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Voyeurs, Inc. - Wiretapping
Overview: An erotic mystery based on Hideo Yamamoto's comic of the same title, directed by Takeshi Yokoi Yokoi. A mysterious man eavesdrops on an affair between a teacher and a student at a prep school and harasses him. The teacher asks a member of "Voyeurs, Inc." to investigate.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Promised Land
Overview: A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
Overview: An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsubei discovers the body of a man whose face has been crushed and his fingerprints erased. Tetsubei describes the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the body, including his own theory, and is angered by Lieutenant Yukari. That night, Tetsubei visits the shop of Kanako, whom he has a secret crush on. There, Mizutani, Kanako's husband, who has been missing for seven years, appears.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-05
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Begging for Love
Overview: During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-25
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Infection
Overview: Infection takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient. In a hospital death is just a breath away.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-02
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The Fable
Overview: The Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a "normal life" in Osaka.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-21
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Kids Return
Overview: Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-27
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Beautiful Lure: A Modern Tale of Painted Skin
Overview: With both beauty and wit, Maiko looks for a man who suits her. One night, she finds Taro, a candidate for the prime minister. Everything goes well as she plans, but he finds out she's actually a "youma" who destroys the country. What's their destiny?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-14
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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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Sleeping Bride
Overview: Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a patient there. A nurse remarks that the girl is 'Sleeping Beauty', and Yuuichi believes that a kiss from a prince will wake her, just like the story. Yuuichi returns to see Yumi every day, says 'Wake up, I'm the prince' and kisses her. Ten years later he restarts his daily ritual to see Yumi, one day she wakes up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-29
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The Woman Changed Her Clothes at the Bus Stop
Overview: A woman in a bright green coat, Mizue (Toda Naho), gets off the bus at Shikaoi Town in Hokkaido. She has followed her former salsa dance partner, Arisaka (Endo Kenichi), to his hometown. Arisaka, who is about to start a new life, is troubled, and soon their feelings for each other burn intensely...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-15
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Tokyo Eyes
Overview: The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.
Genres: Romance Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-09
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Tomie: Replay
Overview: Infected with Tomie's blood, a surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-11
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Tomorrow's Joe
Overview: Set in the 1960's, Joe Yabuki lives in a run-down low income area. There, alcoholic ex-boxer Danpei Tange notices Joe Yabuki's talents as a boxer. But then, Joe gets into trouble and is sentenced into the youth detention center. In the youth detention center, Joe gets into a brawl and then is knocked out by Toru Rikiishi who is a champion caliber professional boxer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-11
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Nanpa Rumba I want to Fuck
Overview: 1990 Original Video Omnibus of three RomCom Vignettes
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-22
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Frog River
Overview: Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-04
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Beni
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-30
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Health Master Dan
Overview: Adaptation of the manga by the same title by Noboru Takahashi. Dan is a masseuse that has the ability to pinpoint anyone's health issues. In this erotic / semi-erotic film Dan uses his special 'techniques' that help cure his patients' ailments.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Holy Girl Mask Margarita
Overview: A sexy action comedy about the battle between a high school girl who transforms into a love warrior Margarita when she drinks a holy cocktail. An omnibus c consisting of three episodes. Watch Margarita fight off perverts, crazed dentists, and and a horned villain / Beelzebub.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-27
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Dark Tales of Japan
Overview: Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-22
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Overview: A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various parts of the play to their liking.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-11-08
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Wandering Memories
Overview: Shiori, who has been searching for her missing son, meets an information pawnbroker who is able to exchange the information you want for an equivalent memory. Despite her father’s concern, Shiori entrusts her own precious memory to the pawnbroker....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-17
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Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Overview: A classmate from Ushijima's middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jobless and without a home. Adrift and unable to borrow money from Ushijima, Takemoto heads for Seiai Home where he can stay while doing work.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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The Moon
Overview: Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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海の斜光
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-17
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Riding Uphill
Overview: A former pro-baseball player finds his passion again in Keirin, a professional bicycle racing sport.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-26
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Copycat Killer
Overview: Based on the best-selling novel by Miyuki Miyabe. The title “Mohouhan” means “Copycat”, and it tells the story of a criminal who abducts and kills women, and those who try to catch him. Nakai is cast as a cold-blooded, intelligent and evil guy who uses the media to announce and show his murders live to the public.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-06-08
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Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze
Overview: An omnibus featuring four stories about the four seasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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There is Light
Overview: Saori, a new face of a call girl service for the disabled, meet diverse people like a client with progressive muscular dystrophy, a college student with spinal injury, and a stalker pretending to be the disabled… Encountering with disabled people who live in various circumstances gives Saori, living in despair, a sense of fulfillment and reason for living.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-23
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Bad Child
Overview: Masashi, a 15 years old school boy and so-called 'overprotected child', lives with his parents in the suburbs of Tokyo. Poised to graduate from middle school as per his parents' hope and expectations, Masashi experiences an incident during spring break that changes his life forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-06
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Lemmings no Natsu
Overview: The urban legend that "Scissors-san", who cuts elementary school students with scissors, appears in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, has become a hot topic. Around the same time, fellow junior high school students, Chiba Akira and Minamiki Shuhei of the good friend group "Lemmings", have a plan to regain the days lost by the events that occurred in the summer of the second grade of elementary school six years ago.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-01
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Memory Door
Overview: Kazuya (27), an office worker, is what is called a "good listener" who listens to his parents. One day, however, he happens to stop by a café and falls in love at first sight with Reiko (47), who works there, but Reiko is divorced, has a child, and suffers from dementia. Kazuya's selfish feelings lead to encounters and experiences with various people, and he realizes true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special
Overview: "Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special" (世にも奇妙な物語 '23秋の特別編) is a Japanese anthology drama that aired on Fuji TV on November 11, 2023. This special presents four unique, mysterious tales. Episode summaries: 1. "The Eternal Two" An assistant accused of murder alters reality with a mysterious button. 2. "False Accusation in Hell" A lawyer defends a deceased man in Hell, uncovering shocking truths. 3. "Transistor Compression Contest" A fierce competition to compress a magazine leads to unexpected rivalries. 4. "Set Your Life's Playlist in Advance" A life-caster builds an AI idol, unveiling secrets from her past.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-11
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Perfect Days
Overview: Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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金融腐蝕列島 再生
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-13
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Maestro!
Overview: Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou appears in front of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-31
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The Divine Protector: Master Salt Begins
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Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-07
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Fly, Daddy, Fly
Overview: Suzuki’s world is shattered when his teenage daughter is brutally attacked. The assailant, Ishihara, son of a politician, brazenly mocks Suzuki as he throws him cover-up money. Angry, Suzuki finds he has no answer to Ishihara and in venting his anger, loses his daughter’s trust too. A sleep-deprived, crazed Suzuki goes to Ishihara’s school wielding a knife. He does not find Ishihara, but instead forms an alliance with an odd group of school misfits called the Zombies. The group’s elusive leader, Pak Sun Shin, decides to train Suzuki, who quits his job and embarks on a punishing programme to win back freedom for his daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-09
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Under the Same Moon
Overview: When Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a heart disease. In hopes to cure Emi's condition, Tetsuya decided to become a doctor. Following through on his dreams, Tetsuya is now a doctor and is about to marry Emi. One day though, Tetsuya hears about Don (Edison Chen). Tetsuya remembers the times he spent with Emi and Don as a child and also feels insecure about Don.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-11-19
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The Divine Protector: Master Salt Begins
Overview: At 7:07PM, the occult club members hold a ritual ceremony to summon “Master Salt” who is a divine protector. One after another, people ask Master Salt for help. What will Master Salt and the girls encounter in the battle against a powerful enemy?
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-21
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A Man
Overview: Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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Smile
Overview: Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skating instructor. But by a twist of fate, he finds himself coaching a local ice hockey team of hapless youths and leading them to a championship
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-15
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Year One in the North
Overview: In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, over 500 of them settled in their new land under the leadership of Hideaki, husband of Shino. However, as crops fail he is to go to Sapporo to learn new techniques of farming, leaving his wife and daughter for 5 years. All this time, the new community is constantly watched by the government which choose to again uproot them from their new homes.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-14
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Dolls
Overview: Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-12
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Kekko Kamen
Overview: Kekko Kamen, the fearless heroine who wears red boots, a red mask, and nothing else, she has an uncanny way of destroying her opponents by stunning them with her private parts and proceeding to kick their butts.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-22
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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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Glory to the Filmmaker!
Overview: Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-02
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Voyeurs, Inc. - Enjo Kousai
Overview: Based on the popular comic series by Hideo Yamamoto serialized in Weekly Young Sunday. Stars Asumi Miwa (Love & Pop). The film depicts a "peeping tom" who uncovers people's darker sides by following them and eavesdropping on their conversations.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-25
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A Farewell to Jinu
Overview: Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not to use money at all. Takeharu decides to move to a small village in the Tohoku region. There, he encounters residents who are not so easy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-04
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I Want to Walk in the Sun Someday
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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Cape Nostalgia
Overview: Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are beginning to blow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-29
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Omokage
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-27
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The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
Overview: One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya), only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name. Is Muroi guilty as charged or merely taking the fall? What is the truth behind the murder? Two lawyers, one determined to get Muroi, the other resolved to save him, a feud between two police departments, political power plays and legal trappings, all combine to orchestrate Muroi’s downfall.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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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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Teto
Overview: Teto is a secret agent trainee. Hatoko is a high school student who lives on venting her anger in a combined combative sport gym. On the day Hatoko saw Teto, she runs into cat's suicides. While she experiences a fighting awakening, Teto's superior orders Teto a final examination of infiltrating into a theatrical company, which is composed by orphanage members. Every night, they repeat rehearsing a folktale "Foxed Eyes Torakichi", that modeled legendary outlaw. In a muxture of stage play and costume drama, Teto and the leader build up weird similar figures.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-11-16
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Ah, Wilderness: Part 1
Overview: Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-07
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Ah, Wilderness: Part 2
Overview: Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-21
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One Million Yen Girl
Overview: A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-19
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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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When a Tree Falls
Overview: A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son’s death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunders by multiple people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-21
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Lenses on Her Heart
Overview: Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile. He gradually falls for Akane, who soothes him with her positive outlook and cheerful disposition, but Akane has a boyfriend who has a limited amount of time left to live.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-15
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Samurai Cat: Tamanojo Goes to Edo
Overview: A prequel to the story of the legendary samurai and one cat. In Edo era, there was a legendary samurai named Kyutaro Madarame who are feared as a "Madara the Devil". He was somehow hired for killing a cat named Tamanojo. Just before Kyutaro slashes on Tamanojo, he realizes that Tamanojo looking into his eyes and said "meow". But why?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-19
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Shout: Angels Crying
Overview: A series of bizarre murders targeting only female rock vocalists. Another popular vocalist has begun to be targeted ... The mental horror that slowly attacks ... Psycho, suspense, and horror are here!
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-24
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Hard Boiled
Overview: Riki Takeuchi stars in a yakuza film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Teacher's suitcase
Overview: Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-11
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My Man
Overview: As a young child, Hana loses her family to a devastating tsunami that wipes out her town. At a shelter, distant relative Jungo sees her wandering and adopts her as his daughter.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-14
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The Manga Master
Overview: Biopic about the life of Kitazawa Rakuten, who laid the foundation for the Japanese manga industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-30
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The First Train Runs in Hiroshima
Overview: Only 3 days after A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a streetcar started running through the town burned to the ground. The drivers were teenage girls working for the train company in place of men. The drama is based on a true story of people who strived for the restoration.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-10
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Mad Dog
Overview: A beast awakens within ordinary office worker Hirose when his wife is abducted by yakuza. Full of wild charm and full-scale martial arts action!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-07-15
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Galileo XX
Overview: A spin-off from popular Japanese TV series "Galileo". Episode XX tells the story of female detective Utsumi Kaoru's final case before she went to Oklahoma for further training.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-22
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シモキタブレイザー
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-02-16
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Overview: In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-06-20
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