Aya Sugimoto
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Biography: Aya Sugimoto (July 19, 1968 -) is a Japanese TV personality, actress, dancer and author born in Kyoto. She also had a mildly successful J-pop career in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aya Sugimoto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto, Japan
Birthday: July 19, 1968
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Gender: Female
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Ghost Train
Overview: On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, Nana's younger sister is lost, and the only possibility seems to be that she had been taken by these spirits. The missing tracks. The predictions that a mysterious woman makes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-30
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Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet
Overview: When he returns to Earth to attend the wedding of his friend in Saipan, Musashi meets a beautiful girl named Shau who claims to come from the bottom of the sea. Just then, Monster Scorpis reappears in the sky above the island and Musashi faces the monster in order to protect the girl. What is the girl's true form? And what is the strange shadowy form that follows the monster Scorpis?
Genres: Action Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-03
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Angel of Massacre: There is a Demon in the Video
Overview: A group of young people are attacked by a tragedy from a video that a young man borrowed from a rental video shop. The horrific scenes from the video become a reality for the young man and his friends. The elite staff of director Shunji Iwai have gathered to create an entirely new psycho-horror movie that is finally born here.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-07-21
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Jam Films 2
Overview: Jam Films 2 features 4 short films by different Japanese directors.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-24
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Beautiful Lure: A Modern Tale of Painted Skin
Overview: With both beauty and wit, Maiko looks for a man who suits her. One night, she finds Taro, a candidate for the prime minister. Everything goes well as she plans, but he finds out she's actually a "youma" who destroys the country. What's their destiny?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-14
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Flower & Snake
Overview: The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to the lecherous old man figuring a 90 year old can’t do too much bad with her. Perhaps not, but others can while he watches. She’s put on stage in an underground BDSM sex show and begins a spiraling decent from strongly independent woman to submissive sex slave
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-13
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Flower & Snake II
Overview: The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. His primary source of gratification involves observing his wife in sadomasochistic scenarios so he commissions a painter, skilled in the arts of bondage to bring these fantasies to life. Soon, Shiziko becomes a willing and submissive participant in fulfilling the S&M fantasies of not only her husband but a slew of rich lecherous men.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-14
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Blood
Overview: Police Detective Hoshino (Kanji Tsuda) investigates the murder of a maid at a mansion belonging to Miyako Rozmberk (Sugimoto), a seductive vampire mistress and "cougar" all in one. Ukyo Kuronuma (Jun Kaname), an Edo-era swordsman who was turned into a vampire by Miyako is fingered for the crime but before anything can be done about it Hoshino ends up under Miyako's spell as well. This leads Hoshino and Ukyo to battle one another for the privilege of staying with Miyako for eternity.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-04-29
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A New Love in Tokyo
Overview: A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an amateur theatre company along with the receptionist from Ayumi's escort service, while Ayumi is living with her student-boyfriend as he struggles to finally get accepted to college.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-12-17
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Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Eternal
Overview: Set primarily before the events of Kamen Rider W Forever, Kamen Rider Eternal tells the story of Daido Katsumi, the formation of NEVER, the mission that led them to target Fuuto, and reveals just how Daido obtained his Lost Driver and got his first taste of the power of Kamen Rider Eternal. As a mysterious woman retells this story to Phillip and Shotaro, they realize that Daido may not have been the simple monster he first appeared to be…
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-21
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Chūzai keiji SP 2017
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Shodo Kyouju
Overview: Kamikawa Katsuji, a bank employee, is married to Yasuko, the daughter of a rich family and lives an ordinary married life. But he keeps a lover, Kamiya Ayako, a nightclub hostess, behind his wife’s back and is mired in a web of lust. His life takes mysterious turns after becoming Katsumura Hisako’s disciple. The beautiful and elegant Hisako, a calligraphy instructor, possesses the special ability to tell the fortune of people by looking at their calligraphic styles.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-03-23
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The Donor
Overview: Set in a hospital conducting live experiments, this is a science horror story. At a maternity hospital, a series of gruesome incidents occur where the uterus and ovaries are taken from the human body. Nurse Tomoka investigates the mystery surrounding these events...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-20
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Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio
Overview: With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in the underworld.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-14
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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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Be My Slave
Overview: Dan Mitsu stars as Kana, a female employee at a publishing company who strikes up a sexual relationship with a younger co-worker. He soon discovers that Kana's fetishes extend to sadomasochistic tendencies, involving a mysterious man only known as "Sensei". This discovery will push his relationship with Kana to a new, dangerous level that he may not be ready for.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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LoveDeath
Overview: A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A violent man holding pure love, Sai and a stunningly beautiful playgirl, Sheila. While Sheila flees with a large sum of money, she is chased by a cool but violent gang, crazy killers and an out of control cop. No one can stop Sai and Sheila's love runaway.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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The Sword of Alexander
Overview: Orichalcum is a mystical metal material that gives great powers to the life form that possesses it. Many Eons ago, the Orichalcum was split into three and landed on Earth. The metal then took the form of three relics: Skanda’s Vajra, Jew’s Cross, and the Sword of Alexander. Anyone able to re-unite these three Orichalcum relics would then obtain the powers of a God. Now two rival aliens are in a heated race to reunite the Orichalcum. They land in Edo era Tokyo where the relics are thought to exist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-07
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Johnen: Love of Sada
Overview: When photographer Ishida first sees Sada, the wife of a new acquaintance, his photo shoot with Sada turns quickly into a steamy affair of mind-blowing proportions
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-31
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009-1: The End of the Beginning
Overview: In a universe where the Cold War never ended and growing conflicts result in the rapid advancement of technological warfare, the cyborg spy Mylene Hoffman of the 00 Organization battles the agents of the Eastern block in a game of high tech espionage.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-07
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Good Luck My Venus
Overview: A young woman competes with a goddess come to earth for her man's heart.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Hakuro no Shibijin
Overview: The wife of a famous resident of Kamakura awakens to carnal passion . . . And when her blood cools down it's because she's been murdered!
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-26
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Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema
Overview: Documentary on one of the most famous branches of Japanese filmmaking, the erotic Pink film genre, known as Pinku Eiga, and the closely related Roman Porno cult films series produced by notorious Nikkatsu studios from 1971 to 1988.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Forever with You
Overview: In a room with only a bed, Shizumi's left hand was somehow fixed to the bed by handcuffs and chains. "Who is this man?", "Why am I sleeping like this?" Shizumi who woke up with a terrible headache started to recall the memory from last light...
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-24
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Yagyu Jubei: The Fate of the World
Overview: The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover what happened to 10 of the shogun’s spies that never returned. Matsukata Hiroki, one of the last surviving members of the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema proves that he has not lost a step as he portrays an older and wiser Yagyu Jubei in a movie that brings the best of samurai filmmaking into the 21st century. Summoned from semi-retirement by Shogun Iemitsu, Jubei is asked to take to the road and investigate a clan rumored to be preparing explosives for a rebellion. With help from a beautiful female ninja they head into the Shirakawa domain where the fighting skills of both are tested time and again as they strive to destroy a conspiracy that could bring a new Warring States Era. In the 1960's Yagyu Jubei was the signature role of the great Konoe Jushiro, father of Matsukata Hiroki. This brings the character full circle.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-25
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Yakuza Ladies: Burning Desire
Overview: Tamaki's (Iwashita) husband is the head of the Idei clan, based in southern Osaka. As the film opens, punch-permed lieutenant Ginji (Riki Takeuchi) is killed while pumping iron. Following the hit, rumors and recriminations abound, slowly corroding the clan's cohesion. Ginji, it turns out, was mired in debt. After Ginji borrowed a small fortune to build a luxury resort, his bank went belly up and stopped financing the loan. Frantic for funds, he decided as a last resort to rat out his boss who had skimmed five-billion yen from the gang. Soon everyone assumes that Idei did the hit. Convinced that Idei is being framed, Tamaki sets out to find the real killer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-26
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Welcome to the Vampire Onsen
Overview: Kyuketsu Onsen e Yokoso (吸血温泉へようこそ kyuuketsu onsen e youkoso, translated as Welcome to the blood-sucking hot spring) alternatively known as Kyuketsu Onsen ni Yokoso (吸血温泉にようこそ kyuuketsu onsen ni youkoso) is a Japanese direct-to-video horror-erotic film released in 1997 by the Japanese studio known as Museum. It is based in an original story by Go Nagai. A little after the release of the film, a manga version was also released in the magazine Comic Bazooka by Tatsumishuppan, from May 1997 to August 1997, and later released in a single tankōbon in 1997-10-25 by Mediax in the line MD Comics. The manga was later published in the compilation tankōbon Kireta Ito: Nagai Go Jisen Sakuhin shu published by Kadokawa Shoten in 2001. The film features famous Japanese celebrity Aya Sugimoto in the role of the landlady of the onsen and the main vampire woman, ex-idol singer Yuka Onishi of Sukeban Deka III fame, and AV idol Ryo Hitomi.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-04-21
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Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
Overview: 2004 film
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-08-22
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Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna: Warriors of the Star of Light
Overview: The members of the Super GUTS force, one of whom is secretly Ultraman Dyna, are in the middle of a losing battle against an enormous monster on the surface of the moon, when suddenly a spaceship appears and saves them by zapping the beast. The crew of the ship claim to members of the world peace force that originally created the Super GUTS force, and they invite the GUTS members to enter their brainwave patterns into the ship's battle computer so it can be a more effective fighting system. It sounds like a good idea, but could they have some other plan up their sleeves?
Genres: Action Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-03-14
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Prisoner Maria II
Overview: Maria is prisoner No. 206, serving a life sentence for murder. But she goes out from the prison as a hitwoman, because the government secretly uses her special skills to assassinate criminals that are beyond the reach of the law. Her next target is a man called Michael, who has been murdering Japanese women. He is the son of an ambassador...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-24
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Anmitsu Hime 2
Overview: The second Anmitsu Hime TV-movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-11
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Bomber Bikers of Shonan
Overview: Based on the popular comic, “Shonan Bakusozoku” illustrates the lives of high school bike fanatics.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-25
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The Lioness
Overview: A yakuza movie that depicts a heroine who inherited her husband's will and took the name of the group leader, standing up to put an end to the conflict
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-29
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Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate
Overview: Intercepting the transport carrying Foundation X’s new 2nd generation Gaia Memories, the special-ops unit NEVER, led by Daido Katsumi, intend to turn Fuuto into Hell on Earth. With Daido wielding the T2 Eternal Memory and a Lost Driver, granting him power in the form of Kamen Rider Eternal, Fuuto’s Kamen Riders are left powerless as Daido and his allies take control of Fuuto Tower, converting it into a massive laser weapon…
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-07
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Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet - Young Musashi Chapter
Overview: An alternate version of Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet, which was created due to the arrest of the film's star, Taiyo Sugiura. New scenes were filmed that are primarily set in the past. Musashi Haruno, now a middle school student, continues to pursue his dream to become an astronaut, which is also a promise he made with Cosmos. However, he is on the verge of despair because space development gets canceled due to a rocket accident. A mysterious girl named Shau appears in front of Musashi. She invites him to a mysterious parallel space and shows him a vision of what will happen to him 10 years from now. He witnessed a crisis of Earth's destruction caused by Sandros, the worst destroyer in the universe!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-09-07
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Trapped Ashes
Overview: Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-12
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