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A Long Goodbye
Overview: Mari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They help prepare their mother for his farewell and prepare themselves for the emotions to follow.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-26
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Shiren & Ragi
Overview: Two souls were drawn to each other without any possible escape from their doomed fates. It was in an era when the country was divided in the north and the south. A legendary woman "Shiren"(Hiromi NAGASAKU) who was born to a family of assassins. A young sword fighter "Ragi"(Tatsuya FUJIWARA) who looked up to Shiren with admiration. News was brought to the north that said the King of the South "Godai"(Katsumi TAKAHASHI) has revived who once was assassinated by Shiren. Shiren was once again ordered by "kyougoku"(Arata FURUTA), a high-ranking vassal of the North, to assassinate Godai. Shiren was upset about Godai being still alive whom she believed she had killed. Ragi who sensed Shiren's distress volunteered to accompany her on the mission. Shiren's cold heart started to melt by seeing Ragi's determination to be there for and support her. Finally the moment to attack Godai comes. It was the moment when an astonishing truth was revealed to the two who had shared their love by that time.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-05
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Doomsday Detective
Overview: Shinjiro, who runs a humble detective agency using a coffee shop in a certain town as his office, gets into trouble at a dark gambling den and is forced to take on a troublesome job by Kyoichi, an executive of the Kasahara clan, a yakuza gang he knows well. The task is to investigate an arson case that is suspected to involve the Chinese mafia Barretto, with whom the Kasahara-gumi has a rival gang. In addition, Shinjiro is asked by Michiko, whose Filipino parents were deported in the past, to search for her best friend, a Kurdish woman who mysteriously disappeared. However, as he pursues the two cases, he finds himself caught up in a war between two huge underworld organizations.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-16
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Prior Convictions
Overview: Kayo is a probation officer who forges ahead with her job. Continuing to work closely with ex-convicts, she is assigned to Kudo who had committed murder. As she endeavors to rehabilitate him, Kudo suddenly disappears and emerges as a suspect in a case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-28
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The Water Flows to the Sea
Overview: High school student Naotatsu travels to live at his uncle's house. In the pouring rain, he is picked up at the nearest station by a strange adult woman named Sakaki who guides him to an unexpected share house where a life together begins.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-09
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再会
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-08
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Dr. Akagi
Overview: At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-17
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Kyrie
Overview: Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However, her singing voice shakes the hearts of those who listen to her. It is a hymn of compassion played by Luca and the people.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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I'm Flash!
Overview: Rui is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain attention from the mass media. After becoming involved in a car accident, Rui goes to a remote island with ex-gangster now bodyguard. On the island, Rui reveals more about his religious group, while a set of ominous events are about to occur.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-31
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A Woman from Ashio
Overview: A story about a woman from Yanaka Village, Tochigi Prefecture, which was abolished by the government due to the Ashio Copper Mine pollution incident in the late Meiji Period. The drama depicts the struggle of the woman who gradually matures as a person through her encounters with versatile figures, including socialists and writers, after moving to Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-18
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Hanjiro
Overview: Japanese history explodes across the screen in the life story of Hitokiri Nakamura Hanjiro, one of the great heroes of the Meiji Restoration. From his earliest beginnings as a country samurai raising sweet potatoes whose exceptional sword skills impressed Saigo...
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-09
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A Hundred Flowers
Overview: Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them. One in particular, when he believed she had disappeared, haunts him terribly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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Darkness in the Light
Overview: A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime suspect in the biggest mass-murder case of the decade.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-02-17
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Chūzai keiji SP 2017
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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駐在刑事SP 2022
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-17
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駐在刑事SP 2023
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-25
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Masked Hearts
Overview: 26 years old Hanako is on the verge of directing her first-ever feature film, achieving her childhood dream. Although she’s being hindered by an older male assistant director, she has a fateful encounter with a man named Masao, and her life at last begins to take on a whole new luster. However, the underhanded actions of an unscrupulous producer cause Hanako to have her personal project stolen. After being dumped into despair, she quietly stokes her rage, and makes a pledge to keep fighting, and never back down! Entangling Masao, her hopeless father and two older brothers (who she’s been out of touch with for over 10 years) in her obsessive quest, Hanako audaciously attempts to make her dream come true, her way!
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-27
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Hebi no Hito
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-25
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Life of Mariko in Kabukicho
Overview: A small bar in Tokyo's red-light district run by an undercover detective with a tragic past links together a group of eccentrics, a search for aliens, FBI investigators, bizarre love affairs and assassins.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-30
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Chosyu Five
Overview: Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and studied in Britain in 1863 while Japan was still under sakoku (鎖国 "locked country").
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-22
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Nibanme no kanojo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-27
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The Parades
Overview: A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has died and is now confined to a realm of restless spirits.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-02-28
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夜の女たち
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-03
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Kakekomi
Overview: Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-16
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Sakurada Gate Incident
Overview: Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-16
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Overview: A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-03
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The Last Promise
Overview: "Saigo no Yakusoku" is described as a human suspense story involving the hijack of a major building. The members of Arashi play five young men who happen to be inside, and the story depicts their attempt to escape and their interactions with the other people caught up in the incident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-09
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Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
Overview: In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his lord’s commands. This is the tragic story of one such loyal samurai, whose love for his family forced him to make the ultimate choice of disobeying the wishes of his lord.
Genres: Drama History Action TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-09
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Trick: The Movie 2
Overview: Ueda employes Yamada to go a mysterious island in search of a girl (played by Maki Horikita) that disappeared 10 years ago. They discover the island is run by Kobako Sachiko, who can appear and disappear via boxes, among other strange powers.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-10
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Momikeshite Fuyu 2019 Natsu: Natsu demo Samukute Shini Soudesu
Overview: Shusaku, who is the second son of the Kitazawa family, is going through hard times. He fails his job interviews for a patisserie position, which he hopes to become. Except for Shusaku, the other family members have gained the same social positions and financial status as they had. Hirofumi, who is the first son of the Kitazawa family, comes back from Los Angeles. As a doctor, he learned new techniques using A.I. in Los Angeles. Hirofumi states that artificial intelligence will become a big part of human life in the future. He brings A.I. Kenji and A.I. Sayuri to the Kitazawa family.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-29
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Over the Fence
Overview: A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college to learn carpentry along with several other students who are in the same boat as he. When a couple of the guys go to a hostess club the man meets an unconventional girl who likes him and a relationship is born.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-17
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Sekigahara
Overview: The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-26
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The Seal Of The Sun
Overview: At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant experiences a black out due to the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The cooling system fails at the nuclear power plant and the temperature of the nuclear reactor rises. The worst case is coming. Scientists face an unexpected situation and government officials are confused by lack of information. Residents says goodbye to their hometown before evacuating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-06
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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
Overview: A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How did this woman know the novel is serialized in the newspaper? And why does she want to start reading it in the middle of the story? Which article was she actually interested in? Sugimoto cannot help making his own investigations about Yoshiko, but the more he searches, the more astonishing facts come to light...
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-12
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Play Cards When You Die
Overview: Ichiro Sasaki, 35, is working for a small training school in Tokyo. Though his work and his life are rather dull, he at least gets along somewhat well with his young daughter. He recieves a phone call one day, informing him of the sudden death of one of his colleagues. Shortly after this shocking news, his wife who is now living apart cuts him down further by telling him, "You don't see anything." While walking in the night, Ichiro is struck by an idea: why don't we go there? He heads off holding his daughter's hand. And thus begins a strange little tale of an ordinary father and his daughter.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-15
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Hibiki
Overview: A high school girl with overwhelming literary talent shakes up the lives of those around her with her brilliant spontaneity.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-14
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The Driver
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-11
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The Sea Is Watching
Overview: O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-27
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Sniper
Overview: Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in an undercover operation that puts her at risk. Her achievement immediately becomes the talk of the precinct, but no one approaches her because of her past. Ryoko is determined to bring criminals to justice. She takes on “The Prime Ministerial Candidate Snipe Case” which took place 15 years earlier.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-02
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When a Tree Falls
Overview: A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son’s death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunders by multiple people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-21
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Fortuna's Eye
Overview: Shinichiro Kiyama is completely alone in the world. One day, he realizes he possesses "Fortuna's Eye", an ability through which people whose death is drawing near appear transparent to him. It is a gift that torments him. Then he meets a cheerful, optimistic girl Aoi Kiryu who makes him feel at ease. Shinichiro develops feelings for her, but after a brief period of happiness, Aoi's body suddenly starts turning transparent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-15
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The Journalist
Overview: It is the job of the press to cover corporate crime, government plots and society. It is in this context that young female reporter on the beat Erika rolls up her sleeves and goes to work regarding what seems to be a government cover up. She is dealing with a government bureaucrat called Sugihara. It seems as if a clash is inevitable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-28
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The Asadas!
Overview: Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-02
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Aka Medaka
Overview: One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi. He had found his calling. After his resistant parents relented to their son’s pleas, Danshun at age 17 became an apprentice of Danshi, the man dubbed a “wunderkind” and “genius” of the rakugo world. He soon realized however how hard the training was, and embarked upon a rigorous existence in which he had to deliver newspapers to earn a living. Living with hardship and joys, Danshun and his fellow apprentices would eventually rise in the rakugo world. A resplendent cast comes together to depict the rough and tumble world of a man who loved rakugo above all else and was destined to fulfill a dream.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-28
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Under the Open Sky
Overview: Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies for a TV show and meets a young TV director Tsunoda. Meanwhile, he struggles to get a proper job and fit into society. His impulsive, adamant nature and ingrained beliefs cause friction in his relationship with Tsunoda and those who want to help him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-02-11
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A Family
Overview: Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-29
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Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition
Overview: Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the series. In this work, we collaborate with five popular manga artists such as Go Nagai, Junji Ito, Eiichiro Oda, Kazuo Umezu and Masayuki Ishikawa.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-11
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2013 Autumn Special
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-12
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The Real Thing
Overview: Kazumichi Tsuji is a bored office worker in questionable relationships with two women at work. One day he meets the intriguing Ukiyo Hayama at a convenience store. However, having her in his life brings nothing but trouble.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-09
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Mario
Overview: It's the year 2023. The development of artificial intelligence has come a long way in recent years. When a policeman gets seriously injured and won't be able to recover his consciousness, a scientist decides to implant an artificial intelligence called "Mario" inside his brain. The final command for this newborn man: Be free. When he sets out on his little journey to understand the concept of being free, being human, he meets the 16 year-old son of the scientist who is about to take his own life... The two of them form a precious bond.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-17
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Sotoba Komachi
Overview: Mishima reset the story in a 1950s urban park. At the beginning of the story, five couples are sitting on the benches and embracing. A 99-year-old lady appears in the park to gather cigarette butts. A poet sees her and admonishes her for disturbing the lovers and for using a park bench that rightfully belongs to those in love. They debate life and love. The old lady confesses that when young she was a beautiful woman and was admired by Captain Fukakusa. Upon describing a dance she attended, she and the poet find themselves at the dance, many years earlier, in Rokumei Hall, a ballroom where many handsome men and beautiful women are dancing. Everyone in the ballroom recognizes the old woman as the beautiful Komachi and comment on her beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-03
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Chuzai Keiji 2021 SP
Overview: Terajima Susumu VS Dan Rei! "Chuzai San" is back with a special drama that involves a huge "parent-child" secret and bone mystery.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-24
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Siberian Express 2
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Genres: Drama War Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-13
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Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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Peeping Tom
Overview: Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was his own death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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Backdancers!
Overview: A cadre of backup dancers is left astray when their star singer moves on with her life and marriage. They each had their own ambition and hope, which subconsciously rested on the star power of the singer. When plan A does not work, they cling to plan B. When that does not work, in an act of desperation, they are assigned to plan C by their agency. A fight and unprofessionalism seems to put the Backdancers on permanent ice.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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Premium Stage "Hamlet"
Overview: This work by British director John Caird is one of the four major tragedy by William Shakespeare. In this performance version, the title role will be played by Uchino, uncle Claudius and father's ghost will be played by Hayashi Kunimura, Ophelia will be played by Shihori Kanjiya, Gertrude will be played by Yuko Asano, and Horatio will be played by Yukiya Kitamura.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-02
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All the Things We Never Said
Overview: Atsuhisa Yamada is an ordinary man, with a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. He is close to his childhood friend Takeda. One day, Atsuhisa Yamada leaves his office during work hours and goes back home early. There, he witnesses his wife and an unknown man having sex, but Atsuhisa Yamada is unable to express his feelings like anger, frustration, and depression. His relationship with his wife and his friend Takeda becomes distorted.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-03
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Goldfish
Overview: "Guns" was a punk band that became a social phenomenon in the 1980s. At the height of their popularity, one of the member Hal caused an injury and the band was suspended. Thirty years later, the band starts to reunite under the leadership of Ichi, motivated by the pathetic and impure motives of their leader, Animal. However, when they begin rehearsals, the discrepancies in their thinking and growth as a band become apparent.
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私刑人～正義の証明～
Overview: A fierce battle unfolds between a vigilante who exacts justice on unjust criminals and the police who pursue him. The story then leads to a shocking conclusion... This story will make you ask yourself, "What is justice?"
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Original Language: ja
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誰よりもつよく抱きしめて
Overview: Tsukina and Ryouki have been dating since their teenage years. Unfortunately Ryouki has developed a obsession with cleanliness that has left him unable to even touch Tsukina. Eventually agreeing to start therapy for his condition, Ryouki meets Chiharu, a young woman suffering from the same issue as himself, and begins to form a connection. At the same time Tsukina meets a handsome Korean man who shows an interest in her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-02-07
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