Chōei Takahashi

Chōei Takahashi

Born: November 29, 1942
in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Chōei Takahashi...

Somebody's Flowers
Title: Somebody's Flowers
Released: October 31, 2021
Type: Movie
A neighbor dies when potted flowers fall from a balcony of an apartment complex. A man whose father suffers from dementia begins to question if it really was an accident.
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Title: Ru: Taiwan Express
Character: Katsuichiro Hayama
Released: May 16, 2020
Type: TV
In 1999, a general trading company in Tokyo celebrates because Shinkansen of Japan wins priority negotiating rights for the Taiwan High Speed Rail. Haruka Tada (Haru) has been working at the general trading company for 4 years and she is sent to Taiwan for work. When Haruka Tada was a university student, she visited Taiwan for the first time during the summer. During that time, she happened to meet young Taiwanese man Eric and he showed her Taiwan for a day. She lost contact with him after that and she could not find him again. She then sealed away her thoughts about him in her mind. 6 years later, Haruka Tada arrives in Taiwan again.
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Title: The Road to Red Restaurant List
Character: Zenyoji Shizuo [Kochin owner] (Ep. 3)
Released: January 25, 2020
Type: TV
Suda Tamio is an ordinary salaryman. He experiences various stress throughout his daily life. His only pleasure is to set out on trips to find "Zetsumeshi." Zetsumeshi refers to endangered meals, that may no longer exist in the future. While his wife Kanae and child go attend concerts by their favourite idol groups, he leaves home on Friday after work and returns home Saturday night.
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The Takatsu River
Title: The Takatsu River
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Set along the river basin of Shimane Prefeture's Takatsu River, a government-protected river, this drama portrays various people living in an area burdened by decreasing population as they carry on the tradition of "Kagura" Shinto music and dance which is said to be the roots of Kabuki. Directing from his own screenplay is Nishikori Yoshinari of Railways. Saito Manabu (Komoto Masahiro) operates a ranch on a mountain and worries his son Tatsuya (Ishikawa Raizo) has been making a habit of skipping Kagura practice. Then Manabu learns his alma mater elementary school will be closed down.
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Onihei side story: The Final Chapter - The Fourth Wife
Title: Onihei side story: The Final Chapter - The Fourth Wife
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Inomatsu, a carpenter with a reputation as a skilled craftsman, has a wife named Oritsu. Oritsu is deeply in love with Inomatsu and believes that the purpose of her life is to devote herself to her husband day and night. However, Oritsu is Inomatsu's fourth wife. In fact, he is a robber and thief. As a carpenter, Inomatsu usually sneaked into merchants' houses and carried out robberies. For him, wives are just a tool to deceive the public...
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Through Their Eyes
Title: Through Their Eyes
Released: April 2, 2016
Type: Movie
A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected dogs and cats at animal shelters. The story is told through the eyes of tormented vets who are relentless in their efforts to change the system to serve these animals with dignity.
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Title: Marginal Village Inc.
Character: Hiroshi Ono
Released: January 31, 2015
Type: TV
In a small village in the Kanto regioin, which is surrounded by mountains, residents and a management consultant (Shosuke Tanihara) struggle to rebuild the village through its only industry, farming.
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Title: Demon Ward
Character: Ishikawa Isao
Released: July 18, 2013
Type: TV
Set within a hospital, located on the outskirts of town, mysterious phenomenons occur in sequence around a nurse. The nurse is suspected as the cause for some horrible cases and finds herself in danger.
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Title: Ooka Echizen
Character: Genjiro Murakami
Released: March 30, 2013
Type: TV
The reign of the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune in the Edo period, was notable for the “Ooka Sabaki” which supported the Kyoho Reforms that Yoshimune advanced. Yoshimune goes beyond status and the position he has been thrust in, to join with Edo magistrate Ooka Tadasuke and the Western medicine doctor Sakakibara Iori in order to promote the creation of a world for the common people of Edo. These three men deepen exchanges with the magistrate’s office and the townsfolk, uphold justice and struggle to keep order in Edo…
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Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Title: Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Character: Fumihiko Sato
Released: May 12, 2012
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitants and stumbles upon a stage play written by an enigmatic student of her ex-boyfriend.
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The Sylvian Experiments
Title: The Sylvian Experiments
Character: Detective Hirasawa
Released: July 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Dr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian and Japanese guinea pigs that had been found in the basement of a wrecked hospital. Out of the blue, there is a white light and when they look back, they see they children Ota Miyuki and Kaori staring at the light. Years later, Miyuki vanishes from the Tama Medical University Hospital and her sister Kaori, Miyuki's boyfriend Motojima and detective Hirasawa are seeking her. However, Miyuki and the teenagers Kazochi, Takumi, Hattori and Rieko have been submitted to a nightmarish experiment by Dr. Hattori and her team with tragic results.
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Cat Taxi
Title: Cat Taxi
Released: June 2, 2010
Type: Movie
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Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills
Title: Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills
Released: May 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy life of Noe Isomura (Rena Tanaka) with the difficult family she has married into after her former husband passed away. One day as she tries to brake off a branch of a cherry tree, she is aided by a samurai who she does not recognize but who recognizes her. He turns out to be a former suitor that she never met named Yaichiro Tezuka (Noriyuki Higashiyama) and who teaches swordsmanship to the local samurai. Meanwhile, the powerful new chief retainer of the village enacts land policies that threaten the survival of the local farmers.
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Title: Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File
Released: April 2, 2007
Type: TV
Modern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen / Operation Mystery tv show. A special unit called SRI (Science Research Institute) is investigating mysterious cases.
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I Just Didn't Do It
Title: I Just Didn't Do It
Character: Masayoshi Arakawa
Released: January 20, 2007
Type: Movie
A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.
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Going Home
Title: Going Home
Character: Masayoshi
Released: November 26, 2004
Type: Movie
Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight years. Miyuki is back in town with her daughter Chiharu, after leaving a failed marriage.
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Title: AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: TV
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
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Riot in Gujo
Title: Riot in Gujo
Released: December 23, 2000
Type: Movie
Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro's wife is played by Hiromi Iwasaki, his father is played by Go Kato and Ryuzo Hayashi plays a leader of the Riot. The Riot in Gujo is called one of the biggest three riots in the Edo Period as it took almost 5 years to settle and also involved the Edo government. This movie is a period film about the riot and Gujo farmers fighting for their tenacity of purpose. The farmers had suffered enough from heavy taxes and decided to rise up in riot when the domain lord, Yorikane, issued a new act, which practically forced tax increases. Asking the lord to retract the act, they pour down to the Hachiman Castle. For once they attain the repeal deed signed by the chief retainer. However the promise is broken. Now the farmers decide to make a direct plea to the Edo Residence…This film is full tension and breathless moments.
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Kaza-hana
Title: Kaza-hana
Character: Head Priest
Released: September 14, 2000
Type: Movie
An alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he's impulsively made a suicide pact. Though he's now changed his mind, he agrees to travel with her to Hokkaido, her preferred site for ending it all.
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Will to Live
Title: Will to Live
Released: January 15, 1999
Type: Movie
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
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Woman in Witness Protection
Title: Woman in Witness Protection
Character: Kitamura Team Leader
Released: September 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness vulnerable to the killers, the police assign two officers to safeguard her until the trial. In the interim, the lives of Biwako and everyone around her are changed in unexpected ways.
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Supermarket Woman
Title: Supermarket Woman
Character: Shin
Released: June 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Failing supermarket manager Goro hires the energetic Hanako, his old classmate, to help him compete with a new, rival business in town. Soon, Hanako's ideas and energy completely revitalize the store – but not without ruffling some feathers and sparking some romance along the way.
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A Quiet Life
Title: A Quiet Life
Character: Police Officer
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: Movie
A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
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Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
Title: Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
Character: Major Yagashima
Released: June 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years later, she seeks out the relatives of the pilots when the piano is old and about to be discarded.
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The Last Dance
Title: The Last Dance
Character: Dying Patient
Released: May 29, 1993
Type: Movie
A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. Though his family, friends, and doctor try to keep the secret of his terminal cancer from him, Buhei gradually comes to realize the truth of his condition, leading him on a journey of despair, anger, and – ultimately – acceptance.
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Manila Gokudo Wars
Title: Manila Gokudo Wars
Released: March 13, 1992
Type: Movie
Shuji Kanzaki, who lives in the underworld of Manila, winds up in a fierce battle with Japan's biggest gangster.
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Crossroads in Tokyo
Title: Crossroads in Tokyo
Released: April 27, 1991
Type: Movie
A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expelling part of its individuals.
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Heat Wave
Title: Heat Wave
Character: Shiroshima
Released: February 9, 1991
Type: Movie
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
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Don't Mind
Title: Don't Mind
Released: March 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.
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A Taxing Woman's Return
Title: A Taxing Woman's Return
Character: Business Employee
Released: January 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.
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Machi nureta onna
Title: Machi nureta onna
Character: Chôkichi
Released: December 19, 1987
Type: Movie
A woman living alone is visited by her ex-husband. At the same time a young couple who are about to break up get trapped in the town as public transport is cut off.
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Fugitive Alien
Title: Fugitive Alien
Character: Rocky
Released: November 3, 1987
Type: Movie
An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.
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Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
Title: Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
Character: Rocky
Released: November 3, 1987
Type: Movie
In this second film compiled from episodes of a Japanese TV serial, Captain Joe, reformed interstellar marauder Ken and the rest of the crew of the Bacchus-III set off to destroy an alien race's super-weapon.
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Hachiko
Title: Hachiko
Character: Mase
Released: August 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
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A Taxing Woman
Title: A Taxing Woman
Character: Section Manager of Subaru Bank Branch
Released: February 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
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Kāsan no ki
Title: Kāsan no ki
Character: Morino
Released: September 21, 1986
Type: Movie
A mother fights to reverse her dismissal from her job as a telephone operator
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A Human Promise
Title: A Human Promise
Character: Takeya Nakamura
Released: September 13, 1986
Type: Movie
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
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Scent of a Spell
Title: Scent of a Spell
Character: Yutaka Takimura
Released: December 27, 1985
Type: Movie
A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that she’s escaped from a violent husband. but there’s more to her story than she's willing to tell at first.
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Tampopo
Title: Tampopo
Character: Salaryman
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: Movie
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
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Kawasaki Vice Squad
Title: Kawasaki Vice Squad
Released: July 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A photographer who takes pictures of a rendezvous between a politician, company president and yakuza boss is later found dead and the film missing.
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Abandoned
Title: Abandoned
Released: June 6, 1981
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecked by a storm, and after twelve years, he returned to human society.
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Love and Faith
Title: Love and Faith
Released: June 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.
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Title: Star Wolf
Character: Ryu
Released: April 2, 1978
Type: TV
Star Wolf is a Japanese science fiction TV series inspired by the novel series bearing the same name, by American writer Edmond Hamilton. It was produced in 1978 by Tsuburaya Productions.
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Sweet Scent of Eros
Title: Sweet Scent of Eros
Character: Koichi
Released: March 24, 1973
Type: Movie
Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko (Kaori Momoi) inherited from her parents. Soon after getting settled, the hippies slip into a communal lifestyle. They eat, have sex, and generally share everything together.
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Music
Title: Music
Character: Reiko's brother
Released: November 11, 1972
Type: Movie
A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups.
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Title: Kogarashi Monjiro
Character: Juta
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: TV
Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mouth. Monjiro avoided getting involved in anything, but wherever he went, he ended up getting involved in incidents
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海兵四号生徒
Title: 海兵四号生徒
Released: October 30, 1971
Type: Movie
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 9 - Ghost Story of the Evening Mist Tower
Title: Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 9 - Ghost Story of the Evening Mist Tower
Released: September 5, 1971
Type: Movie
Ninth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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Wakare no uta
Title: Wakare no uta
Released: July 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.
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Lake of Dracula
Title: Lake of Dracula
Character: Dr. Takashi Saeki
Released: June 11, 1971
Type: Movie
A young girl suffers a terrifying nightmare of a vampire with blazing golden eyes. Eighteen years later, it is revealed to be a hellish prophecy when a strange package containing an empty coffin mysteriously turns up at a nearby lake.
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Hajimete no Tabi
Title: Hajimete no Tabi
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Creature Called Man
Title: The Creature Called Man
Released: April 4, 1970
Type: Movie
A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man.
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Title: Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Character: Daijiro Furuta
Released: October 16, 1969
Type: Movie
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
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Futari no Koibito
Title: Futari no Koibito
Released: April 12, 1969
Type: Movie