collecting discarded items from a nearby town. One day they return home to find a young girl knitting a red sweater in their house. Each time the girl finishes her dress, she promptly unravels it and the mystery unfolds.
Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-28
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Baby, Baby, Baby!
Overview: 30 year old Yoko Sasaki (Arisa Mizuki) works diligently at a publishing company. She then receives the unexpected news that she is pregnant. Having now to chose between having a baby and or her career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-23
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Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi - Special 1
Overview: The first special of the Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi drama series.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-08-27
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Departures
Overview: Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-13
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Empire of Passion
Overview: In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-06
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Love Story
Overview: TBS Wednesday Drama Special about a young assistant in love with an older man who works as a photographer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-22
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Foundry Town
Overview: Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-08
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Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
Overview: Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-15
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何もかも狂ってやがる
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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Wakai senpū
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-31
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Kids
Overview: A girl whose younger brother as well as her lover were killed is drawn with a pistol in her hand.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-09-14
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Looking for Anne
Overview: A Japanese teenager embarks on a quest to find the Canadian lover of her grandmother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-31
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Kamataki
Overview: Twenty-three-year-old Ken has difficulty coping with the death of his father. His mother send him to his uncle Takuma in Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-01
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The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
Overview: A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-02
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
Overview: A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju Kobayashi) and the leader of the gang (played by Norihei Miki) have an interesting wartime backstory together that fuels much of the story.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-22
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Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
Overview: After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki family was always deserted. Ryūzaki, the boss, declared his retirement in response to the changing times. It was thought that Igarashi, who valued righteousness and principles and had the respect of others, would become the second-in-command. However, he was an annoying presence to Ryūzaki...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-20
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In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense
Overview: A drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic creation of her masterpiece, "Wanderings in the Realm of the Seventh Sense," her unknown years spent in poor health and poverty, and the present-day world from which we see her work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-03
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Crossroads
Overview: Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-12-03
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Double Bed
Overview: Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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Leonie
Overview: In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true life story of Leonie Gilmour (Emily Mortimer), whose life crossed continents, wars and cultures, embodied with courage and passion in search of art and freedom. A tender and inspiring story of a remarkable woman who nurtures the amazing artistic talent of her son who has only one way to succeed and one person to guide him, as he grows into the world renown artist, Isamu Noguchi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-20
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Kidnapping Blues
Overview: A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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Remembrance
Overview: The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-23
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The Cricket Girl
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-14
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Granny Gabai
Overview: Gabai Granny is based on the bestseller Saga No Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga), which is penned by comedian Shimada Yoshichi as he recounts his childhood memories of growing up under the care of his grandmother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-02
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The Love and Death of Kaoru Mitarai
Overview: After she drives drunk and hits an old woman, a famous novelist is threatened with a law suit by the woman's son... unless she lets him publish his manuscript under his name.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Chizuko's Younger Sister
Overview: The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter Mika is suddenly in a dangerous situation, Chizuko returns as a ghost to save her; reunited with her sister, Mika begins spending time with Chizuko again.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-10
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僕が笑うと
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-26
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Golden Partners
Overview: A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage it.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-28
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Gun Demon Without Form
Overview: A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from Kobe.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-04
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The Last Three Times We'll Meet
Overview: A love story woven by a loveless mistrust girl, Kaede Tamaki who works for a small video production company, and a mysterious young man Seishiro who is attracted by her . Satomi Oshima and Kentaro Hagiwara, who also teamed up for the currently released movie "30 Minutes to Sayonara", were responsible for the script and directing, respectively.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-31
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Eigo ni yowai otoko azuma wa azuma, nishi wa nishi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-24
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Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-05
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Yukiko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-03
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Teenage Wolf
Overview: In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which distorted energy explodes! A unique social drama that acutely depicts the psychological conflict bubbling in the chest of detectives who are chasing a gang of scoundrels who prey on innocent girls. Adapted from the novel "Kegareta Hankachi".
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-02
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A Sparkle of Life
Overview: Lonely after the death of her husband, whom she nursed for years, Tae decides to find a new life partner. Her family and friends try to dissuade her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-16
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Juvenile Wife
Overview: A newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at his credit company out of a large sum of money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-26
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Valley of Dreams
Overview: A laid-off designer returns to her home town after five years away.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-12
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A World Without Cherry Blossoms
Overview: Saki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-01
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Yudo: The Way of the Bath
Overview: Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage to their late father; the other—a struggling architect—as lucrative real estate for condos. Their eclectic collection of townsfolk customers show them the value of the bath goes way beyond a scrub and soak.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-23
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Riding the Metro
Overview: Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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A Heartful of Love
Overview: Hiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. He encounters Kazumi, a young woman who was gravely ill. Hiroshi regarded this as an opportunity to help the young woman from his past, the memory of whom he had always cherished.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-08
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Free and Easy 15
Overview: Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-08-21
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O-higara mo yoku, go-shusho sama
Overview: While Kazuo Tanaka eagerly practices his greetings for the big wedding the next day, his first as a matchmaker, his second daughter Hitomi prepares for her travels with her secret lover. The eldest daughter Reiko, nine months pregnant, has left her cheating husband to enter a frenzied Tanaka household. On the wedding day, Kazuo learns his father has passed away. Afraid of ruining the wedding, he asks Reiko and Hitomi to deal with the crisis. Rushing home after the ceremony, Kazuo and Kanako are faced with various problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-02-24
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Tokyo Family
Overview: An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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Glory to the Filmmaker!
Overview: Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-02
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Black Strait
Overview: Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of the past are not so easily broken and Maki is soon ordered to kill again.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Diamonds in the Sand
Overview: Yoji, a divorced and demoted Japanese man, chooses to head to Manila, believing that nobody is lonely in the Philippines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-30
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When Marnie Was There
Overview: Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
Genres: Animation Drama Family Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-19
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Time Never Stops
Overview: A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and a family that escaped the disaster. The film depicts the collapse and rebirth of two families whose children were supposed to marry each other. A moving drama written by Yamada Taichi and starring Nakai Kiichi, Kuroki Meisa and Kamiki Ryunosuke.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-22
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The Sleeping Beast Within
Overview: When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequences.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-09
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The Age of Our Own
Overview: Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named Wilson. Whenever Wilson comes, Yasuo spends his time in the tea-shop "La Gana." Yasuo is asked by his brother Shigeru to teach French to Akiko, a young girl who is studying French songs. Yasuo then learns that he is the winner of an essay contest and will be offered a scholarship to study in France. Akiko, is now pregnant and Yasuo promises to break with Yuriko.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-25
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Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
Overview: A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and sorrows she experiences there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-19
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Oriume
Overview: About a family shouldering an unexpected responsibility when Alzheimer's disease strikes their grandmother. The superb cast portrays this serious and realistic situation with heart-warming compassion, stressing the importance of empathizing with the victims of this difficult disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-03-16
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CF Guretai
Overview: Soutaro Nagare is an assistant at a commercial film production company. However, one day at the studio, he punches a cameraman and gets fired. Taking this as an opportunity, Soutaro decided to become a director, and with a book about commercial films he had produced during his university days in hand, he began visiting various companies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-05
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Cyborg She
Overview: A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-31
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Emergency Special! I saw a Paranormal Phenomenon!!
Overview: Horror TV-Special broadcast at the 27th September, 1991.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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How Sorrowful
Overview: The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-07
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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
Overview: TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-06-11
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Premonition
Overview: While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five-year-old daughter Nana in the obituary section.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-02
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The Little House
Overview: Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-25
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Hold Me and Kiss Me
Overview: Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-14
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The Book Peddler
Overview: Suzume Akamatsu works at a library in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. She delivers books by riding a bicycle. Through her work, Suzume grows as a person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-02
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The Seven Chefs
Overview: Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must complete the training of Wataru — the apprentice chosen by his late teacher to become the next master chef — in the art of culinary excellence and running a successful business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-01-15
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What a Wonderful Family! 2
Overview: Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing. Soon, a new disturbance arises for the Hirata family. Veteran director Yamada Yoji continues his comedy about the “perfect“ Japanese family turned upside down in chaos, laughters and understanding. This time, with an additional taste of death.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-20
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Amagi Pass
Overview: Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, was visited by a retired policeman who came from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself.
Genres: Crime Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-19
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The Song of Love
Overview: Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-30
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I Hear the Whistle
Overview: Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-24
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Overview: In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into the night, Atsuya sees a letter in the mailbox. The letter is addressed to the Namiya General Store and the letter was written by someone to consult about worries. Incredibly, the letter was written 32 years ago. The mailbox is somehow connected to the year 1980. Atsuya and his friends decide to write a reply and place their letter in the mailbox.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-09-23
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Going Home
Overview: Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight years. Miyuki is back in town with her daughter Chiharu, after leaving a failed marriage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-26
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The Days of No Return
Overview: The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-09
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It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
Overview: A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-15
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Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
Overview: Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical creatures live alongside humans. Akiko is a cheerful publishing assistant who moves into town after marrying Masakazu, a popular mystery writer. Akiko is surprised by the unusual town but enjoys the new curiosities surrounding her. However, just as she was beginning to settle in, a trifling incident sweeps her spirit to the underworld too soon. Convinced that destiny has something else in store for his wife, Masakazu journeys into the underworld to bring back Akiko’s spirit.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-09
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Chase That Man
Overview: The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-23
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What a Wonderful Family! 3
Overview: At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-25
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What a Wonderful Family!
Overview: A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-16
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MacArthur's Children—Part II
Overview: A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed. Two friends meet and decide to look for the beautiful girl with whom they went to school as children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-01-24
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The Forest of Wool and Steel
Overview: High school student Naoki Tomura grew up in a remote area in Hokkaido. He meets piano tuner Soichiro Itadori in school and eventually decides to work at Itadori’s musical instrument store. Tomura gradually grows as a piano tuner through his interactions with the other tuners and musician clients
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-08
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
Overview: The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours Edo's underground via a rousing onsen fight scene, gambling houses and the gender-bending character of Umeji, before a final, flame-filled conflagration.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-12
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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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Lily Festival
Overview: Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses seven elderly women. The film examines the ladies' sexual desires as the man proceeds to woo each of them. Kazuko Yoshiyuki portrays one of the female residents. The film was adapted from a novel by Houko Momotani and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-26
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In the Cellar
Overview: The mysterious relationship between a breast-sick sister who lives in a warehouse and the younger brother who longs for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-03
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The Armed Organization
Overview: Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-10
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A Killer Without a Grave
Overview: Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that he knows he won't be able to afford, a former marksman-turned-bad, Ishioka approaches him. Ishioka is looking for an unaffiliated hit-man who is willing to handle some business. Nakata is just the right man for the job.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-11
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House of Sleeping Beauties
Overview: About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-14
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Snowland Revisited
Overview: Kunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets Geisha Moeko, and she gives him power to face life one more time...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-19
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Sosuke Loses His Lover
Overview: Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-02
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Makeup
Overview: 1987film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-25
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The Street of Desire
Overview: A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-14
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A Japanese Demon
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Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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Saijo katagi
Overview: Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-15
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Journey
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-12
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One Who Died in Vain
Overview: After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-19
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The Rite of Loss
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Genres: Crime Adventure Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-30
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Jungle Block
Overview: A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-15
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Shutsugeki
Overview: An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo was taken by Minoru Yokoyama from “Asakusa no Toko Odoriko Monogatari”
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-04
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Gold Woman
Overview: A female career banker shatters the glass ceiling of a mega bank by disclosing its shady business to light. Tamaki, the Gold Woman, has worked her way up to be appointed General Manager of the office regarded as the General Staff Headquar- ters of the Bank with an assignment to liquidate its subsidiary by laying off 200 employees in total. Such mentally challenging appointment was made via recommendation by her senior colleague Mai, a smart and foxy woman running ahead of Tamaki in her career. With the help of her male colleague, Tamaki, a lone female wolf dares to challenge the all-male executives to prove what a true business person is all about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-28
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Yoshiko & Yuriko
Overview: Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who was a renowned translator of Russian literature and drama, and Yuriko, who was a feminist novelist and great activist of the post-war democratic literature movement. Both have left huge marks on Japanese literary history. The two women shared a strong attraction to each other from their first meeting and enjoyed a powerful love affair. Yoshiko reveals that she's an out lesbian, whilst Yuriko is married (not altogether happily) to a well-known scholar - a situation she can't walk away from with ease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-07
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Immoral Affairs
Overview: Immoral Affairs (Fukigen na kajitsu) is a Japanese film made in 1997 and directed by Katsuo Naruse.It centers on two characters: Mayako, played by Kaho Minami, a young women who is not content with her husband and begins to have many affairs with other men, and Kiriko Okabe, played by Isako Washio, a woman whom she befriends. Mayako's husband is played by Jinpachi Nezu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-18
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Heaven Sent
Overview: Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a six-year-old child at their door, claiming that Shinsaku—or four other men—is the child's father! Sayoko and Shinsaku set out on a journey to find the real father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-28
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The Landlady
Overview: Looks back 20 years into the past of an elderly woman who died of heatstroke and paints a picture of a solitary woman's genuine despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-18
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Oración
Overview: Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or "prayer". When Oracion is grown, a factory owner buys the horse. Will he be the key to solving the man's problems? Based on the novel by Teru Miyamoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-23
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The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
Overview: A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-12
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That Guy and I
Overview: Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-10
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Translucent Tree
Overview: Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 3
Overview: The third work of the popular series depicting the famous detective Kyosuke Kozu. Blind musician Ryoichi Kashiwagi died of a heart attack. His father, Shigeyuki , is already bedridden and has billions of Japanese yen in assets. Ryoichi's wife Yukiyo and Ryoichi's younger sister Tsuruko have a dispute over these assets. Newspaper reporter Matsushita, who met Ryoichi just before his death, was interviewed, and was told that there was something unnatural about Ryoichi's cause of death. Soon, Tsuruko died mysteriously. Matsushita decides to have Kyosuke Kozu, a university professor and a famous detective, solve the case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-09-07
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Cinematic Liars of Asahi-za
Overview: Movie theater Asahiza has existed for almost a 100 years in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture. Unlike other theaters, Asahiza plays old films and doesn't get a lot of customers. The manger of Asahiza, Yasuzo Morita, finally decides to close down the theater. When he is about to burn the old 35 mm films, a young woman named Rika Motegi suddenly appears and tries to stop him. Rika Motegi came to Minamisoma from Tokyo to save Asahiza.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-10
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Witness Chair
Overview: Murder case and trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-15
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
Overview: A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-02
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Photograph of Memories
Overview: A frustrated young woman returns from Tokyo to her hometown in Toyama where she meets an old woman who lives alone. There she slowly finds purpose in life by taking "photographs" that spin memories instead of ghosts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-29
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Kiri ni Kieta Hito
Overview: The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-21
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Sea of Wonders
Overview: A photographer is lost in a storm and washes up on an isolated island, where he meets a vampire woman and falls in love with her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-03
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Abare chōhan
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-07
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Making of "Departures"
Overview: A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-11
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Brighter Days
Overview: Saho Takahashi, capable but a disillusioned nurse, has lost all motivation for her job working at Sumidaku Sakuraoka General Hospital. She seeks solace in the company of her bed-ridden patient, former Honorary Head Nurse, Sae Yukino. As she opens up about her despair, a sudden earthquake sends Saho into the depths of a strange, unfamiliar jungle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-09
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Long Wedding Road! Tokyo vs. Osaka Wakeari Kon Monogatari
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-30
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