Masatoshi Nagase
Also Known As: Nagase Masatoshi, 永瀬 正敏, 永瀬正敏, 永瀨正敏, 永瀨 正敏
Biography: Masatoshi Nagase (永瀬 正敏, Nagase Masatoshi, born July 15, 1966) is a Japanese actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
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Hotel Iris
Overview: Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and thrifty Japanese woman (Nahana) and her lonely half-Taiwanese daughter Mari (Lucia). One night, Mari hears the cries of a woman from the upper floors. Heading up to investigate, she witnesses a distraught woman in a red camisole dress escape an impeccably dressed but violent man (NAGASE Masatoshi) whose cold voice is entrancing. Mari’s initial shock turns into a strange fascination which drives her to follow the man to discover more about him. He is a translator who lives on an isolated island one can only reach by boat and rumours swirl around him and recent murders. The closer she gets to the man, the more a hidden layer of Mari’s personality awakens as she allows herself to be engulfed by his strange passions…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-02-18
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Just Remembering
Overview: A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love story inspired by a Jim Jarmusch masterpiece, set in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-02-11
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Mystery Train
Overview: In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-06
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Party 7
Overview: Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. Who will end up with the money?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Overview: Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks from a trio of fighters known only as the demons. Taking up his sword once more, he sets out to end their murderous terror.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-07
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Noise
Overview: Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) begins to produce black fig on Shishikari Island. Because of his well received product, the island is close to receiving a 5 billion yen grant from the government, which is part of the goverment's policy to reinvigorate rural economy. The residents of the island are excited, but their peaceful days changes by the appearance of Mutsuo Komisaka. Keita Izumi and his friends Jun Tanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) and Rookie Police Officer Shinichiro Moriya are suspicious about him. One night, Keita Izumi's daughter goes missing. Due to that, Keita Izumi, Jun Tanabe and Shinichiro Moriya happen to kill Mutsuo Komisaka. They decide to hide Mutsuo Komisaka’s murder to protect the future of the island and their families. It turns out Mutsuo Komisaka was a psycho killer. Police officers come to Shishikari Island to catch Mutsuo Komisaka.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-27
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The Hidden Blade
Overview: Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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Electric Dragon 80.000 V
Overview: A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Fantasy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-02-08
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Suicide Club
Overview: When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer to this mystery, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-29
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Autumn Moon
Overview: A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hong Kong while their family emigrates to Canada.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-09-15
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Gelatin Silver, Love
Overview: The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment opposite his.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-07
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The Sea Is Watching
Overview: O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-27
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Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!
Overview: Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaiting the Wago family members who return home to bury their parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-07
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Worst by Chance
Overview: Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts around and meanders through life until a death reminds him of his heritage and so begins a journey to South Korea.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-13
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Cold Fever
Overview: A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-02-10
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Mismatch - Miho & Shizuka Xmas Special
Overview: Tamaki (Miho Nakayama) and Ako (Shizuka Kudo) are two friends living together. Although their personalities differ, they share the same wish - to find love before Christmas.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-20
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The Box Man
Overview: A photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of the world through a cardboard box placed over his head.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-08-23
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Stereo Future
Overview: Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film’s obnoxious ham of a star.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-05
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Angel
Overview: One day, an angel materializes before Kato's eyes. While the angel seems like an average girl with a passion for gin and lime, she sports a pair of big white wings. Only lonely-hearted people can see her. She may seem ordinary, but this angel touches hearts and transforms lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-21
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Smuggler
Overview: To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-22
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Overview: Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of double-crosses Hama gets embroiled in a gang war and a revenge plot between the two brothers
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-05
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The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
Overview: In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-07-07
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Confession
Overview: In the silent mountains, surrounded by beautiful mountains on all sides. A man carrying an urn, Iori Kano, appears in front of Mizuki Takahashi, a beautiful woman staring at the fire of a kiln in a humble workshop. Iori is Mizuki's brother-in-law. He has come to inform Mizuki of the death of her mother, Isuzu Kano. For some reason, Mizuki had abandoned her parents' home and was now living a peaceful life with her husband, ceramic artist Tetsuro Takahashi. Iori's appearance cuts through that peace and brings her back to the dark past. Mizuki has been living her life with her past hidden away, but her guilt for Yasuo, her father-in-row, who she had driven to his death, and her love and hate for Isuzu, who she had never reconciled with, lingered deep in her heart. This sense of guilt over her own deeds eventually condemns Mizuki in the form of the ghost of Isuzu, and finally leads her down the path of destruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-08
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Space Girl Morumo 1/10
Overview: Fuji Television film based on the manga of the same name by Hiroshi Aro.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-05-04
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
Overview: Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-03-18
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The Trap
Overview: When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-25
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Chloe
Overview: Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls ill.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-15
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P. P. Rider
Overview: Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-11
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The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
Overview: In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes from Nagayo, but Etsuko is attracted to his friend, Akashi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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Beautiful Sunday
Overview: A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, the residents of a Tokyo apartment block.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-20
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Powder Road
Overview: The Yakuza has two investments in Thailand. One is a factory polluting the environment in Pattaya. The other is smuggling heroin with Thai partners from Burma. It is transported to Pattaya by placing it inside blocks of ice. Once there it is removed and surgically implanted into the "boobs" of transvestites for onward transportation by air to Japan. Unfortunately for them, the Thai police know all about their operations.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: th
Release Date: 1994-09-10
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The War and a Woman
Overview: Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman works in bar and is a former prostitute. Many years ago, her father sold her to a brothel due to the family's severe financial hardships. The writer and the woman then agree to live as husband and wife until the war ends. The woman doesn't feel sexual pleasures due to her past, while the man lusts for the woman's body. Meanwhile, Ohira (Jun Murakami) fought for Japan in China. He participated in unconscionable acts against civilians in the name of war. He returns to Japan with only one arm. Ohira then begins to prey on innocent women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-27
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Summer of Ubume
Overview: Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has been pregnant for twenty months. Sekiguchi investigates further with the help of his friend Enokizu, a detective with the unusual ability to see people's memories. They are hired by the impossibly pregnant woman's sister to find the woman's missing husband and lay this whole matter to rest. In the end, they need the help of Kyogokudo to exorcise the family curse.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-15
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Luxurious Bone
Overview: Miyako works as a call girl, living with her close friend Sakiko. After encountering a client, Shintani, with whom Miyako experiences sexual pleasure for the first time in her life, the two women begin to drift apart. Miyako suggests that Shintani should sleep with Sakiko, an event that draws the three into a love triangle in which their various flaws and anxieties are reflected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-25
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A Hundred Flowers
Overview: Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them. One in particular, when he believed she had disappeared, haunts him terribly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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Kano
Overview: A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-27
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Jigen Daisuke
Overview: Feeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the world’s best gunsmith. He finally finds out that Chiharu, who runs a watch shop, is the person he’s been seeking. Then, Jigen meets Oto, who comes to Chiharu’s shop looking for a gun. Jigen finds out about Oto's secrets and the mysterious organization that’s after her. After Oto is kidnapped, Jigen gets into a desperate battle to save her.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-12
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Pistol Opera
Overview: An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-27
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My Name Is Magokoro
Overview: Taro Magokoro is an unsuccessful actor and lives a mundane life. This year, he turns 30.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-23
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Family
Overview: Based on the comic by Tsuchida Seiki, inspired by the artist's own life experience, this film portrays the loss and regeneration of the life of four men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-03
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A Class to Remember II
Overview: The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-19
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My Sons
Overview: Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-12
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Words with Gods
Overview: The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-20
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A Forest with No Name
Overview: Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the forest.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-19
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Loved Gun
Overview: A story about a hitman named Hayamada who carries a distinctive red gun. As the film progresses we discover the reason for his work, and how he came to be alone. His aim right now is to reach a desitination, but he's late.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-13
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Dead End Run
Overview: Three short films with the theme of death and dead ends in common.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-18
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Everyday Mom
Overview: Rieko Saibara is a cartoonist and mother of a 6-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl. When she has a difficult time, she throws away her problems with laughter. Her husband Kamoshitda used to be a war camera man, but now he's addicted to alcohol. He struggles to overcome his problem, but keeps failing. Finally, they get divorced. After Kamoshida loses his family, he realizes how precious they are. He focuses on getting away from alcohol, but another disease comes to him. Even though Saibara knows that he can not make it for long, she accepts him back to her family again. Since then a happy, but short, time exists for the family of four.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-05
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Original Sin
Overview: Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-20
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Enclosed Pain
Overview: Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act of brutality keeps them extremely close together until an older couple occupy the house where their secret was buried.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-25
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Aiki
Overview: When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and depression. No boxing ring or martial arts club will take him on -- that is, until an aiki jujitsu master helps the young man develop techniques uniquely tailored to a wheelchair. What starts off as a sad film revs up into an exciting and fun series of epiphanies in which the young man realizes his situation isn't as hopeless as it seems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-29
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BeRLiN
Overview: When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly, a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salary-man who saw the disappeared woman and wants to meet her again is found and joins the crew. Together they follow the clues. She has an amulet, which looks like a small bag, which she always hangs from her neck. It contains a piece of the Berlin wall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Flirt
Overview: The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-14
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Sakuran
Overview: Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while trying to cling to the man she loves.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-07
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The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn
Overview: Tenmasou is a long-established inn atop a mountain overlooking the sea, in a town called Mitsuse that exists between heaven and earth. The inn is run by Nozomi Tenma, the proprietress. Her younger sister Kanae works as a dolphin trainer. Their mother Keiko is the inn's elder proprietress, who is still resentful of her ex-husband that deserted his wife and family.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-28
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Mountain Woman
Overview: Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of humans ascend after passing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-30
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Miroku
Overview: Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage years to adult life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-26
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A Road Stained Crimson
Overview: Professional killer Ken (Hirofumi Arai) is trying to break away from the yakuza. Taking up work at a local motorcycle shop, he forges a new life under the motherly eye of Yoko (Jun Fubuki), an older woman who owns the shop. However, Ken's dark past isn't letting him go that easily. Akira (Jun Murakami), Ken's ruthless mentor and himself an assassin, has been coming around and pressuring Ken to return to the family. Together with orphaned teenager Tsuyoshi (Niinobu Ryomei), Ken decides to take to the road and settle matters in the only way he knows - by the trigger of his gun. Featuring music by Snake on the Beach, a solo project of legendary singer and guitarist Yusuke Chiba, A Road Stained Crimson takes viewers down the high-octane expressway of bikes, guns and rock 'n' roll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-10-13
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The Furthest End Awaits
Overview: Set at the edge of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, with its beautiful scenic views, the film revolves around two women from different backgrounds who develop a friendship, and how they begin to influence and change each other’s lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-09-29
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Atlanta Boogie
Overview: "Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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Dreaming Awake
Overview: Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man is fixated on with the Second World War. He feels a sense of frustration at the irrational sacrifice of young people's lives during the war six decades earlier. Daisuke finds that he can vent his frustrations to Kimuro, who experienced the war firsthand. Kimuro's wife, Emiko, is also troubled by memories of the war. She lost a loved one in the war and has never gotten over it. And Kimuro himself also has something from the past that he has yet to face. He believes that the burden of his unresolved past will eventually be the death of him. When Daisuke's neurosis causes him to quit school, life changes for all three of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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Hakuchi: The Innocent
Overview: In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a broadcasting center responsible for all of Japan's entertainment.
Genres: Drama Fantasy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-13
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R246 STORY
Overview: The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.7 kilometers long Route 246 passes through Japanese trendsetting areas such as Aoyama, Omotesando, Harajuku, and Shibuya, on its way to Numazu City in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-23
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Miyuki
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-09-16
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Three Businessmen
Overview: An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-14
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Gina K
Overview: "Gina K" tells the story of the daughter of a famous stripper, who reveals her family history so she can stand proud as a vocalist. On stage she's feverish, but when she comes down she's just another girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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Abduction
Overview: The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large bags of money through downtown Tokyo as the media documents his every move. When the first old man almost dies from exhaustion, a second, and eventually a third elderly corporate fat cat is ordered to do the same. The police detective assigned to the case (Tetsuya Watari) and his younger partner (Masatoshi Nagase) are livid with indignation at this sorry spectacle. They learn that these four men were involved in a massive industrial spill that poisoned an entire rural hamlet 20 years previous. Suddenly, the detective -- who studied in the States and apparently absorbed some John Wayne-like mannerisms in the process -- isn't sure who are the victims and who are the villains.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-07
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Disconcerto
Overview: Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school classmate Haruhiko Gyoten. A big crisis then occurs for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-18
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Tora-san Makes Excuses
Overview: Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his love interest or "Madonna".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-26
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The Rainbow Seeker
Overview: A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-28
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Yûri
Overview: Masayuki meets Nanami, who is on a journey with a refrigerator named Ullie. Nanami's Iranian friend Amir is helping her haul the refrigerator which contains Nanami's dead boyfriend. Masayuki joins the journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-06
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Drive-In Gamo
Overview: Saki and Toshi were born and raised at the shabby "Drive in Gamo," located on the side of a road. Their father was a yakuza but he was kicked out of the group. Because of their father, Saki and Toshi were known as being part of the idiot family. Saki in desperation with her life became a troubled kid. She got pregnant and ran away from family. But one day, Saki who suffered from physical violence by her husband, comes back home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-02
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Asian Beat: I Love Nippon
Overview: Commentary: The first work in the "Asian Beat" series, in which young directors from six Asian countries, including Japan, compete to create the same protagonist (Masatoshi Nagase). The main character "TOKIO" becomes involved in various incidents when he meets Banana, a Filipino girl who is a terrorist and holds top-secret information that will shake Japan. This work depicts the appearance of TOKIO and his escape from Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-31
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Asian Beat: Love from Temasek
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-20
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Mourning Work
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-20
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Motorcycle Girl
Overview: The story of a girl riding a motorcycle and embarking on a journey to meet her distant father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Tampen
Overview: Four short films produced without a director
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-01
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Radio City Fantasy
Overview: Hiroshi is a high school student who dreams of one day writing a children's book. But knowing that dreams need money to become a reality, he works hard and saves for the day when he can be a writer. A chance meeting with Hiroko on the subway leads to love and is vital in helping him finally realise his ambitions.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-07-21
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Defeat the Devil!
Overview: A one part drama/made for TV movie starring Rie Miyazawa
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-06
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Sweet Bean
Overview: The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-30
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Overview: Maeda decides to have an operation to cure his color-blindness, but he becomes afraid that after the operation, his world is not going to be the same.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-07-14
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Last Shadow at First Light
Overview: Ami, haunted by recurring apparitions, embarks on a journey from Singapore to Japan in search of her missing mother. Amidst the transforming landscapes, Ami's dreams, hauntings and lost mother unveil their true form.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-22
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Brats, Be Ambitious!
Overview: A countryside in 1988. Shun is crazy about fooling around with his best friends. Facing up with their family environment or bullying in school, they struggle against the problems in their adolescents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-24
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Fantasmagorie~The Ghost Show
Overview: Ena is a computer graphics artist. Working like a machine, she ultimately suffers from the rare digital disease "01," which leaves a strange mark on one half of her face. Ena goes back to her hometown. That is when "Babalon" appears before her which only Ena can see. Frightened by "Babalon" that speaks of "destruction," a strange boy named Robert shows up. Robert invites Ena to enter the mysterious antique shop "Anatomic Circus." That is where Ena learns about the magic lantern show "Fantasmagorie" that swept the late 18th century Paris. It involved a real Ghost Show with actual ghosts that also lead to the police getting involved. Ena becomes a captive of both "Fantasmagorie" and the founder Robertson. That is when a change occurs around Ena. She is lured by a song to leave the shop. That is when strange men pursue her, and she wonders into a maze dominated by "Babalon."
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-10-01
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The Cross
Overview: Shunsuke Fujii was a bullied middle school student. He took his own life. A letter left behind referred to his classmate Yu Sanada as a friend. Sayuri Nakagawa was a girl that Shunsuke liked. Her birthday is the same day as the day Shunsuke commited suicide. Shunsuke's father can not forgive Shunsuke’s classmates and his mother's life has been destroyed by his death. They have spent 20 years of their life carrying their own cross since Shunsuke Fujii's death.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-06
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Bitter Honey
Overview: Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and adoring pet for an aging writer seeking greatness. Things quickly get complicated for the odd couple, however, when the writer's deceased former student/lover enters the picture as a ghost and helps Akako realize her own desires, activating her agency and frustrating the one-sided male fantasy the writer is so keen to continue.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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Paterson
Overview: A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-17
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Glassy Ocean
Overview: On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean remains on a solid state of matter as the eccentric individuals who inhabit this land casually wander over it.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-14
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Adabana
Overview: In a not so distant future where lifespan extension has become a priority following the spread of a mysterious virus, a privileged man looks back upon his life as he is facing a dilemma: should he live if it means taking someone else's life?
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-10-18
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Black Widow Business
Overview: Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, Kozo Nakase suddenly collapses and dies. Kozo Nakase leaves everything to Sayako. The rest of his family are left out of his will including his daughter Tomomi. Tomomi hires a private investigator, Honda, to find out more about Sayoko.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-08-27
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64: Part 1
Overview: 1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-07
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64: Part 2
Overview: 1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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Getting Wild With Our Monkey
Overview: A down-on-his luck writer meets a movie producer, who asks him to write a screenplay on the condition that he visit locations for the film. Chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-07-21
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Radiance
Overview: The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-27
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The Blue Hearts
Overview: Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-08
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Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016: Reflections
Overview: This omnibus film brings together three globally acclaimed directors from Asia with a common theme 'Living Together in Asia' to depict the lives of characters who journey between Japan, Cambodia, the Philippines and Malaysia. Brillante Mendoza grapples with the issue of loss of national identity and home, with a story set in the Obihiro area of Hokkaido and Manila in the Philippines. Isao Yukisada directs a story in Malaysia where the Japanese army was once stationed but is now home to many Japanese retirees living out their remaining years. An elderly man has parted from his family in Japan to live alone in Penang, but when a new helper comes to the house, he slowly opens his mind and an unexpected bond forms between the two. Finally director Sotho Kulikar conveys a beautiful but heart-rending love story between a Japanese man and Cambodian woman that unfolds across past and present against the backdrop of Cambodia's civil war.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-08-26
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Happiness
Overview: A mysterious man arrives in a quiet Japanese town. With him, he carries a strange helmet that allows one to re-experience the happiest moment of their life. He goes on to make the village people recall their happy pasts, but his face is lined with worry and a sadness that deepens. What is the secret of this helmet? And what is he trying to do with it?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-16
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Our Time Will Come
Overview: In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2017-07-01
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Vision
Overview: Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-08
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A Girl in the Apple Farm
Overview: The Mikami family lives within the foot of Mount Iwaki. The Mikami family makes a living by running an apple farm. Eldest daughter Rinko is a middle school student who keeps running away and coming back home with her boyfriend Kenichiro. Rinko’s mother Mayumi has difficulty raising her kids and the apples. One night, before Rinko's birthday, Rinko's father Tamao brings a horse with a ribbon as her birthday present. Tamao actsas he pleases. The mother suffers from his impulsiveness. To borrow money, Rinko comes back home after a long time away from home. There, Rinko sees the horse.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-07
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Punk Samurai Slash Down
Overview: Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by the Kurokaze Han, but they learn that Junoshin Kake lied. Junoshin Kake is given the death sentence and he must think of an escape plan.
Genres: Action Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-30
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Butterfly Sleep
Overview: Ryoko Matsumura is a popular writer in her 50's. She also knows that she has Alzheimer’s. Ryoko Matsumura begins to teach at a university. She meets a young Korean man in his 20's. They become attracted to each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-05-12
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The Experimental Film
Overview: An experimental drama with the motif of "experimental film". What does it mean to be reproduced on film? Under the theme of fundamental questions, it will express the relationship between men and women with a mysterious visual beauty. The story gradually increases in illusion, and the audience is brought into the world of the hero's heart.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-27
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Zen and Bones
Overview: The story of Henri Mitowa, a 93-year old Japanese monk, who wants to make a movie based on his own life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-08-26
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Talking the Pictures
Overview: Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a performer that provides live narration to silent films.
Genres: Comedy History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-12-13
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Buyusenki Battle Chronicle
Overview: Motorcycles, drugs, and gangs terrorize Japan. The man who dreamed of a life of peace has instead been transformed into an angel of death!
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-27
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Red Snow
Overview: Thirty years after aboy's disappearance, a journalist revives interest in the case, which in turn compels the victim's brother to look for this woman's daughter in the snowy hinterlands of northern Japan. This sets off a series of events that causes the brother and the woman's daughter to glimpse the truth that has been concealed by their vague and painful memories.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-01
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BOLT
Overview: Scene one: March 11th, 2011. An earthquake and a tsunami strike the East coast of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. A man and five other brave power plant workers are sent to fasten a bolt to prevent radiation leaks. Scene two: 2013. The man is now cleaning the empty houses surrounding the nuclear plant. But the strange atmosphere starts giving him hallucination... Scene three: Christmas, 2014. A woman in a red car crashes by the garage where the man is working. The woman looks just like his wife, who died in the tsunami.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-16
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They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Overview: Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barely communicates with anyone except Genzo, a young neighbour. Upstream, a large bridge is being constructed. Everyone is excited, but Toichi has mixed feelings about it. One day, Toichi meets a mysterious girl. Having no family and no place to go, Toichi lets her stay with him, but this encounter starts to bring about changes to Toichi's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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The First Supper
Overview: Rintaro (Sometani Shota) returns home for the first time in a while to prepare for and attend his father's funeral. He and his sister are surprised to find that their mother has canceled the catering order, and instead will be making the food herself in accordance with her late husband's will. The first dish she brings out is simply sunny side up eggs, and the attendees are at a loss. Rintaro recalls that this was the first meal his father had cooked for him and his sister.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Fancy
Overview: Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a female fan with the name of Moonlit Night's Star (Sakurako Konishi). She sends letters to Penguin. One day, the female fan appears in front of Akira Takasu and Penguin. These three somehow get involved in a battle between the yakuza.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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Tracing Her Shadow
Overview: An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese policeman join her search.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-03-19
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Asian Beat: Powder Road
Overview: The Yakuza has two investments in Thailand. One is a factory polluting the environment in Pattaya. The other is smuggling heroin with Thai partners from Burma. It is transported to Pattaya by placing it inside blocks of ice. Once there it is removed and surgically implanted into the “boobs” of transvestites for onward transportation by air to Japan. Unfortunately for them the Thai police know all about their operations…
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-25
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Love's Twisting Path
Overview: Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Shogun's police and city patrol. Tajuro Kiyokawa, once the master of the sword but now a depraved samurai who left his domain putting aside his past ambition, barely makes ends meet. Toyo, a woman who runs a tavern next door, feels affection for Tajuro who guards her place against nasty customers, but he never realizes Toyo's feelings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-12
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Asian Beat: Sunrise in Kampung
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-01
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Asian Beat: Shadow of Nocturne
Overview: A story that reveals the secrets of two women with a very similar face, a club singer with a mysterious charm and a crystal glass craftsman who devote himself to making works.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-02
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We Are Little Zombies
Overview: Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-24
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Just the Two of Us
Overview: Shunsaku was paralyzed from the neck down at the young age of 36 by a spinal injury suffered in a motorcycle accident. A blind woman named Hanae arrives to be his caregiver. Despite her frustrations with Shusaku's ill-nature and verbal abuse, Hanae also harbors a tremendous sense of being deprived that she doesn't tell others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-10
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Child of the Stars
Overview: When Chihiro was a baby, she suffered from eczema. Her parents tried to find a cure, but nothing worked. Her father's co-worker then gave him some water from a strange religious group. Chihiro was miraculously cured by the water. Her parents began to follow the strange religion and became fervent followers. Chihiro is now in the 3rd grade of middle school and she faces changes in her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-09
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Five to Nine
Overview: An omnibus film that compresses 16 hours into one, offering glimpses of what happens beyond the monotony from 9am to 5pm.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-11-16
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Living in the Sky
Overview: In the time after Naomi’s parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular actor Morinori Tokito who lives in the same apartment building.
Genres: Family Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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Malu
Overview: Mysterious poetic story of long-lasting discord between beautiful sisters unfolds in Malaysia and Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-11-13
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A Madder Red
Overview: 7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her husband's death. She has since raised her son Junpei by herself. Junpei is now a middle school student. Ryoko also cares for her father-in-law, who lives in a nursing home and she also runs a cafe. Her care is in a difficult situation due to Covid-19, while Junpei experiences bullying at school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-21
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Namonaihi: A Day with No Name
Overview: A human drama about the strange fate of the three brothers, played by Masatoshi Nagase, Joe Odagiri, and Nobuaki Kaneko, set in Nagoya.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-11
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Sakura
Overview: Three siblings share a home with their parents living a happy life. The oldest one is good-looking guy, which is something of a contrast from his younger brother who is at school. The youngest one is the girl and has two brothers to protect her. And then there is Sakura, the family's dog who is always by their side. The fate of this quirky but happy family changes drastically after Hajime, the family's hero-like figure, encounters a tragic accident...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-13
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Hotel New Moon
Overview: Noushin is a single mother who lives by her girl alone and has a peaceful life but when a foreign guy enters their life everything changes for them and new secrets reveal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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Goldfish
Overview: "Guns" was a punk band that became a social phenomenon in the 1980s. At the height of their popularity, one of the member Hal caused an injury and the band was suspended. Thirty years later, the band starts to reunite under the leadership of Ichi, motivated by the pathetic and impure motives of their leader, Animal. However, when they begin rehearsals, the discrepancies in their thinking and growth as a band become apparent.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-31
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Oliver na Inu, (Gosh!!) Konoyarou Movie
Overview: Movie adaptation of the TV series 'Oliver na Inu, (Gosh!!) Konoyarou'. To be released in 2025.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
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Kokuho
Overview: Set after the war in Japan, when the country experienced rapid economic growth, Kikuo is born into a yakuza family. His strange fate leads him to be eventually taken in by a kabuki theater actor. He experiences turbulent times, but his talent as a kabuki actor blossoms.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-06-06
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Ikimono no kiroku
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-03-07
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Oshare dorobō
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-09
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Hokusai's Daughter
Overview: The life of Katsushika Oi, daughter of Hokusai and a trailblazing female artist in Japan.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-10-17
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