Aki Maeda

Aki Maeda

Born: July 11, 1985
in Tōkyō, Japan
Aki Maeda (前田亜季 Maeda Aki, born 11 July 1985 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress and singer. She has an older sister named Ai Maeda.

She is perhaps best known in the west for her role as Noriko Nakagawa in the controversial 2000 film "Battle Royale", which she reprised for its sequel "Battle Royale II: Requiem". She graduated from Hosei University in 2008.

Movies for Aki Maeda...

Title: Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court
Character: Matsuyama Chiemi
Released: December 16, 2023
Type: TV
Arai Naohito is a CODA (children of deaf adults) who becomes a sign language interpreter after losing his job and family in order to restart his life. The drama tells the story of a sign language interpreter who interprets for the deaf in criminal trials.
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Title: もう一度パパと呼ばれる日
Released: June 6, 2023
Type: TV
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Mokuhihan
Title: Mokuhihan
Released: August 8, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: Home Appliance Samurai
Character: Shizue | Ito Misa
Released: April 2, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Enzaihan
Character: 香山朱美
Released: August 30, 2021
Type: TV
An authentic social mystery starring Koizumi Kotaro! A murder case in Chiba. A murder case in Chiba that closely resembles the serial murders of seven years ago. However, the murderer has already committed suicide in prison. Is he falsely accused? Is it a copycat? The detective uncovers the shocking truth.
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A Madder Red
Title: A Madder Red
Character: Sachiko
Released: May 21, 2021
Type: Movie
7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her husband's death. She has since raised her son Junpei by herself. Junpei is now a middle school student. Ryoko also cares for her father-in-law, who lives in a nursing home and she also runs a cafe. Her care is in a difficult situation due to Covid-19, while Junpei experiences bullying at school.
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I Never Shot Anyone
Title: I Never Shot Anyone
Character: Ami Nakamichi
Released: July 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face - a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is... he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.
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Title: Ima da kara, shinsaku drama tsukuttemimashita
Character: Chiaki Morimoto
Released: May 4, 2020
Type: TV
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The Return
Title: The Return
Released: November 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation of a story by novelist Shuhei Fujisawa. A traveling gambler known as “Funeral Uno” he is now 86 years old and returning to his hometown for the first time in 30 years. Partly told in flashbacks, he is forced to face his lifelong nemesis, Boss Kyuzo, a vile yakuza portrayed by another superstar of samurai cinema, Atsuo Nakamura! Before the two old gamblers can settle a 30-year-old score they must put their lives on the line in a game of dice that can only lead to a bloody sword duel the likes of which has never before been seen! Superb performances all around in a film loaded with surprises and exciting swordplay!
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Motherhood
Title: Motherhood
Character: Mia Sakaguchi
Released: November 3, 2019
Type: Movie
When pregnant Mia Sakaguchi falls from a staircase at the shrine, she is transferred to 1994 and immediately admitted to a mental institution, because no one believes her that she is from the future. There she is confronted with the shocking truth that the mentally ill are forcibly sterilized. In order to protect her unborn child, she tries to escape from the institution.
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When a Tree Falls
Title: When a Tree Falls
Released: September 21, 2019
Type: Movie
A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son’s death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunders by multiple people.
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An Artist of the Floating World
Title: An Artist of the Floating World
Character: Ono Noriko
Released: March 30, 2019
Type: Movie
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into WWII.
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Title: Good Doctor
Character: Ichikawa Shiori
Released: July 12, 2018
Type: TV
Minato Shindo has savant syndrome. His memory is amazing, but he has difficulty communicating with other people. When Minato was little, he dreamed of becoming a doctor. He met Doctor Akira Shiga and he wanted to become a pediatric surgeon. Akira was surprised by the 7-year-old's memory of the human organs and he decided to support Minato in achieving his dream. Eventually, Minato graduated from medical school and passed the national exam for medical practitioners. Now, Akira works as a director at a large hospital. He suggests to Minato to work in the pediatric surgery department at the hospital where he works.
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Title: Woman of Rumor
Character: Hiromi Hiratsuka
Released: April 14, 2018
Type: TV
In high school, Itoi Miyuki was a not so pretty girl, one day she suddenly turns attractive. She then starts plays with men, however, the men around her start to die.
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Title: Life as a Girl
Released: January 5, 2018
Type: TV
Miki Ogawa (Jun Shison) yearned to live the life of a lovely girl and moved to the city from the countryside because of this. She holds a job at a fashion mail order company. Miki Ogawa also has a secret. She is transgender. Although, she has a pretty woman's appearance, her gender is male. One day, Tadaomi Goto (Keita Machida) appears in front of Miki Ogawa. They graduated from the same school. Tadaomi Goto is flustered by Miki's different appearance, but they happen to live together.
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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: Copyface
Released: November 18, 2016
Type: TV
Hirosawa Nodoka, a freelance journalist for a weekly magazine, gets close to Fuyuko, the wife of Asakura Shuji, the young director of a cosmetic surgery clinic, in an attempt at undercover investigation to expose the clinic's misdeeds. However, the flight that she had boarded in pursuit of Fuyuko crashes in an accident. Misidentified as Fuyuko, Nodoka is saved and given her face through plastic surgery. She lives with the belief that she is his wife as a result of memory loss triggered by the shock of the accident. By the time she regains her memory, she has already fallen in love with the man who is another woman’s husband. Can she live like this for the sake of love or will she expose the misdeeds and return to her former life?
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Onihei side story: The Final Chapter - The Fourth Wife
Title: Onihei side story: The Final Chapter - The Fourth Wife
Character: Oritsu
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Inomatsu, a carpenter with a reputation as a skilled craftsman, has a wife named Oritsu. Oritsu is deeply in love with Inomatsu and believes that the purpose of her life is to devote herself to her husband day and night. However, Oritsu is Inomatsu's fourth wife. In fact, he is a robber and thief. As a carpenter, Inomatsu usually sneaked into merchants' houses and carried out robberies. For him, wives are just a tool to deceive the public...
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Case 17
Title: Case 17
Character: Narumi Suzumura
Released: June 4, 2016
Type: Movie
One evening, a married couple comes to the Itami Law Office. Narumi Suzumura, six months pregnant, and her husband Takuya have come to ask Itami to take the case of Narumi's mother, Kimiko Torii, indicted for the murder of her second husband, company president Takefumi Torii. Kimiko married Takefumi 19 years ago, making him Narumi's stepfather. The couple are questioning whether Kimiko had the intent to kill...
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Title: 太鼓持ちの達人~正しいXXのほめ方~
Released: January 12, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out
Character: Natsuko Kawashima(川島 奈津子)
Released: April 16, 2014
Type: TV
Hanasaki Mai is but an ordinary employee of a bank, with zero diplomacy. She doesn't think twice about pointing out her boss' mistakes. Her job is to investigate any wrongdoings in the bank branches. She is the voice of the suppressed staff who are unable to go against their bosses. Her partner is the veteran staff, Soma Ken, whose career with the bank had reached a dead end, no promotions in sight. Together, they resolve all the non-compliance issues at the bank.
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Title: Gochisousan
Character: Horinohata Sakurako
Released: September 30, 2013
Type: TV
Uno Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries and moves to Osaka with her husband. Meiko experiences cultural differences between Tokyo and Osaka, as she lives as a mother and wife in Osaka.
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Title: The Last Hope
Character: 우타 토모코
Released: January 15, 2013
Type: TV
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Aokigahara
Title: Aokigahara
Released: January 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Set within the Aokigahara forest on Mount Fuji, a famous location for suicides. Follows the love and life between a man and woman.
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Kasha
Title: Kasha
Character: Kozue Kimura
Released: November 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Shunsuke Honma is a detective from the #1 investigation team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Shunsuke takes a leave from work due to an injury. One day, his relative comes to see him and asks him if he can find his missing fiance Akiko Sekine. Shunsuke takes on the job and enlists the help of Detective Sadao Ikari. The detectives soon uncover the shocking truth behind the missing woman.
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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: Shinsengumi Keppūroku
Released: April 3, 2011
Type: TV
There were men who were passionate about being samurai. The men became samurai warriors at the forefront of the fierce battle that affected the future of Japan as part of the Shinsengumi...
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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: Absolute Zero
Character: Kaori Fujii
Released: April 13, 2010
Type: TV
Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to investigate cold cases as well as cases suspected to involve missing persons.
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Silver Rain
Title: Silver Rain
Character: Kikue
Released: November 28, 2009
Type: Movie
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Title: 傍聴マニア09~裁判長!ここは懲役4年でどうすか~
Released: October 23, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: Gonzo: The Legendary Detective
Character: Monami Amano
Released: July 2, 2008
Type: TV
Kuroki was once an ace detective, but after being traumatized from a case, he became unable to work and was transferred to another division, where he idles his time away. One day, a particular case pulls him out of his rut and gives him a chance to return as a detective. Two staff members of the popular "Aibou" series, producer Motohiro Matsumoto and writer Ryota Kosawa, are working together on this series. -- Tokyograph
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Title: 4 Shimai Tantei Dan
Released: January 18, 2008
Type: TV
The story features a team of four sleuthing sisters.
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Romance Of Darkness
Title: Romance Of Darkness
Character: Rikka Nikaidou
Released: May 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Rikka Nikaidou is a cute and innocent girl sees two persons vanish into thin hair...
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Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet
Title: Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet
Character: Chise
Released: January 28, 2006
Type: Movie
Based on the Best Selling Anime Series "SAIKANO" Shy coed Chise (played by Aki Maeda from Battle Royale) is madly in love with high school athlete Shuji. The two share a bond which only intensifies when war breaks out in futuristic Japan. But Chise has a secret that - if revealed - would not only destroy her relationship but would also put her life at risk. Chise is not an ordinary teenage girl, she is actually the ultimate weapon of mass destruction, a genetically engineered cyborg built specifically for extreme military use. When she goes into battle, Chise strikes fear in everyone around her, including her own troops. Her boyfriend must never know.
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Harami: White Fear
Title: Harami: White Fear
Released: November 19, 2005
Type: Movie
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Linda Linda Linda
Title: Linda Linda Linda
Character: Kyoko Yamada
Released: July 23, 2005
Type: Movie
Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival's rock concert—including a classic '80s punk-pop song by the Japanese group The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda".
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Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
Title: Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
Released: November 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Higuchi Ichiyo is the first female professional novelist in Japanese literature. This tanpatsu drama is a biography of her personal life.
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Out of This World
Title: Out of This World
Character: Ryoko Yoda
Released: February 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge between the tenor saxophonist, a disillusioned ex-soldier, and a bitter GI whose brother was killed in the war. And when the band plays the prohibited "Danny Boy" during a birthday bash for a sergeant whose son Danny had died a year ago, everyone must confront a past they'd rather forget.
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The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II
Title: The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II
Character: Self
Released: July 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Prolific director Kinji Fukasaku died suddenly during the production of Battle Royale 2. His son and screenwriter Kenta took over as director and completed the film.
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Battle Royale II: Requiem
Title: Battle Royale II: Requiem
Character: Noriko Nakagawa
Released: July 5, 2003
Type: Movie
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
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Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem
Title: Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem
Character: Self
Released: July 5, 2003
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes of Battle Royale II
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安楽椅子探偵と笛吹家の一族
Title: 安楽椅子探偵と笛吹家の一族
Released: June 13, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: TV
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
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The Cat Returns
Title: The Cat Returns
Character: Yuki (voice)
Released: July 19, 2002
Type: Movie
Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Title: Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Character: Twin Girl
Released: December 15, 2001
Type: Movie
Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.
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High School Girl's Friend
Title: High School Girl's Friend
Released: July 14, 2001
Type: Movie
Genichiro, a lonely retired man living with his son’s family who mostly ignores him, feels closest to his granddaughter who is in highschool. Through her, Genichiro meets another high school girl, Mina, who also feels ignored by her family. She is also troubled by her friend’s pregnancy and the bankruptcy of her father’s company. Unlike her friends, Mina has an ungilded view of life and finds herself comforted by Genichiro’s wisdom. Genichiro likewise is happy to be making a difference in someone’s life.
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Title: Princess Comet
Released: April 1, 2001
Type: TV
Princess Comet is a Japanese TV Drama and manga series created and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, the creator of Tetsujin 28-go and Giant Robo. The TV drama tells the story of Comet, one of the princesses of the Triangle Nebula who came to Earth in search for the missing prince. The Manga is first serialized in Shueisha's monthly Margaret magazine from July to November 1967, marking as one of Japan's first Magical Girl series produced.
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Title: Cosmic Baton Girl Comet-san
Released: April 1, 2001
Type: TV
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Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
Title: Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
Character: Self
Released: January 13, 2001
Type: Movie
The late Kinji Fukasaku directed "Battle Royale" - his 60th movie - at the age of 70. This film follows the shooting of the film.
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Battle Royale
Title: Battle Royale
Character: Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)
Released: December 16, 2000
Type: Movie
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
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Making of 'Battle Royale'
Title: Making of 'Battle Royale'
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 2000
Type: Movie
An abundance of footage from the shooting of Battle Royale and cast and crew discussions.
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The Boy Who Saw the Wind
Title: The Boy Who Saw the Wind
Character: Maria (voice)
Released: July 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Amon is a boy who can control the wind. Branik, ruler of the Empire of the Golden Snake, wants Amon's power to complete the ultimate weapon and sends his troops to capture the boy. Amon, using his talents, manages to runs away with Maria, one of the People of the Sea. Together, they try to stop the Empire of the Golden Snake from destroying and conquering everything.
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Title: Mona Lisa no Hohoemi
Released: January 12, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: P.P.O.I.
Character: Ichinose Hinaki
Released: May 9, 1999
Type: TV
Amano Hei is a third grade boy in junior high who is short and looks like a girl at first glance. Ongoing with the story, he is involed in a love triangle with Sagami Makoto and Ichinose Hinaki. With his best friend Kusaka Banri, a popular guy in school, they go through worries of love and adventures together.
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Title: Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Character: Young Ayana Hirasaka
Released: March 6, 1999
Type: Movie
With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.
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School Ghost Story G
Title: School Ghost Story G
Released: September 27, 1998
Type: Movie
A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of four stories, two of which serving as prequels to the Ju-on series.
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Title: Hitoribocchi no Kimi ni
Released: July 2, 1998
Type: TV
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Pride
Title: Pride
Character: Kimie Tojo
Released: May 23, 1998
Type: Movie
Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo as a family man who fought to defend Japan and Asia from western colonialism but was ultimately hanged by a vengeful United States.
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Shokki
Title: Shokki
Character: Ayumi
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Japanese horror movie from 1998.
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Haunted School 3
Title: Haunted School 3
Character: Mayuko Fujii
Released: July 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Third installment of the "Gakko No Kaidan" series follows the trek of several elementary school students as they wander into an alternate world that exists on the opposite side of a school mirror. Nishida Naomi (the hapless teacher in "Gakko No Kaidan 2") returns as the teacher who accompanies the children on their journey into the surreal universe.
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Haunted School 2
Title: Haunted School 2
Released: July 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Sequel to the 1995 film Haunted School aka Gakkou no Kaidan. Similar to the first, in that it's about a group of youngsters that get stuck in a haunted school and have to deal with an assortment of ghosts.
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Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
Title: Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
Character: Girl in Sendai
Released: July 12, 1996
Type: Movie
A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. When the military fails to control the situation, Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary. However the battle may result in Gamera losing his bond with both Asagi and humanity.
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Title: 白虎隊~敗れざる者たち
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV