Ken Ishiguro
Also Known As: 石黑賢, 이시구로 켄, 石黒賢
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: January 31, 1966
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Gender: Male
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Heaven Can Wait. Maybe...
Overview: Kaoru, Hiroki and Takeshi are childhood friends. Adults now, they have gone their separate ways, but still live close to each other in central Tokyo. Hiroki works for a newspaper company, and Takeshi has followed in his father's footsteps to work at the Tsukiji fish market. Both men love Kaoru, but Hiroki is too shy to express it. Finally, Takeshi proposes to her, and she accepts. On the day of their engagement party, Takeshi crashes his car and becomes comatose. After three years, Takeshi comes out of his coma - but with no memory of his engagement.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-02
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警視庁科学捜査研究所－文書鑑定の女－
Overview: Yuka (Michiko Hada), a document appraisal engineer at the Institute of Scientific Research, sees a young woman fall from a building. By the time Yuka rushed to the scene, the woman was already dead and had something like a suicide note in her hand. You can feel the clearness of the character settings.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-02
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One Left Hand Shot
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-14
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Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
Overview: A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.
Genres: Drama War Science Fiction Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-05
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Uchū no natsu
Overview: After losing her parents, Kanako moves in with her grandmother in a town by the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-04
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Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
Overview: When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped
Genres: Horror Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-22
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Whiteout
Overview: A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the government with a 24 hour deadline in exchange for the lives of the hostages. To make things more complicated, there was a snowstorm and no one can get in or out near the area. Fortunately, the terrorists did not capture Togashi, the dam controller, and he is the only person who can rescue those hostages from the terrorists...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-19
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LONE WOLF
Overview: Akira moved to LA with his mother when he was a child. The reason for this was the accidental death of his father who was a stuntman. after growing up, akira became a professional motocross racer and participated in the national motocross championship. but his mother suddenly dies. akira is so shocked that he leaves the world of motocross behind and retreats to his home for a while. he then decides to return to japan to seek revenge against gou, the man responsible for his father’s death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-23
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Dream Stage
Overview: 20-year-old Ozawa Tsubasa has been helping out in the eatery that her mother Yukiko runs in a port town in the Tohoku region. She loves songs and secretly wishes to become a singer. However, she is on the verge of giving up that dream since it is practically impossible. Seeing her mother keep on working despite the hardships as well as the deserted town, she doubts that dreams and wishes come true. But one day, Tsubasa travels back in time to Tokyo in the year 1975 in an unexpected way. She meets 20-year-old Ozora Tsubasa, a cheerful and positive girl with the same name and dream as her. The unsuspecting Tsubasa had left home and come to Tokyo under the mistaken impression that she was scouted by a television station.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-22
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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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Masquerade Night
Overview: An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at the countdown party Masquerade Night that will be held at Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. Detective Kosuke Nitta must go undercover and work again at the Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. There, he meets Naomi Yamagishi, who works as a concierge. Without any information about the criminal, except that the person will be in attendance, Detective Kosuke Nitta works feverishly to find the criminal among the 500 attendees.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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Midnight Eagle
Overview: A stolen military aircraft with nuclear missiles on board crashes in the snowbound Northern Japanese Alps. Two teams of rangers from Japan's Defense Force must reach the craft before the enemies do.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-23
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姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-07-11
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The Half Moon
Overview: Sex isn't something one plans. It just happens. Yoko is a 23 year old pink collared worker. After college she is kept close with Yokoyama and Ishida, two male college friends who both harbor feelings for her. Yokoyama is straight as an arrow, yet impulsive when it comes to love. Ishida is more the outspoken type. When Yokoyama proposes to her, Yoko wonders if the old marriage myth is true. Is settling down with an 'ordinary' guy the key to a happy marriage?
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-08
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Little DJ
Overview: Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-15
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海の斜光
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-17
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Perfect Blue
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-18
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再雇用警察官5
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-13
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再雇用警察官4
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-04
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Pandora: Eternal life
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Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-27
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中央流沙
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-14
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The Last Witness
Overview: Sadato Sakata was a highly regarded public prosecutor but now has his own law practice and specializes in criminal cases. One day, Sadato accepts a request to defend a successful businessman accused of murdering a woman he was having an affair with. The crime appears open and shut: fingerprints, bloodstains, and security camera footage all indicate Kuniaki Shimazu is guilty. But Shimazu insists he is innocent, and Sadato’s intuition leads him to accept the case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-24
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The Confidence Man JP - Episode of the Hero -
Overview: Dako, Boku-chan and Richard commit their next con on Malta Island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-14
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Don Matsugoro's Big Adventure
Overview: Don Matsugoro and his son Don Jr fight against a disgustingly reach family who tries to take over a kid's playground called Children Land.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-19
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Happy Retirement
Overview: Shintaro, an Assistant Bank Division Chief at the Financial Services Agency, had been working like a dog for 33 years. But just five years before he is due for retirement, his boss framed him for accepting bribes. Shintaro was forced to retire immediately and was parachuted into a public organization, JAMS (Japan Association of Medium and Small Enterprises). Instead of a happy retirement that he had dreamt of, his out-of-the-blue retirement triggers a complete family breakup. To everyone’s surprise, his job is “to do nothing” for an annual salary of ten million yen!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-18
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The Pale Hand
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Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-13
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Hyakunen no kei, watashi ni ari
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-03
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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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Family
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 1999.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-19
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The Signs of Love
Overview: Sayaka Miyamoto (Nao Matsushita) and Keita Fukushima (Terunosuke Takezai) attend the same university and believe their love for each other will never end. However, as time goes by and they graduate, their future starts to part as they both begin moving forward to capture their own dreams. Now in the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain, the former lovers cross paths once again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-06
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Black Report
Overview: It was a novel based on the incident that occurred in reality, and the series began in 1960 with "Weekly Shincho".
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-09
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The 11 Words Murder
Overview: A series of suspicious deaths, starting with that of her boyfriend Kawazu Masayuki, prompts mystery novelist Yuki Rikako to investigate. She discovers that all the victims were once passengers on the same cruise ship a year ago and involved in an accident that left one man dead. Rikako must find out what really happened during that outing before more casualties result.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-10
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Tenshin
Overview: Tenshin Okakura left the great achievement to the Japanese modern art. This is a story of Tenshin's life and conflict and teacher-student love between Tenshin, who rediscovered art of Japan and tried to produce new beauty in Meiji period, and his young pupils, Taikan Yokoyama, Shunsou Hishida, Kanzan Shimomura, Buzan Kimura.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-16
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Hibi
Overview: Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-19
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Shichou Shisu
Overview: The mayor is found dead in the river in a small town known for its hot springs. It's assumed that he fell to his death, but his nephew just cannot understand why his uncle would have gone there by himself to begin with. When he cleans up his house, he finds his uncle's diary and tries to find out what exactly happened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-03
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4.50 from Paddington
Overview: Toko Amano worked as a detective, but to take care of her sick husband she quit her job. After her husband passed away, Toko Amano now works as a crisis management expert. 3 days ago, Toko Amano's former mother-in-law rode on an express train with beds. She witnessed a man strangling a woman and told the train conductor, but he thought she imagined it. The police later searched for the woman's body, but could not find her. Toko Amano boards the same express train that her former mother-in-law rode. She looks for the dead body.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-24
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Samurai Rock
Overview: Masami is a guitarist who dreams of his band “Rhythm Head” winning the Grand Prix at the Japan Music Carnival. History, and the warlords of 16th century feudal Japan are the very last thing on his mind. But when Rhythm Head are performing in Nagoya, a mysterious lightning strike causes not only a power blackout, but also a “time slip”, in which two of Japan’s preeminent samurai-era figures, Nobunaga Oda and Hideyoshi Toyotomi are transported to present day Japan. To Rhythm Head’s manager, the duo are the perfect vehicle for the band to transition to an idol group, increase their chances of becoming famous, winning accolades and taking away the Japan Music Carnival top prize. Could this be the beginning of a new type of music, courtesy of a brand new band Samurai Rock?
Genres: Music History Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-09
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The Rite of Loss
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Genres: Crime Adventure Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-30
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Dear My Love
Overview: Too shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses lie between each and every couple, when they look back the distance created during the long years in which they took each other for granted... Love Letters sent from husbands to wives and from wives to husbands, quietly voice their unspoken appreciation for each other over the years that they have shared. The original idea comes from the postcard project "Love Letters at Sixty" which has brought a wave of sympathy to the precious emotions shared by many married couples.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-16
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The Legacy of Dr. Death: Black File
Overview: A series of suspicious death cases take place. All the victims were terminal patients. Detective Hayato Inukai (Gou Ayano) and Detective Asuka Takachiho (Keiko Kitagawa) investigate the case. Through their investigation, they learn of a person known as "Dr. Death." He performs euthanasia by request. Meanwhile, Detective Hayato Inukai’s daughter Sayaka requests the help of Dr. Death. Sayaka suffers from a severe kidney disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-13
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Food Luck!
Overview: Yoshito grew up with his mother Yasue after his father passed away. His mother ran a yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant that his father had left behind. Yoshito enjoyed eating his mother's cooking and their restaurant was loved by many people. Things changed after popular food critic Furuyama Tatsuya published false statements about their yakiniku restaurant. Due to that, their restaurant saw a sharp drop in customers. Yasue worked hard to recover business for the restaurant. Due to Yoshito's behavior in wanting attention from his mom, Yasue decided to shut down the restaurant. 18 years later, Yoshito lives alone and he works as a freelance writer. One day, he takes work for a new online foodie website. He works with editor Takenaka Shizuka. Their first assignment involves yakiniku. Around that time, Yoshito hears that his estranged mother Yasue has collapsed.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-20
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Peak: The Rescuers
Overview: Shimazaki Sanpo is an experienced mountain climber and rescue team volunteer. Sanpo loves the mountains and wants as many people as possible to experience everything they have to offer so much so that he never holds a grudge against anyone for causing an accident due to their own negligence. Even if a fellow rescuer dies, he's the kind of man who can look toward the corpse and say "You did your best." One spring, newcomer Shiina Kumi is assigned to the Nagano prefecture mountain rescue team where she experiences growth thanks to Sanpo's guidance and the seemingly harsh training methods of the team's captain, Noda. However, she becomes depressed when she's unable to translate her skills to a real-life situation. As her confidence wanes, multiple accidents occur simultaneously due to a mountain blizzard, forcing the entire team into action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-05-07
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Saikoyou Keisatsukan 2
Overview: A police officer rehired after retiring investigates a case.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-28
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The Confidence Man JP - The Movie -
Overview: In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-17
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The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess –
Overview: Set in Langkawi, Malaysia, professional scammers Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) target the Fuu Family for their next heist. Raymond Fuu, who was the head of the Fuu Family, passed away and he left behind 10 trillion yen. Dako, Boku-chan and Richard scheme to gain the inordinate inheritance. --asianwiki
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-23
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Belle
Overview: Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-16
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Faces
Overview: Juzo Kimura is a wandering Ronin with a past. 15 years later, after winding up in Edo, he becomes a sword teacher to support his wife and daughter. But he has a dark side to him; at night, he becomes an assassin for hire. The fates of men living double lives cross in the shadows of Edo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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