Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
Also Known As: 荒川良々, 荒川良友, 荒川上手, YosiYosi Arakawa, 아라카와 요시요시, 荒川良良
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ogi, Saga Prefecture, Japan
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Birthday: January 18, 1974
Age: 51 years old
Gender: Male
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Akihabara@DEEP
Overview: Set in Tokyo's otaku mecca Akihabara, "Akihabara@DEEP" tells the story of five otaku who drop out of society and end up founding their own successful IT venture called Crook. But Nakagomi, president of an influential electronics company called Digital Capital, will do anything to get his hands on Crook.
Genres: Action Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-02
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Memories of Matsuko
Overview: While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-05-27
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Kamikaze Girls
Overview: Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-29
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Fine, Totally Fine
Overview: Two listless friends and a clumsy girl try to make sense of their lives, and perhaps find love along the way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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Ping Pong
Overview: As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-20
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Overview: Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yakuza past. Unfortunately, Kiryū's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball-bat-wielding psycho Gorō Majima, who has a grudge to settle with Kiryū.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-03
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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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Kubi
Overview: Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
Genres: History Action Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-23
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One Second Ahead, One Second Behind
Overview: Set in Kyoto, Japan, a love story takes place between Hajime and Reika. Hajime is a handsome young man, who is usually a second quicker than everyone else and straightforward. He works at the post office. Reika is a young woman, who is usually a step slower than everyone else. After Valentine's Day, Hajime wakes up and is unable to remember what happened that day.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-07
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白昼夢
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-20
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エロスの果て
Overview: A boy genius named "Kadokawa" invents the ultimate anesthetic for SM play. Kadokawa's madness is turned into reality by his childhood friends Oyamada and Saigo. "A near-future science fiction work that will burn out the "endless everyday life.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-14
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あぶない刑事にヨロシク
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
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3年B組皆川先生～2.5時幻目～
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Original Language: ru
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愛が世界を救います
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Original Language: ja
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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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Key of Life
Overview: A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-16
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大人計画ウーマンリブvol.14「もうがまんできない」
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-04-02
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special
Overview: Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Mushi Game (Ignore the Game) - starring Uchiyama Rina 2. Okashina Machi (Funny Town) - starring Yanagiba Toshiro 3. Tokage no Shippo (Lizard's Tail) - starring Kashiwabara Takashi 4. Yogisha no Otoko (Man's Night Train) - starring Osugi Ren 5. Manhole - starring Kagawa Teruyuki
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Thriller Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-03-27
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Too Young To Die!
Overview: After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Music Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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Judge!
Overview: After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a judge at the world's biggest advertising competition in Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-11
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Tokyo!
Overview: Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-16
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Woman’s Lib Vol. 15 ”Mo Gaman Dekinai”
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-04-14
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The Apology King
Overview: Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simple arbitration to a national crisis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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Manji
Overview: One day, Sonoko, a married woman having a husband, meets young, beautiful Mitsuko. Puzzled Sonoko is charmed by the beauty of Mitsuko, and two people fall into relations between women at the start.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-25
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Prophecy
Overview: The cyber crime investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department finds a video on website "YOURTUBE." In the video, a man covered by a newspaper, warns that a fire will be set at a food processing company. More crime notices are soon found involving violent crimes. Geitsu is the main guy behind the group "Shinbunshi," which has posted the videos. He used to work as a temporary employee at an IT company, but was unfairly dismissed. He then begins doing manual labor work and meets the other members of "Shinbushi."
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-06
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
Overview: 1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an officer on the battle-field orders him to kill a captive U.S. soldier. Although Toyomatsu lacks the spirit to kill the man, and only wounds him in the arm, the victorious U.S. soldiers will not accept this, and Toyomatsu is arrested and tried as a war-criminal. And he receives the cruelest sentence possible...
Genres: TV Movie War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-22
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Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto
Overview: The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of "Horumo" - a combat match where each person manipulates 100 spirits (referred to as "oni") to fight the opponent. Akira Abe, a freshman at Kyoto University student falls for his classmate Kyoko, and soon ends up at a mysterious club called “Kyoto University Azure Dragon” which turns out to be one of the Horumo teams, playing the mysterious (and somewhat absurd) game which started over 1,000 years ago in the Heian period.The heat rises as you see the 2,000 CGI created spirits wage fierce battles against the backdrop of breathtaking beautiful city of Kyoto. Let the battle begin!
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-04-18
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The Taste of Fish
Overview: It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market is where you're most likely to find them. It's the home of Japan's biggest daily fish auction, and it's a place of fierce competition between fish merchants that have been in the business for generations. Based on a comic series, The Taste of Fish follows businessman Shuntaro, who has a successful career in a trading company and is in a steady relationship with girlfriend Asuka. One day, Shuntaro has to help out at the fish wholesaler store run by Asuka's father, and he immediately falls in love with the world of Tsukiji Fish Market. Soon, Shuntaro quits his job and devotes all of his time to running the business while learning about the market's fascinating set of long-standing traditions. However, he must first also learn to distinguish the tastes of different fishes before he can survive in the competitive world of Tsukiji.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-07
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Cloud
Overview: Ryōsuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-09-27
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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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JAPANESE NAKED TRIBE
Overview: The story takes place when the Shin-Okubo district of Tokyo was still known as Okubomura, where the yakuza are running a real estate business called Misato Kogyo. Starting with the mule AF, who carries 'cargo' inside his own butt hole, the gang members, each of whom has their own complex personality, greatly admire the gang leader Joaquin. But after he is hospitalized after his car accident scam goes wrong, they plan to rebuild the organization together with the new gang leader, a dope friend.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-22
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A Farewell to Jinu
Overview: Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not to use money at all. Takeharu decides to move to a small village in the Tohoku region. There, he encounters residents who are not so easy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-04
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The Choice of Hercules
Overview: When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-11
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Happy Together –All About My Dog–
Overview: A series of short stories explore the connection of love between dogs and people.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-22
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Robot Contest
Overview: Satomi is not putting much effort into her school work. She is told by her instructor that she is short of the minimum number of credits to advance. One option is for her to participate in the Robot Club, which is participating in a robot contest that is a single-elimination challenge. Satomi and the club begin working to rise to the top.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-13
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Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
Overview: Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.
Genres: Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-02
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Liar Game: The Final Stage
Overview: In Liar game: Final Stage, Players are encouraged to trust each other to win the tournament. However, a mysterious player named X is secretly plotting to sabotage everyone of their chances to win the LGT.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-03-06
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A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
Overview: Although Nobuyoshi and Saki just got married and moved into a new apartment, their relationship still lacks spark. Things start to change as they meet a weird fortune-teller who also happens to operate tours to hell. Without further ado the young couple books a honeymoon trip which takes them to the most bizarre, colorful and fun vision of hell you could ever dream of.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-05-14
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All About My Dog
Overview: A series of short stories all about dogs.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-19
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Overview: A part-time employee in a mahjong parlour runs across a young woman, who is unable to walk, in baby carriage. He becomes friends with the woman and begins to feel enamoured with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-13
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Hard-Core
Overview: The life story of a treasure hunter who lives in the countryside of Gunma in Japan. He is pure and kind, but has no communication skills and has a mind of his own. His sole friend is his co-worker. This man has never had sex. The friends find a robot one day. The robot wants to stay with the men. A bond is formed. The men resolve to change their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-23
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Another Heaven
Overview: A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-04-29
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Gore from Outer Space
Overview: A mother is accused of murdering her daughter but when she tells her tale, things don't seem to make sense. Her husband says they have no daughter, there's a psychic that can trace phone calls, a blonde who sings the US anthem, a house with no bathroom, some Lynchian dream sequences, aliens, breeding experiments, very quirky FBI agents, and some other random events.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Anthem of the Heart
Overview: Jun is a girl whose words have been sealed away so that she cannot hurt anyone with them. But, one day, she is nominated to become an executive member of the "community outreach council." On top of that, Jun is also appointed to play the main lead in their musical...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-22
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Drugstore Girl
Overview: Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east or west, she don't care") and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo's remote suburbs. There, she gets a part-time job at a newly opened drugstore. What do ya know.. The local shopping district's middle-aged men all fall for the young girl's charms, and they start practicing lacrosse once they have found out that that's her favourite sport.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-07
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Overview: A police detective Shoukokuji Ryuuya from the first section of Metropolitan Police Department is tasked to investigate the murder case of a woman which takes place at a grand party held by a big-time actress but faces the hurdle of finding the true culprit among the large pool of suspects.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-25
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A Larva to Love
Overview: Bizarre love triangle about a girl, Yuki who transforms into a tentacled creature that feasts on human blood. She manipulates the guilt-ridden Fumio to do her bidding, only for a strange romance to blossom between them.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-20
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The 47 Rōnin in Debt
Overview: Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Having no time to mourn his death, samurai Kuranosuke Oishi decides to take revenge on Kira, planning an attack with the help of accountant Chosuke Yato… but they don't have enough in their budget.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-22
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Wife of a Kamikaze
Overview: In June 1945 Yamauchi Fusako goes alone to Manchuria where her husband, Setsuo, a second lieutenant of the Kwantung Army, is based. At that time, 200,000 Japanese had settled in Manchuria, a Japanese occupied territory, as settler communities. Fujita Hideo’s family worked hard to clear the wilderness, but the Soviets are lying in wait for an invasion of Manchuria from the North. Fusako is safely reunited with her husband at the headquarters of the Kwantung Army’s Fifth Training Squadron in Manchuria’s Dahushan. Setsuo also takes good care of his beloved wife, but his position is an instructor to the young soldiers who will eventually carry out suicide attacks. He wonders if he should have summoned her and speaks of these mixed feelings to his commanding officer, Michiba Kazuo, a first lieutenant. Michiba is concerned about Setsuo’s attempts to cherish his wife before the coming showdown on homeland. Fusako learns about life in Manchuria from Michiba’s wife, Etsu.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-16
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Fukuchan of Fukufuku Flats
Overview: Fuku-chan is generous, light-hearted, and a little chubby. When a woman from his past returns, his old fear of women is finally put to the test
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-23
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A Murder Is Announced
Overview: Japanese adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-14
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The Labor Cop
Overview: Due to the effect of the prolonged great depression, finally even the police have to introduce a part-time job system for its employees. Although his main job is a steeplejack, one man is also employed as a day-laborer detective. He spends his days waiting for an incident to occur so he will be called in to investigate. On the other hand, Yasu is not only a graduate of The University of Tokyo with a successful IT business, he is also member of the Nagasaka yakuza clan. Moreover, he is a favorite of the clan leader.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-04-27
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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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Ikkyu-san
Overview: The mischievous adventures of the historical Zen monk Ikkyu as a child.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-30
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ドクター皆川～手術成功5秒前～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-10-12
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At the Bench
Overview: At the Bench is an anthology film showing glimpses of the everyday life of various people that gather by this little bench.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-15
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Kirei kamisama to machiawase shita on'na
Overview: 2001 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-18
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fukusuke
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-07-09
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Parco Fiction
Overview: Witness a bizarre job interview and a dotty grandma in these five short surreal stories revolving around legendary Japanese department store Parco.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-07-20
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