Hisako Ôkata
Also Known As: Hisako Ohkata, Hisako Ookata, 大方斐沙子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: March 09, 1939
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Female
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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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Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
Overview: In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but Shūzō suddenly passes away. Momoko is dumbfounded by being alone again. She begins to go to the library and borrows books. This changes her life.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-15
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Your Turn to Kill: The Movie
Overview: Newlyweds Nana and Shota move into an apartment. Two situations, different from the drama series, take place: "What if Shota attends the resident's meeting and not Nana?" and "What if exchange murder game doesn't begin?"
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-10
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Good-Bye
Overview: An aphasic young boy living in South Korea meets, on one of his regular paths, a “Koguryo Beauty” who shows him how to trace his heritage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Horus: Prince of the Sun
Overview: Young Horus lives in a mythical Scandinavia of the Iron Age. Recovering the stolen Sword of the Sun from a rock giant, he learns he must travel to the lands of his ancestors, encountering the beautiful but enigmatic Hilda as his journey leads to a series of adventures.
Genres: Adventure Drama Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-24
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Spring Special
Overview: Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2004 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Koroshiya desu no yo (It's a Hitman, You Know) - starring Mizuki Alisa. 2. Jibun-counsellor (Self-counsellor) - starring Inohara Yoshihiko. 3. Be Silent - starring Watabe Atsuro. 4. Sasoimizu (Pump-priming) - starring Harada Taizo. 5. Saigo no Hitotoki (The Last Moment) - starring Nagasaku Hiromi.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Fantasy Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-29
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The Kingdom
Overview: A popular poet, Goku, becomes depressed when his editor jokingly suggests that he is a sell-out.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-05-18
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The Deserted Archipelago
Overview: A young man reaches adolescence and escapes the nunnery where he survived a tortured upbringing; the world outside suddenly seems even more frightening than before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-25
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Young Thugs: EPISODE FINAL Stand By Me
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-22
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The Cricket Girl
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-14
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Golden Kamuy
Overview: On the Hokkaido frontier, a war veteran and Ainu girl race against misfits and military renegades to find treasure mapped out on tattooed outlaws.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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Plan 75
Overview: In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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Life on the Longboard 2nd Wave
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-31
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Suiheisen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-01
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Family of Strangers
Overview: Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a corpse turns up and a murder has occurred. The culprit fingered is one of the patients.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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The Landlady
Overview: Looks back 20 years into the past of an elderly woman who died of heatstroke and paints a picture of a solitary woman's genuine despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-18
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Guilty of Romance
Overview: In a Tokyo love hotel district, a woman is found dead in a derelict apartment. As police investigate, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To break away from the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model enacting sex in front of a camera. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade that she's still the doting wife she's supposed to be.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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A Girl Missing
Overview: Ichiko works as a private nurse for a family she almost became a part of. While Ichiko cares for the grandmother, she is also a confidant to Motoko, the eldest sister. But one day, Motoko’s younger sister disappears. And the media soon reveal the kidnapper to be Ichiko’s own nephew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-26
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Prayer Beads
Overview: This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are revolving around bad karma and terror.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-08
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Mystery Trilogy Special
Overview: This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-30
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The Eternal Fountain
Overview: The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji Kuramoto who confesses to murdering his wife. While following Kuramoto's action in Yamanaka and being sure of his innocence, Yamauchi remembers his wife who passed away 12 years earlier.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-16
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The Dentist
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Azusa Katsume.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-19
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Lily Festival
Overview: Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses seven elderly women. The film examines the ladies' sexual desires as the man proceeds to woo each of them. Kazuko Yoshiyuki portrays one of the female residents. The film was adapted from a novel by Houko Momotani and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-26
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Daughters
Overview: Two women are flat-mates and friends in Tokyo. One is an event manager and the other works in the world of fashion marketing. The result shows that one is pregnant one day. The woman decides to give birth out of wedlock. It is a major decision, which is the harbinger of not just a change in their lives, but also their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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Mr. Suzuki: A Man In God's Country
Overview: In a city where unmarried people are drafted to solve the declining birthrate, 44-year-old unmarried Yoshiko tries to find a marriage partner in order to escape from recruitment.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-02
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
Overview: A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-02
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Yamanaka Shizuo-shi no songen shi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-14
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Goodbye, Grandpa!
Overview: A 20 something girl Yoshiko is having sex with her boyfriend when a shocking telephone call arrives - grandpa has passed away. The lightning from clear sky doesnt derail only the life of Yoshiko but summons the rest of the dysfunctional Haruno family to the ancenstral country house to pay their respects to the deceased - and unleash their quarrels between themselves and with the world at large.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-29
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Golden Kamuy 2
Overview: The second part is in the works!
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: ja
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疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-04
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じんじん
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-13
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The Tale of Genji
Overview: Genji, the son of the emperor, is the talk of the Kyoto nobility for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing an unobtainable object of desire: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of completion to his life.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-19
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Shikoku
Overview: Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayori, died several years ago and that Sayori's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has gone almost insane with grief. After seeing Sayori's ghost several times during the night, Hinako consults with some local experts on the paranormal and discovers that Sayori's mother has something planned for her daughter...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Tokyo Tribe
Overview: In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. The simmering tension between them is about to boil over into all-out war.
Genres: Music Science Fiction Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-30
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