Hidekazu Akai
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Biography: Hidekazu Akai (赤井英和, Hidekazu Akai) is a Japanese actor and former Pro Boxer. After becoming a professional bpxer , Akai won the Junior Welterweight All Japan Rookie King Tournament by 3RKO against Ozaki Fujio in the 4th All Japan Rookie King final match. Since his debut, he had 12 straight KO wins.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
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Hana's Miso Soup
Overview: Yasutake Shingo is a newspaper reporter whose only redeeming feature is his earnestness. He meets Matsunaga Chie, who attends a music college, and they start dating. Each day becomes all the more bright and enjoyable for Shingo because of the lively Chie. She loves to laugh, sing and eat. After one and a half years, Chie is employed as a music teacher. One day, Shingo is informed that Chie has breast cancer. After thinking about it, he decides to share a lifetime with her and proposes. His proposal gives her the courage to undergo surgery which she had been mulling over. One day, Chie starts to teach 5-year-old Hana the “important things in life” such as laundry, cleaning and cooking. She thinks that even if she is no longer around, her daughter and husband will be able to live.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-19
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The Wild Ones: The Unorthodox Yakuza
Overview: Asamura Kitaro (Ozawa Kazuyoshi), a young assistant head of the Toyukai, is known in Kabukicho as the one-eyed Kitaro, and is feared as a mad dog that will not stop once he loses his temper. Asamura is strong in fighting but not in making money, and together with his brother Matsuo, he forcibly takes on the business of the rival Nishinaga clan. The Nishinaga clan tries to take Asamura's sister, Yuna, a singer, hostage, but Asamura retaliates against them and kills many members of the clan. When Asamura is arrested for murder, his timing is so good that he begins to suspect a connection between the police and Nishinaga-gumi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-27
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Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet
Overview: When he returns to Earth to attend the wedding of his friend in Saipan, Musashi meets a beautiful girl named Shau who claims to come from the bottom of the sea. Just then, Monster Scorpis reappears in the sky above the island and Musashi faces the monster in order to protect the girl. What is the girl's true form? And what is the strange shadowy form that follows the monster Scorpis?
Genres: Action Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-03
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Chivalry's Lament 3
Overview: Final film in the '任侠哀歌' trilogy. Kurosaki Ken (Namioka Kazuki) has now lost both parents to the machinations of the Kiryu Clan and his fire for vengeance hits its peak. However, the chairman of the Kiryu Clan, Kijima (Watanabe Hiroyuki), is revealed to have been both a close friend of Ken's father Hiroshi ... and Ken's own biological father. Kijima challenges Ken to a one-on-one duel and allow his son an honourable vengeance, but the Kiryu Clan's captain, Sagawa (Motomiya Yasukaze) interferes to protect Chairman Kijima and shoots Ken in the leg, ending the fight in a draw. Unable to move and but needing to further his plan to dismantle the Kiryu Clan, Ken beseeches his friend Daisuke (Isaka Tatsuya) to visit a certain person: Ishibashi (Sugata Shun), a detective who had been circling around the wild Sagawa. Realising their goals are aligned, Ishibashi shares a vital secret that may finally end Sagawa's rampant violence ...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-10
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Chivalry's Lament 2
Overview: 2nd film in the '任侠哀歌' trilogy. Kurosaki Ken (Namioka Kazuki) burns with a desire for revenge after his father was killed by the Kiryu-kai. With Ken's declaration, Mikitani's scheme became public and the Kiryu Clan disown him. In order to split the Kiryu Clan and set his revenge in motion, Ken first assassinates Kawashima (Fujiwara Yoshiaki). Mikitani mistakenly believed that Kawashima's assassination was the work of Sagawa (Motomiya Yasukaze), and hid from the Kiryu Clan with aims to capture Sagawa. However, Sagawa saw through Ken's scheme and instead uses Mikitani in an attempt to kill him. Just as Ken was planning his next move, a man arrives at his hideout: Ando Tatsuya (Kitadai Takashi), Kurosaki's best friend, and the one whose crimes Ken went down for five years ago ...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-25
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Chivalry's Lament
Overview: 1st film of the 任侠哀歌 series. Kurosaki Ken (Namioka Kazuki), the son of Saijo Fund executive Kurosaki Hiroshi (Akai Hidekazu), gets caught up in a dispute between the Sagawa and Kawashima groups, both of which are affiliated with the yakuza organization Kiryu-kai, and is captured by the Sagawa gang along with his friends Ando Tatsuya (Kitadai Takashi) and Hanamaki Daisuke (Isaka Tatsuya). Just as they are about to be killed, Ken's father Hiroshi saves the three. After being persuaded by Hiroshi, the three swear to reform, but Tatsuya is tricked by Mikitani of the Kawashima gang and is nearly killed. Ken accidentally shoots Mikitani while trying to stop him, and is arrested and sentenced to 5 years for attempted murder. While in custody, his father appears to commits suicide and Ken becomes consumed with guilt and doubts about the veracity of his father's murder. Five years later, Ken is released, and begins to look for answers ...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-06
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Conquest 13
Overview: The thirteenth film in the 'Conquest' series.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-16
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Conquest 12
Overview: The twelfth film in the 'Conquest' series.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-25
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Bad Guys Only
Overview: A one shot game setup by lonely outlaws!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-14
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Japan Gangster War
Overview: The first film in the 'Japan Gokudo War' series.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-25
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Japan Gangster War Chapter 2
Overview: The second film in the 'Japan Gangster War' series.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-02
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Japan Gangster War Chapter 3
Overview: The third 'Japan Gangster War' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-25
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Japan Gangster War Chapter 4
Overview: The fourth 'Japan Gangster War' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-01
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Japan Gangster War Chapter 5
Overview: The fifth 'Japan Gangster War' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Japan Gangster War Chapter 6
Overview: The sixth 'Japan Gangster War' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-20
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Japan Gangster War Chapter 9
Overview: The ninth 'Japan Gangster War' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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Japan Gangster War Chapter 8
Overview: The eighth 'Japan Gangster War' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-19
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The New King of Minami ~ Ginjiro's New Enemy is God!
Overview: King of Minami TV Movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-25
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Conquest 14
Overview: The fourteenth 'Conquest' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-18
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Conquest 17
Overview: The Seventeenth 'Conquest' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-23
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Conquest 18
Overview: The eighteenth 'Conquest' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-24
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Conquest 16
Overview: The sixteenth 'Conquest' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-21
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Conquest 19
Overview: The nineteenth 'Conquest' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-17
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Conquest 15
Overview: The fifteenth 'Conquest' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-18
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Maborosi
Overview: A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-01
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Front and Back Chapter 5
Overview: The fifth 'Front and Back' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-31
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Front and Back Chapter 3
Overview: The third 'Front and Back' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-28
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Front and Back Chapter 2
Overview: The second 'Front and Back' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-29
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Front and Back Chapter 4
Overview: The fourth 'Front and Back' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-01
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Front and Back
Overview: The first 'Front and Back' film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-14
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Front and Back Final Chapter
Overview: The final 'Front and Back' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-06
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Strong Man
Overview: The first 'Strong Man' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-15
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Strong Man Chapter 2
Overview: The Second 'Strong Man' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-19
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Strong Man Chapter 3
Overview: The Third and final 'Strong Man' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-14
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Gokudō tenka fubu
Overview: A yakuza society that has turned into a world of warring states, a story of inferiority unfolded by men who aim to unify the world with force. Conquer this turbulent world and win the unification of Japan...!!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-27
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Gokudō Tenka Fubu: Act 5
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-23
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Nebagiba New World
Overview: A former boxing gym owner and his younger brother rise up to help a boy and his teacher's daughter from a vicious religious group that preys on good people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-10
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Shura Man and Homeless Girl
Overview: 2016 Original Video.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-02
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ナニワ金融道 2発目〜銭と泪と権利と女〜
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-02
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ナニワ金融道 3発目～大蛇市マネーウォーズ～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-09
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Naniwa Kinyudo - Haibara knocks on the door of Imperial Finance!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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Orange Lamp
Overview: Tanno Tomofumi, diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's at the age of 39, Orange Lamp followed a married couple's nine years after realizing that life has no reason to surrender to an disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-30
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巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
Overview: An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsubei discovers the body of a man whose face has been crushed and his fingerprints erased. Tetsubei describes the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the body, including his own theory, and is angered by Lieutenant Yukari. That night, Tetsubei visits the shop of Kanako, whom he has a secret crush on. There, Mizutani, Kanako's husband, who has been missing for seven years, appears.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-05
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119
Overview: In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is interrupted by the appearance of a beautiful female college student, Momoko, who comes to visit her aunt. After catching a glimpse of Momoko, both Tatsuya and Nobuyuki can't stop thinking about her. Since then, the small town is not so quiet anymore…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-11-05
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eスポーーーーツリアルタイムバトル将棋EDITION
Overview: Film about e-sport.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
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Ultraman Cosmos: The First Contact
Overview: Musashi is a 10 year old boy with big dreams. He wants to grow up to be an astronaut so he can fly through the stars and meet his hero Ultraman. His mother worries that Musashi daydreams too much, but his police officer father thinks a little bit of daydreaming never hurts anyone.
Genres: Adventure Family Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-03
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Sutegoro: The Three Kajiwara Brothers' Turbulent Showa History
Overview: The story of Asaki (Eiji Okuda) and his younger brother Shinji (Sho Aikawa). The elder brother has established himself as an author of sports manga. The younger brother engages in vigorous bare-knuckle brawls with local yakuza and well-known brawlers. The distance between them grows little by little, and the younger brother struggles in the shadow of his elder brother's light. Strong enemies and incidents appear one after another.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-14
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Warship Boy
Overview: Kaisei Sakamoto is a 16 year old boy who is inclined to settle everything with his fists. He grew up in a town where you can see both Nagazaki and Gunkanjima, living with his father. His father, Genkai Sakamoto, runs a small ramen shop. The father-son duo has just recently had a large fight. The story showcases fragments of one's youth and the questions that crop up while growing up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-12-10
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School Lunch
Overview: Depicts the “bonds” that connect through “food” under the theme of school lunch in Ashiya City. Nonomura Nana is a new nutritionist who works at an elementary school in Ashiya. Struggle every day for the smiles of children who eat delicious lunch. The lunch menu that appears is packed with the ingenuity and love of nutritionists and cooks. While drawing efforts to keep costs down, cooperation with suppliers, and the backside of difficult cooking sites, the importance of school lunches that protect the growth of children is drawn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-04
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The Sakai's Happiness
Overview: Sakai's Happiness is a humorous and bittersweet portrayal of an ordinary family dealing with the challenges of everyday life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-26
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Arigatou
Overview: In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-25
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The Haunted Samurai
Overview: A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu era. After being expelled from the household into which he was adopted through marriage and separated from his wife and son, he moves in with his disapproving elder brother and his wife. He meets his old class rival Enomoto Takeaki, now a commander of a naval ship, and is later told by a kindly noodle shop owner that Enomoto's rise in social status came about after he prayed at a shrine in Mukojima. Stumbling home drunk one night, Hikoshiro falls down a riverbank and comes across a small run-down shrine which he is convinced is affiliated to the one in Mukojima. Pressing his hands together in prayer, he unwittingly invites the unwanted attentions of the gods of poverty, pestilence and death..
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-22
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Tears of Kitty
Overview: Eiji Morioka is legendary fighter, he is the 3rd and last Japanese boxing medalist. His life story is told from the eyes of his daughter Haruko, who is involved in checkered life of Eiji. Touching true story full of love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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Akai
Overview: The story of Hidekazu Akai, aka "Osaka Rocky," a legendary Japanese boxer who survived a mortal injury and went on to become a famous actor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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Matamata Abunai Deka
Overview: Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-02
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文福茶釜
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-20
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Tomorrow in the Finder
Overview: Takeharu Samejima is a reticent photographer who runs a deserted photo studio. Taiichi Igarashi, a talented photographer captivated by his photos, gives up his brilliant career to become his apprentice. Taiichi, who has even avoided communication with his family, cannot hide his ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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The Two Headed Dragon
Overview: Shinjuku has become chaotic. Ryushin Takeda (Kio Osawa), a member of the Hanako clan, and Daisuke Tsurumi (Junichi Kawamoto), the assistant to the Wakagashira, have killed the chairman and Wakagashira of the family, and the two of them are wreaking havoc on other areas without any plot or blunder. . Hozumi (Nariki Nagahara), the young head of the Kurohime family and leader of the Hozumi group, who had the casino vandalized, moves to take revenge on Takeda and Tsurumi, but Ryutaro Dojima (Yasukaze Motomiya), assistant to the young head of the Kurohime family and leader of the Doryu group, tries to take revenge on Takeda and Tsurumi. ) got away with getting into a fight. Dojima became interested in the two, made Takeda and Tsurumi drink sake, and invited them as members.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-25
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The Two Headed Dragon 2
Overview: Ryushin Takeda (Mikio Osawa) and Daisuke Tsurumi (Junichi Kawamoto), former members of the Hanayuki family, killed the chairman and wakagami of their own family and ravaged other areas. He is invited by Ryutaro Dojima (Yasukaze Motomiya), the Kurohime family's young assistant and leader of the Doryūkai, to join the Kurohime family's Doryūkai, but at the same time, he joins Japan's largest wide-area organization, the Udagawa-gumi executives and the Iwakuma-gumi. Chishi Iwakuma (Hidekazu Akai), head of the group, comes from Osaka to the young head of the Kurohime family, Hozumi (Nariki Nagahara), head of the Hozumi clan.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-25
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Hold Me and Kiss Me
Overview: Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-14
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Shin-Karajishi Kabushiki-Kaisha
Overview: Remake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-02-20
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64: Part 1
Overview: 1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-07
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64: Part 2
Overview: 1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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Yamagata Scream
Overview: High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a graduation requirement. Their teacher, Mr. Kachi, plans a mandatory club trip to a small village called Oshakabe in Yamagata prefecture to study remnants of an ancient clan of warriors called the ochimusha who displayed legendary cowardice in battle. When they arrive, the local villagers hold a special ceremony and construct a "super shrine". As a result, an 800-year seal is broken, unleashing a curse that causes the ochimusha to rise from the grave.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-01
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CONFLICT: Outbreak
Overview: The Hyodo-gumi boss—part of Tendokai, Japan’s largest yakuza syndicate—has been brutally murdered. Kazuma Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa), the head of the Washio-gumi and Tendokai’s wakagashira (underboss), is convinced that Yoshinari Myojin (Sho Aikawa), a former Tendokai wakagashira-hosa now running Tokyo’s underworld of thugs and mafia, is behind the killing. Around the same time, Tendokai's 5th-generation chairman Katsushige (Hakuryu) orders Washio to secure a woman named Nagi Toyama (Akane Hotta). Washio sets out with his men, Okita (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Date (Hideo Nakano), but they’re ambushed by a group of heavily armed youths. Barely escaping, they manage to bring Nagi to their hideout—only to discover she’s a key player in a power struggle over the Tokyo Casino Project. And so begins the greatest conflict yet, entangling yakuza, mafia, street gangs, the police, and even the state itself—
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-28
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The Book Peddler
Overview: Suzume Akamatsu works at a library in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. She delivers books by riding a bicycle. Through her work, Suzume grows as a person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-02
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Raiden
Overview: Based on the comic book series by Tadashi Ichinose and Kyouta Kita.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-05-08
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If Tomorrow Comes
Overview: Daisuke is in the 2nd grade of high school and he plays on his school's baseball team. Daisuke then takes part in a gourmet contest with 3 of his friends and 2 girls, including Miki, from a nearby girls' high school. The gourmet contest is held to revive the village.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-21
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Kinpira
Overview: A yakuza boss's daughter starts a pirate TV broadcast.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-22
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The King of Minami The Movie
Overview: A pair of schoolgirls get caught up in a scheme targeting local businesses. Loan shark Ginjiro can help, but first things first: what’s in it for him?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-14
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The Dangerous Slope
Overview: At a companywide meeting, Bunsaku Akiba sees Toshie, an old girlfriend who is now the secretary and lover of Nishijima, the chairman who has control over the entire group. Although Akiba is married, the love affair between him and Toshie flares up again. Akiba uses Toshie to approach the chairman, but as Toshie gets more possessive of him, Akiba starts to have murderous thoughts.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-30
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The Tears of Malumpati
Overview: A heartwarming drama based on a true story of the Pandan Water Pipeline Project where Japanese and Filipinos work together while overcoming various hardships. Every year more than 1 million children die because they do not have access to clean drinking water. In Pandan, a rural village on the Panay Island, many people were suffering from kidney disease because they did not have access to clean drinking water. The project was started with the aim to solve this problem by building a 10 kilometre pipeline. Asuka (Tsuji Miyu), a college student, joins the project without giving it much thought when asked by a friend. After she arrives she quickly realizes things are worse than she expected. The labor is intense because they have no funds and the local people are hostile toward the Japanese. But amid the hardship, a five year old girl called Amy (Miel Espinoza) welcomes her kindly. The two become good friends through a picture book and Origami.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-03
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The King of Minami Returns
Overview: Loan shark Ginjiro Manda meets an old friend, banker Imamiya. Harassed by his manager and pestered about past mistakes, Imamiya commits suicide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-21
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The King of Minami Returns: A 250 Dollar Promise
Overview: A man who borrowed money from Ginjiro commits suicide. He had been laid off by the unethical Naniwa Advertising Co. A new recruit is also suffering.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-15
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The King of Minami Returns: Paper Scraps for Money
Overview: Ginjiro looks after 10-year-old Ayumi. Her mother is away on staff training. The company is a criminal outfit pushing unlisted stock to the elderly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-05
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The King of Minami Returns: How to Make Money
Overview: Business turns bad for Ginjiro’s client Matsuno. Self-proclaimed behavioral economist Keiko appears, and the businesses she advises boom. She’s a hit!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-08
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The King of Minami Returns: A Sweet Swindler's Deadly Trap
Overview: A self-proclaimed cult founder comes to loan shark Ginjiro. Ginjiro sees through his lies and judges the cult a fraud. A co-conspirator is bitter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-12
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The King of Minami Returns: Ginjiro, Arrested!?
Overview: Osaka loan shark Ginjiro meets Tomoe, a childhood friend of his friend Ryuichi, but the lonely Tomoe has fallen in love with a man she met online.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-05
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The King of Minami Returns: Scholarship and Oreore Fraud
Overview: Feared loan shark Ginjiro Manda investigates a group of fraudsters when a struggling student and a widow with links to the group ask him for money.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-17
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The King of Minami Returns: Ginjiro in Danger
Overview: Ginjiro lends 50 million yen to a man named Sugaya, who dies before repaying it. Sugaya’s daughter appears with a photo of someone unknown to Ginjiro.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-16
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The King of Minami Returns: A Scrappy Business
Overview: Loan shark Ginjiro is known as the Demon of Minami. Cosmetics maker Kaburaki has his eye on him. Sakagami meets Yulim, who has come over from Korea.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-07
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The King of Minami Returns: The Price of a Life
Overview: When his brother is taken hostage, loan shark Ginjiro must face his heartless past while attempting to shake the shadowy force threatening his life.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-09
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The King of Minami Returns: The Seal of Betrayal
Overview: Loan shark Ginjiro Manda meets with a former client, design firm CEO Tominaga. It was Tominaga’s wife who saved Manda from bankruptcy 10 years ago.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-27
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The King of Minami Returns: Light and Shadow
Overview: Loan shark Ginjiro meets two people from his past: Harumi, who runs a kids restaurant; and Shimamoto, a human rights lawyer who isn't what he seems.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-14
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The King of Minami Returns: A Backstreet Factory in Danger
Overview: Ginjiro meets factory owner Shirakawa, who has been given a 50-million-yen draft he has no memory of. Ginjiro hears rumors of a draft fraud ring.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-17
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CONFLICT II: Conclusion
Overview: The Tendokai is attacked by the Daitoa-dan. Believing there's a traitor within the organization, Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa) orders Oda (Kōji Matoba), a wakagashira-hosa of Tendokai who has just been released from prison, to investigate. Meanwhile, Washio presses the client behind the whole affair, former METI official Masaoka (Jiro Okazaki), to reveal the truth. But before long, both Nagi Toyama (Akane Hotta)—whom Washio was protecting—and Sumire (Kokoro Nakayama), daughter of Washio’s former senior Kawashima (Naomasa Rokuhira), are kidnapped by Daitoa-dan. To make matters worse, Sumire is drugged and used as bait to lure Washio out. Blinded by rage, Washio storms the Daitoa-dan headquarters alone— But what awaits him there…? An epic finale marking the 20th anniversary of All In Entertainment, featuring a star-studded cast that defines the ninkyo (chivalry) genre! The fierce showdown over the casino rights between yakuza and mafia finally reaches its conclusion.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-29
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Knockout
Overview: A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-11-11
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Check
Overview: Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), and Ryuzo Kayama (Masaya Kato) who aims to become a professional player.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-25
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Mom, I'm Okay
Overview: Sasaki Ryohei (Yamada Ryosuke), the second son of the Sasaki family, is a high school student who lives in Shimane. He has just been chosen to be the vice captain of the youth soccer club. Setting his sights on participating in the prefectural championship, Ryohei practices every day with his buddies. One day, Ryohei has a severe headache and is brought to the hospital. Ryohei is diagnosed with an acute brain tumor from the test results. The family is told by the doctor that Ryohei will not live long. However, Ryohei musters the strength to say, "I will win. I will beat the illness. " Given a push by his words, the Sasakis try to stay positive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-22
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Au Revoir, Mon Amour
Overview: A tragic love story set against the always volatile and oftenviolent backdrop of Shanghai during the Japanese occupation and at the opening of the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. A nightclub singer becomes involved with both a member of the Chinese resistance and an officer of the Japanese army.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-03-28
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2014 Spring Special
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Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy Science Fiction Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-05
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Japan Gangster War Chapter 7
Overview: The 7th popular series starring Hitoshi Ozawa. Hitoshi Soma, the leader of the Soma group, went to the third chairman, Goichi Yajima, with his feet settled with Keizo Sakai, who planned to take over the Shinseikai, and asked him about the killing of the same gate. On the other hand, the Hanshin Tigers' Murasame prepares to fight with the Soma group because Sakai's Odai was killed, but the chairman, Harimoto, takes measures. The Soma group and the Hanshin Tigers did not appear at the regular meeting of the headquarters. The stage is moved to Kochi, and the conflict between the Soma group and the Hanshin Tigers begins.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-25
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Suzume Iro Doki
Overview: The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her days in a state of despondency, but when her estranged husband and daughter disappear, she embarks on a search, partly out of ambition.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
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Flowers Blooming on the Shore
Overview: Two people meet on a beach in Isumi. One is Ayaka, who skipped work and arrived at the seaside with no idea where she was going. The other is Nagisa, who was born and raised in the town. Ayaka and Nagisa decide to have a drink together. Ayaka, who has built a career at a Tokyo company, feels comfortable being with Nagisa, despite their differences – Nagisa grew up surrounded by nature and she is free-spirited. Ayaka was planning to skip work for just one day, but she eventually decides to stay on for a while and she requests a leave of absence from her company. Nagisa invites Ayaka to join her at the yakitori restaurant, and together they start an izakaya where the menu changes daily. Ayaka and Nagisa go fishing and enjoy a slow, relaxing life on the beach. One day, Ayaka confesses the incident that became the reason for her absence from work.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-11
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Capital Conflict
Overview: The Tenma-kai, a Kansai yakuza organization, has been eagerly eyeing an expansion into Kanto, breaking the long-standing agreement between the two regions. In this crisis, Takeda (Nishioka Tokuma), the leader of the Takeda Family, proposes uniting the Kanto yakuza under a single alliance to block the Tenma-kai's incursion. While many groups quickly agree to the plan, the Kyotoukai alone refuses to cooperate. Suspicion arises that the Kyotoukai's leader, Nishijima (Taro Suwa), might betray them and side with the Tenma-kai. Concerned by this possibility, Yamamoto (Matsuda Masaru), an executive of the Kyotoukai, turns to Enomoto (Yasukaze Motomiya), the Takeda Family's underboss assistant, for advice. However, that very night, Yamamoto is mysteriously murdered! Enomoto sets out to pursue the killer, but...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-06
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Capital Conflict 2
Overview: The largest yakuza organization in Kansai, the Tenma-kai, has broken the agreement and begun advancing into Kanto. Enomoto (Yasukaze Motomiya), the assistant underboss of the Takeda Family in Kanto, is approached by the Tenma-kai with an offer to join them, but he refuses. However, due to a scheme by the Tenma-kai, the Takeda Family’s boss, Takeda Masaki (Nishioka Tokuma), is suddenly arrested on charges of extortion. Additionally, the family’s underboss, Miyamura (Jiro Okazaki), is ambushed and murdered. Enomoto suspects there might be a traitor within the family and begins an independent investigation. The suspects that emerge are the headquarters director Ishibashi Masayuki (Kawamoto Junichi), assistant underboss Sakai Takahiro (Miyamoto Taisei), and the young boss Makabe Mitsuhiro (Takanori Higuchi). One of these three is the betrayer...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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Capital Conflict 3
Overview: To prevent the Kansai-based Tenma-kai from expanding into Kanto, Enomoto (Yasukaze Motomiya), leader of the Enomoto-gumi and part of the Kanto yakuza, was guarding Takeda Masaki (Tokuma Nishioka), president of the largest Kanto organization, the Bandō Alliance. However, Takeda was targeted by a hitman. Although Takeda survived, he remained unconscious, and his condition was critical. Makabe (Takanori Higuchi), the director of the organization, plotted to take over as Takeda’s successor and support the Tenma-kai’s advance into Kanto. Learning of Makabe’s schemes, Enomoto ordered Higuchi (Keiichi Yamamoto), the underboss, to investigate his movements. Meanwhile, Takeda regained consciousness and, from his hospital bed, announced his retirement. He expressed his intent to name Makabe as his successor, shocking both Enomoto and Makabe. However, this decision came with a specific condition...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-25
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新・ミナミの帝王～スキャンダルを暴け! 銀次郎に託された遺言～
Overview: The 21st work of the Shin Minami no Teiou series
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-22
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Akame 48 Waterfalls
Overview: A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-25
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