Mayu Matsuoka

Mayu Matsuoka

Born: February 15, 1995
in Tokyo, Japan
Mayu Matsuoka (松岡 茉優, Matsuoka Mayu, born February 16, 1995) is a Japanese actress.

She has been awarded the Tama best Emerging Actress Award and Fumiko Yamaji Freshman Actress Award in 2016. She gained international attention as an ambassador of the Tokyo International Film Festival for 2017 and her role in the Palme d’Or winning film Shoplifters.

Movies for Mayu Matsuoka...

Sylvanian Families the Movie: A Gift From Freya
Title: Sylvanian Families the Movie: A Gift From Freya
Character: Stella Chocolate (voice)
Released: November 23, 2023
Type: Movie
The rabbit girl Freya is trying to make everyone happy, with the Sylvanian village's annual star festival serving as the backdrop.
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Masked Hearts
Title: Masked Hearts
Released: October 27, 2023
Type: Movie
26 years old Hanako is on the verge of directing her first-ever feature film, achieving her childhood dream. Although she’s being hindered by an older male assistant director, she has a fateful encounter with a man named Masao, and her life at last begins to take on a whole new luster. However, the underhanded actions of an unscrupulous producer cause Hanako to have her personal project stolen. After being dumped into despair, she quietly stokes her rage, and makes a pledge to keep fighting, and never back down! Entangling Masao, her hopeless father and two older brothers (who she’s been out of touch with for over 10 years) in her obsessive quest, Hanako audaciously attempts to make her dream come true, her way!
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Title: Yuria's Red Thread of Fate
Character: Oyamada Michiru
Released: October 19, 2023
Type: TV
Fifty-year-old Yuria has a quiet life teaching embroidery classes in her home, where she lives with her writer husband and his mother. Then one day her world is turned upside down when husband has a subarachnoid hemorrhage and upon arriving at the hospital, Yuria is met by a tearful young man who announces that he is her husband's lover.
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Naval Port Child: Yokosuka Cleaning 1946
Title: Naval Port Child: Yokosuka Cleaning 1946
Released: August 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Post-war Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Adults who are swayed by the US military stationed in the country and swayed by US intentions cannot afford to care about children who should be protected. The war orphans, who had no choice but to survive on their own, were used to shining shoes for American soldiers, picking up cigarettes, and sometimes committing crimes. However, at some point, they came across a "cleaning" job. They work hard instead of committing crimes and earn money by being appreciated by people. The orphans begin to regain their smiles through experiences that make them feel like they should be alive. The children started to have a modest dream of "renting a house and living" with their own earnings, but they were attacked by an even harsher reality...
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Title: The Best Student: Last Dance with 1 Year to Live
Character: Kujo Rina
Released: July 15, 2023
Type: TV
A crossover drama with NTV drama “Saiko no Kyoshi”. Where Saiko no Kyoshi focuses on Class 3-D, “Saiko no Seito” is set within Class 3-C, which is the neighboring class. Ban Hikari is a young girl who has recently been told she has just a year left to live due to a hereditary disease. In her notebook, she jots down a list of things she wishes to accomplish. Called “positive monster” by those around her, she resolves to live the days of her final year out as fully as possible.
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Title: The Best Teacher: 1 Year Later, I Was Attacked by a Student
Character: Kujo Rina
Released: July 15, 2023
Type: TV
Kujo Rina is a chemistry teacher and the homeroom teacher for the 3rd grade D class at Horai High School. She doesn't have a bond with her students. On the school's graduation day, Kujo Rina is pushed from the 4th floor and falls down. She is able to glimpse a school uniform sleeve on the person that pushed her. At that time, she wonders why she was pushed and that she does not want to die.
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Title: Love Transit
Released: June 15, 2023
Type: TV
Reunion? A new love? Which will you choose? Five pairs of ex-lovers live together in a luxury hotel for a month of Hocance. A realistic and mature love documentary.
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Title: Fence
Character: Komatsu Kie (Key)
Released: March 19, 2023
Type: TV
Komatsu Kie (Key), a magazine writer from Tokyo, teams up with Omine Sakura, an Okinawa native, to pursue the truth of a sexual assault case.
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Scroll
Title: Scroll
Released: February 3, 2023
Type: Movie
The story describes how youngsters struggle to cope with the gap between their ideals and reality.
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Title: The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
Character: Yoshino
Released: January 12, 2023
Type: TV
Two inseparable friends move to Kyoto to chase their dreams of becoming maiko, but decide to pursue different passions while living under the same roof.
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Hell Dogs
Title: Hell Dogs
Character: Emiri Kisa
Released: September 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.
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Title: Love with a Case
Character: Sesuna Tsumiki
Released: July 16, 2022
Type: TV
Detective Suzunosuke Shikahama is currently suspended from work after a screw up. He gets together with Haruhi Mabuchi from the Administration Bureau, Sesuna Tsumiki from the Community Safety Bureau, and Ruka Kotori from Accounting. All from different departments and carrying their own baggage, the four join forces. They’re not exactly what you would call champions of justice. They’re not even ambitious enough to go for success. All they want is the truth.
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ノンレムの窓
Title: ノンレムの窓
Released: April 5, 2022
Type: Movie
"Non-rem sleep" means deep sleep. Are the three mysterious short stories that we broadcast this time a dream? Or is it real? Dreams and reality, reality and unreality ... The mysterious bakarhythm world that goes back and forth between them is the "non-rem window."
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Title: The Window of non-REM
Released: April 5, 2022
Type: TV
"Non-rem sleep" means deep sleep. Are the three mysterious short stories that we broadcast this time a dream? Or is it real? Dreams and reality, reality and unreality ... The mysterious bakarhythm world that goes back and forth between them is the "non-rem window."
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Title: ノンレムの窓 2022 春
Released: April 5, 2022
Type: TV
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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021
Title: Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021
Character: Piina (voice)
Released: March 4, 2022
Type: Movie
One day during summer vacation, a palm-sized alien named Papi appears from a small rocket that Nobita picks up. He is the president of Pirika, a small planet in outer space, and has come to Earth to escape the rebels. Doraemon and his friends are puzzled by Papi’s small size, but as they play together using the secret tool “Small Light”, they gradually become friends. However, a whale-shaped space battleship comes to earth and attacks Doraemon, Nobita and the others in order to capture Papi. Feeling responsible for getting everyone involved, Papi tries to stand up to the rebels. Doraemon and his friends leave for the planet Pirika to protect their dear friend and his home.
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Title: Living, Dying, Father, etc.
Character: Kanbara Tokiko [Young]
Released: April 13, 2021
Type: TV
Tokiko’s mother died 20 years ago and her father Tetsuya is now in his 70's. Her father has a free spirit and is cute. Tokiko is in her mid 40's and still single. She has a strong personality. In their past, Tokiko and Tetsuya did not have a good relationship. It got so bad that they almost ended their relationship, but now they occasionally meet. They go out to eat together and have conversations. Tokiko decides to publish an essay about her father Tetsuya. To collect information for her essay, she meets Tetsuya and listens to various stories, but it's not just pleasant memories.
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Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
Title: Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
Character: Megumi Takano
Released: March 26, 2021
Type: Movie
Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the publisher and subordinates and runs the ship well. Chatting with his direct boss he picks up a certain vibe. Did he misunderstand that the magazine is doomed and will be terminated? If so, he is not going down without a fight. He will fight to make it through and keep his, and the others', jobs.
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Title: Ganbare! TEAM NACS
Released: March 7, 2021
Type: TV
A super big project commemorating the 25th anniversary of the formation of TEAM NACS and the 30th anniversary of wowow's opening. It was filmed in Hokkaido, the birthplace of TEAM NACS. Starting with "Back to the Sentai Futures", in which members dress as heroes who homage the masterpiece movie and Yo Yoshida participates as the villain "Emperor DeLorean", music is produced with the aim of becoming a national group, "NACS New Member Audition" will be held.
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Title: Love Will Begin When Money Ends
Character: Reiko Kuki
Released: September 15, 2020
Type: TV
Reiko Kuki is single, works in the accounting dept. for toy manufacturer. She lives her life frugally and hardly buys stuff that is not a necessity. A year ago, she found small dishes at a secondhand store and liked them immediately. And Finally, she makes the decision to purchase it for $15. She enters the store, but sees a man and woman buying small dishes at random. The man is Keita Saruwatari. His father runs the toy company where Reiko works. Reiko happens to be the person to advise Keita about money...
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Theatre: A Love Story
Title: Theatre: A Love Story
Character: Saki
Released: July 17, 2020
Type: Movie
The director of a theatre company is in crisis and his actors have lost confidence in him. One day he meets a woman wearing the same shoes as him, immediately sparking chemistry between the two.
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Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
Title: Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
Character: Menoa Bellucci (voice)
Released: February 21, 2020
Type: Movie
Tai is now a university student, living alone, working hard at school, and working every day, but with his future still undecided. Meanwhile, Matt and others continue to work on Digimon incidents and activities that help people with their partner Digimon. When an unprecedented phenomenon occurs, the DigiDestined discover that when they grow up, their relationship with their partner Digimon will come closer to an end. As a countdown timer activates on the Digivice, they realize that the more they fight with their partner Digimon, the faster their bond breaks. Will they fight for others and lose their partner? The time to choose and decide is approaching fast. There is a short time before “chosen children” will become adults. This is the last adventure of Tai and Agumon.
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People of the Isono Family ~Ms Sazae 20 years from now~
Title: People of the Isono Family ~Ms Sazae 20 years from now~
Character: Wakame
Released: November 24, 2019
Type: Movie
It's 20 years later and the Isono family is having a rough time. Katsuo is facing a series of professional setbacks. Wakame is having a tough time coming up with original designs. Tarao is in the process of job hunting but can't find what he wants to do. Sazae wants to do her best to return happiness to her family in the face of an impending storm during the Bon Odori competition.
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One Night
Title: One Night
Character: Sonoko Inamura
Released: November 8, 2019
Type: Movie
A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago.
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Title: 하이스쿨 드라이브
Released: November 2, 2019
Type: TV
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Listen to the Universe
Title: Listen to the Universe
Character: Aya Eiden
Released: October 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Four pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is a former child prodigy who stopped playing when her mother died. One is a Julliard student. One is a new face and yet comes recommended.
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The Wonderland
Title: The Wonderland
Character: Akane (voice)
Released: April 26, 2019
Type: Movie
The story follows Akane, a girl with no self-confidence. On the day before her birthday, she meets a mysterious alchemist, Hippocrates, and his student, Pipo, who both tell her they're on a mission to save the world. Together, they set out from the basement for "Wonderland," and Akane finds herself labelled Wonderland's savior.
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Shoplifters
Title: Shoplifters
Character: Aki Shibata
Released: June 2, 2018
Type: Movie
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.
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Kuroido Goroshi
Title: Kuroido Goroshi
Character: Kuroido Hanako
Released: April 14, 2018
Type: Movie
March 1952, the only doctor in the village Shiba had found a dead body of Sanako. The cause of death is overdose of sleeping pills. Sanako had been suspected for killing her own husband so Dr. Shiba’s sister Kana is guessing that she has committed suicide due to being tormented by killing her husband. Everyone who was in Mr. Kuroido’s house is the suspect, including all the members of Kuroido family, butler, secretary, maids, etc. The Detective Suguro (Hercule Poirot) will investigate the case. Dr. Shiba will be assisting him. As things are searched by them, a shocking fact has been brought to light…
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Little Forest: Four Seasons
Title: Little Forest: Four Seasons
Character: Kikko
Released: March 22, 2018
Type: Movie
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Chihayafuru: Part III
Title: Chihayafuru: Part III
Character: Shinobu Wakamiya
Released: March 17, 2018
Type: Movie
Story takes place 2 years after "Chihayafuru Part 2" and Chihaya is now a high school senior.
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Title: Chihayafuru: Connect
Character: Wakamiya Shinobu
Released: February 20, 2018
Type: TV
This series connects the story of the second movie, "Chihayafuru Part II", with the third movie, "Chihayafuru Part III".
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blank 13
Title: blank 13
Character: Saori Nishida
Released: February 3, 2018
Type: Movie
Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of stomach cancer. At his funeral, a motley crew of fellow mahjong players, pachinko parlor employees and former drinking buddies gather to pay their respects and tell stories, revealing aspects of Masato’s life that complicate his sons’ resentment towards him.
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Tremble All You Want
Title: Tremble All You Want
Character: Yoshika
Released: December 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming fixation has prevented her from even considering another candidate for boyfriend until an office colleague asks her out.
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Title: My Loser Husband
Character: Sayaka Kobayashi
Released: July 8, 2017
Type: TV
Tsukasa Kobayashi has the appearance and educational background of an elite and earns a good salary, but he is actually incompetent at his job and makes mistakes frequently, earning the ire of his co-workers. Tsukasa was about to quit his job after much humiliation at work when he learns that his wife is pregnant.
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Title: Ni Kenme Dou Suru? ~Tsumami no Hanashi~
Released: April 9, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Yasuragi no Sato A Peaceful Place
Released: April 1, 2017
Type: TV
The drama is set in an retirement home named "Yasuragi no Sato La Strada" where only those who had worked in the TV entertainment industry such as actors, writers, musicians and artists are allowed to live at. Kikumura Sakae, who used to be a popular scriptwriter, lives among the former stars and the problems they face are presented in a humorous manner.
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A Silent Voice: The Movie
Title: A Silent Voice: The Movie
Character: Young Shouya Ishida (voice)
Released: September 17, 2016
Type: Movie
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
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Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel
Title: Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel
Character: Kimia (voice)
Released: July 16, 2016
Type: Movie
Ash meets the Mythical Pokémon Volcanion when it crashes down from the sky, creating a cloud of dust—and a mysterious force binds the two of them together! Volcanion despises humans and tries to get away, but it’s forced to drag Ash along as it continues its rescue mission. They arrive in a city of cogs and gears, where a corrupt official has stolen the ultimate invention: the Artificial Pokémon Magearna, created 500 years ago. He plans to use its mysterious power to take control of this mechanical kingdom! Can Ash and Volcanion work together to rescue Magearna? One of the greatest battles in Pokémon history is about to unfold!
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Title: Aquarium Girl
Character: 岛由香
Released: June 17, 2016
Type: TV
Yuka is an employee at a major Japanese trading company who finds herself dumped by her elitist boyfriend, also a colleague. To make matters worse, she ends up getting demoted and is transferred to a soon-to-be-closed aquarium that's affiliated with her company. Yuka's former boss and ex-boyfriend from the head office come to the aquarium with intentions of closing it, arousing suspicions in Yuka's trainer, Kaji. As a result, Kaji pushes Yuka harder and harder in her work as a dolphin trainer. But over time, Yuka sees through his harsh exterior and recognizes he has a deep love for the aquarium's animals. She becomes competent at her job through the relationship with her dolphin, while beginning to develop feelings for Kaji. Yuka's personal and professional lives are now poised to emerge from the depths!
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Chihayafuru: Part II
Title: Chihayafuru: Part II
Character: Shinobu Wakamiya
Released: April 29, 2016
Type: Movie
After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationals. As they prepare, Chihaya is faced with new personal issues as her childhood friend and inspiration, Arata, has announced that he has quit competitive karuta. Not only that, but a new rival emerges in the reigning female champion karuta player, Shinobu Wakamiya, a karuta prodigy who became the nation's and the world's greatest female karuta player as a 9th grader. All of this forces Chihaya to reexamine her love of the game in the midst of preparing for one of the biggest tournaments of the year.
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Title: Sono “Okodawari”, Watashi ni mo Kure yo!!
Character: 松岡茉優
Released: April 9, 2016
Type: TV
As emcees of a fictitious variety programme, Matsuoka Mayu and Ito Sairi interview people with fixations in everyday life to find out what is difficult for others to understand, but makes the person happy.
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Chihayafuru: Part I
Title: Chihayafuru: Part I
Character: Shinobu Wakamiya
Released: March 19, 2016
Type: Movie
When Chihaya Ayase was in the 6th grade of elementary school, she met Arata Wataya. Arata Wataya transferred from Fukui Prefecture. Taichi Mashima was Chihaya Ayase's friend since they were little. Arata got close to Chihaya and Taichi from the card game karuta. Four years later, Chihaya is a high school student. Chihaya learns that Arata, who went back to Fukui Prefecture, doesn't play karuta anymore. Believing they will meet Arata again, Chihaya and Taichi starts a karuta club at their high school.
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実録ドラマスペシャル 女の犯罪ミステリー
Title: 実録ドラマスペシャル 女の犯罪ミステリー
Released: March 17, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
Character: 支仓桃子
Released: February 27, 2016
Type: TV
A heartwarming romantic drama set in Ofunato City in Iwate Prefecture. The story revolves around Yukari, a city hall employee who hosts a matchmaking-party held on a train running along the beautiful Sanriku Coastal Area. One day, she happens to live with her brother-in-law who resolves to cook an original ramen noodle.
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Cats Don't Come When You Call
Title: Cats Don't Come When You Call
Character: Ume
Released: January 30, 2016
Type: Movie
Mitsuo is a boxer who prefers dogs but ends up looking after two cats that his brother rescues.
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Nagisa no koibito tachi
Title: Nagisa no koibito tachi
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Dr.STOЯKS
Character: Kae Shimoya
Released: October 16, 2015
Type: TV
The drama revolves around Kounotori Sakura, an Ob-Gyn doctor working at the Persona General Medical Centre who is also a gifted jazz pianist. His mother had died in childbirth and he was brought up in an orphanage, which is what fueled his ambition to be an ob-gyn. He hopes to be able to deliver every baby to this world, congratulating them on the gift of life given to their little bodies. (Source: TBS)
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Title: Keisei Saimin no Otoko
Character: Keiko
Released: August 22, 2015
Type: TV
A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK.
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Strayer's Chronicle
Title: Strayer's Chronicle
Character: Momo
Released: June 27, 2015
Type: Movie
In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing stress upon expecting parents and when the baby was born, provoke the baby into mutations and develop their special abilities. The other method involved birth to babies having abilities of animals and insects. The special abilities were derived from gene manipulation. Subaru, Saya and others were born from those experiments.
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Title: ENGEI GRAND SLAM
Released: May 30, 2015
Type: TV
Comedy performance special program.
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Title: She
Character: Ryouko Nishizawa
Released: April 18, 2015
Type: TV
A female student at a prestigious high school goes missing. She had everything including looks, smarts and boyfriend. Her disappearance affects 4 other female students that knew her.
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Title: She
Character: 西澤涼子
Released: April 18, 2015
Type: TV
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Samulife
Title: Samulife
Released: February 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Nagaoka is a former high school teacher. He decides to start a school with an ideal learning environment. To achieve this goal, he struggles to make money by running a bar and a publishing company.
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Title: Marginal Village Inc.
Character: Oouchi Miho
Released: January 31, 2015
Type: TV
In a small village in the Kanto regioin, which is surrounded by mountains, residents and a management consultant (Shosuke Tanihara) struggle to rebuild the village through its only industry, farming.
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Little Forest: Winter/Spring
Title: Little Forest: Winter/Spring
Character: Kikko
Released: January 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.
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Title: A Restaurant with Many Problems
Character: Chika Ameki
Released: January 15, 2015
Type: TV
Tamako works for a company in the restaurant business. She experiences betrayal from Makoto, a chef she recently hired. Rumors then spread at work about her. Tamako decides enough is enough and quits her job. She decides to open a restaurant and run it from a woman's perspective. Tamako soon learns that Makoto has opened a luxurious restaurant across the street from her modest restaurant.
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Title: Ginnikan
Character: Maho
Released: October 4, 2014
Type: TV
Set in Tenma, Osaka. Matsukichi (Kento Hayashi) is the son of a samurai. His father is killed because of a grudge and Matsukichi is also in danger. At this time, Wasuke (Masahiko Tsugawa), the owner of the store Ikawa, saves Matsukichi's life. He then begins working at the store.
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Little Forest: Summer/Autumn
Title: Little Forest: Summer/Autumn
Character: Kikko
Released: August 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.
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Houkago Lost
Title: Houkago Lost
Character: Rika
Released: August 2, 2014
Type: Movie
Little Trip: Chairperson Ayako and Yuki, who sometimes skips school, become close. They run away. Rakugaki Uwagaki: Satomi used to be a member of art club, but she stopped drawing. Due to a cultural festival, she decides to draw again. Baion: Kuroi likes recording the sounds of daily life. One day, she meets Rika. Rika begins to enjoy recording the sounds of daily life with Kuroi.
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Screaming Class
Title: Screaming Class
Character: Erika
Released: June 14, 2013
Type: Movie
Kana is an ordinary high school student. One day, her photo is selected for a magazine and, because of this, Kana receives attention from popular student attention Rio. The attention though is not the kind Kana wanted. Kana is bullied by Rio and her friends. A rumor exists that a ghost exists in the old school building. The ghost is able to grant someone's wish, but that person will lose something important to them. The ghost is a former student named Yomi, who died in an accident 12 years ago. Kana decides to go see the ghost. The next day, Kana is a member of Rio's group, but Kana's friend Erika is now bullied. More tragedy awaits …
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Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
Title: Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
Character: Yaeko
Released: June 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to provide a rare glimpse into the life of one of Japan’s most acclaimed screen directors. Includes archival footage from 49 of the films he produced during his career at Shochiku.
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Title: No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35
Character: young Ayako
Released: April 13, 2013
Type: TV
The drama will center around how a 35 year old changes the school and influences her fellow classmates’ lives while dealing with the dark reality of today’s high schools, including bullying and skipping school.
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Title: Amachan
Character: Shiori Iruma
Released: April 1, 2013
Type: TV
Amachan is the 88th 2013 NHK asadora written by Kankuro Kudo (Tiger and Dragon, Unobore Deka). It's about Amano Aki (Nounen Rena), a 16 year old girl from Tokyo who goes to her mother's former home in Sodegahama, a fishing village in Kitasanriku, Iwate prefecture for the summer break. She falls in love with the sea and its people, and decides to stay on to become an Ama (women divers who fetch clams and sea urchins for tourists) just like her grandmother, Natsu (Miyamoto Nobuko). Her decision is welcomed wholeheartedly by Natsu and the other locals. However, her mother Haruko (Koizumi Kyoko) does not like the idea at first. She has a strained relationship with Natsu, and her extreme dislike of the sea, diving and the countryside is one of the reasons why she left her hometown 24 years ago. Eventually, she decides to stay in Sodegahama with Aki, considering that she is contemplating on getting a divorce anyway and does not want to go back to her husband in Tokyo. She also notices that it might be good for Aki for she seems livelier and happier in Kitasanriku than in Tokyo. The road towards becoming a full-fledged Ama-san is tough for Aki as she encounters tests and hurdles. One day, a video of her as an Ama gets uploaded in the city's tourism website, transforming an ordinary high school girl into an overnight Internet sensation. Suddenly she is called upon to use this opportunity to attract tourists to a city suffering from depopulation.
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Amachan
Title: Amachan
Character: Shiori Iruma
Released: April 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.
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Lesson of the Evil
Title: Lesson of the Evil
Character: Satomi Shirai
Released: November 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer, who slowly takes control of the students and faculty through murder and manipulation. When he is caught in the act during preparations for the school cultural festival, he sees staging a massacre as the only way out.
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The Kirishima Thing
Title: The Kirishima Thing
Character: Sana
Released: August 11, 2012
Type: Movie
A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.
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Title: GTO
Character: 志条あゆな
Released: July 3, 2012
Type: TV
Through the introduction of his friend Danma Ryuji, Onizuka Eikichi, the former legendary bike gang member, visits Meishu Academy to tend to the trees in the garden as a part-time gardener. Learning that Yoshikawa Noboru, a student in teacher Fuyutsuki Azusa’s class is being bullied by Uehara Kyoko and other classmates, Onizuka befriends and saves Yoshikawa. Seeing Onizuka’s unprecedented but visceral, powerful response to problem solving, the school’s president and principal, Sakurai Yoshiko, overrides resistance from her vice principal Uchiyamada Hiroshi and makes Onizuka a teacher. Onizuka goes on to tackle many issues as the teacher in charge of the most problematic class, Class 2-4.
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Title: GTO
Released: July 3, 2012
Type: TV
Through the introduction of his friend Danma Ryuji, Onizuka Eikichi, the former legendary bike gang member, visits Meishu Academy to tend to the trees in the garden as a part-time gardener. Learning that Yoshikawa Noboru, a student in teacher Fuyutsuki Azusa’s class is being bullied by Uehara Kyoko and other classmates, Onizuka befriends and saves Yoshikawa. Seeing Onizuka’s unprecedented but visceral, powerful response to problem solving, the school’s president and principal, Sakurai Yoshiko, overrides resistance from her vice principal Uchiyamada Hiroshi and makes Onizuka a teacher. Onizuka goes on to tackle many issues as the teacher in charge of the most problematic class, Class 2-4.
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Chips
Title: Chips
Character: Miyu
Released: April 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Tadashi Imamura is a burglar who idolises Ozaki, a star baseball player he shares a birthday with. One day he realises their connection is much deeper than that and decides to find out more.
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RAFT
Title: RAFT
Released: August 24, 2011
Type: Movie
A boy named Shogo landed on the island. He approaches a man making a raft on the beach and tries to help him with the work. The subtle air that flows between the two. They seem to know each other well, but they are also like others. The truth behind a marine accident three years ago then became clear. A child went out on a raft to the sea and went missing. The man was the father of the missing child, and Shogo was a close friend who made a raft with the child.
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Title: Suzuki Sensei
Released: April 25, 2011
Type: TV
Akira Suzuki is the home room teacher for 2-A. After graduating from college Akira did not work for 3 years. Instead, he spent his time thinking about ways to solve problems once he works as a teacher. Because of this, Akira has a knack to solve problems and the principle trusts him. Mr. Suzuki always listens to his students' problems and gives them creative solutions. Due to this, Mr. Suzuki is popular among the students. Meanwhile, Akira dates Asami who works at a travel agency. They met through a blind date. Akira often talks to Asami about troubles that occur at school.
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Title: 桂ちづる診察日録
Released: September 4, 2010
Type: TV
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Love Exposure
Title: Love Exposure
Character: Yuri
Released: January 31, 2009
Type: Movie
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
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Title: Homicide Team 9
Character: Yui Mihara
Released: April 19, 2006
Type: TV
The members of this elite investigative team are unique individuals with their own personal troubles, but what unites them is their strong sense of justice. They each channel all their energy and skill to solve the most difficult cases.
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Title: Dai Sentai Goggle-V
Character: Swordsman Doll, Model Doll
Released: February 6, 1982
Type: TV
Warriors were chosen to battle the Dark Science Empire Death Dark. They fight using Future Science and their weapons are inspired by gymnastics apparatus.
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木筏
Title: 木筏
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie