Takao Osawa

Takao Osawa

Born: March 11, 1968
in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan
Takao Osawa (born on March 11, 1968) is a Japanese actor and a former model. He began his career as a fashion model when he was a university student in 1987. He rose to prominence in a lead role on the television drama Heaven's Coins in 1995. He turned his focus to film roles from 2000.

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Kingdom: Return of the Great General
Title: Kingdom: Return of the Great General
Character: Wang Qi
Released: July 12, 2024
Type: Movie
Depicts a continuation of the "Battle of Mayang", an all-out war against the neighboring country Zhao that Shin and Wang Ki fought in in the previous work "Flame of Fate".
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Title: The Silent Service
Character: Shiro Kaieda
Released: February 9, 2024
Type: TV
An MSDF submarine collides with a U.S. nuclear submarine, crushing all 76 people on board, including its CO, Shiro Kaieda. However, the crew survives. The accident is a cover story to get the MSDF submarine's crew on board the Seabat, a nuclear submarine secretly built by the Japanese and U.S. governments. However, Kaieda loads the Seabat with nuclear missiles and suddenly mutinies and flees.
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Title: ONE DAY~It’s Wonderful Christmas Ado~
Character: Tachiaoi Tokio
Released: October 9, 2023
Type: TV
Three people come from different backgrounds and face their own troubles. Their fate leads them to face each other as their destinies become intertwined.
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The Silent Service
Title: The Silent Service
Character: Shiro Kaieda
Released: September 29, 2023
Type: Movie
Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and the United States in top secret. However, he and his 76 crew members go rogue in this story that delves into themes of nuclear war, international politics, and world peace.
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Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
Title: Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
Character: Wang Qi
Released: July 28, 2023
Type: Movie
To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield alongside a war orphan, now grown up, who dreams of glory.
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Kingdom 2: Far and Away
Title: Kingdom 2: Far and Away
Character: Wang Qi
Released: July 15, 2022
Type: Movie
It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.
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The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Title: The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Character: Gyobu Inugami
Released: July 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed, Kei Watanabe challenges a war against the yōkai.
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AI Amok
Title: AI Amok
Character: Kosuke Kiryu
Released: January 31, 2020
Type: Movie
In 2030, AI is everywhere including the medical field, finance and security. Artificial intelligence has become essential in people's lives. They have come to completely trust AI, but artificial intelligence becomes out of control and it causes disaster.
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Kingdom
Title: Kingdom
Character: Wang Qi
Released: April 19, 2019
Type: Movie
Set in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has a dream of becoming a great general Shin has a fateful encounter with young King Eisei. King Eisei aims to unify all of China.
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Wish You Were Here
Title: Wish You Were Here
Released: April 12, 2019
Type: Movie
On the eve of her latest fashion showcase in Beijing, successful entrepreneur Yuan Yuan is approached by Keiko, a mysterious young Japanese woman. An admirer of Yuan Yuan’s career, Keiko has learned Mandarin and fashion design for a chance to speak with her idol. As Yuan Yuan takes Keiko under her wing, long suppressed memories begin to surface of her time in Hokkaido and the husband she’d left behind.
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Ooku Saishusho
Title: Ooku Saishusho
Character: Tokugawa Yoshimune
Released: March 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Kume tries to protect her husband Tokugawa Yoshimune and their three children from the schemes of the inner palace of Edo Castle.
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The King and I
Title: The King and I
Character: The Kralahome
Released: November 29, 2018
Type: Movie
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.
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The Lion Standing in the Wind
Title: The Lion Standing in the Wind
Character: Koichiro Shimada
Released: March 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
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Title: Burning Flower
Released: January 4, 2015
Type: TV
Fumi becomes Genzui Kusaka’s wife. During the turbulent times of the closing days for the Tokugawa shogunate, she lives positively and tries to keep up Shoin Yoshida's will. Shoin Yoshida is her older brother and intellectual.
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The Man of the Tokyo Olympics
Title: The Man of the Tokyo Olympics
Character: Fred Isamu Wada
Released: October 11, 2014
Type: Movie
After the end of the second world war, Fred Wada Isamu (Osawa), an American of Japanese descent who runs a fruit and vegetable shop in Los Angeles. One day, Wada sees a newspaper article on the search for someone of Japanese descent who can look after Japanese athletes coming to the United States to compete in the national swimming championship, and offers his family. Several months later, Kiyokawa (Mitsuishi), the Japanese swimming team’s coach, and the swimmers Hashizume (Katsuji), Furubashi (Nakao) and others arrive in the United States. The Japanese swimming team breaks one world record after another and sets nine world records. It is joyous news for Japan. Several years later, Wada and his wife receive a phone call from Tabata Masaji (Nishida Toshiyuki), the chairman of the Japanese Swimming Federation and general secretary of the Japanese Olympic Committee. Tabata says he would like some form of help from Wada in their bid for the Tokyo Olympics...
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Kano
Title: Kano
Character: Yôichi Hatta
Released: February 27, 2014
Type: Movie
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
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Shield of Straw
Title: Shield of Straw
Character: Kazuki Mekari
Released: April 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.
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Strawberry Night
Title: Strawberry Night
Character: Isao Makita
Released: January 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work. Reiko than becomes involved in a murder case named "Strawberry Night" due to the mysterious use of those words surrounding the case ...
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Title: 火怨·北の英雄アテルイ伝
Released: January 11, 2013
Type: TV
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The Terminal Trust
Title: The Terminal Trust
Character: Toru Tsukahara
Released: October 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could follow his wish. Doctor Ayano Orii is then questioned in a criminal case because of her decision.
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Wolf Children
Title: Wolf Children
Character: Wolf Man (voice)
Released: July 21, 2012
Type: Movie
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.
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Title: NHKスペシャル 未解決事件
Released: July 29, 2011
Type: TV
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Sakurada Gate Incident
Title: Sakurada Gate Incident
Character: Seki Tetsunosuke
Released: October 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events.
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Flowers
Title: Flowers
Character: Hiroshi Manaka
Released: June 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.
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Title: Jin
Character: Jin Minakata
Released: October 11, 2009
Type: TV
A brain surgeon named Minakata Jin has spent the last two years in anguish, as his fiancee lies in a vegetative state after an operation he performed. One day, he faints at the hospital and awakens to find himself transported back in time to the Edo period. He is soon attacked by a samurai, but he escapes with the help of a man named Kyotaro. Kyotaro suffers a serious injury to the head while trying to protect him, but Jin manages to save his life despite a lack of proper medical equipment. Because of that, Kyotaro's sister Saki begins taking an interest in Jin and becomes his assistant. Meanwhile, Jin is determined to find a way back to the present.
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Ballad
Title: Ballad
Character: Itakatora Ohkura
Released: September 5, 2009
Type: Movie
Based on the plot of an award-winning Crayon Shin-chan animated movie from 2002, a boy named Shinichi (Takei) does the time-traveling and meets a feared general named Ijiri Matabei (Kusanagi). Ijiri is in love with Princess Ren (Aragaki) who subsequently rejects an arranged marriage to Okura Itakatora (Osawa), a powerful daimyo of northern Kanto. Enraged by the rejection, Okura sends a large army to Ijiri's smaller state and it's up to Shinichi to change their destiny.
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Goemon
Title: Goemon
Character: Saizo Kirigakure
Released: March 17, 2009
Type: Movie
Follow the infamous ninja bandit named Ishikawa Goemon (Yosuke Eguchi) in an epic story. One night while looting treasure from Nanban (Southern Barbarians), Goemon finds a mysterious box hidden inside a secret grave. A forgotten relic from the past containing untold powers.
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Halfway
Title: Halfway
Character: Hirabayashi
Released: February 28, 2009
Type: Movie
In this high school romance Hiro is dismayed to learn her new love Shu will be going away to college in Tokyo. She asks him not to go.
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ICHI
Title: ICHI
Character: Toma Fujihira
Released: October 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick.
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Love Fight
Title: Love Fight
Character: Joe Oki
Released: October 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Minoru has spent most of his life being protected by his spunky female best friend Aki. Fed up, he decides to take up boxing. However, just as he manages to get stronger than Aki she becomes obsessed with boxing herself.
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The Taste of Fish
Title: The Taste of Fish
Character: Shuntaro Akagi
Released: June 7, 2008
Type: Movie
It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market is where you're most likely to find them. It's the home of Japan's biggest daily fish auction, and it's a place of fierce competition between fish merchants that have been in the business for generations. Based on a comic series, The Taste of Fish follows businessman Shuntaro, who has a successful career in a trading company and is in a steady relationship with girlfriend Asuka. One day, Shuntaro has to help out at the fish wholesaler store run by Asuka's father, and he immediately falls in love with the world of Tsukiji Fish Market. Soon, Shuntaro quits his job and devotes all of his time to running the business while learning about the market's fascinating set of long-standing traditions. However, he must first also learn to distinguish the tastes of different fishes before he can survive in the competitive world of Tsukiji.
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Midnight Eagle
Title: Midnight Eagle
Character: Yuji Nishizaki
Released: November 23, 2007
Type: Movie
A stolen military aircraft with nuclear missiles on board crashes in the snowbound Northern Japanese Alps. Two teams of rangers from Japan's Defense Force must reach the craft before the enemies do.
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Life Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara
Title: Life Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara
Character: Natsuki Iijima
Released: August 25, 2007
Type: Movie
Follows the life of Natsuki Iijima, a windsurfer from Japan, as he battles and ultimately loses his life to liver cancer. The first and only windsurfer to compete for 8 consecutive years in the World Cup Competition, Natsuki's diagnosis overwhelms him with fear and panic. Despite this set back, with the love and devotion of his wife Hiroko and four children, he decides to live life the best he can, to the fullest, without having his life prolonged with further treatment
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Bizan
Title: Bizan
Character: Daisuke Terasawa
Released: May 12, 2007
Type: Movie
Sakiko, works independently at a travel agent in Tokyo. She was raised by her mother, Tatsuko, is hospitalized, Sakiko returns to her hometown Tokushima on Shikoku. The town is famous for its annual Awa Dance Festival. She is told by doctor, Terasawa Daisuke, that her mother has terminal cancer.
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Christmas on July 24th Avenue
Title: Christmas on July 24th Avenue
Character: Satoshi Okuda
Released: November 3, 2006
Type: Movie
Sayuri Honda (Miki Nakatani) claims she has no interests in love affairs. She refuses to take things as they are for she fancies her harbor town of Nagasaki as Lisbon, Portugal. But on Christmas, encouraged by the season of romance, she tries to materialize her once-in-a-lifetime love with the man of her dreams.
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Riding the Metro
Title: Riding the Metro
Character: Sakichi Konuma
Released: October 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.
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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Title: A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Character: Naruse
Released: May 13, 2006
Type: Movie
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome's good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double crossing.
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Helen the Baby Fox
Title: Helen the Baby Fox
Character: Koji Yajima
Released: March 18, 2006
Type: Movie
A young boy named Taichi Ogawara finds a fox cub on the side of the road and takes it home as a pet. He discovers it is blind, deaf, and mute. Because of this, he names it Helen, after Helen Keller.
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Into the Sun
Title: Into the Sun
Character: Kuroda
Released: November 26, 2005
Type: Movie
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven Seagal) that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he quickly determines that a war is brewing between old-guard Yakuza members and a young, crazed leader (Takao Osawa) with ties to the Chinese Tong.
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Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Title: Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Character: Sakutaro Matsumoto
Released: May 8, 2004
Type: Movie
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
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Hana and Alice
Title: Hana and Alice
Character: Ryo Taguchi
Released: March 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
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Milk White
Title: Milk White
Character: Tanako
Released: January 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He resigns from his job and leaves his girlfriend, Yoko (Yuriko Ishida) to return to his hometown, Nagasaki, where his mother lives. Takayuki spends his days strolling around Nagasaki, to imprint familiar scenes on his memory. Yoko visits him and insists on staying. Takayuki has major concerns for her future, and his own life. He drives her away, for her own good. After days of affliction, the two reunite. The story leads to an emotive conclusion, the end of his spiritual journey.
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Sky High
Title: Sky High
Character: Tatsuya Kudo
Released: December 5, 2003
Type: Movie
A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims and taking them with him. His victims however, are not merely random humans as thought by the police. They are in fact, the past and present guardians of the gateway of the afterlife.On the day he is to be married, Detective Kanzaki, who happens to be on the case, discovers that his fiancé Mina has been murdered with her heart also missing. He also learns that the killers are Kudo, a geneticist, and his evil secretary Rei. The two are trying to obtain six hearts from the guardians so that they may call forth a horde of demons from the Gate of Rage and have their every desire granted. Only problem is, once they open the gate the entire world will be covered in darkness.
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The Battling Angel
Title: The Battling Angel
Character: Kazumasa
Released: August 23, 2003
Type: Movie
Police struggle to uncover Klein, a powerful criminal organization. Asuka, a young detective, is assigned to contact and escort Hatsumi, a mistress of the drug lord Kimikuni, but they are ambushed, leaving Hatsumi brain-dead and Asuka near to death. However, the police concoct a top-secret plan to infiltrate Klein by transplanting Asuka's brain into Hatsumi's body.
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Aragami
Title: Aragami
Character: Samurai
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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Jam Films
Title: Jam Films
Released: December 28, 2002
Type: Movie
Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.
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Filament
Title: Filament
Released: March 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Japanese film directed by Jinsei Tsuji.
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
Title: All About Lily Chou-Chou
Character: Tabito Takao
Released: October 6, 2001
Type: Movie
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
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Title: Mukashi no Otoko
Character: Arashi Ikeda
Released: April 13, 2001
Type: TV
After not having seen him for several years, a woman working as a clerk at a stylish boutique finds herself drawn to her old lover from college after seeing him again at a class reunion. While he is also attracted to her, there are the small matters of his wife and her boyfriend to be considered. Will they remain faithful to their partners, or fall back into each other's arms?
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Title: Endless Sorrows
Character: Arashi 池田嵐
Released: April 13, 2001
Type: TV
Akari is a jewelry clerk who doubles as the store’s catalog model. She does not appreciate only being valued for just her beauty. She is eager to marry her boyfriend Hayato who makes it clear to her that he will never re-marry. Akari. has never been able to forget her former boyfriend, Arashi whom she accidentally runs into, and pulses still race. But he belongs to someone else... Watch as friends and family all weigh in on the pair’s rekindled romance, each digging deep into their personal philosophies on marriage.
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Worst Contact
Title: Worst Contact
Character: Takemoto
Released: December 1, 2000
Type: Movie
In the near future, a man undergoes an experiment by sharing living quarters with an alien aboard a space station. Based on a Yasutaka Tsutsui play.
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Yakuza Ladies 10
Title: Yakuza Ladies 10
Released: July 22, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: Another Heaven
Released: April 20, 2000
Type: TV
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The Island Tales
Title: The Island Tales
Character: Haruki
Released: February 11, 2000
Type: Movie
A group of disparate characters find themselves trapped overnight on a island somewhere off the coast of mainland China. The circumstances force them to overlook their preconceptions of one another, and they forge a kinship that goes to the heart their identities.
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Title: Kagayakeru Shunkan
Released: December 15, 1999
Type: TV
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Sennen-Tabito
Title: Sennen-Tabito
Released: November 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. He meets a girl with a broken leg. She is the daughter of his dearest woman who died many years ago. The relationship between them becomes closer. They rescue a man who tries to commit suicide. When the pianist is nearing his end, that man finds love in the girl's heart...
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Title: Le Bel Homme
Character: 村雨次郎
Released: October 15, 1999
Type: TV
Kyosuke, an excellent plastic surgeon, started living a very private life after his wife passed away, confining his main joys in life to cultivating his herb garden and spending time with his only daughter. One day, a woman enters his clinic and asks that her face be completely changed to whatever Kyosuke wishes. Kyosuke is very suspicious and refuses her request, but she begs him to reconsider and explains that she is trying to escape from her violent husband. Kyosuke finally agrees and alters her appearance to that of his late wife. Afterwards, a relationship begins to develop between the two of them, but things start to unravel when two police officers show up on his doorstep looking for the "missing" woman.
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Two Punks
Title: Two Punks
Character: Yoichi Fujikawa
Released: December 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Centering on a young drifter almost casually drawn into violence--a crime drama about a boy and a man equally ill-equipped for criminal life and straight society. Neither wants to be a Yakuza, but normal life presents problems.
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劇的紀行 深夜特急’97 西へ!ユーラシア編
Title: 劇的紀行 深夜特急’97 西へ!ユーラシア編
Released: December 8, 1996
Type: Movie
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Gerende ga tokeru hodo koishitai
Title: Gerende ga tokeru hodo koishitai
Released: December 9, 1995
Type: Movie
A film about love and winter sports.
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Title: Heaven's Coin
Released: April 12, 1995
Type: TV
Aya Kuramoto, a deaf and mute girl from Hokkaido, falls in in love with a doctor named Shūichi Nagai. After Shūichi leaves for Tokyo, he has an accident and loses his memory. Aya travels to Tokyo and encounters Takumi Nagai, Shūichi's brother.
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Title: Stay Gold
Character: Shinsuke Yamazaki(山崎 慎介)
Released: October 19, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: A summer with you
Character: Aizawa Ryoichi
Released: July 4, 1994
Type: TV
Three young people, Irie, Sugiya and Asami, decide to share a room together one summer. All three of them experience sadness, love and friendship as they fall in and out of love. They all become a vital part of each other's life, but at the end of summer vacation, they go their separate ways. Sugiya returns home, Asami leaves Tokyo and returns to the country and Irie remains in the room they had shared, as if nothing had happened over the last 40 days during summer.
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The Hungry Shinjuku Detective
Title: The Hungry Shinjuku Detective
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The private eye of Shinjuku Yokubo Tantei is a lone wolf, lush, and loser but has kept his integrity in a dirty, dangerous world.