Masahiro Toda
Also Known As: 戸田 昌宏
Biography: Masahiro Toda is a Japanese actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: March 28, 1968
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Trouble Maker Lucy
Overview: A nasty trigger girl, named Lucy who always making any trouble and bother everyone's around her life. With her behavior lead to the chaos in everywhere she goes. It seems, when the trouble happened she wills be happy as her favorites. Meanwhile, she has to encounter with her opponent, Hanako in such funny competition. Then, a fierce battle Lucy and Hanako ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-24
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Rock'n'Roll Mishin
Overview: A bored salaryman quits his mundane job to help an old friend start an indie clothing label.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-09-28
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Cure
Overview: A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-27
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Vibrator
Overview: Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks excessively. On Valentine's Day, she meets truck driver Takatoshi. She joins him on a journey in his bumpy and shaky truck - which vibrates in tune with her uneasy soul.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-06
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Séance
Overview: A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working with the police as a psychic consultant to "find" the girl. And then, things start to go terribly wrong.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-07
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Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
Overview: A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts becoming more like her and tearing her world apart.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-24
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Dream of Euglena
Overview: A pair of parking guards, Makoto and Shige, they are dispatched from a private company and are employed by the country as public servants. They crack down on illegal parking relentlessly, and because of their appearance, they are called “Euglena,” green tiny organism. Makoto, a straight arrow, strictly clamps down all the unlawful parking cars, but Shige, a loose cannon, pardons girls who park illegally. These two people receive a business request at a downtown area in the middle of the night because they’ll get more money than doing in the daytime. However, night-time working becomes totally different then usual.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-16
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Creepy
Overview: After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-18
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Doing Time
Overview: A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-14
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Canary
Overview: Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-20
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Spring in Between
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-05-26
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Saru
Overview: Five young men participate in an experiment drug test, which is known as a short-term, high-paying part-time job.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-06
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Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: Volume 3, Part 2
Overview: A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-13
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My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Overview: A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected, come down with the disease, which leads to death. They have no way of fighting against this infection filled with fear and despair. The media calls the disease the "Lemming Syndrome".
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-18
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Sunflower
Overview: Reunited by the death of a friend, a group of former schoolmates reassess themselves and their earlier times together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-07
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Charisma
Overview: A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-10
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License to Live
Overview: Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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#MITO
Overview: Yamane Mito lives her life as the charismatic influencer "MITOYAMANE", supported by her younger sister Miho. One day, she is approached by her agency about collaborating on an app. The app becomes very popular and Mito's face is spread around the world...
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-25
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Into the Faraway Sky
Overview: A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being stirred up by a fight amongst its people over constructing an airport. This is a tale of three young people exploring youth and friendship as they reach out into the sky.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-18
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House of the Ghosts ~Kanako Inuki's World of Fear~
Overview: Ghostly horror film based on the original story by horror manga artist Kanako Inuki, adapted from various horror episodes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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Harmful Insect
Overview: 13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit suicide by slashing her wrist. Her teacher, whom she relies on heavily, leaves for northern Japan to take another job. Other students start to gossip about Sachiko and her former teacher. Sachiko then drops out of school and attempts to find herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-16
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Have a Nice Day
Overview: Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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M
Overview: Mixed up by desire, love and hatred, a disturbed young man begins tailing and eventually tries to save his neighbor, a housewife who has turned to prostitution despite her comfortable lifestyle.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-27
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Tokyo Trash Baby
Overview: Miyuki doesn't need to stalk the man she's crazy about, because he lives one floor down. Rather then approach him, she digs through his trash.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-07
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Damned Files 5
Overview: This is the fifth volume of a serial horror drama series of complete episodes produced based on actual stories and accidents.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-26
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Koyoi horoyoi kibun de
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-10
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Konna otona no onnanoko
Overview: Based on the comic book by Marie Abiko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-10
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Suzuki Sensei
Overview: Teacher Akira Suzuki breaks away from long-held customs and norms at his school. He tries hard to have the ideal classroom by using his own "Suzuki method". The new semester begins. His homeroom 2-A class is about to have a student council election and preparations for a school festival. A man then takes a female student hostage...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-12
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Glowing, Growing
Overview: Glowing, Growing is a unique little movie produced entirely by film students in which two young outsiders join a mass suicide group in an attempt to gain freedom. Along the way they both re-discover the positive aspects of life, giving them the opportunity to weigh the pros and cons of choosing to live or die
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-11
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Home Sweet Home
Overview: "Home Sweet Home" deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening dementia, abandon him at a group home for the elderly. When, racked by guilt, they return to retrieve him, they discover to their surprise. . .
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-14
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
Overview: In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge.
Genres: Action Adventure History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-04-23
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Doppelganger
Overview: Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the verge of a breakthrough in medical technology is confronted by his own.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-27
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Neko Atsume House
Overview: In Neko Atsume no Ie, Atsushi Ito stars as Masaru Sakamoto, a novelist who moves to the countryside to try to combat a bad case of writer's block. While struggling to begin his next novel, Masaru spots a stray cat, which he decides to befriend. Masaru leaves food out for the pretty kitty, and before long his new home is covered in cats.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-08
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The Road Less Travelled
Overview: Kazunari Katsuki (Gaku Sano) lied to his classmate that Tokyo stinks. Because of his comment, he goes to Tokyo alone. On his way back, he misses his flight back to Kumamoto. Kazunari only 3,400 yen in his pocket. He becomes confused about his missed flight. At that time, Masami Tanaka (Kaoru Sugita), who works at an airport souvenir shop, talks to Kazunari. On Kazunari's unusual trip back to Kumamoto, he meets many different adults and begins to think about his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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Side Job
Overview: Based on the novel "Kanojo no Jinsei wa Machigai ja Nai" (literal translation: Her life is not at fault) by Director Hiroki, it is a powerful story of survivors, who are all trying to find their own silver linings in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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Diary of Beloved Wife: Devoted Wife
Overview: Oda is a cowardly and boring man, his only redeeming feature being his diligence. He continues to live with his wife, Ayane, but they can't seem to produce children and are troubled as to whether their relationship will survive. One evening Oda returns home to find a pair of blue toy handcuffs hanging on the doorknocker. Using them, Oda humiliates Ayane. Although bewildered at first, Ayane begins to respond, and Oda becomes increasing excited as he sexually assaults her. In truth, the blue handcuffs were Ayane's contrivance. There was a time in the past when she used to reach climax...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-23
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Reveries
Overview: Kazuya Naruse, an obedient programer falls for a girl "Rumi", whom he gets to know through chat rooms. Naruse lost himself in this love, as if he lives in another world. Rumi has a mentally ill husband. Spending time with these two, the illusion of love in Naruse gradually changes to uneasiness and insanity.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-01
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Flowers in the Shadow
Overview: Shinya is in debt as a result of his gambling habit. He attempts to defraud an old woman with a bank transfer scam, but the woman reminds him of his late mother and they start to relate to each other. Meanwhile, Shinya meets a girl called Hisako in town, and ends up helping her to find out the whereabouts of an unsuccessful comedian, Raita, whom her mother was in love with in her youth. Shinya's father, Ryutaro, is disowned by his son after his wife's death. When Ryutaro meets a homeless man called Moses, he starts living on the street as well. One day when the old woman dies, Moses comes to the deceased and confesses his past. Subsequently Shinya resumes communicating with his father Ryutaro.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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Oz Land
Overview: Kurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is connected to the business network. The new work is out in the country and there is not much else to do or places to go. The go-to employee is one Yoshiko. Kurumi wants to be successful and valued and is eager to learn from Yoshiko. All is not as it seems on the surface however.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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Liverleaf
Overview: The story follows Nozaki Haruka, a middle school student who transfers to a new school in a small town because of her father's work. Unfortunately, she becomes a victim of horrific bullying, but since the school will be closing in 2 months after graduation, no one is willing to help her.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-04-07
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Look of Love
Overview: A young man is unable to have relations with the girls he likes. A pimp meets him after having a strange experience and they are althogether on a bizarre ride through a gloomy and disconnected Tokyo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Chasing World 3
Overview: Set in the year 3000 in New Tokyo where this time round, human beings with blood type B are being targeted.
Genres: Mystery Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-05-12
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The Moon
Overview: After her grandmother's passing, Natsumi, a third-year high school student, moves to Tokyo to live with her mother Haruka, who works as a stripper in Asakusa. Having been separated from her mother since elementary school, Natsumi initially finds it difficult to connect and often clashes with her. However, as time goes on, she begins to understand and accept her mother's unconventional lifestyle."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-08
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Sayonara Midori-chan
Overview: Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the shallow but charming Yutaka, she willingly succumbs to his lascivious advances only to discover afterward that he already has a girlfriend by the name of Midori. Even so, Yuko's feelings for Yutaka continue to grow regardless of his aloofness. Before long she finds herself reluctantly cajoled into working as a hostess in a small karaoke bar. Fatalistically accepting his dalliances with flames old and new, she perseveres not so much in hope of a more substantial relationship, but rather out of fear of losing him. There are other men out there waiting for her -- kinder, more considerate and eagerly available. But for Yuko, there is only the non-committal, yet torridly magnetic Yutaka. Why him? Not even Yuko seems to know the answer.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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Oka wo koete
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-17
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Broken Heart of the 56th Year
Overview: Apprentice chef Saori Nakagawa suddenly travels to Tokyo in 1964 to meet Ryuichi Kikuchi, a cook. From Kikuchi who devotes himself to cooking, Saori learns what is really important. The love of two people over 56 years.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-11
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Wicked Flowers
Overview: In this surreal, Lynchian debut feature from Japan, an unsuspecting slacker is sucked into a strange and deadly parallel universe when he starts to play a mysterious videogame that seems to kill those who play it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-28
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In the Pool
Overview: A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-21
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Teki Cometh
Overview: Gisuke is a retired college professor. His wife has passed away, and he is now living alone in an old Japanese-style house. One day, an unsettling message appears on his computer saying that the enemy is coming.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-01-17
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Kairai
Overview: Twelve years after the death of his high school girlfriend, Fujima (Kenta Kiku) has become a journalist and is ordered by his editor to write an article about her as an "unsolved case processed as an accidental death." Fujima objects, saying, "Writing it will only corner the bereaved family," but is nevertheless sent to conduct interviews against his will. Unable to hide his confusion, Fujima visits the bereaved family, only to witness the man once suspected as a perpetrator, Shida (Satoshi Nikaido), living with them. The family calls Shida "Sensei" and behaves submissively towards him. While suspicious of their behavior, Fujima begins his investigation...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-16
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Mr. Love Chemistry 2
Overview: Despite working as a matchmaker, Sosuke is an awkward person. He works with Shion and they bicker over their different beliefs of love and marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-18
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