Masumi Miyazaki
Also Known As: 宮崎ますみ
Biography: Masumi Miyazaki is an actress and model born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from the private Horikoshi High School, and made her film debut in the 1983 release Aiko 16-sai, and was selected as the 11th Clarion Girl in 1985.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: January 26, 1968
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Gender: Female
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Strange Circus
Overview: The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Genres: Mystery Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-24
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Black Princess, Hell Angel
Overview: A violent action film depicting the success of a female investigator in the fight against drug syndicates.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-04
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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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Kokkai e ikô!
Overview: A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-05-01
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XX: Beautiful Weapon
Overview: A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her "clients" / targets that she shoots right after having sex with them in her completely darkened bedroom.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-12-22
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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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A Watcher in the Attic
Overview: In 1923, in a cheap Tokyo rooming house, a languid young man named Goda was feeling bored with his life. One day while playing dress up with a woman’s wig and lipstick, he accidentally loosens a ceiling board in his closet. Climbing up, he discovers a dimly lit passageway under the roof leading to the resident’s other rooms. Soon he is scampering about like a ninja, making knotholes and moving ceiling boards for a better view. What he sees are the intimate acts - sadistic, criminal or vaguely mad - that reveal infinitely more about his fellow roomers than the various fronts they present to the world.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-25
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Be-Bop High School
Overview: An upbeat, action-filled drama that depicts the lives of two obnoxious high school students, Koji and Toru, who are caught in exciting and dangerous adventures involving their fellow students. Based on the best selling comic series, “Be-Bop High School” has gained popularity among the young audience, and become an icon of Japan’s pop culture in the 1980’s.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-14
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Sharaku
Overview: A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-02
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Be-Bop High School 2
Overview: Teen thugs Hiroshi and Toru get caught in a street war when their prized school trousers are forcefully taken from them by punks from a rival school.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-09
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Estate Inheritance
Overview: The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family members.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-20
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Be-Bop Highschool: The Power
Overview: A heated argument between middle school thugs leads to a fierce war between two rival high schools when Toru's girlfriend, Shoko, gets involved.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-17
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Be-Bop High School: A Dunce Rhapsody
Overview: College student Mayumi takes a mutual interest in Hiroshi, but their happiness is cut short when two thugs expelled from school eye the new couple.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-12
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Be-Bop High School: A Delinquent Student March
Overview: A sly prep school thug uses his girlfriend to lure Hiroshi and Toru to a fight, but the scheme escalates to an all-out war between everyone involved.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-03-21
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Balloon
Overview: Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-12
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell
Overview: The seventh movie of the series “Yakuza Ladies” focuses on a wife of a small Osaka family. She risks her life to protect her husband’s family and its members against much larger, more established organizations.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-15
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Fuyu Monogatari
Overview: Based on the comic by Hidenori Hara.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-15
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Be-Bop Highschool Pt. 5
Overview: With thugs under gang leader Shingo attempting to make a name for themselves, Toru and crew must brace for an all-out war between their two schools.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-08-06
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A Samurai's Sorrow
Overview: A rare grouping of the three Tamura brothers, Masakazu, Takahiro, and Ryu highlight this exciting tale of a series of attempts on the life of Shogun Yoshimune. The Owari have longed for the post of shogun, and are willing to do anything, including murder, in order to achieve their goal. Directed by master filmmaker Inoue Akira, this action packed movie, based on a manga by Koike Kazuo who created the Baby Cart (Lone Wolf) series, is loaded with splendid swordplay and an intelligent story line. It all starts when poison is discovered in the shogun’s food. Can the brilliant swordsman Mondo (Tamura Masakazu) manage to save Japan’s leader from certain death?!
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-04-07
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Zazie
Overview: Zazie, one time rock star on the move, has retired at a young age to Shibaura, the semiderelict "waterfront" area of Tokyo. Now he spends his time recording his own life on video. But he can't shake his "fans": members of his former band want a reunion concert, his ex-girlfriend Megumi won't let go, office girls and snack-bar waitresses continue to idolize him. Most disturbing, the taciturn and vaguely threatening Sunada watches him day and night. But Zazie yields to no one, commits to nothing. On the one side, mounting expectation and burgeoning fantasy; on the other, indecision, introspection and silence. Something's gotta give…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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Takeda Shingen
Overview: During the 16th century, Japan was involved in the Sengoku Period, an era of civil wars and the powerful warlords who fought them. One of the earliest and strongest of these men was the Lord Takeda Shingen, a tremendous military genius.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Kieta minoshirokin
Overview: The second-generation president and his brother-in-law of the Toba clan, a don of the music world, are kidnapped. Singer Chiaki and pianist Yonosuke contact Chiaki's father, a detective, and police surround the island. The president's mother-in-law, who entered the island with the ransom money, is shot and injured, but the culprit who stole the money cannot be found. Chiaki begins to investigate the island on her own, and soon finds Kunihiko's body, a hunting rifle, and the ransom money in an island bomb shelter. This is a mystery that challenges the mystery of a bizarre kidnapping and murder involving the family of a prestigious president
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-09-17
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