Midoriko Kimura

Midoriko Kimura

Born: October 15, 1961
in Sumoto, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Midoriko Kimura (キムラ 緑子, Kimura Midoriko) is a Japanese actress, born on Sunday, October 15, 1961, in Sumoto, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. She's represented by SIS talent agency.

Movies for Midoriko Kimura...

Once Upon a Crime
Title: Once Upon a Crime
Character: Barbara
Released: September 13, 2023
Type: Movie
While at the royal ball with Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood finds herself in the middle of a mystery. Can she solve the case before midnight strikes?
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Parasite
Title: Parasite
Released: June 5, 2023
Type: Movie
A stage adaptation of the Korean film Parasite, which changes the setting to 1990s Japan. It ran from June 5th-July 2nd 2023 in Tokyo.
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Ripples
Title: Ripples
Character: Masako Hashimoto
Released: May 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Yoriko Sudo believes in new religious group Midoriinochikai, that worships water. She lives peacefully, praying everyday and studying about Midoriinochikai. One day, her husband, who has been missing for long time, comes back to her. Due to that, her emotions, that she suppressed, explode out.
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Deadly Professional 2023
Title: Deadly Professional 2023
Character: Ten Ayanokoji
Released: January 8, 2023
Type: Movie
An epidemic is spreading through the towns of Edo – it spreads via people, and if you get the fever, your face will turn red like a demon, and then you will die. There is no cure in sight, and people’s anxiety is increasing.
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パティシエ・ヘンゼル クリスマスの魔法
Title: パティシエ・ヘンゼル クリスマスの魔法
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: The Travel Nurse
Released: October 20, 2022
Type: TV
Nasuda Ayumi is a young travel nurse who gives a bad first impression. In fact, he had been an excellent nurse practitioner in the US. He has the qualifications to carry out certain medical procedures and assist doctors in surgeries. However, some circumstances trigger his return to Japan where nurse practitioners are relatively unknown and nurses are still expected to do what doctors order. Ayumi ends up working at Amano General Medical Centre where he encounters a mysterious, legendary nurse Kuki Shizuka who will become his partner. Shizuka cleans “quietly” just like his name suggests and gets mistaken for a cleaner by the hospital staff including Ayumi. But he is actually a super nurse with boggling skills.
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Radiation House: The Movie
Title: Radiation House: The Movie
Character: Fusako Noyama
Released: April 29, 2022
Type: Movie
Iori Igarashi works as a radiographer at a general hospital. He has been depressed, because An Amakasu, whom he loves, has decided to travel abroad to Washington Medical University to learn more as radiologist. The members of Radiation House encourages Iori. One day, An learns that her father is in serious condition. Her father was the only practicing doctor at a small clinic on a remote island. When An arrives, her father tells her to be a doctor who sees patients as a person and not a disease before he passed away. An decides to stay on the island because of a patient that her father cared about. A massive typhoon soon hits the island and a landslide then occurs. An unknown infectious disease spreads afterwards on the island. Iori knows that An is struggling on the remote island and he makes a decision for An and the residents of the island.
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Title: Involvement in Family Affairs
Character: Haruna Miyama
Released: April 21, 2022
Type: TV
Sato, a young woman from a modest family, marries Kenta, a young man from a well-to-do and respected family. She settles in the family's home, where she meets the father, Keiichi, a strict man, Mihoko, the unfriendly sister-in-law and Akito, the elder brother. Although not everyone sees the union of Kenta and Sato in a very good light, the father seems to have great plans for our heroine.
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Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022
Title: Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022
Released: January 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022 is a continuation of the Hissatsu Shigotonin series. This was the SP released in 2022.
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Shinrei Shokudō 2
Title: Shinrei Shokudō 2
Character:
Released: September 3, 2021
Type: Movie
This is the second installment in a psychic omnibus horror series depicting fears associated with food. Mizuki goes on a first date with the boy of her dreams, and they eat pancakes together, but she collapses. The next thing she knows, she is abducted by Yamada, a clerk at the pancake shop. Mizuki desperately escapes, but her hands are covered with mushrooms, and it seems that the man she dated has another woman. ...... Includes "Black Pancake," "The Manner of the Sanma Murder," and three other
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Title: Shiroi Dakuryu
Released: August 22, 2021
Type: TV
Kazuki Yoshinami is a pharmaceutical researcher at a university. His friend Wataru Kashiwagi is also a pharmaceutical researcher at the same university. They are rivals, but talk to each other about their dreams. One day, Kazuki Yoshinami has a groundbreaking discovery. This leads to Kazuki Yoshinami and Wataru Kashiwagi becoming involved in a competition among companies over patents. Newspaper reporter Tomoko Kawahara, who is Kazuki Yoshinami’s childhood friend, becomes aware of this.
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Under the Open Sky
Title: Under the Open Sky
Character: Shimoinaba Masuko
Released: February 11, 2021
Type: Movie
Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies for a TV show and meets a young TV director Tsunoda. Meanwhile, he struggles to get a proper job and fit into society. His impulsive, adamant nature and ingrained beliefs cause friction in his relationship with Tsunoda and those who want to help him.
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心の傷を癒すということ 劇場版
Title: 心の傷を癒すということ 劇場版
Released: January 29, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: 人生最高の贈りもの
Character: キムラ緑子
Released: January 4, 2021
Type: TV
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Greatest Gift of Life
Title: Greatest Gift of Life
Character: キムラ緑子
Released: January 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Ryosuke lives in a small house in Toshima, Tokyo. Since his wife died, he has adjusted to living alone. He used to teach at a university and he now works as a translator. Meanwhile, Ryosuke has one child, Yuriko. She is married to Shigeyuki, who works as a teacher. Yuriko and Shigeyuki live in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture. One day, Yuriko visits her father Ryosuke without advance notice. Ryosuke is surprised by her sudden visit. Yuriko doesn't give any reason for the visit. Ryosuke only learns that Yuriko isn't sure how long she will stay. They haven't talked as father and daughter in a long time. They begin to live together in a nervous, but warm atmosphere.
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Title: ゲルニカ
Released: September 24, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Love Will Begin When Money Ends
Character: Nanako Saruwatari
Released: September 15, 2020
Type: TV
Reiko Kuki is single, works in the accounting dept. for toy manufacturer. She lives her life frugally and hardly buys stuff that is not a necessity. A year ago, she found small dishes at a secondhand store and liked them immediately. And Finally, she makes the decision to purchase it for $15. She enters the store, but sees a man and woman buying small dishes at random. The man is Keita Saruwatari. His father runs the toy company where Reiko works. Reiko happens to be the person to advise Keita about money...
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必殺仕事人2020
Title: 必殺仕事人2020
Released: June 28, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: To Heal the Heart
Released: January 18, 2020
Type: TV
An Kazutaka is a young, bashful psychiatrist whose jazz piano skills are as good as a pro. Right after they have their first child, the Great Hanshin Earthquake strikes. Although his family is affected by the disaster, he begins to search for what he can do as a psychiatrist. As he listens to the stories of disaster victims, he realises that he can help not by treating them, but restoring their capacity to heal. Later on, he compiles his observations of the disaster-hit area as a psychiatrist into a book and wins a prize for social sciences.
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Title: To Heal the Heart
Character: Paku Misato
Released: January 18, 2020
Type: TV
An Kazutaka is a young, bashful psychiatrist whose jazz piano skills are as good as a pro. Right after they have their first child, the Great Hanshin Earthquake strikes. Although his family is affected by the disaster, he begins to search for what he can do as a psychiatrist. As he listens to the stories of disaster victims, he realises that he can help not by treating them, but restoring their capacity to heal. Later on, he compiles his observations of the disaster-hit area as a psychiatrist into a book and wins a prize for social sciences.
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FLY! BOYS, FLY! 僕たち、CAはじめました
Title: FLY! BOYS, FLY! 僕たち、CAはじめました
Character: Asakawa Michi
Released: September 24, 2019
Type: Movie
When Chikara Asakawa was a child, he traveled with his parents and boarded an airplane. He got scared on the airplane, but a female flight attendant gave him courage. Chikara Asakawa became interested in being a flight attendant.
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Don't Cry, Mr. Ogre
Title: Don't Cry, Mr. Ogre
Character: Tomomi Saito
Released: June 14, 2019
Type: Movie
What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his now married pupil is afflicted with terminal cancer. Full of regrets of how he once treated the student the man ponders how to make it up to the man whom he once coached
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必殺仕事人2019
Title: 必殺仕事人2019
Released: March 10, 2019
Type: Movie
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Title: A Lone Scalpel
Released: January 13, 2019
Type: TV
Tetsuhiko Toma is a surgeon who studied in the United States. He begins work at a private hospital in a rural area in Japan. He believes that people should receive the same level of care at all hospitals. Guided by those principles, he takes on challenging surgeries and saves the lives of patients. Tetsuhiko Toma attempts an internal organ transplant for the first time in Japan, but the health care system blocks him.
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Killing for the Prosecution
Title: Killing for the Prosecution
Released: August 24, 2018
Type: Movie
Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office that deals with violent cases, where he will work with Takeshi Mogami, whom he admires. When a money lender is killed and it is suspected that someone from Mogami’s past is the perpetrator, the team prepares to do his best in order to prove the alleged criminal’s guilt.
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Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
Title: Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
Character: Fujimi Hirano
Released: August 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Nanami Ishikawa works as an editor at a publishing company. She travels Hiroshima to go after her father Asahi who left home. During her visit to Hiroshima, she learns about the tragic story of Asahi's older sister Minami Hirano. When Minami Hirano was 13 years old, she was exposed to radiation by an atomic bomb.
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Gintama 2: Rules are Made to Be Broken
Title: Gintama 2: Rules are Made to Be Broken
Character: Otose
Released: August 4, 2018
Type: Movie
The Yorozuya gang returns to protect the country's shogun when the Shinsengumi police force finds itself in a crisis.
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Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
Title: Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
Released: December 31, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Rikuoh
Character: Motoko Iiyama
Released: October 15, 2017
Type: TV
Koichi Miyazawa runs a small, but longstanding company which makes tabi (traditional Japanese socks). He is the CEO of the fourth generation company with about 20 employees. Due to a decrease of demand for tabi, the company is struggling to keep afloat. Koichi Miyazawa thinks about launching a new product line. The new product is running shoes. For the company's surival, Koichi Miyazawa begins to develop running shoes using their accumulated knowledge for making tabi.
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Sekigahara
Title: Sekigahara
Character: Kita no Mandokoro
Released: August 26, 2017
Type: Movie
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.
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Kitakaze to Taiyo no Hotei
Title: Kitakaze to Taiyo no Hotei
Character: Shoko
Released: March 17, 2017
Type: Movie
"Northern Wind and the Sun "as a set of divorce trials of a lawyer of exactly opposite style.
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Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Title: Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Character: Etsuko
Released: January 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara (Kuranosuke Sasaki). One day, film producer Koshimizu brings a movie investment proposal to yakuza leader Shimada. Shimada decide to invest in the film and he assigns Yasuhiko Kuwabara to oversee his investment in the film. Film producer Koshimizu though runs away with their investment money. Keisuke and Yasuhiko struggle to get Shimada’s money back from Koshimizu.
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Title: Winter, Grasping Love
Character: Maki Ikeuchi
Released: January 20, 2017
Type: TV
Hikari works at a design office. Her upbringing is not a wealthy one, but now she has a good job and an affectionate fiancé, Kōta. She is happy and feeling very much fulfilled. But, when she happens to see her ex-boyfriend Shin, once the love of her life, her relationship with her fiancé starts to fall apart… Hikari and Shin used to work for the same design office, where he was her boss. They had been lovers, but, one day, all of a sudden, Shin left her without a word. Now, he is married to Ran. Ran's over-possessive manic love towards Shin makes her consumed with jealousy against Hikari. And Hikari's fiancé Kōta also finds himself suffering from his love and his jealousy… Shin's presence is driving him slowly but steadily to the brink of insanity.
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Midnight Diner 2
Title: Midnight Diner 2
Character: Seiko Takagi
Released: November 5, 2016
Type: Movie
The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.
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My Uncle
Title: My Uncle
Character: Aunt Tomoko
Released: November 3, 2016
Type: Movie
Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.
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Title: My Dangerous Wife
Character: Kujirai Yuki
Released: April 19, 2016
Type: TV
The wife had only wished for one thing, and one thing only... But when she realized that her wish would not come true, she began plotting a dreadful revenge on her husband. Married to a beautiful wife from rich family and running his own café business which he started after leaving a major advertising agency, Mochizuki Kohei seemed to lead a picture-perfect life that anyone would be envious of. However, underneath the surface, Kohei was tired of having to do things to please his overly-controlling, manipulative wife Maria. To put an end to his misery, Kohei decides to kill his wife Maria and plots a murder with his lover. One day, as he comes home and finds what appears to be blood on the floor. Maria, however, is nowhere to be seen. Kohei then becomes the suspect in her possible murder.
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Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke
Title: Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke
Released: March 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Yosuke Misaki used to be a promising prosecutor, but he suddenly quit his job. He begins a new career as a pianist. He knocks on the door of wealthy man Kentaro Katsuki who lives in a peaceful area of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. Kentaro Katsuki lives with his housekeeper Michiko Tsuzuruki (Midoriko Kimura). Kentaro allows Yosuke Misaki to stay at his home. Near Kentaro Katsuki's home, lives the Sanada family. At their home, Haruka aspires to become a pianist. One day, a fatal fire breaks out at the Sanada's house. Later, Yosuke helps Haruka to play the piano again.
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実録ドラマスペシャル 女の犯罪ミステリー
Title: 実録ドラマスペシャル 女の犯罪ミステリー
Released: March 17, 2016
Type: Movie
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Mystery Trilogy Special
Title: Mystery Trilogy Special
Character: (segment "Winter Has Come")
Released: November 30, 2015
Type: Movie
This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
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Title: Fake Marriage
Character: Teruno Goroda
Released: October 7, 2015
Type: TV
45-year-old Hiro Kamon works as a librarian because she loves books. Although she is worshiped as the "aloof beauty" and "ideal female" for her beautiful, gentle smile and amiability, she actually dislikes people. Hiro has been hurt countless times, and Chōji, the only guy she loved wholeheartedly in university, also fled in one night. She has become a person who no longer believes in love and has decided to live alone for life. But she ends up acting as a "fake married couple" with Chōji, whom she happens to meet again, for the sake of his mother, Teruno, who has been given a short time to live.
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Variations
Title: Variations
Character: Michiko Ota
Released: October 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Referred to as the Pearl of the Orient, supermodel Miori Reiko has had her fair share of scandals due to her eccentricity and her wild love affairs. One day, Reiko is found dead in her apartment by her housekeeper, Ota Michiko. The medical examiner found traces of potassium cyanide in her body, which kick-started a major police investigation into her death. Who is the true murderer of Miori Reiko?
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Title: Aruhi, Ahiru Bus
Released: July 5, 2015
Type: TV
40-year-old Asakura Hazuki works for a big publishing company and is the editor of the female magazine ‘Us’. However, the magazine is discontinued. Hazuki's contract with the publishing company is not renewed and she ends up losing her job. To make matters worse, she breaks up with Kosuke, her boyfriend of seven years, and is pressed for the loan on designer goods which she bought on a spree. At 40, Hazuki is on the verge of losing everything. At that moment, she happens to get scouted to be a bus guide on Ahiru Bus, a city sightseeing tour which she has boarded. She is plunged into the completely foreign world of female bus guides. Hazuki aims to turn her life around as she journeys around a rapidly changing Tokyo. -
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Our Little Sister
Title: Our Little Sister
Character: Hideko Takano
Released: June 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Upon the death of their estranged father, three sisters invite their 13-year-old half sister to live with them.
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Kakekomi
Title: Kakekomi
Character: Okatsu
Released: May 16, 2015
Type: Movie
Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.
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The Case of Hana & Alice
Title: The Case of Hana & Alice
Character: Tomomi Arai (voice)
Released: February 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Tetsuko "Alice" Arisugawa has just moved to a new house with her recently divorced mother and enrolled at a school where a strange rumor lingers among the students about "Judas," who is said to have been murdered over a year before. She is told that if anybody knows his fate it would be Hana Arai, the recluse in the house next door who has been unable to bring herself to attend class since "Judas" disappeared.
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Title: Tokyo Scarlet
Character: Izumi Demachi
Released: July 15, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: Back of Father
Character: Kawasaki Etsuko
Released: July 13, 2014
Type: TV
A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.
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My Little Nightmare: The Movie
Title: My Little Nightmare: The Movie
Character: Tatsuko Amasawa
Released: May 3, 2014
Type: Movie
New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they have seen new transfer student Kanji in a dream. Yuiko Koto also had a night mare. In her nightmare, a boy that looks transfer student Kanji appeared as a prince. Ayami Mutoi tries to keep that to herself. She actually likes the prince in her dream.
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Thermae Romae II
Title: Thermae Romae II
Character: Yumi Yamakoshi
Released: April 26, 2014
Type: Movie
In ancient Rome, bathhouse architect Lucius (Hiroshi Abe) becomes famous with designing the original "thermae" (bathhouse). He receives an order to build a thermae in the colosseum to help gladiators recover from their wounds, but faces difficulties. Thus, Lucius travels again to modern day Japan through the time slip. He meets Manami (Aya Ueto) again, who is now a reporter for a magazine which covers bathroom. With the help of the flat face Japanese tribe, Lucius again designs a new thermae. Meanwhile, Emperor Hadrian (Masachika Ichimura) wants to keep the peace with the thermae, but the Senate wants to extend the land by using force. Emperor Hadrian and the Senate now have a confrontation and Rome becomes divided.
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Title: Gochisousan
Character: Kazue Nishikado
Released: September 30, 2013
Type: TV
Uno Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries and moves to Osaka with her husband. Meiko experiences cultural differences between Tokyo and Osaka, as she lives as a mother and wife in Osaka.
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It's Me It's Me
Title: It's Me It's Me
Character: Masae Nagano
Released: May 24, 2013
Type: Movie
Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother and pretends to be her son. He then gets the mother to transfer money to his bank account. Soon, Hitoshi gets a lot more than he bargained for.
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Title: Made in Japan
Character: Nishiyama Miyuki
Released: January 26, 2013
Type: TV
With the strong yen, global financial crisis and competition from developing nations, the Japanese manufacturing industry is in a precarious situation. A large electronics maker is on the brink of bankruptcy and can support itself for only 3 more months. Three men at the company, who work in sales, finance and production respectively, secretly form a reconstruction team and they work feverishly to revive the company.
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Title: Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
Released: October 18, 2012
Type: TV
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.
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Title: My Little Nightmare
Character: Amasawa Tatsuko
Released: October 13, 2012
Type: TV
Beautiful and young, Ayami has a solid reputation as a dedicated and reliable elementary teacher, but her true character is solely clandestine. Ayami does not believe in love and trust, and her values make her oblivious to other people's matters. Almost devious, she is always scheming so she never has to deal with responsibility and troubles that spur around her. One day, a new student Yuiko enrolls in her homeroom class. It does not take long for Ayami to find out that Yuiko has an ability to predict the future through the dreams she sees in her sleep; dreams which are symbolic and require proper interpretation to understand the upcoming occurrences. But when Yuiko begins to have nightmares of people around them, Ayami, though unwillingly, must team up with Yuiko to try to change the tragic fate of those around them... But can they properly assess what Yuiko's nightmares truly mean and change what may already be destined?
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Chronicle of My Mother
Title: Chronicle of My Mother
Character: Shigako
Released: April 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.
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Thermae Romae
Title: Thermae Romae
Character: Yumi Yamakoshi
Released: April 28, 2012
Type: Movie
The story follows a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One day, he discovers a hidden tunnel underneath a spa that leads him to a modern Japanese bath house. Inspired by the innovations found there, he creates his own spa, Roma Thermae, bringing in the modern ideas to his time.
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Title: 人類学者・岬久美子の殺人鑑定
Released: September 4, 2010
Type: TV
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Ai wa mieru: Zenmô fûfu ni yadotta chiisana inochi
Title: Ai wa mieru: Zenmô fûfu ni yadotta chiisana inochi
Released: September 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Ueto Aya's is Juri Tatematsu. She's blind like her husband. They give birth to a child, despite fears and opposition from their parents. Raising the child, Juri keeps pushing herself towards her dream of becoming a professional musician. She made her dream come true.
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Nippon no ichiban nagai natsu
Title: Nippon no ichiban nagai natsu
Released: August 7, 2010
Type: Movie
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Help of God
Title: Help of God
Character: Sachiko Namikawa
Released: August 7, 2010
Type: Movie
"Kamisama Help!" takes place at an abandoned school where a mass murder occurred 25 years earlier... Several cars of people arrive at the abandoned school "Satogakuin". They are "horror planners" who will convert the school into the ghost house. To kill time staff members roam inside the school and feel a strange sense of familiarity. Atsuo walks around by himself. He becomes stunned when he finds an old picture frame in an office. In the picture, a man dressed in a white outfit looks just like Atsuo. At that moment a mysterious blue hits Atsuo and he loses consciences. He starts to have visions of bodies and ghosts covered with blood and suddenly he goes back in time to August 12, 1985. On that day a Japan Air Liner crashed and Satogakuin teacher Sato Takashi goes on a murdering rampage. Sato Takashi was known as a kind and generous person, but his mind was taken over by an evil entity. That evil entity now tries to take over Atsuo's mind...
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Onobori monogatari
Title: Onobori monogatari
Released: July 17, 2010
Type: Movie
A young man moves from the countryside to Tokyo, while experiencing hardships and happiness, in his pursuit to become a comics artist.
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Title: Absolute Zero
Character: Masae Fukui
Released: April 13, 2010
Type: TV
Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to investigate cold cases as well as cases suspected to involve missing persons.
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Parade
Title: Parade
Character: Naoki's Boss
Released: February 20, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of a strange living situation in a 2LDK apartment in suburban Tokyo. There are five residents ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-eight. They are not in any way romantically involved with one another, but one can see subtle hints of affection and friendship among them. In the end, however, none of them really know each other.
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About Her Brother
Title: About Her Brother
Character: Hitomi Ohara
Released: January 30, 2010
Type: Movie
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.
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Counterfeit
Title: Counterfeit
Released: March 22, 2009
Type: Movie
Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to manufacture counterfeit money. She initially refuses, but eventually decides to join the project for the sake of the poor children in the village and her own mentally handicapped child.
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Days with You
Title: Days with You
Released: March 14, 2009
Type: Movie
Natsuki takes care of her young autistic brother. She then meets her old childhood friend and falls in love, unfortunately he suffers from a serious illness.
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Pride
Title: Pride
Character: Tami Midorikawa
Released: January 17, 2009
Type: Movie
Shio Asami (Stephanie) was brought up in a wealthy family whose mother is a prominent opera singer. However, the bankruptcy of her father’s business forced her to give up becoming an opera singer. Moe Midorikawa (Hikari Mitsushima) entrapped Shio and claimed a victory in an opera contest. A competition of two heroines ensues, placing their pride on the line.
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Pandemic
Title: Pandemic
Character: Miwa Ikehata
Released: January 17, 2009
Type: Movie
ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other variety of virus? As the situation worsens and more cases begin arriving, a medical officer from the World Health Organization named Eiko Kobayashi is dispatched to the area. At the rate the virus is spreading, the entire city’s transportation system and infrastructure would be brought to a halt within 3 months. Within 6 months it could spread to tens of millions of people--reaching a death toll far worse than any war.
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Peeping Tom
Title: Peeping Tom
Released: October 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was his own death.
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One Million Yen Girl
Title: One Million Yen Girl
Character: Suzuko & Takuya's mother
Released: July 19, 2008
Type: Movie
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
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Title: The Fantastic Deer-Man
Character: Saori Maemura
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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Prodigy
Title: Prodigy
Character: Masako Kikuna
Released: September 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point where she hates playing the piano. Her father was also a piano virtuoso, but mysteriously disappeared from her life at a young age. Because of her father's disappearance Uta's mother had to move out of their posh home and into a far modest working class neighborhood. In this working class neighborhood there is a local grocer. The grocer's son Kikuna Oto happens to be a budding musician, but lacks the drive to truly succeed. That is until Uta Naruse comes into his life...
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The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Title: The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Character: Shiina's Mother
Released: June 23, 2007
Type: Movie
A university student finds himself wrapped up in the bizarre world of his next door neighbor, learning about his history and relationship with a girl who changed his life.
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The Matsugane Potshot Affair
Title: The Matsugane Potshot Affair
Character: Misako Suzuki
Released: February 24, 2007
Type: Movie
When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
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Title: Haken no Hinkaku
Character: Mika Ide
Released: January 10, 2007
Type: TV
Oomae Haruko is an A+ Temp worker who never cracks a smile or minces words, and leaves work on the dot. But her cynical nature indicates she has something painful to hide. Satonaka Kensuke has just been promoted to head S&F's new Marketing Division. Saddled with a rag-tag group of subordinates, he is struggling to lift his division off the ground. When Oomae is placed in Kensuke's department, she finds herself doing more work than she's ever done before. This is a timely drama that examines the different attitudes toward temp workers and regular employees, and the ways to overcome frictions in interpersonal relationships. This follows an October report on labor conditions by the Labor Ministry, which showed that, after regulations were relaxed, the proportion of regular employees to Temps had doubled compared to that of eight years ago.
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Title: Divorce Lawyer
Character: Akiko Shirakawa
Released: April 15, 2004
Type: TV
Takako Mamiya is a lawyer who quits her job at a prestigious law firm and establishes her own office. She confidently sets out to build her business, but soon her former firm is putting up obstacles and interfering, causing Takako's employees and clients to drift away. She finally puts together a new staff consisting of a college student who knows little about the law, a girl who applied for the job in hopes of meeting a rich guy, a hard-nosed lawyer, and a paralegal who hasn't passed the bar exam yet. Takako reluctantly handles divorce cases with her incompetent crew. For an elite lawyer like her, divorce cases are the most boring and unrewarding cases that exist. Through clashing with her employees and clients, Takako soon becomes a very mature and tough lawyer. "Divorce Lawyer" also tells the story of how difficult it is to judge love and relationships in legal terms.
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Hana and Alice
Title: Hana and Alice
Character: Tomomi Arai
Released: March 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
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Shangri-La
Title: Shangri-La
Character: Fusae
Released: August 3, 2002
Type: Movie
Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.
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Title: Emergency Room 24 Hours
Released: January 5, 1999
Type: TV
Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things from the patient’s side. Although once retired from his profession, he one day discovers someone in need of help, who he treats and rushes to the Kohoku Medical University Emergency Center. This incident encourages him to once again work as an ER doctor. Confrontation erupts between female doctor Tamaki, and Shindo, now a just-arrived ER doctor. While this human drama depicts the relationships among doctors and nurses, it appeals emotionally to viewers on the subject of life.
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Musume Bugyo On-na Ro Hisho
Title: Musume Bugyo On-na Ro Hisho
Released: March 24, 1995
Type: Movie
A woman calling herself Princess Oryu enters the woman's prison. She is Kasumi, the daughter of the famous magistrate, Ooka Echizen, who slowly after hearing each of the prisoner's stories begins to realize the mystery that lies behind what it could be a big conspiracy.
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そうか、もう君はいないのか
Title: そうか、もう君はいないのか
Character: Takeda's wife
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie