Taro Suruga

Taro Suruga

Born: June 5, 1978

Movies for Taro Suruga...

Sakura
Title: Sakura
Released: June 21, 2024
Type: Movie
This film tells the story of the protagonist of the county police propaganda class who independently investigates the mystery of his friend's mysterious death, uncovers the truth of the incident, and gradually reveals the story of the "public security police" who have emerged. The female college student living in Pingjing City, Aichi County was killed by the eldest son of the shrine after being harassed by stalkers for many times. According to an exclusive report from the local newspaper, the police delayed accepting the report of a female college student and went on a trip to comfort them during this period. Morikuchi Quan, a staff member of the county police propaganda and listening class, suspected that newspaper reporter Tsumura Chika had broken his promise to report, but Chika, who wanted to prove his innocence, was found dead a week later. The thoughts of self blame and regret drove Quan, vowing to personally catch the murderer who killed Qianjia.
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Oshorin
Title: Oshorin
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: The Expert of Changing Jobs
Character: Kouhei Takitou
Released: July 17, 2023
Type: TV
Hitsujitani Chiharu joined a big advertising agency after she graduated from a university. She experienced a hard time at her job due to harassment. After 3 years, Hitsujitani Chiharu decided to quit working at the advertising agency. She begins to work for a temp agency that is run by her aunt. There, she meets Kurusu Arashi, who works as a career adviser at the temp agency. He walks with a cane due to discomfort from his left foot, but he has a great reputation as a career adviser and his nickname is The Devil of Changing Jobs. He often makes biting remarks to people worried about changing jobs. Working with Kurusu Arashi and dealing with people who are looking to change jobs, Hitsujitani Chiharu also grows as a person.
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Hard Days
Title: Hard Days
Character: Taiji Kugayama
Released: May 19, 2023
Type: Movie
After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a mysterious witness.
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Title: Fixer
Character: Hozumi Murakawa
Released: April 24, 2023
Type: TV
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One-Percenter
Title: One-Percenter
Character: Tony
Released: April 12, 2023
Type: Movie
After his devastatingly fast, samurai-style combat approach sets filmmakers against him, a legendary action star films his own movie—on turf claimed by feuding yakuza gangs, including Japan’s deadliest martial arts assassin.
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All Because of Me
Title: All Because of Me
Released: August 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Yuta lives in an orphanage while waiting for her mother to pick her up. One day, Yuta, who happened to know his mother's whereabouts, escaped from the facility with all his heart. However, there was a mother who depended on her cohabiting man and lived a self-deprecating life. Despaired, Yuta meets Sakamoto, a homeless man who lives in a light tiger while walking along the beach. Sakamoto accepts Yuta without asking anything. The two sleep and eat together while earning a small amount of money. Eventually, he became acquainted with Shiori, a girl who grew up in a wealthy family but had no place to live at home or school. Yuta is attracted to Shiori, who has the same loneliness as himself but is kind to him. However, the calm days end with an incident.
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Title: The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
Character: Naomasa Ii
Released: July 24, 2022
Type: TV
A story about a high school full of delinquents, and its elite class that has clones of famous warlords from Japan's Warring States period fighting it out.
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Bakumatsu Aibou-den
Title: Bakumatsu Aibou-den
Released: January 3, 2022
Type: Movie
A single bullet cuts through Kyoto in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate right before the restoration of imperial rule. Who plotted to assassinate Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who is about to become the last shogun of Japan? Was it the faction wanting to overthrow him or the rebels within the shogunate? Mutual enemies Sakamoto Ryoma, the wandering samurai, and Hijikata Toshizo, a deputy leader of the Shinsengumi and vassal of the Tokugawa clan, receive a secret order to track down the culprit. They are given a mere two days.
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Title: Avalanche
Character: Takashi Fujita
Released: October 18, 2021
Type: TV
Seiichi Habu is a member of the mysterious outlaw group Avalanche. The group exists at a time when moral hazards run rampant among politicians, bureaucrats, businesses, and even among ordinary people.
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Title: The Scales of Justice
Released: September 25, 2021
Type: TV
A genius lawyer who changed jobs from a doctor, while suffering from the tragedy of false accusations, leads an out-of-force team to uncover the truth of numerous difficult cases and save the souls of those involved in the case.
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Every Trick In The Book
Title: Every Trick In The Book
Released: August 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his life targeted by underworld kingpin Kurata. Is his story fact or fiction? His editor, Nahomi Torikai, decides to verify whether his latest work is mere fiction based on real-life experiences. She looks into a family that vanished, a post office worker who went missing, a shady load of cash, the whereabouts of the doves, and the fateful encounter from that night... A series of shocking facts are revealed from Tsuda’s stories. Why did the counterfeit money end up in Tsuda’s hands? What is the “ending” that Tsuda wished to portray?
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Follow the Light
Title: Follow the Light
Character: Ryota
Released: August 11, 2021
Type: Movie
In a fading village in the Japanese countryside, the school is about to be closed, which weighs heavily on the students. Freshly arrived from Tokyo with his father after an acrimonious divorce, the shy Akira escapes into drawing and agrees to participate in a mural project to mark the end of the institution.
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Title: Police in a Pod
Released: July 7, 2021
Type: TV
20-year-old rookie police officer Kawai Mai works hard at a police box and feels both physically and mentally drained. She has never felt appreciated even though she supposedly works for the sake of the area’s residents. In addition, she does not find working at a police box rewarding. Mai is about to hand in her resignation when she meets 30-year-old Fuji Seiko, the former ace detective of the Criminal Investigations Division. Seiko is said to have been forced to transfer to the police box for harassing a subordinate at work but … … This encounter between Mai and Seiko will significantly change their lives as they are suddenly paired up. This odd pair struggle to help and support each other in cases, routine duties and romance?! And Seiko’s true reason for coming to the police box is revealed.
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Title: Shin Minami no Teiou
Released: March 23, 2021
Type: TV
A couple are involved in a ruthless real estate scam that forces the small bistro that Ginjiro goes to to close after protecting it from the Corona disaster! The "demon of Minami," Ginjiro, unleashes his iron fist in anger at a popular TV economist who is secretly behind the scam!
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Title: Haruka no Hikari
Released: February 8, 2021
Type: TV
Haruka is a fisherman's daughter, who lost her home and many friends in the Tohoku earthquake. After a year living in a temporary housing, she did not want to return back to her hometown and went to Tokyo where she got captivated by a lighting store. Haruka later works at the store and decides to help the customers to find their own light in life. At the same time, Haruka slowly overcomes her emotional wounds and finds her own light.
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A Family
Title: A Family
Character: Kawayama Reiji
Released: January 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times.
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Lost Girls & Love Hotels
Title: Lost Girls & Love Hotels
Character: Cute Construction Worker
Released: September 18, 2020
Type: Movie
Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing Yakuza, as their tumultuous affair takes her on a journey through the city's dive bars and three-hour love hotels.
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Title: Fear Newspaper
Character: Shinozaki Rintaro / Ninzaemon
Released: August 29, 2020
Type: TV
Onoda Shizuru is a university student in Kyoto. As soon as she starts living out her long cherished desire, the strange horror newspapers begin to arrive. At first, she believes them to be a prank but the stories in the newspapers begin happening one after the other. Murders, accidents, abuse, natural disasters, injustice... these newspapers predict all sorts of tragedies. What is the truth behind them?
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必殺仕事人2020
Title: 必殺仕事人2020
Released: June 28, 2020
Type: Movie
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One Left Hand Shot
Title: One Left Hand Shot
Released: March 14, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: 頭取 野崎修平
Character: Masayoshi Sakamoto(坂本 正義)
Released: January 19, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Hikinukiya: Headhunter no Ryugi
Released: November 16, 2019
Type: TV
Kanoko Saho is fired from her father's company, Fawn. She worked hard in the manufracturing world but was fired regardless. In the background is the ploy of person called a "headhunter". Watari Kaori, who calls herself a headhunter, appears in front of Saho. As a result, Saho begins working at the same headhunting company, "Forteflows", as Watari. Saho works confronting clients while a dark cloud begins to drift over Fawn.
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Title: The Kings of Laughter
Character: Koji Kanemoto
Released: July 27, 2019
Type: TV
Keisuke Agatsuma is a high schooler who might not be very sharp but has an amazing sense for comedy. He is self-proclaimed school's king of laughter and he enjoys making everyone laugh, but a future as a comedian seems impossible because of his father's attitude. One day an ex-comedian Jun Tsujimoto transfers to his school from Osaka. They see how interesting ideas they both have and take an interest in forming a stand up combination. As they try to achieve their goal, other comedians seem to overlook Keisuke's abilities for one reason or another and their motivation goes up and down, but still they aim to become pro together. (Source: AnimeNewsNetwork)
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Title: Yasuragi no Toki: Michi
Released: April 8, 2019
Type: TV
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Yaru Onna: She's a Killer
Title: Yaru Onna: She's a Killer
Character: Shunsuke Kaga
Released: October 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Aiko saw her parents murdered by the Yakuza when she was young. She grows up to become a killer to avenge her parents. her quest becomes more complicated when she learns her target is also and orphan and also has a blind daughter.
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DTC –Yukemuri Junjo Hen– from HiGH&LOW
Title: DTC –Yukemuri Junjo Hen– from HiGH&LOW
Character: Yuki Miyazaki
Released: September 28, 2018
Type: Movie
The movie is about the endless miracles during the motorcycle trip of Dan, Tettsu, and Chiharu, the Sannō Rengōkai trio (also known as DTC).
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Falling Camellia
Title: Falling Camellia
Released: September 28, 2018
Type: Movie
During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife wish was for him to go back to his clan.
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The Blood of Wolves
Title: The Blood of Wolves
Character: Jiro Uewase
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.
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Tamayura
Title: Tamayura
Character: Shotaro Mineyama
Released: February 3, 2018
Type: Movie
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Rokuroku: The Promise of the Witch
Title: Rokuroku: The Promise of the Witch
Released: January 27, 2018
Type: Movie
A quiet woman receives a social media request from a middle-school friend, who she doesn’t remember fondly. The two meet at a hotel’s restaurant where they find a room numbered 666 containing Rokuroku, a long-neck woman wearing a red kimono.
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Title: Nozaki Shuhei - Auditor of Bank
Character: Masayoshi Sakamoto
Released: January 4, 2018
Type: TV
A popular manga about a corporate auditor of a major bank is adapted for the screen starring Yuji Oda, one of Japan's favorite actors. With a strong sense of justice and trusted personality, the antagonist takes on the vast darkness of a mega bank to fully expose bank fraud.
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Title: Akagi: Ryūzaki–Yagi hen / Ichikawa hen
Character: Nangou(南郷)
Released: October 13, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Shinjuku Seven
Character: Sameshima
Released: October 13, 2017
Type: TV
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Yumeji: A Spurt of Love
Title: Yumeji: A Spurt of Love
Character: Yumeji
Released: July 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Yumeji is married to Tamaki and they have a son. Tamaki was a model for Yumeji. He makes a living by running a picture store. Due to his dissatisfaction as an artist and his own inner conflicts, he spends his days doing other things besides painting. Meanwhile, he has lots of female fans. They are fascinated by his sexual charm. He meets Hikono and falls in love with her.
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Title: CODE:MIRAGE
Character: Kohei Himejima
Released: July 4, 2017
Type: TV
Without an official spy organisation, Japan is seen as a hotbed for crime by foreign and domestic criminal groups. K13 is a unit established within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to combat this situation. The activities of K13 are known only to a few people and its members do not exist on record. Led by the top agent code named Mirage, K13 members target not only brutal crimes but are also given secret missions to handle crimes which cannot be solved politically and socially. Meanwhile, there are people who intend to set up a police organisation like the FBI in the US and strengthen the Japanese police by enacting a bill to expand its powers. Before long, the K13 gets embroiled too and a huge conspiracy is revealed.
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When Will You Return?
Title: When Will You Return?
Character: Mikio Takasugi
Released: June 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Tomoko Ashimura types on a computer her memory of her late husband Goro, but Tomoko Ashimura succumbs to a disease. On behalf of Tomoko Ashimura, her grandchild Osamu collects Tomoko’s memoirs. He learns about the love between his grandparents for the past 50 years and the difficult life they faced during and after the Pacific War.
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Title: Little Giants
Released: April 16, 2017
Type: TV
Shinichiro Kosaka is a detective of the major cases unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and on the path to become captain of the unit when he makes a mistake during an investigation. Kosaka was subsequently demoted to precinct duty, where he finds his new colleagues taking on small cases tirelessly with a sense of justice untinged by workplace politics and internal disputes.
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Odd Detective 15
Title: Odd Detective 15
Character: Susumu Igarashi
Released: April 6, 2017
Type: Movie
The body of Shinsuke Maeda, a wealthy older man, is discovered in his garden. While at first glance it appears that he missed his step while exiting into the garden and hit his forehead on a flowerbed rock, it is established that a safe installed in the living room has been emptied. It seems that, the night before, Maeda left the hospital he was staying at of his own will and came home, and was robbed immediately after returning. His daughter Yumie Nagano insists that Chikako Inui, a woman her father had been seeing, must be the perpetrator. She says that Maeda was thinking of getting married to Chikako soon. However, Chikako finds Yumie and her husband suspicious. Troubled by debts incurred by opening their ramen store, they pestered Maeda and he pushed them away. She calmly points out that Maeda gave her a will in which he left all of the 50 million plus yen hidden in the safe to her, so she had no reason to steal from him.
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Her Love Boils Bathwater
Title: Her Love Boils Bathwater
Character: Takimoto
Released: October 29, 2016
Type: Movie
A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame.
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Odd Detective 14
Title: Odd Detective 14
Character: Susumu Igarashi
Released: October 22, 2016
Type: Movie
The dead body of Maki Tsujimoto, a popular stage actress, is discovered in a theater in Oji. After striking her in the back of the head with a bronze statue prop, the criminal laid the body on the floor and pointed a light at it, "directing" the crime scene as if it were a scene from a play.
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Cinderella Game
Title: Cinderella Game
Character: Takimoto
Released: October 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Sana Haitani (Kasumi Yamaya) is a member of an idol group. She's following the dreams of her now deceased older sister who always wanted to become a top idol. Unfortunately, Sana's idol group is disbanded. She is then kidnapped and taken to an uninhabited island. What awaits for her is a card battle. If she wins in the card battle against other kidnapped idol girls, she can become a top idol. But, if Sana loses ... she will die.
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Sanada 10 Braves
Title: Sanada 10 Braves
Character: Seikai Miyoshi
Released: September 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of a ninja group who all serve under samurai warrior Yukimura Sanada.
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Gold Woman
Title: Gold Woman
Character: Tsutomu Saida
Released: May 28, 2016
Type: Movie
A female career banker shatters the glass ceiling of a mega bank by disclosing its shady business to light. Tamaki, the Gold Woman, has worked her way up to be appointed General Manager of the office regarded as the General Staff Headquar- ters of the Bank with an assignment to liquidate its subsidiary by laying off 200 employees in total. Such mentally challenging appointment was made via recommendation by her senior colleague Mai, a smart and foxy woman running ahead of Tamaki in her career. With the help of her male colleague, Tamaki, a lone female wolf dares to challenge the all-male executives to prove what a true business person is all about.
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Title: Love Song
Released: April 11, 2016
Type: TV
Kohei Kamishiro (Masaharu Fukuyama) worked as a musician in his past. He only had one hit song and his recording contract was eventually canceled. He became devastated and left the field of music. Twenty years later, Kohei Kamishiro keeps his distance from music, but his passion for music hasn't faded away. He leads a boring life. Due to his past experience, he finds it difficult to have a relationship with women. One day, a woman appears in front of him. She has a complex and because of this leads a solitary life. The woman though has an amazing singing voice. By meeting her, Kohei begins to think he wants to make music again.
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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
Title: The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
Character: Shoda Sakuji
Released: March 12, 2016
Type: Movie
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How did this woman know the novel is serialized in the newspaper? And why does she want to start reading it in the middle of the story? Which article was she actually interested in? Sugimoto cannot help making his own investigations about Yoshiko, but the more he searches, the more astonishing facts come to light...
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7s
Title: 7s
Released: November 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Sawada is an unpopular move director but he manages to win the grand prize at an indie film festival With the reward he decides to go big for his next film. Sawada will have to face many difficult situations while trying to make it happen as the production money starts to run out...
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Title: Free and Easy: The Rookie Densuke Hamasaki
Released: October 23, 2015
Type: TV
A low-level employee infamous for his boundless love of fishing becomes buddies with a fellow angler who turns out to be the company president.
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Double Meaning: Chain Reaction
Title: Double Meaning: Chain Reaction
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Akira Mochizuki survived a kidnapping as a child. Now, she's a detective, and there are signs that the kidnapper may be back again after 20 years.
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Title: Keiji 7-nin
Released: July 15, 2015
Type: TV
Amagi Yu is a slightly eccentric detective who has been assigned to the Twelfth Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigative Division from the Lost and Found Centre. The Twelfth Section is called the “graveyard of detectives” and ridiculed as the “banishment room where hardened detectives who cannot be fired are sent”. Its assembled detectives Samura Kosuke, Yamashita Takumi, Nagasawa Keita, Mizutani Tamaki and Katagiri Masatoshi are elite and yet oddballs. Amagi appears fixated with time which seems to have no relation with a case. Raising questions about the timelines of the perpetrator and victim derived from the estimated time of death, time of crime, time of alibi and time limit, he searches for the meaning of “blank time” which arises from this. He obsesses over the weight of every minute and second of time because of some incident.
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Title: Sono otoko, ishiki takai kei
Character: Takashi Ninomiya
Released: March 3, 2015
Type: TV
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Listener
Title: Listener
Character: Takuji Sakurai
Released: February 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Omnibus film that tells five stories from a radio station and its listeners.
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Title: The Good Listener
Character: Saburo Kajiwara
Released: October 20, 2014
Type: TV
Undercover cop Sakura Mizusawa assumes many faces as she teams up with a hot-blooded detective, Masato Takeuchi, to form a crime-solving tag team with an ear for the truth. With an uncanny ability to connect all the disparate voices she hears undercover, Sakura goes in complete pursuit of criminals, giving her undivided attention to incidents that could happen to anyone and alleviating the suffering of the weak and disadvantaged.
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Climbing to Spring
Title: Climbing to Spring
Character: Taichi Nishimura
Released: June 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season of climbers. When Toru grows up, he leaves his hometown and enters the working world as a stock trader. One day, Toru receives word that his father has passed away. He returns to Mount Tate once again, and becomes conscious of a new calling. But, does Toru have what it takes to follow in his father footsteps?
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Title: Border
Character: 島村靖雄(夢の丘母子殺害事件遺族) - 駿河太郎
Released: April 10, 2014
Type: TV
Ishikawa Ango is a very capable detective that lives only for his job. One day, while investigating a crime scene, he gets shot in the head by the criminal that was still lurking about. Ango gets thrown over that line that divides life and death but, though he dies, doctor's are able to reanimate him and he pulls through. Yet, the bullet remains stuck in his head as the operation to remove it is very dangerous. Shortly after, he goes back to work and soon realizes that he's now able to see and talk with the recently departed.
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Title: The Next Generation: Patlabor
Released: March 8, 2014
Type: TV
In a world where giant robots are built and used for labor, a special police force of robots is created to handle crimes relating to these machines.
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Title: The Fortune Telling Shop, Onmyoya
Character: Hideyuki Makihara
Released: October 8, 2013
Type: TV
A mysterious man Shomei Abeno opens a fortune telling shop in a quiet neighbourhood. However, residents of the area wonders if he is just a regular con man with something to hide.
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Miss ZOMBIE
Title: Miss ZOMBIE
Released: September 14, 2013
Type: Movie
A doctor and his family receive an unexpected delivery from an old friend at their remote country home - a large wooden crate containing a gun, a female zombie and an instruction sheet telling them not to feed her meat. The family is concerned, of course, but she seems harmless enough. Perhaps she can help clean up outside?
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Title: Take Five: Should we Steal for Love?
Character: Bartender
Released: April 19, 2013
Type: TV
Up till 20 years ago, together with his father and 3 other people, Homura Masayoshi was part of the legendary group of thieves that called themselves 「TAKE FIVE」. This group stole from the rich who had acquired their wealth through immoral means. Due to an incident, Masayoshi decided to retire from the group, and settled into his life as a professor of Psychology at a reputable university. One day, he runs into a mysterious homeless woman, who passes him a picture of a Leonardo Da Vinci's painting, which prompts him to re-enter the world of thievery and resurrect 「TAKE FIVE」. Sasahara Rui joined the Burglary Division in the footsteps of her father, who had died in an accident involving a burglary heist. She wows to take down 「TAKE FIVE」 and stop them from stealing again. What was the real reason for the disbanding of 「TAKE FIVE」 20 years ago? Who is the mysterious homeless woman and what is the significance of the Da Vinci picture she had given to Masayoshi? How did Rui's father really died?
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Title: The Complex: Prologue
Character: Yousuke Imura
Released: April 9, 2013
Type: TV
"The Complex-Prologue" is a spin-off of horror movie "The Complex". A young boy named Minoru becomes involved in a mysterious phenomenon and horror experience.
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Title: The Complex: Prologue
Released: April 9, 2013
Type: TV
"The Complex-Prologue" is a spin-off of horror movie "The Complex". A young boy named Minoru becomes involved in a mysterious phenomenon and horror experience.
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Double Meaning: Yes or No?
Title: Double Meaning: Yes or No?
Character: Producer
Released: March 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A new female detective joins the special investigations team and dives into some of their hardest cases in this follow-up to the series 'Unfair.' The team investigates a grisly video circulating online that asks viewers to answer 'yes' or 'no' questions with potentially deadly outcomes.
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My Departure
Title: My Departure
Released: October 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Drama depicting two men and a woman, each with their own issues, who head for Fukui, and their maturity and rejuvenation through travel. Recently retired Nishina Kosuke goes to meet his first love, who he got to know as a pen pal 42 years ago. For Kagawa Yuika, raised by a single mother, Fukui is a place seeped with memories of her father. And, violinist Kuga Hikari is trying to break through a slump.
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Ouran High School Host Club
Title: Ouran High School Host Club
Character: secretary
Released: March 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Ouran Academy is a prestigious school with most students coming from wealthy families. One of the few students who comes from a modest background is Haruhi Fujioka (Haruna Kawaguchi). Through unexpected circumstances, Haruhi Fujioka ends up joining the male "host club," while hiding her gender. Friendship and love grows between Haruhi Fujioka and the male "host club" members.
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It All Started with Taking It All Off
Title: It All Started with Taking It All Off
Released: February 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Morishita, who came to Tokyo from Akita, made her debut as an AV actress at the age of 18, and quickly became so popular that she was called an AV queen. After retiring from AV after 10 years of activity and publishing an autobiographical book, she made a movie based on it. Morishita looked back at the time in the process of making the script, but due to prejudice against the profession of an AV actress, the content of the script goes in an unexpected direction. Meanwhile, Morishita reunites with her hated father for the first time since moving to Tokyo.
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Arakawa Under the Bridge
Title: Arakawa Under the Bridge
Character: Last Samurai
Released: February 4, 2012
Type: Movie
Riku, the heir to a corporate conglomerate, is determined to go through life never owing anything to anyone on principle. However, one day he nearly drowns in a river and is saved by a homeless girl named Nino. To repay his debt, he begins living together with her on the banks of the river as her lover.
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Title: Taira no Kiyomori
Released: January 8, 2012
Type: TV
Villain or hero, Taira no Kiyomori changed Japanese history forever 900 years ago. Without ever knowing his real father, Kiyomori was raised as a samurai. Together with his stepfather, he wiped out piracy along Japan's western coast, becoming a full-fledged warrior samurai. In an age when samurai were looked down on as members of the lower class, Kiyomori was skillful at winning the hearts and minds of the people. By rounding up surrendered pirates and achieving other successes, Kiyomori eventually became the de facto ruler of Japan.
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Title: Arakawa Under the Bridge
Character: Last Samurai
Released: July 26, 2011
Type: TV
Kou Ichinomiya has always lived according to the creed of his wealthy, successful family: never be in debt to anyone. But one day, under the Arakawa Bridge, his life is saved by a homeless girl named Nino. In order to pay her back, Kou promises to be her boyfriend; and thus begins his new life under the bridge.
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Princess Toyotomi
Title: Princess Toyotomi
Released: May 28, 2011
Type: Movie
National Audit Bureau member Hajime Matsudaira (Shinichi Tsutsumi), Tadako Torii (Haruka Ayase) & Asahi Gainsbourg (Masaki Okada) travel from their homebase of Tokyo to the city of Osaka. Their mission is to discover any financial irregularities & to ensure the correct use of federal money in the Osaka city government. Their initial audits go smoothly, but things turn more interesting once they enter the Karahori shopping district - the area with a long history reaching back to the Meiji era.
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Title: Striped Sheep
Character: Futaba Shuu
Released: April 22, 2011
Type: TV
Houkigi Shio seems to be a happy and successful businesswoman, who owns an aromatherapy salon. No one knows that she suffers from insomnia -- all because of her exhusband, who cheated on her. Since Shio isn't the only one having trouble to sleep at night, she comes up with an idea of introducing 'Striped Sheep' service. Women, suffering from insomnia, can hire a young and handsome guy, who will help them sleep.
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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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Flowers
Title: Flowers
Character: Taichi Hirano
Released: June 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.
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Title: Ryōmaden
Released: January 3, 2010
Type: TV
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
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Title: How Do I Cope with My Husband's Depression?
Released: May 29, 2009
Type: TV
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Super Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade NEO Generations: The Onigashima Warship
Title: Super Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade NEO Generations: The Onigashima Warship
Character: Fisherman
Released: May 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Under the impression that they saved the World of Den-O, Tsukasa Kadoya (Kamen Rider Decade) and company begin their journey to the World of Kabuto when they are halted by Sieg who presents them a manuscript that detailed the legendary Oni Conquest with Momotaros' image on it. As this occurred, the Tarōs mysteriously vanish from the DenLiner as they are about to help Kotaro Nogami (Kamen Rider New Den‑O) out with the true threat to their world.
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Detroit Metal City
Title: Detroit Metal City
Released: August 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon emperor" Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a member of the band, he has a definite talent for it.