Maiko Kawakami
Also Known As: 川上 麻衣子
Biography: Maiko Kawakami (川上 麻衣子, Kawakami Maiko, born February 5, 1966) is a Swedish-born Japanese actress who has starred in numerous movies and TV serials. She is a graduate of Keio University through distance education.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
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Violent Cop
Overview: A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-08-12
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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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クソみたいな映画
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-03
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The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo
Overview: Arrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ōkubo remembers his past and ends up confessing to several murders. Inspired by the true story of the serial killer who raped and killed eight women in Japan in 1971. The case moved the whole country.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-29
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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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I am.
Overview: Miki, a nursing care robot, is popular among some medical staff and patients for her dainty and efficient work, but others are more skeptical. One day, Miki malfunctions and begins to see and hear fragmented images and voices.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-23
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Big Bird in Japan
Overview: While visiting Japan, Big Bird wanders off from a guided tour bus in Tokyo, and is lost until a Japanese woman helps him get to where he needs to go. The woman, however, is hiding a secret.
Genres: Family TV Movie Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-01
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A Samurai Chronicle
Overview: A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-04
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Curse, Death & Spirit
Overview: This is a series of three short supernatural-themed movies. The first tells the story of a teen girl who dreams of haunted doll. In the second movie, a widowed mother brings her children to a house in the woods to help them forget the death of their father. While in the woods one of the children meets a ghost that wants more than just to be friends. The last movie tells the story of three teen-aged girls who go on vacation, only to find themselves at a haunted inn.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Black Board
Overview: Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns out to have been murdered by two of his schoolmates, who he had been bullying.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-17
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Mitsugetsu
Overview: Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run away to share their grief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-28
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Yoko the Cherry Blossom
Overview: In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka works as a teacher in the agricultural division at a youth training institute. Although Japan’s defeat seems imminent, all of Masaaki’s students are drafted in a futile last-ditch effort. In an attempt to give the young men some hope, he makes everyone promise that they will all meet again under the cherry blossoms upon their safe return. Consumed by sadness over the fate of his students, Masaaki devotes the next 30 years of his life to develop a new species of cherry blossoms that could thrive in any climate in remembrance of his students.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-21
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Kazakiriba
Overview: Sayako was abused by her mother as a young child. She eventually moved into a foster care facility because of the abuse and has lived there ever since. She's now a senior in high school. After Sayako graduates from high school she hopes to attend a ballet school, but Sayako can't count on her parents for tuition fees. One day, Sayako turns to her father for help. However, her father betrays her trust again and this pushes Sayako over the edge. She escapes from the foster care facility and seeks out her mother and older sister. Eventually, Sayako meets an equally lost soul named Kenta. Kenta wanders through the neighborhood on a bicycle asking random people if they know him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-22
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Teacher and Three Children
Overview: The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-27
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A Tale of Happiness
Overview: A department manager at his company, buys a one-room apartment to have some space to himself. He signs an agreement with a young woman and has an affair with her once a week at the apartment.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-03-19
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Tomie: Unlimited
Overview: Tsukiko is part of the photography club at school, but has always felt less than her sister Tomie. She's cute and very popular among boys. However, one day, Tomie dies in a horrible accident, triggering endless nightmares for Tsukiko. One year later, right when Tomie was supposed to turn 18, someone knocks on the door. Tomie is back.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-05-14
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Terminal Station Series - Umbrella of Goodwill
Overview: Masanao Ushio and other detectives from Shinjuku West PD discover the strangled dead body of a woman in an empty building in West Shinjuku in Tokyo. According to her husband Takeshi, the murdered Chieko Akiba was a top salesperson at the insurance company where she worked, but quit her job three months ago and planned to open a beauty salon after buying the building which happens to be the crime scene. The call history on her mobile phone reveals the victim answered a call at 8:16 PM and is presumed to have been murdered immediately afterwards. However, Ushio is surprised to hear who was on the other side of the call: Kyoko Yamano, a woman who accompanied Ushio under an umbrella on a rainy night one year ago and whose husband was killed by someone that very night...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-26
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The Wicked Reporter
Overview: Matsuzaki is a racing tipster for a sports paper, a lowlife who spends half his time drunk, hangs out with yakuza and other riff-raff, and complicates his sex life by succumbing to advances from his girlfriend's sister.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-19
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Night's Tightrope
Overview: Yuki is a 2nd year high school student. She volunteers at a paediatrics ward for her summer vacation, because she wants to witness the moment a person dies. She got that thought after feeling envious of a transfer student's story of seeing a friend's dead body. Yuki has friend named Atsuko. She was bullied in the past and has anxiety issues. She volunteers at a nursing home for her summer vacation, hoping that she will gain courage if she sees the moment a person dies.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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The Breed
Overview: Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-02
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Partners
Overview: 19-year-old freeter (a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding housewives and students.) Tsuyoshi Osanai enters a school for guide dog trainers. After 2 years of training, Tsuyoshi becomes an assistant trainer. His first dog to train is Chie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-11-06
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Road 88: Deaiji shikoku e
Overview: A young girl with leukemia travels a pilgrimage by skateboard.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-06
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Labyrinth of Cinema
Overview: When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.
Genres: History Fantasy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-31
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Lonely Heart
Overview: A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-10
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Postcard
Overview: Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-27
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Apron Stage
Overview: About a group of itinerant actors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-02-10
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The Horizon
Overview: Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises 4 children. After Pearl Harbor is attacked, they are interned with other Japanese immigrants in a camp, losing both their land and their assets.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-11
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Network Baby
Overview: A grieving young mother employed at a video game company is recruited to test and train a new virtual world. She finds a character in this world of fantasy who becomes her new albeit virtual daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-01
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腰の痛さを知る人よ
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-19
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Fast Break
Overview: A heartwarming youth sports story about high school students who dedicate everything to basketball.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-22
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Terrolun and Lunlun
Overview: After a tragic accident, Terrolun becomes a shut-in, living in his parent's garage where he fixes mechanical items. When Lunlun, a hearing-impaired high school student brings him something to repair, they strike up a friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-21
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疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-04
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警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 －炎上－
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-04-01
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Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki
Overview: Koji Tadokoro, the manager of a hot bento shop, lives an ordinary life with his girlfriend Noriko Kinoshita, who works at a nearby supermarket and loves sex. Tonight they are having sex, as if they are going to try to break the Guinness World Record, when suddenly the window opens and Nakagawa, a middle school classmate, appears. Shimizu, who had become a film director, has died. The two go to the funeral, and on the way home they pass a man accompanied by a beautiful woman. That man is none other than his childhood friend, Kimio Kondo. Kimio is the epitome of a money man. He is a doctor working at a university hospital, and on the side, he writes new music lyrics and is popular with nurses and popular singers. The three are excited to see each other again after a long time, and plan a class reunion trip to Kimio's luxurious mansion...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-20
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Abarenbo Shogun: The Bride of Edo Castle
Overview: The Shogun gets engaged to a princess who rebels against the prospect, because she wasn't consulted.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-28
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