Takeshi Kaga
Also Known As: 카가 타케시, 鹿賀丈史 , Shigekatsu Katsuta, 鹿贺丈史, تاکشی کاگا
Biography: Takeshi Kaga, real name Shigekatsu Katsuta, is a well-known stage and movie actor in Japan who is best known internationally for his portrayal of Chairman Kaga in the Japanese television show Iron Chef produced by Fuji TV.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Birthday: October 12, 1950
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
Overview: A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi during the Edo period.
Genres: Crime History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-25
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Gyoro Goes to the Theatre
Overview: While helping his family for packing, Takuto found a pair of mysterious opera glasses from a piled-up cardboard box which turns out to be his grandma’s relic. The magical opera glasses named ‘Gyoro’ suddenly came to life when Takuto touched it. Gyoro brings back happy memories to grandpa and mom of going to theaters with grandma. With Gyoro, Takuto gradually becomes fascinated by the world of theater.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-31
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Cinema Fighters
Overview: Six stories based on six songs, the first project of Cinema Fighters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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Death Note
Overview: Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-17
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Death Note: The Last Name
Overview: In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-28
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Black Current
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: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-04
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Sword Art Online: The Movie – Ordinal Scale
Overview: In 2026, four years after the infamous Sword Art Online incident, a revolutionary new form of technology has emerged: the Augma, a device that utilizes an Augmented Reality system. Unlike the Virtual Reality of the NerveGear and the Amusphere, it is perfectly safe and allows players to use it while they are conscious, creating an instant hit on the market. The most popular application for the Augma is the game Ordinal Scale, which immerses players in a fantasy role-playing game with player rankings and rewards. Following the new craze, Kirito's friends dive into the game, and despite his reservations about the system, Kirito eventually joins them. While at first it appears to be just fun and games, they soon find out that the game is not all that it seems...
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-18
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Black Jack: The Two Doctors in Black
Overview: The mega-corporate Daedalus Group is under attack by a small group of activists known as the Ghost of Icarus. While taking care of some of the victims of the bombing, Black Jack encounters Dr. Kiriko, also known as Death Incarnate, who just like him, asks his patients huge sums of money but instead of saving them, he offers them a painless death. When the activist group requests both doctors’ collaboration, Black Jack finds himself caught in a spiral of life, death and treason while trying to save his patients' lives and avoid the breaking of a biological war that could destroy humanity.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-17
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Mahjong Horoki
Overview: A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-10-10
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Kanei Command Performance
Overview: During the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, a great martial arts tournament was held to determine whether or not Iemitsu was to remain in power or cede it to his uncle, Yornobu, the 10th son of Ieyasu. Among the contestants were many expert swordsmen who have become well-known to this day. Warriors such as Yagyu Jubei (Kaga Takeshi), and Miyamoto Musashi (Matsukata Hiroki) headed up the slate. This was to be the all-star samurai match of the century. An amazing TV movie with non-stop action as Yagyu Jubei must save an emissary of the Ming and reach Edo in time to fight the crucial match.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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波の塔
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Genres: Mystery Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-23
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Akko's Secret
Overview: 5th-grader Atsuko Kagami, nicknamed Akko, comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Wanting to grow up beautiful, she gets a job at a cosmetics company, and finds true love. What will Akko do to keep the company afloat and her secrets hidden? Only her technical magical compact can help!
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-31
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Lingering Spirits
Overview: Gajirou Honda is a self-centered man who only cares about money and women. When he’s involved in a car accident, he encounters the ghosts of the deceased occupants of the other car, including the driver and three pole dancers. The four ghosts promise him a large sum of money in exchange for his help fulfilling their last wishes, thus allowing their spirits to pass over to the afterlife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-22
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Fossilized Wilderness
Overview: Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his apartment at midnight. When he regains consciousness, the corpse of a foreigner shot with his pistol lies in front of him. Nishina, with the help of his friend and newspaper reporter Mineshima, who believes in his innocence and vows to cooperate, pursues the incident and reveals a conspiracy related with 5,000 kilograms of gold that disappeared at the end of the WW2.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-17
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Ninja Kids!!!
Overview: The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group of rival ninjas culminating in a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.
Genres: Action Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-23
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Monkey Magic
Overview: Journey to the West comes to the big screen like never before in the 2007 film Saiyuuki! Also known as Monkey Magic and Adventures of the Super Monkey, this is the latest in a long line of adaptations of the Wu Cheng'en tome.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-14
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The After-Dinner Mysteries
Overview: Kageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko happens to be a novice detective but lacks certain deductive skills needed by detectives. Because of this Reiko relies on Kageyamaa to help her solve cases. Meanwhile, Kageyama isn't afraid to mince words and often calls out Reiko with his sharp tongue!
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-30
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Kaibutsu-kun: The Movie
Overview: Kaibutsukun is the young prince of Kaibutsu land who decides to go to Earth to prove to his people that he is worthy of becoming king. Kaibutsukun is accompanied by his friends Dracula, Wolfman, and Franken. The Prince decides to go to Japan to visit his friends Utako and Hiroshi. The Prince, Dracula, Wolfman and Franken are in for a surprise.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-26
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Sinbad - The Flying Princess and the Secret Island
Overview: Sinbad: Sora Tobu Hime to Himitsu no Shima is an upcoming Japanese animated family adventure film inspired by Arabian Nights. The film is produced by Nippon Animation and Shirogumi, directed by Shinpei Miyashita and written by Kaeko Hayafune.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-07-04
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Island of the Evil Spirits
Overview: Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-03
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Cabaret
Overview: A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.
Genres: Drama Crime Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-26
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Andalusia: Revenge of the Goddess
Overview: While the Japanese government is trying to crack down on international crime organizations' money laundering in tax havens, the Chief of Police's son is found dead in a hotel in France.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-25
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K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Overview: In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
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Zero Focus
Overview: Spurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a murder mystery.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-14
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Graduation Journey: I Came from Japan
Overview: During a graduation tour in Chitwan, simple-minded and shy Yasuo accidentally becomes a super singer under the name "Ibatsu Taro". Fame and respect he wins, the richest man in Chitwan wishes to make him his family member. In Yasuo's last concert, his love, Reiko, suddenly appears. Between true love and wealth, what will Yasuo's choice be?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-09-04
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Samurai Commando Mission 1549
Overview: An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-06-11
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The Yen Family
Overview: Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together to accumulate a small amount of money, while mixing irony and satire.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-14
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AIBOU: The Movie IV
Overview: A mysterious international crime organization makes a demand of 900 million yen from the Japanese government for the release of hostages. The group then targets a victory parade of a world sports game to commit indiscriminate terror.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-11
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The Bridge Club
Overview: Tatsuo was leading a peaceful suburban life with his wife and daughter. But an ex-girlfriend attends his bridge club. Then Haruo, an old friend, appears. He is being chased by loan sharks and needs shelter. Haruo overstays his welcome and family relations become strained.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-16
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The Laughing Policeman
Overview: A cop chasing after a female cop killer, but then gets caught in a dark web of departmental corruption.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-14
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Suspicion
Overview: A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-11
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The Exchange Letter
Overview: Mariko Okano’s boyfriend Junichi Nagata leaves suddenly to become a volunteer teacher in a remote country. Mariko and Junichi’s families are both left wondering why he departed so quickly, without discussing his plans with them first. The next day, a woman’s charred body is discovered in a warehouse. The woman turns out to be Ayako Oshima, the mother of a student who was suspected of arson in a warehouse blaze 15 years ago. Oddly, Mariko had been trapped in that warehouse fire with another student, but was saved by Junichi. However, the other student died in the blaze. Soon after, Mariko receives a letter from Junichi, in which he confesses to a crime Mariko was not aware of. Are the two fires related? And what was the crime Junichi confessed to?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-30
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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)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-10
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A Hunter's Diary
Overview: Adaptation of "The Lady Killer" by Masako Togawa.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-26
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A Tale of Samurai Cooking
Overview: In this love story set in the Edo period, 27-year-old Oharu is a genius in the kitchen. Oharu attracts the attention of the master chef of the Kaga Domain, who arranges for her to marry his son and heir, 24-year-old Yasunobu. But, Yasunobu is cold to his new wife, and he's more interested in swordplay than cookery.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-14
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The Beast to Die
Overview: A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings “walks like a dead man”. Kashiwagi runs into Date, a former correspondent in the Vietnam War. There, Date discovered hell and something snapped in his mind.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-10-04
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Sinbad - Night at High Noon and the Wonder Gate
Overview: The search for Sana’s comrades continues. Sara who opens up her heart to Sinbad reveals her horrible story of how her father’s apprentice Galip destroyed the peaceful kingdom and her family by using the wizardly power. Suddenly the Magic Lamp shows the passage “to the Wonder Gate to the land of ancestors that appears in the Night at High Noon,” but Galip’s solders block their path.
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-14
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Sinbad - The Magical Lamp and the Moving Island
Overview: Sinbad and his friends run afoul of a storm while riding on the ship Bahal. Ali sights an island, which the ship heads toward to make repairs. Sinbad and Sana board a dinghy and land on the island. Sana sees a vision of a magical lamp, and Sinbad and the others set out to find it.
Genres: Adventure Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-16
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Under the Black Dress
Overview: Only black clothing and only black food... A girl, Yui, runs a tiny tailor in a world which has lost color. Only black clothing is allowed but she secretly makes colorful clothes in her hidden workroom. She encounters a mysterious drifting painter who encourages her to show her true colors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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Pokémon the Movie 2000
Overview: When Lawrence III's scheme to capture the Legendary Pokémon Lugia upsets the balance of nature, it is up to Ash Ketchum and his friends to save the world.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Animation Science Fiction Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-17
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Moyuru Toki: The Excellent Company
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-11
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Mio's Cookbook
Overview: When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cooking and eventually became a cook. Meanwhile, Noe has become an oiran (high-ranking courtesan).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-16
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SIGNAL: The Movie – Cold Case Investigation Unit
Overview: The story continues from the Japanese SIGNAL drama series. In 2021, a limousine taxi driver causes an accident on a highway, and a high-level government official dies in the accident. The cold case investigation unit, including Kento Saegusa and team leader Misaki Sakurai, have doubts about the case. Meanwhile, in 2009, administrative officers die consecutively in car accidents. The police announce these deaths as accidents. Takeshi Ōyama believes that these deaths were not the product of simple accidents. At 11:23 pm, a walkie-talkie turns on and makes a connection between the future and past. Kento Saegusa and Takeshi Ōyama face the threat of bioterrorism.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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Listen to the Universe
Overview: Four pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is a former child prodigy who stopped playing when her mother died. One is a Julliard student. One is a new face and yet comes recommended.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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Oliver na Inu, (Gosh!!) Konoyarou Movie
Overview: Movie adaptation of the TV series 'Oliver na Inu, (Gosh!!) Konoyarou'. To be released in 2025.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
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Ultraman Zearth
Overview: Ultraman Zearth hails from The Land of Pikari in Nebula Z95. He has a big red face and dislikes dirt, and will go to great lengths to wash it off his hands. His goal is to clean the polluted Earth. He transforms with an electric toothbrush, which is consistent with his hygiene fixation. He's not quite adept at being a superhero, but at least he tries his best.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-09
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Ultraman Zearth 2: Superhuman Big Battle - Light and Shadow
Overview: Ultraman Shadow, Ultraman Zearth's most terrifying adversary yet, is brought to Earth by the murderous alien, Lady Benzen to be Ultraman Zearth's assassin. Ultraman Shadow is a warrior of darkness equipped with mysterious powers. Prepare to witness the ultimate showdown, colossus versus mighty colossus, the battle ground: Planet Earth!
Genres: Action Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-04-12
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