Hideko Hara

Hideko Hara

Born: November 10, 1959
in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Hara Hideko, born as Noriko Watanabe, is a Japanese actress and voice actress.

Movies for Hideko Hara...

The Moon
Title: The Moon
Released: October 13, 2023
Type: Movie
Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.
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Great Absence
Title: Great Absence
Released: September 10, 2023
Type: Movie
It's about the reunion of a long-estranged father and his son amid lost memories and scattered fragments of lives.
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Title: Reversal Orchestra
Character: Takashina Aiko ["Takashina Symphony Orchestra" owner]
Released: January 11, 2023
Type: TV
10 years ago, Tanioka Hatsune was a famous young violinist. She won many international music competitions and performed with prestigious orchestras. For some reason, Tanioka Hatsune decided to walk away from her career and never perform on stage again. Now, she is 28-years-old and works as a public officer in Nishi Ward, Saitama City. She still enjoys to play the violin in private, but Tokiwa Asahi becomes aware of her. Tokiwa Asahi is a rising maestro, who is based in Germany. His love for music is so much, that he is very strict on his players. One day, his father, who is the head of Nishi Ward in Saitama City, tells him to return to Japan and rebuild the local Kodama Symphony Orchestra. He returns to Japan and begins to rebuild the local symphony in Saitama City. He tries to recruit Tanioka Hatsune to play the violin on stage once again
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Title: "Tulips in October"
Released: December 22, 2022
Type: Movie
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The Last 10 Years
Title: The Last 10 Years
Character: Yuriko Takabayashi
Released: March 4, 2022
Type: Movie
Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love – until she meets a man named Kazuto Manabe at a school reunion.
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Popran
Title: Popran
Character: Machiko Tagami
Released: January 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Tagami, a once successful manager of a manga distribution has run out of luck and now he must catch a mysterious high-speed fly within 6 days to regain it back.
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We Couldn't Become Adults
Title: We Couldn't Become Adults
Character: Megumi's Mother
Released: November 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Prodded by a friend request, a feckless forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.
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In the Wake
Title: In the Wake
Released: October 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence for another crime, and he surfaces as a suspect but detective Tomashiro can't nail down conclusive proof.
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Suicide Forest Village
Title: Suicide Forest Village
Character: Yuiko Amasawa
Released: February 5, 2021
Type: Movie
One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
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Town Without Sea
Title: Town Without Sea
Character: Sho's Grandmother
Released: December 4, 2020
Type: Movie
It is a youth film about the boys in their late teens spend before they become adults. Sho and Tiaga, who grew up in the same neighborhood since they were little, are in their last year of high school. They are also the duo who beat the drums at town festivals. However, Taiga announces that he will not play drums this year to prepare to go to college. Sho, who has no plan of his future, cannot think straight. Like The Blue Bird by Maurice MAETERLINCK, the film tells the story of the youth realizing that happiness is not far away.
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All the Things We Never Said
Title: All the Things We Never Said
Character: Miyuki Sugita
Released: October 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Atsuhisa Yamada is an ordinary man, with a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. He is close to his childhood friend Takeda. One day, Atsuhisa Yamada leaves his office during work hours and goes back home early. There, he witnesses his wife and an unknown man having sex, but Atsuhisa Yamada is unable to express his feelings like anger, frustration, and depression. His relationship with his wife and his friend Takeda becomes distorted.
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Switch
Title: Switch
Character: Hoshino Yoriko
Released: June 21, 2020
Type: Movie
Prosecutor Komazuki Nao from the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors Office’s Minato Mirai branch and lawyer Tsutaya Madoka (Matsu Takako) from the law firm Yokohama Gold dated for seven years since the time they were in school. Even after they broke up, they have continued to be hopelessly linked to each other.
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Not Quite Dead Yet
Title: Not Quite Dead Yet
Character: Cleaning lady
Released: March 20, 2020
Type: Movie
After Nanase's father drops dead due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days, she is named the president of his pharmaceutical company. Nanase endeavors to prevent her father's enemies from prematurely cremating his body before the drug can wear off and allow him to revive.
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Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze
Title: Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze
Character: Hakamada Yoshihiko
Released: October 25, 2019
Type: Movie
An omnibus featuring four stories about the four seasons.
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When a Tree Falls
Title: When a Tree Falls
Character: Michiko Kayama
Released: September 21, 2019
Type: Movie
A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son’s death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunders by multiple people.
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Handling Method for Grumpy Women
Title: Handling Method for Grumpy Women
Character: 新谷 里子
Released: June 15, 2019
Type: Movie
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According to Our Butler
Title: According to Our Butler
Character: Kanae Yukikura
Released: May 17, 2019
Type: Movie
Master Kaei, the heir to the affluent and well-regarded Karasuma family, is back at home in Japan after a period of studying in the United Kingdom. Back at the mansion he has Kisaragi Soma to serve him. Soma is efficient and intelligent beyond his station. There is something unusual afoot and the two men need to counter it.
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Title: Banjō no alpha: Yakusoku no shōgi
Released: February 3, 2019
Type: TV
Newspaper journalist Shunsuke Akiba is transferred to the cultural desk and put in charge of shogi. He meets Nobushige Sanada, a 33-year-old aiming to be a professional shogi player by achieving the rank of 4-dan or more. Sanada is over the age limit as he could not achieve 4-dan by the age of 26, and is now trying to take an exam for admission to 3-dan. Akiba supports Sanada's attempt to become a professional shogi player and becomes interested in the game.
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Lying to Mom
Title: Lying to Mom
Character: Yuko Suzuki
Released: November 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Suzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his needs. When she discovers that Koichi has killed himself, the shock is so great she loses consciousness and her memory of that day.
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Title: Innocent Days
Character: Tomoko Sasaki
Released: March 18, 2018
Type: TV
Sasaki Shinichi looks at his childhood friend Tanaka Yukino in court. Yukino is sentenced to death. She went to her ex-boyfriend’s apartment and caused his wife and child to burn to death. Shinichi knows his childhood friend and perceives that she is innocent. He wants to save Yukino and meets people who knew her including her sister and former classmates. ~~Based on the novel "Innocent Days" by Kazumasa Hayami.
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Tomato No Shizuku
Title: Tomato No Shizuku
Character: Seiko Taubakiyama
Released: January 14, 2017
Type: Movie
With their hair salon business now on track, longtime couple Sakura and Makoto mull over inviting Sakura's estranged father to their upcoming wedding.
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Rage
Title: Rage
Character: Takako Fujita, Yuma's Mother
Released: September 17, 2016
Type: Movie
A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.
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A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
Title: A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
Character: Kayako
Released: March 26, 2016
Type: Movie
A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.
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Title: A Bride for Rip Van Winkle: Serial Edition
Character: Kayako
Released: March 25, 2016
Type: TV
A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.
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Title: Testimony of N
Character: Takano Natsue
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: TV
University student Sugishita Nozomi, Naruse Shinji, Ando Nozomi and Nishizaki Masato end up coming upon the scene of the murder of the Noguchi couple, because of a plan they had devised. Nishizaki is arrested at the scene and is given a 10-year prison term because of his voluntary confession. 10 years later, Takano Shigeru, a former police officer who has misgivings about the verdict of this case, starts to pursue the truth. He is convinced that it all began as a result of an incident caused by Nozomi and Naruse on an island in the Seto Inland Sea in the summer 15 years. “They committed a crime at that time. It was for the sake of each N.”
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Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill
Title: Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill
Character: Yuriko Inoguchi
Released: September 14, 2013
Type: Movie
Ataru, who suffers from “savant syndrome,” has the power to discover, observe, see through, and deduct microscopic evidence of unsolved cases. Why does he always go to the criminal sites? What explains his strange behavior? Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds with Ataru and a woman named Madoka, who is a killer. The woman possesses the same extraordinary memory and deductive reasoning abilities as Ataru. Who is she?
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Before the Vigil
Title: Before the Vigil
Released: January 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. Matsuoi then thinks of his wife's lovers. Matsui goes to those men and informs them of Tatsuya's condition. The other women in the lives of those men are shocked and begin to re-examine their views of their men.
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Title: ATARU
Character: Yuriko Inoguchi
Released: April 15, 2012
Type: TV
Ataru is a TBS series is about an autistic young man with a mysterious past who helps the police solve criminal cases. It stars Masahiro Nakai in the title role and has received 19.9% TV viewership ratings.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Talks
Released: April 13, 2011
Type: TV
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.
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Rooftop Apartment
Title: Rooftop Apartment
Released: March 21, 2011
Type: Movie
Asako is determined to live her life with her own will after witnessing her best friend’s divorce and former manager’s death.
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Surely Someday
Title: Surely Someday
Released: July 17, 2010
Type: Movie
Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's upcoming festival. When the festival is abruptly concealed, they come up with a dimwitted strategy of faking a bomb threat to the school in order to force the principal to change his mind. Their plan seems to work at first, but when a real bomb goes off, the group is forced to take responsibility for the explosion and they are kicked out of school. Three years later, more details of the incident is revealed as the youth look back on the past.
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My Grandma
Title: My Grandma
Character: Chieko Murata
Released: December 6, 2008
Type: Movie
Home-design sales representative Tomohiro lives with his wife and their son. As his job involves houses, it is his motto to take great care of the family who live in the house. However, he has been working so hard that he has forgotten to cherish his own family. When he looks after a client who wants to leave her father-in-law in a nursing home, it reminds him of his grandmother whom he loved so much. Father's death, grandmother's struggle with disease, and home care - those were grueling times, but the memories have become invaluable for Tomohiro. He realizes his family is the most precious thing of all. On a day off, he and his family decide to visit his mother who lives alone in their old hometown.
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Nekonade
Title: Nekonade
Character: Shizuko Onizuka
Released: June 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Ren Osugi plays a middle-aged salaryman whose life falls apart when he’s laid off from his job, but finds solace in adopting a stray cat.
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26 Years Diary
Title: 26 Years Diary
Character: Shie Hoshino
Released: January 27, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, Shyon (Lee Taesung) travels from Korea to broaden his horizons, studying in Japan he meets Yuri (High and Mighty Color's lead singer, Maakii). Both share similar interests in music and sports as they become closer while dealing with language and racial barriers.
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Prison Girl
Title: Prison Girl
Character: Madre de Tomomi
Released: April 18, 2006
Type: Movie
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You Were Unknown Then
Title: You Were Unknown Then
Released: April 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Kazumi is a successful music composer in Tokyo. He receives a telephone call from his mother and is told about his former teacher's death. Getting on to a train to attend the funeral, Kazumi’s thoughts wonder back to his youth.
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Title: 下町!おかず横丁殺人事件簿
Released: December 18, 2005
Type: TV
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69
Title: 69
Character: Kenichi's Mother
Released: July 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.
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Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
Title: Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
Character: Yukie Sato
Released: February 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear.
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Uchū no natsu
Title: Uchū no natsu
Character: Hiromi Sato
Released: October 4, 2003
Type: Movie
After losing her parents, Kanako moves in with her grandmother in a town by the sea.
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Hogi-Lala
Title: Hogi-Lala
Released: April 20, 2003
Type: Movie
Set in the near future. Children who are contaminated by radiation poisoning face the fate of being cast into the sea. However, one boy manages to survive and drift to Hogi-Lala Island, where only children live.
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Cheers Heaven
Title: Cheers Heaven
Released: April 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Teenage girl has to decide if she is capable of being captain of the school's cheerleading squad. Suddenly the team lost the support and inspiration.
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Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight
Title: Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight
Character: Michiko Ogura
Released: May 18, 2002
Type: Movie
A drama depicting the whereabouts of love between men and women in their 40s, who reunite at an alumni association and begin dating.
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The Boy Who Saw the Wind
Title: The Boy Who Saw the Wind
Character: Amon's Mother (voice)
Released: July 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Amon is a boy who can control the wind. Branik, ruler of the Empire of the Golden Snake, wants Amon's power to complete the ultimate weapon and sends his troops to capture the boy. Amon, using his talents, manages to runs away with Maria, one of the People of the Sea. Together, they try to stop the Empire of the Golden Snake from destroying and conquering everything.
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Title: Summer Snow
Character: Sakurai Miyako(桜井 美也子)
Released: July 7, 2000
Type: TV
A love story between a young man who has been forced to grow up too quickly, and a young woman with an ailment that has placed restrictions on her life. Natsuo has been looking after his younger brother and sister since the death of their parents. He has also been running the family bicycle shop. Yuki becomes the only person in the world in whom he can confide. For Yuki, Natsuo becomes the catalyst that has her trying to break out of her cocoon.
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Title: Ten urara
Character: 川嶋朝子
Released: April 6, 1998
Type: TV
This drama is the tale of one high spirited, strong-willed young woman and her struggle to fulfill her lifelong ambition of becoming a carpenter and building homes. The story takes place from the later part of the Showa era to present day Heisei rule. The heroine of the story, Kawashima Urara, lost her father at the tender age of seven and this drama depicts her life as she grows from a young school girl, through puberty and adolescence and on into her adult years as an independent woman who owns her own carpentry business. As Urara grows into a beautiful and strong woman and a talented carpenter, her family around her goes through many difficult and trying times. This story of becoming an independent businesswoman in the male-dominated world of carpentry accurately reflects the lives and struggles of the young women in present day Japan who are trying to make a career for themselves in addition to balancing the demands of family obligations, friends, and lovers.
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A Class to Remember II
Title: A Class to Remember II
Released: November 19, 1996
Type: Movie
The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.
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Supermarket Woman
Title: Supermarket Woman
Character: Pato
Released: June 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Failing supermarket manager Goro hires the energetic Hanako, his old classmate, to help him compete with a new, rival business in town. Soon, Hanako's ideas and energy completely revitalize the store – but not without ruffling some feathers and sparking some romance along the way.
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Title: Days of Youth
Character: Fujiki Kumiko
Released: April 12, 1996
Type: TV
Two teenage boys from starkly different backgrounds find themselves joined in a common search to discover how to do the right thing and find happiness in life. One boy, whose father is an alcoholic, works hard to care for his younger brother and sister, while the other enjoys the privileges of a wealthy family, but is starved for his father's love. Their friendship reflects the sadness, pain, and sometimes cruelty that can enter into the relationships between fathers and sons in today's society.
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Shall We Dance?
Title: Shall We Dance?
Character: Masako Sugiyama
Released: January 27, 1996
Type: Movie
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
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A Brief Message from the Heart
Title: A Brief Message from the Heart
Released: November 23, 1995
Type: Movie
A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
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Catch Up
Title: Catch Up
Released: July 10, 1992
Type: Movie
An investigation into the obsession of a former detective the loser of life!
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Bakayarô! 3: Henna yatsura
Title: Bakayarô! 3: Henna yatsura
Released: October 20, 1990
Type: Movie
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Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 10
Title: Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 10
Released: September 29, 1990
Type: Movie
Kyosuke (Masaomi Kondo) and his sister Nobuko (Yoko Moriguchi) were invited to the 10th anniversary party of the travel agency "Pigeon". At that seat, Ayako, the younger sister of President Gentaro, is shot dead. Other venues included Gentaro's brother-in-law, Palau branch manager Kiriyama, secretary manager Anna, and Miyo, who runs a restaurant on Palau Island. A few days later, Nobuko goes on a trip to Palau. She is kidnapped by someone in the field, and Kyosuke and other related parties rush to her. In Palau, there was Toshinosuke, the founder of Pigeon and retired. He was once a detective called "Sakuradamon Demon", but was accused of being arrested 15 years ago and was ousted from the Metropolitan Police Department. It was Kyosuke who proved his innocence.
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Korekara monogatari - Shonen tachi no buruusu
Title: Korekara monogatari - Shonen tachi no buruusu
Released: December 18, 1988
Type: Movie
片や会社の社長でデザイナー、片やスポーツマンでモデルという道を歩む生まれも育ちも異なる2人の高校生の友情を描く。 One is a designer and company president, the other an athlete and model. Although on different paths in life and from different backgrounds, in high school these two were once good friends. This movie tells the story of their friendship.
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The Greatest Man in the World
Title: The Greatest Man in the World
Character: Ohatsu
Released: October 25, 1986
Type: Movie
Remake of classic samurai film of 1932
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P. P. Rider
Title: P. P. Rider
Character: Arare
Released: February 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
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Title: Honjitsu mo Seiten Nari
Character: 桂木元子
Released: October 5, 1981
Type: TV
Katsuragi Motoko started as an NHK announcer, became a reportage writer after the war, and then an author. This story is about a woman's struggle to find her life's purpose and to survive. The 28th NHK asadora, set in the Showa era and location included Tokyo.