Masami Horiuchi
Also Known As: 호리우치 마사미
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: March 22, 1950
Age: 75 years old
Gender: Male
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Uzumaki
Overview: The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-11
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Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories
Overview: Bunsei era, at a time when Edo culture is at its peak, and barely 50 years before the arrival of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Sabu is a cheerful, honest young man who left his hometown with the dream of becoming a policeman. He is an informant to the policeman Saheiji of Asakusa in Edo and stays with him and his daughter Midori. One day, Sabu encounters the cool master swordsman Ichi, who makes a living giving massages, and they become partners in an unexpected way. Although Sabu is still an informant, he and the blind Ichi collaborate in a way that compensates for each other’s shortcomings. Sabu becomes Ichi’s eyes while Ichi becomes Sabu’s right-hand man and solves cases with his well-honed skills of deduction as they search for the truth in difficult cases in Edo. One case starts with the discovery of two dead bodies in the Sumida River. The bodies have diagonal slashes and were left in boxes.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-12-19
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Die Silbermaske
Overview: Sabine is able to transform into a silver superhero through the power of the Ring of Nibelungen. She travels to Japan where she searches for her father and battles the forces of Dr. Caligari.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-23
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Long Dream
Overview: Strange things lurk in dreams. For Mukoda Tetsurou and the doctors tending to him, things have begun to get stranger as Mukoda begins having longer and longer dreams every night. Can one dream infinity in the span of a night?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-07
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Den Ace: The Final
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-27
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Tange Sazen : The Jar Worth One Million Ryo
Overview: Tange Sazen: Hyakuman Ryo no Tsubo is a remake of a classic 1935 film of the same name by Yamanaka Sadao. Tange Sazen, the one-armd, one-eyed ex-samurai swordsman is the creation of Hayashi Fubo and was one of the most popular characters of the era. This remake is helmed by freshman director Tsuda Toshio, starring Toyokawa Etsushi as Sazen and Wakui Emi as Ofuji, his quick-witted wife. This marks the 34th film in the series of Tange Sazen, and involves an Urn that is worth a million Ryo!.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-17
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Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
Overview: Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general Takeda Shingen. Takeda Shingen has proven himself in battle but there’s an even more capable person in his family, his father Nobutora (lit. Samurai Tiger). The son exiles the father and so the old patriarch goes to Suruga to serve the Ashikaga shogun in Kyoto. Decades later, Nobutora, now 80 years old, learns that Shingen is in trouble and the old man returns home to keep the Takeda family alive as a new leader seeks to usurp leadership of the Takeda’s and starts a fight with the great warlord, Oda Nobunaga.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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Nipple Drill Counterattack: ATTACK OF THE NIPPLE DRILL
Overview: Straight to video film directed by Minoru Kawasaki
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-18
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ハートロス～虹にふれたい女たち～
Overview: Fukaya Sakurako is married to the owner of ‘Fukaya’, a long-established miso shop in Nagoya City. She lives comfortably with her husband Kazuhisa and their daughter Yuko, a university student. Sakurako is content with Kazuhisa, a family man whose redeeming feature is his kindness. Her worry is Yuko who pays no attention to school work because she has been chasing after Shugo, a popular singer-songwriter in Nagoya. One day, Sakurako sees Shugo’s post on social media and an exchange with a young man who is not even her own child begins over smartphone. This is in contrast to her ordinary daily routine and all very exciting for Sakurako. She naturally does not tell her daughter about it. Having aspired to become a songwriter when she was young, Sakurako starts to give Shugo advice on the lyrics for his new song. Then one day, Shugo proposes that they work together in Tokyo but ... is this love? Will Sakurako choose her family or him?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-02
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Ultraman Mebius & Ultra Brothers
Overview: In the beginning of the movie, 20 years ago, on the moon, the 4 Ultra brothers, Ultraman, Seven, Jack, and Ace were fighting a deadly foe known as Yapool, a monster that was several times their size. As they fought, Yapool had a clear advantage and used his several claws to grasp the brothers, although, they managed to clear from the claws through there powers and used a combined Specium Ray to no avail. The monster then flies off to Earth to dodge the attack and the brothers follow. The brothers were barely able to defeat Yapool but the monster still needed to be sealed. However, to seal Yapool away they were forced to give up the ability to transform, and took up jobs to be in the area of Kobe in case the monster ever returned.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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The Dimension Travelers
Overview: A teenage girl makes a new friend at her school who tells her that she has the ability to travel between worlds.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-26
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The Petrified Forest
Overview: Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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School Lunch
Overview: Depicts the “bonds” that connect through “food” under the theme of school lunch in Ashiya City. Nonomura Nana is a new nutritionist who works at an elementary school in Ashiya. Struggle every day for the smiles of children who eat delicious lunch. The lunch menu that appears is packed with the ingenuity and love of nutritionists and cooks. While drawing efforts to keep costs down, cooperation with suppliers, and the backside of difficult cooking sites, the importance of school lunches that protect the growth of children is drawn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-04
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True Mothers
Overview: After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband and son. The family lives a peaceful existence until the arrival of a stranger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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Rampo Noir
Overview: An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-11
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Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
Overview: A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary.
Genres: Adventure Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-14
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A Watcher in the Attic
Overview: In 1923, in a cheap Tokyo rooming house, a languid young man named Goda was feeling bored with his life. One day while playing dress up with a woman’s wig and lipstick, he accidentally loosens a ceiling board in his closet. Climbing up, he discovers a dimly lit passageway under the roof leading to the resident’s other rooms. Soon he is scampering about like a ninja, making knotholes and moving ceiling boards for a better view. What he sees are the intimate acts - sadistic, criminal or vaguely mad - that reveal infinitely more about his fellow roomers than the various fronts they present to the world.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-25
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La Valse
Overview: A rape incident has occurred. The victim was a woman named Yumiko Kawamura, a dental hygienist. However, the statements of the victim Yumiko and the suspect Saburo Kubo were completely incompatible. Adachi, a national lawyer who took on the defense of the suspect, will begin a personal investigation of Yumiko to find out the truth of the case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-02-15
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Aquarian Age: Juvenile Orion
Overview: aka Aquarian Age: The Movie, is based on the popular Japanese CCG (that's collectable card game, for you gaming neophytes), Aquarian Age. The movie represents the transition between the game's first and second Sagas and seems to have been made primarily for fans of the card game, so familiarity with the basic story and characters is assumed. Those watching the movie without first reading the background info in the included booklet are going to be totally lost about what's going on, as the movie begins right in the middle of the climatic battle which wraps up the first Saga. Though it uses the same organizations as the Aquarian Age TV series, the movie does not seem to be directly related to the TV series in any way. (I cannot absolutely confirm this, however, since I only ever saw the first few episodes of the TV series.)
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-22
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Murder on D Street
Overview: Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-16
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Stray Dog
Overview: When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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Drowning Love
Overview: Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa. He is the successor of the Hasegawa family. His family is wealthy and is respected in the area. Natsume Mochizuki and Koichiro Hasegawa become attracted to each other, but something changes their fate.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-05
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The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit
Overview: When heads of state gather at the G8 summit in Japan, Guilala -- the intergalactic monster that had been banished from the earth in The X from Outer Space -- returns to ravage the Japanese countryside and threaten the world leaders. Military strikes prove futile against the beast, but a reporter learns that one rural community possesses a strange ritual that might influence the creature. Minoru Kawasaki directs this campy satire.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-26
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Skyscraper Hunting
Overview: The ASH (Abnormal Species Humanoid) first appeared in the beginning of the 1980s. They looked like humans, but they weren't. The ASH can be identified by a pulsating appendage on their back; it resembles an embossed root clutching the spine. These humanoid creatures have the power to destroy telepathically via a deadly impulse which hemorrhages brain cells. Their goal is to populate the planet via random sexual contact and then take control. There are special police units who fight the ASH. This top secret organization is called The Society For Environment Protection and its agents are called psychosists
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-20
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Ultraman Nexus EX: Shiori - Lost Memories -
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Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Ore no sora
Overview: Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family, who is immensely gifted in nearly everything he does.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-28
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Earth Defense Widow
Overview: Dan is a former geisha, now working as an ace pilot for the Earth Defense Troops. Her fiance was killed by the space monster Bemurasu which consumes nuclear waste. To save Planet Earth, Dan attacks Bemurasu, but whenever she does, she feels ecstasy. Can she save Planet Earth?
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-08
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Inferno
Overview: Satomi is a research student who travels to northern Japan seeking reported olden Christian relics. On the island of Hokkaido and in a village, odd deeds are occurring. As such, she bands together with another researcher and locals to uncover the truth and understand the infernal happenings of which there are many.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-11-19
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Dialogue
Overview: A man hires a Private Investigator in order to find proof that his wife has been cheating on him. Soon, we learn that the man’s plan is to set the wife up, divorce her and remarry again in America with the daughter of his boss.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-25
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Munesue keiji no kuroi matsuri
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-14
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Demon's Room
Overview: A wife gets a call from a man claiming to be from her husband's company. He tells her that he will come to pick her up on his behalf. But when he takes her to the hotel he locks her in a room and rapes her. The kidnapper then calls her husband but he doesn’t want a ransom. For reasons not yet known all he wants to do is to sexually humiliate her and to make sure the husband knows it.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-23
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Ghost Writer's Homicide Coverage 2 - Writing About a Celebrity's Crime
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-14
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48 Hours of Terror - When the Clock's Hands Turn into a Knife
Overview: When the clock's hand turns into a knife, parent-child bonds are torn!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-18
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Blue Lake Girl
Overview: Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.
Genres: Romance Horror Fantasy Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-11-04
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A Gambler's Odyssey 2020
Overview: Boyatetsu travels to the year 2020 in Tokyo from the year 1945. Tokyo is now plagued by a decreasing population and an increase in unemployment.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-05
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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 66: Kushiro-Obihiro Murder Route
Overview: The strangled dead body of Hiroshi Hatano, accounting section chief at the longstanding apparel company Edaka International, is discovered in his apartment in Tokyo. At the scene, Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei find out that a mysterious email stating "I'll be riding the Super Ozora 5 tomorrow" was sent to the victim's cell phone the night before. The sender, Manami Furuya, an employee of Edaka International's Planning Section, has strangely terminated her cell phone service and hasn't shown up to work that very morning. Immediately afterwards, Totsugawa is astonished to receive a report from the Hokkaido police stating that the body of a man, stabbed to death, has been found on the Super Ozora 5 limited express. The man is Yuuki Nakamura, a bar employee from Tokyo, who seems to have flown from Haneda Airport to Sapporo and then boarded the Super Ozora 5, which connects Sapporo and Kushiro. Totsugawa has the feeling that this can't be a coincidence...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-02
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Until the Day Comes
Overview: Drama depicting the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011 from the perspective of a female doctor. Takako Kawashima works as head anesthesiologist at the Sendai Medical Center. She balances her married life with help from her husband Teiichi, who runs a private clinic, but their lives are upturned by the disaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-22
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Vamp
Overview: A troubled teenager who is about to kill herself has a life changing encounter with a female vampire.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-09
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Odd Detective 14
Overview: The dead body of Maki Tsujimoto, a popular stage actress, is discovered in a theater in Oji. After striking her in the back of the head with a bronze statue prop, the criminal laid the body on the floor and pointed a light at it, "directing" the crime scene as if it were a scene from a play.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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Monster SeaFood Wars
Overview: Yuta, a young master at the Tsukiji Fish Market, accidentally drops his meal of mixed seafood into the Sumida River. Some time afterwards a gigantic mutated squid monster arises from the depths and begins to wreak havoc upon an awe-stricken Tokyo. Attempts by the Japan Self-Defense Forces to stop the creature prove futile. As it seems things couldn’t get any worse an enormous mutant octopus monster emerges from the deep and heads into a clash of the titans with the gargantuan squid! As a last ditch effort, the government forms the “Seafood Monster Attack Team (SMAT)” and an all-new plan of attack is immediately put into action. But just as the tide appears to be turning in humanity’s favor, a colossal crab monster appears, joining in the Monster Seafood Wars and plunging the world into culinary chaos…
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-05-23
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Utamaro's World
Overview: Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-20
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BOLT
Overview: Scene one: March 11th, 2011. An earthquake and a tsunami strike the East coast of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. A man and five other brave power plant workers are sent to fasten a bolt to prevent radiation leaks. Scene two: 2013. The man is now cleaning the empty houses surrounding the nuclear plant. But the strange atmosphere starts giving him hallucination... Scene three: Christmas, 2014. A woman in a red car crashes by the garage where the man is working. The woman looks just like his wife, who died in the tsunami.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-16
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Last Winter, We Parted
Overview: An ambitious, young freelance journalist takes on the closed case of a famous fine arts photographer whose beautiful female subject died on set in a gruesome fire.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-10
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Grim Reaper Case Book
Overview: Genshiro Kusaka, who runs a detective business in the Edo city, had a contract with Shinigami Juran. A "prostitute serial murder case" occurred at the Great Yukaku in Yoshiwara. How does both Genshiro and the Shinigami gonna solve it?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-12
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FM89.3MHz
Overview: Okawa Family’s yakuza, Junji, is released from prison, and is told to take over a local radio station by his boss. Junji tries to explain that it is not a yakuza’s job to talk on the radio, but no one listens to him. He reluctantly goes to the radio building, and is met by a young, upbeat girl broadcasting a talk show and playing pop music. Will this seasoned gangster really fit in on such a show?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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Kitamura Tokoku: My Winter Song
Overview: This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attempt. Japan is then under the spell of fervent patriotism because the government wants to build up public support for a war with China. Kitamura's literary friends and militant comrades come to visit. They wonder why Kitamura wants to kill himself. Kitamura at first refuses to receive them, then he sits down with them and looks back on his days as a civil rights militant, his stormy love life and his ardent but destructive desire to live literature to the full.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-17
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Cyborg Tasuke Isshin
Overview: Tasuke Isshin is the 25th generation head of the Isshinya Fresh Fish Shop in Kota, and is an office worker at Choden Industries. He is a popular, kindhearted man who can't help but help people in trouble. Choden Industries is troubled by sabotage by Iwayama of the Owashi Conglomerate. Tasuke is shot down by someone on his way to work but is resurrected as the Cyborg Tasuke Isshin / Cyborg 1 Heart by the genius scientist, Managing Director Okubo! However, Iwayama has also become a cyborg called Cyborg Rock 1 and appears in front of Tasuke and attacks him! The true identity of the Owashi Conglomerate is the merchant of death, Blue Ghost! Will Cyborg Tasuke Isshin defeat his enemies?
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-24
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Koya no Shomei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-27
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The Sons
Overview: A gay poem, clearly inspired by Cocteau, about the ambiguous relationship between a man and his two adopted sons. A meditation on sublimation, repetition, and death. The characters' images and movements are faint, but the mood is sensual.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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