Yuu Kashii
Also Known As: Yū Kashii
Biography: Yuu Kashii got her start in the entertainment business as a model for the Japanese teen magazine mc Sister back in 2001. Her first acting role was in the movie adaptation of Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean in which she played the title character in the film.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kanagawa, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: February 16, 1987
Age: 38 years old
Gender: Female
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Linda Linda Linda
Overview: Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival's rock concert—including a classic '80s punk-pop song by the Japanese group The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda".
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-23
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Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
Overview: A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.
Genres: Drama War Science Fiction Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-05
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252: Signal of Life
Overview: At some point in the distant future, a massive, catastrophic earthquake strikes Tokyo, causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically and the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history to sweep toward the city and inundate it with water. The Tokyo Fire Department and its team of crack rescuers swing into action, and shortly after they do, a distress call arises from an underground subway station - with repeated indications of the rescue code, 252 252, and the exclamation "We Have Survivors." It soon becomes apparent that the local rescue squad must attempt to save the survivors, doing so at the expense of their own lives and safety. Written by Nathan Southern
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-06
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Starlit High Noon
Overview: Lian Son is a Taiwanese assassin hiding in Okinawa. Yukiko works at a lunch box shop, but she has a painful past. Saya works at a public swimming pool, but is bored with her life. The solitary lives of these three people slowly intersect with each other under the bright sunshine of Okinawa.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-24
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The Pavillion Salamandre
Overview: Four beautiful sisters are entrusted with taking care of Kinjiro, a giant salamander and national treasure. Rumors spread that Kinjiro is an impostor, so a genius x-ray technician is sent to run some tests.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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SPEC: Close~Incarnation
Overview: Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".
Genres: Crime Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-01
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SPEC: Close~Reincarnation
Overview: Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-29
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Sanpei the Fisher Boy
Overview: Sanpei is a young boy who lives with his grandpa in a small village in Akita and they both love fishing and are masters at it. His sister moved to Tokyo when their father died and blames it on the fishing. She thinks it's just a stupid play. Gyoshin, a bass professional fisher who lives and competes in America is in a slump and comes to the small village to try to find the joy of fishing again. Together, they all go to find the legendary big char of Yonakidani (The Crying Valley of The Night), which Sanpei's father once saw, but could never catch, before he died.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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Ten Nights of Dreams
Overview: Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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Yellow Tears
Overview: The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the painter and Yuji – the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom - being able to do what they want. In the process of pursuing their dream they learn firsthand that however ideal it may seem, its not as easy as they think.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-14
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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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Until the Lights Come Back
Overview: A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-11-19
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Death Note
Overview: Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-06-17
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Midnight March
Overview: Yokoyama Kenji, the president of an event company that organizes matchmaking parties, meets Mita Soichiro (Shunsuke Kubozuka) who works for a first-class trading company. The two plan to rob an art dealer, Kurokawa Haruo, of a large amount of money, but are discovered by his daughter, Kurokawa Chie. After that, the two meet Chie again, and are invited to join in her in a scheme to steal 1 billion yen.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-27
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Adult Drop
Overview: Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime, but this just upsets Ann. Yoshi's relationship with Ann is now awkward. Yoshi doesn't know exactly why, but Ann becomes absent from school frequently. One day, during their summer vacation, Yoshi hears that Ann has dropped out of school.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-04
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Box!
Overview: A shy high school student meets his childhood friend, who moved away years earlier, and who encourages him to join their school's boxing club.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-22
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What a Wonderful Life!!
Overview: Shuichi Furukawa receives a phone call from his mother. She reminds him that they are moving the next day. The following day, Shuichi takes a train ride back to his hometown. He arrives at his parents home, but nobody is home. He looks for the house key under a potted plant but can't find the key. He starts to thinks back to his childhood days in his parents home. Shuichi grew up with his younger brother, older sister, father who ran a shoe making business out of their garage and mother. Shuichi grew up with a crush on an older woman who lived next door and he loved to make piggy banks out of empty whiskey bottles. One day on a school picnic, Shuichi's classmates grabbed a lunchbox from a fellow student and eventually gave the lunch box to Shuichi. All the other students chanted "throw it away," while Shuichi's former friend looked on in despair.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-28
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Detective Conan Drama Special 2: Confrontation With the Men in Black
Overview: Shinichi Kudo returns as the young Conan to investigate a murderous letter sent to a beauty pageant winner who demands affection.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-17
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Oliver na Inu, (Gosh!!) Konoyarou Movie
Overview: Movie adaptation of the TV series 'Oliver na Inu, (Gosh!!) Konoyarou'. To be released in 2025.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
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Making of Death Note
Overview: Documentary on the first live action Death Note film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-26
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