Tarô Suwa

Tarô Suwa

Born: August 9, 1954
in Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Tarô Suwa...

LONESOME VACATION
Title: LONESOME VACATION
Released: October 7, 2023
Type: Movie
This is Lonesome Vacation
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The Forbidden Play
Title: The Forbidden Play
Released: September 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Naoto Ihara lives happily with his wife Miyuki and their son Haruto. Their happiness is crushed when Miyuki suddenly dies in a car accident. Naoto falls into deep grief over the death of his wife. Meanwhile, Haruto buries his dead mother Miyuki's finger in their garden and prays everyday for her to come back to life. The family is visited by video director Hiroko Kurasawa, who used to work with Naoto Ihara. There she sees Haruto shouting a strange spell in their yard. Unexpected and bizarre phenomenons soon take place around Hiroko Kurasawa.
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Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare
Title: Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare
Character: Yokota
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: Movie
20 years after their battle with the Evolians had ended, a new threat appears to threaten the long-lasting peace that the Abarangers have enjoyed. For the first time in a long while, they transform to fight but the public seems to think their actions are barbaric acts of destruction. In the Reiwa Era, is the justice they once fought for now considered an outdated style of heroism?
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God Bless You
Title: God Bless You
Released: February 4, 2023
Type: Movie
A debt collector is forced to confront his inner child when assigned a sweet but mentally challenged new recruit, who mirrors all his actions.
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Leave in Summer
Title: Leave in Summer
Released: September 23, 2022
Type: Movie
Nana is a young hostess of Nakajima Inn in a town by the sea. At the beginning of September when Nakajima Inn is closed for business, a young man, Shuntaro appears and says that he really wants to stay at the inn. He explains that he lost his loved one a month ago and she had stayed at the inn just before she died. In order to follow the deceased lover's footsteps, Shuntaro wanders around the town and the beach day and night. Nana who's been watching Shuntaro's behavior volunteers showing around the town and finds herself hanging about with him a lot. This is the town she knows more than anybody. Moreover, just like Shuntaro, she is also the one who lives with the pain of losing loved ones. Nana and Shuntaro spend time together sharing each other's secrets, influencing each other and eventually, their frozen time starts moving.
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Roleless
Title: Roleless
Released: September 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Miyamatsu, who works as a cable-car operator, is also a film extra. Through his different characters he has been living the life of a stranger, only playing that part. Finally he comes face to face with his own life, the one he had lost. Debut film.
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Cat and Salt, or Sugar
Title: Cat and Salt, or Sugar
Character: 佐藤茂
Released: July 23, 2022
Type: Movie
Ichiro is a 32-year-old man who has voluntarily become his mother's "pet," retreating from the flow of life suggested by society: university, career, marriage, parenting, home ownership. His quiet life at home (with an alcoholic father) is interrupted when the ex-boyfriend of Ichiro's mother and his "white idol" daughter move in. Under a cramped roof, the five search for happiness.
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Bad City
Title: Bad City
Character: Chief Of Police
Released: July 5, 2022
Type: Movie
Kensuke Sonomura directs the legendary Hitoshi Ozawa in this ultimate V-Cinema actioner. Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor and starts eliminating opponents from the rival mafia, a former police captain serving time for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force to arrest him.
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Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 8
Title: Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 8
Released: April 25, 2022
Type: Movie
The eighth 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film.
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Bldg. N
Title: Bldg. N
Released: April 22, 2022
Type: Movie
Urban legend horror film based on the true story of the "Ghost Apartment Incident" that occurred in Gifu Prefecture's Tomika Town in 2000.
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Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 7
Title: Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 7
Released: February 25, 2022
Type: Movie
The seventh 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film.
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Title: Isn't It a Bad Guy?
Character: Mataichi
Released: February 3, 2022
Type: TV
In which a good-looking college student, Gonta Tamachi, reconsiders himself when his powerful grandmother and his body and spirit are replaced.
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Noise
Title: Noise
Character: Kenji Suzuki
Released: January 27, 2022
Type: Movie
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) begins to produce black fig on Shishikari Island. Because of his well received product, the island is close to receiving a 5 billion yen grant from the government, which is part of the goverment's policy to reinvigorate rural economy. The residents of the island are excited, but their peaceful days changes by the appearance of Mutsuo Komisaka. Keita Izumi and his friends Jun Tanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) and Rookie Police Officer Shinichiro Moriya are suspicious about him. One night, Keita Izumi's daughter goes missing. Due to that, Keita Izumi, Jun Tanabe and Shinichiro Moriya happen to kill Mutsuo Komisaka. They decide to hide Mutsuo Komisaka’s murder to protect the future of the island and their families. It turns out Mutsuo Komisaka was a psycho killer. Police officers come to Shishikari Island to catch Mutsuo Komisaka.
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In the Wake
Title: In the Wake
Released: October 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence for another crime, and he surfaces as a suspect but detective Tomashiro can't nail down conclusive proof.
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Title: TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room
Released: July 4, 2021
Type: TV
TOKYO MER is formed by order from the Governor of Tokyo. The name of the group stands for TOKYO Mobile Emergency Room. The members are emergency care professionals and they are to go to sites of dangerous accidents and disasters by ER car. Their ER car is a large vehicle equipped with the latest medical devices and an operating area. There, TOKYO MER saves lives of the injured. Kōta Kitami is a doctor for TOKYO MER and its leader. He holds a strong conviction that, regardless of the dangers, he will go to accident sites to save lives.
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The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Title: The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Character: Sunakakebaba
Released: July 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed, Kei Watanabe challenges a war against the yōkai.
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NO CALL NO LIFE
Title: NO CALL NO LIFE
Released: March 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Adapted from Kabei Yukako's novel of the same name. After being guided by a mysterious message from the past on a cellphone's answering machine, Umi encounters Mahiro, a delinquent at her school. They gradually come closer, but more messages appearing on the answering machine will unveil past secrets...
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Under the Turquoise Sky
Title: Under the Turquoise Sky
Released: February 26, 2021
Type: Movie
Takeshi grew up spoiled in an affluent family. One day his businessman grandfather Saburo sends him to the grasslands of Mongolia where he is to search for a daughter born out of Saburo's relationship with a local woman after the Second World War.
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Title: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
Character: Bookseller
Released: December 28, 2020
Type: TV
Comic creator Rohan Kishibe, along with his partner-cum-editor, Kyōka Izumi, challenge various incidents beyond human knowledge.
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Red Post on Escher Street
Title: Red Post on Escher Street
Character: Mutou
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
A genius film director, Tadashi Kobayashi holds an audition for his new film project. Several actors and actresses answer the open call, but most will only be cast as extras. Can the film come to a completion without accident?
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Stop the Bitch Campaign Reboot
Title: Stop the Bitch Campaign Reboot
Released: July 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Based on the legenday cult Japanese comic “Stop The Bitch Campaign” by Hideo Yamamoto (“Ichi the Killer”) and Tetsuya Koshiba (“Remote”), a fierce battle between the beautiful high-school girls and the middle-aged man erupts once again.
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Title: The Road to Red Restaurant List
Character: Kawabe Yoshitomo [Parry Restaurant owner] (Ep. 7)
Released: January 25, 2020
Type: TV
Suda Tamio is an ordinary salaryman. He experiences various stress throughout his daily life. His only pleasure is to set out on trips to find "Zetsumeshi." Zetsumeshi refers to endangered meals, that may no longer exist in the future. While his wife Kanae and child go attend concerts by their favourite idol groups, he leaves home on Friday after work and returns home Saturday night.
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Stare
Title: Stare
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: Movie
Dead bodies with eyeballs ruptured are continuously found. Their direct causes of death are heart attacks and they acted like they were possessed right before their deaths. Mizuki is a university student. Her friend dies in front of her. Meanwhile, Haruo’s younger brother dies. Mizuki and Haruo begin to investigate together. They learn that Eiko holds a key to the mystery. Soon, Eiko's eyeballs rupture and she dies by a heart attack. Before she dies, she mentions the word "Shirai-san.”
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The Promised Land
Title: The Promised Land
Released: October 18, 2019
Type: Movie
A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.
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Dancing Mary
Title: Dancing Mary
Character: Municipal Manager
Released: October 3, 2019
Type: Movie
Kenji is the youngest member of a team in charge of building a large shopping center. But, to create the new complex, an old dance floor must be destroyed, and every effort to tear down the building is boycotted by a mysterious power. In fact, there is a rumor that the place is cursed, and the construction team thought about hiring exorcists, but none of them seems to find the solution.
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Five Million Dollar Life
Title: Five Million Dollar Life
Released: July 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Mirai Takatsuki is a seemingly normal teenager, but when he was a child his life was saved from a terrible illness thanks to magnanimous donations from the local community that paid for his medical bills. Ongoing media attention and the pressure to excel have prompted Mirai to have suicidal tendencies.
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Sadako
Title: Sadako
Character: Oshima Police Officer
Released: May 24, 2019
Type: Movie
A psychologist connects her missing brother to the strange case of a mysterious little girl believed to be Sadako reincarnated.
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Title: Gakko School-Live! Another Story
Released: January 16, 2019
Type: TV
School may mean salvation when the student body turns into zombies! Soon the survivors’ only chance of staying alive lies in barricading themselves into the building. Now ‘living’ may mean living at school… permanently.
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My Retirement, My Life
Title: My Retirement, My Life
Character: Hiroyuki Aoyagi
Released: November 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Michitaro Sano’s wife passed away 18 years ago. Since her death, he has lived with his daughter Yumiko at their home. Now, Michitaro retires from his work. Yumiko though tells him to start doing housework. Michitaro is also surprised to learn that Yumiko has a boyfriend and is considering marriage. Michitaro is unsure how to handle his sudden abundance of free time. He then attends a local radio calisthenics group session.
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Title: dele
Released: July 27, 2018
Type: TV
Freelance programmer Sakagami is paralyzed in the lower half of his body and confined to a wheelchair. He sets up a company called dele.LIFE in partnership with a law firm established by his late father. At the request of clients, Sakagami works together with a freelance jack-of-all-trades Mashiba to delete all unfavorable digital records of their clients left in their computers and smartphones after they die. They are not supposed to see inside the files but when they feel something strange in the client’s death, they cannot help getting involved.
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Sharaku houmu outotsu tantei-dan
Title: Sharaku houmu outotsu tantei-dan
Released: March 18, 2018
Type: Movie
Former detective Gunpei Wakatsuki (Masao Kusakari) and former big thief Otomatsu Sekiya (Takashi Sasano), who live in the luxury elderly housing with care “Sharaku Home”, are a trio of 6th grade elementary school students, Isamu Tachikawa. Meet (Keita Ninomiya), Shota Inoki (Sotora Motomura), Chika Takami (Himena Negishi). One day, a baby is taken away at an obstetrics and gynecology clinic run by Isamu's father, Hiroshi Tachikawa (Takeyuki Yue). During the three minutes his mother went to the kiosk, she disappeared.
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Title: My Brother's Husband
Character: Saitou Toshio
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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Waiting for the Moon
Title: Waiting for the Moon
Released: December 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Yumi is a victim when the triple disaster of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown occur in Japan of 2011. She is a guest of her aunt now. She finds a job at a local bar and works under the owner Sugiya, a man who has amnesia and barely recalls anything except his recipes. The two begin to develop feelings for one another.
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The Lowlife
Title: The Lowlife
Released: November 25, 2017
Type: Movie
Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.
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Foreboding
Title: Foreboding
Character: Taoka
Released: November 11, 2017
Type: Movie
Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father there. Etsuko becomes worried about Miyuki's state of mind, and she takes Miyuki to the psychiatric hospital where her husband, Tatsuo, works. There, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of "family." Later, Etsuko tells Tatsuo that she is not comfortable with Dr. Jirō Makabe. Tatsuo introduced her to Dr. Makabe earlier at the hospital. Etsuko has a feeling of unease about her husband working with Dr. Makabe. One day, Etsuko hears Dr. Makabe state "I came to Earth to invade."
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Title: Izakaya Fuji
Released: July 8, 2017
Type: TV
Eiichi Nishio (Kento Nagayama) is a young actor. He is not very popular and only receives offers to play dead bodies. One day, he wanders around Nakameguro, Tokyo and recognizes the restaurant/bar Izakaya Fuji. He saw pictures of Izakaya Fuji on a woman's Instagram account and decides to go in.
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Long Goodbye: Tantei Furui Kurinosuke
Title: Long Goodbye: Tantei Furui Kurinosuke
Released: May 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Kurinosuke Furui (Ryu Morioka) grew up at an orphanage. He now works as a private detective. One day, he receives a request. The request is to collect money which was stolen by a woman who killed herself. During Kurinosuke Furui's investigation he uncovers a shocking truth.
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Laughing Lucky Cats
Title: Laughing Lucky Cats
Character: Haruichi Komatsu
Released: April 29, 2017
Type: Movie
Hitomi Takagi (Fumika Shimizu) and Akako Honda (Rena Matsui) are members of comedy duo “Akako to Hitomi.” The created the comedy duo about 5 years ago, but they are still not very popular. Everyday, they perform manzai to a regular audience in a corner of a small theater. One day, Hitomi and Akako catch a middle school student trying to steal Hitomi’s bicycle. Since then, their fate as a female comedy duo begins to change.
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Mr. Long
Title: Mr. Long
Character: Tadao
Released: April 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Long is a Taiwanese killer known for his sword skills. After Long fails a Tokyo mission, he moves to a small town where no one knows about him.
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Ultraman Orb The Movie: I'm Borrowing the Power of Your Bonds!
Title: Ultraman Orb The Movie: I'm Borrowing the Power of Your Bonds!
Character: Bathhouse employee
Released: March 11, 2017
Type: Movie
Ultraman Orb teams up with Ultraman X to battle the evil witch, Mulnau, who seeks to add Earth to her jewelry collection, with the help of Orb's long-time rival, Jugglas Juggler!
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Shin Godzilla
Title: Shin Godzilla
Character: Tahara : Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications / Disaster Management Division
Released: July 29, 2016
Type: Movie
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
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Conquest 7
Title: Conquest 7
Released: May 19, 2016
Type: Movie
Seventh film in the 'Conquest' series.
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64: Part 1
Title: 64: Part 1
Character: Bartender
Released: May 7, 2016
Type: Movie
1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
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Madly
Title: Madly
Character: Masahito - Father (segment "Love of Love")
Released: April 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US, India, and Australia. All forms of love are on display in this anthology. And all manners of feelings expressed from jubilance to depression are done so strongly.
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Through Their Eyes
Title: Through Their Eyes
Character: Eiichiro Sumiya
Released: April 2, 2016
Type: Movie
A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected dogs and cats at animal shelters. The story is told through the eyes of tormented vets who are relentless in their efforts to change the system to serve these animals with dignity.
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Conquest 6
Title: Conquest 6
Released: April 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Sixth film in the 'Conquest' series.
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Conquest 5
Title: Conquest 5
Released: February 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Fifth entry in the 'Conquest' series.
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Conquest 4
Title: Conquest 4
Released: January 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Fourth entry in the 'Conquest' series.
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4 / Cat-Nekobun no Yon
Title: 4 / Cat-Nekobun no Yon
Released: December 12, 2015
Type: Movie
A short omnibus created by four young creators on the theme of "drawing the people of Ichii who use a certain station where a cat lives".
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Areno
Title: Areno
Released: November 21, 2015
Type: Movie
'We have to kill him', the wife and her lover thought. When three childhood friends reunite, it doesn't take long before two of them feel the woman's husband is in their way. They push him into a lake, but the boat capsizes and all three are thrown into the water. The lovers reach the shore, but the husband is nowhere. Has he drowned? They decide to wait at a lakeside hotel for his body to be found.
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Ghost Theater
Title: Ghost Theater
Released: November 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.
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Conquest
Title: Conquest
Released: October 11, 2015
Type: Movie
A massive yakuza war begins when the most powerful clan in Kansai plans to conquer all control of the country after attacking several headquarters of other clans in Japan and China.
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Conquest 3
Title: Conquest 3
Released: July 16, 2015
Type: Movie
The third entry in the 'Conquest' series.
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Muga Shozoku
Title: Muga Shozoku
Character: Taku
Released: April 12, 2015
Type: Movie
In the wilderness of Iga, Japan, a young robotics student named, SHIN, ignores the warnings of his sensei, TAKU, and takes it upon himself to unleash the power of an ancient book called MUGA. This mysterious power is also desired by, RYU, of the ONISHI GROUP -- a military tech company that will destroy anything in its way to possess it.
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Conquest 2
Title: Conquest 2
Released: March 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Second film in the 'Conquest' series.
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Don's Road Final
Title: Don's Road Final
Released: February 19, 2015
Type: Movie
The final 'Don's Road' film.
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Kanto Gangster Federation: Chapter 2
Title: Kanto Gangster Federation: Chapter 2
Released: February 6, 2015
Type: Movie
The second 'Kanto Gangster Federation' film.
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Don's Road 14
Title: Don's Road 14
Released: January 15, 2015
Type: Movie
The fourteenth 'Don's' Road' film.
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Title: 太鼓持ちの達人~正しいXXのほめ方~
Released: January 12, 2015
Type: TV
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Don's Road 13
Title: Don's Road 13
Released: November 5, 2014
Type: Movie
The thirteenth 'Don's Road' film.
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Mother
Title: Mother
Released: September 27, 2014
Type: Movie
A publishing company is working on a book about Umezu’s life. The lead editor, Sakura, knows that Umezu’s late mother Ichie was very influential to his work. As the investigation continues, bizarre incidents begin occurring one after another. Soon, the grudge of a mother who should be dead sparks mounting fear around Umezu.
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Don's Road 12
Title: Don's Road 12
Released: August 8, 2014
Type: Movie
The twelfth 'Don's Road' film.
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Raining Blood
Title: Raining Blood
Character: Rumi's Father
Released: May 10, 2014
Type: Movie
One day, Naoto receives a package. Inside he finds a book, ‘LIVE’. At the same time, he receives an image on mobile phone of his mother being kidnapped and a call from a mysterious man. “If you don’ t want us to inject the killer virus in your mother, find the hints hidden in the novel and head for the goal in the death race!” Naoto starts running to save his mother with the book in his hand.
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Saigo no gokudō
Title: Saigo no gokudō
Released: April 25, 2014
Type: Movie
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Adult Drop
Title: Adult Drop
Released: April 4, 2014
Type: Movie
Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime, but this just upsets Ann. Yoshi's relationship with Ann is now awkward. Yoshi doesn't know exactly why, but Ann becomes absent from school frequently. One day, during their summer vacation, Yoshi hears that Ann has dropped out of school.
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Hana-Dama
Title: Hana-Dama
Character: Mizuki's father
Released: January 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Transfer student Mizuki is bullied mercilessly by her classmate. Nevertheless, she is always able to maintain her composure. Kirie, who is also bullied, becomes interested in Mizuki and longs for her. The two become close.
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Disregarded People
Title: Disregarded People
Released: October 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Young man, Yusuke Mamiana, fed up with his life meats a unattractive ugly girl, Kyoko, at his hometown. Out of his impulsive desire, he had a relationship by nearly raping her. They started to live together and gradually feel 'Family' attachment in each other. As time passes, Yusuke starts to think more about 'Happiness' of his family and himself.
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Title: Shougeki Gouraigan
Character: Homeless Yamashita
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: TV
In a world separate from the humans is a place called Chou Shinkai. In this world lives super beings called Hikaribito. However, among such people are those who commit crimes. Such people are known as Kageribito. The ruler of Chou Shinkai is the Shinkai King. There are monsters in Chou Shinkai called Magii. When Magii appear in the human world, they can be seen by people with strong spiritual senses. Since ancient times, Magii have been called mononoke or youkai. Hikaribito Gou and Navi travel across Chou Shinkai in their ship, the Bunba, to deliver the Kageribito to the land of exile. But when the transport mission goes wrong, Gou must gather a team of five brave people before the 1000 soldiers arrive in 100 days.
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Our Highland Hotel
Title: Our Highland Hotel
Character: Itakura
Released: September 28, 2013
Type: Movie
Ayumi Aizawa is a lonely young man without a family. He works at Forest Hyde Press Hotel as a cleaner. His deceased grandfather Kenzaburo worked at the same hotel. When his grandfather worked at the Forest Hyde Press Hotel, the hotel was well known for its extreme hospitality. Now, the hotel is nothing more than an ordinary hotel. New manager Ryuuya Sawashiro then attempts to bring the hotel back to its glory days.
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Sweet Whip
Title: Sweet Whip
Character: Client of SM club
Released: September 21, 2013
Type: Movie
When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility treatment, but she also has another side. Naoko is a popular master in a S&M club.
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Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Title: Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Character: Sumita
Released: September 14, 2013
Type: Movie
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
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Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi
Title: Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi
Released: August 24, 2013
Type: Movie
Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. Due to a series of unfortunate events, she brings shame to her family and has to leave her hometown. Shuichi (Tasuku Emoto) killed his drunken father to save his mother. After he is released from prison, he begins to work at a small factory in Tokyo.
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Munashiidake
Title: Munashiidake
Released: July 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A story of a married couple, Koji and Shizuko. They have purchased a piece of land to build their new home after being married for five years. Despite Koji's excitement. Shizuko stays calm. One day, Koji receives word that Shizuko has been in an accident. She was found with an unknown man when she was supposed to be traveling with her friends...
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Penance
Title: Penance
Character: Akiko's Father
Released: May 29, 2013
Type: Movie
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.
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Shield of Straw
Title: Shield of Straw
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: April 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.
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Title: The Complex: Prologue
Released: April 9, 2013
Type: TV
"The Complex-Prologue" is a spin-off of horror movie "The Complex". A young boy named Minoru becomes involved in a mysterious phenomenon and horror experience.
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Don's Road 7
Title: Don's Road 7
Released: February 21, 2013
Type: Movie
The seventh 'Don's Road' film.
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Don's Road 6
Title: Don's Road 6
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
The sixth 'Don's Road' film.
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Bloody Code
Title: Bloody Code
Released: November 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Yoshicho-kai, which has never retreated and occupied a sole position in the center of Yokohama, has so far maintained a balance with Hama-gumi, which has territory across the river. However, the situation suddenly changes when Chairman Yoshicho-kai is killed by Hama-gumi bullets…
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2nd Virgin Road
Title: 2nd Virgin Road
Released: November 21, 2012
Type: Movie
The story is about Mayumi and a jobless youngster who enters her life. Mayumi is a rape victim, and is often haunted by the painful memories of her past. Mayumi chances upon this youngster, strikes a chord with him, and slowly shares her troubles and past memories.
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Kuro
Title: Kuro
Character: Taizo
Released: October 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Three young people in Tokyo. Kuro is a girl working a part-time job at a bakery. Eito is a photographer. Gou is a theater director. These three individuals meet by coincidence and, as a means to escape reality, begin living together at a deserted inn near the sea.
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GACHI-BAN: WORST MAX
Title: GACHI-BAN: WORST MAX
Released: September 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Fourteenth instillation in this violent action series about a delinquent youth. A straight-shooting ruffian lets his anger loose at the vileness of a young loan shark. Directed by Motoki Takashi, who has handled numerous films in the series. Hayato (Kubota Masataka), who has earned respect for his fighting prowess at a sketchy modeling agency, starts working as bodyguard for the charismatic delinquent-style model Reo (Arai Atsushi). But, Reo has a dark side of running a loan shark operation, and brutally calls in loans by making female debtors sell their bodies.
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Title: GTO
Released: July 3, 2012
Type: TV
Through the introduction of his friend Danma Ryuji, Onizuka Eikichi, the former legendary bike gang member, visits Meishu Academy to tend to the trees in the garden as a part-time gardener. Learning that Yoshikawa Noboru, a student in teacher Fuyutsuki Azusa’s class is being bullied by Uehara Kyoko and other classmates, Onizuka befriends and saves Yoshikawa. Seeing Onizuka’s unprecedented but visceral, powerful response to problem solving, the school’s president and principal, Sakurai Yoshiko, overrides resistance from her vice principal Uchiyamada Hiroshi and makes Onizuka a teacher. Onizuka goes on to tackle many issues as the teacher in charge of the most problematic class, Class 2-4.
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Our Homeland
Title: Our Homeland
Character: Uncle Tejo
Released: July 1, 2012
Type: Movie
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just a short period. For the first time in 25 years, Sonho is reunited with his family in Tokyo after being allowed to undergo an operation there. Sonho’s younger sister Rie is at the centre of the film, and is not hard to recognise as the director’s alter-ego. In her documentaries DEAR PYONGYANG and SONA, THE OTHER MYSELF, Yang Yonghi told the story of her own life, and how, at age six, she experienced the departure of her three older brothers, who left their family for Pyongyang.
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Wandering Warriors
Title: Wandering Warriors
Released: April 20, 2012
Type: Movie
A chivalrous action that shows the solid acting and unique presence of Riki Takeuchi
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Cold Bloom
Title: Cold Bloom
Character: Nobuo Kimura
Released: April 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s accidental death, which marks the start of a personal recovery that mirrors the town’s for Shiori as well as forgiveness of surviving coworker Takumi.
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GACHI-BAN: SUPER MAX
Title: GACHI-BAN: SUPER MAX
Released: March 31, 2012
Type: Movie
Yanki (Japanese delinquent) Hayato, is on his way with his senpai, (upperclassman) Yocchan to a so-called “resort” job with good pay, food, and housing. Hayato, not being able to commit to work, meets another Yanki who’s trying to work hard and form a family. Meanwhile, Yocchan ends up falling for the lunch lady at the “resort”... Will she be the one for him?
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Ramo Trip
Title: Ramo Trip
Released: February 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Film on the life of Ramo Nakajima, part adaptation of his short stories, part documentary
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Title: Penance
Character: Akiko's father
Released: January 8, 2012
Type: TV
The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with all claim not to remember the identity of the killer. In her anger, she puts a curse on them.
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Life Back Then
Title: Life Back Then
Released: November 19, 2011
Type: Movie
Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments. Now as a young adult Kyohei takes a new job. He works for a company that specializes in cleaning out the homes of recently deceased individuals. With his new job Kyohei meets co-worker Yuki (Nana Eikura). Yuki has also experienced a traumatizing event as a teen and has also shut herself away from the world. These two young people form a bond as they go through the homes of the recently departed people. They gradually open up to each other and in the process to the world. Yet, their fragile psyches may or may not be ready for such changes ...
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Goku-Oni
Title: Goku-Oni
Released: October 21, 2011
Type: Movie
The legend of Yokudo Gokuki
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Title: QP
Character: Ex Leader of Ten Okami
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: TV
The main character of the manga was Ishida Kotori, also known as "QP", the most powerful gangster in his area. The drama will shift its focus onto Azuma Ryo, Kotori's close friend, who has some hidden ambitions.
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Hayabusa
Title: Hayabusa
Character: Chairman Tanabe
Released: October 1, 2011
Type: Movie
May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.
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Himizu
Title: Himizu
Character: Maa-kun
Released: September 5, 2011
Type: Movie
After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
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Title: Futari Ecchi
Released: July 29, 2011
Type: TV
A married couple's inexperience, sex life, family and friends is the focus of this manga adaptation. Every episode of the serial relates to the good times and bad times of being a man and a woman and the sex that comes with it.
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Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Accel
Title: Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Accel
Character: Aoi Katsuragi's father
Released: April 21, 2011
Type: Movie
While settling into married life with Akiko, Ryu is brought into a case involving a woman named Katsuragi Aoi, a member of a pickpocketing ring with most of her teammates murdered from unknown masked vigilantes that Ryu fought as Accel. As the details of the case begin to unravel, Ryu is framed and Akiko believes that he may not be faithful to her. As the clock ticks down, Ryu must solve the case, clear his name, and save his marriage before everything comes to an explosive end!
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Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
Title: Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
Released: February 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Kai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve cases using their reasoning abilities. It's also a secret that these girls are detectives. One day, the three high school girls receive a call from Nanba Kazuhiro of the Metropolitan Police Department. A letter was received in which the writer threatened to kill the popular idol group Morning Musume. Kai, Mei, and Yui go to the Morning Musume concert to guard them. After the concert, Mei is with members of Morning Mutsume on the tour bus, but Mei suddenly disappears.
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Into the White Night
Title: Into the White Night
Released: January 29, 2011
Type: Movie
A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji. As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji ...
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Cold Fish
Title: Cold Fish
Character: Akio Yoshida
Released: January 29, 2011
Type: Movie
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.
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Heaven's Story
Title: Heaven's Story
Released: October 2, 2010
Type: Movie
A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is eventually placed back into society so that he can kill him with his bare hands.
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Solanin
Title: Solanin
Character: Billy's Father
Released: April 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Taneda is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world.
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The Slave Ship
Title: The Slave Ship
Character: Onimata, Writer
Released: March 6, 2010
Type: Movie
Onimata Kan is famous for two things: a successful career writing S&M erotica, and hosting the erotic gatherings aboard what has come to be known as the Slave Ship, where the main attraction is the auctioning of the services of sexual partners willing to fulfill any desire. So if it's all consensual, there's no harm, right? At least, that's what Onimata believes until he learns that one of the frequent auctionees has gone insane, and that her husband believes the cause is related to a stalker she acquired. Are the activities aboard the Slave Ship somehow to blame? Fearing the answer, Onimata goes to investigate the mysterious Kitagawa, and soon learns that his own writings only hint at the extremes to which some will go.
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Rinco's Restaurant
Title: Rinco's Restaurant
Character: Yama san
Released: February 6, 2010
Type: Movie
After a bad breakup, a young woman returns to her hometown and opens a menuless restaurant. A young woman in her mid 20's becomes so heart broken she loses her voice. To recover, the woman decides to go back to her hometown and stay with her free-spirited mother whom she has not been very close to in the past. The young woman then decides to open a restaurant which accepts only one customer a day, allowing for thoughtful preparation for that customer.
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Nora
Title: Nora
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Yukio Kasai (Sometani Shota) is running through the mountains to escape something, when suddenly he is accidentally hit and knocked unconscious. The man driving is Shigeru, a single father who lives nearby in a small rural fishing town. Shigeru then offers Yukio a strange proposal, whilst he recovers he can ‘help repair a boat’. Yukio is however haunted by nightmares and just when he starts to feel comfortable, his tragic past catches up to him with dire results.
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Zero nendai zenkei
Title: Zero nendai zenkei
Released: December 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Kumiko Hoshizaki’s “Akane Sasu Heya” is the story of Maki, a 20-something temp who is sick of her boring job and life in general. The rather bizarre solution she comes up with is to conceive a child behind her boyfriend’s back. Makoto Nagahisa offers the much more impressionistic “Frog.” The story meanders around a bunch of unrelated characters, using experimental techniques like repeated scenes, hallucinatory visuals, blurred shots and disconnected sounds. Lastly, we have “Bouquet Garni,” a much more conventional work from director Junpei Hatano. The plot is centered on a reporter, the relative of a kidnapping victim, and a woman who is obsessed with the case.
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The Quiet Don: A New Chapter Volume 2
Title: The Quiet Don: A New Chapter Volume 2
Released: September 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Quiet Don Volume 2
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The Quiet Don: A New Chapter
Title: The Quiet Don: A New Chapter
Released: September 5, 2009
Type: Movie
Mild-mannered Shizuya Kondo lives a normal life, occupied with his dreary office job as a women's underwear designer. But, he also happens to be the only son of the leader of the biggest criminal organization in the Kanto region... and when his father is murdered by a rival gang, Shizuya is forced to become the new head of his yakuza family! Working as a businessman by day and a yakuza boss by night, Shizuya finally begins to realize his true potential. But, things take an unexpected turn when Akemi, his secret office-crush, is suddenly kidnapped.
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I’m a Cat Stalker
Title: I’m a Cat Stalker
Released: July 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Haru works at a part-time job for a bookstore. Her dream is to become an illustrator and she also loves cats. One day, after a cat named Chibutomu disappears from the bookstore Haru canvasses the neighbourhood in search of Chibutomu.
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Sayaka: The Cute & Careless Girl
Title: Sayaka: The Cute & Careless Girl
Character: Teacher
Released: July 3, 2009
Type: Movie
How does a teenage girl shed her virginity? She is horny, curious and dying to have sex. It is so bad that she cannot take her eyes off the teacher's crotch. Well, the usual and time-honoured way is the answer. She joins a virgins' club at school and practices showing off her body, underwear and up-skirt. It is not so easy though. It takes practice, but she has little time before she and the boy she is tutoring get together.
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Be Sure to Share
Title: Be Sure to Share
Character: Shopkeeper
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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Pandemic
Title: Pandemic
Released: January 17, 2009
Type: Movie
ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other variety of virus? As the situation worsens and more cases begin arriving, a medical officer from the World Health Organization named Eiko Kobayashi is dispatched to the area. At the rate the virus is spreading, the entire city’s transportation system and infrastructure would be brought to a halt within 3 months. Within 6 months it could spread to tens of millions of people--reaching a death toll far worse than any war.
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Orochi - Blood
Title: Orochi - Blood
Released: September 20, 2008
Type: Movie
The story of Orochi revolves around the life of the Monzen family. Aoi Monzen, a famous, but aging, movie star and Kazusa and Lisa Monzen her two daughters. Aoi hopes for them both to take over her legacy as a star, but Kazusa does not live up to her expectations. The mother is always pitting the girls against one another competitively. As a result, as the years pass, the love the sisters shared grows to a hidden hatred. When another girl named Orochi saves the girl's mother from a terrible accident a bizarre chain of events is set in motion spanning many years. The atmosphere in their estate builds up until Orochi reveals a terrible truth that the family must keep hidden from the world. Orochi serves as the narrator of the story. The movie is based on a Kazuo Umezu manga series which ran from 1969 to 1970.
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Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: 2008 Summer Special
Title: Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: 2008 Summer Special
Released: August 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Summer 2008 special of Scary True Stories (Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi).
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End Call
Title: End Call
Released: July 1, 2008
Type: Movie
The Devil has a phone number, and if you call him on your mobile phone at midnight, he will grant your wish. In return however, he will control your life for the duration of the call.
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Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
Title: Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
Character: Dr. Sugita
Released: April 26, 2008
Type: Movie
In the year 20xx, scientifically created zombies roam the world in record numbers. Despite this, Aya is determined to track down her father's killer, a person who was once close to her. With sword in hand and wearing nothing but her trademark bikini and cowboy hat, she sets off to settle the score.
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Fighting Express Vol 1: Battle Run
Title: Fighting Express Vol 1: Battle Run
Released: March 28, 2008
Type: Movie
They are "Behind-the-Scenes Delivery Specialists" who can deliver any kind of packages to anywhere in Japan. They run through dangerous areas and they fight with anyone standing in the way! Akane (acted by Yuka Kosaka), a would-be journalist, is chased by a shady black-suited group as she has an evidential document which can prove an assembly man's crime. So she runs to FIGHTING EXPRESS, which can deliver packages with special secret circumstances.
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The Machine Girl
Title: The Machine Girl
Character: Kimura Gang Member
Released: January 2, 2008
Type: Movie
The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.
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Silk
Title: Silk
Character: Japanese Trader #2
Released: September 14, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a French trader who finds unexpected love far away from home.
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Humming Life
Title: Humming Life
Released: July 19, 2007
Type: Movie
There are many different kinds of lives in this world. When everyone is gone only the afterimage remains.Ai has only recently came to Tokyo. In this unfamiliar city she is a little bit upset. One day lead by a mysterious stray dog she finds a letter inside a hole in the tree trunk. Tomohiro who works night hours at a nursery hadleft it there. Ai being encouraged by this letter writes a letter back and leaves it in the hole. This was the beginning of their strange correspondence.
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Sixteen
Title: Sixteen
Released: May 26, 2007
Type: Movie
A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.
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Hatsuko's World
Title: Hatsuko's World
Character: Fujii
Released: May 12, 2007
Type: Movie
15-year-old Hatsuko (Higashi Ayu) lives with her elder brother in a humble town house. Their mother died when they were young, and the father disappeared. The brother (Shioya Shun) left high school before graduation to work at a factory, but spends their meager house-keeping money on adult entertainment. Hatsuko, who is poor and has no friends, finds emotional support in Mishima (Sano Kazuma), a boy in her class, who helps her with her study to go to a high school together. However, Hatsuko's brother causes trouble at the factory and gets the sack. Hatsuko gives up her dream of going to high school. In spring, the modest relationship continues between Mishima, now a high school student, and Hatsuko who works at a biscuit factory. One day, Hatsuko's long-gone father reappears. In a drunken frenzy, he sets fire to the house to go and rejoin the mother, leaving Hatsuko without a place to live. Hatsuko leaves the town on her own, drawing strength from the promise of marriage with Mishima.
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Saru phase three
Title: Saru phase three
Released: March 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Minoru is diagnosed with cancer and undergoes surgery, but it is soon discovered that the cancer has spread to his lymphatic system and he is prescribed anti-cancer drugs. He is soon plagued by severe side effects such as vomiting, skin rash, and hematuria, and begins to distrust hospitals.
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Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman
Title: Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman
Character: School Principal
Released: March 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if she was pretty. The victim’s response would almost always lead to their violent death.
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Gamera the Brave
Title: Gamera the Brave
Released: November 11, 2006
Type: Movie
A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle that grows into a new version of Gamera. But will it become powerful enough in time to defeat the rampaging monster Zedus?
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Christmas on July 24th Avenue
Title: Christmas on July 24th Avenue
Character: Bookshop Owner
Released: November 3, 2006
Type: Movie
Sayuri Honda (Miki Nakatani) claims she has no interests in love affairs. She refuses to take things as they are for she fancies her harbor town of Nagasaki as Lisbon, Portugal. But on Christmas, encouraged by the season of romance, she tries to materialize her once-in-a-lifetime love with the man of her dreams.
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Cat-Eyed Boy
Title: Cat-Eyed Boy
Released: October 16, 2006
Type: Movie
A film adaption of the manga Cat Eyed Boy by famous horror manga artist Kazuo Umezu. The film follows a strange boy with cat like features.
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Strawberry Shortcakes
Title: Strawberry Shortcakes
Character: Client
Released: September 23, 2006
Type: Movie
Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.
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Meatball Machine
Title: Meatball Machine
Released: September 23, 2006
Type: Movie
Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.
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Costume Players
Title: Costume Players
Released: August 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Whenever Ami and her step-brother, Hiroshi accept one another in bed, the telephone rings; advising them of their parents’ death. 12 months later, Ami resides with Hiroshi and his spouse, Mariko. Apparently, they are delighted but there is indisputable pressure among Ami and Mariko. One day, Mariko gets angry at Ami for always following into their bed room without permit. Giving up her calm, Ami blurts out that she has a connection with Hiroshi…
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Death Penalty 4
Title: Death Penalty 4
Released: July 14, 2006
Type: Movie
Inside the police there is a special investigation for consecutive police motorcycle cases. Yuji's investigation reveals that homeless people and girls are suffering from the murder game!
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Mobile Detectives: The Movie
Title: Mobile Detectives: The Movie
Released: April 4, 2006
Type: Movie
Although they are still teenagers, the Zenigata Sisters are detectives, and have a grandfather in the Inspector General. They possess an uncanny knack for solving crimes, but no one knows that they are investigators. The Zenigata Sisters have been busy solving crimes around the nation, and are faced with a case surrounding their own family. Unless three crimes are solved, the perpetrator threatens to escalate his crimes. It is then that Rui, Mai and Rei begin receiving mail on their cell phones from the police department. The trap set by the perpetrator has the sisters stumped. Will they be able to solve the crime in time?
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Reincarnation
Title: Reincarnation
Character: Projectionist
Released: January 7, 2006
Type: Movie
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
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Be The World For Her
Title: Be The World For Her
Released: December 14, 2005
Type: Movie
Love story between a cloned boy and bullied high school girl.
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Death Penalty 2
Title: Death Penalty 2
Released: October 14, 2005
Type: Movie
A shocking, problematic work that dares to confront the corruption of modern Japan!
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Title: GARO
Character: Stage Director
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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Heart, Beating in the Dark
Title: Heart, Beating in the Dark
Character: Shimamoto
Released: October 2, 2005
Type: Movie
This new version of Nagasaki's Yami utsu shinzô (1982) is neither a remake nor a sequel. It is both those things, and at the same time it is also a documentary, a portrait of the consequences of passing time, and an occasionally very funny reflection on what the hell the point is of all this filmmaking business anyway. Shigeru Muroi and Takashi Naito, back then young hopefuls willing to take chances, now among the most established and recognisable actors in Japan, return to play the roles they assumed in the 1982 film, each of their characters having gone their own way. Alongside, another young couple (Honda and the ever-brilliant Eguchi) find themselves in the exact same situation as their older counterparts 25 years earlier. Their paths cross, an opportunity arises: for the elder two to redeem part of their own lives, for the younger couple to find a helping hand in their darkest hour.
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Christmas in August
Title: Christmas in August
Released: September 23, 2005
Type: Movie
A Japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name.
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Hen Nasty Oedo Emaki Revenge
Title: Hen Nasty Oedo Emaki Revenge
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: Movie
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Sayonara Midori-chan
Title: Sayonara Midori-chan
Released: August 27, 2005
Type: Movie
Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the shallow but charming Yutaka, she willingly succumbs to his lascivious advances only to discover afterward that he already has a girlfriend by the name of Midori. Even so, Yuko's feelings for Yutaka continue to grow regardless of his aloofness. Before long she finds herself reluctantly cajoled into working as a hostess in a small karaoke bar. Fatalistically accepting his dalliances with flames old and new, she perseveres not so much in hope of a more substantial relationship, but rather out of fear of losing him. There are other men out there waiting for her -- kinder, more considerate and eagerly available. But for Yuko, there is only the non-committal, yet torridly magnetic Yutaka. Why him? Not even Yuko seems to know the answer.
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Wet Red Thread
Title: Wet Red Thread
Released: August 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Shigeru meets Ichimi at a club and they get involved. Her yakuza husband complicates matters.
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Rampo Noir
Title: Rampo Noir
Character: Temple Priest (segment "Mirror Hell")
Released: May 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Mars Canal - Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover. Mirror Hell - When a series of women are discovered with their faces burnt and skulls charred, a young detective investigates, discovering that a unique hand mirror is always found at the scene. Caterpillar - A war hero returns home with no limbs and only his eyesight remaining. His beautiful wife, tired of taking care of him, turns to torturing her crippled husband for amusement. Crawling Bugs - A sexy actress is returning home from a successful night on stage, until her limo driver decides that she should be coming home with him.
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Jam Films 2
Title: Jam Films 2
Released: December 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Jam Films 2 features 4 short films by different Japanese directors.
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The Killer Angel Revenge
Title: The Killer Angel Revenge
Released: October 6, 2004
Type: Movie
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Premonition
Title: Premonition
Character: Kôchô no Koe (voice)
Released: October 2, 2004
Type: Movie
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five year old daughter Nana in the obituary. He sees his wife Ayaka trying to release their daughter from the seatbelt, when a truck hits his car killing Nana. Three years later, Hideki is divorced from Ayaka, who is researching paranormal people who claim to have read an evil newspaper anticipating the future. Still trying to believe in Hideki, she finds that there are people cursed to foresee the future but without the power to save the victims. When Hideki changes the future saving Ayaka, he becomes trapped in hell and he has to make a choice for his own destiny.
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Stop the Bitch Campaign: Hell Version
Title: Stop the Bitch Campaign: Hell Version
Character: Yasuoka
Released: October 2, 2004
Type: Movie
In Tokyo, prostitution in the name of "Enjo Kosai" is in fashion among some high school girls. A mysterious man Kuni lament such girls but cannot deny a strong desire for them. He punish the girls by having sex with them without paying them. He calls this operation "Stop the Bitch Campaign" for public justice. Working in a sex trade shop where abnormal people are satisfied with their lust. Aoi tries to find out the man who raped her desperately in the past. One day, Aoi meets Kuni.
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The Devil's Cop Festival
Title: The Devil's Cop Festival
Released: September 11, 2004
Type: Movie
Fifth installment of Deka Matsuri omnibus series. Six films
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Death Penalty
Title: Death Penalty
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Detective Yasagure, who has deviated from the organization, uncovers the shameful part of the police and knocks out the corrupt organization.
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Zero Woman 2005
Title: Zero Woman 2005
Character: Zero Section Boss
Released: September 3, 2004
Type: Movie
The Metropolitan Police Department '0'section, known as an organization in the police department that investigates a closed case. Well-trained detective in the '0' section, Ray, is looking for her memory that was lost during the training, while also investigating a human traffic which young woman being a victim. One day, classified killer virus was seized by rising terrorists. To investigate this case, public safety sent Sarah Kodama who specializes in molecular biology and computer, to work with Ray but Ray refuses to work with Sarah. Sarah was curious about mysterious Ray, she starts to collect Ray's information and goes to see Ray's former boss, Asami. However, the man who appeared in front of Sarah was an assassinator who contemplates destruction of '0' section. What happens to Sarah...!? What is in Ray's lost memories!?
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Hole
Title: Hole
Released: July 10, 2004
Type: Movie
An omnibus film consisting of four stories on the theme of "holes" by four directors.
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Believer
Title: Believer
Released: June 12, 2004
Type: Movie
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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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IKKA
Title: IKKA
Released: September 13, 2003
Type: Movie
The family of 20-year-old Ohta is celebrating his birthday in a restaurant. What was supposed to be a happy familiar reunion turns into a big mess.
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The Last Coffin
Title: The Last Coffin
Released: August 29, 2003
Type: Movie
A strange crossword puzzle starts circulating amongst Chiri's friends, and they soon begin getting murdered one by one in horrifying ways. At night, Chiri can seemingly view their deaths in her dreams, causing her to lose sleep. Depressed and confused, she wanders into an old orphanage where she spent her childhood and uncovers a long-forgotten link to her past that may help her unravel the mysterious and tragic events occurring around her.
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Cop Festival: New Beginning
Title: Cop Festival: New Beginning
Released: May 24, 2003
Type: Movie
Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.
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Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri
Title: Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri
Released: March 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. 10 films made under the conditions "The main character must be a female detective" "the film must be less than 10 minutes long" "at least five gags must be included"
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Fear and Trembling
Title: Fear and Trembling
Character: Monsieur Saito
Released: March 12, 2003
Type: Movie
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.
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Title: Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger
Character: Mr. Yokota
Released: February 16, 2003
Type: TV
The meteorite believed to have once killed off the dinosaurs actually rattled the Earth into two parallel universes — Another Earth and Dino Earth, where dinosaurs continued to thrive. Now they have evolved into the Saurians, a race of humanoid dinosaurs, and the Bakuryu , a race of mechanized dinosaurs. But the wall between our universes has been breached. The Evolians that have been at war with the Saurians and Bakuryu have invaded, and it's up to the Abarangers to protect the world!
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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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Alter Ego
Title: Alter Ego
Character: Yasunori Takimoto
Released: December 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Three aspiring young Japanese models are on their very first fashion shoot at an abandoned school one hot summer day. Without warning, strange events begin occurring around the set that causes the models and photo crew to question their sanity, as one by one they begin to die agonizing and painful deaths that are seemingly caused by none other than themselves.
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Demonlover
Title: Demonlover
Character: Japon - Avocat #1
Released: November 6, 2002
Type: Movie
A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.
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Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
Title: Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
Character: Convenience Store Manager
Released: August 24, 2002
Type: Movie
A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts becoming more like her and tearing her world apart.
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Yumeko's Nightmare
Title: Yumeko's Nightmare
Released: February 9, 2002
Type: Movie
There's no limit to what you can see in your dreams...
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Dark Water
Title: Dark Water
Character: Boss of Yoshimi Matsubara
Released: January 19, 2002
Type: Movie
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
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Last Scene
Title: Last Scene
Released: November 9, 2001
Type: Movie
Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently announced her retirement from acting in order to get married. Feeling frustrated and helpless, Ken turns to alcohol as he begins to provoke fights, attempts to lure a girl into bed, and argues with his wife, who came to visit him at the studio. All she says is thank you and leaves Ken puzzled. Ken Mihara, once a budding young star, takes a job as an extra. Although he's past his prime, he still manages to infuse a young filmmaker with the motivation to pursue her dreams as a director.
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Unloved
Title: Unloved
Character: Restaurant owner
Released: November 5, 2001
Type: Movie
Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko's new lover is fascinated by Eiji's power and social status... A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters "unloved".
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Stop the Bitch Campaign
Title: Stop the Bitch Campaign
Released: November 3, 2001
Type: Movie
Tokyo’s Valentine Call is a special kind of phone club. Older salarymen pay to wait for calls from teenage girls, discreet meetings are arranged, and handfuls of yen are exchanged for a quick session of enjo kosai, or paid sex with a high school girl. Plenty of girls are doing it—some to make money for fancy, fashionable clothes and accessories, others to set a trap to rob and brutalize the old perverts. But the Valentine Call staff, horny young Ogisu and the vaguely sinister, makeup-coated Mr. Kuni, have a nasty plan of their own. Listening in on the enjo kosai calls, they conspire to trick the girls into giving them free sex. Mr. Kuni even has a twisted concept behind this scheme. He calls it enboku, his campaign to humiliate the teenage girls, drive them away from prostitution and purify Japan.
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Gokutsuma Ninkyodo Yasha Dance
Title: Gokutsuma Ninkyodo Yasha Dance
Released: July 20, 2001
Type: Movie
2001 original video.
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A Tender Place
Title: A Tender Place
Character: Mizushima
Released: July 14, 2001
Type: Movie
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka disappears, which throws Kasumi's life into turmoil. Years later, Yuka remains missing, and Kasumi journeys back to Hokkaido with Utsumi, a terminally-ill former detective, and tries to follow any leads she can.
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Eko Eko Azarak: Awakening
Title: Eko Eko Azarak: Awakening
Released: April 28, 2001
Type: Movie
The fourth movie in the highly sucessful Eko Eko Azarak series. Following the events of the second movie, Misa discovers, along with the rest of Japan, the strength of her newly acquired powers when she and her friends are attacked in the woods…
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Tomie: Rebirth
Title: Tomie: Rebirth
Character: Haruo Aoyoma
Released: March 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground.
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Title: Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger
Character: Charcoal Grill Org (voice)
Released: February 18, 2001
Type: TV
Long ago, a great, destructive war between humans the Orgs was ended; the people of Earth were believed to be the victors. But now, 1,000 years later, the Orgs have returned. And five new warriors have been selected by the Power Animals to claim the responsibility of protecting humanity once again, by becoming Gaorangers!
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Paranoia
Title: Paranoia
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
An erotic horror starring Tomoko Takabe, where sensuality and fear swirl. Kumi, a clinical psychologist, heads for a villa surrounded by a deep forest. However, murder cases begin to occur one after another in an isolated villa where communication equipment is destroyed.
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Gore from Outer Space
Title: Gore from Outer Space
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A mother is accused of murdering her daughter but when she tells her tale, things don't seem to make sense. Her husband says they have no daughter, there's a psychic that can trace phone calls, a blonde who sings the US anthem, a house with no bathroom, some Lynchian dream sequences, aliens, breeding experiments, very quirky FBI agents, and some other random events.
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Toriko: kyoku sai no shō
Title: Toriko: kyoku sai no shō
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The unofficial sixth film.
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Street of Gravestones
Title: Street of Gravestones
Released: September 30, 2000
Type: Movie
A pair of siblings visit a friend in a remote town with a strange effect on its inhabitants; when they die, they transform into gravestones.
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The Spirit of the Dead
Title: The Spirit of the Dead
Released: September 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Anyone who touches the doll will be cursed by the "corpse spirit". Will you be slaughtered? Or will you be released from the haunting? The game of survival for life begins!
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Zombie Snake
Title: Zombie Snake
Character: Inose
Released: July 14, 2000
Type: Movie
A family are haunted by a Hebi Onna, a fabled demonic undead Snake Woman.
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Chaos
Title: Chaos
Released: June 30, 2000
Type: Movie
A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house while he sends the ransom demand. When he returns home that night, however, he finds her laying dead on the floor. In a panic he buries her body deep in the woods and tries to return to his ordinary life. One day, he thinks he spots her walking down the street. Is his mind playing tricks on him, or has she somehow returned from the grave?
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Hysteric
Title: Hysteric
Released: May 7, 2000
Type: Movie
In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a short temper and no visible means of support. Amour fou blooms between them, and a year later they're living together, with Mami taking part as Tomo abducts, tortures, and kills one of their neighbors. Eventually the cycle of crime goes too far for Mami and she leaves Tomo, but several years later, he arrives at her home to disrupt her life with her new husband. Hysteric was directed by Takahisa Zeze, who previously received critical acclaim for the film Kokkuri. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Another Heaven
Title: Another Heaven
Character: Taguchi-kanshiki
Released: April 29, 2000
Type: Movie
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?
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Ju-On: The Curse 2
Title: Ju-On: The Curse 2
Character: Kamio
Released: March 25, 2000
Type: Movie
On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put up for sale, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
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Crazy Lips
Title: Crazy Lips
Released: February 26, 2000
Type: Movie
After her brother is accused of murdering four people, his sister, desperate to prove his innocence, goes to a psychic for help. The price they ask, however, is far more than she expected, and the answers they give her are nothing she could ever have imagined. And what is the FBI doing investgating a murder in Japan?
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Uzumaki
Title: Uzumaki
Character: Yasuo Goshima
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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Ju-on: The Curse
Title: Ju-on: The Curse
Character: Kamio
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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Psycho Doctor
Title: Psycho Doctor
Released: February 9, 2000
Type: Movie
Yoshioka Gynecologist is a women’s clinic that has a good reputation in the neighborhood. The medical examination by Dr. Yoshioka was trusted by many patients. However, Yoshioka, who collapsed due to too much overwork, became a wheelchair, and now Goro Kuroda and Yoshioka’s wife Eri have taken over the hospital. Goro and Eri are enthusiastically examining today. However, Kuroda had a serious secret.
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Sleeping Bride
Title: Sleeping Bride
Released: January 29, 2000
Type: Movie
Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a patient there. A nurse remarks that the girl is 'Sleeping Beauty', and Yuuichi believes that a kiss from a prince will wake her, just like the story. Yuuichi returns to see Yumi every day, says 'Wake up, I'm the prince' and kisses her. Ten years later he restarts his daily ritual to see Yumi, one day she wakes up.
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Currency and Blonde
Title: Currency and Blonde
Released: January 22, 2000
Type: Movie
A university professor's secret passion: a fetish for "blonde hair." His fantasies gradually escalate into reality.
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Maneater
Title: Maneater
Released: December 17, 1999
Type: Movie
A young man suspects that his new lover is cheating on him. All is not what it seems.
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Barren Illusion
Title: Barren Illusion
Released: December 11, 1999
Type: Movie
In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi. He searches for violent ways to reactivate his life, she dreams of escaping abroad; both volunteer to test a new drug which may provide a cure.
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Anarchy in Japansuke
Title: Anarchy in Japansuke
Released: April 23, 1999
Type: Movie
A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift from stores while she works as a prostitute. She strikes up a relationship with a convenience-store clerk, and the two eventually settle down together.
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The Accomplice
Title: The Accomplice
Released: April 10, 1999
Type: Movie
This hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro Kiuchi. 8 years ago Brazilian mafioso Carlos had brought the Japanese yakuza organization to its knees. He breaks out of prison while being transported back to Brazil and then begins to seek to get even with the organization.
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毒婦/妖しい炎
Title: 毒婦/妖しい炎
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
Erotic drama depicts the psychology of a middle-aged woman who gradually develops a lust for a young girl whom she had envied.
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Adrenaline Drive
Title: Adrenaline Drive
Character: Shimada
Released: February 18, 1999
Type: Movie
A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues.
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Dogs
Title: Dogs
Released: January 30, 1999
Type: Movie
A tough woman is dragging a weaker man deeper and deeper into crime. Woman cop Miki is chasing a wanted man when she stumbles on a crashed car and sees the driver, Koichi, ignite spilled petrol to kill himself and his passenger. She drags Koichi to safety, but the passenger dies. Miki says nothing to challenge the inquest finding of `accidental death', and when she visits Koichi in hospital he begins to understand that her complicity in his crime implies a sexual invitation. But a gumshoe has photos of the crash, and the only way to stall his blackmail is to kill him, the first of several murders...
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Shikoku
Title: Shikoku
Character: Oda
Released: January 23, 1999
Type: Movie
Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayuri, died several years ago and that Sayuri's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has gone almost insane with grief. After seeing Sayuri's ghost several times during the night, Hinako consults with some local experts on the paranormal and discovers that Sayuri's mother has something planned for her daughter...
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Ring 2
Title: Ring 2
Character: Kadokura Keiji
Released: January 23, 1999
Type: Movie
While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
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Confined Breeding
Title: Confined Breeding
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Reika and Yurika are sisters who live in a mansion deep in the woods and repeat the ritual of "breeding" when they find their prey. Today's prey is Suzuki, a young man who got lost in the forest and got caught in a trap set by Reika. The spectacle that jumped into his eyes when he was confined in the mansion was a middle-aged man who blindfolded Yurika and Reika's son while enjoying Yurika's appearance.
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License to Live
Title: License to Live
Character: Old Man
Released: November 7, 1998
Type: Movie
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
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The Outer Way
Title: The Outer Way
Released: June 5, 1998
Type: Movie
The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya gangster practices.
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Portrait of the Beast
Title: Portrait of the Beast
Released: May 9, 1998
Type: Movie
The man was called the "Manslayer Demon. One day, he stabs a rival gang member to death in the dark. A rookie female cameraman happened to capture the moment. The man was sentenced to five years in prison for the scoop footage and is tossed about by the passage of five years. Gradually, the man is forced to leave his home, but he soon regains the eyes of the "beast" he once was...
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Eyes of the Spider
Title: Eyes of the Spider
Character: Yakuza Boss
Released: April 11, 1998
Type: Movie
Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter's murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his innocence, before killing and burying him. He returns to his ordinary life feeling listless and hollow, until he encounters a man that introduces himself as an old friend. The man offers Nijima a new job, and subsequently introduces Nijima to his band of hired killers.
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Dirty Maria
Title: Dirty Maria
Released: January 29, 1998
Type: Movie
Murakami's partner Mayumi has gone missing. He fears that she could have run off with another guy or gotten into difficulty by involving by herself with a 'telephone relationship club', a solution which hooks up strangers trying to find easy, anonymous sex, no concerns asked.
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Voyeur target 1 Beautiful secretary who took off her uniform
Title: Voyeur target 1 Beautiful secretary who took off her uniform
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Voyeur Sutekichi Mamiya. A secret professional who makes full use of hidden cameras and eavesdropping devices to record men and women's foolishness and sell them off. Mamiya, who chose the employee's girls' dormitory as his new workplace, targets her domineering secretary, Saeko Kurahashi, and begins to follow the whole story of her unprotected acts from everywhere.
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Cure
Title: Cure
Released: December 27, 1997
Type: Movie
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere...
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An Obsession
Title: An Obsession
Character: Detective Ichii
Released: December 20, 1997
Type: Movie
Police detective Sosuke is shot down while chasing down a suspect. While he is unconscious, his gun is stolen. He recovers, but loses his wife and resigns from the police force. All of a sudden, his lost gun used in a series of crimes.
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Title: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Character: Daigo
Released: October 5, 1997
Type: TV
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner is a live-action television series based on the 1995 video game of the same name. Originally commissioned for a thirteen episode run, popular demand resulted in a further series of thirteen episodes being produced. it was originally broadcast on TX Network in the late night timeslot as a late night horror drama series.
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Wild Life
Title: Wild Life
Character: Man in pachinko parlour
Released: April 5, 1997
Type: Movie
An ex-boxer working for a game parlor owner gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn't understand. Before long he's caught between two yakuza bosses and a mysterious thief who motivation is unknown. Add in the boss' daughter who has a crush on him and watch him struggle to make sense of it all and come out alive.
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The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Title: The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Character: Drug Dealer
Released: March 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families.
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The Leg Lover
Title: The Leg Lover
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Pinku film released in 1997.
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Two Punks
Title: Two Punks
Released: December 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Centering on a young drifter almost casually drawn into violence--a crime drama about a boy and a man equally ill-equipped for criminal life and straight society. Neither wants to be a Yakuza, but normal life presents problems.
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A Weapon in My Heart
Title: A Weapon in My Heart
Released: October 4, 1996
Type: Movie
A detective and his partner track down a call girl with information about a drug cartel. After taking her into custody, they are attacked by cartel members. The detective and the woman manage to escape, but they are soon hounded by a professional hitman hired to eliminate them and recover the heroin stolen by the woman.
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero
Title: Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero
Released: September 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Nouveau Riche
Title: Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Nouveau Riche
Released: September 7, 1996
Type: Movie
A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.
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Helpless
Title: Helpless
Character: Cook
Released: July 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Yasuo is a gangster just released from jail. Believing his boss double-crossed him, enraged Yasuo is on his way to find the boss. But before setting out for the dangerous trip, Yasuo asks Kenji to take care of his mentally challenged sister, Yuri, and a mysterious black bag.
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Some Kinda Love
Title: Some Kinda Love
Released: May 25, 1996
Type: Movie
The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a beauty obsessed by UFOs.
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Door III
Title: Door III
Character: Masao Abe
Released: April 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets her plenty of gropers but no buyers. One day while venturing down a narrow stairwell, she injures her ankle and happens upon Mitsuru who works for some mysterious foreign company. Decked out in high goth style -- complete with long inky black hair and mascaraed eyes -- Mitsuru cuts quite an odd figure, yet his seductive though menacing ways make him difficult for Miyako to resist. Escorting her to his office to treat her ankle, Miyako notices that his all-female staff seem more glassy-eyed and soul-deadened than the average office workers. In fact, they seem almost like zombies. Later, weird things start happening. Mitsuko finds vomit on her doorstep, she seems to be tailed by a shadowy woman in a red dress, and most strikingly, she finds herself utterly powerless against Mitsuru's advances.
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble
Title: Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot
Title: Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot
Character: Nishi
Released: February 16, 1996
Type: Movie
Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.
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Forbidden Island
Title: Forbidden Island
Released: November 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Rei, a beautiful psychotherapist confronts a crazy cult evil group, known for their brainwashing methods.
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Will You Die in the Chimpira Dream Chara!
Title: Will You Die in the Chimpira Dream Chara!
Released: August 4, 1995
Type: Movie
Three mean and a woman connected by a strange encounter.
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Title: Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Released: April 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
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Summer Memories: An Abnormal Happy Killer
Title: Summer Memories: An Abnormal Happy Killer
Released: April 8, 1995
Type: Movie
OV version of the comic "Summer Memories" based on Naoki Yamamoto. Kawanaka (acted by Takuji Suzuki), who was arrested in another case, started talking about the murder school girls. Detective Kuroda is gradually at the mercy of Kawanaka's madness...
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Welcome Home
Title: Welcome Home
Character: Detective
Released: February 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Yuriko, once a concert pianist, now practices home-making while husband Takashi stays out late with co-workers, leaving her to decay into severe mental illness.
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Zero Woman: Final Mission
Title: Zero Woman: Final Mission
Character: Fugitive
Released: January 25, 1995
Type: Movie
A famous businessman's links with organized crime are looked into by the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police, with the investigation being headed by a highly trained, extremely violent and very beautiful female officer. When not having shoot-outs with the crime syndicate thugs trying to kill her, she spends most of her time in her apartment, wearing lingerie and taking showers. A sub-plot involves the businessman's S&M-obsessed daughter.
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N45゜
Title: N45゜
Character: Ringo
Released: October 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Omnibus film, set in a fictional town at 45゜N latitude: Wonder Rubbish; Pao-san to no fukushu; Jonetsu no koya; Kaze wa, dotchi ni fuite iru
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Yakuza Taxi
Title: Yakuza Taxi
Character: Nojima
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.
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Wild Side
Title: Wild Side
Released: October 30, 1993
Type: Movie
In four chapters, the film anatomises the chaotic life of a radio agony uncle.who is having simultaneous affairs with a sado-masochistic call-girl and the wife of an aggrieved tour-bus driver
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The Guard from Underground
Title: The Guard from Underground
Character: Yoshioka
Released: June 16, 1992
Type: Movie
A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.
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Wordholic Prisoner
Title: Wordholic Prisoner
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A wordholic man, acting as the chief editor by a certain publishing company, is confined by the writer who wishes to publish.
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The Enchantment
Title: The Enchantment
Character: Detective
Released: October 29, 1989
Type: Movie
A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...
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People of Twilight
Title: People of Twilight
Character: Disco manager
Released: April 20, 1984
Type: Movie
A woman runs a “mistress service” and interviews young women for “dates” with men. Various couples get together but someone is following and watching them.
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SEARCH
Title: SEARCH
Released: April 27, 1983
Type: Movie
A man who has lost his memory returns to his hometown and encounter several people from his past and present.
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Wolf: Running Is Sex
Title: Wolf: Running Is Sex
Released: November 20, 1982
Type: Movie
First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every primal desire whenever they may arise. He takes on a mate, a woman intrigued by his personage or lack thereof, and they live in his den in central Tokyo. As time goes on, we see how this animal clashes with modern man, and the consequences of their coexistance.
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Attack on a Bakery
Title: Attack on a Bakery
Released: November 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Two young men are hungry, so they decide to rob a bakery. Adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami.
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The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September
Title: The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September
Character: Natsuo
Released: June 5, 1982
Type: Movie
Ryo once rode with a biker gang; ever since his friend Tetsuji died riding in September, he's retired from biking, trying to forget the past.
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After That
Title: After That
Released: May 29, 1982
Type: Movie
Film director Shunichi Nagasaki reflects on a near-fatal motorcycle accident that occurred while shooting his commercial feature debut The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September.
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Burst City
Title: Burst City
Character: Factory Manager
Released: April 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
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Heart, Beating in the Dark
Title: Heart, Beating in the Dark
Character: Shimamoto
Released: February 20, 1982
Type: Movie
A boy and girl struggle to understand their place in 1980s Japan, retiring to copulate and probe each other for answers.
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Another Side
Title: Another Side
Released: October 1, 1980
Type: Movie
This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side" of life as they face romantic conflicts and the suicide of a fellow student.
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Back of Happy Street
Title: Back of Happy Street
Released: June 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A journalist, his pyromaniac girlfriend, and an ex-baseball player team up to rip off a gangster, with violent consequences.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Detective of Gurongi Countermeasures Team
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Piano Man
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Heiji Uesugi
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Ramen Shop Uncle
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Takosaburo
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Shozo Matsuki
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.