Toru Minegishi
Also Known As: Kenji Mine, 峰健二, Ryunosuke Minegishi, 峰岸隆之介, Tooru Minegishi, تورو مینهگیشی
Biography: Tōru Minegishi was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1963 to 2008.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: July 17, 1943
Deathday: October 11, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Kanashiki Tenshi
Overview: The body of a 59-year-old male is found on the banks of a river. The stepson, Kazuo, confesses to his involvement but also implicates his estranged sister Nami. Two detectives, Okishima Keisuke and Kono Kaoru, then travel to the resort district of Beppu to stake out the house of Nami's ex-lover. They feel he may also be implicated in the murder and are certain that Nami will make contact. The detectives now wait.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-27
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I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
Overview: A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in the Triathlon. The story is told in flashbacks as Namiko awaits childbirth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-18
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Student Yakuza
Overview: A youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage, and a sense of justice rampages against a gangster.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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Shinjuku Incident
Overview: A simple Chinese immigrant wages a perilous war against one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2009-03-22
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Shadow Conspirator
Overview: One night, Genjiro Tsurumi, a former ronin comes across a man being attacked by a group of assassins. The dying man is an official secret agent carrying a secret letter addressed to General Matsudaira. Genjiro meets with Matsudaira, who informs him of the existence of a mysterious group, the Hachitake... who aims to overthrow the Shogunate.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-26
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Departures
Overview: Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-13
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Call Girl
Overview: A High Class Call Girl is revisited by her ex lover who she thought died 5 years prior.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-18
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Bastard LAST DOWN TEN
Overview: A man who has no choice but to act as an agent for anything and will play a role in the conflict between the gangsters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-02-12
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It's More Radical!
Overview: A yakuza's woman got in a car with Ida, a salesman who has no choice!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-08
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Chimpira Life
Overview: The chimpira 'Katsuichi' got his hands on the only daughter of the largest daughter in the Kanto region.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-13
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Road to the Don 23
Overview: The twenty-third 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-10
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Road to the Don Theatrical Version
Overview: A young yakuza experiences various conflicts, tactics, betrayals, rules, etc. in the gangster world, stands out in the organization, and climbs to the top of the organization. The theatrical version of the popular video series adapted from the original work by Murakami Kazuhiko.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-18
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Nagaremono Yokohama Yakuza War
Overview: The life and death of the men who are bound by violence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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Fighting Knife Yoshi 2
Overview: Sequel to 'Fighting Knife Yoshi'
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-10
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Killing Melody Lady Smith
Overview: A painfully splendid adventure has begun!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-28
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Rule of Revenge ROGUE COP
Overview: The detective with the highest arrest rate. In fact, he was a vicious detective who communicated with the gangsters!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-08-14
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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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Marriage
Overview: An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-16
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Godzilla vs. Biollante
Overview: After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who's experiments result in a new mutation.
Genres: Action Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-16
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Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4
Overview: The fourth 'Kizu' film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-16
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Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2
Overview: The second 'Kizu' film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-19
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Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3
Overview: The third 'Kizu' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-03-25
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Scratched License
Overview: A former safe-breaker, a former yakuza , and another young "Toshiro" Ryo (Aikawa) are planning to attack a casino run by a large organization. The three get a lot of money , but Ryo betrays his companions because he wants a runaway fund with the mistress of the group leader .
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-11
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Beppin Town
Overview: An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama ). The scenery of Kobe before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake is included in various background scenes, and you can see the buildings and scenery that can not be seen now.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-18
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Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
Overview: Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks set against the backdrop of the Roppongi district in Tokyo. Masaaki (Minegishi Toru) is the son of a prominent judge and a Law student at university. Chikage (Nakagawa Yuki) is a teenager from an underprivileged home. Both are desperately looking for an escape from their lives when they meet in Roppongi one night and fall in love. But coming from such different backgrounds, their happiness isn't assured.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-29
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Secret of the Forbidden Valley
Overview: A thrilling historical drama in which a ronin played plays an active role in redeeming the name of a man who was put to death for a crime, despite being innocent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-11-10
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Big Boobs Buster
Overview: Another buxom bombshell falls prey to the masked vigilante, the Big Boobs Buster! Rumor has it that the vengeful villainess was once a mild mannered student ridiculed and rejected for her small bust size. Now, the spurned woman gets even by donning a ridiculous costume and taunting her well-endowed nemeses. Will bouncy coeds across the land be forced under cover? Is any bosomy beauty safe from the Big Boobs Buster?
Genres: Comedy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-25
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A Chorus of One Million People
Overview: A civic music group, created by Tsukasa Nitta, a high school teacher in Koriyama City, and Akiko Watanabe, the daughter of a record shop and teacher of a music class, invites Takuro Yoshida to Koriyama City to hold a concert. He then starts being harassed by the Hashimoto group, a local gangster group which manages the city's entertainment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-26
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Cursed Songs: Chi-Manako
Overview: Misaki is a popular bar hostess whose policy is to 'live on presents'. She is haughty and wants nothing but the most expensive and exclusive. One night, she finds a rabbit and takes it home, setting off the story of an unimaginable tragedy. It is an 'animal panic horror' film with a new edge presenting an allegory of the worst in the modern materialistic world. This is the first full-length feature film for Yuichi Kanemaru, who has worked as assistant director to Kaneto Shindo, Yasuo Furuhata and Takashi Miike. And Tomoko Tabata's dynamic performance in her first horror movie is a definite highlight.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-22
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Shinjuku Gangster Hanabi
Overview: 2007 Original Video.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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Cursed Songs 2: Nu-Meri
Overview: There's something wrong at the Pacific Institute...something wrong and evil. For young Mari, whose family has worked in the finishing industry for generations, her studies in advanced genetics and marine bio-engineering represent not just her own future, but that of her entire family. But when her friend Nanako is mysteriously discovered dead, Mari's dreams turn into her worst nightmares! Because not only was Nanako's body covered with fishbites, she was also growing scales! Now, as a new wave of deaths and tragedies engulf the Pacific team, it becomes all too clear that someone....something...has a new future in mind for all human kind. For centuries man has taken from the ocean, never dreaming what might lurk beneath the waves; now the revelation has begun...and this time, we're the sushi!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-25
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Ghost Story: The House Where Butterflies Live
Overview: Yoshinari Bessho, the feudal lord of Tanba Province, is a collector of butterflies and has his concubines tattooed with butterflies as well. One day while hunting, Yoshinari sees Gennosuke Akizuki's beautiful wife, Okoto. He kidnaps her, tattoos a butterfly on her shoulder and takes her for his own. Feeling shame for what has happened, Okoto throws herself into a well and commits suicide. She then returns as a ruthless ghost that seeks revenge against Yoshinari and his retainers. Whenever the ghost appears, mysterious butterflies always fly around her...
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-09-02
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Wild Cop 2
Overview: Based on the comic Gokuburi Deka.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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Knife
Overview: Arina is a beautiful assassin who uses a knife and her own body to kill high-profile individuals in the political and business world. The next task received from the head of the organization, Kojiro, was to eliminate En, an arms dealer from Southeast Asia. Arina tries to get closer to him while he is in Japan. However, due to a partner's mistake, the plan is revealed and she becomes a prisoner...
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-06
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Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-07
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Two Hearts in the Rain
Overview: Love story of a working-class boy and girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-27
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The Yoshida School
Overview: Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-09
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殺戮の応酬
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-25
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Young Thugs: Going My Way
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Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-25
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悪党図鑑
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-08-20
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The Catch Man
Overview: Takashi, an unemployed young man, is entrusted with a "catch ball shop" by a stranger he meets in the park. While accepting people's feelings through catch ball, Takashi himself remembers the important things that he had forgotten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
Overview: The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-21
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Yume de aimasho
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-15
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Take the 'A' Train, Someday
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-20
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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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Nanmin Road
Overview: The story of four Vietnamese people moving to Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-13
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Tokyo Noir
Overview: Three tales that center around sex and citizens of Tokyo: A repressed woman embraces her sexuality, ("Birthday"), an unexpected reunion disrupts a sex worker's routine ("Night Lovers"), and a sex blogger discovers connection in the depths of loneliness ("Girl's Life").
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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The King of Minami: Business Loans - The Guarantor's Trap
Overview: #33 in the King of Minami series. The CEO of a health food start-up borrows money from Manda using his fiancee's house as collateral, but when his American supplier demands more money than expected, he turns to a business loan company to make up the difference. Meanwhile, a hapless festival merchant turns to Manda when a run-in with the yakuza threatens to derail his business.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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Murder in the Doll House
Overview: Yūsaku Matsuda plays the part of a private detective in this modern day "who dunnit" mystery, full of suspense, thrills and chills.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-28
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Overview: The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-30
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Confessions Among Actresses
Overview: In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-17
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The Deserted City
Overview: After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-02
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Kanei Chronicles
Overview: From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of swords. But behind the match a bloodthirsty plot is born. Tokugawa Yorinobu, a corrupt shogunate official plans to assassinate Shogun Iemitsu and take his place. With scheming samurai Yui Shosetsu and ruthless Negoro ninja leader Genyusai, he plans to incite a ronin uprising and cut a bloody trail across Japan, with terrifying Chinese gunboats to back his play. Matsudaira Izu-no-kami, councilor and friend to the shogun, along with master swordsman Yagyu Jubei and ninja master Hanzo Hattori must stop Yui Shosetsu and his army of ronin and ninja assassins from tearing the country in half and taking over the government!
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-19
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The Unruly Ronin's Journey II
Overview: Formerly a covert spy under the shogunate, ronin Azami Onijuro and his carefree companion, ronin, journeyed along the Kiso Highway. As they approached the Echizen Domain, they encountered a woman named Osode. Recognizing Onijuro's formidable skills, she asked for his help as she was on her way to Owari. Osode, the daughter of the second-ranking retainer of the Katsuyama Domain, carried a blood-sealed letter that served as evidence of a conspiracy involving the assassination of the domain lord by the Deputy Chief and the lord's younger brother. Onijuro's group becomes a target and is chased after by the chief retainer's top enforcer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-30
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CF Guretai
Overview: Soutaro Nagare is an assistant at a commercial film production company. However, one day at the studio, he punches a cameraman and gets fired. Taking this as an opportunity, Soutaro decided to become a director, and with a book about commercial films he had produced during his university days in hand, he began visiting various companies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-05
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Domination Final Chapter
Overview: 'Domination' sequel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-25
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Domination
Overview: Straight to video Yakuza film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-25
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The Successful Businessmen Handbook: Economic Tactics You Can Learn from the Yakuza
Overview: Sometimes, yakuza must face shrewd civilians even more cunning than themselves, armed only with ethics. What are the 'negotiation tactics' you can learn from yakuza beyond fights and threats!? The unparalleled negotiation skills of the yakuza, refined to perfection, are now revealed!!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-07
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Waru Gaiden
Overview: An action film based on the original story and screenplay by Hisao Maki of "WARU". Yoji Himuro is an unparalleled sword user and is known as a badass. As a child, he received intensive training from his father, the owner of a kendo dojo, which resulted in him sustaining 15 wounds. Yoji, who is always looking for stimulation, seeks the smell of blood again today...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-21
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実録 柳川組 柳川次郎伝説 －完結－
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-28
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Samurai Kids
Overview: A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-17
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The Discarnates
Overview: Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-09-15
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The Girl in Glass
Overview: A girl from a wealthy family falls in love with a working-class boy.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-10
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The Call of Flesh
Overview: A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexually dissatisfied with her husband and contemplates returning to an old lover who comes back into her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-19
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Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
Overview: Komori Chiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day while training, her coach hits a ball into her eye on accident. At the hospital, the news that she will never regain the sight in her eye leaves her heartbroken. As a last resort, she undergoes a costly surgery from the mysterious doctor known as Black Jack, where after a successful operation, a mysterious figure starts to emerge in her vision, and only she can see it.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-11-26
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Light of Africa
Overview: Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-21
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Gateway to Glory
Overview: A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-12
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The Genius and Delinquent
Overview: A talented man and a dull-witted one plan a big crime.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-17
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F2 Grand Prix
Overview: Drama set in the world of Formula 2 motor racing in Japan.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-14
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Onihei's Detective Records
Overview: A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-18
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I'm Dandy
Overview: A middle-aged salaryman tries to revitalize his career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-08-12
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Solar Eclipse
Overview: When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-09-06
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The Falcon Fighters
Overview: In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps trains new volunteers from the Army's Infantry to become Japan's next generation of fighter pilots at the Tokorozawa Flying School. Flying Kawasaki Ko-4 biplanes, Lt. Katō will train both friend and future foe alike. But as war in China breaks out, Katō now in command of the 5th Rentai will take his untested men flying antiquated planes into aerial combat against the Chinese Air Force who is now headed by Lt. Cho who Katō both earlier befriended and personally trained himself. While Katō's squadron ultimately achieves air superiority over the skies of Manchuria, it comes at a high price in men to which each loss carries a heavy burden that he alone must carry. As the war widens into the Second World War, Captain Katō must battle an ever advancing array of deadlier new enemies flying ever more modern fighter planes.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-01
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Main Line to Terror
Overview: Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-11-06
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Miss Lonely
Overview: Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, or is she real?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-12
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April Fish
Overview: A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-05-31
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Capone Cries a Lot
Overview: Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-02-16
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Swastika Dance 2 : Three Erotic Women
Overview: Story of Japanese women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-07-15
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Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
Overview: Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica's looks into a ship that exploded and everyone who survived this disaster who comes in contact with her dies. Rica only chance of solving the mystery of the sunken ship is if she can locate a old friend of hers who just happened to be on that ship the night it blew up.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-07
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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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The Fearless Avenger
Overview: Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss Juzaburo, in order that the harmony of an important commemoration not be further disturbed. Though now even more of an outcast, Jokichi is asked by another Yakuza boss, Umezo, to guard Oyuki, the wayward daughter of Juzaburo. The tragic consequences of this assignment will lead him into a deadly trap and a final confrontation with Chogoro.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-10
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If You Were Young: Rage
Overview: If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plane - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-27
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The Trail of Blood
Overview: Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-10
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The Last True Yakuza
Overview: A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-16
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Dai yonige: Yonigeya hompo 3
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-11
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Overview: Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off of the money earned by his girlfriend and is more interested in trying to look cool than anything else. He meets Yumeko (Chikako Aoyama), an innocent but dangerous narcoleptic runaway, after she steals his car, and she soon moves in with him. Following the assassination of a high-ranking member by the Kazama Family, Junko is called on to be the lookout while the family gets revenge. However, the other men quickly "zoom", or escape from their duty, leaving the task to Junko. Will he take out Kazama, or will he zoom?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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School in the Crosshairs
Overview: Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that will put Yuka's powers to the ultimate test!
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-07-11
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The Fall of Ako Castle
Overview: This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-28
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The Strange Pair
Overview: Based on the comic book by Jūzō Yamasaki and Kei Sadayasu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-03-29
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Winter's Flower
Overview: Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno kept sending letters to Youko, disguising as an uncle in Brazil. 15 years later, Kanno is released. He is determined to live legitimately, however the Yakuza has not forgotten his wicked deed!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-06-17
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Kamigata Kugaizoshi
Overview: "Do Not Fall" - Set during Japan's Meiji period, three sisters are abused and exploited by their harsh father, including a daughter who plays the three-corded shamisen for pilgrims visiting the sacred chapel of Ise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-02-09
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Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Overview: In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to feel homesick, and returns home to find that almost everything has changed. Noriko is now a bar mama with a lavish lifestyle, Yumeko is nowhere to be found, and his boss (Toru Minegishi) seems to have sinister plans involving Junko and his uncle (Jo Shishido).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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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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The Killer's Killer
Overview: Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he only learned the technique of homicide in Chicago. When he visits the graveyard with his father to pray at his mother's tomb, his father is shot by someone. Now he thirsts for revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-05
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XX: Beautiful Target
Overview: When beautiful forensic scientist Kyoko and her colleagues fail to uncover clues to the identity of a man who brutally attacks and kills women, she agrees to become the bait to lure the killer into a police snare. But as the murderer remains frustratingly aloof, Kyoko discovers that she will have to risk everything in order to apprehend him. Naosuke Kurosawa directs this steamy thriller.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-03-10
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South to the Horizon
Overview: Tetsu gets into an argument with some Okinawa yakuza and is murdered by them. His brother Ryo comes to Okinawa shortly thereafter and teams up with Tetsu's girlfriend and Max an ex US soldier to extract revenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-30
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Mission: Iron Castle
Overview: The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant leader of a small band of spies charged with kidnapping a noblewoman from a heavily ninja-proofed castle. The finality of the air slowly began to fill like smoke, and in all that had become dark the loyalty of the Ninja who dared to go shone like light as they entered a world shrouded in mystery. Things do not go as planned in what is possibly the darkest and most fatalistic of the already noir-ish 60′s fare. Both the decade and it’s distinctive style of shinobi cinema went out on a high note with Mission Iron Castle.
Genres: Action Drama Crime War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-07
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Demon Spies
Overview: Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identities are hidden - even from each other. Behind their demon masks, they are educated in the deadly arts of infiltration, espionage, assassination - and seduction! If they survive to become strong enough to kill their teachers, they will become - the Demon Spies! Sent on a suicide mission to uncover a deadly conspiracy, five inexperienced Demon Spies must infiltrate a powerful fief, discover the location of its secret arsenal, and destroy it. But Lord Shogen, the Demon Hunter, plans to brutally interrogate, ingeniously torture, and cruelly execute - the Demon Spies!
Genres: Fantasy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-09
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After the Wind Has Gone
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-05
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His Motorbike, Her Island
Overview: After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy Ko begins to fear that she is destined to crash.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-26
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Love and Death at Fuji Speedway
Overview: The movie was inspired by real life test driver Yukio Fukuzawa, who on 12 February 1969 lost control of his Toyota 7 at Fuji Speedway near Nakahinata, Japan and fatally smashed into a signpost. In the movie Kei Kiyama’s pop singer character meets Tôru Minegishi’s doomed racer when he happens along as she’s throwing her own records into the sea. From there things get even cheerier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-27
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The Three Ginza Rascals
Overview: Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Rakugo musume
Overview: When a gal named Kasumi decides to become a traditional Japanese 'Rakugo' storyteller due to her uncle's invalidity, she is soon on her way to a career with college-level and amateur success. She becomes a student to one of the master's of the genre and is even asked to perform by a TV producer. The only snag is, the particular story has a curse dripping from its words.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-23
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Hurry on a Sail to Dream
Overview: Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of his ugly desires. When she falls in love with a young man Jun her long oppressed mind leads her to commit a murder with Jun for Katakura’s enormous fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-30
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The Island Closest to Heaven
Overview: A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-15
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My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Overview: A young woman moves in with her estranged father after her mother passes away.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-11-30
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Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.
Overview: A woman is discovered strangled inside a car, and Inspector Muta of the Yamashita police station hurries to the scene! The relationship between the murdered woman and a suspect whom the new Assistant Inspector, Iwaki, has been pursuing for one year will soon become clear...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-02-24
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Fallen Angels II
Overview: Authentic eroticism returns in part two of this much-anticipated sequel. Reveals the hearts and bodies of five young women who descend into a life of compromise for the sake of money...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Jigokudo Spiritual Press
Overview: Upon rescuing a friend who is being held captive by a wicked classmate and his gang of bullies, 11-year-olds Tetsushi, Yuusuke, and Ryoji unexpectedly find themselves entwined in a supernatural battle against the forces of hell. Armed with courage, wit, and three magical charms given to them by a mysterious hermit, they set out to thwart the evil in a quest, which takes them to the depths of hell and brings them to a final battle with the god of death himself.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-04-13
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Proof of the Man
Overview: When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-08
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Song of Goodbye
Overview: It is the second work of the Oita trilogy of Obayashi . Following " Nigori Snow ", Ise Masazo draws a song written by composers and songwriter "Farewell of 22 years old " as a motif and draws a story of love that spans two generations of mother and daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-18
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Musashino shinjū
Overview: The life and affairs of a famous writer is seen through the eyes of his last mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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The Great Clash
Overview: Drug enforcers, the G-Men, bravely fight against the world's largest drug organization known as the Kataoka Route. Lust, betrayal and excitement follow!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-01-08
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The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
Overview: A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-12
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Third Base
Overview: Third and Shinbunbu embark on a plan to make money by Third becoming a pimp and Shinbunbu a prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-15
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Overview: Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-14
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Cute Devil
Overview: While Ryoko is in Vienna studying music, her boyfriend dies in a traffic accident. Ryoko believes that she has psychic powers which killed him, and when she returns to Japan she is sent to a mental hospital. While recovering, her brother-in-law, Kouji, decides to look after her, and she goes to his house to act as a governess for Kouji's sister Keiko's daughter, Alice – who Ryoko becomes increasingly sure had something to do with her sister Fuyuko’s death.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-10
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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Overview: During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her.
Genres: Drama Comedy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-04
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Fudoh: The New Generation
Overview: In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-12
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Goodbye for Tomorrow
Overview: People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-23
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The Shootist
Overview: Former policeman Matsushita Hiroshi is a professional marksman shootist. When his keen eye catches his target in the dry urban darkness, the hard, breathless action begins.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-08-17
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Door II: Tokyo Diary
Overview: Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how good the money is. The job makes her feel free and in control and likes the danger that surrounds her. Her clients vary from normal to weird but her new client: Mr. Mamiya is… different. Mamiya is strange, charming, and very captivating which makes Ai very interested in what he has to offer and what he wants. Mr. Mamiya likes to explore sexuality and the art of S&M which intrigues Ai and continues to meet with him, and their relationship gets deeper and deeper.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-31
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Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-12-04
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Legend of the Cat Monster
Overview: A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which leads the two to live under the same roof.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-16
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Hard Boiled
Overview: Riki Takeuchi stars in a yakuza film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Oka wo koete
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-17
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The Motive
Overview: Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-18
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SEXY COP 348
Overview: Asuka Hanyu, a lone wolf who will stop at nothing to investigate, is a cool beauty who throws away her voluptuous body and strikes her enemies right between the eyes. This female detective infiltrates the Taiwanese mafia. However, her identity is compromised when someone tips her off!
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-08
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Black Cop
Overview: An ex-detective who accidentally kills a suspect becomes a dog of the yakuza
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-10
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Public Security Police Investigator
Overview: Ken Kariba, who was transferred to the Public Security Department of the Metropolitan Police Department, was investigating allegations of kidnapping of Japanese groups in Europe amid a series of explosions in various parts of Japan and the spread of fear of terrorist attacks with bombs. It eventually led to a series of terrorist attacks and, gradually, to a great conspiracy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-12
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STREET KIDS: Bousou Gishiki
Overview: The life of a young man who aspires to be in the judicial power begins to decline when he gets involved with street kids
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-15
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The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-01
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Star
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-12
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The King of Minami 32
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-28
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Four Sisters
Overview: Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and encouragement to each other, even sacrifice oneself to help others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-21
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Haruka, Nostalgia
Overview: Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author's real name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-02-20
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Farewell
Overview: Yuichi Kosaka is a salaried businessman in Ueda city. His achievements have not been improved recently, and he is betrayed by the manager of takada. Takada, who is related to the company's executives, is very strict with him. Every night late, Yuichi is often dissatisfied with his wife, Kazue, and his daughter Sanae.On the other day Yuichi ran the car aiming at his home village. However, it is lost in the mountain road which should know well. An old public telephone keeps in sight, and yuichiro stops the car before it. It was Yuichi who had been able to find the name of the old high school classmate, Tai in the old telephone book, and dial, and was surprised to hear the voice of the big. It was because the voice was as it was 30 years ago. The telephone was connected to the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-07-14
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Shoot the Boss: Hunt the Enemy
Overview: Young Shima member Wataru Jōjima (Hitoshi Ozawa) witnesses the loss of his boss, Takeo Shima (Jerry Fujio), right before his eyes. Left adrift, Jōjima visits Akebono Academy, a care facility frequently visited by Shima. There, he encounters Sanae Ikushima (Eri Takahashi), a young girl Shima had been looking after—.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-25
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Shoot the Boss: Shoot the Leader!
Overview: In 1978, at the Kyoto nightclub "Barami," Ryuji Kagawa (Toru Minegishi), boss of the Yamada-gumi, was gunned down. The man targeting the leader of Japan's largest organization was Wataru Naruse (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) of the Nihon Makoto-kai. This is the story of a reckless conflict—likened to "ants" challenging a "giant elephant"—as men, seeking vengeance for their boss, the first president of the Nihon Makoto-kai, Katsuichi Yoshimura (Hitoshi Ozawa), take on Japan's largest organization.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-25
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Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando
Overview: This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-16
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