Naoko Watanabe
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Biography: Naoko Watanabe is an actress who received her first big break in François Girard’s Silk. After starring in her first leading role in the 2010 film Nude, she acted in a handful of movies before retiring.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kanagawa, Japan
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Birthday: July 30, 1984
Age: 40 years old
Gender: Female
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Shaolin Girl
Overview: A Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial arts school.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-26
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Noriko's Dinner Table
Overview: A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Silk
Overview: French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs. After a long journey, Hervé finally arrives at a village where he can buy them. He becomes infatuated with a young concubine and goes to great lengths to see her again. But, when war breaks out in Japan, the concubine flees, forcing Hervé to return home to his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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Outrage
Overview: When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-17
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Nude
Overview: After graduating high school, Hiromi moves from the coastal town of Niigata to Tokyo in the hopes of becoming a famous actress. Her dream seemingly comes true as a manager scouts her off the street. He recruits her as a model but it's actually to be a "nude" model. It's not exactly what Hiromi was looking for, but she can't turn down the opportunity. As her career dwindles, the manager coerces her to make the jump to AV and Hiromi gains a new identity as Mihiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-18
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Kazoku gokko
Overview: Different people and five different families are acting out various scenarios, scripts and what-ifs. First there is the four Suzuki family members, who are not, sitting around a table in isolation. Then there is the unveiling of a will and what happens when it is read out, there are the sisters who are at it against each other, then there is the funeral that does not go according to plan and more.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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An Assassin
Overview: Ryo Hanaki was raised to be a professional assassin. One day he was defeated by some accident in the mission. Here he meets Rio, an attractive high school girl. He spent days as a heartless assassin, but his life starting changes after he helps Rio. By a twist of fate, Rio who was a complete unknown became an assassin target overnight. A single mistake from his decision to save Rio decided the destiny of the masses...
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-08
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Scary True Stories: Grudge 2
Overview: 11th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-06
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Evil and The Mask
Overview: Kuki Fumihiro is a son from a wealthy zaibatsu (conglomerate) family. His father raises him to become pure evil. Kuki kills his father to protect his adopted sister Kaori. Afterward, Kuki disappears. He undergoes plastic surgery and takes the identity of Koichi Shintani. He watches Kaori and faces the great evil that exists within the Kuki family.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-13
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Reveries
Overview: Kazuya Naruse, an obedient programer falls for a girl "Rumi", whom he gets to know through chat rooms. Naruse lost himself in this love, as if he lives in another world. Rumi has a mentally ill husband. Spending time with these two, the illusion of love in Naruse gradually changes to uneasiness and insanity.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-01
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Greatful Dead
Overview: Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-31
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Tokyo University Story
Overview: Murakami Naoki is the most intelligent student at his high school, but he can't stop obsessing over a girl named Mizuno Haruka. He finally asks her out, and to his surprise, she accepts. After several months of a loving yet obviously doomed romance, it comes time for them to take the entrance exams for Tokyo University. What will happen to their relationship if only one of them is accepted?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-25
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Lost in Wrestling
Overview: Female Mongolian wrestler, Na Ren, was invited to participate in a women’s wrestling show in Japan. The show host, Boss, instantaneously changed the competition to mud wrestling and Na Ren was forced to compete. Later on, Na Ren discovered that Boss was actually her childhood playmate, Chi Na Si, who was banned from Sumo wrestling five years ago. Knowing that Boss had deceived her, Na Ren was nonetheless determined to awaken his consciousness and good heart through love.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2015-06-15
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kimi dame
Overview: A young writer's father returns after a long-time disappearance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-28
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The Chasing World 2
Overview: Teenager Tsubasa Sato returns to the parallel universe where demons are out to kill every person with the last name of Sato.
Genres: Mystery Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-05
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眩しくて見えなかったから長い瞬きを繰り返した
Overview: Film inspired by the music of Country Yard.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-23
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Guilty of Romance
Overview: In a Tokyo love hotel district, a woman is found dead in a derelict apartment. As police investigate, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To break away from the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model enacting sex in front of a camera. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade that she's still the doting wife she's supposed to be.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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