Shosuke Tanihara

Shosuke Tanihara

Born: July 8, 1972
in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Shōsuke Tanihara  (born July 8, 1972 in in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actor probably best known outside of Japan for his portrayal of Riki Fudoh in Fudoh: The New Generation. Tanihara hosts Tokyo Twenty-Four Living Supported by FLET’S Hikari, a podcast produced by TOKYO FM. The podcast began airing on 2006-01-07 with a guest appearance by the former Yokohama Bay Stars pitcher Takashi Saitō. He is married to Emi Miyake, who gave birth to their daughter in October 2007. He made the announcement at the 8th Best Formalist Award ceremony.

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Title: Income of Prominent Figures
Released: April 3, 2023
Type: TV
Oda Nobunaga, Sakamoto Ryoma, Einstein, Marie Curie – the great individuals who achieved monumental feats, changing the world in significant ways. How much did these historical heroes actually earn? And how did they use their earnings? This show aims to explore their lives through the lens of money.
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Drive In California
Title: Drive In California
Released: May 27, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: CONNECTED: The Homebound Detective
Character: Kanta Numata
Released: April 3, 2022
Type: TV
Ataru Aida lives with his mother and has never moved out of his childhood room. A clean freak since he was a little boy, Ataru hates to go out and is cynical and seriously lacking in communication skills. He was having a blast with his work-from-home situation brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic when, one fateful day, he is fired for having an attitude problem.
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Title: Chushingura Rhapsody No. 5: Nakamura Nakazo - Shusse no Kizahashi
Character: 吉川仁左衛門
Released: December 4, 2021
Type: TV
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Black Art Collection -Testimony-
Title: Black Art Collection -Testimony-
Character: Ishino Teiichiro
Released: May 9, 2020
Type: Movie
Ishino Teiichiro (Tanihara Shosuke) married his wife Sachiko (Nishida Naomi) and took over her family’s clinic in Kanazawa. Although he is a respected doctor and seems to have a happy family life with Sachiko and their two children
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Title: 天皇のディナー
Released: December 29, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Kaidan Botan Doro: Beauty & Fear
Released: October 6, 2019
Type: TV
Botan Dōrō is a Japanese ghost story that is both romantic and horrific; it is one of the most famous kaidan in Japan. The plot involves sex with the dead and the consequences of loving a ghost.
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Title: Fake Affair
Released: July 10, 2019
Type: TV
Hama Shoko is a 32-year-old single woman and a contract worker. She is not good at romance and does not have a boyfriend, but she wants to get married. For the past 2 years, she has been looking for a man to marry. Still unable to find the right guy, Shoko decides to take a solo trip. While on the airplane, she meets a handsome younger man. During her trip, she happens to meet the younger man again. Shoko lies to him and tells him that she is a married woman. The man tells her "let's have an affair during this trip."
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Iwane: Sword of Serenity
Title: Iwane: Sword of Serenity
Character: Kichiemon
Released: May 17, 2019
Type: Movie
Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in the tragic death of two of his best friends from childhood. He decides to leave his domain, parting with his fiancée Nao, and becomes a vagrant masterless samurai with nothing more to lose. Iwane drifts to Edo, filleting eels during the day and working as a bodyguard at night for Imazuya, a reputable money exchanger. He gradually wins the trust of the people around him because of his mellow nature, the chivalrous way he treats everyone with courtesy, and his skills of swords. One day, he learns that Imazuya is being targeted in a conspiracy to sabotage a new monetary system implemented by the government, and Iwane decides to protect the people who have given him support.
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Title: Fujoshi, Ukkari Gei ni Kokuru
Character: Sasaki Makoto
Released: April 20, 2019
Type: TV
Jun is an 18-year-old high school student. He hides the fact that he is gay from his mother and other people. Miura-san is a classmate of Jun. She likes reading books about BL (genre depicting homoerotic stories). Jun tells Miura-san that BL is just fantasy and that gayness in real life is dirty. Miura-san tells Jun that his remark is offensive to gay people. Nevertheless, Jun and Miura-san become close. Jun becomes interested in Miura-san, and Miura-san begins to have feelings for Jun. One day, Miura-san tells Jun that she likes him.
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Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
Title: Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
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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Marmalade Boy
Title: Marmalade Boy
Character: Yoji Matsuura
Released: April 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Two sets of parents divorce and marry each other, while their children Miki and Yuu are caught in the middle and start falling for each other.
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Title: Half Blue Sky
Character: Yaichi Hagio
Released: April 2, 2018
Type: TV
Suzume is a girl born to a family running a small restaurant in Gifu Prefecture. She loses her hearing in one ear from a disease. Encouraged by her loving parents and childhood friend, she lives through an eventful life with a tenacious spirit.
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Title: BS Shouten Drama Special
Released: October 9, 2017
Type: TV
Fictional dramas about the lives of people related to the TV program Shouten.
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Title: 犯罪症候群
Character: Kaburagi Mamoru
Released: April 8, 2017
Type: TV
Muto Takashi is a former police detective who uses illegal methods to solve cases which are difficult to handle by the police. Kaburagi Wataru is a police detective and Muto's buddy, and Tamaki takes charge of the special missions given to Muto. While exploring the lives of these men, the topic of whether revenge is right or wrong is discussed in this drama.
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安楽椅子探偵 ON STAGE
Title: 安楽椅子探偵 ON STAGE
Released: January 6, 2017
Type: Movie
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Onihei Crime Files: The Final Zenpen - Gonenme no Kyaku
Title: Onihei Crime Files: The Final Zenpen - Gonenme no Kyaku
Released: December 2, 2016
Type: Movie
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Birthday Card
Title: Birthday Card
Character: Shosuke Tanihara
Released: October 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Noriko lost her mother Yoshie when she was only 10-years-old. Yoshie knew she would not be able to live long enough to see her children grow up and wrote birthday cards to her children in the future. Agonizing over relationships with friends, love and marriage, Noriko grows up with hints and thoughts hidden on birthday cards which are sent from her mother every year.
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Detective Katherine 2
Title: Detective Katherine 2
Character: Ichiro Hamaguchi
Released: March 20, 2016
Type: Movie
Following of the Detective Katherine shown on September 2015.
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Title: Lady Girls
Character: Junichi Kurita
Released: October 15, 2015
Type: TV
Lady Girls is a poignant romantic comedy portrays the lives of three single, 40-year-old women as they search for happiness and love while longing to stay always-a-girl-at-heart regardless their age.
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Three Moons
Title: Three Moons
Character: Akikaze Sota
Released: October 3, 2015
Type: Movie
A sequel to "The Pierrot Prays to the Moon", which won the "Gold Medal Prize" at the Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards. A beautiful village in the mountains. Mayu is a wife, a mother and a daughter-in-law. While taking care of her husband and son, she is faced with despair every day as she visits her mother-in-law with a long-term illness. Amidst all this, she meets a man from Tokyo by coincidence and falls in love with him. A secret and illicit love where they understood each other's hearts. For Mayu, this love was captivating, a love that is one of a kind. In the midst of this love, time passes and after several years, it had brought her a whole new meaning to life. This is even more so being the forbidden kind of love. When the man invited Mayu to return to Tokyo with him, she must decide whether to stay in her hometown or abandon her home and follow him.
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Detective Katherine
Title: Detective Katherine
Character: Ichiro Hamaguchi
Released: September 5, 2015
Type: Movie
Katherine Turner initially accompanied her father, Vice President of the United States, on his official trip to Japan but decided to stay longer to study the Japanese art of flower arrangement for her business back in the States. Yukio Hamaguchi, Minister of Foreign Affairs and also a very good friend of Katherine’s father, assigns his nephew Ichiro to escort Katherine during her stay. Ichiro is halfhearted at first but when Katherine’s old friend Maiko becomes the victim of a murder case, Katherine and Ichiro start to reveal their talent as brilliant detectives by untangling clues and solving the case together.
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Title: Keisei Saimin no Otoko
Character: Mori Arinori
Released: August 22, 2015
Type: TV
A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK.
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Shadow Area
Title: Shadow Area
Character: 田代圭介
Released: July 6, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Marginal Village Inc.
Character: Takigawa Yu
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: Keibuho Sugiyama Shintaro ~ Kichijoji-sho Jiken File
Character: Sugiyama Shintarou
Released: January 12, 2015
Type: TV
Assistant Inspector Sugiyama Shintaro is a compassionate detective who works for Kichijoji Police Precinct. The cases he has solved are too many to count. Once he comes back home, he is a father to the three children, Miharu, Kaito (Suda Eito) and Gaku (Matsuura Rihito), he has with his beloved wife Kaori. However, he cannot deny that he has sacrificed his family because he has been busy at work. At that very moment, Kaori is fighting against an illness in hospital and his mother-in-law (Takahashi Keiko) is not pleased with him. Sugiyama has focused on the family ever since his wife fell sick. He has even considered a move away from the frontline and Kichijoji Police Precinct’s arrest rate has consequently declined. Then, a murder occurs within the precinct’s jurisdiction. Sugiyama strives to juggle child raising, housework and the investigation. However, he can hardly do so as he ends up late for a meeting because he has to send his children to nursery school. Unable to just watch without doing anything, his mother-in-law declares that she will take custody of the children. Sugiyama makes the decision to quit being a detective, but...
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Boat to the Moon
Title: Boat to the Moon
Character: 篠崎涼太
Released: October 4, 2014
Type: Movie
At a small station in a very small town somewhere in Japan, a woman with eyes as beautiful as the sky, sits at a bench. A man comes to the same station to get a train back to the city, and here he meets this beautiful lady but finds that she is blind. This movie tells the fantasy love story of a day where a man and woman meet accidentally in a small town.
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Title: White Lab
Character: Masayuki Honda(本田 真幸)
Released: April 14, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: Smoking Gun
Character: Natsumi Kashiwagi
Released: April 9, 2014
Type: TV
Private forensic researcher Nagareda Enishi (Katori Shingo) is usually very sluggish as well as sloppy, and always aloof. However, his entire demeanour changes once he is at a scene and his skills as a forensic researcher are topnotch. He stands up for the disadvantaged by using science and technology to uncover conclusive evidence and solve trivial civil cases which the police will not handle such as adultery, molest and stalking. Enishi used to be a member of the Research Institute of Forensic Science and was called an ace, but he now belongs to Chiyoda Forensic Science Institute due to some incident.
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Title: Blood on the Tracks
Character: Minoru Tozawa
Released: January 19, 2014
Type: TV
An ex-detective, Kagawa, is found dead in a park in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Swearing revenge, detectives of the #1 investigation team, including Tozawa (Shosuke Tanihara), begin to investigate Kagawa’s death. Meanwhile, Sono (Masanobu Takashima), at the public security bureau, orders his subordinate Shimizu (Taizo Harada), to uncover the truth behind the case in secret. Sono believes the maintenance of trust held by the general public for the police could be jeopardized if anything afoul is discovered in the case stemming from the police. Sono wants to coverup the case as unsolved if the police are involved.
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Dokidoki! Pretty Cure the Movie: Memories for the Future
Title: Dokidoki! Pretty Cure the Movie: Memories for the Future
Character: Marsh
Released: October 26, 2013
Type: Movie
One day, Mana Aida receives a wedding dress from her mother and grandmother that they had worn in the past. While thinking about who she would wear this beside someday, a mysterious man named Marsh appears, and Mana is thrown back into the past. She was happy to see her grandmother she loved and her old dog Maro, but she then realizes that Alice and Rikka aren't there because memories have been altered. In order to save precious memories, the future, dreams and hope, Mana transforms into Cure Heart.
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Title: Pierrot Praying to the Moon
Character: Wataru Tobuse
Released: October 5, 2013
Type: TV
41-year-old Shizuru (Takako Tokiwa) lives with her mother and grandmother in a mountain village in Gifu Prefecture. Shizuru's grandmother is gentle, but is also partially disabled. Shizuru and her mother takes care of her grandmother. Meanwhile, Shizuru's mother ignores her and often restricts what she can do. Consequently, Shizuru has little freedom and endures a monotonous life.
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The Pierrot Prays to the Moon
Title: The Pierrot Prays to the Moon
Released: October 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Shizuru Tamai (Takako Tokiwa) lives in a small mountain town in rural Japan with her mother and grandmother. Her grandmother is partially unable to move, and Shizuru has to care for her with her mother, who tries to keep Shizuru shackled at every opportunity. Shizuru’s days are filled with endless monotony. She works as a receptionist at her former classmate’s hospital, and one day goes to buy picture books for the waiting room. It’s then that she recalls a book from her childhood ‘The Pierrot Prays to the Moon’. Wanting to read the book again, Shizuru finds it on an online auction site. Once it finally arrives and she begins to read it, a small slip of paper gently falls from its pages. On the paper are what appear to be instructions for a recipe. The recipe prompts Shizuru to contact Tobuse (Shosuke Tanihara), the man who sent her the book.
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Title: Kuroneko Tokidoki Hanaya
Character: Kouki Hinata
Released: October 1, 2013
Type: TV
Hinata Kiyoka is heartbroken over the death of her husband, Koki, who died in a freak accident one year after their marriage. Some circumstance results in her being put in charge of ‘Neko no Hige’, a small flower shop and cafe, on a temporary basis. True to its name, the cafe has a black cat called Kumi-chan. Nearly all the customers who come to the cafe are there with the intent of seeking Kumi-chan’s counsel. Because her predictions have a hit rate of close to 100%, there is no end to the customers with problems. One day, Kumi-chan gets possessed by Koki’s spirit, and a love triangle develops between Kiyoka, the black cat and Takumi, a part-time employee who has feelings for her.
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The God of Ramen
Title: The God of Ramen
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Every day, people would queue for over two hours for a bowl of ramen. What’s the celebrated chef’s secret ingredient? There is no secret ingredient. In fact, as most fans of Taishoken believe, it’s the charisma of owner Kazuo Yamagishi that attracted people from all around Japan to his modest shop. His personality and love for his craft, combined with a precise mélange of flavours, combined to create perfection in each ramen bowl. This heart-warming documentary is not just for noodle fans, but for anyone who loves to be inspired by passionate people.
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Title: Dai Ni Gakusho
Character: Endo Kazuto
Released: April 16, 2013
Type: TV
Shirase Mari and Endo Natsumi are violinists in the same orchestra. They both work hard, but Natsumi becomes pregnant and quits playing the violin. She soon marries the cellist in the orchestra. Meanwhile, Mari is chosen to become a solo violinist and becomes popular. 17 years later, Mari and Natsumi meet again by chance. Mari finds her being envious of Natsumi's life, while Natsumi finds herself feeling the same about Mari's life.
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Title: The Lovers of Share House
Character: 櫻井 雪哉
Released: January 16, 2013
Type: TV
Shio lives in a share house and falls in love with a man who lives with her. This is the first time Shio has had such feelings in a long time. Unfortunately, the man is in love with another man. Meanwhile, her housemate's love interest becomes attracted to her.
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Akko's Secret
Title: Akko's Secret
Character: cosmetics employee
Released: August 31, 2012
Type: Movie
Young Atsuko Kagami comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Atsuko Kagami then attempts to save a company which is about to be sold by using her transformation abilities. She also falls in love as a 22-year-old college student.
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Title: マグマ
Released: June 10, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Lucky Seven
Character: Ryu Makabe
Released: January 16, 2012
Type: TV
Lucky Seven Rakkīsebun is a 2012 Japanese television drama broadcast by Fuji Television from January 16 to March 19, 2012. It stars Jun Matsumoto and Eita.
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Ranma ½
Title: Ranma ½
Character: Tofu Ono
Released: December 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Akane is the youngest of three daughters for Soun Tendo. Her father Soun Tendo runs a dojo for martial arts. Akane hopes to carry on her father's dojo into the distant future. Meanwhile, Akane has been selected to marry Ranma, the son of her father's long time friend Genma. Akane and Ranma's relationship has developed into a love and hate relationship. Also, Ranma isn't your typical boy. While on a training journey Ranma fell into the Spring of the Drowned Girl and now changes into a women whenever cold water is splashed on him. Warm water will allow him to revert back to a male. Problems arise when Akane's father declares that the successor to their dojo must be a male. Now, Akane and Ranma (being a man only half of the time) must find a secret spring that can cure him of his curse.
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Title: HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
Character: Takeshi Gondo
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: TV
On a return flight to Japan, cabin attendant Isaka Rei arrests a thief at Narita Airport’s International Terminal, and receives a reward of 1 million yen. However, she is half-forced to resign from her job as a cabin attendant because of this roundup. Furthermore, her younger sister, Akane, has made her a guarantor and disappeared, leaving her 10-year-old daughter, Haru behind. Rei starts to live with a reluctant Haru at ‘Shunkato’, the small eating house that Akane has been running. There is a firsthand account of Akane meeting a ‘Shunkato’ customer on the day she went missing. Rei brings the photograph of the man whom Akane met to Tsukishima Police Precinct, and learns that there is a 1 million yen bounty because he is a wanted criminal. The lack of motivation of the attending detective, Gondo Takeshi of the precinct’s Community Safety Division, spurs her to decide that she has to arrest this criminal who has some sort of connection to her sister. And so, Rei becomes a bounty hunter together with the ladies who gather at ‘Shunkato’.
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KochiKame - The Movie: Save the Kachidoki Bridge!
Title: KochiKame - The Movie: Save the Kachidoki Bridge!
Character: Mitsuo
Released: August 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than not he ends up causing all kinds of trouble. Like on his way to work he away when he is asked to pay up by a shop owner or cheats an elementary school student. Ryotsu's co-workers Reiko Catherine Akimoto (Karina) and Keiichi Nagakawa (Mokomichi Hayami) have had about all they can take from Kankichi and his boss Ohara (Masato Ibu) is constantly berating him.
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Title: 警視庁再犯防止課 真崎英嗣
Released: August 1, 2011
Type: TV
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Ninja Kids!!!
Title: Ninja Kids!!!
Released: July 23, 2011
Type: Movie
The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group of rival ninjas culminating in a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.
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Title: The Tempest
Character: Masahiro Asakura
Released: July 17, 2011
Type: TV
Set in the Ryukyu Kingdom during the latter days of the Tokugawa shogunate, a woman takes the guise of a Eunuch to pass a government examination. She eventually becomes a government official still in the disguise of a man.
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Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom
Title: Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom
Character: Reshiram (voice)
Released: July 16, 2011
Type: Movie
The Kingdom of the People of the Earth once ruled over the land, but now all that remains is the Sword of the Earth. in the city of Eindoak. Satoshi, Iris, and Dent arrive in Eindoak during a harvest festival's Pokémon Tournament and meet the legendary Pokémon Victini who wishes to share its powers of victory to someone. Elsewhere in the city, a descendant of the People of the Earth named Dred Grangil has arrived who seeks to revive the kingdom's power with the Sword of the Earth, bringing them back into power over the land, and Satoshi and his friends must stop him before he destroys the land along with Victini.
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Pokémon the Movie: Black - Victini and Reshiram
Title: Pokémon the Movie: Black - Victini and Reshiram
Character: Reshiram (voice)
Released: July 16, 2011
Type: Movie
The Kingdom of the People of the Earth once ruled over the land, but now all that remains is the Sword of the Earth. in the city of Eindoak. Satoshi, Iris, and Dent arrive in Eindoak during a harvest festival's Pokémon Tournament and meet the legendary Pokémon Victini who wishes to share its powers of victory to someone. Elsewhere in the city, a descendant of the People of the Earth named Dred Grangil has arrived who seeks to revive the kingdom's power with the Sword of the Earth, bringing them back into power over the land, and Satoshi and his friends must stop him before he destroys the land along with Victini.
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Andalusia: Revenge of the Goddess
Title: Andalusia: Revenge of the Goddess
Character: Naoki Kawashima
Released: June 25, 2011
Type: Movie
While the Japanese government is trying to crack down on international crime organizations' money laundering in tax havens, the Chief of Police's son is found dead in a hotel in France.
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1778 Stories of Me and My Wife
Title: 1778 Stories of Me and My Wife
Character: Takizawa
Released: January 16, 2011
Type: Movie
Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation. Since that time, the couple has always been together and eventually married.One day, Setsuko complains of a stomach ache and is hospitalized. Sakutaro then learns that his wife has colon cancer. Sakutaro takes the advice from his doctor that laughter helps the immune system and proceeds to write a short story for his wife every day. At first, Setsuko was expected to live for only 1 more year, but she lived for 5 more years and Sakutaro eventually wrote 1,778 short stories for his wife.
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Title: 東野圭吾ドラマスペシャル 探偵倶楽部
Released: October 22, 2010
Type: TV
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Detective Club
Title: Detective Club
Released: October 22, 2010
Type: Movie
This is based on a collection of short stories by Keigo Higashino. A membership-based investigation agency dedicated to VIP will usually lead the case to a quick and calm resolution. Members are only VIPs in the political and business world. Tow people are in charge of it, a man in his mid-30s who has a deeply carved face away from the Japanese and a beautiful woman who seems to be in his late 20s. She works as an assistant to the man, and has extraordinary memory. Their group is nicknamed the Detective Club by the owners who are VIP members.
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Title: Spiritual Teacher, Kyoko Odagiri
Character: 谷口一郎
Released: October 10, 2010
Type: TV
Kyoko Odagiri is a beautiful and charismatic clairvoyant. She is also popular and admired by her fans. Today, Kyoko appears on a popular tv show and display her psychic abilities alongside a popular actor. Her performance goes off splendidly with the audience applauding her performance enthusiastically.
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Title: MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU–
Character: Takanashi Hiroyuki
Released: July 10, 2010
Type: TV
One day, Taichi, an ordinary university student, meets Mioka, a girl who is like a storm. Taichi finds himself drawn to Mioka, who lives freely as she wishes without holding back, and they eventually fall in love. However, Mioka tells Taichi of her shocking truth. She has an incurable brain disease, with no medicine or treatment that can help her.
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Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II
Title: Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II
Character: Yukihisa Matsuda
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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Title: Yokoyama Hideo Suspense
Character: 秋葉健治
Released: March 14, 2010
Type: TV
There are four episodes based on short stories by mystery novelist Yokoyama Hideo. Each episode depicts a stand-alone murder mystery.
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Title: The Unbending Woman
Character: Mitsuhiko Aida
Released: January 13, 2010
Type: TV
Magerarenai Onna is a Japanese television drama that aired on NTV between 13 January and 17 March 2010. Ogiwara Saki, 33, is a woman who does not go with the flow of society but forges her own path. She hates flattering men and trying to be nice to people of the same sex. She has failed the bar exam ten times in a row but persists in her dream of being a lawyer while working as a clerk at a law firm. Saki's good friend, Hasumi Riko, who is a mother of two children, was high school classmates with Saki, but is in fact 35, because she had deliberately declared herself to be two years younger. She has no qualms of lying for the sake of female happiness, pretending to be married to a man of wealth and blessed with children. Because her personality is the exact opposite, this accentuates Saki's uncompromising way of life. -Jdrama Weblog
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Seicho Matsumoto Drama Special: Face
Title: Seicho Matsumoto Drama Special: Face
Character: Ryokichi Ino
Released: December 29, 2009
Type: Movie
Based on a short story by Seichi Matsumoto from 1956 and remake from the 1957 movie of the same name, the story is about an actor who has the opportunity to become a success but 9 years earlier, he had killed a woman with whom he was involved and there was an eyewitness to the murder.
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Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I
Title: Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I
Character: Yukihisa Matsuda
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: 松田 幸久
Released: December 19, 2009
Type: TV
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My Rainy Days
Title: My Rainy Days
Character: Kouki
Released: November 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money--until one day, she meets a university professor named Kouki and falls in love.
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Baby, Baby, Baby!
Title: Baby, Baby, Baby!
Character: Tetsuya Kudo
Released: May 23, 2009
Type: Movie
30 year old Yoko Sasaki (Arisa Mizuki) works diligently at a publishing company. She then receives the unexpected news that she is pregnant. Having now to chose between having a baby and or her career.
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Title: Konkatsu!
Character: Takumi Nihei
Released: April 20, 2009
Type: TV
Amamiya Kuniyuki is the unemployed son of a tonkatsu restaurant owner. He finds a job that requires a married person, so he lies by saying that he has plans to marry, and he is forced to keep up the charade using Tobita Haruno, a part-time worker from the restaurant. The relationship between the two is the key of this romantic comedy, though the series also focuses on family and friendship through Nakai's interactions with the other characters. --Tokyograph
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Title: BOSS
Character: Keita Ishikawa
Released: April 16, 2009
Type: TV
Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "boss" of this division. But despite her intelligence and capabilities, she can never understand a man's heart, so she remains unable to find a husband.
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Title: Love Shuffle
Character: Kikuta Masato
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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Title: Triangle
Character: Tomioka Yasushi
Released: January 6, 2009
Type: TV
The series starts with the murder of a 10-year-old girl in 1984. 15 years later, after the case goes unsolved and passes the statute of limitations, a doctor named Goda Ryoji suddenly quits from his hospital and eventually becomes a detective. In 2008, he meets Sachi, a traveling artist in Paris, and shortly after Goda's return to Japan, he becomes involved in the expired murder case when another detective receives an anonymous phone call.
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The Handsome Suit
Title: The Handsome Suit
Character: Kyonin Mitsuyama
Released: November 1, 2008
Type: Movie
An overweight cook is given the opportunity to woo the girl of his dreams when he is given a "handsome suit" that transforms him into an idealized human being in this absurd Japanese comedy.
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special
Title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special
Released: September 23, 2008
Type: Movie
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The Sky Crawlers
Title: The Sky Crawlers
Character: Naofumi Tokino (voice)
Released: August 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren are conscious that every day could be the last, because they fight a war as entertainment, organized and operated by adults. But as they embrace the reality they are faced with, they live their day-to-day lives to the full.
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Title: School can't teach!
Character: Kensaku Himura
Released: July 15, 2008
Type: TV
Gakko ja Oshierarenai! is a Japanese television drama series concerning the life of ten high school students. It stars Kyoko Fukada as their teacher. It started to air on July 15, 2008. Aida Mai is a woman in her third year as an english teacher at a private all-girls high school. Due to declining enrollment, the school decides to admit its first male students. Those five freshmen initially feel they're in paradise, but the concerned Mai tries to help them adjust by creating a social dance club and inviting five girls. Those ten students become the focus of the drama, which is described as a story of love and adolescence.
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The Magic Hour
Title: The Magic Hour
Character: Niko
Released: June 7, 2008
Type: Movie
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
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Nagai Nagai Satsujin
Title: Nagai Nagai Satsujin
Character: Kazuhiko Tsukada
Released: May 31, 2008
Type: Movie
A man’s body is found in the suburbs of Tokyo. The dead man was hit by a car and his head beaten by the reckless driver after the accident. The dead man had a wife named Noriko. She likes fancy things and she has a lover named Tsukada. It's also learned that the dead man was insured for 300 million yen. The media and the public look at Noriko and her boyfriend Tsukada with suspicion, but they have perfect alibis. Then, Detective Hibiki, who is in charge of the case, and Private Detective Kono become involved in a series of mysterious murder cases.
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Title: My Sassy Girl
Character: Kensaku Kazushima
Released: April 20, 2008
Type: TV
Ryokiteki na Kanojo is a Japanese television drama based on the South Korean movie My Sassy Girl. It narrates the story between Saburo Masaki, a marine biologist, and Riko Takami, an aspiring writer with a short temper. While the two are at odds with each other at first, they eventually become attracted to each other and develop a relationship. It received an average of 8.18% viewer rating throughout the series.
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Shabake 2
Title: Shabake 2
Released: January 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Ichitaro's adventure goes on. He starts to feel earthquakes, which no-one else does, and a voice telling to kill Ichitaro. His grandma gives him one flower's seeds and also tells Ichitaro's mother to let him go to Hakone. Mother approves it and Ichitaro takes up a trip to Hakone with Matsunosuke, Hakutaku and Sasuke, but only two of them arrive to Hakone, where earth trembles even more and people are more vulgar.
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Title: Edison's Mother
Character: Miura
Released: January 11, 2008
Type: TV
The series focuses on Ayukawa Noriko, the teacher of a class of first-graders. One day, a boy named Kento transfers into her class from another school, where he was treated as a problem child. In reality, the inquisitive Kento actually displays the potential of being a prodigy, and it's up to Noriko to figure out how to handle him. The story draws inspiration from the childhood of famous inventor Thomas Edison, who was also considered a problem child by most adults around him.
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Title: Shabake
Character: Nikichi(Hakutaku)
Released: November 24, 2007
Type: TV
Yuya Tegoshi plays a young man, Ichitaro, with weak health who has the power to see ghosts. Since the age of five, he has become friends with them, and works with them to solve mysterious incidents.
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Title: 宮部みゆき「長い長い殺人」
Released: November 4, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: Mop Girl
Character: Otomo Shotaro
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: TV
Mop Girl is a television drama series based on the novel of the same title by Miaki Kato; it recounts the adventures of Momoko Hasegawa, played by Keiko Kitagawa, who possesses the ability to travel back in time upon contact with belongings of a deceased person with unfinished business in life. She then has the chance to prevent the death of the would-be deceased.
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出るトコ出ましょ!
Title: 出るトコ出ましょ!
Character: Hiromu Nonaka
Released: September 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Shizuka Kamei is a young high school student whose family is in deep debt since the disappearance of her father. After being expelled from her high school because of her money problems, she finds a part-time job: here she is an assistant to a lawyer, Nonaka Hiromu, who fantasizes about the uniforms of high school girls.
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Vexille
Title: Vexille
Character: Leon (voice)
Released: August 18, 2007
Type: Movie
2067: Isolation: Japan seals herself off from the eyes of the world in the face of unilateral international policy setting strict limits on the use of robotic technology. The island nation exists only behind a veil of seclusion. No soul shall enter. No soul shall leave. 2077: Revelation: The veil is breached. Japan is infiltrated by agents of the organization S.W.O.R.D., a fighting force operating outside of the protection of the United States and her allies. Their mission: Determine if the Japanese are developing banned robotic bio-technology, forbidden due to its threat to humankind. In the battle between machine and man, humanity stands to suffer most.
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Title: Mountain Woman, Wall Woman
Character: Tamura Takehiko
Released: July 5, 2007
Type: TV
Megumi is a top sales person at the handbag section of a department store. Many people admire, and sometimes even envy, Megumi for her beauty and outstanding skills to sell products to customers. However, Megumi secretly suffers from a complex: she is flat-chested and was once nicknamed "kabe onna" (wall woman) by her former classmate. One day, a new sales person named Marie joins Megumi's department. Unlike Megumi, Marie is extremely busty as if she's carrying mounds (yama) on her chest. On top of her great bosoms, Marie also has her own special way of effortlessly selling the products to the customers. Though feeling a little threatened by Marie at first, Megumi soon realizes that they have more things in common than anybody else: they both take pride in their career and dedicate themselves to helping their customers. Through numerous obstacles, Megumi and Marie foster special friendships with each other.
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Title: Erai Tokoro ni Totsuide Shimatta!
Character: Yamamoto Isojiro
Released: January 11, 2007
Type: TV
Makimura Kimiko, freelance journalist and city-girl extraordinaire, marries into a traditional Japanese family. Most overbearing of the Yamamoto Family members is Isojiro's mother, Shimako, who seems to think Kimiko is the perfect wife whose knowledge of the traditional Japanese arts knows no bounds. Kimiko on the other hand is sloppy, a bad cook unless it happens to be microwavable, and couldn't tell a shamisen from a bagpipe if her life depended on it. Bombarded by customs, Kimiko's only desire is to never step foot in the Main House again. But with the interference of her husband, Isojiro, who can't seem to say no to his mother, Kimiko finds herself back in a place she calls Hell and smack in the midst of some crazy tradition her in-laws want her to participate in.
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Lovely Complex
Title: Lovely Complex
Released: July 12, 2006
Type: Movie
Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxieties and interests. Risa (Ema Fujisawa), a tall Japanese girl, gets rejected by a boy because she is taller than him. Otani (Teppei Koike), a short Japanese guy, gets rejected by a girl because he is shorter than her. Obviously these two would make the oddest of couples and would never be a good match for each other right? Well love doesn’t always follow such logic as Love Complex shows.
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Title: Call me CA!
Character: Shin Takaoka
Released: July 5, 2006
Type: TV
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Memories of Matsuko
Title: Memories of Matsuko
Character: Shunji Saeki
Released: May 27, 2006
Type: Movie
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
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Title: Top Caster
Character: Masato Yuuki
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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Ski Jumping Pairs: Road to Torino 2006
Title: Ski Jumping Pairs: Road to Torino 2006
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Consistently designed, hilarious mockumentary about the history of the sport doubles ski jumping at the Olympic Winter games in Turin 2006.
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Title: Kobayakawa Nobuki no Koi
Character: Takebayashi Hayato
Released: January 12, 2006
Type: TV
Nobuki Kobayakawa is a surgeon at a university hospital who is beset by troubles with human relations at work and wearied by his emotionally unstable and jealous wife, although he loves his daughter. He then happens to meet the woman Kana and is attracted to her. But Kana has a secret past. Should he seek new happiness with Kana by leaving a home that only wears him out? This drama is a warm depiction from the man’s perspective of the life of a man who stands on the crossroads of life.
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Title: Ooku ~ Hana no Ran ~
Character: Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Released: October 13, 2005
Type: TV
Tells the story of the women surrounding Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun.
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Aegis
Title: Aegis
Character: Yudai Kazama
Released: July 30, 2005
Type: Movie
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways who kill the ship's captain, send the rest of the crew overboard and take control of the vessel. The ship is carrying a secret biological weapon which the terrorists are now threatening to use to level Tokyo! Only a stowaway NCO, Sengoko (played by Sanada Hiroyuki from Ring and Twilight Samurai) is in a position to stop them - but does he really have what it takes to save the day? Playing like a cross between a sea-faring version of Top Gun and Die Hard, director Sakamoto Junji shows that it's not just Hollywood that can produce thrill-a-minute action spectaculars.
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Face to Face
Title: Face to Face
Character: Kawamura
Released: April 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Japanese horror starring Stephen Fung as a man who dies in a skiing accident, only for his best friend to marry his wife and inherit his fortune. Supernatural hijinks ensue.
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Breathe In, Breathe Out
Title: Breathe In, Breathe Out
Character: Shuichi Ikenaga
Released: May 29, 2004
Type: Movie
Breathe In, Breathe Out centers on six, later seven, individuals who have gotten jobs harvesting sugarcane on a small Okinawa island. Each worker has their own unique personality as well as their own issues as they learn to work together...
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Title: 稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Ikuzō Onda
Released: April 3, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Star's Echo
Character: Suji
Released: January 30, 2004
Type: TV
The story is centered on the love between a musically gifted South Korean man, Sung-jae Jo Hyun Jae, and a Japanese woman, Misaki Nakagoshi Noriko. Misaki, who feels guilty over her boyfriend's death, is transferred to Korean and meets Seong-jae who helps her cure her wounds of the past memories with love.
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Sky High
Title: Sky High
Character: Kohei Kanzaki
Released: December 5, 2003
Type: Movie
A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims and taking them with him. His victims however, are not merely random humans as thought by the police. They are in fact, the past and present guardians of the gateway of the afterlife.On the day he is to be married, Detective Kanzaki, who happens to be on the case, discovers that his fiancé Mina has been murdered with her heart also missing. He also learns that the killers are Kudo, a geneticist, and his evil secretary Rei. The two are trying to obtain six hearts from the guardians so that they may call forth a horde of demons from the Gate of Rage and have their every desire granted. Only problem is, once they open the gate the entire world will be covered in darkness.
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Fall Special
Title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Fall Special
Released: September 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. *Kagi (The Key) - starring Eguchi Yosuke. 2. Perfect Couple - starring Yada Akiko. 3. Toosugita Otoko (The Man Who Was Too Far Away) - starring Nakamura Shido. 4. Meiro (The Maze)- starring Tanihara Shosuke. 5. Kage ga Omonaru Toki (When Shadows Accumulate) - starring Yashima Norito. * Adapted from a novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka.
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Title: Diamond Girl
Character: Shinichiro Natsume
Released: April 9, 2003
Type: TV
A young woman whose life has been a breeze up to now suffers a disappointment in love which acts as the impetus for her to start working at a law firm, a completely new field to her. This love comedy depicts how the young woman, while struggling with love and with her work, comes to know what the real worth of a person as she strives to change into a can-do woman recognized by everyone. Reika Nanjo has the attractiveness of a polished diamond. She's been raised to believe that good looks and finely honed physical proportions are a woman's most important assets.
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Title: The Way I Live
Character: Kubo Masaru
Released: January 7, 2003
Type: TV
Boku no Ikiru Michi is a 2003 Japanese television drama series.
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Title: Father
Character: Shinji Tamaki
Released: October 13, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Gokusen
Character: Kujo Takuma
Released: April 17, 2002
Type: TV
Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she'll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain't an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it.
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Title: Power of Love
Character: Kuramochi Yusuke
Released: January 10, 2002
Type: TV
Toko (Fukatsu Eri), decides after she turns 30 that she is all but ready to give up on any future career hopes or romance, so she turns to the bottle for comfort. She knows that this isn't the best thing, but can't find the strength right now to do anything except choose the easy way to do things. This causes her to start getting down on herself. Luckily though, she doesn't give up hope completely, and tries to take things as they come. Which proves to help to some degree. Suddenly one day, a guy by the name of Kotaro (Tsutsumi Shinichi) comes along. Like Toko, Kotaro hasn't had much luck at work either. Even so, this is still the same guy that Toko liked when she was younger.
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Emergency Room 24 Hours Special 2002
Title: Emergency Room 24 Hours Special 2002
Character: Shun Kijima
Released: December 31, 2001
Type: Movie
After surviving from an incident of Cruise ship hijacking, both doctor Tamaki and the boy injured in the incident, Ryota Inamoto, suffered from different degrees of PTSD. Meanwhile, Doctor Chiharu Kanbayashi's wife is about to give birth to their first children. Would these doctors and patients succeed in overcoming their problems and welcome a happy new year?
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Title: A Wednesday Love Affair
Character: Akihiro Okajima
Released: October 10, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Hero
Character: Jotaro Sakurai
Released: January 8, 2001
Type: TV
Kohei Kuryu is a former juvenile delinquent who drops out of junior high and goes on to earn a high school equivalency diploma. After passing the law board exams, Kuryu becomes a prosecutor. Not your typical prosecutor, which is quickly seen through the clothes that he wears, Kuryu possesses quick instincts and a kind of cleverness that only someone raised on the streets could have. Maiko Amamiya is a shrewd public prosecutor who has her eyes set on passing the exam to become a deputy prosecutor and tries her best to be noticed by her boss. Kuryu, on the other hand, after earning a reputation for doing top-notch work, is transferred to Amamiya's division, and finally opens his eyes to the possibility of promotion. Unfortunately, his unprecedented work behavior abruptly brings things to a halt. Although earning a reputation as a bad apple, the influence from Kuryu's strong pursuit of justice slowly begins to change things around him.
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Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Title: Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Character: Hajime Kudo
Released: November 3, 2000
Type: Movie
In an alternate timeline the original Godzilla is never defeated and repeatedly reemerges to feed on Japan's energy sources. A new inter-dimensional weapon called the Dimension Tide is created with the intent of eliminating Godzilla. However, the new weapon might also serve as a gateway to something far more sinister.
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Title: Ice World
Character: Hiyama Toyohiko
Released: October 11, 1999
Type: TV
Investigations on a mysterious woman Toko started when Sonoe, a teacher and Toko's fellow faculty member, was found dead as a result of what seemed to be an unfortunate accident. Eiki, an insurance investigator, and Takeshi, an ambitious police detective, find links between this case and the deaths of Toko's 3 fiances, and are determined to uncover the truth.
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Title: Emergency Room 24 Hours
Character: Jojima Shun(城島 俊)
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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Sleepless Town
Title: Sleepless Town
Character: Chou Tianwen
Released: June 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two of gangland boss, Yuan. Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi.
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Fudoh 3
Title: Fudoh 3
Character: Riki Fudoh
Released: January 30, 1998
Type: Movie
A violent action film depicting the story of "Fudokuichi," a clear-headed high school student who is the young head of a Kyokudo family in Kyushu. Starring Tanihara Shosuke, Takeuchi Riki, Natsume Rei and others.
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Fudoh 2: Nohma Strikes Back!
Title: Fudoh 2: Nohma Strikes Back!
Character: Riki Fudoh
Released: November 28, 1997
Type: Movie
The story of Fudoh II concerns a group of delinquent high school girls who decide they will take over organized crime in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. Their method is simple: murdering as many mobsters as possible.
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Deborah, the Rival
Title: Deborah, the Rival
Released: August 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Based on the comic book of the same name by Kaoru Tada.
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Title: Pokémon
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 1997
Type: TV
Join Ash accompanied by his partner Pikachu, as he travels through many regions, meets new friends and faces new challenges on his quest to become a Pokémon Master.
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Fudoh: The New Generation
Title: Fudoh: The New Generation
Character: Riki Fudoh
Released: October 12, 1996
Type: Movie
In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
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Boys Over Flowers
Title: Boys Over Flowers
Character: Doumyouji Tsukasa
Released: August 19, 1995
Type: Movie
It's a story about a girl who becomes a student at Eitoku Gakuen, the institute for very rich people. She is faced with four of the most powerful and rich guys at school who call themselves F4.
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Title: Panel Quiz Attack 25
Released: April 6, 1975
Type: TV
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Meitantei Catherine
Title: Meitantei Catherine
Character: Hamaguchi Ichiro
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Catherine Turner is the daughter of the Vice President of the United States, and she had come with her father on his official visit to Japan. Since she runs a flower arrangement business back in the US, Catherine decides to stay on in Japan to learn Ikebana, after her father had returned home at the end of the official visit. Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hamaguchi Yukio, asks his nephew, Ichiro, to escort Catherine during her extended stay in Japan with the strict instructions that he is not to fall in love with her.