Elisa Yanagi
Also Known As: 柳英里紗 , 柳英里纱, Erisa Yanagi, やなぎ えりさ, Elisa Yanagi
Biography: Yanagi Erisa is a Japanese actress, fashion model, former child actor, and a junior idol from Kanagawa, Japan. She was born in Hawaii, United States. Since childhood, she has been active as a model for magazines and commercials, and as a child actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hawaii, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 30, 1990
Age: 35 years old
Gender: Female
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Gu Gu, the Cat
Overview: Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as her assistant Naomi watches on with concern. Naomi is a young woman in her early twenties, who has her set of worries about love and future. Then one day, Asako meets a new cat, Gu Gu, which brings new joy and vitality to her life. What is more, she finds potential for love in a man named Seiji. Like Asako, Naomi, too, embarks on a new life plan.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-06
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Magic Utopia
Overview: A girl who lost her mother in childhood; A man trapped in a past of painful memories; An old man who lives alone and lost his daughter. When the girl meets the man, her body begins to float suddenly in the air. At the same time, the old man receives a message on his answering machine from his daughter who was thought to be dead. This is the story of three souls moving toward UTOPIA.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-16
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A Gentle Breeze in the Village
Overview: When eighth-grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-04
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Almost People
Overview: Four dramas about brothers and sisters, each of whom lacks a certain emotion.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-09-30
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Snowchild
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-29
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My Endless Numbered Days
Overview: Mitsue returns to Japan after the disillusionment of a work opportunity in Singapore. Resuming her past life, she treads between friendships with a former lover and a new co-worker, while finding her footing despite being constantly on the move. A sense of alienation follows her from city to city as the young urbanite looks for novelty and adventure, but struggles to find a place to call home. Through beautiful vignettes of Mitsue’s encounters with familiar faces as well as strangers, this gentle drama invites us to dwell on the stops one makes in a journey of self-discovery.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-12-06
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Wakusei no Kakera
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-26
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Gift of the Magi
Overview: Christmas-themed omnibus TV movie: Hotdog Express; Documentarytic; 祭典の日
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-24
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Communication to be understood
Overview: Kie's loud crying, echoes throughout the small coffee shop. Yumi gently watches over her. The manager of the coffee shop thinks he knows the reason for Kie's crying and tells her but... A girl power comedy!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-10
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Through Their Eyes
Overview: A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected dogs and cats at animal shelters. The story is told through the eyes of tormented vets who are relentless in their efforts to change the system to serve these animals with dignity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-02
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Amnesiac Love
Overview: This story follows the journey of an ill-fated young man whose ambition is to be a professional antiques dealer. A hard-up young man, who makes his living by selling old items in flea markets, meets a nurse and he falls in love with her. He decides to become a successful antique dealer. So he participates in a huge auction in the mountains but he makes a fool of himself. At the same time he ends up being in the netherworld, and hovers between life and death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-24
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The Lust of Angels
Overview: Saori, a school girl, is molested on the notorious "molester train" of the Hanagawa line and rescued by another school girl who witnesses the act. The girl who rescues her turned out to be a new student of the same high school Saori attends. The mysterious new student Yuriko is rumoured to be a "parent killer". Yuriko then leads Saori and her friends to hunt molesters.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-01
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Death of Domomata
Overview: There are no heroines, there are no heroes. The six girls in this film are victims of their own excess and lack of worth. The film is set in a Drug Rehabilitation Centre. The girls are rehearsing the play 'Death of Domomata' for the annual Christmas Eve recital. On the morning before the recital, Tobe, who plays the leading role, dies suddenly. How do the girls left behind manage to go on with the show and how do they cope with Tobe's death?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Yarukkya Knight
Overview: Makoto Gousuke has just transferred to a new high school with the intention of being the toughest kid there. Little does he know that there‘s an entire group of toughs who already rule the school, and they‘re all girls! After being humiliated by their leader, the pretty Misaki Shizuka, he vows revenge and starts a lengthy battle between the sexes at the school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-23
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Rolling
Overview: Kanichi works at wet tissue company in Mito, Japan. He runs into Gondo. 10 years ago, Gondo was fired from his job as a teacher for secretly filming others. He is now with Mihari who works as a hostess. He took away her away from Tokyo. Kanichi falls in love with Mihari at first sight and takes her away from Gondo. Meanwhile, due to a female student on the video Gondo secretly shot, an unexpected disturbance is created.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-13
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Capturing Dad
Overview: Part-time worker Hazuki lives with her younger sister, high school student Koharu, and their mother Sawa. One day they receive word that their estranged father is on his deathbed, so Sawa asks Hazuki and Koharu to visit him and take one last photo to remember him by.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-16
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Almost Coming, Almost Dying
Overview: To reward himself for his new teaching gig in Sapporo, 29-year-old Manabu decides to celebrate New Year's Eve with a little treat at a local sex club. On the verge of... climaxing, he's struck by a brain hemorrhage and ends up buck naked at the hospital surrounded by his worried family who want to know how this happened.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-23
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Ping Pang
Overview: Everyday a woman feverishly practices ping pong by herself. She play ping pong to distract herself from the reality of her life which includes the occasional sexual harrasment at work. A chance encounter one night slowly begins to change her world.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-07
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YEAH
Overview: A young woman, Ako, wanders around a sparsely populated housing estate in a rural city, Mito, where she spends her time speaking to objects and plants.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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Ganguro Gals Riot
Overview: Ganguro gals are the girls in a Japanese subculture who darken their face, whiten around the eyes, work on their hair, have ornate nails and wear high heels and fancy dresses. The film depicts the girls, focusing on one, and has the camera take us from high school to graduation, life in the twenties and later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-30
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Terminal place
Overview: There were man and women who were supposed to think each other from a place far away. On a winter day, they got on the train to meet. On the journey, he unexpectedly received a E-mail from her, and she was lost all the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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Tomato No Shizuku
Overview: With their hair salon business now on track, longtime couple Sakura and Makoto mull over inviting Sakura's estranged father to their upcoming wedding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-14
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Idol is Dead: Non-chan’s Propaganda Major War
Overview: New idol group Electric★Kiss appears in front of idol group BiS. The girls in BiS go up against a conspiracy planned by Electric★Kiss.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-11
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The Town of Headcounts
Overview: Pursued by loan sharks, Aoyama is rescued by a mysterious man in orange overalls, and spirited away to “The Town,” where other dropouts hide out from debtors, abusive partners or the police. It’s a perpetual holiday resort where every need is catered to but hidden in it is a sinister conspiracy.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-04
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My Favorite Girl
Overview: Kato, a scriptwriter, is in love with Miho—but he can never manage to muster up enough courage to make the relationship anything more than a platonic friendship. Seemingly oblivious to Kato's feelings for her, Miho is always calling him up and spilling her guts about her own love problems. She's in love with someone else, it turns out, but Kato swallows his pride—hearing about it all is almost too much to bear, but he wants to be with Miho as much as he can.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-14
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21st Century Girl
Overview: 21st Century Girl is an omnibus feature that is of the girls, by the girls and for the girls. The work of 15 women directors under the age of 30, each of whom contributed an 8-minute film, the package highlights a range of genres, visions and thematic concerns.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-03
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Prodigy
Overview: Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point where she hates playing the piano. Her father was also a piano virtuoso, but mysteriously disappeared from her life at a young age. Because of her father's disappearance Uta's mother had to move out of their posh home and into a far modest working class neighborhood. In this working class neighborhood there is a local grocer. The grocer's son Kikuna Oto happens to be a budding musician, but lacks the drive to truly succeed. That is until Uta Naruse comes into his life...
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-20
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A Girl Under a Tree
Overview: The nearly thirty-year-old daughter of a used car shop owner lies in a hammock within a grove behind her house. She neither gets up nor sleeps, but muses to herself. Before she realizes it, she begins dozing off. Today, the sun is setting again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-04-04
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Leaving Home
Overview: Ten years ago Keisuke went to Tokyo to become a musician. He receives a call from his far off hometown informing him of the funeral for his older brother who went missing while fishing at sea. Having lied he achieved success in Tokyo, Keisuke is hesitant but nevertheless returns home. Gathered at his parent's house are his father who lives alone; his brother's ex-wife; Hiroshi, a classmate who was the last to see his brother; and Hiroshi's younger sister Nagi who bears a limp.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-06-08
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Waiting for You
Overview: Anata wo matteimasu is a feature-film comedy directed by Shinji Imaoka (Underwater Love, Uncle’s Paradise, Frog Song, Lunchbox, The Woman of Shinjuku).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-24
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まんが島
Overview: The girl asked, "Where is Manga Island?" Only manga artists can set foot on the island. Idle people are not allowed to enter, but Manga Island is also like a besieged city. People outside want to enter, while those inside want to come out. A few manga artists trapped on a small island, accompanied by snakes and insects, perform the horror of a deserted island, and even rush to draft day and night, pouring their emotions and desires onto paper. When it comes to brain block, I finally come up with the legend of mermaid monster Tan and dungboat, and I'm afraid of being taken by someone. Everyone was hungry, afraid of both starvation and exhaustion of inspiration. Struggling with the barren environment, but also entangled with one's own demons. Shouwu Wenxiong initially made a long film, wrote and acted by himself, cleverly transforming the desire, pain, confusion, and joy of creation into a fantasy drift of a group of cartoonists.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-25
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Alley Cat
Overview: A depressed ex-boxer (Yosuke Kubozuka) self-medicating for the injuries that ended his career finds a stray cat that brightens his day, but she is snatched up by a comical grungy mechanic (Kenji Furuya). Calling each other by the competing names they gave the cat, Maru and Lily, the odd pair is abruptly sucked into a political conspiracy with Saeko (Yui Ichikawa) and her son at the center. Witnessing another injustice in which the economic and social elite prey on the vulnerable, the two strays set off on the road to redemption, or at least peaceful cat ownership. (Fun fact: in addition to acting together in Alley Cat, Yosuke Kubozuka and Kenji “KJ” Furuya released the single “Soul Ship” in 2017. Kubozuka performs as Manji Line and Furuya in the band Dragon Ash.) -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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I'll Be Your Mirror
Overview: Widow Chloe travels to Japan for work where she is welcomed by an old friend, Toshi. Sliding between the melancholy of loss and the awe of perspectives changed, Chloe wanders an unfamiliar landscape where love has carved all the guiding grooves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-23
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