Toshiki Ayata

Toshiki Ayata

Born: June 13, 1950
in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Toshiki Ayata...

Title: Isobe Isobee Monogatari ~Ukiyo wa Tsurai yo~
Character: Sensei
Released: July 12, 2024
Type: TV
Isobe Isobe is a samurai school student who dreams of becoming a great samurai but tries his best to slack off every day. If only we could live like this. A Reiwa period comedy dedicated to all Japanese people who try too hard.
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Title: Shady Job Family
Released: January 6, 2024
Type: TV
The drama is about five men and women who have gone off the rails in their lives and are trying to start their lives over by playing the role of a fake family based on the underworld part-time job case.
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Title: Uzukawamura Incident
Character: Furutani Masamune
Released: August 28, 2022
Type: TV
Akira Iwamori works as a doctor. He is looking for his wife, who went missing. He takes his daughter to visit his wife's hometown village of Uzukawa. While in Uzukawa, the village suddenly becomes isolated due to a landslide caused by heavy rain. The villagers becomes filled with anxiety and a murder takes place. The tense village people become violent. Akira is soon drawn into a power struggle in Uzukawa. He learns new information about his wife's whereabouts.
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Title: Lost Man Found
Character: Himself
Released: June 26, 2022
Type: TV
Satoru Matsudo moves to Tokyo in hopes of becoming an actor. He has trouble breaking into the industry, but his luck begins to change when he finds an airplane ticket belonging to a talent agency CEO. Time passes, and Satoru makes a name for himself as an actor. He gets a call from America. Hoping it is a Hollywood offer, he instead hears about his estranged older brother.
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2022 Summer Special
Title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2022 Summer Special
Released: June 18, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: Kawa no Hotori de
Character: Toshi-chan
Released: April 2, 2021
Type: TV
Toshi-chan and BB live in a hut with a blue sheet on the banks of the Tama River. Having lived there for several years, they are familiar with the area. The two of them gather cans across town from 4 am in the morning and sleep at 7 pm in order to save money on electricity at night. While they do not have substantial income, they are not particularly concerned about money. They are carefree each day and take pride in being homeless men who can support themselves. Nao, a young female actress from a small theatre company, visits Toshi-chan and BB one day. She is playing a heroine who has a grand romance with the leader of homeless men in her next performance and asks to interview them. This is the beginning of a long night for the trio…
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Title: Konya wa Konoji De
Character: 先生
Released: January 6, 2020
Type: TV
Two people, sake and gourmet. Yoshioka (Asaka), who is stressed by work, reunites with Keiko (Nakamura), a longed-for senior, because of his work in the “U-shaped bar” with a U-shaped counter.
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Title: Forgery It's tough being a man
Released: January 5, 2020
Type: TV
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Family of Strangers
Title: Family of Strangers
Character: Murakami
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a corpse turns up and a murder has occurred. The culprit fingered is one of the patients.
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Title: Black Widow Business
Released: January 22, 2019
Type: TV
In Osaka, Sayoko Takeuchi indulges in her evil ways. She targets old wealthy men and marries them for future inheritances. She works with Toru Kashiwagi who runs a marriage agency. Sayoko Takeuchi is married to a wealthy elderly man. One day, Tomomi Nakase hears her father was taken to the hospital. She rushes to the hospital and learns her father is unconscious. She also hears for the first time that her father is married to Sayoko Takeuchi. Tomomi Nakase takes the first steps in stopping Sayoko Takeuchi from gaining her father's fortune. She hires private detective Yoshinori Honda to investigate Sayoko Takeuchi and Toru Kashiwagi.
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River's Edge
Title: River's Edge
Character: Old Man
Released: February 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Haruna Wakagusa is a high school student who lives with her mother. Ichiro Yamada is gay and Haruna’s classmate. He is bullied at school, but Haruna sticks up for Ichiro. They become intimate and Ichiro tells Haruna his secret. He found a dead body along the riverside. A new body is soon found.
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Title: I Prefer Tomorrow's You
Character: Saeki Tenji
Released: January 20, 2018
Type: TV
Matsuo Ryo works at a gardening company. He thinks women are annoying. At a client’s office, he meets Satogawa Akane who works as a CEO’s secretary. She is admired by the male employees due to her attractiveness and smarts, but, due to a bad experience, she is not interested in finding love. She only has sex with married men. A new male employee, Kinosaki Haruto, approaches Akane. One evening, Matsuo Ryo’s boss asks him if he is interested in marrying his daughter Tanno Ayaka and eventually taking over the gardening company. But, Ryo is embarrassed by the suggestion. He views Ayaka as a sister. Meanwhile, Ayaka works at a construction site during the day but works at a girl's bar at night. She has lost her sexual identity. While working at the girl's bar, female customer Kuroda Azusa approaches Ayaka.
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Ninsho
Title: Ninsho
Character: Eison
Released: January 7, 2017
Type: Movie
Ninsho becomes a monk, following his mother’s wish who died when he was little. His father devotes his fortune for Ninsho to become a great monk. Ninsho helps with relief effort to save people who suffer from famine and disease. One day, he meets a woman with problems with her legs. She makes a living by begging. Ninsho carries her on his back everyday.
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Prison Gate Island
Title: Prison Gate Island
Character: Koan Murase
Released: November 19, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1946, on a fictional island called Gokumon-tou, located in the Inner Sea of Seto, the famous detective Kindaichi intended to pass his convalescence after the invitation of his war buddy Kitou Chimata, the successor son of the powerful clan of the Kitou Family. But Kindaichi arrives alone, bringing the bad news of Chimata's death. However, the truth is that Kindaichi is not on the island to recover. Before Chimata died, she uttered the words: "My sisters will be killed!" Indeed, as the three sisters are murdered one by one in horrible and strange ways, Kindaichi desperately tries to find the culprit and in the process discovers the intrigues of the family, secrets, island mentality, discrimination, and eccentricities, With the backdrop of the turbulent postwar period.
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Midnight Diner 2
Title: Midnight Diner 2
Character: Kosuzu
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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Oh My Zombie!
Title: Oh My Zombie!
Released: November 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Five years have passed since Japan's Great Zombie Panic. The confusion of those days is gone and people have finally regained their ordinary, peaceful lives. One day, out of nowhere, a zombie appears and becomes trapped in a house. Six people have spotted the zombie, including the home-owner couple, a cheeky high school boy, a boring small-factory owner, a suspicious young intern and a woman who insists she is the zombie's wife.
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Title: Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Character: Kosuzu
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: TV
In an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef cooks anything his customers want. Each episode is about different a different customer, as they find simple yet profound connections with one another based on their shared love of a particular dish.
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The Sun
Title: The Sun
Character: Yukio Sasaki
Released: April 23, 2016
Type: Movie
The story is set in the early 21st century with the population decimated by bio terror. Two kinds of humans now exist. One is the Nokusu who were infected with a virus but survived and consequently they carry an antibody. Most are young, healthy and have high intelligence, but they have a high sensitivity to ultraviolet rays and are active mostly during the night. The other group are the Kyurio. They survived by never having the virus. The Nokusu discriminates against the Kyurio. Tetsuhiko Okudera is a Kyurio. He was born in a poor village. He isn't happy with being a Kyurio and wishes he could be a Nokusu. Yui Ikuta is Tetsuhiko’s childhood friend. She tries to revive the poor village.
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Detective Ballerino
Title: Detective Ballerino
Character: Fumihiko Kinjo
Released: January 9, 2016
Type: Movie
In the past, Kurumi Usushima (Yuto Nakajima) wanted to become a ballerino, but he is now a detective. Kurumi Usushima and his senior detective, Takao Washio (Masahiro Takashima), solve a case by using the hypnosis technique past life regression.
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Maestro!
Title: Maestro!
Released: January 31, 2015
Type: Movie
Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou appears in front of them.
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Title: The Guide - Five Stars in Kyoto
Character: Hyoichi Sakuraba
Released: January 9, 2015
Type: TV
An original sitcom from YTV, revolving around the employees of a travel agency in Kyoto whose job is to respond to tourist customer complaints. Once called the “Travel Master” Kyoka Takase was transferred to a different office after a conflict with her superior. However with her expertise in planning and numerous connections, she uses her skills to create the perfect travel plan one customer at a time!
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Midnight Diner
Title: Midnight Diner
Character: Kosuzu
Released: November 1, 2014
Type: Movie
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.
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Airport 2013
Title: Airport 2013
Released: May 2, 2014
Type: Movie
When there's a transfer flight delay, a put-upon ground staff worker at a small town airport has to deal with a family that has plenty of problems of their own. Shot in a single take, "Airport" focuses on familial and romantic relationships and the secrets that often hold them together.
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A Woman from Ashio
Title: A Woman from Ashio
Released: January 18, 2014
Type: Movie
A story about a woman from Yanaka Village, Tochigi Prefecture, which was abolished by the government due to the Ashio Copper Mine pollution incident in the late Meiji Period. The drama depicts the struggle of the woman who gradually matures as a person through her encounters with versatile figures, including socialists and writers, after moving to Tokyo.
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Fly, Dakota, Fly!
Title: Fly, Dakota, Fly!
Released: October 5, 2013
Type: Movie
In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an emergency landing on Sado Island. The residents on the island have heard stereotypes of the British soldiers and have mixed feelings about the their new "guest." Nevertheless, for the next 40 days the islanders take care of the crew members until the plane can take off once again. This includes Chiyoko Morimoto who is the daughter of the inn owner where some of the British crew members stay.
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Title: Apple of Sodom
Character: Iizuka Masataka
Released: March 23, 2013
Type: TV
After her ex-boyfriend dies, an editor becomes obsessed with his fiancée, a woman accused of swindling multiple men out of money before killing them.
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Himawari -Okinawa wa Wasurenai, Ano Nichi no Sora o-
Title: Himawari -Okinawa wa Wasurenai, Ano Nichi no Sora o-
Released: January 26, 2013
Type: Movie
After an American helicopter crashes into a classroom in Okinawa International University, student Ryuichi is compelled to write a report on a similar accident 52 years ago, in 1959, when an American jet fighter crashed into his grandfather's elementary school. He also plans to hold a peace concert.
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The King of Minami Returns: Paper Scraps for Money
Title: The King of Minami Returns: Paper Scraps for Money
Released: January 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Ginjiro looks after 10-year-old Ayumi. Her mother is away on staff training. The company is a criminal outfit pushing unlisted stock to the elderly.
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Tug of War!
Title: Tug of War!
Character: city council chairman
Released: November 22, 2012
Type: Movie
The mayor of Oita wants to improve the image of his city, so he instructs Chiaki - a young woman working for the city's PR department - to form a female tug of war team. Nobuo MIZUTA mixes comedy, drama and a pinch of social criticism to tell a tale of eight women, their everyday struggles and their support for each other.
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Title: Solitary Gourmet
Released: January 4, 2012
Type: TV
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
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Sheep in the Night
Title: Sheep in the Night
Released: November 16, 2010
Type: Movie
A real estate agent, Shinji Sawaguchi finds a fallen meteorite by accident. On the next day, his missing sister Shiori shows up for the first time in ten years. Shinji can't help being agitated by her sudden return. On the other hand, unusual events start happening in his life, and her threatening melody spreads in the town. Including Shinji's fiancé Maki, the development of characters centers around Shiori's mysterious presence felt. Shiori's identity is hidden, and Shinji gets involved in a peculiar situation.
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Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
Title: Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
Character: Ryoji Inosena
Released: September 4, 2010
Type: Movie
Tsukiko, whose father died before she was born, lives with her mother Yoko and they provide mutual support for each other. One day, Yoko comes home completely drunk with Kenji, a young man with blond hair, and tells Tsukiko, "I'm going to marry him."
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Title: Midnight Diner
Character: Kosuzu
Released: October 9, 2009
Type: TV
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.
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Be Sure to Share
Title: Be Sure to Share
Character: Fisherman
Released: June 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it's too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced connecting to his strict father who was also his teacher and soccer coach. With a consuming secret of his own, Shiro, now in his late twenties and about to get engaged, must eventually learn how to share the pain of it with his loved ones.
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The Code
Title: The Code
Released: May 9, 2009
Type: Movie
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a group of stellar detectives lead by the genius code breaker Detective 507. When an unknown client enlists 507 to crack his most difficult programming code yet, the detective embarks for Shanghai where he crosses paths with a sniper, an informant, the head of the Blue-Dragon Mafia, and beautiful singer on the run, Meilan. As 507 stumbles deeper into a twisted quagmire of intrigue he discovers the sad truth behind the mystery.
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Three Year Delivery
Title: Three Year Delivery
Released: January 28, 2006
Type: Movie
Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her third year, to the bafflement of all around her.
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Title: Time Limit Investigator
Character: Shinagawa
Released: January 13, 2006
Type: TV
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby. So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.
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Title: Detective Office 5: Another Story
Character: Sakiyama
Released: September 29, 2005
Type: TV
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In the Pool
Title: In the Pool
Released: May 21, 2005
Type: Movie
A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.
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More Painful than Rain
Title: More Painful than Rain
Released: January 29, 2005
Type: Movie
Ayami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and is beginning to think that she would rather live her life for work than marriage. Just then, she meets Kurasawa, who works at the same company, and they soon find themselves drawn to each other.
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The Hidden Blade
Title: The Hidden Blade
Released: October 30, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
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Tokyo: Level One
Title: Tokyo: Level One
Character: Professor Enomoto
Released: March 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.
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Title: 新・ミナミの帝王~紙クズ商売~
Released: January 5, 2003
Type: TV
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Barber's Sorrow
Title: Barber's Sorrow
Released: November 9, 2002
Type: Movie
A S&M comedy about a masochist barber.
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Shangri-La
Title: Shangri-La
Character: Etô
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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Kaza-hana
Title: Kaza-hana
Character: Old Man at the Hot Spring Inn
Released: September 14, 2000
Type: Movie
An alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he's impulsively made a suicide pact. Though he's now changed his mind, he agrees to travel with her to Hokkaido, her preferred site for ending it all.
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The Bridge Club
Title: The Bridge Club
Released: November 16, 1996
Type: Movie
Tatsuo was leading a peaceful suburban life with his wife and daughter. But an ex-girlfriend attends his bridge club. Then Haruo, an old friend, appears. He is being chased by loan sharks and needs shelter. Haruo overstays his welcome and family relations become strained.
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Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
Title: Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
Released: September 23, 1996
Type: Movie
A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.
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Human Scramble: Rain
Title: Human Scramble: Rain
Released: June 5, 1993
Type: Movie
Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane.
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The Rocking Horsemen
Title: The Rocking Horsemen
Character: Head Teacher
Released: October 31, 1992
Type: Movie
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.
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Hawaiian Dream
Title: Hawaiian Dream
Character: CF Staff A
Released: August 29, 1987
Type: Movie
Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two make a living by trafficking pakalolo – marijuana – under the pretext of selling tea leaves, but they are in a foreign land where they don't speak the language well. When they get busted by the chief of police, they're forced to make a deal and and help get a local crime boss masquerading as a benevolent celebrity arrested.
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Mandaraya no Ryôta
Title: Mandaraya no Ryôta
Released: March 15, 1986
Type: Movie
Live-action adaptation of Jun Hatanaka's manga "Mandaraya no Ryota".
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Deaths in Tokimeki
Title: Deaths in Tokimeki
Released: February 18, 1984
Type: Movie
Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult.
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Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
Title: Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
Character: President
Released: October 6, 1979
Type: Movie
A meek salaryman who gets no respect at home and is belittled at work gets inspiration from Superman and somehow becomes a strangely suited, hugely endowed, masked sexual avenger.
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Detective's Wife 2
Title: Detective's Wife 2
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
From a trivial request, a tremendous shadow of organized crime rolls out... A kind-hearted detective and his wife confront a difficult case in a big city!