Tomoko Otakara
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: December 24, 1971
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Rhapsody in August
Overview: The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-25
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Shikoku
Overview: Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayori, died several years ago and that Sayori's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has gone almost insane with grief. After seeing Sayori's ghost several times during the night, Hinako consults with some local experts on the paranormal and discovers that Sayori's mother has something planned for her daughter...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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A Samurai Chronicle
Overview: A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-04
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The Enchantment
Overview: A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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Swimming Upstream
Overview: One day after school, Kaoru glances at Sonoko at the pool side. He falls in love with her at first sight and decides to join the swimming team even though he cannot swim.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-02
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Roar of the Crowd
Overview: Based on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari Tobe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-09
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Tulips in October
Overview: Detective Ushio is called in to the murder of an elite heart surgeon, who was stabbed twice at a cluster of vending machines in a parking lot.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-22
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See You at the Campground
Overview: Japanese romantic comedy film.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-07
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Summer Vacation 1999
Overview: Summer Vacation tells the story of four teenage students who spend their summer vacation at school – unsupervised and untouched by the outside world.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-03-26
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Terminal Station Series - Umbrella of Goodwill
Overview: Masanao Ushio and other detectives from Shinjuku West PD discover the strangled dead body of a woman in an empty building in West Shinjuku in Tokyo. According to her husband Takeshi, the murdered Chieko Akiba was a top salesperson at the insurance company where she worked, but quit her job three months ago and planned to open a beauty salon after buying the building which happens to be the crime scene. The call history on her mobile phone reveals the victim answered a call at 8:16 PM and is presumed to have been murdered immediately afterwards. However, Ushio is surprised to hear who was on the other side of the call: Kyoko Yamano, a woman who accompanied Ushio under an umbrella on a rainy night one year ago and whose husband was killed by someone that very night...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-26
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Murderous Intent in the Pacific
Overview: A ferry captain named Sugisaki (Takahashi Hideki) and his first officer, Kojima (Funakoshi Eiichiro), participate in a photoshoot conducted by camerawoman Yamaka Shiori (Ohama Tomoko) of the ferry. The ferry reaches Miyazaki and Sugisaki and Kojima go to the hotel where a showing of Yamakawa's photos is being held. Yoshizawa (Nakajima Hisayuki), a magazine editor, is waiting for Yamakawa at the hotel.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-26
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Super Scandal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-24
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The Drive
Overview: Kono Takeshi has given up work as an electrician to run a gift-shop business with his partner/mistress Rieko, who's a couple of years older than him. When the company faces bankruptcy Kono wants to quit, but Rieko strings him along with the promise of a large cash investment, the proceeds of a real-estate deal. Her actual plan to raise the money is to kidnap a young woman and demand a ransom for her release. The trouble is, it never occurs to her to keep the victim alive before trying to extort the cash. And when things start to go wrong, Rieko responds by murdering another girl and attempting another ransom scam..
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-26
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Prosecutor Yoko Asahina 18
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-12
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Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Last Family
Overview: The body of Kou Fujisaki, who fell to her death, is discovered in front of an old building in West Shinjuku. Chief Sakamoto notifies Ushio, who arrives at the scene. Ushio thinks that this must be a murder, but according to Yamaji, who was at the scene before him, an eyewitness testified that Kou had jumped off the roof of the building, killing herself. Kou is someone who has lingered in Ushio's memory - as a suspect...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-07
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Madadayo
Overview: Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-04-17
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The Guard from Underground
Overview: A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.
Genres: Thriller Horror Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-16
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Seventeen, Hokuto Summer
Overview: Ayami Kawaguchi is a 17-year-old high school student. Her family runs a tofu shop where the tofu is made with local spring water. She is a member of her high school's kyudo club, but she doesn't do well there. One day, Ayami delivers tofu to a local sake brewery. There, she finds the owner of the sake brewery, Shozo Sugita, collapsed and he is sent to hospital. Afterwards, Ayami Kawaguchi gets involved in a dispute over the water source succession.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-09-09
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Koya no Shomei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-27
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