Kyoko Koizumi
Also Known As: Kyon-kyon, 코이즈미 쿄코, Kyōko Koizumi, Kyohko Koizumi, Kyôko Koizumi, Kyouko Koizumi, キョンキョン
Biography: Kyoko Koizumi is a Japanese singer and actress. She is signed to Victor Entertainment.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
Birthday: February 04, 1966
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Gender: Female
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Tokyo Sonata
Overview: A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-27
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Women with stars in their eyes
Overview: Kyoko Koizumi and Akina Nakamori, two big names, starring in a drama. Moeko (Koizumi Kyoko), an office worker, and Kaoru (Akina Nakamori), a boutique clerk, meet over a mistaken phone call. Kaoru is having an affair with Moeko, who was dumped by her boyfriend (Toru Kazama). Two people who don't have anyone to spend Christmas Eve with spend the night together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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Adrift in Tokyo
Overview: A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-10
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Hanging Garden
Overview: On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is true.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-08
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Survive Style 5+
Overview: Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-25
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Gu Gu, the Cat
Overview: Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as her assistant Naomi watches on with concern. Naomi is a young woman in her early twenties, who has her set of worries about love and future. Then one day, Asako meets a new cat, Gu Gu, which brings new joy and vitality to her life. What is more, she finds potential for love in a man named Seiji. Like Asako, Naomi, too, embarks on a new life plan.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-06
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The Adventures of Milo and Otis
Overview: When Milo the cat and Otis the dog are separated, they each set off on an adventurous and often perilous quest across mountains, plains, and snow-covered lands to reunite with one another.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-06-27
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Bayside Shakedown
Overview: Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-31
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Quirky Guys and Gals
Overview: The movie consists of 4 stories each telling how people survive on life-death choice. The story titles are: Cheering Girls, Boy? meets girl., Claim Night! and The House Full Of 'Abandoned' Businessmen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-15
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The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
Overview: A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-02
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What the Snow Brings
Overview: Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jockied by Makie, a legendary jockey's daughter) in a draft-horse race held in his childhood home of Obihiro on the island of Hokkaido.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-28
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Kaza-hana
Overview: A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-27
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Real
Overview: Koichi and Atsumi are lovers who have known each other all their lives. A year ago, however, a suicide attempt by Atsumi left her in a coma. Through 'sensing', a type of neurosurgical procedure allowing contact with the intentional aspect of a comatose patient's mind, Koishi tries to find out why Atsumi tried to kill herself, and to bring her back to consciousness. He enters her subconscious, and is told to find a picture of a plesiosaur she drew when she was a child. It turns out that a childhood incident buried in their past will bring their minds together.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-01
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Penance
Overview: The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-29
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Before the Vigil
Overview: Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. Matsuoi then thinks of his wife's lovers. Matsui goes to those men and informs them of Tatsuya's condition. The other women in the lives of those men are shocked and begin to re-examine their views of their men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-15
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小泉今日子 TOUR 2022 KKPP（Kyoko Koizumi Pop Party）
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Original Language: ja
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Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-08
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Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose
Overview: After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a murder case, bomb threat, and a bus hijacking. Complications also arise between Detective Aoshima and his juniors.
Genres: Action Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-03
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Planetist
Overview: A documentary four years in the making that highlights the wondrous Ogasawara Islands, where 65-year-old Miyagawa Noritsugu resides. A surfer that draws in artists of all kinds to the beautiful island in which he resides.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-17
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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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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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Mother Water
Overview: Blessed with several large rivers, interconnected streams and springs, Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto, anoints the land with a bountiful source of water. In this tranquil setting, three women join the flow of a small community with the subtle presence of a spring breeze. Setsuko , the proprietor of a whiskey-only bar; Takako, the owner of a coffee shop along the waterway; Hatsumi, a maker of tofu so delicious it seems to spring forth from the clear water. Under their subtle influence, other townspeople gradually begin their own streams too: Yamanoha, a local worker for a furniture workshop; Otome, the owner of a neighborhood public bath; Jin, a young man who assists him at the bath; Makoto, a wayfarer about the town. Among their daily lives, there is Poplar, a small child with a perpetually friendly smile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-30
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Tears for You
Overview: A love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota's mother married Kaoru's jazz-playing father, effectively merging the two families. Unfortunately, Kaoru's father skipped town, and Yota's mother passed away, but not before imparting a dying wish to her young son to take care of Kaoru.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-30
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Blue Spring
Overview: Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-09-09
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Love My Life
Overview: Ichiko and Eri are two beautiful Japanese Uni students who are in a lesbian relationship. Ichiko comes out to her father who tells her he is also gay and her mother was a lesbian.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-09
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Ten Nights of Dreams
Overview: Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Overview: Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-14
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Rockers
Overview: Guitarist Ko-chan is a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their make-up skills. Bassist Gaku-chan keeps a bucket in the wings for whenever his nerves get the better of him, and drummer Momo-chan is doomed to forever carrying the botched childhood attempts at self-tattooing. It's not until this foursome is forced to look for an additional guitar player after Jin's dad burns his Stratocaster, that attitude and musical ability enter into the equation. Leather-clad, shade-wearing Tani (Tamaki), inseparable from his black Les Paul, is introduced as the king of R'n'R cool and Jinnai keeps him firmly seated on his throne throughout the film, retroactively proclaiming the guitarist, rather than himself, as the band's true hero.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-27
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Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
Overview: A comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-19
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i ai
Overview: Kou, who had been living a dull life with no hope for the future, meets the charismatic Hee Bro. and regains the sparkle in his life. When Hee Bro. suddenly dies, Kou tries to find the definition of goodbye.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-08
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Amachan
Overview: Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-01
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Bushido
Overview: Kakunoshin Yanagida (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) was a samurai, but he was forced out of the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived in poverty with his daughter Kinu (Kaya Kiyohara). Despite being poor, he never gave up his pride and honor that he held as a samurai. Even when playing the board game Go, which is his hobby, he always plays in a fair manner. Because of a case, the truth behind the false accusation is revealed. Kakunoshin Yanagida is shaken and filled with rage. He decides to take revenge, even if it means he will be torn from his daughter.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-17
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AnoHana: The Flower We Saw That Day
Overview: Friends grow apart after a tragic accident claims one of their number. Years later, the dead girl appears to them to ask for their help in crossing over to the afterlife.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-21
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The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
Overview: A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omnibus work composed of five short films has been created. "The Short Films: We all started as children." The theme that runs through the five short films is "children." The styles vary from period dramas to contemporary daily life scenes, but all of the works highlight the dreams of children, who are entrusted with Japan's future, as well as the issues facing the social system surrounding children. ©ABC Television
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-23
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Fuji Family
Overview: At the foot of Mt Fuji, there is a small old-fashioned shop ‘Fuji Family’ that is a convenience store in name only. It is run by three sisters who are known in the neighbourhood as beauties. Oguni Takako is the dependable eldest sister who supported the family in place of their parents when they died young and is the breadwinner who works at a department store. Uninhibited second sister Nasumi is the complete opposite of Takako in personality and lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-02
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漫才協会 THE MOVIE 舞台の上の懲りない面々
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-03-01
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Silence of the Sea
Overview: The day before his exhibition, world-renowned painter Tamura discovers that his own work contains a forgery. Meanwhile, the body of a woman with countless ukiyo-e tattoos is discovered at the sea. From the two incidents, the name of Ryuji emerges.
Genres: Romance Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-22
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Kako: My Sullen Past
Overview: Kako (Fumi Nikaido) is a female high school student. She lives at a restaurant run by her family in Kitashinagawa, Tokyo. Unexpectedly, Kako's aunt, Mikiko (Kyoko Koizumi), suddenly appears. Kako thought her aunt died 18 years ago. Her whole family is embarrassed by Mikiko's appearance due to a past incident caused by Mikiko. Kako is also irritated when Mikiko lives in her room. They spend the summer together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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Viva Niki
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-25
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Before We Vanish
Overview: Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place. Shinji Kase tells his wife that he came to Earth to invade.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-09-16
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The Rainbow Seeker 2
Overview: Sequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan. There, he falls in love for a single mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-27
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Kaito Ruby
Overview: Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman named Rumi moves in in the apartment upstairs. Rumi is a self-proclaimed master thief, but she needs socially awkward Toru's help to actually kickstart her so-called career.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-11-12
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Eating Women
Overview: Follows the daily lives of 8 women with different backgrounds through what they eat and whom they date.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-01
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Seito shokun!
Overview: Based on the comic book of the same name by Youko Shouji
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-22
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Fuji Family New Year Special 2017
Overview: here is a small old-fashioned shop called ‘Fuji Family’ at the foot of Mt Fuji that is a convenience store in name only. It is run by three sisters who are known for their beauty. Dependable Oguni Takako (Yakushimaru Hiroko) is the eldest sister, free-spirited Nasumi (Koizumi Kyoko), the second sister, is the complete opposite of Takako in both personality and lifestyle, and tactful Tsukimi (Mimura) is the youngest sister. Although Nasumi lived and got married in Tokyo, she abruptly came back with her husband Kinoshita Hideo (Yoshioka Hidetaka), but died suddenly of illness eight years ago. Takako finally wed Haruta Masao (Takahashi Katsumi), with whom she has had an enduring but difficult relationship, this year. The newlyweds now live in an apartment nearby but Takako constantly comes to ‘Fuji Family’.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-03
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Leave My Girl Alone
Overview: Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan himself…
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-13
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Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected
Overview: A highly anticipated cultural festival is less than a week away for the students of a local high school when mysterious, seemingly paranormal events start occurring within their building. A piano plays when no one is in the room; the power continually shuts off, seemingly at random; footprints are left behind by an unseen presence; objects appear to levitate and are hurled across the room. Concerned about the strange phenomena, six students, advised by Professor Yamakawa, form a research team and investigate the strange goings-on. One of the students is Reiko Kudo, who has ESP and a family history with the occult. As the investigation ensues, a disturbing story from the past emerges from the woodwork, culminating with an ESP confrontation on the day of the festival...
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-16
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The Accomplice
Overview: This hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro Kiuchi. 8 years ago Brazilian mafioso Carlos had brought the Japanese yakuza organization to its knees. He breaks out of prison while being transported back to Brazil and then begins to seek to get even with the organization.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-10
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Three for the Road
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-11
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Second to Last Love
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-02
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Matasaburo the Wind Imp
Overview: Each year, at the start of the fall school year in September, Japan suffers from typhoons. That same month, in a small elementary school in a mountainous region, Saburô, a new red-haired pupil has just arrived with the wind. The children of the village thought they recognized in this strange boy who came from the city the spirit that they called “Matasaburô, the wind”. During two weeks of autumn, Matasaburô and the other children will do various experiments in nature.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis
Overview: Kitazawa Haku had watched a movie and dreamed he was in a parallel universe. Meanwhile, Ryū, the older brother of Haku's friend Takeru, is facing down boys' bar owner Rokujō. Then Ryū becomes fascinated with Kikiyō standing behind Rokujō. On the day of the yearly festival, Haku suddenly disappears. Takeru disappears while in search of Haku. Ryū disappears while following Kikiyō. And then Rokujō also disappears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-01
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Umami
Overview: Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-02-09
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High & Low The Movie
Overview: Chiku is a devastated and dangerous town with 5 gangs fighting fiercely. Mugen and the Amamiya Brothers clashed, leading to Mugen disbanding.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-16
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Teacher's suitcase
Overview: Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-11
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Plastic
Overview: After his shot at a record deal falls through, Jun transfers to sleepy Nagoya and begins busking songs by his favourite 1970s glam rock band, Exne Kedy. The music catches the eye of fellow fan Ibuki and the pair soon fall in love over their shared musical taste.
Genres: Romance Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-21
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小泉今日子４０周年スペシャル
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-03-31
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Fujiko Fujio no Yume Camera
Overview: This is the first part of an omnibus TV drama special production starring three popular idols at that time, namely Nakayama Miho, Oginome Yoko, and Koizumi Kyoko. The stories, or mysterious events, all started with the revelation of the anomaly phenomenon by Horaguchi-sensei, the trio's physics teacher. The anomaly is due to the concurrent event of Hinamatsuri and the visit of Halley's comet to the inner solar system on March 3rd. Horaguchi-sensei teaches the class how to make use of the anomaly to unlock a mysterious event. This can be done by using any camera while chanting the specific keywords when pressing the camera shutter. From there, three separately mysterious events involving the three heroines began.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-03-03
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