Keiko Matsuzaka
Also Known As: Matsuzaka Keiko, 松坂慶子, まつざか けいこ, 마츠자카 케이코, Кэйко Мацудзака, 松坂庆子, Keiko Matsuzaka
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: July 20, 1952
Age: 72 years old
Gender: Female
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The Great Department Store Robbery
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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Fall Guy
Overview: Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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Chicken Race
Overview: Story of friendship between an old man who slept for 45 years and his nurse who woke him up. (Source: D-Addicts)
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-10
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The Happiness of the Katakuris
Overview: The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-23
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Tombstone of the Fireflies
Overview: Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-05
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Instant Swamp
Overview: A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her real father who happens to be an off-beat antique shopkeeper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-23
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Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
Overview: The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the young daughter of a samurai killed fighting these demons, accepts a mission to travel to Mt. Fuji and defeat the evil spirits. Accompanying her on her journey are two veteran warriors who served her father, and Tarō, a young kappa, or river spirit, whom she has adopted as her little brother. Along the way, the two warriors have doubts about Tarō’s loyalties, and the young kappa himself must decide if he will stand with his own species or with the humans who have cared for him.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-08
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Dr. Akagi
Overview: At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-17
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Love Is After School
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-15
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Double Clutch
Overview: Hiromi Go plays a high school student who needs a role model in his life badly. He's raised by his older sister played by Keiko Matsuzaka who is a hostess at a night club. She meets a man who becomes her boyfriend. He races in a off-road car rally professionally. The same man becomes Go's role model and teaches him sophisticated car driving techniques. One of the techniques taught is 'double clutch' ( Thus the movie's title Double Kuracchi ) to make gear transition smoothly between shifts. Due to an unfortunate accident, Matsuzaka's character dies and Go is left to fend for his life. Hiromi Go was a big pop idol in Japan when this movie was created. Both Go and Matsuzaka still enjoys high celebrity status in Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-29
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Murder of the Inugami Clan
Overview: Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, the granddaughter of a person to whom Sahei feels heavily indebted. The will states that all his assets are inherited by Tamayo alone, on the condition that she marries one of the sons of the daughters. Furudate's assistant learns the content of the will, and seeks advice from Kindaichi Kosuke, a private detective, as he senses the air of unease. Shortly afterwards, murders start to occur one after another in the clan.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-16
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Midnight Disk Jockey
Overview: Pinky violence film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-24
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Overview: Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-01
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The High School Deviates
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-15
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Snow Country Elegy
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-05
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Rikugun rakugo-hei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-30
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Don't Call It Mystery: The Movie
Overview: Kuno Totono, a curly-haired college student, visits Hiroshima and becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding the inheritance of the Kariatsumari family's assets, using his intelligence and loquaciousness to unravel the case.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill
Overview: Yuri is a high school student in the present day. She isn't happy with her life at home or school. One day, she has an argument with her mother and runs away from home. Somehow, when Yuri later opens her eyes, she realizes that she is in the year 1945. She happens to meet Akira. He is a pilot for a kamikaze unit in the military.
Genres: War Romance History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-08
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The Sting of Death
Overview: Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-28
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Lovers Lost
Overview: A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-12
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Tug of War!
Overview: The mayor of Oita wants to improve the image of his city, so he instructs Chiaki - a young woman working for the city's PR department - to form a female tug of war team. Nobuo MIZUTA mixes comedy, drama and a pinch of social criticism to tell a tale of eight women, their everyday struggles and their support for each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-22
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Onmitsu Hicho
Overview: Pilot for a TV series. In the pilot Hiroshi Tachi is a lower ranked samurai investigating the the murder of Tanuma Okitsugu's son Mototomo by Sano Masakoto. Those events are a matter of history but the plot that Hiroshi unveils and is eventually killed for is fictional.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-23
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Gate of Youth
Overview: The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke's father a group leader at the mine, dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a friendly Harley-riding yakuza boss. This movie has it all, drama, romance, sex, yakuza and violence! It is based on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki that was originally serialized in the magazine Shukan Gendai in 1969-70.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-15
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Colour Blossoms
Overview: A real estate agent is drawn into a torrid - and sadomasochistic - relationship with a morose, stunningly beautiful Japanese photographer. The two cavort in a luxurious apartment owned by an elegant upper-crust Japanese lady, crossing paths with an infatuated policeman, a mysterious Korean woman, and an increasingly tangled web of violence, criss-crossing passions, and lurid, unchecked desires.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2004-10-28
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GARO and the Wailing Dragon
Overview: Garo: Soukoku no Maryu (lit. Blue Cries of the Demon Dragon) is the second film to the Garo series. The film serves as an epilogue after Makai Senki and leads up to The One Who Shines in the Darkness. The story continues after the events of Makai Senki. Having made a contract with Gajari, Kouga Saejima honors his end of the deal by traveling to the Promised Land to retrieve a part of Gajari: the Fang of Sorrow. After Kouga defeated Sigma, Gajari transported him to the Promised Land, however, his quest had unexpected results.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-23
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Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy 2
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-26
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Train Brain Express
Overview: Real estate company employee Komachi and steelworks heir Kodama are both train aficionados. Their hobby proves useful for their burgeoning careers, but their romantic fortunes do not go as smoothly. Will the awkward Kodama and the indecisive Komachi find the loves of their lives?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-24
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Miyamoto Musashi
Overview: In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-13
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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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Legend of the Eight Samurai
Overview: The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystal, led by Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba!) to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight undead warriors, evil spirits, poisonous beauties and a giant centipede.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-10
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The Night Clinic
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-04
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Miracle in Four Days
Overview: Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a prodigious ability to play any piece of music after one hearing. Keisuke Kisaragi whose career was abruptly cut short when he jumped in front of a bullet fired by a crazed gunman. The nerves in one hand were severed but he saved the life of Chiori. The tragic incident takes the lives of Chiori's parents, however, and Keisuke becomes her guardian. Not long after their return to Japan, Keisuke discovers Chiori's musical gift.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-06-04
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The Go Master
Overview: The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a revolutionary strategic thinker, as well as the tumultuous conflicts between his homeland of China and his adopted nation of Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2007-05-24
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The Boat to Heaven
Overview: A young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean everyday. His mother wants him to be a violinist. To make her dream come true, Masahiko goes to Tokyo to learn the violin, and stays with his aunt, Setsuko, in Kamakura near Tokyo. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Masashi Sada's novel of the same name received the 21st Japanese Cinema Reconstruction and Promotion Award and the 46th Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-13
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Ping Pong Bath Station
Overview: An unhappy housewife regains her passion for life by taking over a failing bath house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-12
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Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly
Overview: Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or everything else in the world. Then came my 80th birthday. He and a young staff member go digging for wild yam and find a mysterious golden flower. It was the flower of immortality, the "Golden Flower", which was said to bloom beside the Himalayan Virgin, which he had been looking for for many years. From that day onwards, fragments of memories from his youth, which he had intentionally sealed off in order to immerse himself in botany, surged into Maki in a whirlpool.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-21
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Glory to the Filmmaker!
Overview: Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-02
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The Last Reunion
Overview: After Isao has reached retirement, he receives a phone call from an ex- elementary school classmate Norio inviting him to a reunion. During the reunion, none of them can claim to have had a wonderful life since graduating from primary school and have their respective problems now. It leads them to rethink that their lives are far from over and that there is still hope for them even at this stage of their lives. They encounter many unexpected happenings during the journey which reminds them of the excitement they experienced as kids and find new hope in their bleak lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-26
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A Chaos of Flowers
Overview: Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, the real-life poet Akiko Yosano, and her experiences among the literati of early 20th century Japan. Because of her independent, anti-war and often erotic poetry, she was a lightning rod for revolutionaries and other extremists, many of whom were destined to glamorous, yet ultimately pointless, deaths. The closest parallels might be the Byron/Shelley group or the people drawn to the Beat Generation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-10-01
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Botchan
Overview: 1977 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume Soseki's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-06
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Osaka Hamlet
Overview: A film about family life in Osaka. Following the death of their father, three boys struggle to find their own identity with the help of their outgoing mother and weak-willed uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-21
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Stray Dog
Overview: When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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Water Moon
Overview: As the monk Ryuun, whose past and origin make him prone to internal and external fits, leaves the temple towards Tokyo, he gets to catch a glimpse of enlightenment resonating with the blind Kanoko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-16
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Cobra 2
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-06-26
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Tora-san's Matchmaker
Overview: After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring Mitsuo back home, himself falls in love with an attractive but troubled woman visiting her father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Overview: When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his family that he plans to marry her. His plans are foiled when the geisha informs Tora-san that she is engaged.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-08
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The Signs of Love
Overview: Sayaka Miyamoto (Nao Matsushita) and Keita Fukushima (Terunosuke Takezai) attend the same university and believe their love for each other will never end. However, as time goes by and they graduate, their future starts to part as they both begin moving forward to capture their own dreams. Now in the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain, the former lovers cross paths once again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-06
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New Ghost Pub
Overview: Attending the funeral of one of his friends, Satoru sees a woman who looks exactly like his deceased wife Shizuko. The film mixes reality with death and parting, when the ghost of the deceased wife chases her husband.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-28
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Legend of the Demon Cat
Overview: During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan. A poet is charged with investigating the case and meets up with a monk. The two work together and pull apart the thread of clues to reveal a history of truths leading to the events.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-12-22
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Honokaa Boy
Overview: Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-14
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Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-28
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Shanghai Rhapsody
Overview: Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Genres: Comedy Drama History Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-10-06
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The Incident
Overview: The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-06-03
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The Last Samurai
Overview: The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-20
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Nichiren
Overview: An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the Kamakura period (1185-1333) in Japan. Nichiren taught devotion to the Lotus Sutra as the exclusive means to attain enlightenment. Because of his devout belief, Nichiren is met with opposition throught his travels, with life on the line, can Nichiren accomplish his goal?
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-10
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Deeper Than Blue
Overview: About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-10
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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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House on Fire
Overview: In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-12
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Theater Of Life
Overview: Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-01-29
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Games
Overview: A 16-year-old girl works in a factory to pay her late father’s debt. When she makes up her mind to become a hostess, a boy approaches her with kind and gentle manners...(Also occasionally known in English as “Play”)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-04
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May Love Be Restored
Overview: A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-29
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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
Overview: Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One day, they receive devastating news of their daughter falling into a coma after a near-drowning accident at a pool. The doctors declare her brain dead with no prospect of recovery and the couple must decide if they should donate her organs to others in need or to wait until her heart stops beating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-30
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Live and Learn
Overview: Tetsuko (Eiko Yanami), a high school student, one day, forces Tsuneo, (Kei Wakakura), the brightest boy in her school, to make love to her after school is out and they are caught by the old school janitor. Tsuneo's mother, orders Tetsuko to pay for what she did to her son but Tetsuko blackmails her instead, saying that she is ready to inform a news company of what has happened to Tsuneo and receives one million yen hush money. Expelled from school, she comes to Tokyo, intending to take a round-the-world trip. But Sankichi (Yoshihiko Aoyama), a jack-of-all-trades, cheats her. So, she makes up her mind to catch him and get back her money.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-27
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Blowing in the Winds of Vietnam
Overview: After Misao divorced, she moved to Vietnam. She has always admired the country. There, she works as a Japanese language teacher. She learns that her brother-in-law is taking her mother with Alzheimer's into a facility. Misao decides to take her mother to Vietnam instead. At first, her mother is uncomfortable adapting to life in a strange land. Her mother comes around though and embraces the warm people in Vietnam. One day, her mother is injured and Misao faces the reality in nursing her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-17
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Beyond the Shining Sea
Overview: Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-12
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Waru
Overview: A former gangster gets released from prison and goes to work for a group of people. The leader of this group becomes his mentor and the fight to combat criminals and for world peace. The whole resulting in the wanted and are chased of all families mob in Japan. They may however be a little unexpected help from the police.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-25
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Waru: The End
Overview: Youji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-25
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Cross-Currents
Overview: A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-09
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Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
Overview: Set in Kyokuhoku Citizen Hospital in Hokkaido, Japan. "Kyokuhoku Rhapsody" follows the life of a young doctor for a one year period. Yoshio Imanaka works at the Kyokuhoku Hospital that is losing staff members and facing bankruptcy. During this difficult time, Yoshio Imanaka meets hairdresser Kozue Namiki and falls in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-19
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Taikoki
Overview: Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Three Undelivered Letters
Overview: A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-06
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The Ripples
Overview: Inako Natsui is a quiet, modern girl working in a laboratory and living a closed and somewhat monotonous life in a small town. From time to time she goes to nearby to visit her lonely mother Wakayama who has been a widow for the past seventeen years. The girl's relatives, particularly Aunt Sadako and Uncle Shuhei, the local mayor's deputy, plan to introduce her to a suitable young man, but Inako has no real desire to get married. She is more interested in the hot mineral springs from where she takes her laboratory specimens. This all changes when she meets Mr Tamamiza, a young divorced man who's been left with a little boy. Her relatives are decidedly against the match. The girl falls in love with the man without realizing that she will encounter a painful conflict between her family and providence, as unexpectedly as the spring which gushes out from the geological fold, driven to the surface by mysterious subterranean forces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-23
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Goodbye Mama
Overview: A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in her life. She is not connected to the boy, but his father has been in an accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-20
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Turning Point
Overview: A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-06-18
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Izakaya Moheji
Overview: A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment…for their bodies and their souls. The proprietor of Izakaya Moheji is Heiji, played by Yutaka Mizutani, star of the popular AIBOU series. Izakaya Moheji is a place where regulars and strangers alike can find comfort and comfort food.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-25
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Izakaya Moheji 6
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-28
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The Wicked
Overview: A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-06-28
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The Making Of The Katakuris
Overview: In this contemporary documentary, the cast and the crew share their experiences of making the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-31
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Sure Death! 3
Overview: Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket financiers who dispatch their own hitmen to dispose of them.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-05-24
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Meeting Myself
Overview: Twelve years ago Ikeda Toru was a skilled fisherman until he crossed paths with a storm while out fishing. He lost all of his memories from that time and now lives his days troubled, never going fishing. Unable to bear seeing Toru in such a state, his mother Nobuko puts into motion a plan intended to revive Toru's memories.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-10
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Make-Up
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-05-02
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Tomorrow's Family
Overview: Risa Onodera, played by Miyazaki, had a groom runaway on the wedding day four years ago. Her father, Shusaku (Matsushige) and her mother, Machiko (Matsuzaka), built a large two-family house to live with their daughter and her new family. One day, Risa says that she has been proposed to, Shusaku is surprised to see that face. This is because Kotaro (Nagayama) was a former subordinate of his workplace and was now his boss. Although he wants to congratulate his daughter's marriage, Shusaku wonders if he can live with his boss. Where is the love between Risa and Kotaro? Can the two get married? Can Risa and Kotaro, Shusaku and Machiko become a family?
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Family Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-05
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Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Overview: Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-02
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Only Yesterday
Overview: Sugimoto Taeko moves in with her daughter Natsuki and granddaughter Mizuki. They begin a lively life together. In the midst of it all, Taeko sees her former self in Mizuki. The bitter taste of the first pineapple she ever ate, the disastrous score on a math test, the awakening of her acting spirit at a school performance. As Taeko recalls her elementary school days, she unleashes a dream that she had long given up on and sealed away. 'I'm going to be on stage!' Taeko immediately auditions and devotes herself to rehearsing for a Shakespeare play. But just then, the theatre where she was going to perform goes bankrupt, and she is forced to give up on her dream again!
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-09
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Part-Time Detective 2
Overview: The housewife and part-time private detective Noriko Yamada plays her old tricks again, uncovering mysterious corruption cases. But this time she will solve it adopting the style of "Beatrix Kiddo" from Kill Bill.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-22
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Part-Time Detective
Overview: Noriko Yamada is a housewife and mother of five children, she and her husband go through an economic crisis that causes them to have problems with the bank. But while looking for work will Hitoshi befriending Hibino, president of "K & D Research" a detective agency. This will give you the opportunity to spend a trial investigating an infidelity. So get to be a part-time detective Noriko.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-01
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Hasegawa Machiko's Story
Overview: In the year 1926, Machiko Hasegawa is a 6-year-old child and lives in Fukuoka. She is a bright girl, who enjoys playing outdoors. At home, she loves to draw. Her father is a handsome mining engineer and he loves his family more than anything else. When Machiko is 14-years-old her father passes away. The rest of her family decides to move to Tokyo. Her mother than makes a quick decision and sends 15-year-old Machiko to manga artist Tagawa as his student. Machiko's life is peaceful, but the oncoming war makes things tense. Machiko's family moves back to Fukuoka. When the war is about to end, the local newspaper asks Machiko to publish a serial manga. Machiko has difficulties in coming up with an idea for the manga series and decides to go to the nearby Momochi Seaside Park. She watches the ocean and comes up with the idea for manga series "Sazae-san".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-29
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Nagareboshi
Overview: Natsuko has been in a cold relationship with her husband, Kensaku, for many years. One day he dies suddenly, leaving Natsuko alone with a wizard, Mari, who appears and offers to grant up to four wishes. Natsuko requests to go 50 years back in time to the past before she met her husband. There, Natsuko meets young Kensaku, her young self, and her father Shintaro. Natsuko pretends to be someone she is not and attempts to uncover hidden truths while living in the past. What awaits Natsuko at the end of her time travel? And what will be her last wish to the wizard?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-22
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Doctors~The Strongest Doctor~2021 New Year SP
Overview: 『DOCTORS』is back! Played by Sawamura Ikki, Surgeon Daisuke Sagara is back again during the new year of 2021. Masanobu Takashima, the director of the group, is preparing for the 100th anniversary of his Dojo General Hospital. However, the management condition of the deficit continued...Reiko hanamura, who was in charge of the loan section, was hospitalized at the hospital...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-10
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Abacus and Sword
Overview: Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation of the Inoyama family, a wealthy family known for finance & accounting. He is also a gifted mathematician and uses the abacus with extreme skills. Naoyuki works under the declining Kaga domain. Because of this, Naoyuki and his wife Koma suffer hardships as their stature and wealth dissipates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-12-04
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Shodo Girls: Blue Blue Sky
Overview: Shinko (Karin Aiba) is a high school student from Hamamatsu. Due to university admission pressures, she struggles with her mother. She hasn't really made conversation with her mom in a year. Shinko's friend Misato (Mayuu Kusakari) then recommends to her to join the school's calligraphy club. Shinko is impressed by Teacher Yatsushiro's (Kazuki Namioka) words. Teacher Yatsushiro is the one who takes care of the calligraphy club. Shinko decides to join the calligraphy club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-05
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Promise of death
Overview: Detective Suguro is enjoying a stay at a luxurious hotel in Wakayama. Also staying at the hotel is an unusual family led by rich widow Mrs. Hondo. She acts like a tyrant around her children, who are afraid of her and are at her beck and call. Unfortunately, a tragedy strikes the Hondo Family while on a hike to a local shrine. Mrs. Hondo, who was supposed to be taking a rest on the way, is found dead. Kawahara Daisaku, the chief of the local police station, asks Suguro to help with the investigation of Mrs. Hondo’s death.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-06
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Free and Easy 20: Final
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-26
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Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
Overview: An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the backdrop of the turbulent history of the Showa period and the magnificent nature of Hokkaido.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-22
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The Go Masters
Overview: Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess). It soon becomes evident that the Chinese master's son is the most talented player that the Japanese master has ever encountered, and he convinces the boy's father to let him bring the child back to Japan to train him as a professional Go player. Years pass, and as the young Chinese master grows to maturity in Japan, the Japanese invasion of China forces him to choose between his triumphant career and his loyalty to his native country. His decision is complicated by his marriage to the daughter of the Japanese master, with whom he has produced a child. His choice will profoundly alter the lives of two families. Their saga serves as a reflection of the tragic relations between their two great countries, and the possibility of reconciliation and healing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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I told you so
Overview: A film adaptation of the popular hit by glamorous singer Keiko Matsuyama.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-15
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The Politicians
Overview: Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love letters changes the situation.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-22
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忍術・猿飛佐助
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-07-24
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Mutsugorō no kekkon-ki
Overview: 1974 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-27
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Friendship
Overview: This is a story about the emotional connection between a young man with no clear purpose and a middle-aged man who abandoned his wife, children, and hometown but is hiding his pain inside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-11-29
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Our Eternal Song
Overview: Based on the true story of this miracle that delivered smiles and hope to the world, the love and conflict of each father and son, and the father and family who challenge the dream they once gave up are drawn by Tokuhiro Koizumi of the "Taiyo no Uta" and "Chihayafuru" series.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-05-23
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