Jinpachi Nezu
Also Known As: 根津透, Jinpachi Nezu, 根津甚八
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jinpachi Nezu (根津 甚八, Nezu Jinpachi, 1 December 1947 – 29 December 2016) was a Japanese actor. He has appeared in 56 films and television shows since 1974. He starred in the 1982 film Farewell to the Land, which was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jinpachi Nezu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yamanashi, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: December 01, 1947
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 29, 2016
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La Sombra del Verano - Ilusion in Andalusia
Overview: Set in Andalusia, Spain, the film depicts the fantastic journey of an ordinary housewife who leads an uneventful life in search of a missing writer. While dining out with her husband at a Spanish restaurant, Yoko hears that the writer, Mikiro Shimizu, has disappeared. Yoko comes forward and sets off alone to Andalusia, Spain, to look for Shimizu. On the way, she meets a young man named Yu, who is traveling around the country on a bicycle, and a mysterious woman named Aki, and the three of them follow Shimizu's trail, relying on a manuscript titled "False Blood" and the word "platelo" that he left in his room.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-09
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Nobody
Overview: Three elite salarymen find themselves in a bar fight with a group of threatening but mysterious men. When the mystery men come looking for revenge, the salarymen find themselves embroiled in a deadly game...
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-05-28
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Ran
Overview: With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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Kagemusha
Overview: Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-26
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Gonin
Overview: Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-23
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Dragon Head
Overview: Teru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially destroys the train and blocks a tunnel. When Teru awakes, he finds all his classmates and teachers are dead.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-30
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Angel's Egg
Overview: In a desolate and dark world full of shadows, lives one little girl who seems to do nothing but collect water in jars and protect a large egg she carries everywhere. A mysterious man enters her life... and they discuss the world around them.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-06-09
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Discontinuous Bombing Incident
Overview: What is the clue that connects the police dormitory bombing case & Keihin canal murder case with the corporate bombing case 17 years ago? Detective Tamori chases a mystery!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-13
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Rule of Revenge ROGUE COP
Overview: The detective with the highest arrest rate. In fact, he was a vicious detective who communicated with the gangsters!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-08-14
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Black Angel
Overview: Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his daughter, Chiaki. Only the mysterious Ikko, Chiaki's half-sister threatens him. Inspired by a legendary hit-woman, Ikko calls herself the Black Angel and plans to wash away her father's murderer with a deluge of blood.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-30
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Gotoshi Co. Ltd. II
Overview: The second 'Gotoshi' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-08
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Gotoshi Co. Ltd. III
Overview: The third 'Gotoshi' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-12-03
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Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case
Overview: The fourth 'Gotoshi' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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School Day of the Dead
Overview: Some students decide to set up a play written by one of their classmates, who has commited suicide. The play is based on a tragic and mysterious legend about a love affair between two teachers at the school long ago. Some girls then accidentally stumble over some information about the legend, and the girl who commited suicide. Shortly after, the girls start turning up dead in seeming accidents.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-05
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Angel Guts: Red Flash
Overview: Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film. When photographing a rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes uncomfortable, having remembered a similar incident in her own past.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-09-10
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Alone in the Night
Overview: An undercover narcotics officer is killed, and after his funeral some yakuza break into his apartment and rape his wife, Nami, while looking for the drugs they claim he stole from them. Afterwards Nami attempts to commit suicide, but after being rescued by a mysterious yakuza she decides to infiltrate the gang and get revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-22
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Station
Overview: A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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Farewell to the Land
Overview: Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who lives in Tokyo, Yukio has become an amphetamine-addicted loner at odds with his family, friends and colleagues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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Owls' Castle
Overview: As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins, killing every man, woman and child he found in the village. Years later, one of the survivors has hired a young but skilled assassin to avenge the deaths of his friends and family. His mission: to sneak into the most heavily guarded castle in Japan, and kill the supreme ruler of the country.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-10-30
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Kumamoto Stories
Overview: Jidai-geki period / folklore type stories that were comissioned by the Kumamoto prefacture of Kyushu island in 1996 and filmed over a period of three years. Kumamoto Monogatari is a 2002 omnibus which includes the three short films: Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu, Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta, Onna Kunishuu Ikki.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-20
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Kidnapping Blues
Overview: A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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It's All Right, My Friend
Overview: An alien with super powers fallen from the sky is befriended by some people who help him stop an evil group out to get him.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-15
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Wet Dice
Overview: Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded with customers infatuated with her. For the past three years, Kayo has been in a relationship with Murakami, a city councilman. One day, a young man and woman, Jun and Yoko, come to town. They are planning to stow away somewhere, but no one will take them in. Exhausted, they happen to come to Kayo's bar. Eventually, Kayo's past and the man she used to be with are revealed, and Jun and Yoko's desperate actions lead to the story's conclusion...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-11
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Orchids Under the Moon
Overview: Jinpachi Nezu who lost both his wife and daughter during a feud against the yakuza 10 years ago while he was an accountant for their organization. One day he comes across a young idol and rescues her from being kidnapped by the yakuza.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-27
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Tokyo Bordello
Overview: A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of the brothel has hopes to make her a great new addition which will attract the richest of customers. But after several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-06-13
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Debt King Part VI: Legendary Speculator in Naniwa
Overview: Naito is serving time for his aggressive fundraising in the securities world, but returns to Osaka after completing his sentence. Although he wants to get clean, Oyodo Shinkin Bank has tasked Naito to raise funds.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-24
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Patlabor 2: The Movie
Overview: A Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between the civilian authorities and the military when a terrorist act is blamed on an Air Force jet. With the aid of a government agent, the team gets close to a terrorist leader to stop things from going out of control when after the military is impelled to impose martial law.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-08-07
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Runin: Banished
Overview: In 1838, the prisoners on Hachijo Island represent the furthest extreme of Japanese society. Instead of execution, they have been forced to eke out a dismal existence on the island, without help or support of any kind from those back on the main four islands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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Tadon and Chikuwa
Overview: A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-05
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Powerless King
Overview: Set in the neon heartbeat of Yokohama, this film ignites an outrageously erotic 17-hour odyssey of desire that unleashes from a lazy Sunday afternoon to a feverish Monday dawn. A sultry fertile female college student meets a band of insatiable young men, sparking a frenzy of scintillating passion that blurs every sexual boundary. Every moment throbs with wild, uninhibited lust—a dizzying climax of youthful ardor and raw, intense, unfettered ecstasy. This cinematic explosion catapults desire into an endless flight of erotic fantasy, transforming ordinary encounters into a delirious, sensual inferno.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-29
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Goodbye Japan
Overview: A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okinawa, feeling neglected by the Japanese government's response, declare independence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-02
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Tasmania Story
Overview: Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by the island's immense natural beauty, and he is conscience-bound to oppose his former employer's ecologically unsound practices. He is also estranged from his grown son, who still resides in Japan. When his son comes to Tasmania for a visit, he must face the challenge of renewing their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-21
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Raffles Hotel
Overview: Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hotel and finds out that he lives in a big house with his wife and children. In the darkness, Moeko suddenly stands in front of Kariya with a camera in her hands. The shutter's sound resounds through the room. When it fades away, Moeko has vanished...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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Young Lady
Overview: A young office lady navigates the ins and outs of modern life in this light romp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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Gonin Saga
Overview: Seiji is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist investigates a case that occurred 19 years ago. He meets Hayato, Daisuke and Asami.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-26
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A Night in Nude
Overview: Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and see the sights. What Jiro doesn't know is that this woman isn't who she says she is. She's on the run from her Yakuza boyfriend, and Jiro is going to be unwittingly entwined in the situation.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-12-18
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Love Letter
Overview: A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-23
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Gate of Flesh
Overview: Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Paradise. The hookers live in a bombed-out building, but they accept the precarious situation with typical resolve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-04-09
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極悪 人間魚雷ブルース
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-21
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The Woman Next Door
Overview: A 1981 TV movie based on a short story by Kuniko Mukoda, starring Kaori Momoi and Jinpachi Nezu. A housewife is slowly tempted by a mysterious man who she overhears one day through the wall of her apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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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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Ghost Story: Flower House
Overview: An eerie statue of the Kannon shedding tears in an old Western-style house. Fifty years of the strange lives of the mothers and daughters who protect the statue of the Kannon.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-16
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The Man in White
Overview: After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-29
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Kadokawa Mystery & Horror Tales Vol. 3
Overview: "GHOST HOUSE" Cast: Jinpachi Nezu ("Castle of the Owls", "Red Shadow"), Natsuo Ishido, Masako Izumi Synopsis: A young girl is forbidden by her parents to marry and decides to elope. "WHISPERS" Cast: Ryuji Harada ("Ka-chan", "Firefly"), Eisuke Tsunoda, Kimi Mizuhashi SynopsisTakuya (Ryuji Harada), a broadcast journalist, is asked by a program director to investigate a strange tree that is located in the area where he was brought up. "WORLD OF INIFINITY" Cast: Ikkei Watanabe ("Muscle Heat", "Gamera 3"), Yumi Aso ("Bond", "Last Scene") Synopsis: For 20 years, Takei (Ikkei Watanabe) devoted his life to his company and family. Using his weak heart as an excuse, he avoided involvement in social activities.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-27
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This Story of Love
Overview: Life and love stories of stunt men and women.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-09-12
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Lullaby of Death
Overview: Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for revenge. All intertwined with the investigation of journalists into local murders, the manipulations of a palmist known as the “blue moth”, and political corruption.
Genres: Mystery Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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Bobby's Girl
Overview: Bobby is an underachieving high school kid with a deep love for motorcycles. His most recent achievement seems to have been getting photos of himself on a road trip printed in a motorcyclist hobby magazine. When he gets a letter from a girl his age, he decides to write her back.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-09
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Overview: Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-17
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The Sea of Genkai
Overview: Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across the Genkai Sea.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-05-29
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
Overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Kagemusha" (1980).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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Ruby Fruit
Overview: Maiko is a recently widowed young woman travelling to Bali to distract herself from the loss of her husband, Esau. At the airport she meets Kioko, who gives her a dagger and a photo of a woman. She tells Maiko she must find the woman, Shireni, in Bali and convince her to return to Japan, or she must use the dagger to kill her. Soon after her arrival in Bali she meets Shireni and is invited to stay with her. Quickly Maiko finds herself trapped on Shirini's island paradise, by her own confusion and her developing love for Shireni. She discovers Shireni to be immortal, a former spirit medium whose only goal is to find pleasure, body and soul.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-21
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Goto shi kabushiki gaisha
Overview: Based on the comic of the same name that ran in Manga Pachinkā.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-05-08
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Dead Beat
Overview: Japanese action film directed by Hiroshi Ando.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-08-07
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The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion
Overview: A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-21
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Overview: Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-26
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Senrigan
Overview: The head of a psychological research institute and a lieutenant in the Japanese Air Force are both investigating a mysterious cult known only as ‘Midori no Saru’ (The Green Monkey). Members of this group have committed a string of violent suicide-attacks on military bases and public areas. Part of the mystery seems to involve a young child and an enormous Buddha statue outside Tokyo, but how could all these pieces possibly fit together?
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-06-10
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Jubaku: Spellbound
Overview: When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Miho Wada) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-09-18
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The Hanging Balloons
Overview: Film adaptation of three short stories by horror mangaka Junji Ito: The Devil's Logic, The Long Hair in the Attic, and The Hanging Balloons.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-18
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Immoral Affairs
Overview: Immoral Affairs (Fukigen na kajitsu) is a Japanese film made in 1997 and directed by Katsuo Naruse.It centers on two characters: Mayako, played by Kaho Minami, a young women who is not content with her husband and begins to have many affairs with other men, and Kiriko Okabe, played by Isako Washio, a woman whom she befriends. Mayako's husband is played by Jinpachi Nezu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-18
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The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
Overview: The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might have killed Ryoma Sakamoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-10-17
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Ekiden
Overview: Two former teammates on a college relay team, find themselves pitted against each other in track competition and in love when they enter rival companies and fall for the same woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-18
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Overview: Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns them: they have one week to succeed; if they resign now, then, tomorrow, facing life difficulties, they will always run away and become bums.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-03-17
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Shadow Warrior of Nobunaga Oda
Overview: In Tensho 9, as Oda Nobunaga nears the unification of Japan, he assigns trusted generals to conquer remaining regions. Meanwhile, a peasant farmer named Sahei, resembling Nobunaga, is chosen by Hideyoshi and Sen no Rikyu to act as Nobunaga’s shadow. Furious at the idea of a double, Nobunaga confronts Sahei, who courageously performs the "Atsumori" dance, impressing Nobunaga enough to accept him as his Kagemusha. Sahei’s first test as the shadow warrior comes at a memorial service for the Oda family.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-03
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The Terrorist’s Parasol
Overview: When an explosion occurs, alcoholic bartender Kikuchi, who was wanted for a bombing 20 years ago, is suspected. Having lost two friends in the incident, Kikuchi sets out to find the real culprit.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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