Ryudo Uzaki
Also Known As: Shuji Kimura, Ryuudou Uzaki, Ryūdō Uzaki, うざき りゅうどう, Ryudo Usaki, 宇崎龙童
Biography: Ryûdô Uzaki (宇崎 竜童, Uzaki Ryūdō, February 23, 1946), born Shuji Kimura (木村 修司), is a Japanese singer, composer, actor, entertainer, and film director. He is from Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. His group, the Down Town Boogie-Woogie Band, was one of the most prominent 1970s Japanese rock music bands. He is married to lyricist and actress Yoko Aki (阿木 燿子).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: February 23, 1946
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Odadoushikai Oda Seiji 9
Overview: 9th entry in the series
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-25
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Odadoushikai Oda Seiji Final Chapter
Overview: 10th entry in the series
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-25
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47 Ronin
Overview: Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-22
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The Musical Note and the Seaweed
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Overview: Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-15
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Assault Rakugaki Fools
Overview: This exciting work is full of dangerous behind the scenes stories from the sex industry.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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G.I. Samurai
Overview: A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
Genres: Action Science Fiction War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-17
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Boxer Joe
Overview: A docudrama about the boxer Jôichirô Tatsuyoshi. The documentary part follows Tatsuyohi for 18 months, from his comeback from an eye injury to his match against Yasuei Yakushiji in 1994. A fictional part follows a restaurant owner, fan of Tatsuyohi, waiting for the match with his friends and family.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-27
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The Moments We Lived
Overview: After working as a reporter and an assistant at a radio station, Watanabe Yoshimitsu, former leader of the bosozoku gang Black Emperor, returned to his old stomping grounds and began to make a film about bosozoku. At the time, he was 21. The teenage members of the bosozoku group, also known as " Thunder " would get into their revamped motorbikes and cars and race around the city. With the police as their enemies, they ran from patrol cars and did other defiant acts. They would put on outlandish clothing and, as a result of fights with rival groups, were very loyal to other members of their own gang. Every Saturday, they would cruise around, vanish and reappear throughout the entire night with no particular goal. However on 1 December 1978, because of provisions in the new highway transport law, the end was at hand for their " season of running wild. " The film shows them simply continuing to run wild on this last night before the law is to take effect.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-12-19
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New Gang Emblem
Overview: The first 'New Gang Emblem' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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New Gang Emblem 2
Overview: Sequel to 'New Gang Emblem'.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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New Gang Emblem 4
Overview: The fourth 'New Gang Emblem' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-03
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New Gang Emblem 5
Overview: The fifth 'New Gang Emblem' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-27
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New Gang Emblem 6
Overview: The sixth 'New Gang Emblem' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-20
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New Gang Emblem 7
Overview: The seventh 'New Gang Emblem' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-26
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New Gang Emblem 8
Overview: The final 'New Gang Emblem' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-11
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Station
Overview: A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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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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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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Out of Focus
Overview: A magazine publisher called Out Of Focus hires a new female camerawoman. This company is located in Tokyo. The new photographer moves from outside the city to Tokyo and upon arrival and on her first day is tasked with immediately snapping pictures. Her boss sends her on a mission with a senior colleague. The senior cameraman uses rogue ways surprising his new colleague. A new assignment related to a former Japanese Prime Minister falls on her lap. The court does not look fondly at photography of this kind.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
Overview: Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-12-20
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Tattoo
Overview: An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-05
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Bad Lands
Overview: A grifter and her loose-cannon brother get their hands on a massive amount of money, but their ill-gotten gains puts a huge target on their back.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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g@me.
Overview: A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to play the victim of his bogus kidnapping. The movie is based on the novel Geimu No Na Wa Yuukai ('The name of the game is kidnapping') by popular mystery novelist Keigo Higashino.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-08
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神様のピンチヒッター
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-23
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An Angel with Many Scars
Overview: An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to him, decide to go to northern Japan in search of the boy’s mother, and the detective’s buddy Hisashi joins them later.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-04-19
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Dora-heita
Overview: A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-13
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Antenna
Overview: Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-10
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Permanent Nobara
Overview: Naoko returns home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako runs the only beauty parlor in town. The local women go there to pass the time lamenting their bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-22
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I Am Makimoto
Overview: Sou Makimoto works in the "send-off" department at the city hall. The department's main responsibility is to hold funerals for people who die alone and bury them at a cemetery. Makimoto doesn't like to socialise with his colleagues or listen to them. By doing his job, he meets various people and slowly begins to change his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Overview: Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-29
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Isao Takahata and His Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Overview: For his first film in fourteen years animation director Isao Takahata embarked on a visually sumptuous adaptation of "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya". A dream project for the director that would hopefully establish the recently formed Ghibli Studio 7, created to meet the demands of a new type of modern animation process. But almost immediately the epic production is faced with difficulties and falls dramatically behind schedule. In this compelling and insightful documentary we follow Isao Takahata and his dedicated team of artists as they frantically strive against adversity to make their vision a reality and bring Studio Ghibli into a new Era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-27
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Erotic Liaisons
Overview: A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her lover and partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of the city to busloads of Japanese tourists. After the wealthy Okuyama hires them to trail his French mistress Lorraine whom he believes to be having an affair, feeble-willed Kishin finds himself seduced by this femme fatale and way out of his depth in a seamy underworld of rich Japanese businessmen, S&M games and huge piles of money.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-17
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The Choice of Hercules
Overview: When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-11
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The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Overview: Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's undying love for the cinema and each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-03
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Family no Kizuna
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-06
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Devilman
Overview: A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying civilization. Close friends Akira and Ryo wind up on different sides of this epic struggle. Akira’s inner strength allows him to maintain his identity and fight for good, but the weaker Ryo is completely overtaken by Satan himself.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-09
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Beautiful World
Overview: A gangster runs a budget nursing home.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-16
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Grasshopper
Overview: Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-07
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CLUB DEJA-VU ONE NIGHT SHOW 松田優作・メモリアル・ライブ
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-15
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Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Overview: Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara (Kuranosuke Sasaki). One day, film producer Koshimizu brings a movie investment proposal to yakuza leader Shimada. Shimada decide to invest in the film and he assigns Yasuhiko Kuwabara to oversee his investment in the film. Film producer Koshimizu though runs away with their investment money. Keisuke and Yasuhiko struggle to get Shimada’s money back from Koshimizu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-28
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Shanghai Rhapsody
Overview: Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Genres: Comedy Drama History Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-10-06
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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Overview: Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she must confront her fate.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-23
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The Bloody Afternoon
Overview: Anarchic parody of the crime genre set around a bank robbery.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-07-14
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Overview: Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-26
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Yokohama BJ Blues
Overview: When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ gets the blame. He must start his own investigation to clear his name, but what he uncovers is a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug-dealing gangsters, the city's underground gay and biker scenes, and even his past.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-25
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Welcome to the Surfing Office
Overview: Kenshi Tokunaga runs an IT company in Tokyo. Due to a big company, he has a hard time in hiring engineers. He decides to find engineers for his company in his hometown of Minami, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-19
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Wolf: Running Is Sex
Overview: First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every primal desire whenever they may arise. He takes on a mate, a woman intrigued by his personage or lack thereof, and they live in his den in central Tokyo. As time goes on, we see how this animal clashes with modern man, and the consequences of their coexistance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-20
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Paris/Dakar 1500
Overview: Plot missing
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-05-17
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Fancy
Overview: Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a female fan with the name of Moonlit Night's Star (Sakurako Konishi). She sends letters to Penguin. One day, the female fan appears in front of Akira Takasu and Penguin. These three somehow get involved in a battle between the yakuza.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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The Crossing
Overview: 14-year-old Takuya lives in a rural town near mountains and rivers. His 29-year-old uncle Koji works as a graphic designer in urban Tokyo. Koji's father dies and Takuya is arrested for attempted robbery-the two young men must now face a crucial crossing in their lives. The concluding chapter to director Higashi Yoichi's "boy and river" trilogy, the film highlights contemporary themes like family, adolescence, and the healing properties of nature. The wild but beautiful Kuma River stars as a threatening symbol for the boy's rite of passage. Supernatural beings reign in the mountains above the village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-29
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Cabaret
Overview: A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.
Genres: Drama Crime Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-26
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Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-23
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See You
Overview: Even while having tremendous technology, now have a funeral shop walk picking up the car was retired in the desert Honma (Ken Takakura) is invited from the team DANKAI which declined to Paris-Dakar Rally, the team because of the publicity to supporting popular star had to join. Eventually Among the various speculation of various people, rally began ....
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-18
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The Voice of Sin
Overview: Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex
Overview: Set in the near future after a nuclear war, the film portrays a man who is searching for his former lover.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-20
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The Homeless Student
Overview: Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience of homelessness when this father suddenly decides to abandon his family. Hiroshi and his older siblings do all what they can to withstand the trouble they encounter along their way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-28
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Peaceful Death
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-25
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New Gang Emblem 3
Overview: "Why Yakuza still grows in this nation? The secret is in its soil." Starring Koji Matoba,this is the third story of this series. The former head of the Yamakura group returned to their side as a member of the Minobe group. Its opponent organization launched the Kanto Seido Mutsuchi Kyokai to fight again them. Born as the son of a gang member, Raizo lived a strong life. One day, he then takes a step in the world of the Sula for revenge, treachery and deceit will be repaid in blood....
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-05
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Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen
Overview: In this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with his life after college while competing with Kyoko's impossibly perfect tennis coach for her affection.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-25
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