Asako Kobayashi

Asako Kobayashi

Born: March 21, 1972
in Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Asako Kobayashi...

Good-Bye
Title: Good-Bye
Released: March 9, 2020
Type: Movie
Sakura Ueno has recently quit her job and decided to work temporarily in a nursery school at a friend's request. There she meets a whole lot of cute kids including a girl named Ai. Shindo, the girl's father, often comes to pick her up late after school. Seeing him pick up his daughter triggers a memory of her own father, following this, changes happen…
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Title: My Brother's Husband
Character: Yuki's Mother
Released: March 4, 2018
Type: TV
Yaichi (Ryuta Sato) is a single father and he raises his elementary school aged daughter alone. One day, a foreign man named Mike (Baruto Kaito) visits him. Yaichi has an identical twin brother Ryoji, but Ryoji moved to Canada years ago. They have disconnected since that time. Mike introduces himself as the husband of Ryoji. They are a married gay couple. Yaichi is confused and doesn't know how to deal with Mike.
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Midnight Diner 2
Title: Midnight Diner 2
Character: Rumi
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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Title: Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Character: Rumi
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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Midnight Diner
Title: Midnight Diner
Character: Rumi
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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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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Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Title: Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Released: April 14, 2007
Type: Movie
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.
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Invisible War
Title: Invisible War
Character: Honda
Released: February 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Kitahara Shuji, an ordinary business man turns into a spy for his town's war against a neighboring town in a Dystopian society.
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Title: GARO
Character: Karin Mitsuki
Released: October 7, 2005
Type: TV
"Where there is light, shadows lurk and fear reigns. But by the blade of Knights, Mankind was given hope." The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that manifest themselves through darkness to devour Humanity. On the frontlines are the Makai Knights, given the task of watching over a district and eliminating any Horrors that manifest there. GARO follows the tales of the Knights bearing the title of ‘Golden Knight Garo’, and their duty to vanquish the Horrors and protect Humanity from the darkness.
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The Bleep Brothers
Title: The Bleep Brothers
Character: Miki
Released: March 29, 2002
Type: Movie
Tatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief, they practice games of manzai, a Japanese comic vaudeville. Tatsuo grows up to be a handsome chick magnet, while Ikuo is nerdy and unappealing. He spies on his brother to get material for their reality porn show. The show is bleeped heavily, and their bleep language becomes trendy and makes them stars.
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Turn
Title: Turn
Released: October 13, 2001
Type: Movie
Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. When she comes to she is at home. When she ventures outside, the city is deserted and she knows something is deeply wrong. Each day repeats; she wakes up at 2:15 in the afternoon. Gradually things start change, the phone rings, and she finds that she is not alone...
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Wave
Title: Wave
Released: July 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Yuka is staying at hotel Seaside in a Japanese resort. She is alone and bored, so she gets something going with the night porter.
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Osaka Story
Title: Osaka Story
Character: Taeko
Released: March 26, 1999
Type: Movie
Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.
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Shomuni
Title: Shomuni
Released: November 28, 1998
Type: Movie
Based on the comic by Hiroyuki Yasuda
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Body and Soul
Title: Body and Soul
Released: October 18, 1997
Type: Movie
Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who walked off with Yoshihiko’s girlfriend Aya. In doing so, he broke up with his own girlfriend, Reiko. Now they are all back together again and old feelings begin to surface.
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The Human Chair
Title: The Human Chair
Character: Modern girl
Released: April 19, 1997
Type: Movie
After seeing her husband off to work, the young author identified only as Yoshiko sets off to read the large collection of letters she received from other young authors. These are often letters containing samples of their work for critique. One large envelope contains a letter. The letter-writer does not provide his name. The letter is a confession of crimes. The letter-writer has no family or friends, and claims to be "ugly beyond description". He is a chair maker and loves his work and all the chairs he creates, even going so far as to claim some sort of intangible connection to his work.
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Forever with You
Title: Forever with You
Released: February 24, 1995
Type: Movie
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Love Bites Back
Title: Love Bites Back
Character: Kozue Tsunoda
Released: July 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter. Outwardly, his family seems really happy, but in reality Yuichi enjoys sex with everyone but his wife Chikako. One day, he gets a phone call from a woman named Sanae, an old elementary school classmate of his.