Toru Tezuka
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 27, 1962
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Gender: Male
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Cutie Honey
Overview: When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-29
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Ichi the Killer
Overview: As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Genres: Action Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-22
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Meatball Machine
Overview: Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-23
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Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Overview: Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-02
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ICHI
Overview: Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-25
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TAKI 183
Overview: Five youngsters are obsessed with graffiti, but after painting their masterpiece in Shibuya, they begin to drift apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-28
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がん消滅の罠～完全寛解の謎～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-02
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Love & Pop
Overview: Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-10
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Dead Sushi
Overview: A disgruntled researcher injects his former employers' meal with a serum that turns their sushi into flesh-eating monsters.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-01
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Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor
Overview: Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tokyo district prosecutors' office. He is currently busy with a case involving suspicious donations to powerful politician Yohei Tachibana. Shinichi then receives a mysterious message from his friend Samon Kondo. His friend is in charge of space development at The The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The message talks about a scandal related to space development. Samon soon goes missing after sending the message. Shinichi begins to see a connection between the two cases.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-05
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Miss ZOMBIE
Overview: A doctor and his family receive an unexpected delivery from an old friend at their remote country home - a large wooden crate containing a gun, a female zombie and an instruction sheet telling them not to feed her meat. The family is concerned, of course, but she seems harmless enough. Perhaps she can help clean up outside?
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-14
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Shin Kamen Rider
Overview: A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, an Augmentation made by SHOCKER, and Ruriko Midorikawa, a rebel of the organization, escape while fighting off assassins. What’s justice? What’s evil? Will this violence end? Despite his power, Hongo tries to remain human. Along with freedom, Ruriko has regained a heart. What paths will they choose?
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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The Silent Service
Overview: Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and the United States in top secret. However, he and his 76 crew members go rogue in this story that delves into themes of nuclear war, international politics, and world peace.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010
Overview: Serving as the true ending to Kamen Rider Decade and revealing the origins of Kamen Rider W, this movie is split into three parts. In "Kamen Rider Decade: Final Chapter", Tsukasa Kadoya fully embraces his title as the Destroyer of Worlds. In "Kamen Rider W: Begins Night", Shotaro and Philip recount the night on when it all began. Elements of both parts converge in the movie's final part, "Movie War 2010" as our heroes fight the forces of Super Shocker.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-12
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Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 - Director's Cut
Overview: Director's cut of Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-09-21
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Izakaya Choji
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Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-28
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Into a Dream
Overview: Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-06-11
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The Tokyo Siblings
Overview: Living in an old Tokyo district, Kenichi works at a second-hand bookshop to support his sister, Yoko, a high school student. When Yoko graduates, she starts work at a photo shop. By the time, Kenichi's girlfriend has decided to marry someone else as she is tired of waiting for him. When Yoko starts dating Kenichi's best friend, Makoto , he is strangely resentful, but when Makoto is involved in a fatal accident, brother and sister resume their routine life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-14
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Open House
Overview: A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-06-20
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Seventh Anniversary
Overview: Each time Lulu is heartbroken small stones come out of her body. The doctor tells Lulu they are kidney stones. She collects them in memoriam of love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-22
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Arakawa Under the Bridge
Overview: Riku, the heir to a corporate conglomerate, is determined to go through life never owing anything to anyone on principle. However, one day he nearly drowns in a river and is saved by a homeless girl named Nino. To repay his debt, he begins living together with her on the banks of the river as her lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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Blessing Bell
Overview: Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-08
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Kanikôsen
Overview: On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-04
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Gips
Overview: 22-year old secretary Kazuko first bumps into Tamaki on the way back from work. Tamaki is crawling along the sidewalk on crutches at a snail's pace, and stumbles into the young audiotypist after apparently having trouble with an ill-fitting shoe over her cast. After helping her back to her feet, Kazuko follows Tamaki back to her apartment, the two of them barely exchanging words. Once in Tamaki's room, Kazuko is dispatched on an errand to fetch some beer... Their game begins..
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-24
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Wild Berries
Overview: A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-06
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Woman Transformation
Overview: Kamei mixes humour, drama and, in this occasion, bits of horror to visualize the physical transformation in yôkai that the three main actresses undergo. Mihiro Iwasaki (Anri Ban) is a model extremely preoccupied by how others look at and think of her. Then, her nails start growing disproportionately until they become killing weapons. Michiko Yamane (Mariko Miyamitsu) is an unsociable university student and part-time worker in her early twenties only crazy for a hobby. At night she becomes a rokurokubi (female yokai with an extremely long and flexible neck). Finally, Mana Saeki (Haruki Ichikawa) is a last year junior high school student with a very bad character and very distrustful of all her friends, who metamorphoses into a nopperabo (yokai without face).
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-13
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Silk
Overview: French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs. After a long journey, Hervé finally arrives at a village where he can buy them. He becomes infatuated with a young concubine and goes to great lengths to see her again. But, when war breaks out in Japan, the concubine flees, forcing Hervé to return home to his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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Japan Sinks
Overview: In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with other countries to take refugees, while scientists struggle to save Japan itself.
Genres: Drama Thriller Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-15
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Keizoku Special: Phantom
Overview: After the events of the series, Shibata has lost her memories and is reassigned. Meanwhile, a strange case regarding a cursed tree that kills whoever's name is written on its trunk surfaces among mysterious deaths. Following different leads, Shibata and the Unsolved Cases unit will meet again as they investigate. Asakura, it seems, is also plotting behind the scenes...
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-12-24
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Love & Peace
Overview: A man, who once dreamed of becoming a punk rocker, is working as a low salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He's secretly in love with his colleague. One day, he finds a little turtle on the rooftop, naming it Pikadon.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-26
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Shin Godzilla
Overview: When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-29
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Gold Medal Man
Overview: Senichi was born in 1964, when the entire nation was excited about the Tokyo Olympics. As an elementary student, Senichi won a footrace and got a taste of what winning felt like. Since then, Senichi takes part in various competitions including drawing and usually wins. He keeps struggling to win gold medals at competitions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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Black Report
Overview: It was a novel based on the incident that occurred in reality, and the series began in 1960 with "Weekly Shincho".
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-09
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Overview: In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into the night, Atsuya sees a letter in the mailbox. The letter is addressed to the Namiya General Store and the letter was written by someone to consult about worries. Incredibly, the letter was written 32 years ago. The mailbox is somehow connected to the year 1980. Atsuya and his friends decide to write a reply and place their letter in the mailbox.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-09-23
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Kenji no Honkai
Overview: Prosecutor Sakata of the Yonesaki District Public Prosecutors Office and his colleague Shoji are pulled into assisting the Tokyo Office’s Special Investigation Department to investigate influential Diet lawmaker Okouchi and Masumoto of a technical skills foundation. The two men are believed to be involved in a bribery case. But a key witness in this scandal commits suicide, and the next person believed to hold the key to the case, the foundation’s accountant, has disappeared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-03
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Lapse
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-16
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Ghost Master
Overview: Akira Kurosawa is a nerdy movie buff who works on low budget romantic comedies while dreaming of becoming a horror master. After being abused by his mentor, “the master” he finally decides he’s had enough and opens a door allowing an evil spirit to wreak revenge on those who have been cruel to him. But much like the movies he loves, once a spirit is unleashed – it can’t be controlled and starts to kill everyone!
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-12-06
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The Land of Hope
Overview: An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents must evacuate, but the family lives on a farm, with only half of the area designated as an evacuation area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-20
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The Big Bee
Overview: Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter will be dropped. 8 hours is given as the deadline. Making the situation even more dire, a young child is in the helicopter.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-12
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Asura Girl: A Blood-C Tale
Overview: In prewar Japan under the military regime, a bloody battle between the extremely oppressive Special Higher Police and villagers begins!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-26
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Overview: With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-06
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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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Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition
Overview: Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the series. In this work, we collaborate with five popular manga artists such as Go Nagai, Junji Ito, Eiichiro Oda, Kazuo Umezu and Masayuki Ishikawa.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-11
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On a Sunny Day
Overview: Youth drama about a band.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Chasuke's Journey
Overview: Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in heaven is lived out below. And their employer, God, is increasingly vehement in demanding avant-garde ideas. Take, for example, the beautiful Yuri, a girl who dies in a car crash. Some of the heavenly scribes find this very dull and send former gangster Chas, who has become a heavenly tea-boy, back down to earth with instructions to save Yuri no matter what. And so Chas ends up in Okinawa, gets to know the earth-dwellers, interferes in their fates, becomes celebrated as 'Mr Angel' and is hounded by brutal enemies. His falling in love with Yuri is of course a foregone conclusion. But no one could anticipate what happens next. Not even God himself
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-27
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Making of Cutie Honey
Overview: Behind the scenes of the 2004 film "Cutie Honey". Extra on Blu-ray Box.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-26
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Kaiju Guy!
Overview: Yamada, a good-for-nothing local civil servant who just loves monster movies, is suddenly given a huge mission to liven up the city! What unprecedented strategy will he take?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-24
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Himizu
Overview: After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-05
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The Kiss of an Invisible Man
Overview: Akira, who runs marriage scams, is chased after by Army Surgeon Hanaoka and his colleagues, who are collecting “things that will disappear in the 20th century” by Imperial edict. When he ran away and came to the Tottori Sand Dunes, he meets deaf, blind and mute Heren Kera (a Japanese Helen Keller), who lives with a tutor, Saribaba. He is soon caught but becomes invisible man in an accident. However, he is visible to one person: Kera. The story of the play Tomei Ningen no Yuge (The Kiss of an Invisible Man) is overflowing with diverse motifs, including “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Miracle Worker,” the mythological world in the age of the gods, the River Styx and Hades. It develops further to cover World War II and the Imperial system, and together with skillful language play, a theatrical world unfolds in all directions.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-31
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