Shirō Itō

Shirō Itō

Born: June 15, 1937
in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Shirō Itō...

Title: The Old One
Released: May 5, 2024
Type: TV
Fukutaro, the former president of a board game company, continues to show up at work even after handing over his position to his son-in-law. Fukutaro grabs anyone he can to repeatedly brag about the same past exploits, which irritates those around him. Triggered by an event, his daughter finally unleashes her unspoken true feelings about his toxic old-age behavior. Although Fukutaro seems sad and apologetic, he secretly plots a counterattack with his five elderly fellows.
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Taiga Dorama ga Umareta Hi
Title: Taiga Dorama ga Umareta Hi
Released: February 4, 2023
Type: Movie
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of TV broadcasting in Japan, and the 60th anniversary of the Taiga drama, this special depicts the struggles of creating the first Taiga drama.
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Title: Ningen Kowai
Released: February 6, 2022
Type: TV
Rakugo has the image of a humorous story, but it is also a treasure trove of “scary stories”. Among them, this work boldly arranges a performance in which "human fear" stands out, and does it in an omnibus format. There are four rakugo plays that will be drawn as a drama this time: "Kokoro", "Tatsumi's Tsuji Zou", "Konya Takao", and "Miyatogawa (upper / lower)".
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The Donkey Man
Title: The Donkey Man
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: Movie
An old man who has been given supernatural powers by a donkey alien plays an active role as a justice hero "Robaman". 68-year-old Yoshimura, who has passed retirement age, is living a lonely day away from his wife and away from his daughter. He reports on the radio and posts on the internet about events and accidents that make noise in the world, but in reality he can't even be alert when faced with interruptions and noisy guests. One day, when he encountered a UFO on the way of a walk, he was mistaken for a fellow by an alien who looks like a donkey.
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Mr. Hikita, I Am Knocked Up
Title: Mr. Hikita, I Am Knocked Up
Character: Kazuo Tanobe
Released: October 20, 2019
Type: Movie
A couple are perfectly happy to not breed and procreate. Thus their life is a content and unselfish one. He writes and admires his wife. However, she informs him that she wants a child. They try and try, but alas are not successful. It is time to visit a physician to unlock the fertility riddle. Well, he is the culprit it seems
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Title: Mango no Ki no Shita de
Released: August 8, 2019
Type: TV
Rinko and Aya, employed in the Philippines in 1944, escape one of the most gruesome battles of the Pacific War. Based on the accounts of actual women survivors, this special depicts the friendship - the joy and sadness - shared by these two women, whose lives remain intertwined in wartime and long beyond.
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孤独のグルメ 大晦日スペシャル 京都・名古屋出張編
Title: 孤独のグルメ 大晦日スペシャル 京都・名古屋出張編
Released: December 31, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: Suits
Character: Akio Hasumi(蓮見 昭雄)
Released: October 8, 2018
Type: TV
Shogo Kai is a lawyer at one of the big 4 law firms in Japan. He is good at his job, but he is arrogant. Shogo Kai only thinks about winning and he thinks the only way to satisfy his clients is to win. He is getting close to becoming a senior partner at the law firm. Shogo Kai's boss worries about his focus on winning above all else. As a condition of his promotion at the law firm, his boss asks him to hire a young lawyer as an associate. Shogo Kai interviews prospective young lawyers and meets Daiki Suzuki. Daiki Suzuki has high intelligence and his memory ability is amazing.
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Title: Special Investigation Nine
Character: Tetsuharu Ikari
Released: April 11, 2018
Type: TV
The #9 investigation team has been disbanded and members of the #9 investigation team have been scattered around. One year later, the Chief of the National Police Agency, Sojiro Kandagawa, orders the creation of a special investigation team to cover from the initial investigation until it is sent to the prosecutor's office. Sojiro Kandagawa appoints Sakutaro Munakata as the leader of the special investigation team. Former #9 investigation team members join the special investigation team.
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Title: Special Investigation Nine
Character: Tetsuji Ikari
Released: April 11, 2018
Type: TV
The #9 investigation team has been disbanded and members of the #9 investigation team have been scattered around. One year later, the Chief of the National Police Agency, Sojiro Kandagawa, orders the creation of a special investigation team to cover from the initial investigation until it is sent to the prosecutor's office. Sojiro Kandagawa appoints Sakutaro Munakata as the leader of the special investigation team. Former #9 investigation team members join the special investigation team.
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Title: Tokumei Keiji Kakuko no Onna
Character: Takao Kariya
Released: January 19, 2018
Type: TV
Aya is a detective at the Kanagawa Prefecture Police Station. Yuriko is newly assigned to work at the same police station. She previously worked in the office at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Aya and the other detectives know that it is uncommon for someone to transfer to Kanagawa from Tokyo and work in the field from office work.
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Title: Black Leather Notebook
Character: Shoji Hasegawa
Released: July 20, 2017
Type: TV
The story of how a bank clerk becomes a Ginza nightclub owner.
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Title: Black Leather Notebook
Character: Shōji Hasegawa
Released: July 20, 2017
Type: TV
Haraguchi Motoko works as a temp at a bank. To pay off debt that she inherited from her parents, she also works as a hostess at a club in Ginza. Motoko Haraguchi is finally able to repay the debt. At this time, there's chatter that the temp employees will be laid off at the bank. Motoko Haraguchi decides to carry out a scheme she has prepared secretly. She transfers money from accounts opened illegally to her bank account. Altogether, Motoko Haraguchi embezzles 180 million yen. Using her “Kurokawa no Techo” (Black Leather Notebook) which has a list of the illegally opened accounts, she fights against bank branch managers and opens a club in Ginza.
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Odd Detective 15
Title: Odd Detective 15
Character: Shinichi Kamoshida
Released: April 6, 2017
Type: Movie
The body of Shinsuke Maeda, a wealthy older man, is discovered in his garden. While at first glance it appears that he missed his step while exiting into the garden and hit his forehead on a flowerbed rock, it is established that a safe installed in the living room has been emptied. It seems that, the night before, Maeda left the hospital he was staying at of his own will and came home, and was robbed immediately after returning. His daughter Yumie Nagano insists that Chikako Inui, a woman her father had been seeing, must be the perpetrator. She says that Maeda was thinking of getting married to Chikako soon. However, Chikako finds Yumie and her husband suspicious. Troubled by debts incurred by opening their ramen store, they pestered Maeda and he pushed them away. She calmly points out that Maeda gave her a will in which he left all of the 50 million plus yen hidden in the safe to her, so she had no reason to steal from him.
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Odd Detective 14
Title: Odd Detective 14
Character: Shinichi Kamoshida
Released: October 22, 2016
Type: Movie
The dead body of Maki Tsujimoto, a popular stage actress, is discovered in a theater in Oji. After striking her in the back of the head with a bronze statue prop, the criminal laid the body on the floor and pointed a light at it, "directing" the crime scene as if it were a scene from a play.
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Title: Isan Souzoku
Character: Kawamura Ryuutarou
Released: October 22, 2015
Type: TV
Sato Ikuo is a houseman who works for the internal medicine department. Not wanting to burden his mother, who brought him up as a single mother, he obtained a scholarship from a nearby public university and enrolled in its medical faculty. After that, he met Kaede, the only daughter of Kawamura Kozo, the president of Kawamura Memorial Hospital. They got married and he was adopted into the Kawamura family. He is completely indifferent to the many sarcastic and caustic remarks that are aimed at him by Kaede’s aunts and cousin, and lives detached from the ongoing inheritance battle. But that does not mean Ikuo is a timid man. He has no interest in the power struggle in the hospital, career progression and opening his own practice. His dream is to be involved in medical care in remote places overseas and he focuses on training as a houseman every day.
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The Man of the Political Economy
Title: The Man of the Political Economy
Character: Yoshida Shigeru
Released: September 19, 2015
Type: Movie
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve the breakup and privatisation of the electricity business. As a follower of Fukuzawa Yukichi, he inherited the spirit of independence, self-respect and the people. He rose up alone from the ruins of the war. It was the fight of an unconventional, stubborn old man over 70 with an indomitable will. Minister of Trade and Industry Ikeda Hayato admired Matsunaga like a father while Prime Ministers Yoshida Shigeru and Konoe Fumimaro, Shirasu Jiro (Takagawa Yuya) and others were in awe of his unfathomable passion.
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Title: Keisei Saimin no Otoko
Character: Yoshida Shigeru
Released: August 22, 2015
Type: TV
A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK.
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Title: 弁護士 水木邦夫 残り火
Released: October 29, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: Last Doctor
Character: Shuhei Yanagita
Released: July 11, 2014
Type: TV
Yoshizaki Kaoruko, who had been a clinician at a university hospital, takes up a post at a medical examiner’s office after she is told by her professor to try to get experience. However, everyone from the supervising doctor Akita Shinya, director Yanagida Shuhei and assistant Yamashita Mieko are all individualistic characters. This does not bode well for the future. Meanwhile, Akita and Kaoruko are put in charge of the dead body of a popular model who fell to her death. The police consider it to be a suicide, but Akita is drawn to a subtle point .
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Title: 出張鑑定人 宝来伝吉
Released: April 25, 2014
Type: TV
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Housekeeper the Peeper
Title: Housekeeper the Peeper
Character: Hidemitsu Uehara
Released: March 2, 2014
Type: Movie
Nobuko Sawaguchi is a surly, unattractive housekeeper in her mid-thirties. However, in actuality, she is a beautiful woman, but she hides this fact using her makeup because of a traumatic past experience. One day Nobuko is sent to housekeep for the Uehara family, known for its tremendous wealth. In the Uehara family, there is a massive quarrel over each member’s future succession and inheritance. In the middle of this hectic situation, Nobuko is asked by the daughter called Akemi to protect her.
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The After-Dinner Mysteries
Title: The After-Dinner Mysteries
Character: Karasawa
Released: October 30, 2013
Type: Movie
Kageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko happens to be a novice detective but lacks certain deductive skills needed by detectives. Because of this Reiko relies on Kageyamaa to help her solve cases. Meanwhile, Kageyama isn't afraid to mince words and often calls out Reiko with his sharp tongue!
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Title: Undercover Agent Lizard
Character: Masahiko Yanagida
Released: April 18, 2013
Type: TV
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One in a hundred thousand
Title: One in a hundred thousand
Character: Furuya
Released: December 15, 2012
Type: Movie
Tamura Masakazu plays Shohei Yamauchi, a freelance reporter obsessed with finding out the truth about a traffic accident in which his beloved daughter died. Judging by the photo of the accident, which appeared in the news described by photojournalists as "one coincidence in a hundred thousand", and the survivor's testimony that "I saw a red fireball" immediately before the accident, the circumstances of the accident are questionable. The film is based on a late masterpiece by Seicho Matsumoto.
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Title: Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
Character: Ryunosuke Busujima(毒島 隆之介)
Released: October 18, 2012
Type: TV
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.
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Title: Taira no Kiyomori
Released: January 8, 2012
Type: TV
Villain or hero, Taira no Kiyomori changed Japanese history forever 900 years ago. Without ever knowing his real father, Kiyomori was raised as a samurai. Together with his stepfather, he wiped out piracy along Japan's western coast, becoming a full-fledged warrior samurai. In an age when samurai were looked down on as members of the lower class, Kiyomori was skillful at winning the hearts and minds of the people. By rounding up surrendered pirates and achieving other successes, Kiyomori eventually became the de facto ruler of Japan.
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Japanese Salaryman NEO
Title: Japanese Salaryman NEO
Character: Kojo Neo
Released: November 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Shinjo is a new employee at NEO Beer, which is currently ranked fifth in the industry. When NEO’s president demands that they figure out a way to capture the top market share, Sales division chief Nakanishi and his team are struggling to come up with ideas when Shinjo suggests “sexy” as a possible marketing buzzword.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Talks
Released: April 13, 2011
Type: TV
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.
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Title: Recipe of 49 Days
Character: Atsuta Ryohei
Released: February 15, 2011
Type: TV
Two weeks after her adoptive mother, Atsuta Otomi, passed away, Endo Yuriko returns to her family home. She is not visiting because she feels anxious for her father, Ryohei, who has lost his will to live as a result of his wife's death. She has come back because she has decided to divorce her husband, Hiroyuki. However, when Yuriko returns home, a young lady who calls herself Imoto Sachie walks right into the house. Sachie says she will help in housework and everything else until the 49th day and this seems to have been at Otomi's request. Furthermore, she tells everyone in the household that it is Otomi's wish to have a big feast and not a Buddhist memorial service on her 49th day. At first, father and daughter are opposed to the idea, but when they learn of the existence of a recipe which Otomi had left behind, they gradually begin to think they can do it.
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私は屈しない〜特捜検察と戦った女性官僚と家族の465日
Title: 私は屈しない〜特捜検察と戦った女性官僚と家族の465日
Released: January 31, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Summer Romance Shines in Rainbow Color
Character: Kotaro Kusunoki
Released: July 19, 2010
Type: TV
Taiga is a struggling second-generation actor who has developed a complex due to his father, a famous actor in his time. Most of the time, Taiga only gets to appear in variety shows. One day when his friend brings him out skydiving, a big wind drags him away from the dropping point and he gets stuck in a tree. A beautiful woman, Shiori, rescues him. Shiori is a cheerful woman who laughs away all of her worries. She's exactly the opposite of Taiga...
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Title: Bad Boy and Good Girl
Character: Tatsuo Adachi
Released: April 23, 2010
Type: TV
Shinagawa Daichi used to be a good student who has now become a delinquent, while class president Adachi Hana was a delinquent who is now trying to move on. Her secret is discovered by Shinagawa, but she involves herself trying to correct his ways.
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Title: The History of Our Family
Character: Roppa Furukawa
Released: April 9, 2010
Type: TV
Wagaya no Rekishi is a Japanese three-part television mini-series, shown on Fuji TV from April 9, 2010 to April 11, 2010 to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. The show was known for its star-studded cast.
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樅ノ木は残った
Title: 樅ノ木は残った
Released: February 20, 2010
Type: Movie
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Golden Slumber
Title: Golden Slumber
Character: Hirakazu Aoyaki
Released: January 30, 2010
Type: Movie
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer.
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Listen to My Heart
Title: Listen to My Heart
Character: Ganjiro Ryoki
Released: November 10, 2009
Type: Movie
A radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, "Love Letters from the Drawer" to assist people who need an extra push to send out their simple yet very important message for their loved ones. The show was inspired by her own experience after reading a letter from her father after he died. Through her radio show, various characters come to light as everyone awaits for a miracle to happen. A miracle which can occur only by them expressing their true feelings... The movie is full of emotions and music plays an important part of it. It has a great cast that represent the many faces of love. Parents, sons, lovers, and friends. The movie takes you to several locations within Japan, you can get a look at the beautiful coast and shrine, as well as the city sights
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Title: The Waste Land
Character: Seizo Hisamatsu
Released: October 15, 2009
Type: TV
Iki Tadashi is a military leader named who was captured by the Soviets during World War II. Treated as a war criminal, he was sentenced to many years of labor in a harsh Siberian detention camp. After 11 years of imprisonment, he is released. He returns to Japan and begins readjusting to life as a civilian, rejecting an offer from his former colleague to work on a defense project. Tadashi has decided to never involve himself in war again, much to the joy of his family. Instead, he attempts to set off on a new path working at a major trading company. --Tokyograph
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The Hovering Blade
Title: The Hovering Blade
Character: Shinichi Mano
Released: October 10, 2009
Type: Movie
A widower's teenage daughter is murdered. A mysterious phone call tells him who the killers are and he plots revenge.
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The Soup of Heaven
Title: The Soup of Heaven
Released: October 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to go in search of it.
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Title: Tengoku no Soup
Released: October 19, 2008
Type: TV
A woman searching for "phantom soup" and a quiet chef who lost her family. The mystery surrounding them is slowly unraveled ...Based on an original story by Michiko Matsuda
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The Taste of Fish
Title: The Taste of Fish
Released: June 7, 2008
Type: Movie
It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market is where you're most likely to find them. It's the home of Japan's biggest daily fish auction, and it's a place of fierce competition between fish merchants that have been in the business for generations. Based on a comic series, The Taste of Fish follows businessman Shuntaro, who has a successful career in a trading company and is in a steady relationship with girlfriend Asuka. One day, Shuntaro has to help out at the fish wholesaler store run by Asuka's father, and he immediately falls in love with the world of Tsukiji Fish Market. Soon, Shuntaro quits his job and devotes all of his time to running the business while learning about the market's fascinating set of long-standing traditions. However, he must first also learn to distinguish the tastes of different fishes before he can survive in the competitive world of Tsukiji.
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Title: CHANGE
Character: Reigning Prime Minister
Released: May 12, 2008
Type: TV
CHANGE is a Japanese television drama which aired on Fuji TV starting May 12, 2008.
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Title: Wives Make the World Go Round
Released: July 5, 2007
Type: TV
Tachibana Makoto, a manager of an omusubi cafe. One day, she meets Sanshiro, a secretary at a paper shredder company, and half a year later, they already decide to get married. But when Makoto meets Sanshiro's family, a battle begins between her and her mother-in-law. The daughter-in-law, who is a "workaholic" career woman and wife, and her mother-in-law, who is a "model full-time housewife," begin to fight against each other on their values and pride!
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Maiko Haaaan!!!
Title: Maiko Haaaan!!!
Character: Suzuki Taikai (President of Suzuya Ramen)
Released: June 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one.
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Talk, Talk, Talk
Title: Talk, Talk, Talk
Character: Taichi Yugawara
Released: May 26, 2007
Type: Movie
The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down comedy. Even though Mitsuba is mediocre at best, he ends up teaching three students.
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Title: Haken no Hinkaku
Character: Renzō Miyabe
Released: January 10, 2007
Type: TV
Oomae Haruko is an A+ Temp worker who never cracks a smile or minces words, and leaves work on the dot. But her cynical nature indicates she has something painful to hide. Satonaka Kensuke has just been promoted to head S&F's new Marketing Division. Saddled with a rag-tag group of subordinates, he is struggling to lift his division off the ground. When Oomae is placed in Kensuke's department, she finds herself doing more work than she's ever done before. This is a timely drama that examines the different attitudes toward temp workers and regular employees, and the ways to overcome frictions in interpersonal relationships. This follows an October report on labor conditions by the Labor Ministry, which showed that, after regulations were relaxed, the proportion of regular employees to Temps had doubled compared to that of eight years ago.
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Brave Story
Title: Brave Story
Character: Monk Rau (voice)
Released: May 22, 2006
Type: Movie
Jr. High School Student Wataru and his friends like playing in an abandond building and looking for ghosts. However it seems he is not the only one. Another mysterious student Mitsuru shows Wataru that there is a magical door to another world where one can go and get the Goddess of Fortune to grant one wish! When tragedy strikes Wataru's family he decides to open the door for himself.
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Suite Dreams
Title: Suite Dreams
Character: The General Manager
Released: January 14, 2006
Type: Movie
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is trouble everywhere. An Animal is on the loose, a politician to protect, a prostitute to handle, a bellhop to focus and a few things more.
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The Winds of God
Title: The Winds of God
Released: September 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Two Osaka comedians, Makoto (Tomomitsu Yamaguchi) and Kinta (Go Morita), are riding bicycles in Tokyo when they're hit by a dump truck. They regain consciousness in 1945, but not of their own bodies. Somehow, their souls have been transported into the bodies of two tokkotai (special forces, or "kamikaze") pilots. Having grown up in a peaceful, carefree Japan, the two comedians experience severe disorientation at having to suddenly deal with the realities of war. They attempt to escape their squadron, knowing that Japan will eventually lose the war, but are nevertheless moved by the young men they meet, all of whom have very different opinions about their fate and the responsibilities that have been placed upon them.
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Title: Chushingura
Released: October 8, 2004
Type: TV
The story of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (ronin) after their master, Lord Asano was forced to commit ritual suicide for assaulting a court official, Lord Kira, who earlier insulted him. Kuranosuke Oishi (Ken Matsudaira) leads the ronin in an effort to seek revenge for their beloved Lord’s wrongful death. As the country’s “national legend,” it recounts the most famous case involving the samurai code of honor, bushido.
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Nin x Nin: The Ninja Star Hattori
Title: Nin x Nin: The Ninja Star Hattori
Released: August 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Kanzo Hattori, an apprentice Ninja, leaves his home town of Iga for his final training. He must go to the city of Edo (Tokyo), and the first person he meets shall be his master, whom he must protect with his life, whilst upholding the ninja code. Also while in Edo, Hattori must find out why their rivals, the Koga Ninjas, are flourishing while the Iga Ninjas are dying out. Hattori's master is Kenichi, a 9 year old boy. Kenichi is an introvert and not very popular boy, so he never plays with the other children from school. Kenichi also has a secret crush on a young lady called Midori, yet he's too shy to speak to her. Though as he watches Hattori trying his best, he too begins to try. Meanwhile, people are being found unconscious, their bodies completely unmarked. All the victims have a tattoo (the Koga Ninja crest) and are found with a throwing knife lying close by.
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Title: Okashina Keiji
Released: August 23, 2003
Type: TV
The familiar father-daughter duo uncovers the truth behind the murder case and the great evil lurking in the background!
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Title: HR
Character: Teruo Muto
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: TV
A situation comedy set in a fixed-time high school in Tokyo.
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Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
Title: Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
Character: Lieutenant Nakamura
Released: August 27, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: 逆転の夏
Released: September 3, 2001
Type: TV
A TV drama based on Hideo Yokoyama's short story "Gyakuten no Natsu". A first-class suspense depicting the darkness of the mind of a man who has unfortunately committed murder and is once again lost after a single phone call. Sato Koichi plays the conflict of a man who lives hard even though he has a big darkness in his heart, and it is a work that resonates with the hearts of the viewers.
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Title: Watashi no Aozora
Character: Tatsuo Kitayama
Released: April 3, 2000
Type: TV
This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at the tip of a peninsula in Aomori. Taiyo's father, Murai Kento had aspirations to be a professional boxer but due to a detached retina he was forced to abandon his dream. Leaving Nazuna behind, he left for America, with another woman, to get treatment for his eye-problem, unaware that Nazuna was pregnant. As his life is boxing he quickly returns to the ring after the operation turns out to be successful and once again he dreams of becoming a professional boxer. However, success eludes him and he returns home to Japan. Nazuna meanwhile has given birth to her son and moved to Tokyo to search for Kento. By chance she finds Kento. When discovers he has become a father, he tries to make up for lost time. The show picks up their story as Nazuna, Taiyo and Kento begin family life together. Of course things are not as simple as they appear.
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Title: 海を渡った愛と殺意
Released: December 29, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Good Person
Character: Shiroyama Seishichiro
Released: April 15, 1997
Type: TV
After graduating from college, Yuuji lands the job of his dreams at the company that manufactures his favorite running shoes. The complete sincerity and selflessness that Yuuji shows everyone he meets causes many to dismiss him as naive or simply stupid. But when his good deeds start paying off, his co-workers begin to come around to the idea that nice guys don't have to finish last. -- DramaWiki
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Title: Risou no Kekkon
Character: Otaki Ikkoku
Released: January 17, 1997
Type: TV
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Supermarket Woman
Title: Supermarket Woman
Character: Company President
Released: June 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Failing supermarket manager Goro hires the energetic Hanako, his old classmate, to help him compete with a new, rival business in town. Soon, Hanako's ideas and energy completely revitalize the store – but not without ruffling some feathers and sparking some romance along the way.
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Title: Yesterday Enemy is Still Enemy Today
Character: Sugiyama Kenjiro
Released: April 9, 1995
Type: TV
Arashi Kohei, inherits a pharmaceutical company from his deceased father. Despite the hard work he was doing, six months before his parent's death, many people are trying to take the company away from him. Soon, Kohei discovers allies but also enemies, among the people he least expected it to be. Will he manage to hold his position in such a brutal world?
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Lifetime Insecurity
Title: Lifetime Insecurity
Character: Saburo Fujio
Released: October 29, 1994
Type: Movie
In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.
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Title: 男嫌い
Released: July 14, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: 美味しんぼ
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Hirari
Character: 梅若虎男
Released: October 5, 1992
Type: TV
The 48th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Hirari. Story's settings includes Tokyo. Hirari is a young and energetic girl. She loves the sports, sumo, very much and would like to find a career. However, there isn't any suitable career for a female in this area. Nevertheless, she still works hard towards her dream, and at last, she gets a chance to become a sumo stable's nutrition consultant.in this field. However, there isn't any suitable career for a female in this area. Nevertheless, she still works hard towards her dream, and at last, she gets a chance to become a sumo stable's nutrition consultant.
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Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
Title: Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
Character: Iriejima
Released: May 16, 1992
Type: Movie
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.
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Noh Mask Murders
Title: Noh Mask Murders
Character: Josuke Kenmochi
Released: March 15, 1991
Type: Movie
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.
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Title: Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Released: October 4, 1990
Type: TV
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Inamura Jane
Title: Inamura Jane
Released: September 8, 1990
Type: Movie
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Mr. Lady Cinderella at Dawn
Title: Mr. Lady Cinderella at Dawn
Released: July 10, 1990
Type: Movie
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Title: Prep School Boogie
Released: April 20, 1990
Type: TV
This entertaining drama follows the fun-filled adventures of three prep-school students. Struggling with studies has become a thing of the past for these three young men, and they are ready to make the best of their free time in a world where they are no longer looked down on as fools.
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The Men Who Made Ultraman
Title: The Men Who Made Ultraman
Released: March 21, 1989
Type: Movie
A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.
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Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Title: Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Character: Managing Director Kobayashi
Released: November 26, 1988
Type: Movie
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.
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Those Swell Yakuza
Title: Those Swell Yakuza
Released: June 11, 1988
Type: Movie
Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.
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A Taxing Woman
Title: A Taxing Woman
Character: Pachinko Parlor Boss
Released: February 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
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Title: Daddy, the Newscaster
Released: January 9, 1987
Type: TV
He didn’t even like children, yet without warning, the handsome, single newscaster finds himself playing the role of father to three impertinent daughters. His entire image of the roles of the sexes gets turned upside down as he makes the transition from a swinger into a caring parent.
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Kimi ga kagayaku toki
Title: Kimi ga kagayaku toki
Released: October 10, 1985
Type: Movie
A one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player.
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Barrow Gang BC
Title: Barrow Gang BC
Released: April 27, 1985
Type: Movie
Film about a pirate radio station.
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Big Magnum Kuroiwa
Title: Big Magnum Kuroiwa
Character: Cop
Released: April 13, 1985
Type: Movie
Kuroiwa, a high school teacher who carries a “Big Magnum 44” gun is sent to a school that is full of violence. Can Kuroiwa reform the students with the gun?
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Yakyuukyou no Uta
Title: Yakyuukyou no Uta
Released: January 7, 1985
Type: Movie
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Jugyo Sankan no Onna
Title: Jugyo Sankan no Onna
Character: Shiraki
Released: April 28, 1984
Type: Movie
One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised to see a call girl he once had an encounter with standing among the parents in the back of the classroom. According to the school's files, her name is Yukako Sawada, and her child Eisaku has no legal father. The next day, Eisaku gives Tasaka a letter from Yukako asking to meet at the hotel where they first met, and Tasaka sets out with an uneasy feeling...
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Oshin
Title: Oshin
Released: March 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmother and mother, who is expecting another child, barely have enough to eat. In order to make ends meet for her family, 7-year-old Oshin gives up school and decides to become a servant in the household of a wealthy family, where she faces trials and tribulation beyond her worst fears.
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A Madcap Corporation
Title: A Madcap Corporation
Released: December 17, 1983
Type: Movie
A comedy of a yakuza family that goes into show business.
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Lanterns on Blue Waters
Title: Lanterns on Blue Waters
Released: November 15, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
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The Sea of Sparta
Title: The Sea of Sparta
Character: Hiroshi Totsuka
Released: September 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Violent delinquent Shunpei is sent to Totsuka Yacht School, a grueling rehabilitation center. The principal fears that this "half-wolf" is too much. When kids go bad, this school beats them straight. But they've never seen anything like this punk before.
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Battle Anthem
Title: Battle Anthem
Character: Maruyama
Released: June 4, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.
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Our Wedding
Title: Our Wedding
Released: April 29, 1983
Type: Movie
On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. The attacker is thought to be an ex-girlfriend of Tsutomu, the groom. He gives two names to the police but these two are still alive. But there is still one woman in Tsutomu's mind...
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Title: Oshin
Character: Sakuzo
Released: April 4, 1983
Type: TV
Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is an archaic Japanese cognomen.
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To Trap a Kidnapper
Title: To Trap a Kidnapper
Released: September 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.
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Title: Kemono Michi
Released: January 9, 1982
Type: TV
The drama sheds light on the dark side of Japan connected to the political and financial world by depicting the vicissitudes of women.
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The Beauty of Heaven and Hell
Title: The Beauty of Heaven and Hell
Released: January 2, 1982
Type: Movie
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The Rivals
Title: The Rivals
Released: June 6, 1979
Type: Movie
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Title: Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Released: August 20, 1977
Type: TV
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正義だ!味方だ!全員集合!!
Title: 正義だ!味方だ!全員集合!!
Released: December 27, 1975
Type: Movie
Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near Yokohama, but a gang was making its presence felt in the town and the shopkeepers in the shopping arcade were troubled by it. Chotaro poses as a journalist and uses his words of wisdom to suggest that pen is mightier than the sword, so they create a mini-comic magazine and launch a campaign to expel the gang.
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Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
Title: Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
Character: Inspector Heiji Zenigata VII
Released: August 3, 1974
Type: Movie
The Maccherone organization is out to get a priceless national treasure. But when they see third-generation cat-burglar Lupin as an obstacle, countless assassins are sent to kill him on sight and kidnap his girl Fujiko! Can Lupin get the loot before the Maccherone gang, rescue Fujiko, and stay alive at the same time?
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The Shinano River
Title: The Shinano River
Released: November 22, 1973
Type: Movie
Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.
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Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
Title: Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
Character: Stooge
Released: January 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his youthful attendant -- Zatoichi finds them and discovers that the pair's mixed up with a dangerous bunch of terrorist samurai who murdered the boy's parents. Now, Zatoichi must step in to save the day.
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Title: Heaven and Earth
Character: Naya Tatsuzo
Released: January 5, 1969
Type: TV
The story chronicles the life of Nagao Kagetora.
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Title: The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Released: December 21, 1968
Type: Movie
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
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Make Way for the Jaguars
Title: Make Way for the Jaguars
Character: Ito
Released: March 30, 1968
Type: Movie
A plot by an evil mastermind to eliminate the lead singer of the Japanese "Group Sounds" rock band, The Jaguars, leads the group through a series of psychedelic, comedic escapades.
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How to Make a Big Hit
Title: How to Make a Big Hit
Released: March 5, 1968
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.