Asumi Miwa

Asumi Miwa

Born: March 12, 1982
in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Asumi Miwa (三輪 明日美, Miwa Asumi, born 12 March 1982) is a Japanese actress from Yokohama, Japan.[1] She is the younger sister of actress Hitomi Miwa.

Movies for Asumi Miwa...

Hatsukoi Kokuhaku-bu
Title: Hatsukoi Kokuhaku-bu
Released: January 12, 2024
Type: Movie
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Nemuriba
Title: Nemuriba
Released: October 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Mika (Marie Ono), a Japanese-American woman, returns to her native Saitama hometown and becomes a therapist for a "nemuriba" ("a place to sleep").
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Death of Domomata
Title: Death of Domomata
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
There are no heroines, there are no heroes. The six girls in this film are victims of their own excess and lack of worth. The film is set in a Drug Rehabilitation Centre. The girls are rehearsing the play 'Death of Domomata' for the annual Christmas Eve recital. On the morning before the recital, Tobe, who plays the leading role, dies suddenly. How do the girls left behind manage to go on with the show and how do they cope with Tobe's death?
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Colors
Title: Colors
Released: July 15, 2006
Type: Movie
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The Great Yokai War
Title: The Great Yokai War
Released: August 6, 2005
Type: Movie
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the yōkai from oppression. The yōkai originate in Japanese folklore and range from the cute and silly to the disturbing.
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The Man Behind the Scissors
Title: The Man Behind the Scissors
Released: March 19, 2005
Type: Movie
The Man Behind the Scissors centers around two serial killers: mastermind Yasunaga and helper Chinatsu. The two risk being found out when the police question them as witnesses to a gruesome murder they themselves may have committed. A quirky and perplexing police thriller centered around two murderers who thrive on slicing up schoolgirls. Calculated serial psycho Yasunaga (Tokokawa) and Chinatsu (Aso), his sweet female sidekick, find themselves being questioned as witnesses to a murder when their next potential victim turns up dead...with their M.O.
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Survive Style 5+
Title: Survive Style 5+
Released: September 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.
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Appleseed
Title: Appleseed
Character: Deyunan (motion actor)
Released: April 17, 2004
Type: Movie
In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?
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Making-of17才
Title: Making-of17才
Released: January 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes footage of Houka Kinoshita's film 17才 (Age 17).
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Seventh Anniversary
Title: Seventh Anniversary
Released: November 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Each time Lulu is heartbroken small stones come out of her body. The doctor tells Lulu they are kidney stones. She collects them in memoriam of love.
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FREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES
Title: FREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES
Released: November 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Anthology of five low-budget short films: "Nao and I", "MILD7", "LOVERS", "Strawberry Fields", "Label"
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Farewell, Kuro
Title: Farewell, Kuro
Character: Machiko Yokokawa
Released: July 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the school and becomes a special friend to everyone.
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Age 17
Title: Age 17
Character: Ako
Released: June 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Seventeen-year-old Ako works part-time in a cabaret club late at night. Because of this, she falls asleep in school every day. In the new semester, she becomes enamored with her classmate Ryou, who is repeating a year despite her good grades.
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Demon Hunting
Title: Demon Hunting
Character: Yukiko
Released: May 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Demon Hunting is a Japanese made-for-television horror movie. It originally aired as the second episode of Series Kyōfu Yawa in 2003. Nozomi Ando stars as Michiru, a teenager who makes a pact with a demon to kill the rival classmate who's dating the teacher she is in love with herself, Mr. Kamata (Hideo Sakaki). While she's at it, she also asks to see the world destroyed. Her memory of this pact is erased and eventually her wishes begin to come true...
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Tales of Terror from Tokyo: Volume 1
Title: Tales of Terror from Tokyo: Volume 1
Released: February 3, 2003
Type: Movie
An anthology series based on stories collected throughout Japan, mainly by writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama.
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Making-of Demon Hunting
Title: Making-of Demon Hunting
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes footage of Satoshi Torao's film Demon Hunting.
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Rock'n'Roll Mishin
Title: Rock'n'Roll Mishin
Released: September 28, 2002
Type: Movie
Kenji has a dull life. He is unmotivated at the office, and unable to break off a lukewarm relationship with his girlfriend. Then, he meets an old classmate from high school, Ryoichi. Ryoichi says he's starting up a clothing brand with a group of friends. One day, Kenji visits their atelier, or workplace, and is fascinated by the sense of freedom that they share. As his relationship with them deepens, Kenji finds it harder and harder to accept the old world he comes from. One day, he punches his boss and quits his job. Now a proper member of Ryoichi's team, it's the start of a new and carefree life for him. However, it is short-lived. The clothes they make do not sell as well as they hoped for. Short on cash, energy, and ideas, the negative feedback loop forces each of them to start struggling in a search for alternative paths.
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Ping Pong
Title: Ping Pong
Character: Muuko
Released: July 20, 2002
Type: Movie
As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids.
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ENTICE
Title: ENTICE
Released: February 6, 2002
Type: Movie
A promotional video shot in Australia introducing actresses Asumi and Hitomi Miwa.
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Disgusting guy. Bitch!
Title: Disgusting guy. Bitch!
Released: October 12, 2001
Type: Movie
A Novel horror that makes full use of the latest digital technology.
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Glowing, Growing
Title: Glowing, Growing
Released: October 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Glowing, Growing is a unique little movie produced entirely by film students in which two young outsiders join a mass suicide group in an attempt to gain freedom. Along the way they both re-discover the positive aspects of life, giving them the opportunity to weigh the pros and cons of choosing to live or die
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Shadow of the Wraith
Title: Shadow of the Wraith
Character: Nakada Nahoko
Released: June 23, 2001
Type: Movie
Two brothers are plunged into the realm of psychic horror, one tormented by a stalker, and the other involved with a girl whose home is the site of eerie occurrences.
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Tokyo Marigold
Title: Tokyo Marigold
Character: Minayo
Released: May 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from overseas, she requests to enter into a relationship with him for just one year.
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Love Song
Title: Love Song
Character: Kazumi
Released: April 28, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1985 Hokkaido, Akiko gets close to a record store clerk after he lends her his copy of a Yutaka Ozaki album.
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Love Ghost
Title: Love Ghost
Character: Suzue Tanaka
Released: March 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about an anonymous fortune-teller have anything to do with the tragedies plaguing her high school?
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man-hole
Title: man-hole
Released: March 3, 2001
Type: Movie
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DOUBLE PLATINUM
Title: DOUBLE PLATINUM
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Image video for Asumi and Hitomi Miwa's second photo book "Double PLATINUM".
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Making-of man-hole
Title: Making-of man-hole
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes footage of Takayuki Suzui’s film man-hole.
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Jovi Jova in Trapper - The Golden Six
Title: Jovi Jova in Trapper - The Golden Six
Released: August 25, 2000
Type: Movie
An original video yakuza comedy starring Japanese theatre troupe Jovi Jova.
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Boogiepop and Others
Title: Boogiepop and Others
Character: Naoko Kamikishiro
Released: March 11, 2000
Type: Movie
The story takes place in an unnamed Japanese city, and follows five students at Shinyo Academy as they try to piece together the puzzle of a new drug and recent disappearances among the student populace. While the teachers believe them to only be runaways, the female students whisper among themselves about the urban legend Boogiepop, who is said to be a Shinigami.
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Ju-on: The Curse
Title: Ju-on: The Curse
Character: Kanna Murakami
Released: February 11, 2000
Type: Movie
When elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom, he finds himself at the doorstep of an anonymous suburban house that harbours a horrible secret, and into which all who enter are doomed.
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Uzumaki
Title: Uzumaki
Character: Shiho Ishikawa
Released: February 11, 2000
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Title: Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Released: March 6, 1999
Type: Movie
With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.
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Rough KNIGHT 3
Title: Rough KNIGHT 3
Released: January 8, 1999
Type: Movie
The third film in the 'Rough Knight' series
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Document Love & Pop
Title: Document Love & Pop
Released: November 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Two shorts about the making of Hideaki Anno's movie "Love & Pop", one from the perspective of a bumbling assistant, and one from the perspective of a AV director filming a documentary about Anno but narrated by a worker from a bread factory
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Voyeurs, Inc. - Enjo Kosai
Title: Voyeurs, Inc. - Enjo Kosai
Released: September 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Based on the popular comic series by Hideo Yamamoto serialized in Weekly Young Sunday. Stars Asumi Miwa (Love & Pop). The film depicts a "peeping tom" who uncovers people's darker sides by following them and eavesdropping on their conversations.
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The Figure Shade Dolls
Title: The Figure Shade Dolls
Released: August 18, 1998
Type: Movie
In the near future, there are sex androids which are called FISH and give people physical and spiritual satisfaction. Takako, who is an illegal dealer of FISH, never believes in people and love because he was deeply hurt by his parents' suicide. One day, he found a FISH whose name is Sora. She has got a good figure and special ability. So, he thought she would be very valuable. As he stayed with her and felt her pure soul, he became to be healed. And her kiss released him from repression. On the way to an auction house, they overheard that an organization is looking for Sora.
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15 Second Cinderellas
Title: 15 Second Cinderellas
Released: July 22, 1998
Type: Movie
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Love & Pop
Title: Love & Pop
Character: Hiromi Yoshii
Released: January 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
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Voyeurs, Inc. - Wiretapping
Title: Voyeurs, Inc. - Wiretapping
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
An erotic mystery based on Hideo Yamamoto's comic of the same title, directed by Takeshi Yokoi Yokoi. A mysterious man eavesdrops on an affair between a teacher and a student at a prep school and harasses him. The teacher asks a member of "Voyeurs, Inc." to investigate.
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Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido
Title: Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido
Released: December 22, 1997
Type: Movie
"Ano Subarashii Ai Wo Mou Ichido" was used as the theme song for Hideaki Anno's 1998 live-action debut film "Love & Pop". The version in the film was performed by its lead actress Asumi Miwa. Anno traveled far away from the hectic Tokyo metropolis with his cast to shoot almost idol-like sunny beach footage for the music video and film advertisements.