Yuriko Hirooka
Also Known As: Yuriko Hirooka, Yuriko Hiro'oka, Yurika Hirooka, 広岡由里子 , 히로오카 유리코
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: May 31, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Audition
Overview: Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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Begging for Love
Overview: During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-25
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Gemini
Overview: When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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The Exam
Overview: Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes jobless when his company folds. To regain his confidence Togashi decides to join the marathon that is taking place on the very day of his daughter's examination and the all important interview.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-03
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Kitaro
Overview: Kitaro is a half human, half creature who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the evil attacks from another world. He finds that a magical ball that controls all powers had been brought into the human world, and stops it from falling into the wrong hands.
Genres: Fantasy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-28
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Nekketsu After School Club 1
Overview: 1990 original video.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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Nekketsu After School Club 2
Overview: 1990 Original Video film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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Nekketsu After School Club 3
Overview: 1990 Original Video.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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Hard-Core
Overview: The life story of a treasure hunter who lives in the countryside of Gunma in Japan. He is pure and kind, but has no communication skills and has a mind of his own. His sole friend is his co-worker. This man has never had sex. The friends find a robot one day. The robot wants to stay with the men. A bond is formed. The men resolve to change their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-23
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I'm not Afraid of the Hospital. The Reason I got Sick 2!
Overview: DTV sequel to The Reason I got SIck, but this time it's a standalone instead of an anthology.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Yes, I Can't Swim
Overview: Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and people, still he decides on the spur of the moment to enroll in a swimming class. There he encounters the teacher Shizuka Usuhara, who ignores his last-minute hesitation and enrolls him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-10
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Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Overview: A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-11-26
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The Tokyo Siblings
Overview: Living in an old Tokyo district, Kenichi works at a second-hand bookshop to support his sister, Yoko, a high school student. When Yoko graduates, she starts work at a photo shop. By the time, Kenichi's girlfriend has decided to marry someone else as she is tired of waiting for him. When Yoko starts dating Kenichi's best friend, Makoto , he is strangely resentful, but when Makoto is involved in a fatal accident, brother and sister resume their routine life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-14
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The Brutal Insanity of Love
Overview: A policewoman (Megumi Yokoyama) investigates the apparent suicide of a college coed. The prime suspects include the girl's professor, who may have been having an affair with her, and the professor's wife, who frequents lesbian bars. Gruesome axe murders and mutilations ensue, leading Yokoyama to a shocking discovery.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-26
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Ghost Theater
Overview: Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-21
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Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement
Overview: A shy, nerdy man, Takeru finds a schoolgirl hooker Lily is unconscious in a Tokyo park, so he decides to bring her home and lock her up in a secret basement. Although Lily is afraid of him, in fact, Takeru didn't do anything to hurt her. After Lily begins to uncover a shocking episode
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-30
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A Girl Named Ann
Overview: A drug-addicted girl from an abusive family finds hope through kind people but her grim reality strikes back just as she sees a glimmer of light.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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必殺仕事人2013
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-17
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Fancy Dance
Overview: Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-23
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安楽椅子探偵と笛吹家の一族
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-13
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Brass Knuckle Boys
Overview: A record company office worker named Kanna discovers a punk rock band called Shonen Meriken Sakku 'Brass Knuckle Boys' through the internet and subsequently decides to represent them on behalf of her company. What Kanna did not know was that the Brass Knuckle Boys consists of all middle aged men.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-02-14
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Shadow of the Wraith
Overview: Two brothers are plunged into the realm of psychic horror, one tormented by a stalker, and the other involved with a girl whose home is the site of eerie occurrences.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-23
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Wood Job!
Overview: After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his decision many times, but eventually after passing the training course, he is sent to Kamusari Village for a year of work experience - where he becomes assimilated with the beauty of nature and the warm-hearted people of the village.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-10
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A Story of Yonosuke
Overview: The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and commutes to a university in the center of Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-23
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Maria's Stomach
Overview: A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight it.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-21
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AI Love You
Overview: In the near future, the development of AI has made it possible to determine human compatibility with high probability. A young couple goes to the in-laws to meet them before being wed. As if in opposition to the efficiency-oriented world, the couple had been dating without having their compatibility score determined by an AI app. What will happen when the inlaws find out about this?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-01
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Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Overview: Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of her again. Since that time, Koji (Kazunari Ninomiya) appears in front of her and they reminiscence about pleasant times. These happy, but bizarre moments seem eternal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-12
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Shiratori Reiko: The Movie
Overview: Japanese TV drama Shiratori Reiko, which is based on the original Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu! shōjo manga by Yumiko Suzuki, will be receiving a feature length theatrical film in June of 2016.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-11
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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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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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Shikei Kijun
Overview: Do criteria exist for the death penalty? Yusuke Mito, a law faculty lecturer who did not become a lawyer even though he passed the bar exam, the famous lawyer Kojiro Otomo who advocates the abolition of the death penalty, and the public prosecutor Mariko Nagase studied law together. Each have their own thoughts about the death penalty. One day, Otomo’s wife is murdered by someone. Shinzo Sabae who is resentful of a lawsuit that Otomo had been in charge of, is arrested as a suspect. Otomo reverses the stance he had had until now and seeks the death penalty against Sabae. This prompts Mito to make the decision to become a lawyer and stand in the court. However, the first case Mito takes charge of is the defence of Sabae, who murdered the wife of his good friend, Otomo…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-25
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Black Dahlia
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Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-20
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Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 31
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-12
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Let Me Eat Your Pancreas
Overview: A dying girl meets a nonchalant boy who found out her secret. She decided to fulfill her bucket list with none-other-than the boy who couldn't care less about the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-28
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The Key
Overview: Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of passion during lovemaking. All this changes after they meet the young Mr. Kimura
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-18
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Will to Live
Overview: It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-15
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2019 Rain Special
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Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-08
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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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By Player
Overview: The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-02
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The World Within a 3-Km Radius
Overview: 2013 movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-02
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It's a Flickering Life
Overview: The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and famous actors. In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the "god of cinema" that Go has worshipped since he was young will transcend time, and work a miracle in the lives of one family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-16
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ハムレットQ1
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-11
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