Hideo Sakaki

Hideo Sakaki

Born: June 4, 1970
in Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Hideo Sakaki (榊 英雄 Sakaki Hideo) (born June 4, 1970) is a Japanese actor and film director. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Japanese cult films Versus, Battlefield Baseball, and Alive. He is a close friend of director Ryuhei Kitamura and appears in several of his films.

Movies for Hideo Sakaki...

TATSUJIN THE MASTER
Title: TATSUJIN THE MASTER
Released: September 10, 2021
Type: Movie
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Violence Musou: Subliminal War
Title: Violence Musou: Subliminal War
Released: August 4, 2021
Type: Movie
The ex-convict protagonist of Versus lives far away from the maddening yakuza when he receives a new visit from the gangsters of the resurrection forest.
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Utae! Love Song Furete G Kôdo
Title: Utae! Love Song Furete G Kôdo
Character: Hibiki Yamine
Released: June 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Hiroshi Tsumabiki, a popular street musician, had a crush on him when he was in high school. One day, she brought the sound source to a man at a record company, but was criticized for being unprofessional, and her lack of life experience was also pointed out. The man invites Tsumabiki to a music theater to teach him about a world that is not just beautiful. Unlike the word music theater Hibiki, it turns out to be a long-established striptease theater where her high school sweetheart, Nozomi, appears . Tsumabiki, who can't hide his surprise, meets Nozomi and Nozomi that night in the park and expresses his feelings that he didn't want him to do this kind of work. Nozomi accepts this word and invites her to drink in the room. Nozomi who entrusts her body further. However, his wife did not get up and she could not complete the night . A man from a record company who heard about it introduces a musician who plays music that works for sexual love .
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Fancy
Title: Fancy
Released: February 7, 2020
Type: Movie
Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a female fan with the name of Moonlit Night's Star (Sakurako Konishi). She sends letters to Penguin. One day, the female fan appears in front of Akira Takasu and Penguin. These three somehow get involved in a battle between the yakuza.
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Last Ninja - Blue Shadow
Title: Last Ninja - Blue Shadow
Released: November 15, 2019
Type: Movie
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Last Ninja - Red Shadow
Title: Last Ninja - Red Shadow
Released: October 4, 2019
Type: Movie
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Unfinished
Title: Unfinished
Released: June 21, 2019
Type: Movie
The yakuza have their best days behind them and are only a shadow of themselves. The old rituals seem out of date and their tattoos make them outcasts of society. The inexperienced student Ryō stumbles into their ranks by chance, and before he knows it, he becomes entangled in dark machinations. He quickly succumbs to the fascination of omnipotence fantasies and hedonistic decadence and sinks deeper and deeper into a parallel world of prostitution, blackmail and violence. However, there is one thing that Ryō has not considered in his naivety: once yakuza, always yakuza!
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Title: Unfinished
Released: June 21, 2019
Type: TV
Ryo, a college student who is about to drop out of college and is scolded by his father at home, spends his days in depression. One day, he plans a cannabis thief with a group of three bad friends.
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Horny Ghost
Title: Horny Ghost
Character: Kenjiro Akagami
Released: June 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Kaito is a university student who moved to the city because of its cheap rent. While killing time at home, a beautiful woman suddenly appears in front of him. Kaito and the woman continue to have sex, but Kaito senses something is wrong.
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Red Blade
Title: Red Blade
Character: Shinichi
Released: December 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Living a troubled home-life, a teenager becomes so stressed out with everything around her that she disappears into a series of fantasy-related books. While trying to escape her situation, she soon finds herself living in feudal Japan with a ninja master and his students who inform her that she's in a separate dimension from her regular life and are to help train together in the way of the ninja. When the training's complete, the girls learn that an evil warlord that left them orphans has intentions on killing them all as well, forcing the girls to team up together with all their training to defeat the madman and live in peace again.
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Fire Fox Tochionger Seven, the Movie: King of Hell
Title: Fire Fox Tochionger Seven, the Movie: King of Hell
Released: November 18, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: blank 13
Released: February 3, 2018
Type: Movie
Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of stomach cancer. At his funeral, a motley crew of fellow mahjong players, pachinko parlor employees and former drinking buddies gather to pay their respects and tell stories, revealing aspects of Masato’s life that complicate his sons’ resentment towards him.
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A Helpless Love Song
Title: A Helpless Love Song
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
After experiencing failure in business and his marriage, Mitsutoshi Yashiro (Shinsuke Kato) walks around looking for a place to die. He decides to stop at a red light district shop to have sex for one last time. He meets Hina (Rina Fujisaki) who changes his life. - AsianWiki
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Kaeshi
Title: Kaeshi
Released: November 3, 2017
Type: Movie
After ten years in prison for a high school classmate's murder, Koji gets out and joins the yakuza. But his victim's father has him on his radar. Seiji tries to get on with his life after losing his daughter and wife. Ten years later he learns that his daughter's killer has been freed.
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Hurricane Polymar
Title: Hurricane Polymar
Character: Kato
Released: March 13, 2017
Type: Movie
In order to counter the rapidly increasing organized crime, the development of Polymar Suits resumed under the direction of the newly inaugurated police superintendent. But when three of the test version Polymar Suits are stolen, former street fighter and current detective Takeshi Yoroi is tasked with recovering them and the invincible hero Hurricane Polymar is born!
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Title: Makanai-sō
Released: April 19, 2016
Type: TV
Located in the downtown area of ​​Nagoya, this 60-year-old, bath and toilet co-op accommodation is a room with no room, "Makanai-sō".
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Deadman Inferno
Title: Deadman Inferno
Released: May 16, 2015
Type: Movie
Hiroya Munakata is the leader of the yakuza group Munakata-gumi. After 10 years since the big fight, Hiroya Munakata's non blood-related younger brother Takashi is released from prison, but Takashi’s daughter, Hyuga says she does not want to meet her father and runs away from home. Hiroya, Takashi and Hiroya’s subordinate Shinya go to Zeni Island where Hyuga is headed to. Something they never expected is waiting for them.
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RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW
Title: RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW
Released: April 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Kondo, a college dropout, is approached by a friend "Suzuki". Suzuki offers Kondo to work as an Art Festical Staff in an island abroad and for a period of time. To apply he needs to meet a girl named Kyoko. Suzuki will introduce them together within a week. Few days later, Kondo meets an old friend, Yano. He is happy to meet Yano again after quite a time and since they had left their hometown. Yano acts strange, though. "Shit! Come with me!" Yano suddenly starts running. Some Yakuza rush to catch him. Puzzled by this, Kondo escapes with him. The number of Yakuzas is increasing. Can these two run away from this city?
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Broken Hearts for Sale
Title: Broken Hearts for Sale
Released: February 28, 2015
Type: Movie
An omnibus recorded in a short film by five film directors with the motif of the song "Kai Band".
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Still the Water
Title: Still the Water
Character: Teacher
Released: June 1, 2014
Type: Movie
On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his birth, Kyoko must come to grips with her mother’s terminal illness.
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Flower & Snake: Zero
Title: Flower & Snake: Zero
Character: Saito
Released: May 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal video website called "Babylon". Soon, she's bound and tortured along with Shizuko and an oversexed housewife named Ruri.
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We're a Bounty Hunter Team!
Title: We're a Bounty Hunter Team!
Character: Shoichiro Baba
Released: May 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Fourth film from "Toei Hero Next" series featuring actors playing heroes of Toei tokusatsu series. This time, six cast of super sentai series "Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger" star in a comedy film, "Oretachi Shokin Kasegi Dan." Directed by Koichi Sakamoto ("Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger").
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Girl's Blood
Title: Girl's Blood
Released: February 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Four girls take part in illegal underground fighting event "Girl's Blood" held at an abandoned school building in Roppongi every night. The girls have their own stories and quirks from their private lives. Satsuki (Yuria Haga) suffers from a gender identity disorder, Chinatsu (Asami Tada) ran away from an abusive husband, Miko (Ayame Misaki) is a S&M queen and Mayu (Rina Koike) has a Lolita face.
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Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters: The Great Dinosaur War
Title: Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters: The Great Dinosaur War
Character: Takeshi Kuroki
Released: January 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Both TyrannoRanger and AbaRed are attacking the Kyoryugers because of mind control by Space War God Boldos. Boldos uses the feelings of revenge from enemies defeated by heroes who uses the power of dinosaurs, creating Neo-Grifforzer and Neo-Geildon, clones of past enemies as well as Enter and Escape,enemies of the Go-Busters. Villains spanning generations are united into a single evil force. The Kyoryugers, who are fighting an unseen evil, meet with the Go-Busters, and the "Greatest Trap ever seen on Earth" is sprung. What rises up against the true dinosaurs, and the death of your best friends? Now, the Kyoryugers must try and use the "True Brave".
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Shin Usagi Yasei No Touhai
Title: Shin Usagi Yasei No Touhai
Character: Iwao Kazama
Released: July 6, 2013
Type: Movie
Shun Takeda is a high school student who gets bullied. He is forced to play Ikasama Mahjong. While playing Ikasama Mahjong, he notices a bad hand for himself and runs away. Ai Yamaguchi realizes Shun Takeda's special ability. She tries to take him into the gambling group ZOO.
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They're Back! Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs. Doubutsu Sentai Go-Busters
Title: They're Back! Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs. Doubutsu Sentai Go-Busters
Character: Takeshi Kuroki, Commander Kuroki / Black Puma
Released: June 21, 2013
Type: Movie
This V-Cinema release takes place between Missions 44 & 45. While preparing to celebrate New Year's, the Go-Busters are all killed by a monster named Azazel. Finding himself (and J) before God in Heaven, Nick uses his status as the one millionth person to die in 2012 to grant his wish that Messiah never existed. He awakens to find a changed world, where the Busters are now known as the Dobutsu Sentai Go-Busters.
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Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Wars Z
Title: Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Wars Z
Character: Takeshi Kuroki
Released: April 27, 2013
Type: Movie
A new evil organization known as Space Shocker, which are led by the magic-using Space Ikadevil and Space Spider Man, threatens the Earth by causing an unknown phenomenon. The Space Sheriffs Gavan type-G and Sharivan are sent to execute all magic-users on Earth in response to the threat and begins to attack Kamen Riders Wizard and Beast. The Space Crime Syndicate Madou, who were once defeated by the original Sharivan return, to cause even more havoc in the world. During this, Yoko finds a mysterious little robot called Psycholon, which Space Shocker and the Madou are after for unknown reasons.
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Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs. Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: The Movie
Title: Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs. Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: The Movie
Character: Takeshi Kuroki
Released: January 19, 2013
Type: Movie
The Gokaigers were captured by the Zangyack remnants after departing to the Zangyack homeworld to destroy the empire once and for all. The Gokaigers, now working for the newly reformed Zangyack empire, return to Earth with a black Gokai Galleon and attack the Go-Busters in search of five phantom Ranger Keys which will unlock the "Greatest Power in the Universe". During the fight with the Gokaigers, the Go-Busters are able capture Navi, who tells them that the Zangyack are also working with Vaglass and that they must go back in time to save the other members of the Super Sentai Teams and defeat the alliance of Zangyack and Vaglass.
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Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters: Rising New Hero - Director's Cut Edition
Title: Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters: Rising New Hero - Director's Cut Edition
Character: Commander Kuroki
Released: November 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Chief Kuroki tells the team that they will soon be meeting Beet Buster and his new Buddy Roid, but before any introduction can be made, the Soujikiloid attacks. Soon after Hiromu learns that the two new Go-Busters originated from Hyper Space, he challenges them to a duel, suspicious of their motives. This is a director's cut version of episodes 15 & 16 of the Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters TV series.
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Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters the Movie: Protect the Tokyo Enetower!
Title: Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters the Movie: Protect the Tokyo Enetower!
Character: Commander Kuroki
Released: August 4, 2012
Type: Movie
The Go-Busters must protect the Tokyo Enetower from the evil Vaglass organization. However Enter's new creation Steamloid causes the Buddy Roids to rust, making them unable to fight or be used in the Buster Machines.
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Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Wars
Title: Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Wars
Character: Takeshi Kuroki
Released: April 21, 2012
Type: Movie
The Kamen Rider Club discovers that the Dai-Zangyack fleet is moving towards Earth, led by Captain Marvelous as their Great Emperor. With many revived Super Sentai villains under his command, Captain Marvelous plans to obtain the Great Power of the Kamen Riders which is said to be "Ultimate Treasure in the Universe". Meanwhile, Tsukasa Kadoya becomes the Great Leader of Dai-Shocker once again and recruits past enemies of the Kamen Riders to take down the Super Sentai teams.
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Title: Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters
Character: Takeshi Kuroki
Released: February 26, 2012
Type: TV
New CE 2012. the mysterious organization Vagras aims to threaten the city by stealing the Enetron which is a new power source supporting people’s life. It's up to the Go-Busters to protect the city alongside their partners, the Buddyroids.
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Title: HUNTER - Women After Reward Money
Character: Masayoshi Ishii
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: TV
On a return flight to Japan, cabin attendant Isaka Rei arrests a thief at Narita Airport’s International Terminal, and receives a reward of 1 million yen. However, she is half-forced to resign from her job as a cabin attendant because of this roundup. Furthermore, her younger sister, Akane, has made her a guarantor and disappeared, leaving her 10-year-old daughter, Haru behind. Rei starts to live with a reluctant Haru at ‘Shunkato’, the small eating house that Akane has been running. There is a firsthand account of Akane meeting a ‘Shunkato’ customer on the day she went missing. Rei brings the photograph of the man whom Akane met to Tsukishima Police Precinct, and learns that there is a 1 million yen bounty because he is a wanted criminal. The lack of motivation of the attending detective, Gondo Takeshi of the precinct’s Community Safety Division, spurs her to decide that she has to arrest this criminal who has some sort of connection to her sister. And so, Rei becomes a bounty hunter together with the ladies who gather at ‘Shunkato’.
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Kamui: Gang of Life PART II
Title: Kamui: Gang of Life PART II
Released: February 2, 2011
Type: Movie
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Kamui: Gang of Life PART I
Title: Kamui: Gang of Life PART I
Released: January 12, 2011
Type: Movie
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Black Angels
Title: Black Angels
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump between 1981 and 1985, -Black Angels- was an action manga about a group of vigilantes delivering justice to evil-doers who had escaped the law. Ochiai will play the primary role as Yukito, the leader of the group. Yajima has been cast as Reira, the captivating heroine of the story.
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Accidental Kidnapper
Title: Accidental Kidnapper
Released: April 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Yuukai Rhapsody follows a man who is stuck in a rut, no personal life and no cash lead him to the drastic decision of kidnapping a rich boy, unbeknownst to him the boy's father is a yakuza boss! With the yakuza and the police hot on his tail he is forced to take the boy and go on the run, somehow during the journey kidnapper and kidnappee begin to develop a friendship with one another.
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Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
Title: Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
Character: Ishida
Released: December 2, 2009
Type: Movie
A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill.
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Sisterhood
Title: Sisterhood
Released: September 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Teenage stepsisters Yui and Ai form a close bond as a result of the neglect and abuse from their respective parents. Fearing separation from each other when their parents plan to divorce, they run away together to Tokyo and, in order to survive steal a briefcase which they later discover belongs to the yakuza. This puts them in great danger. Tanida, a kind-hearted yakuza member, comes to their rescue and becomes the protective and loving parent figure they never had. But for how long will he be able to save them from harm?
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Dark Love: Rape
Title: Dark Love: Rape
Released: March 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A young woman moves into an apartment that is rigged with hidden cameras.A voyeur watches her every move and begins a strange relationship with her.
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Be a Man!! Samurai School
Title: Be a Man!! Samurai School
Character: Omito Date
Released: January 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Momotaro, proficient in academics and martial arts becomes good friends with Hidemaro an underachieving weakling. Omito Date, former student leader, plans his revenge against his former school. Now leader of an evil army from rival Kanto Gogakuren school he fully intends on taking over Otokojuku.
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Fuckin' Runaway
Title: Fuckin' Runaway
Released: October 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Hana, 21-year old, is sent to a mental hospital for attempting a suicide. She suffers from hearing a deep male voice in her head almost everyday that goes, "Twenty yards of linen are worth one coat..." She gradually regains her peace of mind by traveling across Kyushu dragging with her Nagoyan, a guy from Nagoya who is suffering from depression. They take on their journey on Nagoyan's old faithful car, Luce.
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Oyaji
Title: Oyaji
Released: August 25, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on the comic by Tsuru Moriyama.
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LoveDeath
Title: LoveDeath
Released: February 24, 2006
Type: Movie
A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A violent man holding pure love, Sai and a stunningly beautiful playgirl, Sheila. While Sheila flees with a large sum of money, she is chased by a cool but violent gang, crazy killers and an out of control cop. No one can stop Sai and Sheila's love runaway.
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Paradise
Title: Paradise
Character: Yohei
Released: January 28, 2006
Type: Movie
Set in a rural fishing village in southern Japan, this is the story of Erika, a celebrated former anchorwoman now back in her hometown campaigning for a seat in the national party, and Yohei, an insecure fisherman-in-training. The two are worlds apart...
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Yakuza Ladies: Burning Desire
Title: Yakuza Ladies: Burning Desire
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: Movie
Tamaki's (Iwashita) husband is the head of the Idei clan, based in southern Osaka. As the film opens, punch-permed lieutenant Ginji (Riki Takeuchi) is killed while pumping iron. Following the hit, rumors and recriminations abound, slowly corroding the clan's cohesion. Ginji, it turns out, was mired in debt. After Ginji borrowed a small fortune to build a luxury resort, his bank went belly up and stopped financing the loan. Frantic for funds, he decided as a last resort to rat out his boss who had skimmed five-billion yen from the gang. Soon everyone assumes that Idei did the hit. Convinced that Idei is being framed, Tamaki sets out to find the real killer.
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Year One in the North
Title: Year One in the North
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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[Is A.]
Title: [Is A.]
Released: October 9, 2004
Type: Movie
Detective Mimura was living peacefully with his loving wife and son when the latter two were killed in an explosion caused by a 14-year-old boy, Yuya. Four years later, when Yuya is released from juvenile detention centre, Mimura's feelings towards the boy have evolved from grief to outright hatred, and he must cope with the pain. Meanwhile, Yuya's father quits his job as a teacher and dedicates himself to compensate the victims and to take care of his son. While the adults are trying to come to terms with their disrupted lives, Yuya is about to test the law again...
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Black Kiss
Title: Black Kiss
Released: October 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss.
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The Spear of Longinus
Title: The Spear of Longinus
Character: Vampire
Released: August 25, 2004
Type: Movie
A war rages on, its end unknown, covering the world in despair. At a military field hospital, a group of soldiers bring in one of their own, wounded by a large, vicious, bite-like wound, along with a large box. The soldiers are visibly shaken. Suddenly, an enigmatic man appears. As he starts to tell them the legend of the Lance of Longinus, their night of unimaginable terror begins.
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The Suicide Manual
Title: The Suicide Manual
Character: Keita Yashiro
Released: October 24, 2003
Type: Movie
After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.
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Battlefield Baseball
Title: Battlefield Baseball
Character: Hoichi
Released: July 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Battlefield Baseball is a tough game — it doesn't end until all the members on the opposing team are dead. In this game the Gedo High team is composed of blue-faced zombies, and their opponents on the Seido High team know they don't have a chance at beating them unless they can bring back a star pitcher who has a lethal pitch called the Super Tornado, but who has hung up his cleats and has no desire to return to the game.
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Alive
Title: Alive
Character: Tenshu Yashiro
Released: June 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
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Demon Hunting
Title: Demon Hunting
Character: Mr. Kamata
Released: May 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Demon Hunting is a Japanese made-for-television horror movie. It originally aired as the second episode of Series Kyōfu Yawa in 2003. Nozomi Ando stars as Michiru, a teenager who makes a pact with a demon to kill the rival classmate who's dating the teacher she is in love with herself, Mr. Kamata (Hideo Sakaki). While she's at it, she also asks to see the world destroyed. Her memory of this pact is erased and eventually her wishes begin to come true...
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Azumi
Title: Azumi
Character: Nagato
Released: May 10, 2003
Type: Movie
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ultimate assassin.
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Aragami
Title: Aragami
Character: The Samurai's Friend
Released: March 27, 2003
Type: Movie
Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsman and a mysterious young woman. One samurai awakes to find that not only has his comrade died, but that his wounds have miraculously healed. He discovers that he has been given the power of immortality by the swordsman, a man once known as the legendary Miyamoto Musashi, who now lives an endless existence as Aragami, a "god of battle".
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Title: Sky High
Released: January 17, 2003
Type: TV
Sky High is a live-action, supernatural Japanese television drama series, starring actress and model, Yumiko Shaku. It aired in Japan, first run, from 2003 to 2004, and was popular enough to spawn the 2003 feature film of the same name. Both are based on the Japanese manga, Skyhigh. Shaku stars as Izuko, the Guardian of the Gate to the afterlife. The basic premise of the television series is somewhat similar in concept to the American series, Ghost Whisperer, in which the protagonist must use her powers to guide the dead on their journey to the afterlife by helping them determine the meaning or circumstance of their death. However, in Izuko's case, no matter how hard she tries, her guidance does not always result in a happy ending.
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Making-of Demon Hunting
Title: Making-of Demon Hunting
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes footage of Satoshi Torao's film Demon Hunting.
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Alter Ego
Title: Alter Ego
Character: Kôhei Yamazaki
Released: December 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Three aspiring young Japanese models are on their very first fashion shoot at an abandoned school one hot summer day. Without warning, strange events begin occurring around the set that causes the models and photo crew to question their sanity, as one by one they begin to die agonizing and painful deaths that are seemingly caused by none other than themselves.
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Ju-on: The Grudge
Title: Ju-on: The Grudge
Character: Fukushi Senta Jimuin
Released: October 18, 2002
Type: Movie
When social worker Rika is sent to check on a traumatized old lady whose family have moved in at the site of the notorious Saeki family murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that is transmitted via its victims further and further from its original source.
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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 Choice of Hercules
Title: The Choice of Hercules
Released: May 11, 2002
Type: Movie
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
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Title: doktor/kranke
Character: Shibusawa
Released: December 2, 2001
Type: TV
Sayaka, a girl with supernatural powers and multiple personality disorder, lives with psychiatrist Shibusawa for treatment, but Shibusawa has begun to love her beyond as more than a patient.
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Versus
Title: Versus
Character: The Man
Released: October 23, 2000
Type: Movie
A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead.
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This Window Is Yours
Title: This Window Is Yours
Character: Taro
Released: September 7, 1993
Type: Movie
The day before summer vacation. Yoko who tastes Tallow of the third year high school student will move to Hokkaido. However, with my grandpa's selfishness, she returned from the station and decided to live at the house next to Tallow! To the feeling that should have been sorted out, the fire is put on again.