Hisako Manda
Also Known As: 万田久子, 萬田 久子, Hisako Manda
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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Haha no Okurimono
Overview: Based on novel by Kuniko Mukoda, "Haha no Okurimono" tells the story of a soon to be married couple and their respective mothers. On the eve of Akiko and Masaaki's wedding, Akikio's mother Nobue shows up. Many years when ago, Akiko's mother ran off with a married man and since then Nobue has dropped all relations with her mother, even telling Masaaki that her mother was dead.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-14
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Parasite Eve
Overview: A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wipe out humanity.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-02-01
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Overview: A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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13 Assassins
Overview: In between the original 1963 13 ASSASSINS film and the 2010 remake by Miike Takashi, Fuji TV produced a version for TV. Starring Nakadai Tatsuya and Natsuyagi Isao, with strong support from Tanba Tetsuro and Tanaka Ken, this is the ultimate tale of samurai justice carried out in a historical masterpiece. The shogun’s half-brother, Matsudaira Naritsugu has been slated to join the Roju Council of Elders as a senior adviser even though he is criminally insane. His outrageous acts cause one of his top retainers to commit ritual suicide in protest over his lord’s crimes. Alerted to these crimes, Roju Councilor Doi asks Inspector General Shmada Shinzaemon to assassinate Naritsugu before he can be seated on the council. Gathering a band of 13 (including himself), Shimada sets out on a death-defying journey to cut down the lord before he can reach Edo. Can a band of 13 samurai defeat the vile Naritsugu’s 200 man entourage and enact justice against his cruelty?
Genres: Action Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-28
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Revenge Investigation Line Hot Sand with Murderous Intent (Deduction)
Overview: 1990 Original Video.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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Revenge Investigation Line Hot Sands of Murderous Intent (Solution)
Overview: 1990 Original Video.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Pretty Girls
Overview: A ragtag team of pretty girls team together to fight an evil organization, in this low budget action packed film.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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Pretty Girls 2
Overview: The team of femme fatales get together once again this time to take down a new enemy.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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Murder of the Inugami Clan
Overview: Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, the granddaughter of a person to whom Sahei feels heavily indebted. The will states that all his assets are inherited by Tamayo alone, on the condition that she marries one of the sons of the daughters. Furudate's assistant learns the content of the will, and seeks advice from Kindaichi Kosuke, a private detective, as he senses the air of unease. Shortly afterwards, murders start to occur one after another in the clan.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-16
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禁断の実の美女
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-07
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In the City of Dawn
Overview: By chance, Watabe (Goro Kishitani) meets subordinate worker Nakanishi (Kyoko Fukada) at a batting center. A friendship occurs which leads to a heated love affair. Watabe then learns that Nakanishi is the prime suspect of a murder case that occurred 15 years - the murder of her father's ex-lover. The statue of limitations for that murder case is soon to expire ..
Genres: Romance Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-08
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The Setting Sun
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4
Overview: Samon, who had left his position as a police constable, embarks on a journey. During his travel, he is attacked by a group of masked bandits and sufferes a deep wound on his way back to Edo at the request of Magistrate Toyama. Saved by Dr. Kazumichi, Samon is asked by Toyama to identify an informant among the members of the lightning gang, a group of cruel thieves wreaking havoc throughout Edo. Samon then becomes an assistant to the firefighter squad led by Naito Hayato-masamune. One night, while rushing to the oil merchant Tambaya, who is attacked by the robbers, Samon and his group discovered a trembling young girl Oso who is the only survivor of the massacre and has lost her voice due to terror.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-03-15
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Seicho Matsumoto Special: Fingers
Overview: Fukue Yumiko is a struggling actress who isn't afraid to lie, cheat, or exploit her own sexuality if it means her own success. But as she becomes a big star, one TV reporter decides that it's time someone uncovered her dark past and reveal just how far she was prepared to go for her own fame.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-21
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Sakura Housara
Overview: Shonosuke Furukehashi (Hiroshi Tamaki) is a young samurai and the second son of Sozaemon (Bunchin Katsura) of Togane Domain, Kazusa Province. Sozaemon serves as an attendant, but one day, he is suddenly suspected of accepting bribes. Forged documents written in handwriting startlingly identical to his offer incontrovertible evidence. Framed for accepting bribes he knows nothing about, Sozaemon commits ritual suicide for his “crime”. Shonosuke’s elder brother Katsunosuke (Satoshi Hashimoto), an assistant instructor at the domain’s training hall, is placed under house arrest. Because of that, Shonosuke leaves for Edo alone in order to clear the name of his beloved father.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Shogun Iemitsu Shinobi Tabi
Overview: Shogun Iemitsu Shinobi Tabi was a pair of television jidaigeki series on TV Asahi in Japan. The first aired in 1990–1991 and the sequel in 1992–1993. Kunihiko Mitamura portrayed Tokugawa Iemitsu in both series. The show premiered on October 13, 1990, as an off-season replacement for the popular Abarenbo Shogun. It shared several cast members with Abarenbo Shogun, including Reiko Takashima, Ayako Tanaka and some minor guest actors. The final episode aired on March 30, 1991. The sequel ran during the same months of 1992–1993.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-08-30
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Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
Overview: Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-28
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Hear the Sound of Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-23
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Uzumasa Limelight
Overview: Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-14
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Teinen Oyaji Kaizou Keikaku
Overview: Tsuneo Shoji has finally reached retirement age, but his wife feels sick when she sits in the passenger seat of the car due to her husband's illness, and his daughter says, "Husband's disease!"
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-25
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The 8-Tomb Village
Overview: A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-26
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Love Hotel
Overview: A tale of two broken souls. A call-girl named Yumi, “night-blooming flower,” and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion. With a taste for wicked absurdity while coursing with undercurrents of operatic emotion, at times verging on a musical, Love Hotel is moved by the irrational forces that attract two bodies together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-03
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Firefly
Overview: A young outlaw racing through the streets of Yokohama. Will the love that slipped through his fingers like sand come back to him once again?
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-02-18
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Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen
Overview: Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-25
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Last Run: 100 Million Yen Worth of Love and Betrayal
Overview: A former Formula 2 racing champion is asked to assist in setting up an auction of vintage cars. He becomes aware of a billionaire's plot to rig the auction and takes action against him.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-30
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TANNKA
Overview: Kaori, a professional thirty-something caught between her passion for an older married man and the indulgence of an energetic, but less-fulfilling, youthful suitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-11
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Night Train
Overview: A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-01-17
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Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy
Overview: Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku, the exam-addled college student; Mrs. Ichinose, the drunken gossip; Kentaro, her bratty son; Akemi, the boozy bar hostess; and the mooching and peeping Mr. Yotsuya.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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Private Detective DOBU 4: The Mysterious Kite Murders Case
Overview: In Edo's autumn, a wave of murders hits, targeting those linked to an old case. A young man, Utaro, takes charge, but Dobu's love interest is involved.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-11
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Kyoto Yokai Map 6: A legend of love that transcends time and space and is revived at the Jidai Matsuri! A 1200-year-old beauty vs. a psychic detective
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 1994.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-11-19
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Lifetime Insecurity
Overview: In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-29
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The Girl in Glass
Overview: A girl from a wealthy family falls in love with a working-class boy.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-10
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Marriage
Overview: Urumi Kenji is a scoundrel who tricks women with his handsome looks and charm into a marriage yarn and swindles them out of their money. He is not a one-man show however. He works with Sengoku Ruriko. They use plotting, scheming, tricking, engagement rings, gourmet and sex to succeed.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-24
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Saito Dosan: Rage of Power
Overview: During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country under their banners by becoming the supreme leader. One of the first to vie for power in this way was Saito Dosan, the 'Viper'. His son-in-law, Oda Nobunaga, did in fact unite the nation after subduing all of his enemies, yet falling at last to the treachery of one of his most trusted generals. This story is a pre-cursor to those later events as the brilliant military strategist Saito Dosan rises to power and notoriety as a great lord in his own right. Directed by Kudo Eiichi and with a tremendous supporting cast that includes Nakamura Toru as Oda Nobunaga and Chiba Shinichi as Akechi Mitsutsugu, battle scenes of awesome power and a unique view of Japanese history, this is a marvelous production highlighted by the action scenes done by the Japan Action Club (JAC).
Genres: History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-03
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L・O・V・I・N・G
Overview: Murder case.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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Return Of Happiness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-06-20
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Hi to Shio
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Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-21
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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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Jugyo Sankan no Onna
Overview: One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised to see a call girl he once had an encounter with standing among the parents in the back of the classroom. According to the school's files, her name is Yukako Sawada, and her child Eisaku has no legal father. The next day, Eisaku gives Tasaka a letter from Yukako asking to meet at the hotel where they first met, and Tasaka sets out with an uneasy feeling...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-28
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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.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-21
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Ryakudatsu ai
Overview: The fear of the fiercely obsessive woman who deprives her best friend of her husband. An emotionally charged movie starring Hitomi Kuroki, Masato Furuoya, and Hisako Manda.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-10
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Synchronicity
Overview: Three strangers get a strange feeling that something is "calling them." Minor things about their daily lives begin to have significance to them. However, this change causes each of them to distance themselves from those around them.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-05
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Shinsengumi
Overview: Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.
Genres: Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-15
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OL Tachi no Hanran: Izu Shain Satsujin Jiken
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Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-19
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Lonely Hitman
Overview: There are men in this world who seem to have been born to be a villain. His upbringing, his sexuality, everything about him was suited to being in the criminal world. However, he also had a loving wife and children. This is the story of a man who throws himself into a deadly struggle on the front lines of a huge violent war, while at the same time seeking the happiness of his family as a good husband and father.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon's Love and Ambition
Overview: The live of the daimyo Date Masamune
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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リトルシンドバッド 小さな冒険者たち
Overview: Story about the adventures and the friendship of two Japanese-Malaysian boys.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-20
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天才を育てた女房～世界が認めた数学者と妻の愛～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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