Jun Etoh
Also Known As: 江藤润
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
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Crybaby Chacha
Overview: Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life. He loves his cat, his friends, hunting for girls and breakdancing in discos. A funeral forces him to return home and meet his familiy, which (espicially his father) disapprove of his lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-21
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Antarctica
Overview: Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-23
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G.I. Samurai
Overview: A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
Genres: Action Science Fiction War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-17
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Flower Season
Overview: Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of the Kitamori family, Hana entrusts everything to Yuki, but wants her entire family to come see her on her birthday. At that time, her second son Keisuke's daughter Megumi, who is her private taxi driver, made a mistake, and she was overwhelmed and approached Yuki for advice. Eventually, her mother Kayo of Megumi learned about this, but a period was quietly struck by her women coming to a conclusion that should be the food for Megumi's growth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-02-27
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Outrage
Overview: When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-17
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The Youth Killer
Overview: Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-23
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Asshii-tachi no machi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-28
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The Splendid Days of Queen Ruriko
Overview: Based on a manga that approaches the hearts of sick people living in a distorted modern age. The neat painting teacher and S&M Queen, Ruriko, will train you.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-10
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The Actor 2
Overview: Sequel to 'The Actor'.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-23
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Preparation for the Festival
Overview: Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-11-08
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Mermaid Legend
Overview: After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-14
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Distant Thunder
Overview: A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-23
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The Days of No Return
Overview: The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-09
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Konnichiwa Hânesu
Overview: A female college student who aims to become a pianist meets a boy who raises a guide dog.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-21
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Ah! Nomugi toge - Shinryokuhen
Overview: Sequel to "Nomugi Pass"
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-02-06
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Touch a Dream
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-26
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
Overview: A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the baffling case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-04
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Black Hair Velvet Soul
Overview: A drunk husband has a gambling compulsion that ends up putting him in a bad way with the local Yakuza. Unable to pay his debt, he hocks the deed to his wife’s restaurant in order to stay out of trouble with the thugs. But it’s not enough. The wife has to sacrifice her body as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-03-12
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Ai・Mai・Me
Overview: Kaoruko, the daughter of a doctor and attending a prestigious high school in Fukuoka, was vaguely anxious about the future. She's even more scared when her friend Natsumi invites her to membership-based prostitution club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-28
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Burst City
Overview: Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
Genres: Action Music Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell
Overview: The "lowly ronin" meets a child who is being chased by men that killed his father before his eyes. Feeling indebted to the child for buying him dinner, the Ronin takes the child back to his village. There, the Ronin reluctantly gets involved in a pathetic revolt by the cowardly villagers against their tyrannical governor. Mifune at his best!
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-18
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Onna no Katei
Overview: The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-04-10
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Maiko monogatari
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-11
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Sound of the Tide
Overview: Japanese film based on the life of sculptor Eikichi Takahashi, who died as a soldier on Guadalcanal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-06-23
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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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Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
Overview: A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-01
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Until Evening
Overview: Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-09-20
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Colorful
Overview: Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is "lucky" and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Makoto Kobayashi, who has just committed suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-07
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Jun
Overview: Jun has come to Tokyo from his family home, an island which resembles a ship. He works in a machine shop and is attempting to develop a career as a cartoonist in his spare time. When he travels around the town by subway, he has grown into the habit of groping female passengers in a sexual way. They never denounce him, and many seem to respond very favorably, moaning in apparent ecstasy. However, when his girlfriend sees him doing this, she denounces him to the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-09
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Abayo Hakusho
Overview: 1995 DTV Japanese film. Based on Ayumi Tachihara's manga.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-07
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Atami Murder Case
Overview: Chief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the Metropolitan Police Department. Transferred to Denbei's Criminal Investigation Division 1, Detective KUMADA Tomekichi arrives from the Toyama Prefectural Police. KUMADA is disconcerted by Denbei's position that murderers nowadays do not need a plausible motive, but gradually adapts to Denbei's unusual methods of investigation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-06-07
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運命の殺意 北信濃母子心中
Overview: In the past, a woman was raped by her brother-in-law. Keeping this dark secret, she lives a seemingly happy life with her husband and son, but the son, shocked to find out his real father is the brother-in-law, sets out to do something. The downfall of a mother and her child starts there...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-29
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Overview: When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-02
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The Negotiator
Overview: After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital. Inspector Ishida and Captain Tohno handle the negotiations while one of their colleagues, Lt. Ando, tries to find out why the men decided to take the hospital hostage. Through flashbacks, relevant information is revealed to the audience. When the negotiations are finished, most things seem to be fine until they lose track of the criminals. Then, the story unveils from a different perspective, its roots in feelings of love and vengeance.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-17
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Kandak Sema
Overview: Based on a novel written by Sumithra Rahubadda.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
Overview: A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers losing their land as a result of strict tax collection. The Tonegawa area of Boso was a lawless area for a generation, as two major forces fought against each other: Sukegoro of Iioka, who wields power with his industrial capital behind him, and Shigezo of Sasakawa, a rising yakuza. Furthermore, the successive floods of the Tone River, which could be called fate, forced the farmers into even more poverty and despair. Meanwhile, farmers in Nabe Village continue to live a lethargic life, but agricultural reform is about to begin under the hands of Yugaku Ohara, a ronin who has settled in the village.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-13
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Kizu
Overview: Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of yakuza film that stylishly depicts the short but vibrant life of legendary urban yakuza Takashi Hanagata.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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Hakunetsu Dead Heat
Overview: Taku abandons his job and his girlfriend and embarks on a journey of revenge in his turbo-tuned silver Celica LB, chasing the evil gold Skyline Hardtop GT, nicknamed "Phantom," that killed his friend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-28
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The King of Minami 33
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-27
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Winter Ever Since
Overview: Original drama special written by Taichi Yamada about the sadness and resilience of human beings through a man and his wife's best friend who become attracted to each other after the death of the wife.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-01
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Bondage Rope Sisters
Overview: Arata and Sumimi are attacked and tortured by two men...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Samurai of Hachiman
Overview: A mysterious swordsman called Hatokuro Yawata (Ken Matsudaira) who appeared from somewhere with white pigeons is actually Naotada Ii, the lord of Hikone Han. He was told that he had an older brother of twin by his mother on her deathbed. Hatokuro pretended to be a citizen in Edo and searched for his brother. However, in Edo, Murasaki Gumi, led by the mysterious Murasaki had power and used it as they like. One day, Hatokuro saved Okyu whose office-worker father was killed from Sanjuro Akaseki of Murasakigumi. It brought about a fierce fight between Murasaki and Hatokuro. What is the identity of Murasaki!?
Genres: Action History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-06-19
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