Kenji Kodama
Also Known As: 児玉謙二, Katsuro Yamada, 山田克朗, Кэндзи Кодама
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: June 03, 1932
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Gender: Male
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High and Low
Overview: In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
Overview: After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang war erupts. With his former gang in danger of being exterminated, will his loyalties draw him back in?
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-14
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Nihon no aozora
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-21
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Office Love: Behind Closed Doors
Overview: Reiko is a high class call girl employed by a large corporation. She’ll do anything necessary to help her employer land new business, including kinky sex and humiliation, to please her high class clientele. Secretly bedding rival company executives on her own time, Reiko’s world turns upside down when a former lover comes back to her for affection. The problem is he’s married! With yet another shy employee vying for her attention, Reiko gets caught in a triple tryst that could change her future forever.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-07-20
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Flower and Snake 5: Rope Magic
Overview: The story of the gambler,who is unable to pay his loan.His wife and daughter are kidnapped and subjected to many days of torture and sexual degradation.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-05
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Best Wishes for Tomorrow
Overview: A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American Airmen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-27
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Tokyo!
Overview: Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-16
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After the Rain
Overview: A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-22
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Sanshiro Sugata
Overview: Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-29
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Ran
Overview: With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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Free and Easy 20: Final
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-26
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Crime Mystery by Kosaku Asahina: Tragedy of Hanasaki Village
Overview: Mystery writer Kosaku Asahina scores yet another scoop in a case that occurred in the streets. He even personally conducts investigations and frequently makes these cases the basis for his own novels. It maybe because his late father was a scholar that he is cool, but brims with curiosity and action. One day, Kosaku is facing the computer in his living room and writing a new novel. The novel is based on the baffling case of a female who fell to her death in Setagaya in the past. Kosaku had personally conducted interviews and inspected the scene of her death, but still cannot get to the truth. Then a letter addressed to his father Konosuke who died more than 20 years ago, is delivered to Kosaku. The name of the sender is the female whose mysterious death from a fall, is the subject of Kosaku’s new novel.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-06
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Snake and Whip
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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Flower and Snake 2: Sketch of Hell
Overview: The daughter of a wealthy family rebels when her father remarries and she becomes a leader of a girl gang. She hatches a plot to use her stepmother to get a large sum of money by pretending to be kidnapped. But the tables are turned when gangsters intervene and capture them both. They are subjected to various humiliations and sexual perversions.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-24
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Aijin Bank Satsujin Jiken
Overview: An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-11
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監察医 室生亜季子㉚ 震える顔
Overview: Kota Mizutani, a 10-year-old boy whose health worsened after he saw a murder, is brought to Akiko's clinic by his mother Mariko. Kota says that two months ago, he witnessed a man in a park strangling a woman with a cord and was chased by the man afterwards. Hamada, who listens to his story along with Akiko, immediately performs an investigation but cannot find any traces of the crime. However, Kota's testimony gains credence when the body of a woman killed two months before is discovered on a construction site in Kawagoe. Acting on a tip from a citizen who says she had been wearing the same clothes as the victim, the police search the house of Kazuko Shimazaki, a photographer who is often absent. But when Kazuko returns from her trip with her assistant Hirano, it becomes clear the victim is a different person.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-02
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Female Teacher: Dirty Rumor
Overview: A schoolteacher gets a phone call regarding one of her female students. It seems that the young girl has been accused of prostitution, and requests help from her teacher. The young girl's situation brings to mind some dark incidents from the teacher's past that she is still trying to deal with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-03
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Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep
Overview: Mayumi and Mai are hair stylists who open a Barber shop called The Pink Cut. The place is an immediate success, due mostly to their super-short skirts. When the girls decide to stop wearing underpanties, business goes thru the roof. Eventually Main and Mayumi add special massages and cream rinses to their list of extras. The girls laugh all the way to the bank. Ah, the joys of entrepreneurship!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-01-21
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Tsumatachi no gogo wa yori: kannō no ori
Overview: Time passes quietly without incident. Shizue lives peacefully as a wife. Masako, who is Shizue's friend and lives in Nagoya, uses Shizue as an alibi and comes to Tokyo several times a month to have an affair. When Shizue learns that Masako's cheating partner is Akira, a star athlete back in high school, a faint feeling of jealousy runs through her...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-05-01
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Free and Easy 8
Overview: When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-10
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Musashino shinjū
Overview: The life and affairs of a famous writer is seen through the eyes of his last mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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