Mitsunori Isaki
Also Known As: 伊嵜充則
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: March 17, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Chuushingura Sono Gi Sono Ai
Overview: Chuushingura from the perspective of Horibe Yasubee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-02
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Rhapsody in August
Overview: The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-25
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Dreams
Overview: A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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Howl's Moving Castle
Overview: Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-09
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Who's Camus Anyway?
Overview: A group of eccentric students decide to make a movie. But, when their star suddenly quits, this witty ensemble cast begins to live the film, including murder, deception and true love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-03
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Making of 'Dreams'
Overview: This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-02
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Love and the Grand Tug-of-war
Overview: Following the 2009 financial crash, Waseda University graduate Takeshi lost his job in Tokyo and retreated to his family home in Sendai. While he resumed his role as heir to the family construction company with a diligent attitude, his hidebound father resents that his son left and that at the age of 35 Takeshi is still single. However, wider events will force father and son to overcome their differences as the Otsunahiki, a great tug-of-war featuring thousands of participants, will pull them together in a family tradition just as Takeshi meets Jiheyun, a beautiful Korean doctor on an exchange programme... The ties of family bind people tightly as characters struggle with the push of their own ambitious urges and the pull of family commitments but the Otsunahiki ropes things together in a family drama rich with events and the culture of Sendai, that will tug and the heartstrings of viewers whilst providing to the desire to visit the beautiful and storied region.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Sea Without Exit
Overview: Koji Namiki is a young pitcher who has shown great promise on the diamond by winning the National High School Basketball Championships. Shortly after entering college, however, Namiki's athletic career is called into question after he suffers a severe elbow injury. But despite a disheartening diagnosis, Namiki is determined to make a comeback. With a little help from his teammates it appears that he is getting back on track, too. Recently, he's even developed a new slow ball that he and his teammates have christened "the magic pitch". Fate can be a cruel mistress though, and when World War II breaks out Namiki the entire team join the navy and begin a training regiment specifically designed to prepare them for the ultimate darkness, an submarine attack method also known as "The Human Torpedo".
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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Orange Lamp
Overview: Tanno Tomofumi, diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's at the age of 39, Orange Lamp followed a married couple's nine years after realizing that life has no reason to surrender to an disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-30
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Secret Waltz
Overview: Akira Nobi directs this violent two-fisted tale about a pair of abandoned sibling teens who fall into a web of yakuza intrigue. The film opens with young, pretty Maki (Natsuo Ishido) luring a drunken salariman into a parking lot only to be mugged by Maki's brother, Shinji (played by former child star Mitsunori Isaki). Unfortunately, the drunk proves to be no ordinary working stiff, but a gangster who takes a dim view of petty crime.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-23
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The Winds of God
Overview: Two Osaka comedians, Makoto (Tomomitsu Yamaguchi) and Kinta (Go Morita), are riding bicycles in Tokyo when they're hit by a dump truck. They regain consciousness in 1945, but not of their own bodies. Somehow, their souls have been transported into the bodies of two tokkotai (special forces, or "kamikaze") pilots. Having grown up in a peaceful, carefree Japan, the two comedians experience severe disorientation at having to suddenly deal with the realities of war. They attempt to escape their squadron, knowing that Japan will eventually lose the war, but are nevertheless moved by the young men they meet, all of whom have very different opinions about their fate and the responsibilities that have been placed upon them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-10
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Nadeshiko Tai
Overview: The story is set in Chiran, Kagoshima, the site of a secret base used to launch kamikaze missions during the war. At the time, a group of young girls known as the Nadeshiko Tai were gathered to help out at the base. The drama will be part documentary and it is based on the experiences of 78-year-old Shoko Nagasaki, a survivor of the Nadeshiko Tai.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-20
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Yunagi City, Sakura Country
Overview: Thirteen years afterward, I wonder if those who bombed Hiroshima are looking at me and saying: 'We did it! We were able to kill another person!' They should be," murmurs Minami (played by Kumiko Aso), one of the two leading female characters in Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni, as she lies dying in 1958, her life brought to a premature end by sickness resulting from her exposure to atomic bomb radiation. This is a story about those who at least initially survived the first U.S. atomic bombing of 1945 and their descendants in contemporary times. The film, based on a comic by Fumiyo Kono, jumps between the two time frames and quietly depicts the sorrow and mortification experienced through the everyday lives of laid-back and soft-spoken Hiroshima people. Only a few scenes of the bombing and the ensuing devastation are featured.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-28
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The Yen Family
Overview: Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together to accumulate a small amount of money, while mixing irony and satire.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-14
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Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
Overview: Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is transferred from Aizu Wakamatsu City to Naraho Town to take over the Disaster PR Division. Murai takes Kokuhei around Fukushima including areas washed away by the tsunami. They examine the still incomplete railway lines, the unfinished decontamination area and villages in the danger zone, where deadly cesium continues to pile up. One day Kokuhei is told to organize a party to celebrate the professor who has been appointed as deputy director of the Atomic Energy Research Institute.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-09
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Setagaya-ku, 39-chome
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-08
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Gunjōiro no, tōrimichi
Overview: A man, who moved to Tokyo to become a musician, returns to his hometown for the first time in 10 years. He sees the beautiful scenery of his childhood years and the kind people who supports him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-07-11
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A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Overview: A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salaryman with whom she begins a furtive romance...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-17
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Oda Nobunaga
Overview: The show follows the early years of Japanese warlord hero Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century. As a young man Oda was not seen as the right heir to the Oda clan, but through a masterful political marriage arranged by his father, Oda Nobunaga not only gained influence, he also became the Daimyo who joined the three imperial counties to unite Japan.
Genres: TV Movie Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-03-25
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