Shinji Nomura
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: March 16, 1947
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
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Dark Water
Overview: A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-19
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Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
Overview: As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started.
Genres: Animation Comedy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-11
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Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Overview: The Yamato and her crew face the onslaught of the Comet Empire, a civilization from the Andromeda Galaxy who seek to conquer Earth, led by Prince Zordar. They have harnessed a comet and is using its terrible power to unleash destruction upon its rivals and inferiors... which are in fact everyone. The Space Battleship Yamato heads back into action. But this time, it shall not return, and much of the Yamato crew have signed on for their last voyage.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-14
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Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage
Overview: Time to ease up ... not! Although the Yamato's crew has witnessed the end of the long, hard-fought Comet Empire War, a peaceful future will have to wait. While Dessler gathers together the shattered remnants of his Gamilus Empire, new forces are at work in the universe that could augur in another conflict. Seems the Black Star Empire has invaded Dessler's homeworld and is decimating it, all the while gathering power for its war machine.
Genres: Animation TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-10
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Dolls
Overview: Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-12
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Call of the Wild: Howl, Buck
Overview: Buck is a half German Shepard half Saint Bernard whose life is peaceful and happy living with the Millers in California. However, one day he is tricked and sold off. He ends up in the snowy North where he has become a sled dog during the Gold Rush. His story takes many twists and turns and he has to fight for his own survival.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-03
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Overview: After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.
Genres: Adventure Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-03-11
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Urusei Yatsura: Lum the Forever
Overview: While performing in a student film, Ataru cuts down Tarozakura, a large, ancient cherry tree. Strange things begin to happen all across Tomobiki: a mountain appears out of nowhere, spring changes to winter, and Lum loses her powers, while those around her act as if she doesn't exist.
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-02-25
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Be Forever Yamato
Overview: The Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the bomb before it's too late.
Genres: Animation Drama Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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Urusei Yatsura: Remember My Love
Overview: The third film finds Ataru transformed into a pink hippopotamus, which sends Lum chasing after the wicked magician responsible, with catastrophic results. With Lum gone, her friends decide that there is no reason to remain, and so Tomobiki slowly returns to normal. The highlight of the film is a high speed chase scene with an angry Lum flying after the mysterious Ruu through the city at night and into a hall of mirrors (and illusion ). Ataru's true feelings for Lum are probably more obvious in this film than any of the others.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Comedy Fantasy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-26
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Urusei Yatsura: Memorial Album
Overview: Featured special that uses scenes from the series stored on a personal satellite of the Los Mendo family.
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-15
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Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter
Overview: It seems that Lum's grandfather made an agreement that should he have a daughter, she would be married to a traveling merchant that he met. Now, the merchant has come to collect due. Ataru is tricked into thinking that Lum wants to leave, and so, in a moment of anger, says he hates her. Arguments erupt, and Lum decides that she must know the truth of Atarus feelings. As for all the questions of importance for the Onis, a game of tag begins, one that Ataru can win simply by telling Lum I Love You. However, in the end his pride may end up dooming him. So begins the series of events that will at long last decide the future and fate of Ataru and Lum.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-01
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Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling
Overview: Lupika, an alien princess, is in love with a tofu seller. To make him love her too (at least, announce his love. He obviously fears the social taboo of a tofu vendor marrying a princess), she needs to get a love potion, which is in a certain temple. Legend has it that the only person that can obtain this love potion is the most lecherous man in the universe. That man turns out to be Ataru Moroboshi. Lupika kidnaps Ataru to make him get the potion, and Lum and her friends go out to search for Ataru.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-16
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Ju-On: Black Ghost
Overview: The supernatural grudge manifests itself by way of a strange cyst growing in the body of a young woman, slowly draining all life from her in revenge for... what?
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-27
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Mofuku no niau hitozuma futari
Overview: Yuki Kimura, a company president's secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president's recommendation. When Yutaka breaks up with his lover, a hostess, she implies she's going to commit suicide. In a panic to get to her quickly, Yutaka punches a man at a taxi stand. The next day, when Yutaka's lover hears the news about a man dying and realizes it was the man Yutaka punched, she demands money...
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-09
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Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire
Overview: Story of Rikidozan, a sumo wrestler who can only achieve limited success in Japan because he's half Korean. But when Rikidozan goes to the United States and discovers professional wrestling, he becomes a hero back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-12-15
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