Leo Morimoto
Also Known As: Reo Morimoto, Haruyuki Morimoto, 森本 治行, 森本 レオ
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: February 13, 1943
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise
Overview: On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage war, a small group seeks to propel mankind into space in their world’s first spaceflight program. For astronaut candidate Shirotsugh Lhadatt, it’s a personal odyssey as he grows from an aimless young man into a leader willing to put everything on the line in order to move the human race forward and away from the brink of Armageddon.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-03-14
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Kids Return
Overview: Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-27
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Forbidden Siren
Overview: A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and give them a breakdown of the local rules; most important: do not go outside when the island's siren starts wailing.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-11
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Operation Love Special
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Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-25
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天国のダイスケへ〜箱根駅伝が結んだ絆〜
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-01-02
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Love & Pop
Overview: Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-10
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Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
Overview: During World War II, the Japanese military established a secret underground laboratory in Tokyo. Three Olympic-level athletes were selected to undergo a process that would turn them into Jinra-go, superhuman armored soldiers. By March 1945, one of the soldiers had been completely transformed into the half man/half machine ultimate soldier called Mikadroid. But American B-29s firebomb the city and, while the two super soldiers manage to escape, Mikadroid and the lab are apparently destroyed. 45 years pass, Tokyo is rebuilt, and old secrets are forgotten. The site is now home to a complex that includes the Discoclub Layla. The disco’s patrons dance late into the night, unaware that a faulty basement generator has reactivated Mikadroid and the cyborg now prowls the basement levels, killing anyone in its path...
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-10
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はじめましてトーマスシリーズ いつもなかよしふたごのきかんしゃ
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-18
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Bitterness of Youth
Overview: A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-29
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Ochanoma Transformation
Overview: A short film with live-action special effects made as a parody of the American live-action movie version 'Transformers'.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-27
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No More Easy Life
Overview: Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork. She finds herself torn between a former boyfriend who's the tough, insensitive-but-sexy, type, and a new acquaintance who's more sensitive to her feelings, but who still acts childishly selfish at times. Will she choose one of them, or decide to go her own way?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-25
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Distant Thunder
Overview: A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-23
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Tsuma to onna no aida
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-01-17
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Whisper of the Spirits
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Black Board
Overview: Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns out to have been murdered by two of his schoolmates, who he had been bullying.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-17
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My Way
Overview: Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-07
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Doctor Mambo & Kaitou Jibako: Uchuu yori Ai wo Komete
Overview: The dashing Dr. Mambo and his unlikely sidekick, Jibako the thief, help Princess Laura, former ruler of Eden, to regain her birthright from the usurping president Capo.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-09-10
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Gakkou no Kaidan
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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I Want To Grow Up: Too Many Rules
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Hold Up Down
Overview: A bank robbery goes completely to pot, a pair of shoplifters get both an old man and a cop behind them. It is the beginning of this zany comedy, including the guys from boy band V6.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-28
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Kanikôsen
Overview: On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-04
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LoveDeath
Overview: A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A violent man holding pure love, Sai and a stunningly beautiful playgirl, Sheila. While Sheila flees with a large sum of money, she is chased by a cool but violent gang, crazy killers and an out of control cop. No one can stop Sai and Sheila's love runaway.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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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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About Her Brother
Overview: Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-30
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Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru
Overview: Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-11-01
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Overview: A detective and his assistant help send restless spirits into the spiritual world.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-14
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Onna no Natsu
Overview: It depicts the emotional ups and downs of a designer who runs a clothing store and her husband over the course of a summer.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-29
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The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
Overview: Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-11-15
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Youth - Part II
Overview: Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and beat him easily. Isamu's maths teacher, a race cycling freak, says he knows the solution to Isamu's problem. But will Isamu listen to him?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-02-10
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Black Widow Business
Overview: Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, Kozo Nakase suddenly collapses and dies. Kozo Nakase leaves everything to Sayako. The rest of his family are left out of his will including his daughter Tomomi. Tomomi hires a private investigator, Honda, to find out more about Sayoko.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-08-27
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Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
Overview: A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-08-21
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Dogra Magra
Overview: A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-10-15
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Mr. Moonlight
Overview: Time Traveling Samurai
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-21
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Trouble-Shooters
Overview: A man (Koji Matoba) working for a group that solves others' problems searches for the men that raped two young women.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-07-01
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This Story of Love
Overview: Life and love stories of stunt men and women.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-09-12
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Kim's War
Overview: After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the press inside and explains why he was driven to his crime.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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The Strangling
Overview: The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-02
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My Teacher
Overview: Hibiki Shimada, a normal 17-year-old high-school student, still does not know how to fall in love—although surrounded by love "experts"—until one day she realizes she's fallen in love with her hot and nice 26-year-old teacher, Itō. She then takes a path to make her teacher understand how she feels for him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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Bonobono: Secret of the Kumomo Tree
Overview: Bonobono: Kumomo no Ki no Koto was the second theatrical Bonobono movie, released by Amuse Pictures in theaters in Japan on August 10, 2002. It was done completely in 3D.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-10
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The Woman Who Disappeared From Her Red Car
Overview: Katsura Aya (Shiratori Yasuyo), a young and popular actress, is kidnapped. Igarashi (Honda Hirotaro), the president of the production company, calls Totsukawa (Mihashi Tatsuya) and Kamei (Aikawa Kinya) of the police. Totsukawa and Kamei learn that the kidnapper's name is Aoi Hebi (Blue Snake) and that Aoi Hebi is asking for one million yen for ransom.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-29
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New - No Longer Human
Overview: Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title) and goes down the stairs to self-destruction step by step.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-02
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Orange Road Express
Overview: A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter an eccentric elderly couple who are on the run from the law.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-29
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Munesue keiji no kuroi matsuri
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-14
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Second Chance
Overview: A man survives a double suicide attempt, while his girlfriend does not.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-15
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Memories of Mom
Overview: After years of trying, Kyoko and her husband Takehiro are finally pregnant. But their joy at the prospect of becoming parents ends suddenly when they learn Kyoko has stage four cancer. They now must face agonizing decisions that force them to choose between the life of Kyoko or the health of their baby. Adapted from a true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-05
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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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Revenge Court
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-07
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Murder on Raicho 9
Overview: Haneda, the president of a company dealing in gold, is shot to death on the Raicho 9 limited express from Osaka to Kanazawa. Detective Kamei begins an investigation in cooperation with the Fukui Prefectural Police. In the Green Car, Detective Nishimoto had noticed a beautiful woman talking to the victim just before he was killed. Looking into her background, she turns out to be Yumiko Miura, living in Setagaya in Tokyo. An eyewitness who claims that she is the murderer also appears, and she is taken into custody. Before long, the victim's unexpected relationships will be revealed one after another...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-14
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A Sandcastle Model Family Home
Overview: An opportune salaryman moves his family into a model mansion for 12 months; unfortunately, they must allow prospective buyers to trek through their home during business hours.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Another Side
Overview: This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side" of life as they face romantic conflicts and the suicide of a fellow student.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 66: Kushiro-Obihiro Murder Route
Overview: The strangled dead body of Hiroshi Hatano, accounting section chief at the longstanding apparel company Edaka International, is discovered in his apartment in Tokyo. At the scene, Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei find out that a mysterious email stating "I'll be riding the Super Ozora 5 tomorrow" was sent to the victim's cell phone the night before. The sender, Manami Furuya, an employee of Edaka International's Planning Section, has strangely terminated her cell phone service and hasn't shown up to work that very morning. Immediately afterwards, Totsugawa is astonished to receive a report from the Hokkaido police stating that the body of a man, stabbed to death, has been found on the Super Ozora 5 limited express. The man is Yuuki Nakamura, a bar employee from Tokyo, who seems to have flown from Haneda Airport to Sapporo and then boarded the Super Ozora 5, which connects Sapporo and Kushiro. Totsugawa has the feeling that this can't be a coincidence...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-02
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Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
Overview: Sakura, who just graduated from a university, begins to work at a library in Katsuragi, Nara Prefecture. She is flustered with her new job and unfamiliar environment. One day, an elderly woman named Reiko visits the library and shows Sakura an old photo of a man and a woman. Sakura takes her to the place where the photo was taken. Reiko sometimes brings other photos and Sakura takes her to the place where the photos were taken. While doing this, Sakura learns about the history and culture of Katsuragi. She also talks with the residents and grows as a person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-18
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Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery 67: Murder in Hakone - Leaves & Mountains
Overview: Detective Kamei of the First Investigation Division receives a request from lawyer Shinichi Nakamura, the son of his deceased close friend, to re-investigate a car accident. Akiko, the wife of Yasuo Furuki, a painter from Hakone, died in the accident 5 months earlier by crashing into a guardrail. Nakamura's client, Akiko's younger sister Yuki Izeki, suspects that she was actually murdered by Furuki for insurance money. Overwhelmed by these thoughts, Yuki had sent an email reading "I'll never forgive that man. I'm going to kill him and avenge my big sister," announcing a murder to Nakamura. In the middle of their conversation, Nakamura receives a call from Hakone PD confirming that Yuki had turned herself in that morning...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-04-08
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Preparation for the Festival
Overview: Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-11-08
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Tokyo kara kita onna no ko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-05-27
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Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery - Soya Honsen Murder Incident
Overview: While returning from a business trip to Hokkaido, Detective Kamei of the MPD greets a middle-aged traveler in the waiting room of Minami-Wakkanai Station but is ignored by him. On the limited express to Asahikawa, the same man happens to entrust Kamei with a floppy disk before dying. The floppy contains his investigative notes on a murder that happened two years ago...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-10
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Aspiration
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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Heaven Sent
Overview: Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a six-year-old child at their door, claiming that Shinsaku—or four other men—is the child's father! Sayoko and Shinsaku set out on a journey to find the real father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-28
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Genkai in a Black Company
Overview: After the death of this mother, Masao Oneta (Teppei Koike) decides to leave the comfort of his room after years of self isolation and get a job. He lands a position at a small IT firm but doesn't yet realise this company is one of many 'black companies', known for overworking their employees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-21
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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata
Overview: Inspector Totsugawa of the First Investigation Division goes to Tsuruoka in Yamagata to attend the wedding of the son of Inspector Mukai, his former colleague who now works for the Yamagata Prefectural Police. While sightseeing at Mt. Haguro after the ceremony, he notices a young woman drawing him in her sketchbook. She introduces herself as Yuka Shiraishi and says she came to draw the Dewa Sanzan. Signing the drawing of Totsugawa next to the five-story pagoda with her initial, a 'Y' in the corner, she gives it to him as a present. The next morning, the corpse of a young woman who has been stabbed is discovered in a forest in Tsuruoka. When Totsugawa, on his way back, hears that a sketchbook signed with a 'Y' was found at the scene, he follows Mukai there. However, the body is not Yuka, the woman Totsugawa had met, and while no items pointing to her identity are found, the sketchbook is the same one Yuka had the day before.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-09-20
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Disciples of Hippocrates
Overview: The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he's really cut out to be a doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Overview: A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams of a music career, the duo rockets to stardom.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-06-15
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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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Megumi no Sekai
Overview: A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is questioned.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-19
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Suzume Iro Doki
Overview: The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her days in a state of despondency, but when her estranged husband and daughter disappear, she embarks on a search, partly out of ambition.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
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