Also Known As: Keisuke Shibata
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gunma, Japan
Birthday: January 02, 1950
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Gender: Male
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Overview: Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed after his wife died in accident. Since that time, Yasuo, who never experienced parents' love himself, has to raise his son Akira alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-08
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Overview: Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-12-18
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Overview: Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-23
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Overview: Kyoichi, a small-time drug dealer for the yakuza, has recurring nightmares about two men raping him. Once his real-world problems escalate, people around him start dying in horriffic ways and he finds it increasingly difficult to tell dreams from reality.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-20
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Overview: A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to protest the draconian rules of parents and teachers. They're sick of heavy-handed teachers and iron-fisted parents. And now they're going to do something about it.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-08-13
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Overview: Detective Yasagure, who has deviated from the organization, uncovers the shameful part of the police and knocks out the corrupt organization.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Overview: Eiko (Sasa Handa), who became a shiatsu masseuse because she was praised for her "massage" skills when she was a high school manager, responded to customers' requests at the store every day. One day, Tatsuo, who enthusiastically nominates Eiko and goes by, earnestly applies for a relationship. Eiko is not a jerk, but she had "deep" circumstances that prevented her from dating men. She can touch people's bodies with acupressure, but she can't stand being touched. However, he craved "sex" more than most people, and satisfied that desire with "air sex" (masturbation in which he throws his body into a delusion without even touching himself) every day. When Tatsuo learns of her disposition, he decides to go along with the act.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-08
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Overview: Second movie in the Yanmama Gurentai series
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-06-21
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Overview: Second entry in the Oda Seiji series
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-25
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Overview: Maria (Yuka Kinoshita), who dropped out of junior high school with excellent grades, wore a special attack uniform today and was open to fights. Maria's lover, Yuta (Teruumi Yoshimoto), is a thug from the gangster Haga Kogyo. One day, executive Haga (Tomonori Kono) orders Yuta to take care of Matai (Daisuke Iijima), the head of the head family, who is now bedridden and has a stash of stimulants that are the source of funds. Yuta thinks that if he feeds on Maria's natural beauty, he will be able to hear information from Matai. New "Yankee" series to challenge! Nice to meet you there! !
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-12
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Overview: Three young people in Tokyo. Kuro is a girl working a part-time job at a bakery. Eito is a photographer. Gou is a theater director. These three individuals meet by coincidence and, as a means to escape reality, begin living together at a deserted inn near the sea.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-21
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Overview: A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-14
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Overview: Ginji (Kiyoshi Nakajo) was glaring at the next major organization of the political and business world with Izawa, an influential person of the Democratic Liberal Party. The person who emerged there, Jin Kuramae. He was feeding on a huge gambling loan book and manipulating talented politicians for his company. Izawa also had to win the gambling game before Kuramae and get the loan book in order to take advantage of the launch of the new party. The total purchase price is 40 billion! Ginji and Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara) headed to the villa in Kuramae to challenge the first generation of gambling!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Overview: Inspired by the work of Japanese eroticist Oniroku Dan, this scintillating thriller follows the career trajectory of an executive secretary as she ascends the latter of success and has a chance encounter with an ex-colleague. Before long, she's fallen into a dangerous world of taboo sex and sadomasochism
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Overview: Brother-in-law, can I sleep with you?" Look, brother-in-law, we are finally united. I had been wanting to devote my life to protect my only sister-in-law, Hikaru (Sakura Aida), but she had gotten married and had lost the will to live. I had devoted my life to protecting her, but now that she was married, I had lost the will to live. One day, Hikaru and I came home after a quarrel. I was so happy to see him. For just one night, Hikaru and I became lovers...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-25
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Overview: A trucker and his friend who gets mixed up with the wrong crowd
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Overview: 2001 pink drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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Overview: When her husband is hospitalized with tuberculosis, Chika has a series of three relationships: with a teacher in her hometown, with a student in Tokyo, and with an aging gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-05
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Overview: Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run away to share their grief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-28
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Overview: A young man is on an inner journey as he searches for meaning in love, eroticism and marriage. He boards a train, and all the clocks are mirrored from then on, as if looking at them from the inside. He travels to a homey village, meets a potential fiancée, then a more sensuous and mysterious stripper.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-28
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Overview: The owner of a love hotel takes us inside the rooms of three couples, a gambler and his mistress, a photographer and a model and a teacher with a female student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-11-23
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Overview: Hitoe is 34 years old. Her husband is overseas on a business trip, and she wanders aimlessly around town every day, filling her idle time with alcohol. Masaru is 48 years old. A train conductor. He gave up on his dream of becoming a driver after failing the national exam three times. The two meet each other while they have families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-29
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Overview: Kazuo, a struggling writer, begins writing novels about SM and lesbianism to make a living. However, as he continues to interview his wife, Yoshiko, their desires quickly escalate. Eventually, he chooses a woman named Kyoko as his sacrifice, but Kyoko, who at first glance seems normal, is actually...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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Overview: A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-17
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Overview: Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his daughter, Chiaki. Only the mysterious Ikko, Chiaki's half-sister threatens him. Inspired by a legendary hit-woman, Ikko calls herself the Black Angel and plans to wash away her father's murderer with a deluge of blood.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-30
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Overview: Directorial debut by Kiridoshi Risaku, an accomplished film and cultural critic and author of "Miyazaki Hayao no ‘sekai'" and "Kaiju tsukai to shonen: Ultraman no sakka tachi". Mikoto (Mikoto) and Takashi (Sumori Ryubun) graduated from the same high school. Now in their twenties, they meet by coincidence and hit it off, and they decide to spend the night together. But Takashi invites her not to a love hotel, but to their former high school. Mikoto has only bad memories from high school, and she realizes that Takashi also is looking for a chance to redo his teenage years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-02
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Overview: The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-14
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Overview: Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day, Ryoko gets a job in a hair salon, while the two boys settle down into a career of enforcement and protection.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-21
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Overview: After disbanding the trio, entertainer Kenichi was working part-time at a cleaning company. On the other hand, Nami, who was Kenichi's ex-girlfriend, formed a new combination with Yusuke and was working hard at training, but her material was boring and she relied on Kenichi. Meanwhile, Kenichi and Kazuyo naturally have a physical relationship, but she finds out that Kazuyo was actually the wife of the late Kantaro Namiki, whom Kenichi admired.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-04-03
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Overview: Yokosuka in the early 1980s. The military town, which once prospered from the Vietnam War economy, was exhausted, lifeless, and in ruins due to the aftereffects of the Vietnam War. Fumio, who lived hand to mouth, working as a prostitute for American soldiers and selling yak. One day, Fumio is lynched by the group's thugs for a trivial mistake. Fumio, who was covered in blood and unable to move, was later rescued by a black man who happened to be passing by. The black man's name was Al. Although he is a military veteran, he did not return to the United States and continued to live in Yokosuka, aiming to become a professional jazz pianist. After receiving kindness from someone for the first time, Fumio falls in love with Al, but since Al is straight, he rejects Fumio's courtship, but out of concern for Fumio who has no place to live, they start living together as close friends...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Overview: A young couple go on the run after the murder of his mother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-28
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Overview: This surrealistic comedy follows the life of Haruo Maekawa, a young man who makes a living catching squid. Haruo is obsessed with catching a legendary giant squid rumored to live in Tokyo Bay. Haruo's uncle Takashi, fallen on hard times, comes to stay with his nephew until he can get back on his feet. Uncle Takashi is addicted to energy drinks, and seduces any woman in sight, including Haruo's girlfriend Rika. While praying at a Shintō shrine, Uncle Takashi is bitten in the scrotum by a poisonous snake and dies. The uncle is destined to spend the afterlife in Hell unless his nephew and girlfriend can rescue him from the King of Hell.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-18
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Overview: The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Overview: Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the rapists arrives and says the others are on their way. He behaves like her long-lost lover and mistreats her again. Chihiro takes revenge, kills him and puts him in a freezer. The other rapists are awaiting a similar fate...
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-27
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Overview: A sensual suspense that tells the story of a female teacher and a young student locked in a closed room in the middle of summer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-03
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Overview: Eisuke Kasahara (47 years old), the director of surgery at Eiai University Hospital, is affectionate with his flashy wife Lisa (35 years old), who does not do housework for Roku, and asks a detective agency to investigate and discovers that Lisa is having an affair with her host. Eisuke tried to pressure Lisa for a divorce by confronting her with photographic evidence and an investigation report. However, on the contrary, Lisa confronts her with the results of an investigation that Eisuke is having an affair with Aki Nogami, a 24-year-old beautiful nurse. "I'm a generous wife, so I don't make a fuss about my husband's infidelity, and of course I don't want to divorce him. However, if you really want to break up, I'll get plenty of alimony," Eisuke, who was threatened by Lisa, unilaterally says goodbye to Aki and chooses the path of remarriage with Lisa. But from here, Eisuke's real shambles awaited...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-20
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Overview: Ken, who has just been released from a juvenile detention center, is approached by Iwao and starts a jack-of-all-trades as his younger brother. One day, Ken gets into an argument with Iwao over a trivial matter, runs away from home, and ends up selling his body to Izawa for money. Izawa showed Ken a photo of a certain woman and said, "Today's catch." He then roughly hugged Ken. When Ken returns home and makes up with Iwao, he learns that the woman in the photo that Izawa had was the daughter of a famous designer who was kidnapped. The two plot to rescue her and extort a large sum of money, but...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-06
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Overview: Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or everything else in the world. Then came my 80th birthday. He and a young staff member go digging for wild yam and find a mysterious golden flower. It was the flower of immortality, the "Golden Flower", which was said to bloom beside the Himalayan Virgin, which he had been looking for for many years. From that day onwards, fragments of memories from his youth, which he had intentionally sealed off in order to immerse himself in botany, surged into Maki in a whirlpool.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-21
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Overview: Kensaku is a sexually impaired wealthy man who owns a stable. His current wife is Emiko, who became his full-time wife after being his mistress. One day, a former racehorse, Brian Hawk, comes to Kensaku’s stables as a stallion. Emiko feels a sense of intimacy when she learns of the horse’s struggles when it ran in the central race. One day, when Kensaku goes on a business trip, Emiko is subjected to sexual humiliation by her stepdaughter, Yuri, her stablehand, and her maid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-20
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Overview: An undercover narcotics officer is killed, and after his funeral some yakuza break into his apartment and rape his wife, Nami, while looking for the drugs they claim he stole from them. Afterwards Nami attempts to commit suicide, but after being rescued by a mysterious yakuza she decides to infiltrate the gang and get revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-22
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Overview: Adult video store clerk, Issa, feels like a total loser after losing his job and being dumped by his girlfriend. He is blessed by a stroke of luck when his invention, a curry package squeezing tool, suddenly gains immense popularity. Not only does his invention attract buyers and money, it even attracts unwanted attention from the Yakuza.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-01
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Overview: Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who raped and caused the death of his wife. Before long, the yakuza and Toyama arrive at the women's hideout.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-29
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Overview: Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
Genres: Action Music Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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Overview: In May 1936, the “Abe specific incident.” shook the entire country of Japan. It is said that Abe had a live-in maid (Yuma Asami), the owner of the restaurant’s employer Ishida (Nobuyuki Matsuda) was killed, that the cut is more localized. With respect to neither confirm nor deny the crime, frustrated by the testimony of the specific criminal Urakawa Abe (Shun Sugata). And the relentless questioning of Urakawa, we are told the circumstances leading to death and cut from the bodies of penis. Result of fierce passion between men and women debauched erratic, and saw two people … and the constant questioning after the incident, and the constant “last seven days” to depict that Katsuaki the in the here and now Abe no specific story that you have to watch it!
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-18
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Overview: Noboru and Takashi meet in prison. Shocked by his lover's betrayal, Akira becomes addicted to hunting for men in Hattenba, and is eventually imprisoned for drugs. Noboru, who was a sexual outlet for prisoners in prison, was helped by Takashi, a member of the Ogasawara gang of the chivalry organization. Takashi persuaded Noboru to take care of himself, and as a result of his efforts, Noboru was able to rehabilitate himself and come to respect Takashi as an older brother. One day, Takashi's older brother, Kanzaki, comes to visit and informs him that he has been excommunicated from the group...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-19
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Overview: Mayo, the Black Angel, is ordered to assassinate a powerful syndicate leader. The hit goes awry, however, as the crime boss' bodyguard steps in the way. It's none other than Yamambe, who once rescued Mayo from a rape and has lived in her heart since then.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-13
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Overview: A sensual drama that depicts the fates of a man and a woman who are entangled in a negative chain of events that begins with a certain incident. This is an absurdist drama written by Takahisa Zeze, a leading director in the film industry, and shows the fate of men who are at the mercy of two women, played by a new actress with an outstanding presence. They attack a cash transport vehicle, but Taichi (Takeshi Ito) and Kazumi (Yuji Sawayama) are caught, while Hideji (Hironori Okajima) steals the money and escapes. Five years later, after being released from prison, Taichi visits a coffee shop run by Hideji with Noah (Harumi Kashima), who is suffering from an incurable disease, but an unexpected situation arises when his wife Reiko (Mayuko Sasaki) and Kazumi's love interests become involved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-27
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Overview: When a doctor is found dead and the company's exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective Takayama and Oshita are called to the Nakamitsu pharmaceutical laboratory. However, a bungled attempt to catch the murderer leave Takayama and Oshita reassigned to the lackluster task of patrolling public bathrooms to keep them out of trouble.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-12
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Overview: Transfer student Mizuki is bullied mercilessly by her classmate. Nevertheless, she is always able to maintain her composure. Kirie, who is also bullied, becomes interested in Mizuki and longs for her. The two become close.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-18
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Overview: Kiriko is a beautiful woman working in a quiet hot spring town. The owner of the inn, Goro, is attracted to her beauty and asks her out, but she refuses. Meanwhile, Imai, a detective staying at the inn, recognizes Kiriko's face and investigates her past on his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-08-27
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Overview: Sex Friend Nurezakari is the story of an old friend, Tsutomu, who pays a visit to a couple then disappears after one night. He leaves behind a mobile phone, and the couple set out to find him and return it. Along the way they meet up with another couple taping themselves having sex. The four of them continue the journey to find Tsutomu. When they arrive at his home, his parents inform them that he was killed in an accident some years previously. What happens next is both bizarre and strangely heart warming as the four friends play a baseball game with the ghost of Tsutomu and thus seal their friendships for good, as all of them discover more about themselves and each other.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-08-27
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Overview: A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that she’s escaped from a violent husband. but there’s more to her story than she's willing to tell at first.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-27
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Overview: A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-10-15
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Overview: A man with a wound from the past pops up into a gay bar in the South of Osaka. While sheltering him, the bar's owner falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-15
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Overview: Mao, who can tell when someone will die when she touches them, offers her own body to dying men. One day, Tachibana, whose wife committed suicide after Mao said she would die, draws close to her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-14
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Overview: Noriko is an ex-prostitute married to Satake, a charismatic, wise-cracking lady-loving Yakuza. But when Satake is called upon to murder a rival, Noriko must take up the mantle to lead his gang.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-25
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Overview: Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship is threatened by Kenji's plans for advancement, as well as by his bodyguards growing jealousy of Chuji.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-15
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Overview: A medieval Book of the Dead is discovered in the catacombs that run under a small town strip club. When one of the desperate strippers raises an army of the undead, the rest of the strippers must kick some zombie ass to save the world.
Genres: Action Horror Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-15
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Overview: A film about a young widow who begins an affair with her son-in-law.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-01
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Overview: Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a female fan with the name of Moonlit Night's Star (Sakurako Konishi). She sends letters to Penguin. One day, the female fan appears in front of Akira Takasu and Penguin. These three somehow get involved in a battle between the yakuza.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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Overview: Chiho has prohibited her husband, Takahashi, from smoking while she is trying to become pregnant. Takahashi hasn’t told his wife he was laid off, and has a paid sexual encounter with a high-school student, attracted by the pungent odor of her cigarettes, Peace Regulars. That evening, Chiho became outraged by the foul odor of the Peace Regulars saying it reminded her of an elderly relative having shoved the same brand of cigarettes into her genitals in the distant past. In fact that memory was not Chihos, but that of her twin sister, Kaho.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-23
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Overview: Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-05-28
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Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-10
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Overview: A Japanese direct-to-video horror film based in an original story by Go Nagai. It is the sequel to Nagai Go no Horror Gekijo: Mannequin, also produced by Taki Corporation and released in 1992.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-08-28
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Overview: Juzo Murasaki is a young man traumatized by his experience of bullying at school. He returns to his hometown and takes a job on a building site with his old nemesis Toru Akai. But Juzo's trauma has created a monster; he harbors a second personality, Neighbor No. 13, a vicious, brutal and disfigured character intent on exacting a painful revenge on his bully.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-02
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Overview: On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai, is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring actresses, Hitomi Kurokawa and Saori Murakami, play sisters in his film. Murai has a crush on Hitomi, the seasoned leading actress, and keeps a photo of her by his bed. The younger and less experienced actress, Saori, is annoying and likes to have recess on the set. The production of the movie is consistently interrupted by strange occurrences and the cast and crew begin to get spooked.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Overview: A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-11
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Overview: Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefit their loved ones back home, they are unprepared for the hardships of war. Through their shared trials and sacrifices, they grow closer as friends, and hope to return together to better days. This movie was released in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-03
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Overview: Seiji is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist investigates a case that occurred 19 years ago. He meets Hayato, Daisuke and Asami.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-26
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Overview: A mailman becomes obsessed with a pretty, young wife. He captures the woman, tortures her and keeps her in his basement dungeon where she becomes his private sex toy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-26
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Overview: A young woman gets a new job as an executive secretary. Her boss discovers that she resembles her late mother who he desired but lost to another man. Seeing his chance for revenge the boss and his sadistic circle of friends make plans to turn her into his personal sex slave.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-23
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Overview: The film is in a surreal style. The story involves a young high school teacher who has retired for marriage and seduces one of her former students. She prolongs the relationship by seeing the student whenever her husband leaves for work. Eventually she hides the student in a bedroom closet for more convenient access.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-07
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Overview: An unprecedented bizarre murderer appears. The first victim is a young woman. Both breasts were cut off. Kyoko Mizuki, a female medical examiner, begins to feel a strange presence around her after attending the autopsy. The second and third murders occurred as if to mock the investigators. The murderer's M.O. was extremely abnormal and ruthless, mutilating the woman's body. Kyoko tries to deduce that the murderer is a psychopath. Emi, a rookie detective, is the first to get close to the killer, but she is trapped in the opposite direction.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-14
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Overview: In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-29
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Overview: Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-20
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Overview: A group of friends get together to remember a decessed classmate. One of them is a detective who loves one of the women. But the woman is in love the delinquent of the group. And the delinquent has been ordered to do a hit...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-04-28
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Overview: The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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Overview: Washio now reigns as boss of Tendokai, but a deal over casino operating rights ignites a fierce war with a hostile faction in the Kansai region.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-25
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Overview: A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-30
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Overview: Shinko (Karin Aiba) is a high school student from Hamamatsu. Due to university admission pressures, she struggles with her mother. She hasn't really made conversation with her mom in a year. Shinko's friend Misato (Mayuu Kusakari) then recommends to her to join the school's calligraphy club. Shinko is impressed by Teacher Yatsushiro's (Kazuki Namioka) words. Teacher Yatsushiro is the one who takes care of the calligraphy club. Shinko decides to join the calligraphy club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-05
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Overview: Nanao 26 years old housewife, living with husband and father-in-law. The father is gentle compared to husband, but recently he seems strange. One day, she to read diary of father and knew that they were condemned.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-06
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Overview: The Kansai Tiger Fang Association and Kanto Shoryukai have decided to hold an unprecedented handmade harmony ceremony in response to the upheaval of the Exclusion Ordinance. However, Takasaki of the Togakai and Fujiki of Shoryukai had the feeling that they could not accept the harmony ceremony. At that time, a murder incident targeting Tajima, the president of the Kansai Tiger Fang Association, occurs at the hotel there.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-21
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Overview: The married woman, Suzu, was hiding behind her husband, Yuichi, who was assigned to work alone, and had an affair with her colleague Tobe. However, as Yuichi returned to Tokyo, Suzu and Tobe had a quarrel, and Tobe pondered and grabbed Suzu's arm and jumped out onto the road to measure his heart. Upon hearing the news, Yuichi rushes to the hospital where the bell was brought in, but is shocked to hear the story of the matter from the managing director who had come earlier. Meanwhile, he meets Tobe's wife, Manami, who wears mourning clothes, and her daughter, Akane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-02
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Overview: A new actress is left with a lot of debt because of some trouble she caused. She hears that if she passes an audition, she'll be able to pay it all back, but at the venue, men are making obscene remarks... The fourth installment of this popular series.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-25
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Overview: Yumiko lives with her son and former boxer Keigo, and is on good terms with her neighbor Ryoko. Ryoko is having an affair with aspiring novelist Mukai, but it seems to be approved by her husband. One day, by chance, Yumiko and Mukai start a relationship...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-08
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Overview: Kabukicho, Shinjuku. Shoichi Sakurai meets a man who goes to a mahjong parlor from 9am to 5pm and realizes that there is something missing in his mahjong. Next, a soba restaurant owner from Karuizawa who lost his land because of mahjong appears before Sakurai. Sakurai teaches him mahjong when he asks for his help, but...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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Overview: Shoichi Sakurai meets his girlfriend's father, the legendary drug dealer Mo. This leads to the two of them repeatedly competing against each other, but Mo eventually passes away. Sakurai, who regrets having taken his life, receives news of the Japan Championship and decides to retire after this match. Thus, he faces his final match, but...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-24
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-03
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Overview: In 1978, at the Kyoto nightclub "Barami," Ryuji Kagawa (Toru Minegishi), boss of the Yamada-gumi, was gunned down. The man targeting the leader of Japan's largest organization was Wataru Naruse (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) of the Nihon Makoto-kai. This is the story of a reckless conflict—likened to "ants" challenging a "giant elephant"—as men, seeking vengeance for their boss, the first president of the Nihon Makoto-kai, Katsuichi Yoshimura (Hitoshi Ozawa), take on Japan's largest organization.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-25
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Overview: The strength or weakness of an organization lies in the hands of its boss. In the unforgiving world of the yakuza, where leadership is relentlessly tested, what is the role and significance of a leader? This film delves deep into the unique leadership methods of the yakuza—methods that cultivate loyal subordinates willing to risk their lives for their leader and organization!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-25
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Overview: The legendary sleeping lion is back in the modern era! Skyline GTR (BNR32) VS GTR (KPGC10) With Keiichi Tsuchiya of the "Megalopolis Expressway Trial" series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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