Megumi Okina
Also Known As: 오키나 메구미
Biography: Megumi Okina (born 6 August 1979) is a Japanese actress, and J-Pop singer in the 1990s. Born in Hiroshima and raised in Tokyo, she made her J-Pop debut on 19 August 1995. She starred in the Japanese original of The Grudge. She married Susumu Fujita in January 2004, however they divorced on 22 July 2005. Megumi's latest movie was a remake of a 2004 Thai film, "Shutter". It was released March 21, 2008, despite the fact that in 2007, she stated that she was retiring from the entertainment business. She portrayed ghost Megumi Tanaka. Around March 12, 2009, she announced that she was 4 months pregnant and planning on marrying her boyfriend of two years, a businessman.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
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Birthday: August 06, 1979
Age: 45 years old
Gender: Female
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Shutter
Overview: A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-21
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Tales of the Unusual
Overview: A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group. These include tales of a group stranded in the mountains and haunted by guilt over a death they inadvertantly caused, an emotionally broken chessmaster pressed into playing a real-life game for an eccentric millionaire, a wandering medieval samurai who finds a modern-day cell phone on the ground and a person on the other end asking questions about the past, and a young couple who agree to try a computer simulation of what their future as husband and wife would be like.
Genres: Horror Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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Red Shadow
Overview: The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and defeat the enemy to build a world of peace. Akakage, Aokage, and Asuka are rookie ninjas under the tutelage of Shirokage. Their life is a series of perilous missions that entail intrigue, deception and intimidation.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-11
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Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?
Overview: One summer day, a group of sixth-grade boys have an argument about whether fireworks are round or flat when viewed from different angles and embark on a journey for the answer during the annual firework festival. Meanwhile, one of their classmates, Nazuna, is troubled by her parents' separation and decides to choose one of the boys to run away with.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-12
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Kyrie
Overview: Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However, her singing voice shakes the hearts of those who listen to her. It is a hymn of compassion played by Luca and the people.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-13
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Restaurant in the Forest
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-11-19
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Cosmetic Wars
Overview: Misawa Akane is a corporate spy out working undercover for competitive and industrial purposes. She manages to successfully infiltrate the ranks of a successful cosmetics' company, go through training, make friends and apply the products in order to gain access to proprietary intellectual property. Her work is not without danger, however, and takes discipline. What is more, her conscience gnaws at her.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-11
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Infinity
Overview: Takahashi travels to Boracay in the Philippines to write a novel. After a while, the real world and the world of the novel begin to intersect
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-01
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Murder of the Inugami Clan
Overview: Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, the granddaughter of a person to whom Sahei feels heavily indebted. The will states that all his assets are inherited by Tamayo alone, on the condition that she marries one of the sons of the daughters. Furudate's assistant learns the content of the will, and seeks advice from Kindaichi Kosuke, a private detective, as he senses the air of unease. Shortly afterwards, murders start to occur one after another in the clan.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-16
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Night Head
Overview: The movie version of the TV series that gained cult popularity. One day, the Kirihara brothers who have supernatural powers meet a supernatural power girl named Sakie Tengen, and fight against an organization that has noticed her ability.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-11-03
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Jellyfish
Overview: Based on 16-year-old writer Sarie Hinakura’s award winning story Jellyfish is centered around two adolescent girls disconnected from their immediate environment of school and mates. They first get together while staring into a jellyfish tank at a local aquarium. The relationship that ensues eventually faces tension from the divergent personalities of the two protagonists, one of whom explores a heterosexual relationship with a fellow student. Jealousy and the wrath of a lover spurned are inevitable spillovers.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-08-31
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St. John's Wort
Overview: Nami has been creating artwork for a new video game based on images she's been seeing in her dreams. With one of the game producers, she travels out to an abandoned house that seems to match her visions. As they explore the old mansion, Nami begins to have more visions of a forgotten childhood, until at last she comes across a photo of twin infants, labelled "Nami" and "Naomi". As Nami and the producer go from room to room, an unseen person seems to be watching them from a hidden room.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-27
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My Summertime Map
Overview: Elementary student Tanabe Kento is struggling to draw a map of his town for his summer vacation homework. One day, a fracas occurs involving a mysterious man, junkman. After that, Kento discovers a Hiroshima that he'd never known, and decides to draw a map of his very own.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-29
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The Boys Wanted to See Fireworks from the Side
Overview: A documentary looking back on the making of Shunji Iwai's TV play Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom?.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-08-07
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The Aurora
Overview: Deep-sea archeologist Hiroshi Ibuki is the member of the digging team working at the bottom of the sea hoping to uncover the origins of Earth's existence but instead uncovers a mysterious colony of bacteria which gives off light similar to the Aurora Borealis. The ancient bacteria, once revived, attempt to make the world habitable for themselves - a process that would bring Earth back to its early primal form, killing all current life in the process.
Genres: Animation Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-06
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Samurai Sensei
Overview: Hanpeita Takeichi, a samurai, finds that he has travelled through time to modern-day Japan. He's taken in by an old man who runs a cram school, and begins to work as a teacher there.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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Crime or Punishment?!?
Overview: Riko Narumi plays an unpopular idol who in an attempt to boost her faltering career becomes police chief for a day. During the day a robbery occurs at a convenience store and instead of letting a real police chief deal with the robbery she decides to take the matter into her own hands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-02-28
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Ju-on: The Grudge
Overview: When social worker Rika is sent to check on a traumatized old lady whose family have moved in at the site of the notorious Saeki family murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that is transmitted via its victims further and further from its original source.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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Howling Village
Overview: After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as ‘Howling Village’ to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family’s dark history.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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Kirei kamisama to machiawase shita on'na
Overview: 2001 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-18
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