Léona Hirota
Also Known As: Hirota Reona, Hirota Léona, 広田 レオナ, Leona Hirota, Hirota Leona, 広田玲央名
Biography: Japanese actress. She won the Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 13th Yokohama Film Festival for Ōte and Yumeji. In 1994, she married the actor Mitsuru Fukikoshi. They divorced in 2005 after having one child but seven years later remarried.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
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Pornostar
Overview: A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform a hit. While things work out in the beginning, this young psychopath quickly becomes more trouble than the gang expected. Will they be able to rid themselves of him, or will they be his next victims?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-10
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Between Calmness and Passion
Overview: An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after 10 years.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-10
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Adrift in Tokyo
Overview: A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-10
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Black Princess 2 Flame Target
Overview: A female detective realises that the construction company corruption case was not guilty... there was an evil mastermind behind it!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-08
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Love of Sawako
Overview: Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. Sawako pretends to be the daughter of an upscale hotel owner and has an affair with Yukio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-17
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Princess in an Iron Helmet
Overview: Tamako is 20 years old, lives at home with her mother (Kishimoto Kayoko) and teenaged brother, and simply refuses to grow up. Ever since her father left the family, she's stopped trusting people, and now lounges around in her own small, claustrophobic world. Wearing an iron helmet whenever she steps outside, she ventures only to her mom's beauty salon, the mechanic shop, and the bakery - the source of her greatest joy in life, sweet buns. Her world is static, insular, and safe, and there's no need to change - that is until her cat runs away, the bakery closes, and her mom falls in love with another man.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-04
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Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
Overview: 5th installment of the Pantsu no ana video series released by BOMB magazine
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-08
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I am.
Overview: Miki, a nursing care robot, is popular among some medical staff and patients for her dainty and efficient work, but others are more skeptical. One day, Miki malfunctions and begins to see and hear fragmented images and voices.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-23
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The Ladies Pachinko Graffiti
Overview: Nami works in a bank and has a hidden interest. She went to play Pachinko after work and showed great genius. The pachinko company regards her as the queen of pachinko.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-25
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N45゜
Overview: Omnibus film, set in a fictional town at 45゜N latitude: Wonder Rubbish; Pao-san to no fukushu; Jonetsu no koya; Kaze wa, dotchi ni fuite iru
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-15
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Kaidan
Overview: Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-04
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Yumeji
Overview: Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-31
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Echo of Silence
Overview: In a small town of Hokkaido, Yunni, Fusako Kurokawa (Saki Takaoka), lives a quiet life with her father. Life here is very simple, but it is good enough and she is happy enough. Days go on as usual. with some coincidence, she meets this man one day, Wataru Kadokura (Atsuro Watabe) a man who cannot speak. A very peaceful "time" now becomes part of her daily life as this strong emotion suddenly takes place in her simple quiet life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-19
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Midori
Overview: Midori is a coming-of-age drama set amongst the heady high school world of peer rivalry and sexual awakening, featuring an emotionally-detached high-school girl who, her parents dead, lives with her brother and his overprotective wife. After being sent out of class due to a dizzy spell, she becomes acquainted with Shun, a boy in the class below, in the school sanatorium. As the two begin feigning illness together on a regular basis, their uncomfortable flirtations soon blossom into a full sexual relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-29
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Humanoid Monster, Bem
Overview: Bem, Bela and Belo arrive at a new town plagued by a series of mysterious, unsolved cases which, as they discover, are caused by another youkai, one more powerful than they have ever encountered. The story will also focus on Belo's first love, and his increasing desire to become human. In the meantime, Bem and Bela have found a way to become human, but are conflicted about whether to let just Belo turn human, or along with Belo, become humans themselves.
Genres: Mystery Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-15
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The Whispering of the Gods
Overview: Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods through his germanium radio, Rou defies God in every which way and puts religion to the test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-17
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Hotel Rose
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-18
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Milestones
Overview: Following the death of their best friend, four guys and the dead men's sister steal his body and burn it on a beach in Italy to fulfill his last wish.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-04-21
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Happy Ending
Overview: Is love an illusion? Is Love real? Is love a white knight on a horse dashing to the rescue or is it a soul-mate destined to be? Momoko is a girl into horror movies, which makes her visit the local video shop often. She just does not like paying for her rentals. She runs into a man who could be her prince charming. He is almost magical too because he keeps appearing.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-26
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Endless Waltz
Overview: Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-07
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Yamagata Scream
Overview: High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a graduation requirement. Their teacher, Mr. Kachi, plans a mandatory club trip to a small village called Oshakabe in Yamagata prefecture to study remnants of an ancient clan of warriors called the ochimusha who displayed legendary cowardice in battle. When they arrive, the local villagers hold a special ceremony and construct a "super shrine". As a result, an 800-year seal is broken, unleashing a curse that causes the ochimusha to rise from the grave.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-01
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Via Okinawa
Overview: During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With exhausting displays of energy, Sai presents a whirlwind romance between a local rocker and the daughter of a mixed American-Okinawan marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-09
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Maohgai
Overview: Kishi is a 37-year-old personnel officer and fairly happy with work, wife and child. But he turns out to be susceptible to a more exciting life. Through his old schoolfriend Daimon he meets the attractive Yoshie and spends a sensational night of love with her. Kishi doesn't want to leave it at one night. On their second meeting, Daimon is also present and this night turns into a sado-masochistic ritual. A suppressed memory emerges in Kishi: once he raped an elderly woman with Daimon. Kishi again crossed a frontier this night and the relationship with his colleague Yuko also breaks boundaries. He slowly realises that his emotional life is taking a direction that he had never dreamed possible; Kishi moves into a new and dark world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-08-06
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It's All Right, My Friend
Overview: An alien with super powers fallen from the sky is befriended by some people who help him stop an evil group out to get him.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-15
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Check
Overview: Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), and Ryuzo Kayama (Masaya Kato) who aims to become a professional player.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-25
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Love and Other Cults
Overview: Ai's mother sends her to live with a cult commune, where she remains for seven years. After the cult is broken up by the police, Ai struggles to fit in with society.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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