Emi Wakui

Emi Wakui

Born: December 8, 1970
in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Emi Wakui is a Japanese actress. She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 1994 Best Actress award for her performance in Rainbow Bridge, and the 1992 awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Newcomer for her performance as Seiko Kawashima in My Sons.

Movies for Emi Wakui...

Title: 366日
Character: Ikezawa Yuri
Released: April 8, 2024
Type: TV
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Fly Me to the Saitama 2
Title: Fly Me to the Saitama 2
Released: November 23, 2023
Type: Movie
People of Saitama Prefecture, who have been persecuted by Tokyoites for a long time, stand up for their freedom. Thanks to Momomi Hakuhodo (Fumi Nikaido) and the Saitama Liberation Front, laissez-passer is abolished. The people of Saitama Prefecture can once again enjoy their peaceful daily lives, but the Saitama Liberation Front heads toward its next goal. This leads to a big case.
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Title: About Sunday Night...
Character: Kishida Kuniko
Released: April 30, 2023
Type: TV
Old apartment complexes, rented houses in the suburbs, and cabs running through the cities. These scenes may look ordinary but each has a different story to tell. A daughter who works part-time to support her disabled mother; a woman who has been cut off from her family and continues to work as a cab driver; a granddaughter who lives in a rented house and works at a factory with her grandmother. This is the story of three women, who live far apart from each other and do not know each other's existence until a fateful encounter through a radio program.
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Deadly Professional 2023
Title: Deadly Professional 2023
Character: Okiku no Hanagoten
Released: January 8, 2023
Type: Movie
An epidemic is spreading through the towns of Edo – it spreads via people, and if you get the fever, your face will turn red like a demon, and then you will die. There is no cure in sight, and people’s anxiety is increasing.
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Radiation House: The Movie
Title: Radiation House: The Movie
Character: Nagisa Omori
Released: April 29, 2022
Type: Movie
Iori Igarashi works as a radiographer at a general hospital. He has been depressed, because An Amakasu, whom he loves, has decided to travel abroad to Washington Medical University to learn more as radiologist. The members of Radiation House encourages Iori. One day, An learns that her father is in serious condition. Her father was the only practicing doctor at a small clinic on a remote island. When An arrives, her father tells her to be a doctor who sees patients as a person and not a disease before he passed away. An decides to stay on the island because of a patient that her father cared about. A massive typhoon soon hits the island and a landslide then occurs. An unknown infectious disease spreads afterwards on the island. Iori knows that An is struggling on the remote island and he makes a decision for An and the residents of the island.
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Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022
Title: Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022
Character: Hanagoten no Okiku
Released: January 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022 is a continuation of the Hissatsu Shigotonin series. This was the SP released in 2022.
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Title: Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
Character: Shibusawa Ei [Eiichi's mother]
Released: February 14, 2021
Type: TV
Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work, which was to manufacture and sell indigo production and also silk farming. He left his hometown at the age of 23 and began working for the government. He later traveled to Paris and learned about banking. Upon his return to Japan, he helped build up the first modern bank in Japan. He eventually became a founder or supporter to about 500 companies and was involved with about 600 public services, including education for women.
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The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window
Title: The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window
Character: Noriko Mikado
Released: January 22, 2021
Type: Movie
Kosuke Mikado, who works at a bookstore, has been suffering from a peculiar constitution that ghosts can see from an early age. One day, Kosuke was invited by a exorcist, Rihito Hiyakawa, who came to the bookstore and decided to work with him. The two men, who were requested by the detective Hanzawa to investigate the serial murder case that occurred a year ago, eventually found a body, but the body was cursed. While searching for the truth, they often hear the voice of the murderer who committed suicide...
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Title: Our Sister's Soulmate
Character: Takako Yoshioka
Released: October 27, 2020
Type: TV
27 year old Adachi Momoko lost both her parents in an accident when she was in third year high school. She then gave up going to college and has been working at a home centre for the past nine years while supporting her three younger brothers who are now 20, 17, and 14 year old respectively.
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God of Novels
Title: God of Novels
Released: October 2, 2020
Type: Movie
Ichiya Chitani (Taiki Sato) made his debut as a novelist when he was in middle school. His novels received severe criticisms and were not popular. Now, Ichiya Chitani is a high school student. His confidence as a writer is shot. One day, an editor proposes that Ichiya Chitani collaborate with his classmate Shiina Koyurugi (Kanna Hashimoto), who is a popular writer, on a novel. The editor wants a novel that can touch the hearts of people around the world. Ichiya Chitani and Shiina Koyurugi have completely different personalities and reside on different levels in terms of popularity as writers, collaborate on a new novel.
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必殺仕事人2020
Title: 必殺仕事人2020
Released: June 28, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: リーガル・ハート
Released: July 22, 2019
Type: TV
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Strawberry Song
Title: Strawberry Song
Released: July 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Kota runs into his old friend Chika on the anniversary of their friend's death. They plan to meet again in a year, but their feelings are complicated.
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Title: Radiation House
Character: 大森渚
Released: April 8, 2019
Type: TV
Iori Igarashi is a talented radiographer who believes the “truth” is definitely captured in CT and MRI images. He and radiologist An Amakasu work at a hospital’s radiology department where they determine the causes of patients’ illnesses and injuries.
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必殺仕事人2019
Title: 必殺仕事人2019
Released: March 10, 2019
Type: Movie
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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Title: I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Character: Sakura's Mother (voice)
Released: September 1, 2018
Type: Movie
After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.
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スペシャルドラマ 必殺仕事人
Title: スペシャルドラマ 必殺仕事人
Released: January 7, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: Universal Ad Agency: We Pitch Your Life
Released: October 20, 2017
Type: TV
Sugiyama (Ikki Sawamura) used to be the most popular copywriter at the largest advertising agency. He quit his job there to open up his own advertising agency, but his company doesn't do very well. He decides to move his company to a dead shopping district of a port town in decline. Even though the port town is lifeless and in serious decline, people go to see Sugiyama with small requests. Sugiyama begins his struggle as a small advertising agency.
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Last Cop The Movie
Title: Last Cop The Movie
Character: Kanako Suzuki
Released: May 3, 2017
Type: Movie
Based on the German TV series "Der letzte Bulle."
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Title: Hiyokko
Character: Aiko Nagai
Released: April 3, 2017
Type: TV
The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Ibaraki Prefecture. Her father Minoru has gone to Tokyo to work in order to earn extra money. However, her life completely changes when her father does not come back for the New Year. Mineko asks her family to let her go to Tokyo to find him and promises to send money home. In the autumn of 1964, she and two childhood friends Tokiko and Mitsuo are hired to start working at a small factory in Tokyo’s working class neighborhood. After work each day, Mineko searches for her father and gets disheartened at times. Mineko overcomes challenges and starts to lay down roots in Tokyo as she experiences many meetings and farewells amid the laughter and tears with regulars, people of the shopping street, friends, and colleagues. But will she be able to find her father?
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必殺仕事人2016
Title: 必殺仕事人2016
Released: September 25, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: People at Hopehills
Character: 케이코
Released: July 16, 2016
Type: TV
Dramatized masterpiece from touching family drama's specialist Kiyoshi Shigematsu. "Second Chance Chauffer (流星ワゴン)" "Tonbi (Black kite)" The drama is produced by a great team starring by famous actors such as Ikki Sawamura, screen writing by Yoshikazu Okada and directed by Yoshihiro Fukagawa. It shows "courage" and "pure heart" which adult need. This is an inspiring movie with lots of laughter and tears, and motivates you.
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Title: 横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ
Released: April 18, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Let Me Call You Father-in-Law
Character: Shizuka Hanazawa
Released: January 19, 2016
Type: TV
Daidoji Tamotsu is a 51-years-old man. He decides to marry his girlfriend that is 28 years younger than him. One day, his girlfriend, Hanazawa Miran bring him home to meet her dad, Hanazawa Kiichiro. Tamotsu and Kiichiro are shocked when they found out that they are the same age.
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必殺仕事人2015
Title: 必殺仕事人2015
Released: November 19, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: The Last Cop
Character: Suzuki Kanako
Released: June 19, 2015
Type: TV
In 1985, when detective Kyogoku Kosuke (Karasawa Toshiaki) was hunting down some criminals, he suddenly found himself in the center of an explosion and ended up falling into a coma. In 2015, after 30 years Kosuke wakes up and has a lot to catch up, new values, technology, family, work, everything he has missed. Back to the Criminal Division, Kosuke and his new partner Ryota (Kubota Masataka) are entrusted with classified security data that aims to a terrorist group Schiesser.
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Title: Date What is Love
Character: Kiyoko Yabushita
Released: January 19, 2015
Type: TV
Yoriko Yabushita works at a Yokohama research laboratory. She tracks trends in relation to macroeconomics. She is 29-years-old and enthusiastic about her work. She also enjoys efficiency and having a regular life. Although she doesn't excel in social settings with other people, her next goal is getting married and having a baby. Yoriko believes that she marry by the age of 30, because everyone around her did including her late mother. If Yoriko finds a man who fills 24 items listed on her ideal husband list, she will marry him.
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Again
Title: Again
Character: Yuko Tachihara
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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Boat to the Moon
Title: Boat to the Moon
Character: 水沢理生
Released: October 4, 2014
Type: Movie
At a small station in a very small town somewhere in Japan, a woman with eyes as beautiful as the sky, sits at a bench. A man comes to the same station to get a train back to the city, and here he meets this beautiful lady but finds that she is blind. This movie tells the fantasy love story of a day where a man and woman meet accidentally in a small town.
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必殺仕事人2014
Title: 必殺仕事人2014
Released: July 27, 2014
Type: Movie
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Title: White Lab
Character: Keiko Kamiyama(神山 恵子)
Released: April 14, 2014
Type: TV
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必殺仕事人2013
Title: 必殺仕事人2013
Released: February 17, 2013
Type: Movie
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Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
Title: Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
Released: October 27, 2012
Type: Movie
This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly successful 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. This special focuses on Police Inspector Takayama Ryosuke (Kagawa Teruyuki) who had been secretly supplying police information to the organized crime group, the Oda-gumi. Once a young street thug, Takayama was taken under the wing of Oda Hironari (Kohinata Fumiyo), the leader of Oda-gumi. Dressed, fed, and educated, Takayama was instructed to become a police officer and work as a mole for the group. Now, he is tasked to get close to Suenaga Mari (Aoi Yu), a daughter of an influential politician.
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Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen
Title: Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen
Released: October 15, 2012
Type: Movie
Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their fates intertwined.
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Title: Will You Marry Me…Again?
Character: Miyamoto Kanako
Released: April 20, 2012
Type: TV
Haru and Kanako have been married for four years. They don't have any children, but they both enjoy their job and are happy together. However their lives are suddenly disrupted when Kanako faints from subarachnoid hemorrhage. After the operation, it becomes evident that she has lost some of her memory...her memory of the five years with her husband. She decides to return home to her parents. Her younger brother takes care of her. Meanwhile, Haru's colleague notices that there is something troubling him. Life without his wife makes Haru realize how much his wife means to him and vows to propose to her once again...
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Hissatsu Shigotonin 2012
Title: Hissatsu Shigotonin 2012
Character: Hanagoten no Okiku
Released: February 19, 2012
Type: Movie
This show is based on the jidaigeki TV series “Hissatsu Shigotonin,” which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. Shigotonin is a group of hired assassins to bring justice to those who were able to escape the long arm of the law. Noriyuki Higashiyama and Masahiro Matsuoka return from the 2009 special. Emi Wakui and Koki Tanaka are new in this TV movie.
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Robo-G
Title: Robo-G
Character: Saitou Harue
Released: January 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Three engineers cannot make a robot work in time for a science show, and hire a man to inhabit the robot's shell to save their jobs. The robot's performance at the show attracts media attention and scrutiny from a science student.
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Title: Bitter Sugar
Character: Hashimoto Mari
Released: October 18, 2011
Type: TV
The story portrays three women around the age of 40 whose friendship is damaged in an incident, leading them to tell each other how they truly feel. --Tokyograph
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Princess Toyotomi
Title: Princess Toyotomi
Released: May 28, 2011
Type: Movie
National Audit Bureau member Hajime Matsudaira (Shinichi Tsutsumi), Tadako Torii (Haruka Ayase) & Asahi Gainsbourg (Masaki Okada) travel from their homebase of Tokyo to the city of Osaka. Their mission is to discover any financial irregularities & to ensure the correct use of federal money in the Osaka city government. Their initial audits go smoothly, but things turn more interesting once they enter the Karahori shopping district - the area with a long history reaching back to the Meiji era.
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Title: Recipe of 49 Days
Character: Endo Yuriko
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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The Lady Shogun and Her Men
Title: The Lady Shogun and Her Men
Character: Hisamichi Kanou
Released: October 1, 2010
Type: Movie
In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children. A young man named Unoshin Mizuno hopes to marry childhood sweetheart Onobu, but due to class differences realizes this is almost impossible. To raise his social status and also save his poor family, Unoshin Mizuno enters the Ohoku (inner chambers of the Shugun's castle) and attempts to vie among 3,000 other men for the affection of the female shogun. What Unoshin Mizuno quickly learns about the Ohoku is that the men there are all beautiful, but highly ambitious and conniving. In this environment, the 7th shogun Tokugawa passes away and the new shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa takes the thrown and enters the Ohoku.
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必殺仕事人2010
Title: 必殺仕事人2010
Released: July 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Hissatsu Shigotonin 2013 is a continuation of the Hissatsu Shigotonin series this was the SP released in 2013.
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Title: The History of Our Family
Character: Machiko Hasegawa
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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Title: The Waste Land
Character: Yoshiko Iki
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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Anmitsu Hime 2
Title: Anmitsu Hime 2
Released: January 11, 2009
Type: Movie
The second Anmitsu Hime TV-movie.
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Title: Mission To Kill
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.
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Hissatsu shigotonin 2009
Title: Hissatsu shigotonin 2009
Character: Hanagoten no Okiku
Released: January 4, 2009
Type: Movie
This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.
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Chushingura Silent Sword
Title: Chushingura Silent Sword
Released: December 14, 2008
Type: Movie
Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a nobleman. There’s just one woman in this world that he loves, Shiho (Emi Wakui) but when he meets her again, she is already someone else’s wife. Her husband is a key person in the Chushingura incident. Love reignites between Keinosuke and Shiho but they get caught up in the spiral of fate of the Chushingura incident...
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Nadeshiko Tai
Title: Nadeshiko Tai
Released: September 20, 2008
Type: Movie
The story is set in Chiran, Kagoshima, the site of a secret base used to launch kamikaze missions during the war. At the time, a group of young girls known as the Nadeshiko Tai were gathered to help out at the base. The drama will be part documentary and it is based on the experiences of 78-year-old Shoko Nagasaki, a survivor of the Nadeshiko Tai.
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Anmitsu Hime
Title: Anmitsu Hime
Character: Tencha
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: Chiritotechin
Character: Wada Itoko
Released: October 1, 2007
Type: TV
The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father's hometown. Kiyomi-B's grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro's factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo.
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Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007
Title: Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007
Character: Hanagoten no Okiku
Released: July 7, 2007
Type: Movie
A violent fire one evening kills a husband and wife couple and burns their Kazusaya rice shop to ashes. Their daughter Sachi manages to make it out alive, but she claims the fire was set by henchmen from the rival Harimaya shop who abducted her sister. After policeman Watanabe Shogoro hears her story, he begins investigating the case, but desperate to avenge her parents' deaths, Sachi later enlists the aid of a mysterious woman who offers to kill Harimaya for a price. Watanabe soon discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
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Title: Hanayome to Papa
Released: April 10, 2007
Type: TV
Ishihara plays a new 20-year-old OL working in the apparel company of her dreams. Her father, played by Tokito, loves his daughter excessively to the point that he compels her to follow his house rules: 7:00pm curfew, no socialising with the opposite sex. Nevertheless, she falls in love with her colleague, played by Taguchi, and begins a mission to "graduate" from her father..
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Tsubakiyama's Send Back
Title: Tsubakiyama's Send Back
Character: Maya
Released: November 18, 2006
Type: Movie
When middle-aged salary man Tsubakiyama suddenly dies, he leaves his family high and dry. But suddenly he's given another chance: a few days in which to return to Earth and straighten things out. The thing is, he's come back in the form of a strikingly beautiful young woman.
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Title: Love and Glory
Character: Noh
Released: January 8, 2006
Type: TV
Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the fief of Tosa on the island of Shikoku. He served Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Chiyo (1557-1617) was his wife, and was known in history for her dedication and devotion to her husband (like Matsu was to Toshiie in Toshiie to Matsu). She is the daughter of a samurai who served the feudal lord Asai.
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Title: Love Song
Character: Enomoto Fusako
Released: October 12, 2005
Type: TV
A drama about a man and woman who come to know true love after unexpected circumstances cause them to live under the same roof. Singer and songwriter Tamaki Koji returns to acting after a 8 year hiatus, to star opposite Kanno Miho in this drama. Koji plays a very kind policeman; a champion of the weak and a pacifist. Having lost his wife 4 years earlier, he has been saddled with the arduous task of raising 3 children single-handedly. Kanno stars as the unfortunate heroine with an ugly personality who grows through her encounters with this good natured middle aged man.
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Title: When I Fall in Love
Released: April 14, 2005
Type: TV
A success story with depth involving work, love and friendship. Its setting is an IT enterprise which once basked in the limelight because it tried to take over management of a pro-baseball team. There's the entrepreneur who's acquired immense wealth with business success. The man who becomes his apprentice shows his ability in the firm and makes an upward climb. In depicting these events, the drama poses the question: What is real success in life? --Fuji Creative
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MAKOTO
Title: MAKOTO
Released: February 19, 2005
Type: Movie
Based on the comic by Mamora Goda.
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Title: Seishu Hanaoka no Tsuma
Released: January 21, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: Saigo no Chūshingura
Released: November 5, 2004
Type: TV
Chushingura is a famous story in Japan on 47 samurai in the Edo period who avenge their lord against Lord Kira, who was the cause of the master's death. This drama based on Ikemiya Shoichiro's book focuses on Terasaka Kichiemon, the only survivor of the 47 samurai. After raiding Kira's residence and taking avenge, Terasaka receives an order from Oishi Kuranosuke, the leader of the group to escape from the site. The rest of the samurai is ordered to commit seppuku by the Shogunate and kill themselves. Living in disguise and receiving contempt from others, Terasaka struggles to follow Oishi's order. He works to pass down the true intention of avenge to the next generation and at the same time looks after the families of the 46 members.
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School Wars: Hero
Title: School Wars: Hero
Character: Etsuko Yamagami
Released: September 18, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in the mid-1970s, the film is based on the true story of Yoshiharu Yamaguchi, a teacher and former Japanese international rugby union player, who turned-around a failing high school in Kyoto, giving special attention to the rugby team, which included the most disruptive students among its members.
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The Taste of Tea
Title: The Taste of Tea
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 17, 2004
Type: Movie
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.
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Tange Sazen : The Jar Worth One Million Ryo
Title: Tange Sazen : The Jar Worth One Million Ryo
Released: July 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Tange Sazen: Hyakuman Ryo no Tsubo is a remake of a classic 1935 film of the same name by Yamanaka Sadao. Tange Sazen, the one-armd, one-eyed ex-samurai swordsman is the creation of Hayashi Fubo and was one of the most popular characters of the era. This remake is helmed by freshman director Tsuda Toshio, starring Toyokawa Etsushi as Sazen and Wakui Emi as Ofuji, his quick-witted wife. This marks the 34th film in the series of Tange Sazen, and involves an Urn that is worth a million Ryo!.
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Title: あじさいの唄
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Love Letters - Men We Have Loved
Character: Etsuko Tajima
Released: October 8, 2003
Type: TV
The husband leaves home, leaving behind his wife and child and his job as a middle school teacher. He leaves all this to live with a former girlfriend so that he can nurse her as she battles with terminal illness. He has decided to nurse her until the end. This sudden take-charge approach from a man she thought of as indecisive causes the wife to look at her husband in a completely different way. To top it off, the husband asks her to drop in on the ex-girlfriend from time to time to keep her company. Despite herself, she agrees to her husband's request. She thought that cursing her husband and celebrating the ex-girlfriend's suffering would make her feel better but instead she finds herself even more attracted to him. She even finds herself growing closer to the ex-girlfriend, creating a curious bond between the two women. In the midst of all this, the relationship between the husband and wife continues to change.
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Title: 動物のお医者さん
Character: Hishinuma Seiko
Released: April 17, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Animal Doctor
Released: April 17, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Musashi
Character: Orin
Released: January 5, 2003
Type: TV
Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing Toyotomi forces, but eludes the enemy as they hunt down the vanquished soldiers. He then spends years wandering the countryside mastering the sword. As his fame spreads throughout the nation, men seek him out to test their skills against him--most notably Sasaki Kojiro who faces Musashi in the ultimate duel at Ganryujima.
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Title: First Love
Character: Tomoko Ejawa
Released: April 17, 2002
Type: TV
Kasumi is shocked to discover that her older sister's fiance is the man she first fell in love with five years ago in high school. At the time, he was her high school teacher and ultimately quit his job racked with guilt over their relationship. Kasumi was deeply hurt and struggled for a long time to overcome her sadness. Now the two of them must come to terms with their secret past before the ones they care about in the present are hurt.
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Title: Friends
Character: 日浦 梨沙
Released: July 7, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Naguru Onna
Character: Yoshimura Kaori
Released: October 13, 1998
Type: TV
Fired by the company she works at, and desperate for a new job, accountant Yoshimura Kaoru finds herself taking a job at Paradise Gym - a boxing gym. Through a series of events she ends up becoming the trainer of an old boxer Sawada Ryohei, trying to make something of himself after quitting his well paying job. Although she hates the sport, she finds herself attached to this rude, obnoxious man and they journey forth together to find where it is they both belong.
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Title: Virgin Road
Character: Sakurai Kazumi
Released: January 6, 1997
Type: TV
To pursue her dreams, Sakurai Kazumi (Wakui Emi) quits her job and goes to New York to study jewelry design, against the objections of her naggy and stubborn but well-meaning father (Takeda Tetsuya). As part of remaking herself, she changes from spectacles to contact lenses, even though she has problems adapting to them. When she accidentally drops her contact lenses, a mysterious man helps prevent them from being stepped on, but he walks away before she can talk to him. Some years pass, and Kazumi is on a plane home after receiving a letter from her brother Taku saying their father is critically ill. She has morning sickness and has some run-ins on the plane with a sloppily-dressed man, and it is only when she drops her contacts and the man helps her in a similar way that she recognises him (Sorimachi Takashi). She chases after him and asks, "would you like to do some work (arubaito)?" It turns out that Kazumi in her last letter from New York had written that she was in a relationship with someone and that they might soon marry, but since then she has broken up with him, and she didn't want to make her father upset by coming home alone. The man, a freelance journalist named Yoshimi Kaoru, agrees to pretend to be her fiancé.
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Title: Pure
Character: 折原 優香
Released: January 8, 1996
Type: TV
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Birthday Present
Title: Birthday Present
Released: October 28, 1995
Type: Movie
Japanese film directed by Michio Mitsuno.
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Title: Tokyo Cinderella Story
Character: Yukiko Matsui
Released: October 17, 1994
Type: TV
Yukiko (Wakui Emi) has been living in Tokyo for three years. Inside her heart, she believes that this beautiful city will certainly bring her happiness. This belief starts to realise one day when she has a chance encounter with Masashi (Karasawa Toshiaki) while welcoming her brother, Kikuo (Kishitani Goro), at a railway station. As Masashi is the son of a very rich businessman, and Yukiko is only an ordinary girl from the countryside, their together is highly obstructed by lots of barriers. However, Yukiko's kind-hearted personality finally wins Masashi's love, and he takes out his courage to turn down marrying his rich fiancee. --Snowflakes
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Title: Natsuko no Sake
Character: 佐伯夏子
Released: January 12, 1994
Type: TV
Natsuko, who was a copywriter, starts to cultivate rice called Tatsunishiki, which is a phantom kind and it is very difficult to grow. She does it to make her dead brother's dream come true. His dream was to make the...
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Rainbow Bridge
Title: Rainbow Bridge
Released: October 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Set in Edo-era Kyoto, this drama depicts the adolescent battles and the love between parents and children who are born and raised in the same tenement house.
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Angel, My Song Is Your Song
Title: Angel, My Song Is Your Song
Released: November 7, 1992
Type: Movie
A young man finds out that his ex-lover has only one week left to live, and with the help of angels, he scrambles to change his fate. A love story in which popular actor Yuji Oda starred in 1992 during his big break.
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My Sons
Title: My Sons
Character: Seiko Kawashima
Released: October 12, 1991
Type: Movie
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.
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All's Quiet on the Recruit Front
Title: All's Quiet on the Recruit Front
Released: June 22, 1991
Type: Movie
New graduates Ohara, Kitamachi and Tachikawa take part in the battle of job-hunting, so as big companies recruiting talents and potentials. Interviews, tests and activities with odd ideas are carried out. Ohara looks successful in getting an offer from a famous TV station but he is surprised to know he is being set up. With his intelligence, he soon gets the offer, but things never go the way as expected...
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Title: Wonderful Unrequited Love
Character: Tomomi Nishina
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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Beppin Town
Title: Beppin Town
Character: Machiko Nakajima
Released: October 18, 1989
Type: Movie
An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama ). The scenery of Kobe before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake is included in various background scenes, and you can see the buildings and scenery that can not be seen now.
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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: Kawakami Shinobu
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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Title: 青春オーロラ・スピン スワンの涙
Released: April 10, 1989
Type: TV
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Hana no Asuka-gumi!
Title: Hana no Asuka-gumi!
Released: April 11, 1988
Type: Movie
Television drama adaptation of the manga by Satosumi Takaguchi.
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Title: Hana no Asuka gumi!
Character: Ka
Released: April 11, 1988
Type: TV
While the adults were devouring the country in peace the young girls are now plunging into the Sengoku Period. A domination of fear and terror by the Zenchura, a federation of banchos nationwide, began. With 80% of the nation's middle schools already under its control. Yet, there was one girl who was determined to crush those wicked ambitions. Her name is Asuka Kuraku.