Zeeko Uchiyama
Also Known As: ジーコ うちやま, ジーコ 内山, さそり監督, 男はくらいよ監督さそり, Ziko Uchiyama, Zico Uchiyama
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Taito, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: February 27, 1963
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Eel
Overview: A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-12
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Charisma
Overview: A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-10
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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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Blue Hearts
Overview: Tetsu Umekawa is a member of a motorcycle gang in Oita, who spends his time playing thinner with his delinquent friends and bullying the top students. With his natural good sense of timing, he rises through the ranks of the bikers and starts dating a beautiful girl, but this is short-lived, as one setback after another hits him. Disgusted with his hometown, Tetsu moves to Tokyo in a fit of pique. He moves in with his brother, a successful professional boxer. However, he rebels against his brother, who leads a stoic life in order to keep winning, and ends up becoming a henchman of the yakuza. Tetsu leads a lazy life, but then he learns that his brother has died during a match...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Lickerish Stranger
Overview: Nagisa is living together with handsome college professor, Kotaro.However, lately Kotaro has been particularly violent towards Nagisa during sex, even going so far as to hurt her. One day, Etsuko, a woman claiming to be Kotaro’s sister, appears at their house.Etsuko asks to stay with them for a while, however Nagisa is not convinced that she is really his sister because she is so sloppy and unlike Kotaro. It also bothers her that the two often go off to talk in secret. Nagisa later finds out that Etsuko has been secretly watching her and Kotaro having sex while masturbating.She asks Kotaro to kick Etsuko out, but he refuses to listen, and Etsuko’s antics become more and more intense. Eventually, Nagisa finds out that she is pregnant. With this new development, Nagisa thinks that she can marry Kotaro and finally be able kick Etsuko out. Little does she know, this will be the beginning of her confinement…
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-10
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Atlanta Boogie
Overview: "Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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The Toxic Avenger Part II
Overview: Melvin Junko was a nerdy weakling until he fell into a vat of toxic waste, turning him into the first ever superhuman creature from New Jersey. This time, he takes on Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-15
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Soft Skin
Overview: Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-31
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In a Thicket
Overview: Sato's re-imagining of In a Grove, on which Rashomon was based. In this version, instead of a web of lies and agendas, we get a web of desires, perversions like incest, and occult phenomenon like an oracle-demon, hallucinations, and human sacrifice. Once again, the story starts with a detective trying to unravel the story of a man and a woman encountering a bandit-rapist in the woods, but the real story keeps turning out to be unfathomable as layer upon layer of strange motives and events keep turning up.
Genres: Mystery Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-18
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The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit
Overview: When heads of state gather at the G8 summit in Japan, Guilala -- the intergalactic monster that had been banished from the earth in The X from Outer Space -- returns to ravage the Japanese countryside and threaten the world leaders. Military strikes prove futile against the beast, but a reporter learns that one rural community possesses a strange ritual that might influence the creature. Minoru Kawasaki directs this campy satire.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-26
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Toyomaru's 'I'll Go Crazy No Matter How Many Times'
Overview: Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-02-04
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Miniskirt Special Investigation Team L.E.G.S.
Overview: This is an excellent example of the sort of lunacy that makes people want to import low-budget Japanese movies of this sort. Pretty girls. Silly hijinks. Insane action for the budget.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-31
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Ballads
Overview: The story of a young man who tragically lost his lover in a horriffic motorcycle accident. Now working at a video store and selling uncensored gay hardcore pornography under the counter, he one day discovers the worlds most bizarre snuff video... which happens to "star" a man who looks exactly like his dead lover. Pushed over the edge by this event, the protagonist goes on a violent rampage, attempting to murder everybody involved in the video's creation.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-04-29
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Ja-on
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Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-03
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Ninja Vixens: Web of Passion
Overview: In this arousing adventure of super ninja skill, Suzukane and Okan are two beautiful female warriors in training who must hunt down and rescue their ninja clan lord's sacred and protective ninjitsu scroll. Kagerou is the sultry duo's archnemesis -- a sex- and money-loving female fighter with equally dazzling skill and beauty. It's a passionate battle of good vs. evil when the seductive vixens face their most provocative exploit ever.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-28
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Ju-on: The Grudge 2
Overview: When the cast and crew of a paranormal TV reality program decide to shoot in the house of the original Saeki hauntings, a series of strange events unfold at the location.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-15
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Female Prisoner Kaori Jailbreak From Prison Punishment Cell
Overview: Female Prisoner movie directed by Minoru Kawasaki
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-26
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Yamato Nadeshiko
Overview: The story of a young woman working in a bar, trying to get men to spend extra on her services.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-28
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Rubber's Lover
Overview: After the explosive demise of their last subject, scientists must look for a replacement on whom to continue their bizarre experiments with brain-altering drugs.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-28
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Woman in Witness Protection
Overview: Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murder she witnessed. Under the watch of two dedicated cops, Biwako struggles to maintain her career, her public image, and her personal life as she prepares for her new role on the witness stand.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-27
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Dangan Runner
Overview: A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience store. The store's clerk, a washed-up rock star, chases the thief and literally runs into a Yakuza to whom he owes money. Thus begins an all-night, three-way pursuit through the streets of Tokyo.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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