Yoshinori Okada
Also Known As: 冈田义德, Okada Yoshinori, おかだ よしのり
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gifu, Japan
Birthday: March 19, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Taste of Tea
Overview: A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-17
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Party 7
Overview: Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. Who will end up with the money?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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Kamikaze Girls
Overview: Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-29
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Fine, Totally Fine
Overview: Two listless friends and a clumsy girl try to make sense of their lives, and perhaps find love along the way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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Like Grains of Sand
Overview: A coming-of-age story. Shuji, a Japanese teen, is falling in love with his friend Hiroyuki, however, Hiroyuki is attracted to Kasane, the new girl in their class.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-12-16
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Train Man
Overview: The purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku ultimately started dating with her and chronicled his event and his dates with the woman (who became known as "Hermès") on the Japanese mega-BBS 2channel.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-06-04
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2007 Fall Special
Overview: Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2007 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. Mirai Dousoukai - starring Ishihara Satomi. 2. Countdown - starring Abe Sadao. 3. Jihanki Otoko - starring Joshima Shigeru. 4. Gomi Onna - starring Matsushita Yuki. 5. 48% no Koi - starring Shiraishi Miho. Synopsis: A "trainee angel" named Natsumi works on Earth for an advertising company. In order for her to become a fully-fledged angel, Natsumi must facilitate the meeting of a man and a woman who are destined "by fate" to spend their lives together, and she has her sights on a man who works in the same building.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-02
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special
Overview: ***Replay A man sees his dead girlfriend through his digital camcorder. ***Inochibi (Life Force) A nurse is able to save dying patients with her 'life force'. ***Ame no Houmonsha (The Visitor in the Rain) A woman visits her sister on a rainy night to celebrate her birthday, but finds a stranger in her house who may be a murderer at large... ***Okusanya-san (The Wife Seller) A man stumbles upon a shop selling perfect wives. ***Imakiyo-san (Mr. Imakiyo) A student finds a spirit called Imakiyo in his apartment, and he has to obey three rules or suffer the consequences...
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Horror Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-28
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The SanMei-sama: Is it possible to do this remotely?
Overview: Three freelancers are having a casual conversation in a family restaurant late at night. The film version of the famous manga.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-08
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Worst by Chance
Overview: Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts around and meanders through life until a death reminds him of his heritage and so begins a journey to South Korea.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-13
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Redline
Overview: The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that's tonight. The competitors are lined up at the starting block. In his vehicle, JP, the most daredevil driver on the circuit, is ready for the green light. Female driver Sonoshee, with whom he is secretly in love, is also on the starting line. She will stop at nothing to get on to that podium. In this race, not only is anything possible, but also anything is allowed. In fact, their adversaries have modified their vehicles to equip them with highly destructive weapons; with such participants, it is hardly surprising that Redline is forbidden by the authorities, who will try anything to halt the proceedings.
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-14
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In His Chart
Overview: There is a degree of realism when a professional in the field writes about his vocation and such is the case here. Adopted from a novel written by a doctor and set in Nagano, doctor Kuriharai is overwhelmed by the number and variety of patients he has to see due to a shortage of physicians where he practices. He aspires to work somewhere more convenient, specialize and see more of his wife, but faces a dilemma many other doctors experience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-27
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Dark Tales of Japan
Overview: Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-22
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Gravity's Clowns
Overview: On the outset, the Okunos seem like a normal happy family with father Tadashi and his two bright sons, genetics researcher Izumi and artsy Haru. When a series of arson attacks strike the neighborhood, clues left at the crime scenes seem to be somehow related to the Okunos. Izumi and Haru try to get to the bottom of mystery, slowly unveiling a tragic family secret that has come back to haunt them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-23
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Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune
Overview: Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her young daughter, Non-chan. However, she has a difficult time making ends meet in big city Tokyo. Her solution? Take a chance and try opening her very own bento (lunch box) shop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-26
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HK: Forbidden Super Hero
Overview: High school student Kyosuke Shikijo is the most talented member of the school's martial arts of the fist club. His late father was detective and Kyosuke share his father's strong sense of justice. Kyosuke also has a secret. Kyosuke likes to wear female underwear and transforms himself into the alter ego "Hentai Kamen," wearing female underwear and gaining superhuman powers. This unusual interest also comes from his parents, with his father a masochist and his mother a sadist. By chance, Kyosuke gets the underwear of female high school student Aiko Himeno. With her underwear, he gains various pervert techniques and attempts to protect Aiko from a dirty and heinous teacher.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-13
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A Woman from Ashio
Overview: A story about a woman from Yanaka Village, Tochigi Prefecture, which was abolished by the government due to the Ashio Copper Mine pollution incident in the late Meiji Period. The drama depicts the struggle of the woman who gradually matures as a person through her encounters with versatile figures, including socialists and writers, after moving to Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-18
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The Crone
Overview: Ayane, Nanami, and Mayuko are members of a new 3-member idol group called “Jersey Girl”. One day they’re invited to appear on a television show about the paranormal where they’ll visit an abandoned nursing home in the mountains to see which one of them is the bravest and document their experiences. However, as soon as the girls arrive, they begin to have strange paranormal experiences. Before long, they begin to turn on each other as the stress of the situation overtakes them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-27
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Make the Devil Laugh
Overview: Kazuma kills his father in order to protect his mother and younger sister from violence. He begins life at a halfway house with an aim toward social rehabilitation and also works diligently at a scrap mill, but society has labeled him a “murderer”. Gradually, Kazuma loses hope.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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Ikebukuro West Gate Park SP
Overview: This special takes place three years after the end of the original series. Makoto is homeless as a result of his mom selling out their shop and soon becomes involved in a ‘bone smasher’ case, in which someone puts homeless people to sleep and breaks their bones.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-28
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Shabake
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Genres: Fantasy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-24
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Rock: Wanko no Shima
Overview: A boy, Shin, and his family are forced to evacuate the island of Miyakejima, when it erupts in 2000. Shin's dog, Rock, is mistakenly left behind.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-23
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Become the King
Overview: The new film, entitled Ousama ni Nare ("Become the King"), features music and an original story by Sawao Yamanaka (guitar and vocals for The Pillows) as well as a script and direction by Shûji Okui. The film stars actor Amane Okayama as Yuusuke, a young man who works in a ramen shop frequented by numerous Japanese rock bands. Yuusuke dreams of being a photographer, and he decides to follow his dreams by becoming a cameraman for live concert events. (Source: Crunchyroll News)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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Atlanta Boogie
Overview: "Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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Rockers
Overview: Guitarist Ko-chan is a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their make-up skills. Bassist Gaku-chan keeps a bucket in the wings for whenever his nerves get the better of him, and drummer Momo-chan is doomed to forever carrying the botched childhood attempts at self-tattooing. It's not until this foursome is forced to look for an additional guitar player after Jin's dad burns his Stratocaster, that attitude and musical ability enter into the equation. Leather-clad, shade-wearing Tani (Tamaki), inseparable from his black Les Paul, is introduced as the king of R'n'R cool and Jinnai keeps him firmly seated on his throne throughout the film, retroactively proclaiming the guitarist, rather than himself, as the band's true hero.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-27
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Romantic Prelude
Overview: An aspiring floral designer and the photographer next door become drawn to each other through the everyday sounds they hear through their shared walls.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-05-16
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必殺仕事人2014
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-27
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The Workhorse and The Bigmouth
Overview: 34-year-old Michiyo Mabuchi (Kumiko Aso) and 26-year-old Yoshimi Tendo (Shota Yasuda) meet at a screenwriting class. Michiyo Mabuchi, who is called "Basyauma", works hard to become a writer, but can't see a future for herself as a screenwriter. Meanwhile, Yoshimi Tendo is a bigmouth who never tries hard at anything. These two people fall in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-02
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Jossy's
Overview: To battle a malicious monster, five women are gathered in front of Commander Charles against their will. The five women are selected because they each have a family name that represents a color. The five women are filled with doubts about what they are able to do collectively, but they go up against the monster using their lethal technique "Women Tornado". The five women can only use the "Women Tornado" when they are all gathered together.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-07
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Oba: The Last Samurai
Overview: In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the mountains. Even after hearing reports of the Japanese military's surrender, Oba dismisses the reports as propaganda and continues to launch guerilla attacks against the American soldiers, earning him the nickname "The Fox". Soon, even the American commander who's charged with the task of capturing Oba comes to admire his persistent enemy.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-11
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Lupin's News
Overview: The suicide of a female teacher 15 years ago was actually a murder. A new investigation team, spearheaded by Mizorogi, is formed based on new information turned in to the police. Obsessed about cracking cases right up till the statute of limitation, Mizoguchi has a bitter thought about a 300 million yen case that has reached the statute of limitation... When he goes to investigate the male high school student(s) whom the woman had taught and other persons related to the deceased, he sees an unexpected connection with another case...
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-21
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Kuroi Gashu: Kusa
Overview: Ichiro Numata (Hiroaki Murakami) is the chief editor of a publishing company. He suddenly falls unconscious and is hospitalized, but various cases takes place at the hospital. Hospital Director Kenichiro Asashima and Chief Nurse Junko Amemiya goes missing. There are rumors that they were in a close relationship. Head of Drug Management, Yasuharu Horimura is found dead. Rumors were that he stalked Junko Amemiya. The investigation into his dead is carried out as a suicide case, but Detective Eiji Kirishima (Takanori Jinnai) suspects foul play. Ichiro Numata follows with his sharp eyes what transpires at the hospital and he also holds a secret.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-25
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Ushijima the Loan Shark
Overview: Mirai Suzuki (Yuko Oshima) becomes responsible for her mother's debt which is owed to loan shark Kaoru Ushijima (Takayuki Yamada). To begin paying off her mother's debt, Mirai begins working at a dating cafe. Meanwhile, Jun (Kento Hayashi) is the ambitious and greedy company president for an event group. To borrow money, Jun visits Kaukau Finance owned by Kaoru Ushijima.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-08-25
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Bank on the Other Side
Overview: Itsuki, who lives on welfare with her sick mother and baby sister, has given up on her dream of becoming a nurse and been hopeless for the future. One day, a transfer student named Kazuma, who has a secret about falling behind in his previous private middle school, joins Itsuki’s class. He also struggles under pressure from his elitist father. Sparked by this encounter, they break out of their circumstances and gradually find hope for the future on their own, involving many adults around them.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-05-06
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I Am a Hero
Overview: Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant, whose life seem to be stuck around his exhausting but low-paying job, unfulfilled dreams, strange hallucinations and unsatisfying relationships. He sees himself as a supporting character in his own life, has low self-esteem, resulting in frustration. One day, the world as Hideo knows it is shattered by the presence of a disease that turns people into homicidal maniacs, whose first instinct is to attack and devour the nearest human.
Genres: Action Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-23
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
Overview: Izumi Hoshi is senior in high school, but she led a small yakuza group in her past. After killing her uncle's murderer with a machine gun, her yakuza group disbanded. Izumi now lives an ordinary life as a high school student and works as a manager at a cafe. A dangerous situation soon awaits for Izumi.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-05
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Get My Revenge
Overview: In 2002, “Fukushu Ho” (Revenge Law) has been implemented. “Fukushu Ho” allows victims or victims' family to exact revenge against criminals directly. Yasuyuki is a middle school teacher. He is opposed to “Fukushu Ho,” but he changes his mind after his wife is murdered. Yasuyuki decides to take revenge on the murderer who killed his wife. According to “Fukushu Ho,” Yasuyuki travels to an island which has been designated as the get my revenge location. At the same time, members of a radical environment protection group, who committed terroristic acts indiscriminately, are at the same island. Family members who lost loved ones in the terroristic acts arrive on the island to exact revenge. The victims' families have 18 hours to take revenge. Weapons, food and GPS are given to the families and the locations of the criminals. If the revenge acts are not carried out within 18 hours, the criminals are released.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-05
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Tokimeki Memorial
Overview: Looking for something to do during the summer, Akihiko Suzuki teams up with four girls (Namie, Natsumi, Mishiyo, and Komugi) and a guy (Kosuke) to start a little cafe down by the beach. Actually, he is more interested in the girls than the job. They used to ignore him, but by working at the cafe, he hopes to start a friendship with them.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-09
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The Pearls of the Stone Man
Overview: Atsushi and Ryoko are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move to Biei in Hokkaido, Japan. Atsushi isn't sure what to do with his free time, so Ryoko asks him build a stone wall around their house. Atsushi experiences tragedy, but later gets closer to his estranged daughter, Satoko. Atsushi continues building the stone wall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-06-20
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Gaki Rock
Overview: The film's story revolves around Asakusa-born-and-raised Gen, who helps out at his family's strip club. With his friends Makoto, Jimmy, and Mattsun, the four get into fights together, as well as help out with watching out for Gen's family. One night, Gen is told by his father to pick up a woman at the train station. There, he finds the beautiful Chōcho (lit. butterfly), and falls in love with her at first sight. However, he finds out that she is the #1 strip girl in Osaka, and Gen gets eccentric when he finds out that she'll be living in "England Theater," the strip club his father runs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-28
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Rose Color's Buko
Overview: Sachiko is an university student. Her nickname is Buko, because she has been negative about everything since she was young. Sachiko believes someday she will meet a man like in a romance manga. Her university life is boring and she spends her time reading romance manga in her room. One day, on Twitter, she meets a man who uses the user ID of Sparrow. He likes reading manga and looks like Johnny Depp. Sachiko makes a date to meet the man. She tries to change herself, but it's not so easy due to various unexpected incidents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-30
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Hierarchy of Girls: A Girl at the Bottom
Overview: Momoko is a student at a high school. She's viewed as being stupid and sits at the bottom of her school's hierarchy. While her friends are asked out on dates and they have good times with their boyfriends, Momoko doesn't have a boyfriend. Momoko relieves her stress by dreaming of taking revenge upon those who look down upon her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-28
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Kisarazu Cat's Eye: Nihon Series
Overview: When Bussan learns he has less than a year to live, he decides to continue his life as usual. He spends his time with his friends, a band called Kisarazu Cat's Eye. Their funny adventures range from playing gigs to solving a mystery surrounding counterfeit money, but Bussan's impending death is never far away.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-01
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The Locked Room Murders SP
Overview: Erika Toda joins a law firm headed by Serizawa-san, on the first case she meets Enomoto Kei of Tokyo total security who unlocks Serizawa who has accidentally been trapped in a vault. Form thereon the trio solve 10 cases related to the locked room. Enomoto always makes a small scale model and thinks technically in terms of security and locks to solve cases, while Serizawa assists by hinting some circumstantial evidences. Serizawa is always ready to take credit of new found fame.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-03
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Wild Flowers
Overview: Real pro wrestlers Mizuho Ishikawa, Cutie Suzuki and Emi Tojyo star alongside newcomer Miki Suzuki as the women tag teams, and they are managed reluctantly by Yoshinori Okada, forced to take over as manager of his mom's struggling female wrestling team.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-17
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Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series
Overview: After terminally ill Bussan finally passes away he misses hanging out with his still living friends and decides to return to Kisarazu. In his ghost form however only his most trusted friends can see him, and his meddling in the lives of the living results in the return of Ozzy and a long dead team of American baseball players who drowned off the shores of Kisarazu. It's down to Bussan and the Cats to save the day and restore the town to order, but can Bussan bring himself to say bye-bye once and for all?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-28
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Tekkonkinkreet
Overview: Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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The Confidence Man JP - The Movie -
Overview: In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-17
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Your Eyes Tell
Overview: A tragic accident lead to Kaori's blindness, but she clings to life and the smaller pleasures it can still afford her. She meets Rui and begins to talk to him. Rui was once a promising kickboxer, but something happened in his past. Kaori's smile brings out a change in Rui. However, the two are connected in more than one way. Rui attempts to do what is right.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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Three Nobunagas
Overview: Warlord Oda Nobunaga has lost the battle in sixteenth century Japan and is currently being pursued by Ujinori Kanbara who was Yoshimoto Imagawa's vassal. Yoshimoto was slayed by Nobunaga and the former vassal is burning with the fires of revenge. Yet, success is seemingly tripled when he captures not one but three Nobunagas. Each prisoner claims to be the warlord.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-09-20
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Bento Harassment
Overview: Kaori is a single mother and she raises her high-school age daughter Futaba. Her daughter is in a rebellious phase and ignores her mother. Kaori decides to take measures to communicate with her daughter and also get some revenge. Kaori creates messages in her daughter's bento meals.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-28
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Strawberry Night: After the Invisible Rain
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Genres: TV Movie Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-26
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Little Miss Period
Overview: Periods are depicted as pink, heart-shaped sentient beings that harass women on a monthly basis, delivering awful gut punches, but also offering a shoulder to cry on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-08
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Memo
Overview: Mayuko Motohashi is a high-school student in Tokyo. She suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessively writing down everything that crosses her mind. The anxiety happens so often, that she has to buy large amounts of note pads every few days at a stationer. Mayuko’s life mostly consists of two things. Going to school and seeing her female counselor. One day, after a long period of time, Junpei who is the brother of Mayuko’s father reappears, surprising the family. By a coincidence, Junpei also suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder, making him and Mayuko begin to share a strange relationship, both of them fighting to overcome their disorders. But one day, Junpei didn’t seem like himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-22
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Detroit Metal City
Overview: Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon emperor" Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a member of the band, he has a definite talent for it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-08-22
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Kamisama no Beret
Overview: A beginning editor, Odamachi, slips back in time to the year 1973 and meets Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka, then, is out of luck. He has failed in animation business. His company has gone bankrupt. He has declined in popularity. Tezuka in front of Odamachi is in the miserable situation. Still Tezuka never loses his energy for creation. He cuts out sleeping and continues drawing manga. Odamachi is gradually involved in such Tezuka’s energy and encounters various people who support Tezuka, including Kabemura, an editor who trusts and waits for Tezuka till he finally receives manuscripts. Fun and excitement of creation are surely in Tezuka’s atelier. Focusing on how “Black Jack”, the watershed work for Tezuka, is created, and how Tezuka challenges to make animations again. The drama depicts Tezuka’s way of life. ~~ Based on manga series "Black Jack Sousaku Hiwa - Tezuka Osamu no Shigotoba kara" by Yoshimoto Koji and Miyazaki Masaru.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-24
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The SanMei-Sama THE MOVIE Ω
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-08-30
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The SanMei-sama: 5 seconds before they go wow.
Overview: The seventh in a series of sitcoms in which Matsun, Mickey and Jumbo dabble in family restaurants. Mickey receives a warning email! He has to forward it to someone within an hour... What will Mickey do?? Includes 10 complete short stories, including ‘I don't care’.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The SanMei-sama Spin-off: Seven quotes from the parfait old man to save you in life's pinch.
Overview: A family restaurant late at night. The customers visiting the restaurant are faced with a variety of shurahas: marital quarrels, break-ups, love triangles, and so on. In the awkward atmosphere, Parfait Oyaji looks at the seats where life's drama unfolds. And for every parfait, he mumbles one sobering quote.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The SanMei-Sama: Our Summer Wind
Overview: Jumbo, Matsun and Mickey are still having the same loose, delusional talk in a family restaurant late at night. Tonight, they thought they would be talking nonsense again, but for some reason, they started talking about foreign countries. Do you think they're going to leave the family restaurant?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The SanMei-Sama: With all due respect, i love you
Overview: The three freelancers Mickey, Matsun and Jumbo start dabbling as usual. For some reason, the conversation turns to Sentai Mono. Their fantasies grow as they think that the Famidala Sentai Famiranger will stand up to the evil of the Familess world... (‘The leader is Red, isn't he?’). (The leader is Red, isn't he?).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The SanMei-Sama: 11 Best stories chosen by y'all, how about that?
Overview: A series of loose, lazy talks by three freelancers with zero ambition, Jumbo, Matsun and Mickey. The top 11 most popular stories, carefully selected by fans' votes, are presented together with special talks by the three. New stories are also included, making it great for beginners and experts alike.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The SanMei-sama: Spring is a crunchy bite!
Overview: Suddenly Mickey says, ‘The era is comedy’, and the three start talking about what role they should each play as comedians (‘What should I do?’). [Contents. Mickey's talk is on top form again today. But Jumbo and Matsun look at him... (‘This is now, isn't it?’). (‘This is now, isn't it?’).
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Original Language: ja
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The SanMei-sama: Dacing Night on the Shore
Overview: Mickey suddenly proposes a blind date. Both Jumbo and Matsun get excited about it... (‘It's time to do it...①’). The usual talk while doing impersonations. However, the content of the talk became even more messed up than usual... ("Kono yaro, bakayaro! Baka yaro!"). (The ‘I'll do it! I'll do it!’).
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The SanMei-sam: Summer Festival time!
Overview: A live event to mark the first anniversary of THE SanMei-sama. Takashi Tsukamoto, Ryuta Sato and Yoshinori Okada, as well as sub members such as Kotaro Shiga aka Parfait Oyaji, appeared on stage to recreate ‘Late Night at the Family Restaurant’ live. The loose, goofy groove remains the same in the live performance!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The SanMei-sama: Let's love on Autumn
Overview: The game-changing earrings will change your life. But Mickey is scared to get his ears pierced (‘I'm not getting carried away!’). (The story is about a young girl who gets her ears pierced. Where will you go when you get your driving licence? Jumbo thinks of a family restaurant far away (‘Will you finally get one?’). Jumbo is not happy at all.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The SanMei-sama
Overview: A unique film in which three freelancers talk about unimportant things in a family restaurant. The fast-paced talk exchanged in a loose atmosphere is sure to generate strange laughter. Jumbo, Matsun and Mickey are three freelancers who gather at the family restaurant Big Boy at 2am. They come here night after night to catch up on their contentless conversations. The three of them and an old man eating a parfait by himself at another table...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Good People
Overview: A college administrator tries to bridge the gap between her generation's views on feminism with the students coming of age during the #MeToo movement.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-12-07
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