Mami Nakamura
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kanagawa, Japan
Birthday: January 14, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Taboo
Overview: Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-12-18
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Tokyo Trash Baby
Overview: Miyuki doesn't need to stalk the man she's crazy about, because he lives one floor down. Rather then approach him, she digs through his trash.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-07
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Tomie
Overview: Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-06
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The Woman Changed Her Clothes at the Bus Stop
Overview: A woman in a bright green coat, Mizue (Toda Naho), gets off the bus at Shikaoi Town in Hokkaido. She has followed her former salsa dance partner, Arisaka (Endo Kenichi), to his hometown. Arisaka, who is about to start a new life, is troubled, and soon their feelings for each other burn intensely...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-15
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Night of the Shooting Stars
Overview: Working long hours in the emergency room, nurse Kana Aoshima befriends musician and frequent hospital patient Shogo Amami. Shogo's therapy visits for his muteness and blindness happen to frequently coincide with Kana's shift, which enables the nurse to get to know the handsome artist well enough to start falling in love with him. Fate intercedes, however, when Shogo is killed after being hit by a car - a development that utterly crushes Kana's will to live. Shogo's spirit is transported to heaven, where it is given the chance to return to Earth to assist Kana through her grieving and to renew her sense of faith in the world - with the only caveat being he cannot reveal his identity to Kana.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-12
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World's End / Girl Friend
Overview: Shinnosuke and Misawa are joint managers of a Bonsai shop. Suddenly Shinnosuke's childhood friend Haruko turns up. She has split up with her boyfriend and finds herself out on the streets. Shinnosuke starts to like her and really wants to cheer her up, but he can't manage to express his real feelings or stop picking up other women. Misawa is dumbfounded by Shinnosuke's behavior but also has complex feelings of love for his friend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-10
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River
Overview: Hikari's boyfriend is one of those killed in the Akihabara massacre incident. Suffering from the shock of her loss and unable to accept this reality, she cuts herself off from the outside world. She eventually manages to muster enough courage to visit Akihabara, the scene of the incident. There, she encounters many people who are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the incident and are still suffering from the aftereffects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-09
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The Mars Canon
Overview: A look at the problems two couples, Kohei and Kinuko, and Manabe and Hijiri, have in their relationships, and the solutions they try to devise as a way out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-09-28
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Chogokudo
Overview: Togashi, the leader of Togashi-gumi, boasts enormous power. The leader of the Ryuokai is sent to prison because he distrusts him who controls the town, and a mysterious man who calls himself Takishima appears in front of Shinshiro who becomes the leader of the group.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Love Exposure
Overview: The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-31
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The Girl of Silence
Overview: 14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her rescue when she really needs it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-17
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The Graduates
Overview: The experiences and relationships of five senior students at a rural high school, during the last year leading to graduation.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-31
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Happy Ending
Overview: Is love an illusion? Is Love real? Is love a white knight on a horse dashing to the rescue or is it a soul-mate destined to be? Momoko is a girl into horror movies, which makes her visit the local video shop often. She just does not like paying for her rentals. She runs into a man who could be her prince charming. He is almost magical too because he keeps appearing.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-26
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Blood and Bones
Overview: In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-06
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Kirei? The Terror of Beauty
Overview: A mentally unstable young woman named Yoshie implores a gifted plastic surgeon (Yukiko Okamoto) to make her beautiful in this disturbing Japanese psychodrama directed by Katsuya Matsumura. Although the operation is successful, Yoshie becomes even more preoccupied with beauty -- and soon draws the doctor into a horrifying world of emotional agony and masochism. The film's supporting cast includes Asuka Kurosawa, Kota Kusano and Miki Asakura.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-08-21
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Making of Love Exposure
Overview: Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-25
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A White Ship
Overview: Shizuka (Mami Nakamura) is a young school teacher. She moves to a small village by the sea, near her own home country. The elementary school she is assigned has only 20 students. But her last assignment was not very successful and she has lost the confidence. One day, a student finds a white ship sailing on the sea, far from the school. They begin an investigation and finally identifies the ship. It's a cruiser called Rainbow Love. 'Why don't we write a letter to the captain?' Shizuka proposes. And everyone gets excited...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-06
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River
Overview: Five old friends meet again at a school reunion and discuss their painful memories. The friends then run into an old acquaintance who was an exchange student. The exchange student tells the friends about a new drug able to erase memories, but they have to steal it from his factory ...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-29
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Hey Japanese! Do You Believe in Love, Peace and Understanding?
Overview: A gonzo black comedy with six intertwining stories set in the streets of Tokyo about the ongoing battle between the Internet generation and the older generation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-01
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Torihada 3~ Yofukashi no anata ni zokutto suru hanashi wo
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-02
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Marebito
Overview: A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-22
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