Morio Agata
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rumoi, Hokkaido, Japan
Birthday: September 12, 1948
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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To Sleep So as to Dream
Overview: An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing daughter, Bellflower. The two follow a succession of bizarre, obscure clues, until they track down the location of the kidnappers and the daughter.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-05-18
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MOONRIDERS THE MOVIE: PASSION MANIACS
Overview: 30 years of the band, 30 years of Japanese rock. The story of passion toward the band and music.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-16
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Lost Paradise
Overview: Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-10
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No Boys, No Cry
Overview: A couple of smugglers don't know what to do when one day their boss gives them a kidnapping job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-28
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Bread of Happiness
Overview: A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-28
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Motorcycle Girl
Overview: The story of a girl riding a motorcycle and embarking on a journey to meet her distant father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Perfect Days
Overview: Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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Eau de Vie
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Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-02-15
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Girl Boss Guerilla
Overview: Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-12
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Judge!
Overview: After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a judge at the world's biggest advertising competition in Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-11
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Jam Films
Overview: Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-28
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Aishiteyo
Overview: Miyuki is a single mother with a 10-year old boy Keiji. She is eager to make him a child model. Eventually, Keiji begins to get jobs rather constantly. But Keiji himself doesn't like the job much. He only does it because it pleases his mother, who hates empty pages in the schedule book. One day they attend a big audition. While Keiji wins first stages of the audition, he begins to feel distance from the mother. It makes things worse for him when she has a new boyfriend..
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-17
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Sketches of Kaitan City
Overview: The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his family's gas business, but things aren't going well in his new endeavor and he becomes increasingly frustrated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-12-18
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Tsugumi
Overview: Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a few people are attracted by her beauty and unique character.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-20
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Sex Is No Laughing Matter
Overview: Mirume is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri, an almost 40 year old art teacher at his university. Yuri isn't your typical college professor, having a quirky sense of humor and unpredictable personality. When Yuri invites Murume to her studio, she playfully seduces the still naive 19 year old student. Things become more complicated when Mirume discovers that Yuri is married to a much older man....
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-19
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Elephant Song
Overview: Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-15
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Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly
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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Flying Colors
Overview: A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-01
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Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter
Overview: Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone in the office, she's spotted rolling up her pantyhose by the window cleaner Kurata Katsuo. This was to be their first encounter. Completely enchanted by Kumi, Katsuo does everything he can to get close to her. Katsuo is a man with a terrible past. With the death of his coal miner father, his family was broken up and he was forced to follow in his father's footsteps laboring away in the mud. In spite of this, Katsuo still has dreams. He dreams of living in Resiporuko, a utopian fantasyland that exists only in his imagination. When Katsuo and Kumi finally meet they find themselves unable to communicate. Katsuo spends all his time talking about Resiporuko with a starry look in his eyes, while Kumi dreams of living the high life in the city. One day when the two travel to the seashore, they discover a wounded seagull.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-12
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生まれ変わるとしたら
Overview: A mysterious world of images of an old, almost forgotten barbershop in the middle of the city, with its owner who is just “waiting” for something, and the people who visit him. A barbershop is a place where people want change. A place to find a new self. The barber finds a different self on the other side of the mirror, and between drowsiness and thoughts, he is lost between dreams and reality, pondering in a different space. The barber travels with various customers to a mysterious space. Invisible images are projected into each mind along with the recitation of poems.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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I'm No Angel
Overview: A young couple lives together in a small apartment and struggles to keep their relationship together, despite inertia and financial hardship. Based on the comic Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-15
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Down the Drain
Overview: The misadventures of Junko, a schoolgirl who unwittingly sets off a catastrophic chain of events after being caught using her friend's train pass.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-30
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Villain Field
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-29
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Heaven's Bookstore
Overview: Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-05
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A Piece of Phantasmagoria
Overview: A collection of 15 short episodes depicting the magic world of Phantasmagoria.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-23
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Girl Boss Guerilla
Overview: Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-12
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Farewell for Today
Overview: Kouta Fujioka is a 29-year old man who has a good family, including his father who always supports him, his mother who enjoys cooking, and his older sister with her bright personality. He also has a girlfriend named Etsuko Tanebe. Kouta wants people to eat delicious foods made by him and begins a job as an apprentice chef at a restaurant. One day, Kouta suddenly passes out and is sent to the hospital, where he is diagnosed with malignant lymphoma, completely changing his life. Given three months left to live, Kouta makes up his mind, with the support of his family and those he meets at the hospital, to accept his fate and "face a proper death".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-24
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Kamihate Store
Overview: A woman run a store in a tiny seaside hamlet near the cliffs where people come to commit suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-10
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Fufu the Worldweary
Overview: Two disaffected hoodlums, one of them of Korean ancestry; his sister, her girlfriend, and a mad scooter girl. The failure of their relationships as a critique of modern Japan.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-02
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Clouds of Yesterday
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-11-30
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A Missing Part
Overview: Every day, Jay travels the length and breadth of Tokyo in his taxi, looking for his daughter Lily. In the 9 years since he has separated from his wife, he has never been able to get custody of his daughter. Having given up hope of ever seeing her again, he is about to move back to France when Lily hops in his cab. But she doesn't recognize him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-13
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