Hiroshi Tamaki

Hiroshi Tamaki

Born: January 14, 1980
in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Hiroshi Tamaki (玉木 宏 Tamaki Hiroshi, born 14 January 1980) is a Japanese actor, singer, and model from Nagoya, Japan. When he was still in high school, he was discovered by a talent agent while out shopping with friends. He made his debut in the drama Am I Weird? (私ってへん? Watashitte Hen?) in 1998. Tamaki became more well-known with his appearance in the 2001 film Waterboys.His singing career debuted with the single "Seasons" in summer 2004.He was cast as Shinichi Chiaki for the drama Nodame Cantabile, which aired in Japan on Fuji TV on October 16, 2006.

Movies for Hiroshi Tamaki...

Kingdom: Return of the Great General
Title: Kingdom: Return of the Great General
Character: Lord Changping
Released: July 12, 2024
Type: Movie
Depicts a continuation of the "Battle of Mayang", an all-out war against the neighboring country Zhao that Shin and Wang Ki fought in in the previous work "Flame of Fate".
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Title: The Silent Service
Character: Fukamachi Hiroshi
Released: February 9, 2024
Type: TV
An MSDF submarine collides with a U.S. nuclear submarine, crushing all 76 people on board, including its CO, Shiro Kaieda. However, the crew survives. The accident is a cover story to get the MSDF submarine's crew on board the Seabat, a nuclear submarine secretly built by the Japanese and U.S. governments. However, Kaieda loads the Seabat with nuclear missiles and suddenly mutinies and flees.
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Golden Kamuy
Title: Golden Kamuy
Character: Tokushiro Tsurumi
Released: January 19, 2024
Type: Movie
On the Hokkaido frontier, a war veteran and Ainu girl race against misfits and military renegades to find treasure mapped out on tattooed outlaws.
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Title: Jeanne's Judgment
Character: Echizen Gotaro
Released: January 12, 2024
Type: TV
Sanpuu Minami is a popular shojo manga artist who is believed by many to be a woman. In actuality, though, his real identity is Eichizen Gotaro, a single father with two children. One day, he receives a notification from the court that he has been appointed as a prosecutor's office examiner. With the deadline for his manga approaching, he requests a withdrawal but this is declined due to a lack of special circumstances. He joins 11 other people randomly selected from ordinary Japanese citizens, who each have unique personalities and give off the impression that they would like to get this over and done with. At first, Gotaro has a negative attitude towards the Prosecution Review Board, but as he gets closer to the thoughts of those behind the case, he starts to appreciate how important this job is.
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The Silent Service
Title: The Silent Service
Released: September 29, 2023
Type: Movie
Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and the United States in top secret. However, he and his 76 crew members go rogue in this story that delves into themes of nuclear war, international politics, and world peace.
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Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
Title: Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
Released: July 28, 2023
Type: Movie
To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield alongside a war orphan, now grown up, who dreams of glory.
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ShinaPushu THE MOVIE: Pushu Cheek World
Title: ShinaPushu THE MOVIE: Pushu Cheek World
Character: Nyu (voice)
Released: May 19, 2023
Type: Movie
Pushu Pushu lives leisurely on the Pushy Star. One day, when he was eating his favorite dumplings, the area around his mouth became dirty, and was wiping it with a towel... Suddenly, A creature named Nyu appeared! Surprised Pushu Pushu was, but there is no cheek. When Nyu appeared, her cheeks flew off into space. The troubled Pushu Pushu is encouraged by Nyu, and the two set off on an adventure in search of Cheeks on a rocket.
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Title: アクターズ・ショート・フィルム3ザ・ドキュメンタリー 映画はつねに新しい 完全密着1年間の記録
Released: March 4, 2023
Type: TV
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Title: 直前特番 アクターズ・ショート・フィルム3独占インタビュー  高良健吾/玉木宏/土屋太鳳/中川大志/野村萬斎
Released: February 6, 2023
Type: TV
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Black Night Parade
Title: Black Night Parade
Character: Kunehito
Released: December 23, 2022
Type: Movie
Hino Miharu, a dull man who has been working part-time at the convenience store Pawson Nerima Kitaguchi for three years, suddenly kidnapped by a man wearing a black Santa suit, saying, "It's a job offer! I'll be counting on you from today". When he wake up, there is a mysterious company in the North Pole, Santa Claus House. Miharu starts working as a black Santa who distributes presents to children around the world with his colleague with a strong personality, but this company has a secret.
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7 Secretaries: The Movie
Title: 7 Secretaries: The Movie
Character: Koichi Ogata
Released: October 7, 2022
Type: Movie
The seven secretaries who consist of the "Shadow Army" enjoy peaceful days. They receive a new request from Koichi Ogata, who runs a ramen restaurant in Nagano prefecture. He is furious at land development that is carried out by Alps Raicho Group. The Alps Raicho Group and their Alps Raicho Resort are run by the Tsukumo family. That family exerts tremendous influence around the region. The Tsukumo family seem like a well mannered family, but, in reality, they are a vicious family who will do anything for their own interests.
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This Child Is Evil
Title: This Child Is Evil
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Doctor Shiro Kubo, whose family had a severe accident leaving the mother in a coma, is called to treat a strange disease. His daughter is suspicious of the woman who claims to be her mother after leaving the coma. Who is the woman who pretends to be her mother? A father must do everything he can to bring tranquility to his family.
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The Way of the Househusband: The Cinema
Title: The Way of the Househusband: The Cinema
Character: Tatsu Kuroda
Released: June 3, 2022
Type: Movie
The most notorious househusband in history appears!! The sinister yakuza who left behind many legends in the underworld, "The Immortal Dragon". He washed his hands of the yakuza lifestyle, and the new path he chose… was "househusband"! In the never-before-seen narrative, "Tacchan" charmed living rooms everywhere. And now the "ultimate spokesman for housewives (and househusbands) everywhere,"the Yakuza Househusband, returns!
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The Way of the Househusband: Burst Into Laughter! Click SP
Title: The Way of the Househusband: Burst Into Laughter! Click SP
Character: Tatsu Kuroda
Released: May 27, 2022
Type: Movie
Taking place a year and a half after the final episode of the 2020 live-action series, it features a recap of said series and brand new stories set prior to the 2022 movie.
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Title: My Family
Character: Keishi Katsuragi
Released: April 10, 2022
Type: TV
Haruto Narusawa, the president of a video game company, enjoys life in the affluent seaside town of Kamakura with his wife and daughter, who attends an elementary school. However, tragedy befalls this happy family when his daughter is kidnapped. Haruto must now face numerous hardships as he navigates through the complex web of human nature that begins to show its ugliness. The only way to save his beloved daughter is to take matters into his own hands without the police's involvement and, together with his wife, stand against the kidnappers. Can this family's story reach a happy ending? Or will theirs be a tragedy? This non-stop family suspense-thriller tests the bonds of a family facing life's worst nightmare.
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Title: Dakara Korosenakatta
Character: Toru Ippongi
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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Hokusai
Title: Hokusai
Character: Utamaro Kitagawa
Released: May 29, 2021
Type: Movie
The unknown life of Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in the Edo period, who is said to have painted more than 30,000 works throughout his life, such as "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"
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Title: 世界サブカルチャー史 欲望の系譜
Character: Narration
Released: April 24, 2021
Type: TV
A captivating historical entertainment documentary delving into 20th-century subcultures from America, Europe, and Japan. These subcultures serve as more than just pockets of rebellion; they act as microcosms that mirror the spirit of their times, encouraging viewers to contemplate our world today and its future.
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Title: Tower of Justice
Character: Ren Kamijo(上條 漣)
Released: April 15, 2021
Type: TV
Ren Kamijō is the director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Investigation Liaison Division. His father is a former police officer. An incident in Ren's childhood triggered his thirst for power, and he has his sights set on heading the police force by becoming its Superintendent General someday. Ren believes topping the faction that he belongs to is the shortcut to fulfilling his aspiration. He is driven by ambition and has no qualms carrying out work, no matter how dirty it is. His childhood friend Sawa Mizuki, a senior detective in the First Investigation Division, often opposes his stance and mindset as a detective but is the only one who knows about his past.
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Title: 3-nen Tatsu-gumi: Gokushufu-sensei
Character: Tatsu
Released: November 8, 2020
Type: TV
The show, titled 3-nen Tatsu-gumi: Gokushufu-sensei, will reimagine if Tatsu became a substitute home economics teacher while the main home economics teacher was on maternity leave.
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Title: The Way of the Househusband
Character: Tatsu
Released: October 11, 2020
Type: TV
An infamous yakuza sets out to master the Way of the Househusband! "The Immortal Dragon"—an infamous and feared yakuza who has left behind countless legends in the underworld—has decided to wash his hands of his dark past and become… a "househusband"! Under the watchful eye of the neighborhood, the yakuza, and the police, witness this gangster-turned-husband's style of "justice and family love." A thrilling slapstick drama where the ultimate househusband faces struggles from every side! Can Tatsu protect his beloved family and neighborhood when they are caught up in an incident?
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Title: Path of the Dragons
Character: Ryuichi Yabata
Released: July 28, 2020
Type: TV
Not long after twin brothers Ryuichi and Ryuji were born, they were abandoned by their own parents. They were then adopted by the Yoshie couple, who ran a small shipping company. Sometime later, the Yoshies gave birth to their daughter Misa. Ryuichi and Ryuji enjoyed pleasant days with their adopted parents and younger sister Misa. When Ryuichi and Ryuji were 15-years-old, their parents experienced extremely dark days because of Genpei Kirishima, who ran a competing shipping company.
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Aircraft Carrier Ibuki
Title: Aircraft Carrier Ibuki
Character: Nariaki Seto, Captain of Hatsuyuki
Released: May 24, 2019
Type: Movie
The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and occupy parts of the Hateruma archipelago. Members of the Japan Coast Guard are detained. Under the extremely tense situation, the Japanese government sends Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and an escort fleet to the area. Ryota Akitsu is the captain of the Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and Toshiya Niinami is second-in-command. It is now 6:23 am. and Japan faces one day which they never have before.
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Title: Spiral
Released: April 15, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Banjō no alpha: Yakusoku no shōgi
Character: Akiba Shunsuke
Released: February 3, 2019
Type: TV
Newspaper journalist Shunsuke Akiba is transferred to the cultural desk and put in charge of shogi. He meets Nobushige Sanada, a 33-year-old aiming to be a professional shogi player by achieving the rank of 4-dan or more. Sanada is over the age limit as he could not achieve 4-dan by the age of 26, and is now trying to take an exam for admission to 3-dan. Akiba supports Sanada's attempt to become a professional shogi player and becomes interested in the game.
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Title: Stolen Face
Character: Shirato Takamasa
Released: January 5, 2019
Type: TV
Shirato Takamasa is a detective at the Investigation Cooperation Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. His job is to catch wanted criminals by only relying on their faces. One day, he sees Sunami's face who was a senior detective, but had a mysterious death 4 years ago.
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Love x Doc
Title: Love x Doc
Character: Shunsuke Nomura
Released: May 11, 2018
Type: Movie
Asuka Goda is a 40-year-old pastry chef who runs a sweets store. She works with pastry chef Seiya Hanada, who is younger than her, and Kenichi Gonda, who wants to become a pastry chef. One day, Seiya Hanada confesses to Asuka Goda about his feelings for her. Her situation brings back bad memories to what happened 5 years earlier. At that time, Asuka Goda was in an affair with store owner Junji Awai and also in a relationship with gym trainer Shunsuke Nomura. Asuka Goda decides to go to mysterious "Clinic Love Doc." The clinic lets people know everything about love with a gene test.
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Laplace's Witch
Title: Laplace's Witch
Character: Yuji Nakaoka
Released: May 4, 2018
Type: Movie
An environmental analyst is asked by the police to determine if two deaths by hydrogen sulfide poisoning are an accident - or a murder. But when he meets a young woman at both sites, a scientific mystery begins.
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Title: You've Got Someone to Come Home To
Released: April 13, 2018
Type: TV
A realistic portrayal of the daily struggles, pent-up frustrations and miscommunication of marital life that people everywhere can relate to, centered around the marriage of two couples.
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Evil and The Mask
Title: Evil and The Mask
Character: Fumihiro Kuki
Released: January 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Kuki Fumihiro is a son from a wealthy zaibatsu (conglomerate) family. His father raises him to become pure evil. Kuki kills his father to protect his adopted sister Kaori. Afterward, Kuki disappears. He undergoes plastic surgery and takes the identity of Koichi Shintani. He watches Kaori and faces the great evil that exists within the Kuki family.
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ドラマSP 松本清張「鬼畜」
Title: ドラマSP 松本清張「鬼畜」
Character: 竹中宗吉
Released: December 24, 2017
Type: Movie
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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: 冨永真一 東京地検特捜部・検事
Released: October 4, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Onna no Kunsho
Released: April 15, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Offbeat Chief Police
Character: Kinshiro Toyama
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: TV
On the day the new Chief of Staff arrived at Kitamachi Station, the officers here prepared to welcome him. At that time, a bus was hit by a man with a knife and robbed the passengers in the car. Newcomer Aikawa Minori was kicked out by a passenger when he tried to board the bus. She followed the bus by taxi, but the bus headed straight towards Kitamachi. For some strange reason robbers came to the station to present themselves. Minori then handcuffed her who prevented her from performing her duties. But the man she handcuffs to is the new Sheriff, Toyama Kinshiro.
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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: Shinichi Tominaga
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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Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current
Title: Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current
Character: Kiyoshi Mitarai
Released: June 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where the currents repeat every 6 hours.
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Title: Asa ga Kita
Character: Shinjirō
Released: September 28, 2015
Type: TV
Towards the end of the Edo era, in the town of Kyoto, there lived a wealthy merchant by the name of Imai Tadamasa. He was blessed with 3 children, Hatsu, Asa and Kyutaro. His eldest, Hatsu, was a traditional girl who loved to play the koto and sew. Whilst his second daughter, Asa, was an impish hoyden who loved sumo wrestling. Asa was engaged to be married to the second son of a distinguished family who ran a money changer business in Osaka, Shirooka Shinjiro. Although Asa was furious when she had first heard about the betrothal, when she met up with Shinjiro for the first time, his charisma greatly attracted her and she fell in love with him in no time.
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Genius Detective Mitarai: Abstruse Case File
Title: Genius Detective Mitarai: Abstruse Case File
Character: Kiyoshi Mitarai
Released: March 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Kiyoshi, a brilliant detective, inquiries on mysterious cases with his childhood friend, Ishioka, a novelist.
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Bali Big Brother
Title: Bali Big Brother
Character: Ryu
Released: January 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Sachiko runs a business in Japan, but her business fails. She then escapes to Bali. There, Sachiko meets rich Japanese man Aniki. From him, Sachiko gets encouragement.
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Title: Disappointing Husband
Character: Yoichi Haruno
Released: January 14, 2015
Type: TV
With his looks, personality and capabilities, 35-years-old Haruno Yoichi is considered the "ideal husband". However, he feels that his wife's attitude has cooled ever since she gave birth to their child. He knows neither the cause nor the solution, and has been reduced to the "unfortunate husband" at home. 28-years-old Chisato was thought to be the "ideal wife with all the the traditional graces" who does her best to look to her best to look to her husband with respect. But her husband's words and deeds which she could excuse until after childbirth, now make her feel uneasy. Because of her continued hysterics, she has become the "monster wife" to her husband.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Title: Murder on the Orient Express
Character: Hakushaku Ando
Released: January 11, 2015
Type: Movie
The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".
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Title: Murder on the Orient Express
Released: January 11, 2015
Type: TV
The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".
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Title: I'm Taking the Day Off
Character: Asao Yuu
Released: October 15, 2014
Type: TV
Hanae Aoishi is set to turn 30. She works for a general trading company and has never taken a day off or been late for work. She dresses pleasantly plain and has zero dating experience. She attends a company party and drinks with part-time employee Yuto Tanokura. He is a handsome university student. Through the evening, Hanae becomes drunk and passes out. When she wakes up, Hanae finds Yuto Tanokura sleeping next to her and he is naked. She becomes confused about what happened and takes the day off from work for the first time. To come out of her shell, Hanae decides to date Yuto Tanokura who is 9 years younger than her. At this time Yu Asao, the CEO of a food company located in the same building as her company, begins to have feelings for Hanae.
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Time Trip App
Title: Time Trip App
Character: Katsu Kaishu
Released: July 26, 2014
Type: Movie
In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu wants to avoid useless bloodshed and sends a peace envoy to Takamori Saigō, but Katsu Kaishu is unable to get a response from Takamori Saigō. One day, Katsu Kaishu meets high school teacher Mikako and her student Masaya who is captivated by the shogunate. Mikako and her student Masaya tells Katsu Kaishu that they are from the future. Katsu Kaishu takes care of Mikako and her student Masaya, while Mikako hopes to go back to the future where she came from.
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事件救命医2~IMATの奇跡~
Title: 事件救命医2~IMATの奇跡~
Released: June 15, 2014
Type: Movie
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Title: Addicted To Mystery
Character: Morio Ukai
Released: January 17, 2014
Type: TV
Akemi Ninomiya is a hardcore mystery fan. Although she is only a college student, she is wealthy and owns a building. Private Detective Morio Ukai prefers tracking down lost pets for wealthy clients rather than murder cases which brings in little money. The duo join forces to solve various suspicious cases.
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Sakura Housara
Title: Sakura Housara
Character: Shonosuke Furukehashi
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Shonosuke Furukehashi (Hiroshi Tamaki) is a young samurai and the second son of Sozaemon (Bunchin Katsura) of Togane Domain, Kazusa Province. Sozaemon serves as an attendant, but one day, he is suddenly suspected of accepting bribes. Forged documents written in handwriting startlingly identical to his offer incontrovertible evidence. Framed for accepting bribes he knows nothing about, Sozaemon commits ritual suicide for his “crime”. Shonosuke’s elder brother Katsunosuke (Satoshi Hashimoto), an assistant instructor at the domain’s training hall, is placed under house arrest. Because of that, Shonosuke leaves for Edo alone in order to clear the name of his beloved father.
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It All Began When I Met You
Title: It All Began When I Met You
Character: Kazuki
Released: November 22, 2013
Type: Movie
Six love stories following the love lives of ten different people.
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IMAT ~Crime Scene Medics~
Title: IMAT ~Crime Scene Medics~
Character: Akira Hyuga
Released: October 6, 2013
Type: Movie
IMAT (Incident Medical Assistance Team) is an emergency medical team formed to treat patients who are injured on crime scenes. The doctors on this team are often sent to dangerous destinations. The protagonist, Akira, lost his father in a terrorist bomb explosion in his childhood, and he is a doctor with an unparalleled will to save others. Takuma, a detective on the SIT (Special Investigation Team) has the polar opposite personality. He too lost his father in the same incident as Akira. Akira and Takuma tackle problems in opposite ways, sometimes going head to head with each other.
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Title: dinner
Released: January 13, 2013
Type: TV
This drama follows the staff of an Italian restaurant and their everyday struggles. “Roccabianca” is a famous and popular Italian restaurant, but their head chef and owner Tatsumi suddenly collapses and the restaurant loses its unique flavor. The number of customers rapidly declines, but the owner’s daughter and deputy manager Saori happens to find another chef named Ezaki through an online job market who learned cooking at the same place her father did. Ezaki becomes the new head chef of this restaurant and while nobody can deny that he is a gifted chef, it’s his extreme rationalism that doesn’t exactly go well with the restaurants attempt to save its traditional flavor.
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Title: Wonderful Single Life
Character: Junpei Kudo
Released: October 11, 2012
Type: TV
"Kekkon Shinai" follows the lives of single people in their 30's and 40's.
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The Assassins
Title: The Assassins
Character: Mu Shun
Released: September 26, 2012
Type: Movie
In the year 198, Cao Cao, Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, ventured to the east and defeated China's greatest warrior Lu Bu, terrifying every ambitious warlord across the country. Several years later, after taking the Han Emperor under his wing, Cao crowns himself King of Wei. He built a magnificent Bronze Sparrow Island to symbolize his power and rumors spread that he would replace the Emperor. Meanwhile, young lovers Mu Shun and Ling Ju are taken from a prison camp to a hidden tomb, where they spend five cruel years together, training as assassins for a secret mission. In the year 220 astronomical signs predict dramatic change. As a result, Cao's son Cao Pi and Cao's followers urge Cao to become the new Emperor - but unknown opposing forces plot against him.
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Kazoku Kashimasu ~ Family Complex
Title: Kazoku Kashimasu ~ Family Complex
Character: Yamamura Shuji
Released: April 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Yamamura Shuji (Tamaki Hiroshi) runs staffing "Family Romance Company" - a company that rents out people to act like their client's family members for occasions like weddings, funerals & meeting with teachers. One day, a customer, who wants to be loved by a family, comes to the "Family Romance Company." The customer's name is Tosaki Ryunosuke (Takenaka Naoto), who only has only one month left to live. Yamamura Shuji takes on the request of Tosaki Ryunosuke, but something which Yamamura Shuji does not expect occurs in the process.
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Title: Taira no Kiyomori
Character: Minamoto no Yoshitomo
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: 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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Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Title: Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Character: Toshikazu Shindo
Released: December 23, 2011
Type: Movie
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs. While this infamous attack is a low point in Japanese and US history it wouldn’t have happened if the Japanese government had listened to Yamamoto in 1939 and searched for a more peaceful way to end their war campaign, proving his many ominous presages of the outcomes of the attack to come true.
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Title: The Castle of Sand
Released: September 10, 2011
Type: TV
On December 11, 1960 an elderly man is found bludgeoned to death near the Kamata Station in Tokyo. Detective Yoshimura Hiroshi is a rookie detective that has only one clue to go on - the name "Kameda." Detective Yoshimura also has a dark side himself from his miserable experience in the war. Now, Detective Yoshimura places himself in the criminal's dark mind to track down the killer. Based on the 1961 novel "Suna no utsuwa" by Seicho Matsumoto it was also made as a feature film The Castle of Sand (1974).
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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: Guilty: The Woman Who Made a Pact with the Devil
Character: Mashima Takuro
Released: October 12, 2010
Type: TV
A pet groomer at a salon in Shirogane, Nogami Meiko has a lot of celebrity dog-lovers as customers. She cheerfully serves customers with care, and her skills are tried and tested. The salon's owner, Kotomi, has a strong faith in her, and she is admired by her colleagues. Meiko leads a quiet and fulfilling life... however, there is another side to her. She has a plan for revenge that she must accomplish. In truth, when she was 19, she was imprisoned for murder but there was also another side to this case. And just as she's about to execute her plan, she meets a man named Mashima Takuro. She acts mysteriously around him and for some reason, he makes her feel better. Is he the only miscalculation to her? Or a reckoning?
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Tales of the Bizarre 20th Anniversary Fall Special: Popular Author Competition
Title: Tales of the Bizarre 20th Anniversary Fall Special: Popular Author Competition
Released: October 4, 2010
Type: Movie
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The Lady Shogun and Her Men
Title: The Lady Shogun and Her Men
Character: Matsushima
Released: October 1, 2010
Type: Movie
In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children. A young man named Unoshin Mizuno hopes to marry childhood sweetheart Onobu, but due to class differences realizes this is almost impossible. To raise his social status and also save his poor family, Unoshin Mizuno enters the Ohoku (inner chambers of the Shugun's castle) and attempts to vie among 3,000 other men for the affection of the female shogun. What Unoshin Mizuno quickly learns about the Ohoku is that the men there are all beautiful, but highly ambitious and conniving. In this environment, the 7th shogun Tokugawa passes away and the new shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa takes the thrown and enters the Ohoku.
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Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II
Title: Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II
Character: Shinichi Chiaki
Released: April 17, 2010
Type: Movie
Nodame and Chiaki mutually decide that it would be for the best if they parted ways for a while so Nodame can practice for an upcoming competition. However, when things don’t go her way, she gets impatient and depressed. While Nodame is away, Chiaki’s former pianist Rui Son returns to take her place. To make matters worse, Rui and Chiaki are set to play the song Nodame dreams of playing with Chiaki herself: Ravel’s “Concerto in G Minor”.
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Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I
Title: Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I
Character: Shinichi Chiaki
Released: December 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Chiaki is an aspiring conductor who faces the challenge of leading an orchestra which is made up of substitutes. Nodame gives her support to her beloved as she works hard towards achieving her dream to pass a promotion exam at their music conservatory. Will Chiaki be able to revive a broken down orchestra and launch his musical career? What will become of Nodame and Chiaki's relationship?
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Title: のだめカンタービレ 最終楽章
Character: 千秋 真一
Released: December 19, 2009
Type: TV
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MW
Title: MW
Character: Michio Yuki
Released: July 3, 2009
Type: Movie
A live-action adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s mature manga masterpiece MW (pronounced “moo,” like a cow), created to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Tezuka. When a top secret chemical compound called MW infects an island near Okinawa, the military is sent in to kill all the victims and cover up the incident. A survivor named Michio Yuki (Hiroshi Tamaki) grows up to become a highly-successful banker, but he is slowly being driven mad by the effects of MW. After committing a series of ruthless crimes to get revenge against the people responsible for the cover-up, he decides that the only way to truly get revenge is to unleash MW on the world and exterminate the entire human race. Takayuki Yamada stars as Father Garai, a priest desperately trying to save Michios soul—and possibly his own in the process—but not necessarily doing much to stop the crime spree.
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MW: The Devil's Game
Title: MW: The Devil's Game
Character: Michio Yuki
Released: June 30, 2009
Type: Movie
The main character is a man named Takashi Morioka, who has lost his job and his home due to a recession. He ends up falling into a trap set by the diabolical Yuki Michio, who happened to survive by chance an incident on an island 16 years ago where all the inhabitants were killed, and which caused him to become evil. In order to protect the things important to him, Takashi Morioka (Sato Takeru) is forced to stain his hands in evil.
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Battle Under Orion
Title: Battle Under Orion
Character: Takaaki Kuramoto
Released: June 13, 2009
Type: Movie
The story of a Japanese sub's last mission during WWII.
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Title: Love Shuffle
Character: Usami Kei
Released: January 16, 2009
Type: TV
Love Shuffle is a Japanese television drama series that aired on TBS from 16 January to 20 March 2009. The theme song of the series is Fantasy by Earth, Wind & Fire. Usami Kei is a salaryman who has risen in status due to his engagement with Mei, the wealthy daughter of his company's president. Shortly after she breaks off the engagement, a power failure leaves him stuck in the elevator of his apartment building. Trapped with him are three others living on the same floor - Airu, a trilingual interpreter, Ojiro, a model photographer, and Masato, a psychiatrist. While waiting, their conversation hits upon their love lives and the question of whether there is truly only one fated partner for everyone. As a result, they decide to try "shuffling" their relationships with each other. --Tokyograph
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Kids
Title: Kids
Character: Takeo
Released: February 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Asato is a young man who returns to a slummy neighbourhood (referred to as 'The Street') to be near his Mum who is in prison. He is able to transfer other people's injuries and is unable to walk past a child with a grazed knee or broken arm without helping them. Asato is protected from street thugs by Takeo, another troubled young man who has issues involving his father who is lying in a coma in hospital. The third member of their group is a young waitress, Shiho, who has her own secret.
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Title: The Fantastic Deer-Man
Character: Takanobu Ogawa
Released: January 17, 2008
Type: TV
Forced out of his research group after conflicts with his colleagues, Ogawa Takanobu takes up an offer to teach at a girls' high school in Nara. When taking roll call on the first day one of his students, Hotta Ito, sneaks into class late, claiming a bogus excuse--that she got a ticket after trying to park her deer in front of the train station.
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Title: Atsuhime
Released: January 6, 2008
Type: TV
The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration, headed by those from Satsuma.
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Nodame Cantabile in Europe
Title: Nodame Cantabile in Europe
Character: Chiaki Shinichi
Released: January 4, 2008
Type: Movie
This 2 night special takes off during their graduation, where Chiaki-senpai & Nodame left for Europe. The first special centered on Chiaki's story, the story tells about Chiaki's dream to be a conductor. Nodame on the other hand attended the conservatory to attain her dream to one-day play the piano for Chiaki. After her hard work, Nodame was given a chance to have a mini recital. During the recital, Chiaki saw her worth and realized that he cannot go on with out her
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Smile
Title: Smile
Character: Mr. Tamaki (teacher)
Released: December 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skating instructor. But by a twist of fate, he finds himself coaching a local ice hockey team of hapless youths and leading them to a championship
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Midnight Eagle
Title: Midnight Eagle
Character: Shinichiro Ochiai
Released: November 23, 2007
Type: Movie
A stolen military aircraft with nuclear missiles on board crashes in the snowbound Northern Japanese Alps. Two teams of rangers from Japan's Defense Force must reach the craft before the enemies do.
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Heavenly Forest
Title: Heavenly Forest
Character: Makoto Segawa
Released: October 28, 2006
Type: Movie
The story begins with Makoto Segawa, a freshman at Meikei University. On the day of his university entrance ceremony, Makoto meets a fresh-faced, quirky girl named Shizuru. Makoto has a complex which causes him to shy away from contact with other people, but she succeeds in getting him to open up to her naturally. All Shizuru wants is to be with Makoto, so she takes up a camera too. The two spend their days together taking photos in the forest behind the campus. However, Makoto has feelings for another student named Miyuki. Shizuru decides that if Makoto likes Miyuki, she wants to like her too. She wants to like everything that he does. One day, she tells Makoto that she wants to take a photo of them kissing in the forest as a present for 'her birthday'. He obliges for her sake, and they kiss in the forest.
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Title: Nodame Cantabile
Character: Chiaki Shinichi
Released: October 16, 2006
Type: TV
Megumi Noda, or "Nodame" is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. An extremely talented pianist who wants to be a preschool teacher, she prefers playing by ear rather than reading the music score. She is messy and disorganized. Shinichi Chiaki is Momogaoka's top student. Born into a musical family, he is talented in piano and violin and has secret ambitions to become a conductor. An arrogant multi-lingual perfectionist who once lived abroad in the music capitals of the world as a young boy, he is trapped in Japan because of his childhood phobia of airplanes and the ocean. They meet by accident and sparks fly!
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Title: Top Caster
Character: Kensuke Kanihara
Released: April 17, 2006
Type: TV
Top Caster is a Japanese television drama series that aired on Fuji TV in 2006.
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Title: The Ice Wall
Released: January 14, 2006
Type: TV
Two mountaineers fall in love with the same woman. When one of the men plunges to his death, suspicion falls on the survivor.
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Henshin
Title: Henshin
Character: Junichi Naruse
Released: November 19, 2005
Type: Movie
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Nagurimono: Love & Kill
Title: Nagurimono: Love & Kill
Released: September 3, 2005
Type: Movie
A foppish English businessman (Christian Storms) stages a martial-arts contest between champions of two rival yakuza gangs to resolve a dispute over a wonder drug he is dealing and that both sides want.
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Ghost Shout
Title: Ghost Shout
Released: December 18, 2004
Type: Movie
Yoko Sakaki: 24 years old. Occupation: Ghost Negotiator. With her tomboyish attitude and severely bad mouth, she helps ghosts leave this world by shouting at them. But, that work is almost done - she and her boyfriend Toshio are about to get married, and their dream is to open a tofu shop together. However, she has kept her profession a secret from him, instead telling him she is a flight attendant... While out with him one night, Yoko gets a call from work telling her that a ghost has appeared in Hachioji... She goes to bust the ghost with her unreliable new partner, Yanagida, but can she hold on to her relationship at the same time?
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River of First Love
Title: River of First Love
Character: Sinpei Kato
Released: November 13, 2004
Type: Movie
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, on her own. Shimpei's childhood sweetheart, Sayuri, is deaf, but somehow they can understand each other and they always spend time together.
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Renai Shousetsu
Title: Renai Shousetsu
Character: Satoshi Kubo
Released: June 19, 2004
Type: Movie
A love story starring Tamaki Hiroshi, Konishi Manami, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Hirayama Aya and Kamiki Ryunosuke. Hiroyuki, a fourth-year law student who has just broken up with his girlfriend Miwa, is approached by Satoshi, a student at the same university, on his way home from school and asked to do something strange. He wants to make a will for himself. Satoshi, who calls himself the "God of Death," begins to tell him about his mysterious past. He wants to get close to people but cannot. He says that everyone he was close to would die. So he has lived his life without befriending or loving anyone since he was a child. But when Satoshi meets a woman named Mizuki, he unexpectedly falls in love with her. And that was the beginning of a very sad love story...
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Title: To the One I Love
Character: Shingo Orihara
Released: April 19, 2004
Type: TV
What if the one you love were destined to lose his eyesight in three months? What would you like him to see last? If you were him, what would you want to see last? Shiki Tomokawa is a new pediatrician who is enjoying her life. She falls in love with Shunsuke, a cameraman, who is destined to lose his eyesight in a couple of months. How will Shiki react when she finds out Shunsuke's destiny? "To the One I Love" takes place in two contrasting cities?in the hustle and bustle of Tokyo, and in the peaceful city of Nagasaki, and depicts both the joys and sadness of life, and the interaction with family and friends.
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Spirit
Title: Spirit
Released: February 21, 2004
Type: Movie
Kyuu, a Japanese boy comes to Hawaii, looking for a place to bury a surfboard of his late friend Arata. Arata often said 'There's no sea in Heaven.' His death has a huge impact on Kyuu's life. But with therelationship with local people, music, legends, he slowly regains positive attitude to his future.
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Rockers
Title: Rockers
Character: Tani
Released: September 27, 2003
Type: Movie
Guitarist Ko-chan is a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their make-up skills. Bassist Gaku-chan keeps a bucket in the wings for whenever his nerves get the better of him, and drummer Momo-chan is doomed to forever carrying the botched childhood attempts at self-tattooing. It's not until this foursome is forced to look for an additional guitar player after Jin's dad burns his Stratocaster, that attitude and musical ability enter into the equation. Leather-clad, shade-wearing Tani (Tamaki), inseparable from his black Les Paul, is introduced as the king of R'n'R cool and Jinnai keeps him firmly seated on his throne throughout the film, retroactively proclaiming the guitarist, rather than himself, as the band's true hero.
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Revolver - Blue Spring
Title: Revolver - Blue Spring
Character: Osamu
Released: June 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: Kokoro
Character: Hotta Takumi
Released: March 31, 2003
Type: TV
Suenaga Kokoro, an international flight attendant, lives with her mother and grandmother who operate a traditional restaurant in a lively downtown district of Tokyo where customs and traditions run deep and neighbors know each other like a big family.
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Ghost System
Title: Ghost System
Released: January 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Misaki receives an email from a friend who had supposedly died when they were younger. She investigates and finds a scientist who uses the "Ghost System" to contact spirits.
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Title: Remote
Character: Shingo Ueshima
Released: October 12, 2002
Type: TV
Locked away deep in his home and hiding a secret that keeps him there, Detective Kozaburo Himuro remains ever vigilant in his duties of police work. But how does the wunderkind detective investigate crime scenes without ever stepping out of his home? Enter traffic cop Kurumi Ayaki. She's a young lady who's about to marry and resign from the force when tasked with being Himuro's eyes and ears on the beat. While on the scene of the crime their only means of communication is via mobile phone. Together they investigate a series of mind-boggling murder mysteries that put them, particularly Kurumi, in constant danger. Can Kurumi keep up with Detective Himuro, and the fast-paced and dangerous work of criminal investigation?
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The Blue Blanket
Title: The Blue Blanket
Released: October 5, 2002
Type: Movie
An emotionally unstable woman who works at a supermarket meets and falls in love with a younger man.
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Title: Tsuhan-Man
Released: July 5, 2002
Type: TV
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Sabu
Title: Sabu
Character: Kinta
Released: May 14, 2002
Type: Movie
When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
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Waterboys
Title: Waterboys
Character: Sato
Released: September 15, 2001
Type: Movie
In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition, in-spite of the mockeries of the real sportsmen.
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Christmas Eve
Title: Christmas Eve
Released: April 21, 2001
Type: Movie
A horror depicting the serial murder that occurred in a villa closed in the snow.