Masato Hagiwara

Masato Hagiwara

Born: August 21, 1971
in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Masato Hagiwara (born August 21, 1971 in Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He is employed by Alpha Agency.

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Title: Alice in Wonderful Kitchen
Character: Gojo Seiji
Released: January 21, 2024
Type: TV
Yaemori Alice is a chef with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) whose favorite phrase is “Cooking is chemistry.” She’s not good at communicating with people, but has an amazing memory, and holds a vast amount of knowledge, especially in her favorite subject, chemistry. A mysterious young man called Sakae Kousei shows up at the popular restaurant “Alice no Okate” looking for a live-in part time job, which is run by Alice’s childhood friend. Although Kousei seems abrasive and unfriendly, he is kind at heart, and though at first he is confused by Alice’s actions and words, he gradually comes to support her. Under the watchful eye of her protective father Shingo, an openly gay university professor, Alice works at her own pace and warms everyone’s hearts with delicious food. However, there is a big secret about her upbringing and her family that even she herself didn’t know about.
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Title: GARO: Heir To Steel Armor
Character: Godou
Released: January 11, 2024
Type: TV
Ryuga Dogai faces a new challenge when confronted by another warrior in strange steel armor.
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アイドル誕生 輝け昭和歌謡
Title: アイドル誕生 輝け昭和歌謡
Released: January 2, 2024
Type: Movie
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Kami no Ko wa Tsubuyaku
Title: Kami no Ko wa Tsubuyaku
Character: Makoto Komiya
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: Movie
One family changes as they join a religious group. Kinoshita Haruka is forced to engage in her religious activities by her mother, Aiko, who is an avid believer and forbids her from making friends or participating in events at her school. Her father Shinji distances himself from religion and tells his daughters, Haruka and her younger sister, Inori, the importance of "believing in yourself." When Shinji suddenly falls ill, their "belief" begins to waver.
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Insomniacs After School
Title: Insomniacs After School
Character: Ganta's father
Released: June 23, 2023
Type: Movie
No one seems to understand Nakami. His nights are restless, his days sleepy, and his time at school is isolating. Yet all that seems to change when he encounters his carefree classmate, Magari, dozing off in their high school’s abandoned observatory. Not only is Magari friendly, she’s also a closet insomniac. Together they find solidarity in their shared condition, using the observatory to nap as needed. When their unsanctioned use of the space is discovered, the only way to save their refuge is to revive the school’s long defunct astronomy club. As they work together and get to know each other, their bond grows ever stronger, but hidden truths threaten to cut their budding friendship shot.
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From Spices With Love
Title: From Spices With Love
Released: June 21, 2023
Type: Movie
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The way back home
Title: The way back home
Character: Tatsuro Miyazaki
Released: May 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Childhood friends Hinata and Hayato are training hard in kendo for their final high school inter-high school competition. One day, Hinata is scouted by an entertainment agency. This causes a rift in their relationship. The film depicts these two young boys who grow up to be adults while still carrying the pain & doubts from their youth.
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Title: Kôkando jôshô sapuri
Released: May 7, 2023
Type: TV
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Title: Fujiko F. Fujio Sci-Fi Short Drama
Released: April 9, 2023
Type: TV
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Amnesiac Love
Title: Amnesiac Love
Character: Kamoshida Kunio
Released: December 24, 2022
Type: Movie
This story follows the journey of an ill-fated young man whose ambition is to be a professional antiques dealer. A hard-up young man, who makes his living by selling old items in flea markets, meets a nurse and he falls in love with her. He decides to become a successful antique dealer. So he participates in a huge auction in the mountains but he makes a fool of himself. At the same time he ends up being in the netherworld, and hovers between life and death.
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Title: Black/Crowes~roppongi underground~
Released: December 14, 2022
Type: TV
A drama based on actual events: the black market casino "Ultra Violet" is located in the basement of a building in Roppongi. The manager, Yasuki Kanzaki, is the head of the staff, along with Shiho, Shinke, and Yui, whose age is unknown, are working there. On the same day, a popular actor Ryota Yoshida arrives with a gravure idol Hitomi. He plays baccarat with Hamano, a music producer…
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Title: Shylock's Children
Character: Kazuo Furukawa
Released: October 9, 2022
Type: TV
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Shimamori Tower
Title: Shimamori Tower
Character: Akira Shimada
Released: July 22, 2022
Type: Movie
Together with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa during the war, Arai Taizo (Murakami Jun), the chief of police of Okinawa Prefecture, goes beyond his duties and strives to protect the lives of the citizens of the prefecture. As the ravages of war intensify, the two, who each carried a heavy cross during the Battle of Okinawa, desperately devote themselves to saving the lives of the Okinawan people, with the belief that "life is precious." A human drama, set in Okinawa at the end of World War II, depicting the preciousness of human life. Directed by Igarashi Sho of One Step on a Mine, It's All Over.
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Title: Fill In the Blanks
Character: Akiyoshi Koichi
Released: June 25, 2022
Type: TV
News of "revived people" who should have died humans come back to life was reported all over the world. Meanwhile, Tetsuo Tsuchiya wakes up in the conference room where he works, but his colleague reports that he died of suicide three years ago. However, Tsuchiya, who had a wife and a son and lived a happy life, could not commit suicide, and thought that he was actually killed, lives while pursuing the reason for his death. It depicts how you know the meaning of things, dying, and happiness. 日本語 English
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Title: Master's Daughter
Released: June 3, 2022
Type: TV
A school psycho suspense that depicts classmates, students, and their families being involved in a whirlpool of suspicion and confusion when a mysterious and beautiful high school girl, Kiritani Sara, suddenly transfers to another school.
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Title: Modern Young Monha
Released: April 9, 2022
Type: TV
Ishizawa Hajime works as a sales department chief for a trading company. The younger employees complain about the company, including having to work overtime and a lack of innovative working methods. Ishizawa Hajime looks at them with an intimidating glance and the young employees run away from him. One rookie employee, Mugita Ayumi, begins to work in Hajime Ishizawa’s sales department. Mugita Ayumi tries to adjust to her new work environment, but it isn't for her. The only time she can feel comfortable is eating her lunch box at her desk alone. One day, while she is eating her lunch box alone as usual, Ishizawa Hajime appears in front of her.
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Title: Tokyo Vice
Character: Duke
Released: April 7, 2022
Type: TV
A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.
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Title: The Journalist
Character: Kohei Matsuda
Released: January 13, 2022
Type: TV
A journalist known as the maverick of news media defiantly chases the truth in this series adaptation of the hit movie of the same name.
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Title: Dakara Korosenakatta
Character: Shigeru Ehara
Released: January 9, 2022
Type: TV
Serial killer vs newspaper reporter. A shocking mystery depicting an unprecedented theatrical crime! Can the reporter played by Hiroshi Tamaki stop the assault of serial killers with "words"???
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We Couldn't Become Adults
Title: We Couldn't Become Adults
Character: Hideaki Miyoshi
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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Unlock Your Heart
Title: Unlock Your Heart
Character: Nishimura Takashi
Released: October 22, 2021
Type: Movie
Ai has had a crush forever on her classmate Tatoe. When she finds out that Tatoe is in a secret relationship with another girl, she sets out to sabotage their plans for the future.
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Title: The Scales of Justice
Character: Masato Ichinose
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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森村誠一女のサスペンス「マリッジ」
Title: 森村誠一女のサスペンス「マリッジ」
Released: August 22, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: Tokkai: Furyousaiken Tokubetsu Kaishubu
Character: Tsukano Tomohiko
Released: January 17, 2021
Type: TV
In 1996, after the collapse of Japan's asset price bubble, Shibasaki Akira works in the loan department for the Yotsubashi branch office of Aoba Bank. One day, he is sent to work at a government-run company, which is a housing financial bond management organization. The company was formed to collect non-performing loans from bankrupt housing loan companies. Workers from different banks, including Akira and ex-employees from housing loan companies, gather at the government-run company. They stand up against vicious debtors and struggle to protect the taxpayers' money.
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Uchihime Obakamiko
Title: Uchihime Obakamiko
Released: June 1, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: Yell
Released: March 30, 2020
Type: TV
NHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife Oto. They meet each other through music and overcome hardships together. Yuichi composes songs that became "Yells" for people all over Japan in the Showa Era (1926-1989) in which radical changes were going on. 
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Fukushima 50
Title: Fukushima 50
Character: Kazuo Igawa
Released: March 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
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It Stopped Raining
Title: It Stopped Raining
Character: Takashi
Released: February 7, 2020
Type: Movie
A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized, however, by a car accident on a rainy day after they go out together, and wakes up with short term memory loss, where she cannot remember anything beyond the present day. Yukisuke tries to live close to her as before but the lack of collective memory starts to stagger him.
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Title: Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
Character: Tamai Junichiro
Released: January 17, 2020
Type: TV
Matsumoto Shouen became a buddhist monk after being unable to save his friend that was drowning right in front of him as a child and also became a doctor. While also engaging in saving people at the hospital, he works as a monk and offers care to the terminally ill. Sometimes, his monk robes cause a commotion as patients misunderstand that they are already dead. In addition, his chanting is disliked not only be patients but by his fellow colleagues. Despite that, he works brightly and seriously as a monk and as a doctor.
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Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman
Title: Harassment Game Akitsu VS Katoku Woman
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: みをつくし料理帖スペシャル
Released: December 14, 2019
Type: TV
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The Japanese Doll
Title: The Japanese Doll
Character: Kitazawa
Released: November 15, 2019
Type: Movie
University students Yuri and Masato accept a peculiar invitation to a campground party, but things turn deadly when a cursed doll starts to attack.
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Title: Million Joe
Character: Ryota Terashi
Released: October 9, 2019
Type: TV
Soichi Kurei is a magazine editor. He is currently working on popular manga series Million Joe. The writer of the manga series is Tsuneo Magata, but he suddenly dies. Soichi Kurei is devastated because he feels Million Joe should be finished. Soichi Kurei then makes a suggestion to Tsuneo Magata's chief assistant Ryota Terashi. The suggestion is to hide the death of Tsuneo Magata and for Ryota Terashi to finish the manga series using Tsuneo Magata's notes.
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And Life Goes On
Title: And Life Goes On
Character: Sakamoto Masayuki
Released: September 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Despite losing her parents at age three in a car accident, Toko experiences an idyllic childhood thanks to her uncle, who raises her. She dreams of being an actress and, having had some local notoriety in her town, she is ready to take a leap of faith and travel to Tokyo to audition. But, as fate would have it, her hopes are dashed as her world and her country are turned upside down when Japan is struck by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. This motivates Toko to assist with aid efforts in Kesennuma where she meets volunteer organizer Kiyotaka. While she initially senses something about Kiyotaka is amiss in the midst of their devastated surroundings, feelings of hope grow as do their feelings for one another.
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When a Tree Falls
Title: When a Tree Falls
Character: Michihiro Adachi
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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Title: Janus no Kagami
Character: Koumoto Kazunari
Released: August 16, 2019
Type: TV
Ozawa Hiromi, a second-year high school student, lives with her strict grandmother Takako who deprives her of all freedoms. One day, Hiromi faints and wakens to a new personality named Yumi who is the opposite of Hiromi in all ways. Can Hiromi stop Yumi?
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Title: And, Live
Character: Sakamoto Masayuki
Released: August 4, 2019
Type: TV
Toko Ikuta lost her parents in a car accident at the age of 3. Afterwards, her uncle, who ran a barbershop in Morioka, raised her and she had a happy childhood. Toko Ikuta was active as a local idol and she dreamed of becoming an actress. At the age of 19, she is set to take an audition in Tokyo. The day before her audition, on March 11, 2011, the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hits Japan. In the autumn of 2011, Toko Ikuta works at a cafe. She goes with her Korean co-worker Han Yoo-Ri to do volunteer work in Kesennuma as the area recovers from the devastating tsunami. There, Toko Ikuta meets Kiyotaka Shimizu who is a university student from Tokyo and a member of a student volunteer group. While spending time together in Kesennuma, Toko Ikuta and Kiyotaka Shimizu develop feelings for each other.
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An Artist of the Floating World
Title: An Artist of the Floating World
Character: Kuroda
Released: March 30, 2019
Type: Movie
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into WWII.
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Happy Island
Title: Happy Island
Released: March 2, 2019
Type: Movie
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Title: Trace ~ Men of the science school ~
Released: January 7, 2019
Type: TV
Mano Reiji, a man who experienced a gruesome incident, is a forensic researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Investigative Science Research Institute. Under the belief that "appraisal will result in the truth" and with his vast knowledge, Mano approaches cases from a view point that differs from others. On the other hand, Sawaguchi Nonna (Araki Yuko) is a rookie forensic researcher that begins working with the no nonsense Mano. They are forced to work together on a murder case.
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A Banana? At This Time of Night?
Title: A Banana? At This Time of Night?
Character: Daisuke Takamura
Released: December 28, 2018
Type: Movie
Hisashi Tanaka is a medical student in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. He does volunteer work and gets to know Yasuaki Kano at the hospital. Yasuaki Kano has suffered from muscular dystrophy since he was 12-years-old. Yasuaki Kano has his eccentric ways like running out of the hospital and saying that he wants to eat a banana late at night. Hisashi Tanaka thinks Yasuaki Kano is a lovely person. Yasuaki Kano develops a crush on rookie volunteer Misaki Ando. He asks Hisashi Tanaka to write a love letter for him, but Misaki Ando is Hisashi Tanaka’s girlfriend.
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Title: あなたには渡さない
Character: 上島旬平
Released: November 10, 2018
Type: TV
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And Your Bird Can Sing
Title: And Your Bird Can Sing
Character: Shimada
Released: September 1, 2018
Type: Movie
With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults' lives become intimately entangled over the course of a long summer in Hakodate, Hokkaido.
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Blue Wind Blows
Title: Blue Wind Blows
Character: Asano
Released: February 26, 2018
Type: Movie
‘My dad saw a monster here. When he was a kid.’ · ‘A monster?’ · ‘Yeah, a monster. It moves between this world and the next.’ Ao lives with his mother and little sister Kii on Sado Island in Japan. He misses his father, who recently disappeared without a trace – although not much is spoken about it. While their mother tries to deal with the loss in her own way, Ao and Kii run across the island and scream at the ocean. In the mysterious Sayoko, who inconspicuously swipes books from the school library, Ao finds a confidant. Few words are needed between the two reticent, dreamy children: together, they at once feel less alone. Against the striking backdrop of an industrialised coastal town, Tetsuya Tomina's poetic film tells a tale of dreams, loss and monsters.
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Title: Throwing Stones : Cops Against the Government
Released: November 5, 2017
Type: TV
One billion yen vanishes from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Two police inspectors work to discover the culprit, but politics may obstruct justice.
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巨悪は眠らせない 特捜検事の標的
Title: 巨悪は眠らせない 特捜検事の標的
Character: 五十嵐鉄夫 検察事務官
Released: October 4, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Title: The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Character: Takayuki Namiya
Released: September 23, 2017
Type: Movie
In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into the night, Atsuya sees a letter in the mailbox. The letter is addressed to the Namiya General Store and the letter was written by someone to consult about worries. Incredibly, the letter was written 32 years ago. The mailbox is somehow connected to the year 1980. Atsuya and his friends decide to write a reply and place their letter in the mailbox.
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Title: CODE:MIRAGE
Character: Yutaka Kanebuchi
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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Title: ヒトヤノトゲ~獄の棘~
Released: March 19, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~
Released: October 22, 2016
Type: TV
Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor
Title: Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor
Character: Tetsuo Higarashi
Released: October 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tokyo district prosecutors' office. He is currently busy with a case involving suspicious donations to powerful politician Yohei Tachibana. Shinichi then receives a mysterious message from his friend Samon Kondo. His friend is in charge of space development at The The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The message talks about a scandal related to space development. Samon soon goes missing after sending the message. Shinichi begins to see a connection between the two cases.
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Garo: Divine Flame
Title: Garo: Divine Flame
Character: Dario Montooya (voice)
Released: April 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Leon, who has succeeded the name of Golden Knight "GARO," devotes himself to train a young Makai Knight for the next generation, together with Prince Alfonso of the Valiante Kingdom. Then, they receive an order to exterminate the most beautiful Horror in the world which resides in a neighboring country "Vazelia." At the same time, a young Makai Knight for the next generation is kidnapped by an unknown person. Leon desperately follows them, only to find that he is surrounded by his enemies at a dead end. Then, a Makai Knight Dario who was supposed to be missing for some time suddenly appears and rescues him. Under his guidance, Leon is led to the town where he meets up a totally unexpected person.
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Title: しんがり~山一證券最後の聖戦~
Released: September 20, 2015
Type: TV
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The Man of the Political Economy
Title: The Man of the Political Economy
Released: September 19, 2015
Type: Movie
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve the breakup and privatisation of the electricity business. As a follower of Fukuzawa Yukichi, he inherited the spirit of independence, self-respect and the people. He rose up alone from the ruins of the war. It was the fight of an unconventional, stubborn old man over 70 with an indomitable will. Minister of Trade and Industry Ikeda Hayato admired Matsunaga like a father while Prime Ministers Yoshida Shigeru and Konoe Fumimaro, Shirasu Jiro (Takagawa Yuya) and others were in awe of his unfathomable passion.
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Title: Keisei Saimin no Otoko
Character: Nakamura Hiroyoshi
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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Title: Flowers for Algernon
Character: Junichiro Takebe
Released: April 10, 2015
Type: TV
Shiratori Sakuto is 28, but has the intelligence of a 6-year-old boy. He works for Dream Flower Service, a flower distribution centre which provides employment for problem youth. One day, he and a colleague, Yanagawa Ryuichi, delivers a rose bouquet to the apartment building where Mochizuki Haruka lives. Because Haruka does not know that the deliveryman is mentally challenged, she is shocked by his response and tries to call the police. Haruka works for a brain physiology research centre where Professor Hachisuka Daigo has been studying the improvement of mental performance. He has succeeded in lab experiments on a white mouse called Algernon. Sakuto is transformed into a genius through surgery. But Algernon's new intelligence begins to fade, and he dies. Sakuto realises that his genius, too, is destined to leave him.
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The Lion Standing in the Wind
Title: The Lion Standing in the Wind
Character: Katsuhiko Aoki
Released: March 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
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Title: Heisei Saru Kani Kassenzu
Character: Keiji Minato
Released: November 15, 2014
Type: TV
Bartender Junpei Hamamoto witnesses a hit-and-run incident, and knows the person arrested for that incident is not the person he saw driving. He believes the person responsible is world famous cellist Keiji Minato and his older brother has taken the rap for him. Junpei and his friend Tomoki decide to blackmail Keiji, but they are blocked by his manager Yuko.
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Title: Leaders
Released: March 22, 2014
Type: TV
Before World War II, the automobile industry in developed countries in Europe and the United States possessed formidable technological capabilities. A youth who saw this industrial might with his own eyes, returns to Japan fired up with the dream to develop the national automobile industry with his own hands. This young man’s name is Aichi Saichiro and this is the story of Aichi (Toyota) Motor Corporation.
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Kamen Teacher: The Movie
Title: Kamen Teacher: The Movie
Released: February 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Set in the near future of Japan with the educational system nearing collapse. To rehabilitate the lawlessness at public schools and its troubled students, the government sends Kamen Teacher to designated schools.
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Title: 逆光 保護司・笹本邦明の奔走
Released: January 29, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: Ofukou-san
Character: Konosuke Sakae
Released: January 7, 2014
Type: TV
28-year-old Tsugumi brings about misfortune to those around her. Because of this, she is known as the "Woman of Unhappiness" and people are afraid of her. Her younger sister Sakiko is about to marry. Tsugumi doesn't want to bring misfortune to her family, so she decides to go to Tokyo. In Tokyo, Tsugumi begins to work at “Anu” which is collaborative work place for young businesspeople or freelancers. Working with all of these positive people who pursue their dreams, Tsugumi begins to try to be happy.
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Title: Forbidden Practices
Character: Yohei Takaoka
Released: April 17, 2013
Type: TV
Saburo works at a medical office on The Izu Islands, which has seen its population dwindle over the years. Even though Saburo doesn't have a medical license, he performs operations under the instructions of Dr. Muraki. Because of his gifted dexterity and sincerity, people call him the Young Doctor. Saburo becomes conflicted over his position, but he convinces himself that what he is doing is helping people. Saburo becomes is also loved by nurse Akiko Suzuki and Akiko Tasaka, who is the daughter of the director of a general hospital in Tokyo. ~~ Based on the novel "Kumo no Kaidan" by Junichi Watanabe.
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Platinum Data
Title: Platinum Data
Character: Shogo Kagura
Released: March 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Set in the year 2017, the Japanese government attempts to secretly control the DNA of its people. Ryuhei Kagura is a top scientist in the field of DNA analysis. He works at the DNA analysis institution run by the National Police Agency. When the inventor of the DNA analysis system is murdered, Ryuhei Kagura's own DNA is found at the murder scene. Ryuhei Kagura becomes the prime suspect and then he becomes a fugitive. Veteran detective Reiji Asama goes in pursuit.
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Title: Saki
Character: Kosuke Nomura
Released: January 8, 2013
Type: TV
From the 2011 drama, Utsukushi Rinjin, Nakama Yukie reprises the character Saki. This time round, as Saki Amihama, she will be targeting men. With the facade of an angel, she draws men to her, only to lead them to a destructive end. Like a moth to the flame... but where is the line drawn between the saint and the devil?
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Title: マリッジ
Released: June 29, 2012
Type: TV
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Scattered Reflection
Title: Scattered Reflection
Character: Michihiro Adachi
Released: August 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Shima (Mirei Kiritani) is a second year high school student. She has already become the youngest ever winner of a "new writer award" for poetry. Yet, she keeps it a secret that she is a writer at school. Shima has developed feelings for fellow second year high school student Kento (Takahiro Miura). One day, Kento confesses his feelings for her and they begin to have a relationship. Shima has difficulties understanding other's emotions and can't understand Kento's feelings. Soon afterwards, Kento decides to break up with Shim...
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Title: NHKスペシャル 未解決事件
Released: July 29, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Desperate Motherhood
Character: Yuki Hiromi
Released: April 12, 2011
Type: TV
The story focuses on a group of moms who all have children around the same age. These women form a bond through sharing their anxieties about raising their children, each coming from a different background. However, the friendship between the five women also turns to jealousy and betrayal, due to the fact that their children are all taking similar entrance exams for elementary school.
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Title: The Diplomat Kosaku Kuroda
Character: Keiichi Yuki(悠木 圭一)
Released: January 13, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Wolverine
Character: Kikyo Mikage (voice)
Released: January 7, 2011
Type: TV
Wolverine is a mutant, possessing animal-keen senses, enhanced physical capabilities, three retracting bone claws on each hand and a healing factor that allows him to recover from virtually any wound, disease or toxin at a accelerated rate.
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Title: Kyukei no Koya
Released: November 26, 2010
Type: TV
Set in 1945, near the end of WW II, Kenichiro Nogami is reported to have died in a Swiss hospital. In fact, Kenichiro Nogami is working behind the scenes to save Japan from destruction. For this cause, Kenichiro Nogami has left behind his wife and nation to work in hiding. Meanwhile, a murder takes place and detectives Jiro Suzuki & Shoichi Soeda investigate. Clues lead to Kenichiro Nogami ...
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Soup Opera
Title: Soup Opera
Character: Doctor Mizutani
Released: October 2, 2010
Type: Movie
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.
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Title: Atami's Police Investigators
Character: Ayumu Hirasaka
Released: July 30, 2010
Type: TV
The story begins with the disappearance of a school bus and four high school girls. Still unsolved three years later, the case gets revived when one of the girls reappears. Odagiri plays a sharp national investigator searching for the truth behind the incident, which leads back to a seemingly peaceful town.
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Box: The Hakamada Case
Title: Box: The Hakamada Case
Character: Tendou Kuakmoto
Released: May 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested for the June 10, 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka . Iwao Hakamada has always insisted on his innocence and many others also believe Iwao Hakamada has been falsely accused ...
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Title: ニュース速報は流れた
Released: November 18, 2009
Type: TV
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Listen to My Heart
Title: Listen to My Heart
Character: Daisuke Goto
Released: November 10, 2009
Type: Movie
A radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, "Love Letters from the Drawer" to assist people who need an extra push to send out their simple yet very important message for their loved ones. The show was inspired by her own experience after reading a letter from her father after he died. Through her radio show, various characters come to light as everyone awaits for a miracle to happen. A miracle which can occur only by them expressing their true feelings... The movie is full of emotions and music plays an important part of it. It has a great cast that represent the many faces of love. Parents, sons, lovers, and friends. The movie takes you to several locations within Japan, you can get a look at the beautiful coast and shrine, as well as the city sights
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Good Bye, My Secret Friend
Title: Good Bye, My Secret Friend
Character: Shigeyuki
Released: June 20, 2009
Type: Movie
Based on Saibara Rieko's manga, Ike-chan to Boku (a.k.a. Good Bye My Secret Friend) tells the heartfelt story of a young boy named Toshio and his imaginary friend Ike-chan. Toshio's floating blob of a friend has two big eyes and a mouth, and changes colors and sizes depending on the mood. When Toshio is sad, she turns small. When Toshio makes friend with a girl, she turns bright red from anger. Ike-chan stays by Toshio's side as he grows older, but the day he finds his first love, Ike-chan disappears from his life. Child actor Fukasawa Arashi (Helen the Baby Fox) takes the leading role in this affecting fable about childhood, friendship, and growing up from director Ohoka Toshihiko. Popular actress Aoi Yu voices Ike-chan.
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Title: The Flying Tire
Character: Kazuaki Isaki
Released: March 29, 2009
Type: TV
A tire comes off a moving truck and becomes a deadly weapon, hitting a mother and child. The problem was caused by the vehicle manufacturer's failure to recall the vehicle, but the blame falls on the head of the delivery company who, despairing, searches for evidence that the recall was suppressed. Crossing paths with banks, police, weekly magazine writers, the victim's family, and various others, he eventually gets to the truth of the matter.
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AIBOU: CSI Files
Title: AIBOU: CSI Files
Released: March 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Investigator Yonezawa is searching images from the Tokyo Big City Marathon, targeted for a terrorist bomb attack. Within the images he sees his former wife Kazuko, and the following day he learns that dead body that looks like her has been discovered.
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Title: One Outs
Character: Toua Tokuchi (voice)
Released: October 7, 2008
Type: TV
Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the Lycaons, heads to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to train and find a new pitcher for the team. There, he meets Toa Tokuchi, a 134-kmph pitcher and the undisputed king of a gambling form of baseball called "One Outs". At Kojima's urging, Tokuchi signs up with the Lycaons under an unusual contract: he gets 5,000,000 yen for every out he pitches, but loses 50,000,000 yen for every point he gives up. A high-level psychological game of baseball, gambling and logic is about to begin..
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Lupin the Third: Sweet Lost Night
Title: Lupin the Third: Sweet Lost Night
Character: Adam (voice)
Released: July 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Gifted thief Lupin the Third scores a "magic lamp" and finds it contains a genie. However, after the clock strikes 7 p.m., he can't seem to remember anything… Finding himself in Singapore, Lupin must battle his way past the forces of Colonel Garlic and discover the secret behind the lamp – but every night at 7 p.m., his memory is wiped clean! How can Lupin piece together this puzzle when he can't even remember what he's doing?
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Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
Title: Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
Character: Umihito
Released: July 9, 2008
Type: Movie
Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin air. Kitaro and his friends investigate these mysterious cases when they meet Kaede Hiramoto, a high school girl who finds herself involved in this mystery. With the help from the librarian of Yokai Library, they find out that the curse was caused by an evil Yokai that was released from 1,000 years of sealing. To save Kaede, they are to gather the 5 ancient musical instruments and perform the ritual to seal the evil Yokai again, which has to be done within 48 hours!
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Chameleon
Title: Chameleon
Character: Satoru Kajiwara
Released: July 5, 2008
Type: Movie
Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men kidnapping a middle-aged man in the parking garage. Goro records the man on his cell phone without knowing he could be in big trouble.
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Persona
Title: Persona
Character: Dr. Koichiro Kiba
Released: January 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Physician Koichiro Kiby loses interest in work and begins drinking in a local park after the death of his wife. One day he encounters a girl who knows intimate details about his life. Now, he must unlock her mystery in this fantasy drama.
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Aoi Hitomi to Nuage
Title: Aoi Hitomi to Nuage
Character: Shun Uzaki
Released: November 25, 2007
Type: Movie
Erika Ichinose, a clinical psychologist, is recruited by the National Police Agency in an attempt to stay one step ahead of a bomb terrorist.
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Title: Kaiji
Character: Kaiji (voice)
Released: October 3, 2007
Type: TV
Kaiji Itou is a good-for-nothing loiterer who spends his days drinking beer and stealing hubcaps—that is, until he ends up being tricked by his former co-worker. Unable to suddenly repay his friend's huge debt all by himself, Kaiji is offered a shady deal to participate in an illegal underground gamble on a cruise ship. This turns out to be nothing more than the beginning of his new life of hell—thrown headlong into a life-threatening roller coaster of mind games, cheating, and deceit.
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Title: Akagi
Character: Akagi (voice)
Released: October 5, 2005
Type: TV
Nangou is a compulsive gambler who has accumulated debt over three million yen. In a last ditch attempt to clear his record, he decides to wager his life on a game of mahjong with the mafia. Unfortunately, as the game progresses, Nangou only moves further from the prize and closer to death. When all hope seems lost, the game parlor is suddenly intruded upon by Shigeru Akagi, a young boy on the run from the police. Desperate to turn the game around, Nangou hands the game over to Akagi after teaching him a few of the rules. The mafia can only smirk as Akagi sits down to play. However, they soon come to learn that Akagi is a natural born gambler. An imposing figure who does not fear death. One who is destined to become a legend.
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Jyukai: The Sea of Trees Behind Mt. Fuji
Title: Jyukai: The Sea of Trees Behind Mt. Fuji
Character: Masahiko Asakura
Released: June 25, 2005
Type: Movie
Near the slopes of Mount Fuji, there is a so called suicide forest, an infamous place where people who are tires of living have their last breath of air. The four different stories of this film all revolve around this place.
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Demon Pond
Title: Demon Pond
Released: May 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The modern-day story of a man searching for a friend who has mysteriously disappeared, with a magical tale involving strange creatures, a heartbroken princess, and a pact that can't be broken. Conflicts between faith and skepticism, and between social obligation and personal desire drive the narrative toward a dramatic conclusion where the worlds of the real and the surreal inevitabl
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Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire
Title: Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire
Character: Yuzuru Yoshimachi
Released: December 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Story of Rikidozan, a sumo wrestler who can only achieve limited success in Japan because he's half Korean. But when Rikidozan goes to the United States and discovers professional wrestling, he becomes a hero back home.
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Title: The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Character: Takuya Shirakawa (voice)
Released: November 20, 2004
Type: Movie
In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A mysterious high tower rises within the borders of the Union. Three high school students promise to cross the border with a self-built airplane and unravel the secret of the tower.
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Café Lumière
Title: Café Lumière
Character: Seiji
Released: September 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father and stepmother or Hajime, the owner of a small bookstore who could be the father of her unborn child. Yoko seems most at home when she's riding the train, speeding around the city with only her thoughts to entertain her.
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Out of This World
Title: Out of This World
Character: Kentaro Hirooka
Released: February 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge between the tenor saxophonist, a disillusioned ex-soldier, and a bitter GI whose brother was killed in the war. And when the band plays the prohibited "Danny Boy" during a birthday bash for a sergeant whose son Danny had died a year ago, everyone must confront a past they'd rather forget.
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Mokka No Koibito
Title: Mokka No Koibito
Released: November 30, 2002
Type: Movie
Japanese film directed by Jinsei Tsuji
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Title: 100 Tales of Horror
Released: August 13, 2002
Type: TV
There are all kinds of people living in the back street tenement houses in old Edo. One of them is Ashiya Dosan, the descendant of an Onmyoji who made a name for himself back in the Heian period. Unfortunately, unlike his forefathers, Dosan has not made much of a living off the fortune telling and amulet peddling that he does.
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Oh My God
Title: Oh My God
Released: July 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Hana is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother's ashes to her grandmother's house. Hana's mother, who gave birth to Hana when she herself was a teenager, now resides in the home. They are on the outs with each other, but are forced to stay with each other when Hana's boyfriend fails to show.
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Pakodate-jin
Title: Pakodate-jin
Released: February 19, 2002
Type: Movie
One morning Hikaru Hino, a high school student living in Hakodate, wakes up to find she has grown a tail. She quickly cancels her first date with classmate Hayato, complicating their relationship. Hikaru's sister makes a fake tail to cheer her up and takes her out around town together, but a reporter captures their photo which leads to a huge commotion in Hakodate. As the tale commotion reaches a fever pitch, another person with a tail, Mr. Yoshida, shows up. As a result, the commotion grows into a full-blown incident that involves the whole of Hakodate.
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Rain of Light
Title: Rain of Light
Released: December 8, 2001
Type: Movie
This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed themselves up in a mountainous cabin in the dead of winter. By the time the police finally caught up with them, it was discovered that they had murderously turned upon themselves in a bizarre extension of their radical philosophy. This event virtually marked the end of the Student Revolution.
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GO
Title: GO
Character: Police Officer
Released: October 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
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I Love Friends
Title: I Love Friends
Character: Makoto Shibata
Released: October 7, 2001
Type: Movie
One day, a deaf photographer, Miki Yamashina, happens to meet a young man, Makoto Shibata, on the street. Shibata had been averse to human contact ever since he ran over a child, but Miki finds an unexpected way to support him.
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Street of Gravestones
Title: Street of Gravestones
Character: Tsuyoshi
Released: September 30, 2000
Type: Movie
A pair of siblings visit a friend in a remote town with a strange effect on its inhabitants; when they die, they transform into gravestones.
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Chaos
Title: Chaos
Character: Kuroda
Released: June 30, 2000
Type: Movie
A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house while he sends the ransom demand. When he returns home that night, however, he finds her laying dead on the floor. In a panic he buries her body deep in the woods and tries to return to his ordinary life. One day, he thinks he spots her walking down the street. Is his mind playing tricks on him, or has she somehow returned from the grave?
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Title: Miracle of Love
Character: Kai Masato
Released: April 15, 1999
Type: TV
After finding out about her surprise pregnancy, Janesuda was labeled as her lover, Atiruj's life-destroyer. Despite the taunts from the people around her lover, she tried to be patient and persevere to make her relationship work. However, love isn't always sweet. When she discovered that love was beginning to disappear for Atiruj, Janesuda decided to leave everything behind with a hurt heart. Atiruj continues to live his life mercilessly and with a cold heart.
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Title: I Love Dad Best in the World
Released: July 8, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Sometimes Love is a Lie
Character: Kawano Ryosuke
Released: April 8, 1998
Type: TV
A female surgeon desperately wants to have children but is unable to. Her pediatrician husband, meanwhile, threatens divorce in frustration. Complicating matters is the fact that his own step-brother has feelings for his wife. An operation of deceit and jealousy results in an unlikely happy ending
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Cure
Title: Cure
Character: Kunio Mamiya
Released: December 27, 1997
Type: Movie
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere...
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Title: Sore Ga Kotae Da!
Released: July 2, 1997
Type: TV
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Dream Stadium
Title: Dream Stadium
Released: June 21, 1997
Type: Movie
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July 7th, Sunny Day
Title: July 7th, Sunny Day
Released: May 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Hinata Mochizuki (Arisa Mizuki) is a superstar in the pop music scene, and Kenta Yamabe (Masato Hagiwara) is a very ordinary office worker. One day, the two meet, and then fell in love. However, due to the influence of various external factors, the relationship between the two does not go smoothly.
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My name is Reiko Shiratori! The Movie
Title: My name is Reiko Shiratori! The Movie
Character: Akimoto Tetsuya
Released: August 19, 1995
Type: Movie
Reiko and Tetsuya continue to live together. Reiko, who was informed by Kyoko that she was engaged to Takada, pretended not to be interested in her marriage, but in her heart, she wanted to marry Tetsuya. Tetsuya, unable to see through Reiko's true feelings, replies, "We shouldn't think about marriage until we're both adults and can live on our own." Meanwhile, Reiko's father, Shotaro, is stricken with cancer and receives a call that he has six months to live. In order to fulfill her father's wish, "I wanted to see Reiko as a bride while I was still alive," Reiko asked Tetsuya to marry him, and Tetsuya hesitated but accepted. However, Shotaro's doctor informs him that the cancer was misdiagnosed. While Reiko is relieved, she does not want to cancel her marriage to Tetsuya, so she proceeds with her wedding preparations without informing the people around her.
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MARKS
Title: MARKS
Character: Hiroyuki Mizusawa
Released: April 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on...
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Broken Heart
Title: Broken Heart
Released: January 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Eight love stories start and end in an amusement park.
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Title: Stay Gold
Character: Tetsuo Harashima(原島 哲生)
Released: October 19, 1994
Type: TV
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Hero Interview
Title: Hero Interview
Character: Pilot​
Released: September 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Kasumi Sawaki (Honami Suzuki) works for a top-ranked newspaper publishing company as a capable economic reporter. Speaking six languages fluently, she vigorously performs research and interviews. Her fiance, Ishii (Shingo Tsurumi) is an elite in the same company. Although her work and love seem to go very well, she is suddenly relegated to the minor Sports Department which is full of strange colleagues.
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Title: Natsuko no Sake
Character: 草壁渡
Released: January 12, 1994
Type: TV
Natsuko, who was a copywriter, starts to cultivate rice called Tatsunishiki, which is a phantom kind and it is very difficult to grow. She does it to make her dead brother's dream come true. His dream was to make the...
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Many Happy Returns
Title: Many Happy Returns
Character: Kazuo Takayama
Released: November 20, 1993
Type: Movie
Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers they are fakes, but is intrigued by the showmanship of the group, and becomes involved with them. The group is split into two, some members concentrating on spiritual teachings, and the others using the facade of religion to make money. The business faction dismiss the old spiritual master and choose Kazuo to lead their group.
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A Class to Remember
Title: A Class to Remember
Character: Kazu
Released: November 6, 1993
Type: Movie
A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.
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All Under the Moon
Title: All Under the Moon
Character: Businessman
Released: November 6, 1993
Type: Movie
A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.
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Title: My name is Reiko Shiratori!
Character: Akimoto Tetsuya
Released: January 14, 1993
Type: TV
The series follows the rich, beautiful, and stuck-up Reiko Shiratori, who has been in love with her friend Tetsuya Akimoto since childhood.
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The River with No Bridge
Title: The River with No Bridge
Character: Sadao Shimura
Released: May 23, 1992
Type: Movie
A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are continuously harassed by their teachers and classmates through their childhood as a result of their Buraku heritage. In the midst of the 1918 Great Rice Riots in Osaka, Seitaro meets with Asako, the daughter of a rice shop owner, and falls in love with her. She too is of Buraku descent. At the same period, Hideaki, an old friend of the brothers returns to Komori, and he along with Koji and the townspeople create "Zenkoku Suiheisha", the National Levelers Association, an organization pledged to build a bridge over the river of discrimination, making all people equal in every way.
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Kindly Answer: Touch Me Tenderly
Title: Kindly Answer: Touch Me Tenderly
Released: February 14, 1992
Type: Movie
A scramble of love and friendship that unfolds painfully and refreshingly, mainly on a university campus. A vivid spectacle of youth runs at full speed towards the motorcycle race that takes place around the woman of your dreams!
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Ibu wa hatsukoi no yō ni
Title: Ibu wa hatsukoi no yō ni
Released: December 16, 1991
Type: Movie
An office lady (Yasuko Tomita) who has a bitter memory of Christmas Eve breaks up with her affair partner (Shoji Sadaoka) and finds a new love.
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Tekken
Title: Tekken
Released: November 23, 1990
Type: Movie
A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...
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Doki doki Virgin mô ichido I Love You
Title: Doki doki Virgin mô ichido I Love You
Released: October 26, 1990
Type: Movie
Just when Hideki thinks he will lose his virginity, he gets hit by a car, and dies. God gives him a 2nd chance by placing his mind into the body of Sachiko's best friend, a girl. Can he convince Sachiko of his love?
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Title: Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Released: October 4, 1990
Type: TV
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Water Moon
Title: Water Moon
Released: December 16, 1989
Type: Movie
As the monk Ryuun, whose past and origin make him prone to internal and external fits, leaves the temple towards Tokyo, he gets to catch a glimpse of enlightenment resonating with the blind Kanoko.
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Title: Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B
Released: October 26, 1979
Type: TV
A legendary television series and cultural asset, Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B is famous for putting many social issues on the front burner of the public conscious over its long run, as filtered through the emotionally volatile lives of third year middle school students. The heartfelt relations between a devoted schoolteacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, and his unique students have won the show high praise for several decades. Whether due to the pressures of exams, family relations, teachers and friends, graduating middle school students navigate a turbulent hormonal sea of “hope” and “frustration”, constantly shaped by the social environment of the times. Standing as a beacon in the storm and emitting messages of hope for each generation is one Japanese teacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, who has come to be adored and admired by a nation through the adventures of Class 3B.