Aya Ueto
Also Known As: Ueto Aya, 우에토 아야, 上戶彩, আয়া উয়েটো, Ая Уето, Айя Уето, Уето Айя, ایا اوئتو, اويتو ايا, أويتو أيا, Ая Уэто
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: September 14, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Azumi
Overview: In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ultimate assassin.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-10
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Azumi 2: Death or Love
Overview: Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance with former friend Nachi.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-12
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Koto
Overview: Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic TV movie revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers the true facets of her past. With the harmony and time-honored customs of a Japanese backdrop, the story becomes poignant as Chieko’s longing and confusion develops.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-05
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Baton
Overview: Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel, human-like robot Apollo (Ichihara Hayato, Rookies) and robot-like human Mikaru (Ueto Aya, Azumi) come upon a stowaway robot with a mysterious "Cipher" chip. Not knowing Cipher's powers, Apollo takes the chip for fun, throwing both him and Mikaru headfirst into a mind-boggling mystery that affects the past, present, and future.
Genres: Action Animation Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-04-28
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Install
Overview: High school student Asako moves all of her belongings to the refuse area of her apartment complex and stops attending school. Kazuyoshi, a precocious young boy, invites her to join him in an online chatroom venture where she assumes the identity of a married temptress named "Miyabi".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Hitoribocchi - Hito to Hito wo Tsunagu Ai no Monogatari
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-04-09
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Surely Someday
Overview: Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's upcoming festival. When the festival is abruptly concealed, they come up with a dimwitted strategy of faking a bomb threat to the school in order to force the principal to change his mind. Their plan seems to work at first, but when a real bomb goes off, the group is forced to take responsibility for the explosion and they are kicked out of school. Three years later, more details of the incident is revealed as the youth look back on the past.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-17
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Ri Kôran
Overview: Tells the story of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, a Japanese woman born and raised in China during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. She debuts as the Chinese singer and actress Li Xianglan (Ri Kouran in Japanese), in the hopes that her efforts will work towards the benefit of both Japan and China. Hiding her true nationality, however, she slowly discovers herself becoming a puppet of the Japanese military's propaganda efforts in Manchuria, starring in "national policy" films that humiliate the Chinese people. But billed as the "star of Greater East Asia," her popularity soars across borders to Japan, where she holds a concert that draws thousands to the Nihon Gekijou Theatre and leads to a riot that injures several people. Based on her autobiography, this is the story of her personal struggle amidst military strife between her two homelands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-11
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The Piano Forest
Overview: Amamiya Shu transfers to Moriwaki elementary filled with hope and ambition. But it doesn't take long before he gets picked on by the class bullies, and gets involved in a dare to play the mysterious piano in the forest.
Genres: Music Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-21
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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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UETO AYA BEST LIVE TOUR 2007 Never Ever
Overview: Live DVD release from Aya Ueto includes footage of her "Best Live Tour 2007 Never Ever" tour recorded live at her September 1, 2007 tour finale at Zepp Osaka.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-05
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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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Ai wa mieru: Zenmô fûfu ni yadotta chiisana inochi
Overview: Ueto Aya's is Juri Tatematsu. She's blind like her husband. They give birth to a child, despite fears and opposition from their parents. Raising the child, Juri keeps pushing herself towards her dream of becoming a professional musician. She made her dream come true.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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The Silent Service
Overview: Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and the United States in top secret. However, he and his 76 crew members go rogue in this story that delves into themes of nuclear war, international politics, and world peace.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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I Will Fly to the Sky on a Wheelchair
Overview: (I will Soar to the Skies in my Wheelchair ) Hasebe Yasuyuki is living his life carelessly alone in his apartment, until one day, he jumps from the top of a building escaping a street gang and injures his spinal cord. And the doctor tells him that he can't walk anymore. His mother, Haruko, hurries to the hospital for her son, however Yasuyuki is on bad terms with her, so he asks her to leave him alone. There he meets an ill kid in the hospital named Ishii Daisuke who is living his life positively, and the store staff Katou Kumi, who always smiles even though she had a sad past. He gains confidence and decides to start his rehabilitation. After Yasuyuki is discharged from the hospital, he starts relying on everybody everywhere, so he falls into despair and starts thinking of committing suicide seeing no future for himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-25
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A Tale of Samurai Cooking
Overview: In this love story set in the Edo period, 27-year-old Oharu is a genius in the kitchen. Oharu attracts the attention of the master chef of the Kaga Domain, who arranges for her to marry his son and heir, 24-year-old Yasunobu. But, Yasunobu is cold to his new wife, and he's more interested in swordplay than cookery.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-14
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Oshin
Overview: A young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family, because of her own family's financial condition. Nevertheless, the young girl lives strongly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-12
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Shylock's Children
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Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-17
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The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
Overview: Remake of a hit film from 1990, "The Cherry Orchard" which Nakahara himself directed, based on a popular comic book from Akimi Yoshida. The story takes place at a prestigious girls high school where everyone is oppressed with rules. One girl who just transferred to this school finds a long lost script of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" which was banned from school 11 years ago. Breaking strict school rules and boundaries, she and her friends decide to perform the play. With sentiment, love and passion, the girls cherish the moment of their life before taking the next step towards adulthood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-08
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UETO AYA LIVE TOUR 2005 "Genki Hatsuratsuu"?
Overview: Concert film featuring Ueto Aya's live tour "Genki Hatsuratsuu" held in Tokyo on August 29, 2005.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-29
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Thermae Romae II
Overview: In ancient Rome, bathhouse architect Lucius (Hiroshi Abe) becomes famous with designing the original "thermae" (bathhouse). He receives an order to build a thermae in the colosseum to help gladiators recover from their wounds, but faces difficulties. Thus, Lucius travels again to modern day Japan through the time slip. He meets Manami (Aya Ueto) again, who is now a reporter for a magazine which covers bathroom. With the help of the flat face Japanese tribe, Lucius again designs a new thermae. Meanwhile, Emperor Hadrian (Masachika Ichimura) wants to keep the peace with the thermae, but the Senate wants to extend the land by using force. Emperor Hadrian and the Senate now have a confrontation and Rome becomes divided.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-26
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金子みすゞ物語〜みんなちがってみんないい〜
Overview: This drama is about the life of Japan's infamous poet, Kaneko Misuzu. It begins with her as a young girl in the Taisho era, and tells of her life as she becomes a woman, a wife and then a mother. It touches on Misuzu's relationship with her brother, and how she dealt with the death of a dear friend and her husband's unemployment and subsequent illness. Kaneko Misuzu committed suicide at the age of 26, closing the chapter on one of Japan's most prolific poet of all times.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-07-09
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Let's Go! Anpanman: Baikinman and Lulun
Overview: One day, Baikinman finds a picture book, hears a voice calling for help from inside the book, and is sucked into the book, where he meets the forest fairy Lulun. Lulun, who is too scared to muster up the courage, asks her to defeat the "Sucking Elephant" that is rampaging in the forest. Although Lulun is reluctant at first, she gains courage when she sees Baikinman standing up to Suitoruzo, but she is forced to struggle against Suitoruzo's strength. In a desperate situation, Baikinman tells Lulun to call Anpanman, but...
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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Hirugao
Overview: Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet again and their love story continue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-10
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Case Closed: Zero the Enforcer
Overview: After a sudden explosion at Edge of Ocean island in Tokyo, Tōru Amuro, codename Zero, begins to investigate. Meanwhile, private eye Kogorō is arrested as a suspect, so Conan Edogawa conducts his own investigation to prove his innocence, but Amuro stands in his way.
Genres: Animation Crime Mystery Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-13
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Song of the Canefields
Overview: Hirayama Koichi and his wife Michiko eloped from Osaka to Okinawa, where they lived happily with their five children. When war erupts, their eldest son is drafted into the Imperial army. As fighting spreads, the family takes refuge far from the city, but soon, child after child is drafted to serve in various branches of the military and in organizations supporting the war cause. Koichi himself is faced with a moral dilemma when he is ordered to kill a wounded American soldier.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-28
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The Killers from Paraiso
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-05-14
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UETO AYA FIRST LIVE TOUR Pureness 2003
Overview: Concert film Ueto Aya's first live tour at Zepp Tokyo on May 25, 2003.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-25
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Tomorrow I'll be Lively ~Half Sweet Potato~
Overview: The story is about a 5-year-old girl who lived in just after World War II when people were struggle for survival.
Genres: Animation Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-02
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ミッドナイト・ジャーナル 消えた誘拐犯を追え
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-30
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