Toshiro Yanagiba

Toshiro Yanagiba

Born: January 3, 1961
in Akita, Japan
Toshiro Yanagiba (柳葉 敏郎, Yanagiba Toshirō, born January 3, 1961) is a Japanese actor.

Movies for Toshiro Yanagiba...

室井慎次 生き続ける者
Title: 室井慎次 生き続ける者
Character: Shinji Muroi
Released: November 15, 2024
Type: Movie
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室井慎次 敗れざる者
Title: 室井慎次 敗れざる者
Character: Shinji Muroi
Released: October 11, 2024
Type: Movie
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Title: Poketto ni Bōken o Tsumekonde
Character: Ohkido (voice)
Released: October 20, 2023
Type: TV
Madoka Akagi grew up in a port town in the Kanto prefecture of Japan. After graduating university, she moved to work at ADventure, a small advertising agency in Tokyo. She came to Tokyo in search of her dreams but reality sets in and every day is not like the world she imagined, especially when she has to do a presentation that decides the company's fate. However, she soon finds a package from her mother which includes a Game Boy Pocket and Pokémon Red. She decides to start playing Pokémon Red for the first time in 20 years. How will her adventue go?
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Title: Boogie Woogie
Released: October 2, 2023
Type: TV
Sets in the 1910s, this is the story of Hanada Suzuko, a young girl who grew up in a family that owned a bathhouse in downtown Osaka. From a young age, Suzuko loved to sing and dance, and joined the Umemaru Girls Opera Company (USK) in Dotonbori. Suzuko continued to show her talent for singing and eventually became a star of the postwar era.
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Title: Police and Prosecutor, Sometimes Judge
Character: 樫村武男(柳葉敏郎)
Released: April 13, 2023
Type: TV
In this sequel to Police and Prosecutor, Nakaido, the passionate gymnastic-teacher-turned-police-detective, is still eager to arrest criminals by all means and be appreciated by victims. He plunges into cases without any care for compliance issues.
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Shylock's Children
Title: Shylock's Children
Character: Kaoru Kujo
Released: February 17, 2023
Type: Movie
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Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part1
Title: Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part1
Character: Kahei
Released: February 3, 2023
Type: Movie
Baian Fujieda, an assassin for hire, got an unusual job from his usual fixer to end up with an unexpected twist of destiny from the past.
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Title: Keishichou Outsider
Character: Fujiwara Kaname
Released: January 5, 2023
Type: TV
Kagawa Eiji is a detective who looks more like a gangster. He previously worked at the Metropolitan Police Department investigating organized crime groups, but he was recently demoted to the Sakuramachi Chuo Police Station without being given a reason why. Kagawa Eiji desires to return to the Metropolitan Police Department to get answers. Meanwhile, he works with Detective Hasumi Kosuke at the Sakuramachi Chuo Police Station. Detective Hasumi Kosuke carries a big secret that has never been revealed. A case comes up, where a housekeeper, working at a professor's house, is stabbed to death. At that time, a rookie detective, Mizuki Nao, begins to work with them. Kagawa Eiji and Hasumi Kosuke are bothered by her. She is the daughter of the assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan Police Department. They begin to work together.
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The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn
Title: The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn
Character: Udo Genichi
Released: October 28, 2022
Type: Movie
Tenmasou is a long-established inn atop a mountain overlooking the sea, in a town called Mitsuse that exists between heaven and earth. The inn is run by Nozomi Tenma, the proprietress. Her younger sister Kanae works as a dolphin trainer. Their mother Keiko is the inn's elder proprietress, who is still resentful of her ex-husband that deserted his wife and family.
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Title: The Travel Nurse
Character: Hiroyuki Kanzaki
Released: October 20, 2022
Type: TV
Nasuda Ayumi is a young travel nurse who gives a bad first impression. In fact, he had been an excellent nurse practitioner in the US. He has the qualifications to carry out certain medical procedures and assist doctors in surgeries. However, some circumstances trigger his return to Japan where nurse practitioners are relatively unknown and nurses are still expected to do what doctors order. Ayumi ends up working at Amano General Medical Centre where he encounters a mysterious, legendary nurse Kuki Shizuka who will become his partner. Shizuka cleans “quietly” just like his name suggests and gets mistaken for a cleaner by the hospital staff including Ayumi. But he is actually a super nurse with boggling skills.
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Follow the Light
Title: Follow the Light
Character: Hideo Sato
Released: August 11, 2021
Type: Movie
In a fading village in the Japanese countryside, the school is about to be closed, which weighs heavily on the students. Freshly arrived from Tokyo with his father after an acrimonious divorce, the shy Akira escapes into drawing and agrees to participate in a mural project to mark the end of the institution.
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Title: The High School Heroes
Character: Danjuro Sumitomo
Released: July 31, 2021
Type: TV
Gosei School has a long history. The principal of the school is highly ambitious and he tries to achieve his goals by using supernatural majin powers. Six students go up against the principal. The students are Taisei Manaka (Taisho Iwasaki), Ryuhei Domon (Ryuga Sato), Yusuke Takigawa (Yuto Nasu), Hyuma Oura (Hidaka Ukisho), Naoya Morimura (Naoki Fujii) and Ichika Sakurai (Issei Kanasashi).
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A Morning of Farewell
Title: A Morning of Farewell
Released: May 21, 2021
Type: Movie
Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns to her father Tatsuro's home in Ishikawa Prefecture. She then begins to work at the local Mahoroba Clinic. She works with the clinic director Toru, Nurse Mayo and staff Seiji. Seiji, who worked with Sawako at the university hospital, followed her and works with her again. Mahoroba Clinic provides home healthcare to patients. Sawako visits the patients' homes and provides treatment there. At first, she has a hard time due to the different system. She becomes acclimated to the different system and finds a way to deal with the patients, their lives, and their families. --asianwiki
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Any Crybabies Around?
Title: Any Crybabies Around?
Character: Yasuo Natsui
Released: November 20, 2020
Type: Movie
A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can't just show up, apologize, and hope that makes himself a grown man.
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Title: 鉄道警察官 捜査ファイル
Released: March 15, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Police and Prosecutor
Character: Takeo Kashimura
Released: January 16, 2020
Type: TV
An ex-gymnastic teacher working as a police detective and a super-elite Tokyo University graduate prosecutor are to become a bizarre buddy. They always clash head-on, but eventually they find themselves sharing the same chemistry within themselves.
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Title: The Great White Tower
Character: Yohei Sasaki
Released: May 22, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Yasuragi no Toki: Michi
Released: April 8, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: I Prefer Tomorrow's You
Character: Tanno Fumihiko
Released: January 20, 2018
Type: TV
Matsuo Ryo works at a gardening company. He thinks women are annoying. At a client’s office, he meets Satogawa Akane who works as a CEO’s secretary. She is admired by the male employees due to her attractiveness and smarts, but, due to a bad experience, she is not interested in finding love. She only has sex with married men. A new male employee, Kinosaki Haruto, approaches Akane. One evening, Matsuo Ryo’s boss asks him if he is interested in marrying his daughter Tanno Ayaka and eventually taking over the gardening company. But, Ryo is embarrassed by the suggestion. He views Ayaka as a sister. Meanwhile, Ayaka works at a construction site during the day but works at a girl's bar at night. She has lost her sexual identity. While working at the girl's bar, female customer Kuroda Azusa approaches Ayaka.
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ドラマSP 松本清張「鬼畜」
Title: ドラマSP 松本清張「鬼畜」
Released: December 24, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: And Then There Were None
Character: Ishirugi Ken
Released: March 25, 2017
Type: TV
10 men and women are called to Natural Island Hotel on the isolated island Heitaijima off Yachijojima by the owner Nanao Shin. They take the dinner that has been prepared while filled with a mix of expectation and anxiety about what is going to happen and why they have been invited to this island. Then they suddenly start to hear a mysterious voice reveal their past crimes. As the 10 of them go through past incidents in their mind, one of the invited guests is murdered before their eyes. That seems to be the catalyst for the murder of another guest and then yet another. Several days after the invited guests came to Heitaijima, police head over to the island following the report of murders. They discover 10 murdered bodies on this big “locked room”. Who is the murderer and why did these 10 people have to be gathered and killed? ~ Based on the novel "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, published in 1943.
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Kofuku no Alibi: Picture
Title: Kofuku no Alibi: Picture
Released: November 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Stories depicting ordinary people revolving around ceremonial occasions. Without knowing that the funeral is for a yakuza member, an undertaker holds the funeral service. Relatives bicker over the deceased's last will. A son insists on wearing a long jacket normally worn by bousouzoku biker gang to a coming of age ceremony. His parents try to stop him. A husband heads over to his pregnant wife. She got pregnant before they got married and his father-in-law is angry at him. A freeter man challenges a professional baseball player over a woman.
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Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2016
Title: Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2016
Released: August 20, 2016
Type: Movie
For this 17th Anniversary Special, Inagaki Goro is our host once again for 6 spooky tales based on tales from real people and performed here by an all-star cast. A young man trying to become a hairstylist finds the run-down apartment he's in may have a troubled past; A new nurse finds work with an old hospital where her young patient moves a coin around pointing to who will die next; clumsy businessman finds his clumsiness being transmitted to others when he's given a cursed votive tablet; several high school girls visit a friend at the hospital only to find "something" may have gotten on the elevator with them; a pond out in the country sends a strange call out to a man on vacation with his family and finally a young woman having difficulty at her job worries she's seeing images of her dead father everywhere.
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Again
Title: Again
Character: Naoyuki Takahash
Released: January 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Mie’s father died during the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. One day, she finds a bundle of unsent New Year’s cards, which languished there for 28 years. To find out why the cards were never sent, Mie tracks down Haruhiko Sakacho. Haruhiko played on the same high school baseball team with her father. Mie eventually gathers together her father's former teammates to play in the Masters Koshien (a senior league baseball tournament). Mie also uncovers a truth about her father and the baseball team.
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Title: 検事・霧島三郎(TBS版)
Released: December 15, 2014
Type: TV
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Time Never Stops
Title: Time Never Stops
Character: Katsumi Hamaguchi
Released: February 22, 2014
Type: Movie
A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and a family that escaped the disaster. The film depicts the collapse and rebirth of two families whose children were supposed to marry each other. A moving drama written by Yamada Taichi and starring Nakai Kiichi, Kuroki Meisa and Kamiki Ryunosuke.
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Reunion
Title: Reunion
Released: February 23, 2013
Type: Movie
The Movie depicts 10 days after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. At a morgue house in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, the workers treat the dead with dignity as they hand over the bodies to their families. Retired funeral worker (Toshiyuki Nishida), finds himself volunteering at the morgue house.
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Title: Apoyan
Character: Toshio Imaizumi
Released: January 17, 2013
Type: TV
Based on the serialised novel by Shinno Takeshi, Apoyan tells the story of the people behind every overseas trip. From the travel agents to the people working at the airport.
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Bayside Shakedown The Final: The New Hope
Title: Bayside Shakedown The Final: The New Hope
Character: Shinji Muroi
Released: September 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days, Shunsaku Aoshima and his colleagues struggle to unravel the case...
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Bayside Shakedown the Last TV: Salaryman Cop and the Last Tough Case
Title: Bayside Shakedown the Last TV: Salaryman Cop and the Last Tough Case
Character: Shinji Muroi
Released: September 1, 2012
Type: Movie
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Father of the Bride
Title: Father of the Bride
Character: Hoshino Satoshi
Released: January 8, 2012
Type: Movie
The story is set against the beautiful scenery of Yamakoshi, Niigata, which is also known for bullfighting. Yanagiba plays a man named Satoshi who raises fighting bulls, while Kanjiya plays his deaf and mute daughter Mio. Osamu plays her fiance Maru, a charming young man from the lower part of town.
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Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Title: Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Character: Shigeyoshi Inoue
Released: December 23, 2011
Type: Movie
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs. While this infamous attack is a low point in Japanese and US history it wouldn’t have happened if the Japanese government had listened to Yamamoto in 1939 and searched for a more peaceful way to end their war campaign, proving his many ominous presages of the outcomes of the attack to come true.
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Space Battleship Yamato
Title: Space Battleship Yamato
Character: Shirō Sanada
Released: December 1, 2010
Type: Movie
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
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Title: HUNT - Tax Investigation Officer
Character: Shinjiro Niita
Released: October 21, 2010
Type: TV
National tax investigator Matsuko Matsudaira is transferred to Tokyo office for chase Tax evaders. Her new style of chasing the taxe evader with going undercover make some problems with her colleagues and boss.
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Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose
Title: Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose
Character: Shinji Muroi
Released: July 3, 2010
Type: Movie
After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a murder case, bomb threat, and a bus hijacking. Complications also arise between Detective Aoshima and his juniors.
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The Negotiator: The Movie
Title: The Negotiator: The Movie
Character: Kano Toshihiko
Released: February 11, 2010
Type: Movie
¥ 260,000,000 is stolen from armored vehicle. The criminals escape into a crowded shopping mall and take over 50 hostages. Reiko Usagi (Ryoko Yonekura) and the SIT members are called in to break the stand-off. When Reiko goes into the shopping mall to negotiate, an explosion suddenly occurs. The hostages panic and run, while the criminals are able to blend into crowd of people and escape. A few weeks later, Reiko is at the Haneda Airport to go on a vacation. She then spots Yusuke Kimoto (Kento Hayashi), a man who was one of the hostages at the shopping mall. Reiko remembers Yusuke's bizarre behavior and her instinct starts kicking in. She decides to follow the man and boards the airplane that Yusuke is taking. Shortly after take-off her instincts prove correct. The airplane is hijacked ...
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Title: The Waste Land
Character: Isao Kawamata
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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Nobody To Watch Over Me
Title: Nobody To Watch Over Me
Released: January 24, 2009
Type: Movie
A 15-year-old girl forced into police protection to escape from the journalistic hordes after her brother is arrested for murder.
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My Grandma
Title: My Grandma
Character: Seiji Murata
Released: December 6, 2008
Type: Movie
Home-design sales representative Tomohiro lives with his wife and their son. As his job involves houses, it is his motto to take great care of the family who live in the house. However, he has been working so hard that he has forgotten to cherish his own family. When he looks after a client who wants to leave her father-in-law in a nursing home, it reminds him of his grandmother whom he loved so much. Father's death, grandmother's struggle with disease, and home care - those were grueling times, but the memories have become invaluable for Tomohiro. He realizes his family is the most precious thing of all. On a day off, he and his family decide to visit his mother who lives alone in their old hometown.
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Title: Team Batista no Eikō
Released: October 14, 2008
Type: TV
There exists a legendary team of surgical experts in Tojo University Hospital that specializes in the Batista procedure - one of the most difficult cardiac surgeries with the survival rate only at 60%. Ever since its formation, this team has shocked the country by having 27 consecutive post-operative successes, virtually unheard of in the medical community. They basked in the glory until three of the most recent procedures resulted in consecutive deaths on the operating table. Taguchi, a psychosomatic medicine specialist, has been entrusted with the investigation but is in over his head because of his soft nature and having to deal with skills beyond his realm of expertise. Then arrives Shiratori, a cocky Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare investigator. He not only labels Taguchi naive, but speaks with confidence that this is a murder, and the murderer is within this team of elites. As the mystery unfolds, so does the complicated affiliation between each of the seven team members.
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Dear My Cosmo
Title: Dear My Cosmo
Character: Hiroshi Koga
Released: October 14, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: Code Blue
Character: Shuji Kuroda
Released: July 3, 2008
Type: TV
Four young physicians are assigned to the “Doctor Helicopter” system, the latest medical system where a medical team is dispatched to the patients via helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, and witness the fragility of life, all while growing personally and professionally.
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Title: Pandora
Character: Matoba Shinichi
Released: April 6, 2008
Type: TV
Suzuki is an eccentric at university hospital who has been conducting a research to come up with a miracle drug for cancer on his own. One day, Suzuki finally succeeds in developing a new type of anticancer drug that completely hinders the self-renewal of all cancer stem cells. However, his colleagues do not seem to share his excitement, and he is not even allowed to carry out clinical trial on humans. Suzuki is disheartened and completely at a loss by this but then he comes across a girl, Manami, who is suffering from terminal cancer. With help from her, he successfully carries out clinical trial. Yet, things take an unexpected turn. What will become of Suzuki, Manami and all the others around them? What is the fate of this new drug? Pandora's box released all the evils as soon as it was opened. What is it that is ultimately left inside?
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Anmitsu Hime
Title: Anmitsu Hime
Character: Awa no Dango no Kami
Released: January 6, 2008
Type: Movie
At age 16, a tomboy princess, Princess Anmitsu, has no love interest in her life and worries her parents. Despite their concern, Anmitsu runs away from the castle to venture into the commoners' life. During her daring adventure, she befriends a group of children who make a living by pick-pocketing. At the same time, she finally meets her prince charming Senbei, the leader of the group. However, she soon finds herself in an awkward position when she learns of the children's new plot: they are planning to steal the treasures from her own castle. Will she be able to put a stop to it without revealing her true identity?
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Title: 復讐するは我にあり 2007
Released: March 28, 2007
Type: TV
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Akechi Mitsuhide: The man God hated
Title: Akechi Mitsuhide: The man God hated
Character: Tokichiro Kinoshita
Released: January 3, 2007
Type: Movie
The famed leader Oda Nobunaga had two right-hand men who contributed to unifying the nation. One was Akechi Mitsuhide and the other Kinoshita Tokichiro, both rivals of each other for higher promotions. Eventually Mitsuhide was recognized for his work and was given a castle. However, Nobunaga's ambition to conquer the nation did not allow Mitsuhide to live happily in his territory. That is when an idea flashed across Mitsuhide's mind… Akechi Mitsuhide, the man who was considered to be the most intelligent general of the warring states era. What was the truth about him, Oda Nobunaga's best general and murderer?
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波の塔
Title: 波の塔
Released: December 27, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: Time Limit Investigator
Character: Shoeless Sarumata
Released: January 13, 2006
Type: TV
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby. So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.
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Title: Ns' Aoi
Character: 高树源太
Released: January 10, 2006
Type: TV
Based on the same-titled manga on a newbie nurse, Misora Aoi and the problems she encounters in medical work. Aoi Misora is a third-year nurse at a prestigious hospital. After she is involved in trouble at the Emergency Center, she is transferred to a medical ward of an affiliated hospital. Unlike her previous workplace, the medical ward is a crucial place where patients who survived the emergency room must be looked after with extreme care. But it's also a place for dishonest and unskilled doctors. Moreover, it is also a place for cozy ties between politicians and doctors, where the priority is not patient care but profit. Still, Aoi puts every effort forward to take care of patients with her heart and soul. The harder she tries, the more she is alienated from the proud doctors. But with the support of another nurse, Kyoko Komine, and also Dr. Takagi, Aoi succeeds in changing the minds of those around her. by: Fuji TV
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The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
Title: The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
Character: Shinji Muroi
Released: August 27, 2005
Type: Movie
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya), only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name. Is Muroi guilty as charged or merely taking the fall? What is the truth behind the murder? Two lawyers, one determined to get Muroi, the other resolved to save him, a feud between two police departments, political power plays and legal trappings, all combine to orchestrate Muroi’s downfall.
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実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還
Title: 実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還
Released: August 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines with his subordinates Corporal Shimada (Yanagiba Toshiro) and Private First Class Kozuka (Nishijima Hidetoshi) since the end of the Pacific War, without knowing the war had ended. Eventually, the two men die, unable to fulfil their duty to their homeland, and Onoda is left alone, but when a rescue team is sent out from the home country, he does not obey the order to return, believing it to be a diversion by the enemy, as the form of the return order is different. However, an encounter with adventurer Norio Suzuki (Masato Sakai), who has come from Japan to look for Onoda, leads to Onoda's return to his homeland in March 1974, 30 years after the end of the war, after completing his intelligence work on Lubang Island.
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Negotiator
Title: Negotiator
Character: Shinji Muroi
Released: May 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Japan's #1 negotiator Mashita Masayoshi is called into action again as a mysterious train terrorizes Tokyo's underground railway network. But this time his opponent is gunning for him personally.
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Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
Title: Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
Character: Kizaki Toshiro
Released: March 5, 2005
Type: Movie
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.
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Year One in the North
Title: Year One in the North
Character: Mamiya Denzo
Released: January 14, 2005
Type: Movie
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, over 500 of them settled in their new land under the leadership of Hideaki, husband of Shino. However, as crops fail he is to go to Sapporo to learn new techniques of farming, leaving his wife and daughter for 5 years. All this time, the new community is constantly watched by the government which choose to again uproot them from their new homes.
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Title: 熱血シングル・ファザー〜新聞記者・新庄圭吾の事件ファイル〜
Released: October 29, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: The Black Leather Notebook
Released: October 14, 2004
Type: TV
Ginza is a night town filled with ambition and burning desire… How does a plain bank clerk embezzle an enormous amount of money and jump into the underground world? What is her ultimate goal? Her greatest weapon is a black leather-bound notebook.
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Title: It was sudden, like a storm...
Character: Hideo Ogawa
Released: January 14, 2004
Type: TV
Kozue Ogawa is a housewife and has been married to Hideo for seven years. They don't have any children, but as they live with her parents at their flower shop, every day is still lively. She is happy with her life and her husband, but she wonders if it is enough. From time to time, she is gripped by this doubt that she cannot raise with anyone. Kozue starts a part-time job in the editing department of the magazine where she used to work. Her former colleague is now working hard as the editor-in-chief. One rainy day, Kozue meets a young man. He is Takuma Fukazawa, a high school student. He seems somehow shrouded in sadness. He is a dance teacher. In the dance studio, there is just the two of them. Takuma curls his hands around Kozue's body, and his dance instruction begins. Their unexpected closeness causes Kozue to hesitate. With her heart pounding, she pushes Takuma's hands away and runs home. But the throbbing in her chest continues. It can't be. But what is this feeling?
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Title: 川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
Released: December 21, 2003
Type: TV
NHK's 50th-anniversary memorial drama serial. This drama consisting of several short stories starring some of the well-known actors and actress of Japan today. A ball floats from the river's source to the sea, unlocking the portrayal of six love stories across the four seasons of the year.
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Bayside Shakedown 2
Title: Bayside Shakedown 2
Character: Shinji Muroi
Released: July 19, 2003
Type: Movie
The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins taking place, Aoshima jumps at the opportunity to pursue something other than his current case, which he finds less than inspiring. However the powers that be have other ideas, and Wangan again plays host to a special investigation team from headquarters. Aoshima's friend Superintendent Shinji Muroi, assigned by headquarters to assist Okita, is again powerless to help the local officers as decisions are made by the higher ups.
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There's Always Tomorrow - The Movie
Title: There's Always Tomorrow - The Movie
Character: Section Chief Mochizuki
Released: October 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Office drama wherein a mediocre salaryman struggling hard to face a dream.
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Title: Love Quotient
Released: July 4, 2002
Type: TV
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special
Title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special
Released: March 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Mushi Game (Ignore the Game) - starring Uchiyama Rina 2. Okashina Machi (Funny Town) - starring Yanagiba Toshiro 3. Tokage no Shippo (Lizard's Tail) - starring Kashiwabara Takashi 4. Yogisha no Otoko (Man's Night Train) - starring Osugi Ren 5. Manhole - starring Kagawa Teruyuki
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Title: Koi suru Top Lady
Released: January 8, 2002
Type: TV
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Tokyo Zance
Title: Tokyo Zance
Released: July 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Six well-known Japanese directors from various genres and one of the hottest actresses from Hong Kong, Kelly Chen, contributed to this omnibus film with their impressions of life in Tokyo. Kazuna Iida, Takanori Jinnai, Kelly Chen, Naoko Nozawa, Katsuhiko Hibino, Takashi Matsuo and Shin Yamagishi are amongst Japan's most active and talented filmmakers.
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Rush!
Title: Rush!
Released: June 23, 2001
Type: Movie
A wacky tale of two guys, one Korean and one Japanese who, mistaken for a couple of murderers, take to their heels, thus starting off a adrenaline-pumping (and often zany) adventure with a distorted sense of time.
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Title: There's Always Tomorrow, We Have Tomorrow
Released: April 21, 2001
Type: TV
Ashita Ga Arusa is a Japanese television drama series first aired on NTV in 2001.
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Chinese Dinner
Title: Chinese Dinner
Released: March 16, 2001
Type: Movie
Hoshino (Toshiro Yanagiba) is the mob-connected owner of a ritzy Chinese restaurant. One evening he’s sitting down in a lavishly appointed private room to enjoy an elaborate multicourse dinner, when he gets a call from a crooked politician of his acquaintance. A long-meditated money-laundering deal is about to bear fruit and earn him a cool 5 billion yen. The gang boss who backed him on this deal will be pleased. He is, understandably, in the mood for celebrating when an unexpected visitor (Izam) arrives — a tall, husky, mincing fellow in dreadlocks, with a gun. He is a hit man sent to whack Hoshino — but for what? The hit man neither explains nor kills; instead he sits down at the table and asks Hoshino when dinner is going to be served. Coolly, Hoshino calls in Chinese for the waitress, who enters, wearing a red, slit dress and an inscrutable expression, with the first course. The longest meal of Hoshino’s life has just begun.
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Senrigan
Title: Senrigan
Released: June 10, 2000
Type: Movie
The head of a psychological research institute and a lieutenant in the Japanese Air Force are both investigating a mysterious cult known only as ‘Midori no Saru’ (The Green Monkey). Members of this group have committed a string of violent suicide-attacks on military bases and public areas. Part of the mystery seems to involve a young child and an enormous Buddha statue outside Tokyo, but how could all these pieces possibly fit together?
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Dream Maker
Title: Dream Maker
Released: October 23, 1999
Type: Movie
Masato is a bad boy, but very in love with music. He meets a girl, Miki, who has serious diseases but is optimistic toward life. They start to work together in a CD shop and catch every chance to show their talents. Under the efforts of Masato, his company at last becomes an entertainment giant in Japan.
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Title: 恋爱结婚の法则
Released: July 7, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: The Rules of Marrying for Love
Character: Koichi
Released: July 7, 1999
Type: TV
Koizumi Kyoko stars as Asako, a 32 year old woman working for a Beer Company. She gets set up with an affable 38 year old man named Koichi (Yanagiba Toshiro) who tries to win her love against competition like a younger co-worker and off-putting best friends!
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Title: Ring: The Final Chapter
Character: Kazuyuki Asakawa
Released: January 7, 1999
Type: TV
Ring: The Final Chapter is a television series, produced in Japan, based on the Ring movie series. There are a total of 12 episodes in the series and a sequel was made called Rasen, consisting of 13 episodes.
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Bayside Shakedown
Title: Bayside Shakedown
Character: Shinji Muroi
Released: October 31, 1998
Type: Movie
Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down.
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Bayside Shakedown: Autumn Campaign for Crime Eradication
Title: Bayside Shakedown: Autumn Campaign for Crime Eradication
Character: Shinji Muroi
Released: October 6, 1998
Type: Movie
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Friendship
Title: Friendship
Released: May 16, 1998
Type: Movie
Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when they all shave their heads for her.
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Title: Shining Brightly
Character: Shinsaku Tadokoro
Released: January 13, 1998
Type: TV
The job of a medical jurisprudence involves a lot of complicated crimes such as murder and accidents. Hikaru (Fukatsu Eri) is a graduate of a medical university, also focused her discipline on neurology. One night during a student reunion, a dead body was found in the kitchen. Hikaru, who is a little regretting that she choose her focus in neurology was moved by another doctor's words, Dead bodies will not tell us what happened, that is why we have to piece together its last words.(Dramawiki)
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Bayside Shakedown: Year-End Special Alert
Title: Bayside Shakedown: Year-End Special Alert
Character: Shinji Muroi
Released: December 30, 1997
Type: Movie
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The Defender
Title: The Defender
Character: Takashi Ito
Released: February 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Computer engineer Takashi notices that a microchip is protruding fro his head. He contacts a notorious hacker for help. Meanwhile, Takashi's world is turning upside down. He's robbed at knifepoint & then chased through the crowded Tokyo streets by a giant. Or maybe not. Perhaps the microchip is only making him think these things are happening. Soon he realizes there's a connection between all the bizarre traumas and a girl named Masami. Seemingly, all his troubles started when she visited his repair shop and asked him to fix her cd rom-unit. Eventually Takashi finds himself psychically linked to the girl. As it turns out, they are secret government-made humanoids, programmed to live undetected within society an then - when the need should arise - they are activated as professional fighters; The action of the movie itself plays like the Defender arcade game.
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Title: Bayside Shakedown
Character: Shinji Muroi(室井 慎次)
Released: January 7, 1997
Type: TV
Aoshima is a rookie detective who has come to take a post at the Wangan Police Station in Odaiba. But what awaited this ex-salesman looking for stimulation was petty work and a rigid hierarchical control. Big cases are being handled at the main headquarters and the local police station is treated as if it were a nuisance. He is disillusioned by the fact that policemen are not superheroes and belong to a top-down organization. Living by his motto, “Cases don’t happen in the conference room, but at the scene,” Aoshima steadily influences his colleagues through his cheerfulness and strength.
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Title: Sashow The Last Case
Released: July 12, 1995
Type: TV
Lady cop (Asano Atsuko) and team leader (Katori Shingo) are lovers and they solve major crimes together, targeting psychos. One day, the team leader suddenly became a criminal as well
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Chinpira Jingi: Gokuraku Tonbo
Title: Chinpira Jingi: Gokuraku Tonbo
Released: December 9, 1994
Type: Movie
A college graduate, a gutless office worker and a crunchy yakuza live together from a slight misunderstanding.
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Title: 29-sai no Christmas
Released: October 20, 1994
Type: TV
Noriko is approaching 30 and is still unmarried. She is a fashion designer, dreaming of success and a Paris Collection. On her 29th birthday her world falls apart. Her boss transfers her from design to managing a bar. Her boyfriend betrays her for another woman. Shocked, Noriko decides to leave home and to move in with her best friend, Aya. The story of one woman's struggle to find happiness and love.
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Promise Ring-The Kashima Antlers Story
Title: Promise Ring-The Kashima Antlers Story
Released: December 16, 1993
Type: Movie
A story of dreams, efforts and passion based on the true stories of the people who supported Kashima Antlers, who won the J-League for the first time.
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Title: Nikushimi ni Hohoende
Released: October 12, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: 憎しみに微笑んで
Released: October 12, 1993
Type: TV
a TV drama produced by Kinoshita Productions, and was broadcast on TBS from October 12, 1993 to December 21, 1993.
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Title: 天下を獲った男・豊臣秀吉
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: 親愛なる者へ
Released: July 2, 1992
Type: TV
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Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
Title: Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
Character: Yakuza
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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Passion
Title: Passion
Released: April 25, 1992
Type: Movie
A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Toshio (voice)
Released: July 20, 1991
Type: Movie
On a trip to the countryside to pick safflowers, a young Japanese woman recalls her life when she was ten years old.
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Good-bye Dear Friend
Title: Good-bye Dear Friend
Released: November 23, 1990
Type: Movie
A young college student forms an unlikely friendship with the bartender at a "yakuza" bar.
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Title: Wonderful Unrequited Love
Character: Shumpei Nomo
Released: October 15, 1990
Type: TV
Shumpei sometimes sees his neighbor Keiko, but doesn't think much of her. One of Keiko's friends gives her the phone number of a single guy, but when she calls she recognizes him as Shumpei, and gives him the made up name 'Nana.' When they meet face to face, she pretends not to know him, but through their phone calls, they slowly start to fall in love.
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Title: Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Released: October 4, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Hot Dog (JP)
Released: April 19, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Aishiatteru Kai
Released: October 16, 1989
Type: TV
Fubuki is a young female teacher in a girl's college. Being quite new, she's unexperienced in many ways, eg. advising students on love problems. However, she gets to know three male teachers from a nearby boy's college one day, and these three people are playing as crazily as their students. They go after girls, ... and behave very differently from what a teacher should behave. Though as such, they're in fact good teachers, who always stand by their students, and help them out in every way they can. This gradually changes Fubuki's poor impression of them and touches her heart. --Snowflakes
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Title: Aishiatteru Kai
Character: Kai Takumi
Released: October 16, 1989
Type: TV
Fubuki is a young female teacher in a girl's college. Being quite new, she's inexperienced in many ways, eg. advising students on love problems. However, she gets to know three male teachers from a nearby boy's college one day, and these three people are playing as crazily as their students. They go after girls, ... and behave very differently from what a teacher should behave. Though as such, they're in fact good teachers, who always stand by their students, and help them out in every way they can. This gradually changes Fubuki's poor impression of them and touches her heart.
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Dream Street
Title: Dream Street
Character: Yōichi Kawabe
Released: August 5, 1989
Type: Movie
A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.
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Firefly
Title: Firefly
Character: Kenji Shimada
Released: February 18, 1989
Type: Movie
A young outlaw racing through the streets of Yokohama. Will the love that slipped through his fingers like sand come back to him once again?
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Hope and Pain
Title: Hope and Pain
Released: August 6, 1988
Type: Movie
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
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Title: Dakishimetai!
Released: July 7, 1988
Type: TV
Asako Ikeuchi and Natsuko Hayakawa have been close friends for more than 25 years. Natsuko's husband Keisuke had affairs, so she asks Asako to let her stay at her house. Keisuke was once Asako's boyfriend. They will soon be 30 years old. There are other nice guys around Asako. It's a drama about their love and friendship.
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April Ghost Story
Title: April Ghost Story
Released: March 19, 1988
Type: Movie
A young girl falls in love with a boy who died 100 years ago, and who wants to be reborn as a new born baby.
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Nice Game
Title: Nice Game
Released: February 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Feature movie starring the members of Japanese band Issei Fūbi Sepia
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Title: 君の瞳をタイホする!
Character: 土門隆
Released: January 4, 1988
Type: TV
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Guys Who Never Learn
Title: Guys Who Never Learn
Released: August 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.
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Hachiko
Title: Hachiko
Released: August 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
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Young Girls in Love
Title: Young Girls in Love
Character: Kinuko Kutsugake
Released: December 13, 1986
Type: Movie
The story of a young girl's first love is told from the heroine's point of view. Surrounded by various people, she finally begins to awaken to her own feelings as a woman.
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Title: Miyako no kaze
Character: 沢木智太郎
Released: October 6, 1986
Type: TV
The 37th NHK Asadora. A woman from Kyoto moves to Nara and runs a ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn) and then enters the fashion industry.
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South to the Horizon
Title: South to the Horizon
Character: Tetsu Tomijima
Released: August 30, 1986
Type: Movie
Tetsu gets into an argument with some Okinawa yakuza and is murdered by them. His brother Ryo comes to Okinawa shortly thereafter and teams up with Tetsu's girlfriend and Max an ex US soldier to extract revenge.