Sabu Kawahara
Also Known As: Hiromasa Kawahara, 河原裕昌, 河原佐武, Сабу Кавахара
Biography: Actor and tarento.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: November 10, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Tasogare ni hyōteki o ute
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-05
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The Eel
Overview: A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-12
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A Scene at the Sea
Overview: A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by his also deaf girlfriend, he persists against all odds.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-19
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A Tender Place
Overview: Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka disappears, which throws Kasumi's life into turmoil. Years later, Yuka remains missing, and Kasumi journeys back to Hokkaido with Utsumi, a terminally-ill former detective, and tries to follow any leads she can.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-07-14
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Moment of Demon
Overview: Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-26
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Wasao
Overview: Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller's blog. Heartwarming drama starring Wasao himself turns part of the life of this former stray into an original story. Setsuko, who runs a grilled-squid shop in a fishing village at the foot of the Shirakami mountains, decides to take in a large dog with a long, unruly fur that has shown up in town. She names the dog Wasao and showers it with affection, but Wasao at that time doesn't take to Setsuko.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-05
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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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Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-
Overview: Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers, witnesses a murder in the forest...and she knows the culprit! Unfortunately, she doesn't have it in her to tell anybody about it, and to make matters worse, said aforementioned friend gets accused of the murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-06
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Nurse Diary: Wicked Finger
Overview: Ryoko leaves the chaos of her dorm for the peace and quiet of her own place because she wants to keep her relationship with a doctor at Murata Hospital a secret. Unfortunately, that privacy is short-lived as she discovers a “peeping tom” next door neighbor that spies on her all the time. When the doctor’s wife learns of the affair, poor Ryoko gets caught in a web of jilted lovers, frisky lesbians, slapstick sexual assault and embarrassing incidents with household appliances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-08
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Stray Dog
Overview: When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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Looking For Cherry Blossoms
Overview: Three strangers gather in search of an elusive cherry blossom. The tree hardly matters after a while, though, as they stumble into one funny and revealing episode after another.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-21
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My name is Reiko Shiratori! The Movie
Overview: Reiko and Tetsuya continue to live together. Reiko, who was informed by Kyoko that she was engaged to Takada, pretended not to be interested in her marriage, but in her heart, she wanted to marry Tetsuya. Tetsuya, unable to see through Reiko's true feelings, replies, "We shouldn't think about marriage until we're both adults and can live on our own." Meanwhile, Reiko's father, Shotaro, is stricken with cancer and receives a call that he has six months to live. In order to fulfill her father's wish, "I wanted to see Reiko as a bride while I was still alive," Reiko asked Tetsuya to marry him, and Tetsuya hesitated but accepted. However, Shotaro's doctor informs him that the cancer was misdiagnosed. While Reiko is relieved, she does not want to cancel her marriage to Tetsuya, so she proceeds with her wedding preparations without informing the people around her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-19
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Mystery of the Coral Seas
Overview: A trading company employee's girlfriend loses her memory while on a trip. In place of the friend who was supposed to have accompanied her the whole time is a mysterious man.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-04-23
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The Files of Young Kindaichi: School's Seven Mysteries Murder Case
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-08
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Shiofuki Ama
Overview: A resilient clam diver lives way she wants despite hostile villagers and the various men that share her bedroom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-21
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Nokezoru onna
Overview: A female prisoner escapes from the law but she can’t escape from her carnal desires.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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Gozamareji
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Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-26
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Neko no youni
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-03-19
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Karate Cop
Overview: A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-17
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The Triumphant Return of General Rouge
Overview: A year after the celebrated cracking of “The Glorious Team Batista” case, the talented medical staff at Tojo University Hospital once again finds itself embroiled in a web of intrigue and scandal.The scandal occurs this time in the ER when a mysterious letter arrives for Dr. Kimiko Taguichi. The letter reads: “Chief Surgeon Hayami of the Emergency Center has a collusive relationship with a medical supplies maker. And the head nurse is in on it with him.” An unimaginable truth then awaits.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-07
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
Overview: After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be "Seediq Bale" or "real men." Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge is Part two of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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Faraway Heaven
Overview: Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere faraway from the city and leaves for deep in the mountains, where she finds one lonely house. Then she attempts to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the guest house but she fails.... This is the beginning of her new life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-08
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Caterpillar
Overview: The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-14
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Drowning Fish
Overview: When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate "Oboreru Sakana". The "big guns" are a misfit duo of ethically questionable characters who must infiltrate a gay nightclub and "fit in" while they search for clues. What ensues is both hilarious and action-packed. Oboreru Sakana is a rather ambitious and often hilarious contemporary crime thriller. Its narrative swings from the grisly to the humorous and pulls in as many pop culture elements as it can manage.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-02-03
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Captured Mother and Daughter: She Beast
Overview: After watching her friend fall from a building a depressed high school girl runs away from home. When she is picked up by a nice guy on a phone date she realizes too late that he has plans to use her for his own ends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-28
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Itazura lolita: Ushirokara baajin
Overview: A drunk office worker spots a discarded doll in the trash and decides to bring it home. When the doll mysteriously comes to life as a normal sized but naked young woman his life gets very complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-12
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Black Rain
Overview: Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-13
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Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror III
Overview: Third "The Story of Terror" film by Junji Inagawa.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-25
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Ikusa
Overview: Adult video store clerk, Issa, feels like a total loser after losing his job and being dumped by his girlfriend. He is blessed by a stroke of luck when his invention, a curry package squeezing tool, suddenly gains immense popularity. Not only does his invention attract buyers and money, it even attracts unwanted attention from the Yakuza.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-01
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Overview: [INTERNATIONAL VERSION] Mouna Rudo was born and raised among the Seediq people, an indigenous tribe in Taiwan, and as he grew to be a man he became a member of the Seediq Bale, a courageous band of native warriors. However, Rudo's way of life is threatened under the yoke of occupying forces from Japan, who took over the nation in 1895. As Rudo sees the traditions and honor of his people stripped away, he realizes the time has come to fight back, and in 1930 he brings together a group of former Seediq Bale soldiers, many of whom have been reduced to infighting, and molds them into a revolutionary army. Rudo and his comrades make their stand when they confront Japanese occupation troops at a youth athletic event, leading to a violent confrontation between the Seediq forces and their oppressors.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-05-10
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Nuclear Gypsies
Overview: Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her return, Barbara faces problems beyond her control. Her brother and two friends take one of their teachers hostage to extort money to go on a school trip. Miyazato, the man who loves Barbara is there, but not Aiko, her best friend. Miyazato, a yakuza and manager in a nuclear power plant has forced Aiko into prostitution for the workers of the plant. Barbara plans to help her escape from this hell. Aiko has been sent to Mihama. Without even thinking for a moment, Barbara decided to go see her friend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-05-05
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Piledriver
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-13
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The Rocking Horsemen
Overview: It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-31
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The Great Department Store Robbery
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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Balloon
Overview: Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-12
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Sexual Crime
Overview: Three people whose lives have taken a turn for the worse retreat into a world of erotic dreams made flesh in this drama from director Sai Yoichi. An executive with a large industrial corporation finds his job and his future is on the line when his firm is beset by labor troubles at the same time severe financial mismanagement has been discovered. As the executive looks for a way out of his situation, he becomes involved in a ménage à trois relationship with two fellow employees, a woman and another man. As real life becomes all the more unpleasant, the businessman and his lovers become deeply attached to one another as he explores sides of his sexual nature he's never been able to investigate in the past.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-22
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Choji Snack Bar
Overview: Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-11-12
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Jazz G Men
Overview: In a bid to bring back life to their town after seeing its population dwindle in recent years, the manager of a shopping mall in northern Saitama Prefecture and the executive director of the Honjo Chamber of Commerce start a project to put together an improvised jazz band from local citizens. A former music teacher (Shimizu Shogo) is coerced into becoming the band leader, but the other prospective members are all elderly amateurs with little knowledge of music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-29
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Skinless Night
Overview: Skinless Night (which borrows its title from a best-selling brand of condoms) centers on the 33-year-old Kayama Mutsuro, who supports his wife, child and a small team of employees by making porn videos. Profit margins are very low, the financier has his own troublesome ideas about the kind of tape he wants produced, the company office isn't an ideal environment for child-minding, and the job constantly throws up new challenges - like shopping for bondage gear or devising the special visual effects for a 'golden shower' scene. On top of everything else, Kayama is heading for a mid-life crisis. The rediscovery of his unfinished student film crystallizes his general sense of dissatisfaction, and leads him to rethink his life and work, to the chagrin of many of his friends, colleagues, and family members. Mochizuki's quasi-autobiographical début feature observes both the workings of the porn sub-culture and the spiritual problems of its central character.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-06
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10 Years - A Wife's Betrayal
Overview: Urushibara Kazuki heads to Kyoto to explore the secret of his wife, Saeko, who is hospitalized for terminal cancer.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-25
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Onna Jimuin: Shikijo Seikatsu
Overview: The reasonable happy life of an unmarried librarian goes to hell after she meets a pregnant young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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Sukiyaki
Overview: Sukiyaki can be viewed two ways, a popular Japanese cuisine or a gathering of a family. This heart-warming comedy takes place in Yokohama, where the Mihara family owns a restaurant called “Boston Grill”. Experience the ups and downs of this family and learn how they deal with the everyday problems they are faced with during difficult times.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-11
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Amagi Pass
Overview: A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes place, the police searchs for the culprit.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
Overview: An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag is Part one of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Kôkôsei burai hikae: Tsuki no Muramasa
Overview: Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-07
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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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Hitozuma bōkō manshon
Overview: Koichi and Mariko are a married couple. Both husband and wife have their own careers. Koichi is a civil servant who returns home on time, while Mariko returns home late at night, leaving their love life cold.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-23
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The House of Hanging
Overview: This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-26
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Fu · Shi · Gi · na BABY
Overview: Roller skating boy band Hikaru GENJI face a series of strange events after a baby one day suddenly appears in their dormitory.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-18
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Utamaro's World
Overview: Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-20
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Estate Inheritance
Overview: The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family members.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-20
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Bu-ra-i no onna
Overview: A group of friends get together to remember a decessed classmate. One of them is a detective who loves one of the women. But the woman is in love the delinquent of the group. And the delinquent has been ordered to do a hit...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-04-28
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Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy
Overview: "Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy" centers around five friends who are residents in a Tokyo apartment complex. Now senior high school students, the five friends live the wild life in Harajuku before encountering unforeseen surprises.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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Bashment
Overview: Juri swears revenge on her brother after deciding that he is responsible for the murder of their parents . . . but otherwise lives a normal and happy life. The action takes place in the Yokohama underworld as brother and sister are reunited . . . for battle!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-17
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Nine-One II
Overview: An erotic bizarre action in which the three sisters of the Ijuin family, descendants of Kunoichi, fight against the hostile Mao Noichi clan.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-26
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Happy People
Overview: Japanese anthology follows the depressing lives of several people just trying to keep going in a nihilistic world. Movie version of Kosuke Suzuki‘s previous SOV movie by the same title.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-27
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Location
Overview: The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-22
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The King of Minami: Tactical Debt
Overview: #6 in the King of Minami series, following "Ginjiro vs. Liquidator."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-02-25
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The Yellow Handkerchief
Overview: The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants him back at home.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-09-30
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Saiyûki
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Original Language: zh
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Kattobi Boogie 2: Flat Out Baby
Overview: Baby goes flat-out?
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-01
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