Junji Takada

Junji Takada

Born: January 21, 1947
in Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Junji Takada...

Inspector Totsugawa's Requiem
Title: Inspector Totsugawa's Requiem
Released: December 29, 2022
Type: Movie
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Keishichou Hikikomori-gakari
Title: Keishichou Hikikomori-gakari
Released: August 5, 2021
Type: Movie
About a police investigation unit made up entirely of hikikomoris.
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Stigmatized Properties
Title: Stigmatized Properties
Character: Tsutomu Izaki
Released: August 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Yamano Yamame, an entertainer who can't sell, is unreasonably told by his seniors that he should live in the accident property because he will put it on TV, and he moves to the property where the murder occurred due to his appearance on TV and the low rent. At first glance, the room was a normal room, but a mysterious white object was reflected in the image of the room, and the sound was disturbed. The program in which Yamame appeared became lively, and Yamame moved around the accident property in search of new material. Yamame, who encounters various mysterious phenomena in the room where he lives, makes a big break as an "entertainer who lives in the accident property".
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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 72
Title: Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 72
Released: July 26, 2020
Type: Movie
University professor Kenzo Oshima (Hisamatsu Nobumi) is stabbed to death by someone in an alleyway in Tokyo, and Inspector Totsukawa (Takahashi Hideki) and Detective Kamei (Takada Junji) of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Department's Investigative Division 1 arrive on the scene. According to the first finder, the victim died after saying "Totsukawa...". Oshima was famous as the leading authority on mitochondria, but he had never met Totsukawa... Totsukawa is puzzled, but begins to investigate, and discovers that a suspicious man has been caught on a security camera near the crime scene. Seeking a clue, Totsukawa and his colleagues interview associate professor Hayase Yumi (Kurotani Yuka) and the president of a biotechnology company, Koji Nakazono (Nakamura Shunsuke), who was assisting them in their research, to find out what happened. They find out that the man caught on the security camera is none other than their childhood friend, Akaike Shogoro (Matsuo Satoshi).
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Title: Women Document Detectives
Character: Yoshinobu Zaitsu
Released: April 19, 2018
Type: TV
Detective Tomo Yashiro is ordered to transfer to the Sixth Special Investigations Unit. it is in charge of deciphering documents of unsolved cases she begins work in her new post along with a senior detective Risa Narum who is called the expert of document deciphering for her unusual ability to predict the personality and thoughts of a writer from writings
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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata
Title: Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata
Character: Detective Kamei
Released: September 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Inspector Totsugawa of the First Investigation Division goes to Tsuruoka in Yamagata to attend the wedding of the son of Inspector Mukai, his former colleague who now works for the Yamagata Prefectural Police. While sightseeing at Mt. Haguro after the ceremony, he notices a young woman drawing him in her sketchbook. She introduces herself as Yuka Shiraishi and says she came to draw the Dewa Sanzan. Signing the drawing of Totsugawa next to the five-story pagoda with her initial, a 'Y' in the corner, she gives it to him as a present. The next morning, the corpse of a young woman who has been stabbed is discovered in a forest in Tsuruoka. When Totsugawa, on his way back, hears that a sketchbook signed with a 'Y' was found at the scene, he follows Mukai there. However, the body is not Yuka, the woman Totsugawa had met, and while no items pointing to her identity are found, the sketchbook is the same one Yuka had the day before.
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Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery 67: Murder in Hakone - Leaves & Mountains
Title: Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery 67: Murder in Hakone - Leaves & Mountains
Character: Detective Kamei
Released: April 8, 2017
Type: Movie
Detective Kamei of the First Investigation Division receives a request from lawyer Shinichi Nakamura, the son of his deceased close friend, to re-investigate a car accident. Akiko, the wife of Yasuo Furuki, a painter from Hakone, died in the accident 5 months earlier by crashing into a guardrail. Nakamura's client, Akiko's younger sister Yuki Izeki, suspects that she was actually murdered by Furuki for insurance money. Overwhelmed by these thoughts, Yuki had sent an email reading "I'll never forgive that man. I'm going to kill him and avenge my big sister," announcing a murder to Nakamura. In the middle of their conversation, Nakamura receives a call from Hakone PD confirming that Yuki had turned herself in that morning...
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WHO KiLLED IDOL? -The End of SiS-
Title: WHO KiLLED IDOL? -The End of SiS-
Released: February 4, 2017
Type: Movie
A music documentary covering the short-lived BiS sister group, SiS, from their formation to their sudden disbandment, and their integration into GANG PARADE.
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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 66: Kushiro-Obihiro Murder Route
Title: Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 66: Kushiro-Obihiro Murder Route
Character: Detective Kamei
Released: July 2, 2016
Type: Movie
The strangled dead body of Hiroshi Hatano, accounting section chief at the longstanding apparel company Edaka International, is discovered in his apartment in Tokyo. At the scene, Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei find out that a mysterious email stating "I'll be riding the Super Ozora 5 tomorrow" was sent to the victim's cell phone the night before. The sender, Manami Furuya, an employee of Edaka International's Planning Section, has strangely terminated her cell phone service and hasn't shown up to work that very morning. Immediately afterwards, Totsugawa is astonished to receive a report from the Hokkaido police stating that the body of a man, stabbed to death, has been found on the Super Ozora 5 limited express. The man is Yuuki Nakamura, a bar employee from Tokyo, who seems to have flown from Haneda Airport to Sapporo and then boarded the Super Ozora 5, which connects Sapporo and Kushiro. Totsugawa has the feeling that this can't be a coincidence...
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Title: Sleepeeer Hit!
Character: Masaru Kuji
Released: April 12, 2016
Type: TV
Kokoro Kurosawa used to be a contender for the Olympic Judo Team, but she had to give up on her dream due to an injury. In the end, she ends up working at weekly manga magazine "Vibes." The publishing industry is going through a turbulent time due to ebooks. Members of the editorial department struggle to come up with ways to sell more manga books. She learns about editing from her senior editors and becomes fascinated with the edition world, interacting with manga writers, and discovering new manga artists. But what surprises her the most is that in a competitive world such as manga publishing, not all dreams come true, and even when they do, they come with a price...
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Welcome to Our Home
Title: Welcome to Our Home
Character: Toshiharu Yagi
Released: April 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Kenta Kurata (Masaki Aiba) lives with his father, Taichi (Akira Terao), his mother, Keiko (Kaho Minami), and his younger sister, Nana (Kasumi Arimura) in an isolated home in the suburbs. He works as an unpopular commercial designer. Kenta Kurata possesses a timid personality, which he picked up from his father. Kenta doesn't like his father. One day, while waiting for the train, Kenta warns a man who pushed a woman and cut in line. Kenta is surprised that he spoke out with his normally timid personality. After that incident, Kenta's family home is targeted by an unknown person with flowers from their garden being pulled out and the seat of a bicycle being torn. Also, Kenta's younger sister Nana is stalked by her ex-boyfriend. Kenta and his family try to find out who is responsible.
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Title: The History of Our Family
Character: Miyoji Koga
Released: April 9, 2010
Type: TV
Wagaya no Rekishi is a Japanese three-part television mini-series, shown on Fuji TV from April 9, 2010 to April 11, 2010 to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. The show was known for its star-studded cast.
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Flying Rabbits
Title: Flying Rabbits
Released: September 13, 2008
Type: Movie
Yukari always wanted to become a flight attendant and has just been hired by Japan Airlines. However, due to an unexpected mistake, she has also been recruited to the company's basketball team (the JAL "Rabbits") despite being a lousy at basketball. Forced to divide her time between job training and playing basketball, Yukari makes an increasing amount of mistakes in both areas. Frustrated, she nearly gives up on her dream career, but somehow finds the strength to keep trying both in the skies and on the court.
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CLEARNESS
Title: CLEARNESS
Character: Okinawa Customer
Released: February 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Sakura is a 20-year-old college student who has sex for money to fund her shopping addiction. After her customers leave her apartment, she spends her time spying on Leo, a young, beautiful, and (dyed) blond-haired boy, who works at a male escort service across the street. One day, Leo pays her a visit, and so starts an unlikely friendship. But Leo has a troubled past. He is the son of a prostitute who worked for his current pimp and died before she could repay money that she owed. He himself entered the business when he graduated from junior high school. Though Leo refuses to make love to Sakura (he has a policy of not having sex outside of work), the two fall in love and become inseparable until Leo gets into a fight with Sakura's boyfriend and gets him into a car accident. Leo turns himself in, and Sakura moves to Okinawa to wait for him at their dream destination.
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Title: Utahime
Character: Kishida Katsuo
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: TV
Koizumi Akira, a son of a popular songstress, travels to a small-town cinema in far-off Kochi Prefecture to watch the closing movie before the theatre shuts its doors forever. The movie takes place in the same village but during the Showa 30s (1950s), in the years following the war. The story follows a young soldier who washes ashore on the beach one day, having lost his memory. He is "adopted" by the family who owns the village cinema and given the name Shimanto Taro. Although his past remains a mystery, Taro becomes good friends with many of the villagers, discovering his love for movies and falling in love with a feisty young girl.
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The Piano Forest
Title: The Piano Forest
Released: July 21, 2007
Type: Movie
Amamiya Shu transfers to Moriwaki elementary filled with hope and ambition. But it doesn't take long before he gets picked on by the class bullies, and gets involved in a dare to play the mysterious piano in the forest.
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Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series
Title: Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series
Character: Mayor
Released: October 28, 2006
Type: Movie
After terminally ill Bussan finally passes away he misses hanging out with his still living friends and decides to return to Kisarazu. In his ghost form however only his most trusted friends can see him, and his meddling in the lives of the living results in the return of Ozzy and a long dead team of American baseball players who drowned off the shores of Kisarazu. It's down to Bussan and the Cats to save the day and restore the town to order, but can Bussan bring himself to say bye-bye once and for all?
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The Pavillion Salamandre
Title: The Pavillion Salamandre
Character: Shiro Ninomiya
Released: September 16, 2006
Type: Movie
Four beautiful sisters are entrusted with taking care of Kinjiro, a giant salamander and national treasure. Rumors spread that Kinjiro is an impostor, so a genius x-ray technician is sent to run some tests.
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Title: Pittanko Kan Kan
Released: April 15, 2003
Type: TV
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Moonlight Serenade
Title: Moonlight Serenade
Character: Mr. Black Marketeer
Released: March 15, 1997
Type: Movie
After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.
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Secret Waltz
Title: Secret Waltz
Released: November 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Akira Nobi directs this violent two-fisted tale about a pair of abandoned sibling teens who fall into a web of yakuza intrigue. The film opens with young, pretty Maki (Natsuo Ishido) luring a drunken salariman into a parking lot only to be mugged by Maki's brother, Shinji (played by former child star Mitsunori Isaki). Unfortunately, the drunk proves to be no ordinary working stiff, but a gangster who takes a dim view of petty crime.
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Title: 南くんの恋人
Character: Takayuki Minami
Released: January 10, 1994
Type: TV
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Private Lessons II
Title: Private Lessons II
Released: March 6, 1993
Type: Movie
An insecure young Asian man meets an interesting sensual European woman who teaches him the secrets of love and life.
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Ghost Soup
Title: Ghost Soup
Character: Uncle of Money Collection
Released: December 21, 1992
Type: Movie
It's Christmas Eve in Tokyo as Ichiro is moving into his new apartment one month ahead of schedule. As he is getting settled in, two strangers enter the apartment and are surprised to find him there. They begin complaining that he is upsetting their plans for a Christmas party to be thrown in the apartment that night before attempting to kick him out.
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Omelette
Title: Omelette
Released: October 19, 1992
Type: Movie
A story about a divorce.
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Canned Crab
Title: Canned Crab
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A man has a can of crab stolen from him.
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The Men Who Made Ultraman
Title: The Men Who Made Ultraman
Released: March 21, 1989
Type: Movie
A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.
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The West Tako Cheerleaders
Title: The West Tako Cheerleaders
Released: August 15, 1987
Type: Movie
A boy seeks manhood in joining his school’s militaristic cheer squad.
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Leave My Girl Alone
Title: Leave My Girl Alone
Character: Hotel guest
Released: December 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan himself…
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Death Shadows
Title: Death Shadows
Released: September 20, 1986
Type: Movie
Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking officials. During their investigation on some illegal business, one of them, called “Yazuke the Viper”, finds his abandoned daughter, Ocho, who has now become a mistress of Denzo, a smuggler. After Yazuke’s death, Ocho is also recruited as a “shadows executioner”, with the task of completing her father’s mission.
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Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!
Title: Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!
Released: June 29, 1985
Type: Movie
When the Shogunates greatest secret is stolen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. The Shogunate sends an incompetent cop, Tanaka, to Kyoto to act as a stalking horse. Hoping the thieves will kill Tanaka and the Ninja Spies will kill the thieves. But what the Shogunate doesn't realise is that Tanaka's even more incompetent assistant Mondo is in fact the leader of a gang of revengers for hire, there motto is "Sure Death" (or your money cheerfully refunded). Mondo doesn't know that everyone knows about the secret, but they all think he does. Poor Mondo, he not only has to deal with crazed Shogunate extremists, oddball ninjas, crooks who work for the Emperor and bicycle riding foreign death squads. He also have to deal with a wife and a crazy mother-in-law!
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Big Magnum Kuroiwa
Title: Big Magnum Kuroiwa
Character: Isamu Fujikura
Released: April 13, 1985
Type: Movie
Kuroiwa, a high school teacher who carries a “Big Magnum 44” gun is sent to a school that is full of violence. Can Kuroiwa reform the students with the gun?
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Haze of Love
Title: Haze of Love
Released: January 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Rumiko Arai, a 20-year-old girl working in a sawmill, meets a driver, Sekiguchi, and they begin a relationship with the promise of marriage. But Rumiko's grandmother tells her that they are both cursed by an ancient evil.
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Kabamaru the Ninja Boy
Title: Kabamaru the Ninja Boy
Released: August 6, 1983
Type: Movie
Kabamaru is a young boy raised and trained by his grandfather as a ninja. After the sudden death of his grandfather, he starts living with Mai, his grandfather’s mistress, who is a school director. He is asked to help out on struggles against other schools, as he is master of the ninja mystical arts. As time passes he will make lots of friends as well as enemies, and fall in love with Mai.
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Title: 西村京太郎トラベルミステリー
Character: Sadao Kamei
Released: October 17, 1981
Type: TV
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Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
Title: Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
Character: Kashiyama
Released: October 6, 1979
Type: Movie
A meek salaryman who gets no respect at home and is belittled at work gets inspiration from Superman and somehow becomes a strangely suited, hugely endowed, masked sexual avenger.