Kyōzō Nagatsuka
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Biography: Kyōzō Nagatsuka (長塚京三) is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 24th Yokohama Film Festival for The Laughing Frog.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
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Birthday: July 06, 1945
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Male
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Umami
Overview: Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-09
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Lady Joker
Overview: Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama inspired by the unsolved 1984 kidnapping of a Japanese candy company president.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-11
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Fifth Movement
Overview: When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinist returns to his home and manages to get the orchestra back together for a grandiose performance, saved at the last minute by their original conductor -- and boding well for the future of the die-hard musicians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-19
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Ondine's Curse
Overview: Seizo, a doctor, and his beautiful younger wife, Reiko. At first glance, they appear to be a respectable and amicable couple, but Seizo suspects that Reiko has a young lover. One day, the couple goes to see a new Noh play, "The Curse of Ondine," organized by a medical association. At the venue, Reiko catches the attention of a man, and even the young man at the reception desk gives her a heated look. "Reiko says, "Noh is boring," but Seizo warns her not to fall asleep, since the audience is all related. However, when the Noh play begins and Reiko looks at Seizo, she finds that he is asleep. From this point on, the world of death in the Noh play and the world of life in which the two people exist become parallel. Reality and unreality intersect as if the two are acting out a Noh play, and the secrets hidden in their daily lives begin to seep out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-11
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Samurai Resurrection
Overview: Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of overthrowing the shogunate for killing his companions. To do this , he resurrects an army of living dead swordsmen. Between him and his goal, only Yagyu Jubei stands...
Genres: Fantasy Action History Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-26
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Village of Dreams
Overview: Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-13
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Chinese In Paris
Overview: Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-27
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ひとさらい
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-30
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cf Girl
Overview: The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Takashi Kitajima.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-07
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Dearest
Overview: The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at the post office before she died.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-25
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Tokyo Lullaby
Overview: Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He gives no explanation of his absence and his family asks no questions. It is only through the questions that a young writer named Asakura, who is secretly in love with Hisako, poses of local shop owners, that we learn that Hamanaka's disappearance may be related to the fact that the woman everyone thought he would marry, Tami - who runs the cafe across the street from the Hamanaka electric store - had ended up tying the knot with another man who died soon thereafter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-20
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Luminous Woman
Overview: A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-10-24
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Moonlight Serenade
Overview: After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-03-15
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Musume no kekkon
Overview: TV remake of Ozu's 'Late Spring'
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-14
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Our Family
Overview: The emotional journey of a four-member family that fails to recognize that it is rapidly growing apart until the mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-24
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The Hit-and-Run Family
Overview: Set in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems facing modern Japanese families. Hiroshi accidentally hits a young woman with his car and flees in panic. He confesses to his wife, Yoko, who persuades him to keep quiet as his arrest would mean the end for their already troubled family. Their daughter is having an affair with a married man, their son is being bullied and refusing to go to school and their grandfather is becoming more difficult. Yoko urges the family to move the car into the living room in order to destroy the evidence by taking it apart. Hiroshi finally decides to do the honest thing but a series of bizarre incidents then ensues...
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-19
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The Last Message
Overview: Police coroner Kuraishi Yoshio (Masaaki Uchino) and the crime lab team attempt to solve a serial murder case with a killer who seems to kill indiscriminately.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-30
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Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-20
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Fly Boys, Fly!
Overview: Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-23
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Okoge
Overview: A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-26
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Lupin's News
Overview: The suicide of a female teacher 15 years ago was actually a murder. A new investigation team, spearheaded by Mizorogi, is formed based on new information turned in to the police. Obsessed about cracking cases right up till the statute of limitation, Mizoguchi has a bitter thought about a 300 million yen case that has reached the statute of limitation... When he goes to investigate the male high school student(s) whom the woman had taught and other persons related to the deceased, he sees an unexpected connection with another case...
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-21
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The Far Road
Overview: Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the northern part of Japan. The ferocious local class restrictions work to keep her husband in his place, as does his lack of education.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-09-11
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Fireworks, Ferris Wheels and Love
Overview: Morihara was left a widower 8 years ago when his wife passed away. He attends his first mixer party under the guidance of his daughter. There he meets Fumika and starts conversation. Morihara is too shy to show his love since he is much older than Fumika. On learning that Fumika goes to England to study about English Tea, Morihara rushes to the airport but his effort is in vain. He takes out his dead wife's photo and consults her: "I love Fumika, what should I do?"
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-02-15
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The Laughing Frog
Overview: A woman has a fine life with rewarding work, a nice house, and a serious boyfriend in the lowlands of Japan. In walks her long lost husband who years ago disappeared and abandoned her. The wife allows her lost husband to secretly live in her house. More specifically, he lives in the wife's closet. The closet has a peep hole, so he does nothing day and night but watch his wife live her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-06
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Nagai Nagai Satsujin
Overview: A man’s body is found in the suburbs of Tokyo. The dead man was hit by a car and his head beaten by the reckless driver after the accident. The dead man had a wife named Noriko. She likes fancy things and she has a lover named Tsukada. It's also learned that the dead man was insured for 300 million yen. The media and the public look at Noriko and her boyfriend Tsukada with suspicion, but they have perfect alibis. Then, Detective Hibiki, who is in charge of the case, and Private Detective Kono become involved in a series of mysterious murder cases.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-31
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Crossroads
Overview: Tatsuru Sawada works as an assistant cameramen. He spends his days just wasting away. To change himself, he joins the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers. At the training camp. he causes trouble. He opposes Kazunari Hamura and frequently breaks the rule at the camp. Tatsuru and Kazunari are then sent to the Philippines with Shiho Nomura . Even in the Philippines, Tatsuru and Kazunari do not get along as well. One day, Tatsuru goes to Baguio to take a picture. There, he meets a boy named Noel and his older sister Angela. He worries about the situation in the Philippines. He feels helpless and goes back to Japan. 8 years later, Tatsuru and Kazunari meet again in the Tōhoku region where the great earthquake and tsunami occurred.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-28
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Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Overview: Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika Hokusai and his second wife Koto. Although Oei became the wife of a town painter for a time, her love of the paintbrush more than her husband spelt disaster and she comes back home to Hokusai from the family she had married into. This is how Oei starts to help her father out in his painting of the “insurmountable high wall”. Meanwhile, Oei can only talk to the painter Ikeda Zenjiro, who is her father’s student, about her pain and worries. Zenjiro has taken Edo by storm as Keisai Eisen, the master of ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women. He visits regularly because he admires Hokusai and secretly likes Oei although their relationship is like childhood friends. Oei respects her father whose paintings fascinated her and continues to work as a painter who supports him behind the scenes. When Hokusai’s masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji was completed, she was also by his side.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-18
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Midnight Bus
Overview: Middle-aged Riichi Takamiya drives the midnight bus between Tokyo and snow-swept Niigata, where he lives. Just as the relationship with his younger girlfriend is about to bloom, his emotionally desperate ex-wife suddenly reappears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-27
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Amagi Pass
Overview: A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes place, the police searchs for the culprit.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Games Teachers Play
Overview: The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-25
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Universal Laws
Overview: A young man working as a first-class fashion designer decides to give up his business and return to his hometown after the sudden death of his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-27
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Demon Within
Overview: The story is about a Journalist who becomes infected with a Japanese demon. The demon incubates in the mans stomach before Violently tearing its way up and out through the Journalists mouth (Complete with mouth splitting wide open). As soon as the Demon is "born" it is snatched away by a mysterious stranger. The Journalist (Yes, somehow he survived) soon discovers that the man who grabbed up the demon is in fact a former infectee who has developed a taste for the little demons, In fact they taste so good that when a person eats their flesh they then instantly become addicted to it.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-27
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Himawari -Okinawa wa Wasurenai, Ano Nichi no Sora o-
Overview: After an American helicopter crashes into a classroom in Okinawa International University, student Ryuichi is compelled to write a report on a similar accident 52 years ago, in 1959, when an American jet fighter crashed into his grandfather's elementary school. He also plans to hold a peace concert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-26
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マルゴォの杯
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-26
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Teki Cometh
Overview: Gisuke is a retired college professor. His wife has passed away, and he is now living alone in an old Japanese-style house. One day, an unsettling message appears on his computer saying that the enemy is coming.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-17
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Haha Koihi no Ki
Overview: A live-action adaptation of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's masterpiece "Shōshō Shigemoto no Haha (Captain Shigemoto's Mother)". Set in the glorious Heian Dynasty, the TV movie decipts the story of a mother and son torn apart for an irrational reason, and how they are reunited 40 years later.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-13
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お終活 再春!人生ラプソディ
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-31
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The Beauty of Black Pearl
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-01
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