Mana Ashida
Also Known As: Асида Мана, あしだ まな, 芦田 愛菜, مانا آشیدا
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan
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Confessions
Overview: Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-04
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Bunny Drop
Overview: Daikichi learns that his recently deceased grandfather has an illegitimate daughter with an unknown mother. The girl's name is Rin and she is just 6 years old. Everybody in Daikichi's family looks at the girl as an embarrassment and wants no part of her. Daikichi, annoyed by his family's attitude, decides to raise Rin by himself. Even though Daikichi himself has no experience raising a child and is still single.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-20
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Hankyu Railways - A 15-Minute Miracle
Overview: "Hankyu Densha" follows the lives of various people who commute on Hankyu Railway's Imazu Line - connecting the cities of Nishinomiya and Takarazuka in Hyogo prefecture. One of the commuters is Shoko (Miki Nakatani), an office worker in her 30s who lost her boyfriend to a younger colleague. There's also a college student (Erika Toda) who is so easily persuaded by her no good boyfriend. Other commuters include a grandmother & granddaughter, a house wife, a female high school student, and a female otaku college student. Although the train ride takes only 15 minutes between two stations, the lives of these commuters are changed as they interact with each other...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-29
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Magic Tree House
Overview: Jack and Annie are young siblings who find a magic tree house on their way home after chasing a weasel. By using the books available on the tree house, they are able to travel through time and location. The two end up with the difficult task of collecting four medallions, each one hidden in a different place and epoch, in order to help a magician named Morgan.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-07
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Ending Cut
Overview: Sakota Yui is a senior high school student living in a seaside town. Her parents own a beauty salon and she dreams of going to the big city for college to learn art. One day, Yui sees her father heading to a funeral home. She follows him and finds out that her father is working a job where he listens to the bereaved family and sets the deceased's hair before the coffin is laid to rest, which is called "Ending Cut".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-19
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Liar Game: Reborn
Overview: To exact revenge, the Liar Game office is revived. The target is only one person: Shin'ichi Akiyama. Because of new heroine Shinomiya, Shin'ichi, who kept refusing to take part in the game, finds himself in the game. Along with Akiyama, there's 19 other players competing for the prize of two billion yen. Omega, who revived the game, plays the game at the Liar Game office with Alice. Alice sets up the game, chooses the players, and sets the traps.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-03
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BL Metamorphosis
Overview: Ichinoi, a 75-year-old woman living a peaceful life, unwittingly buys a Boy's Love manga one day…and is fascinated by what she finds inside. When she returns to the bookstore to buy the next volume, the high school girl working there–Urara, a seasoned BL fan–notices a budding fangirl when she sees one. When Urara offers to help Ichinoi explore this whole new world of fiction, the two dive into BL fandom together, and form an unlikely friendship along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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The Floating Castle
Overview: In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes across unexpected resistance in the form of a floating fortress known as Oshi Castle. Narita Nagachika, a frivolous hedonistic fellow and unlikely candidate for the position of rebel general, finds himself in charge of defending the castle. His odds? An army of 500 men to combat Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army of 20,000.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-02
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Goodbye to Our Kindergarten
Overview: One day, five kindergarten children suddenly disappear from a kindergarten in Tokyo, sending their teachers and parents into a panic. The five of them are connecting on trains and headed to an unfamiliar place for some purpose. Before their journey, they had made a promise to each other “not to cry no matter what happens”
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-30
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The Round Table
Overview: Kokko is a third grade elementary school student. Even though she has a family who loves her, Kokko is full of dissatisfaction and she admires loneliness.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-21
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Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Overview: Shy outcast Kokoro has been avoiding school for weeks when she discovers a portal in her bedroom mirror. She reaches through and finds herself transported to an enchanting castle where she is joined by six other students. When a girl in a wolf mask explains that they have been invited to play a game, the teens must work together to uncover the mysterious connection that unites them. However, anyone who breaks the rules will be eaten by a wolf.
Genres: Animation Drama Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-23
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Cells at Work!
Overview: A novice red blood cell and a relentless white blood cell work together to protect their human from invading germs, pathogens and other threats.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-12-13
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Pacific Rim
Overview: Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-11
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Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2011
Overview: While Suzaki Saika (Ashida Mana) is hospitalised for poor health, her father, Tamotsu (Totsugi Shigeyuki) feels torn that he has to leave here and go on a business trip. A portrait of Saika’s late mother is placed beside her bed. Her mother had died in exchange for bringing her into this world. Tamotsu puts a paper with his mobile phone number written on it inside an amulet and hands it to Saika. He asks the nurse Tokunaga Maki (Minamisawa Nao) to keep an eye on Saika, and leaves for his trip. One night, a young girl calls out to a lonely Saika who cannot get to sleep. A long-haired girl in a wheelchair in the old wing befriends Saika and plays with her everyday. However, by the time Saika realises it, she has awaken from her sleep. Was that a dream? When she talks about the girl in the wheelchair, Maki’s expression freezes. What happened at this hospital?
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-03
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The Partner
Overview: A story about the special friendship between Phan Boi Chau and Japanese doctor Asaba Sakitaro, which began 100 years ago when Chau went to Japan to seek support for Vietnam’s national independence movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-29
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Don't Lose Heart
Overview: Depicts the life of best-selling Japanese poet Toyo Shibata. Toyo Shibata first began writing poems at the age of 92 and published her first collection of poems "Kujikenaide" (″Don't lose heart″) in 2009, which sold over 1.5 million copies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-16
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Takayuki Yamada in 3D
Overview: Interview with Yamada Takayuki about his life, career and interests.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-16
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Looking Up at the Half-Moon
Overview: Two 17 year old teens are hospitalized for different reasons. Ezaki suffers from Hepatitis A, while Akiba is due to a weak heart. The relationship between these two hospital patients soon blossoms into romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-03
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Haruko's Doll
Overview: In the early days of the Showa era in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture a newborn baby is abandoned with a doll under the eaves of a merchant house along the pilgrimage route in Shikoku. It seems to be a pilgrim struggling to make a living. This baby girl is named Haruko and brought by Tomita Shizuko and Katsuji as the younger sister of their son Ryosuke who is three years apart. When the war begins, 16-year old Ryosuke qualifies for the naval academy and crosses the Seto Inland Sea. After some consideration, Shizuko tells Haruko the truth that they are not real siblings for the first time. Haruko who has had a secret crush on her brother ever since he said that he would protect her, is innocently overjoyed and heads to Hiroshima to convey this to him. The next day, an atomic bomb explodes in the sky…
Genres: Drama Romance History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-04
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Children of the Sea
Overview: Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-07
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Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us
Overview: A young athlete whose running days might be behind her, a compulsive liar, a shy researcher, a bitter old woman, and a little girl with a big secret—the only thing they have in common is the annual Wind Festival in Fula City. The festival celebrates the Legendary Pokémon Lugia, who brings the wind that powers this seaside city. When a series of threats endangers not just the festival, but all the people and Pokémon of Fula City, it’ll take more than just Satoshi and Pikachu to save the day! Can everyone put aside their differences and work together—or will it all end in destruction?
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-13
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In a Corner of This World
Overview: The award-winning story of Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni follows a bride named Suzu Urano as she moves to her new life in Kure City on the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture. Suzu perseveres through World War II with pluck and determination. Keisuke Koide plays Shūsaku Hōjō, a naval officer who proposed to Suzu after one childhood meeting. - Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-05
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Child of the Stars
Overview: When Chihiro was a baby, she suffered from eczema. Her parents tried to find a cure, but nothing worked. Her father's co-worker then gave him some water from a strange religious group. Chihiro was miraculously cured by the water. Her parents began to follow the strange religion and became fervent followers. Chihiro is now in the 3rd grade of middle school and she faces changes in her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-09
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Poupelle of Chimney Town
Overview: The story is about a young boy named Lubicchi and a trashman named Poupelle who meet on a Halloween night in a city that is full of tall chimneys. The chimneys pour out black smoke and the true sky cannot be seen.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-12-25
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The House of the Lost on the Cape
Overview: A strange old woman allows a teenage runaway and a young orphan to stay in an abandoned house that overlooks the sea. However, when a menacing entity threatens their new home, they must band together and face their fears to save it.
Genres: Animation Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-27
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Poupelle of Chimney Town ~The Promised Clock Tower~
Overview: Sequel to Poupelle of Chimney Town.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ja
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