Houka Kinoshita

Houka Kinoshita

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ヌーのコインロッカーは使用禁止
Title: ヌーのコインロッカーは使用禁止
Released: April 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Nasu Kano, known as Nu, has a developmental disability. As soon as she was born, her mother abandoned her in a coin locker. One day, Nu meets Kazuma Kurosako, who has just been released from prison and was attempting to make money by selling substances near Nu's coin locker. Kurosako gradually become interested in Nu and began posting Nu's paintings on social media on a whim. When Kurosako is contacted by a famous overseas artist interested in buying a painting of Nu's, he initially wants to sell it for a high price for his own profit. As he spends more time with pure-hearted Nu, Kurosako gains a more selfless conscious. All of a sudden, Nu collapses from leukemia.
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Title: Modern Young Monha
Released: April 9, 2022
Type: TV
Ishizawa Hajime works as a sales department chief for a trading company. The younger employees complain about the company, including having to work overtime and a lack of innovative working methods. Ishizawa Hajime looks at them with an intimidating glance and the young employees run away from him. One rookie employee, Mugita Ayumi, begins to work in Hajime Ishizawa’s sales department. Mugita Ayumi tries to adjust to her new work environment, but it isn't for her. The only time she can feel comfortable is eating her lunch box at her desk alone. One day, while she is eating her lunch box alone as usual, Ishizawa Hajime appears in front of her.
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Title: Mushoboke
Released: October 3, 2021
Type: TV
Depicts the life of a former yakuza who was released for the first time in 14 years.
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First Gentleman
Title: First Gentleman
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: Movie
Hiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist (expert on birds). His wife is Rinko (Miki Nakatani). She is the leader the minority opposition party. One morning, Hiyori is about to travel to an isolated island to watch birds on a 10 day trip. Before he leaves, Rinko asks him if she becomes the prime minister would he be inconvenienced. Hiyori then goes on his bird watching trip. During this time, he is completely isolated from the outside world. When he returns home, his wife Rinko is now the prime minister of the country. She is also the first ever female prime minister of Japan. Suddenly, Hiyori is now the first gentleman of the country. He decides to support his wife, but he finds himself caught up in unexpected circumstances.
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The Butterfly Collector: The Red Room
Title: The Butterfly Collector: The Red Room
Released: April 16, 2021
Type: Movie
A former high school teacher Sugiura lost everything when he was caught, peeping photos of his favorite student and living a degenerate life. One day, a girl named Rumi, wearing high school uniform, appears in front of Sugiura. They are immediately drowns in lust and Rumi crashes into Sugiura's apartment. Gradually, Sugiura becomes obsessed with Rumi and tie her down. When Sugiura's dark desire to leave her in a beautiful, young appearance forever, and Rumi's deep feeling towards Sugiura crosses, they head towards a beautiful but sad ending.
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The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
Title: The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
Released: April 9, 2021
Type: Movie
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.
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Naked Angel : The Red Room
Title: Naked Angel : The Red Room
Released: April 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Matsunaga, the president of a real estate company, spends his week in a secret hideaway to forget his title and social status. One day, he meets Fumiko, a girl who has a mysterious charm, and is gradually attracted to him. Matsunaga deepened his relationship with her, but suddenly a mysterious man appeared.
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NO CALL NO LIFE
Title: NO CALL NO LIFE
Released: March 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Adapted from Kabei Yukako's novel of the same name. After being guided by a mysterious message from the past on a cellphone's answering machine, Umi encounters Mahiro, a delinquent at her school. They gradually come closer, but more messages appearing on the answering machine will unveil past secrets...
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Title: Byplayers ~Meiwakiyaku no Mori no 100-nichikan~
Released: January 8, 2021
Type: TV
Set in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of turmoil caused by the gathering of serial dramas and movies from various TV stations at once in this remote studio. It is a drama full of battles for ratings between studios, clashes between young, mid-career, and big names, and a heartwarming story of friendship and bonding. Also, the self-deprecation and parodies are enhanced by the fact that the actors play a role of themselves.
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Angry Rice Wives
Title: Angry Rice Wives
Released: January 8, 2021
Type: Movie
In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to catch, so her husband has been far away from home to catch fish. To support herself and her children, Ito carries goods from ships like the other women in the village. Meanwhile, the residents encounter rising prices for rice. The women are unable to feed their family due to the high prices of rice. The women ask a nearby rice store to sell rice at lower prices, but it fails. The price of rice continues to rise daily. Due to an incident, Ito and the other village women step up to the plate.
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Beautiful Escape
Title: Beautiful Escape
Released: October 17, 2020
Type: Movie
Akihiko Kobe, a first-year high school student with a stutter, is a target of bullying in his class and spent his days depressed. Akihiko lives at home with a face that can not endure anything and kills God in his brain every day. One day, I accidentally see a classmate, a brilliant and intelligent girl student, Mitsuri Nanao killing a cat. Kuri was inspired by the blood she saw during her period and had a desire to see the blood of others. Kuri then tells Akihiko that she has a desire for murder and proposes to kill the bullying group. The two begin to kill, and go east to escape, killing them. New generation youth splatter road movie
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Stigmatized Properties
Title: Stigmatized Properties
Character: Yuji Matsuo
Released: August 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Yamano Yamame, an entertainer who can't sell, is unreasonably told by his seniors that he should live in the accident property because he will put it on TV, and he moves to the property where the murder occurred due to his appearance on TV and the low rent. At first glance, the room was a normal room, but a mysterious white object was reflected in the image of the room, and the sound was disturbed. The program in which Yamame appeared became lively, and Yamame moved around the accident property in search of new material. Yamame, who encounters various mysterious phenomena in the room where he lives, makes a big break as an "entertainer who lives in the accident property".
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メビウスの悪女 赤い部屋
Title: メビウスの悪女 赤い部屋
Released: August 21, 2020
Type: Movie
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Rock and Roll Strip
Title: Rock and Roll Strip
Released: August 14, 2020
Type: Movie
Yuta Kimura is the leader of an unsuccessful theater troupe. Yuta, who dreams of becoming a film director, runs a small bar in Osaka while running an unsuccessful theater troupe.
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Title: Isekai Izakaya "Nobu"
Character: Bretano
Released: May 16, 2020
Type: TV
"Nobu" is a bar located on a not so busy street in Kyoto. The front entrance of the bar is connected to the alternate world of "Aiteria,” which is like medieval Europe. People from Aiteria visit the bar Nobu. Nobuyuki Yazawa was once a chef at a high-end restaurant, but he is now the owner of Nobu. Shinobu Senke works as a waitress for the bar. She is bright, smart and pretty. The bar's cold beer "Toriaezu Nama" becomes popular and the bar thrives. Customers from Aiteria with various backgrounds like soldiers, merchants, and noblemen have a good time at Nobu.
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Moebius no Akujo -  Akai Heiya
Title: Moebius no Akujo - Akai Heiya
Released: April 21, 2020
Type: Movie
Rampo Adaptaton released in 2020
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Title: Bones of Steel
Released: April 18, 2020
Type: TV
Heita Tomishima is a very conscientious but awkward young man at a mid-sized construction company. He loves working on-site, but one day is suddenly transferred to Operations, a unit whose work is totally outside his comfort zone. Its remit is to land major projects, including public works, and in-house it's cynically known as the Bid Rigging Department. Working under a crusty-old director, a crass macho type, a go-getter doyenne, and a cunning manager adept at hiding his true intentions, Heita dedicates himself to winning a public works contract worth billions.
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Discord
Title: Discord
Character: Yoshiro Maruyama
Released: March 15, 2020
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Daimon Takeaki about brothers who were separated after the death of their father and reunited as police detective and prosecutor.
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We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
Title: We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous
Character: Nishida
Released: January 31, 2020
Type: Movie
The central Kansai region of Japan is the setting for the historic cities of Sakai and Kyoto. Noda and Koike from We Make Antiques are back and together for the tea ceremony by Furuta Shigenari who is the master of the ceremony. Enter a mysterious new woman named Shino about whom the two have a feeling.
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Title: Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist
Character: Akira Akutsu
Released: January 9, 2020
Type: TV
Onda Kokoro is an oncologist called Dr Onkoro for short by the people around her and teased that she was born for this path. She got married to Takumi, whom she had known since she was a student, and they had a son. Life was going smoothly for her. But three months ago, her husband fell in an accident and remained unconsciousness even though he underwent emergency surgery. Although Kokoro puts on a brave face at work, she still has not been able to accept reality. One day, she meets Kajiyama Kaoru, a competent gastroenterologist who has transferred to work at the hospital. Kaoru understands the need for oncology as a surgeon and gives emotional support with her sunny personality as a colleague. She becomes a dear friend whom Kokoro feels is sudden a ray of light in her personal and professional life…
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Title: Million Joe
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: October 9, 2019
Type: TV
Soichi Kurei is a magazine editor. He is currently working on popular manga series Million Joe. The writer of the manga series is Tsuneo Magata, but he suddenly dies. Soichi Kurei is devastated because he feels Million Joe should be finished. Soichi Kurei then makes a suggestion to Tsuneo Magata's chief assistant Ryota Terashi. The suggestion is to hide the death of Tsuneo Magata and for Ryota Terashi to finish the manga series using Tsuneo Magata's notes.
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Title: SIGN
Character: Mitsuru Sasaoka
Released: July 11, 2019
Type: TV
A forensic science laboratory has had hard times due to shortage of manpower. Takashi Yuzuki is a pathologist at the forensic science laboratory. One day, a popular singer dies. An autopsy is requested for the dead singer. Powerful entities are behind the singer's death. Takashi Yuzuki tries to reveal the truth.
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Patalliro! The Movie
Title: Patalliro! The Movie
Released: June 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Patalliro du Malyner VIII is the crown prince of Malynera, a kingdom that produces diamonds. Despite being ugly and mischievous, he is loyal and fair. Many enemies of the throne, including Malynera's Prime Minister, plan to get rid of him and take control of the rich nation. Patalliro, however, has the protection of Jack Barbarosa Bancoran, his haughty and extremely handsome bodyguard, who will protect him even from the latter's own lover, the beautiful bishonen hitman Maraich Juschenfe and other assassins.
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Title: Yasuragi no Toki: Michi
Released: April 8, 2019
Type: TV
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Our Departures
Title: Our Departures
Character: Masaki Aiba
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.
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Title: We Are Rockets!
Character: Shinsuke Sakurazawa
Released: July 13, 2018
Type: TV
Wakaba is a 2nd grade high school student in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. When Wakaba was little, she admired the cheerleading club "JETS” from Fukui Chuo High School in Fukui Prefecture. She dreamed of joining the "JETS,” but she thought it was impossible for her to join and enrolled at another high school. One day, a transfer student from Tokyo talks to Wakaba and proposes "let's do cheer dance together."
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Title: A Little Room for Hope
Character: Takeshita Ryu
Released: July 8, 2018
Type: TV
A girl (Anna Yamada) is just 14-years-old, but she endures a difficult life. Her parents abuse her at home and she is bullied by students at her school. She doesn't have a place where she can feel comfortable. One day, the girl is kidnapped by a man (Shuhei Uesugi) wearing a mask. The kidnapper names the girl Sachi, while wishing her to be happy. For the first time, Sachi can feel happiness.
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Recall
Title: Recall
Character: Hiroaki Kashiwara
Released: June 15, 2018
Type: Movie
A woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the freight company which owns the truck becomes the target of the public and the media’s wrath, Tokuro Akamatsu, the president of the freight company, realizes that a structural defect within the truck itself may have been to blame. A conspiracy of the wheel manufacturer's attempts to cover up a defective product is uncovered.
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Title: The Count of Monte-Cristo: Great Revenge
Character: Eiichiro Morio
Released: April 19, 2018
Type: TV
Wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years despite his innocence, Dan Saimon manages to get out of his imprisonment at the risk of his own life, and makes a thrilling return as a fresh new character. This is a drama about a man, who, through his elaborate maneuvers and various clever entrapments fulfills his passionate revenge against those who stripped away all his glories. He seeks for the light that he had been striving for.
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ミッドナイト・ジャーナル 消えた誘拐犯を追え
Title: ミッドナイト・ジャーナル 消えた誘拐犯を追え
Released: March 30, 2018
Type: Movie
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We Make Antiques!
Title: We Make Antiques!
Character: Nishida
Released: January 5, 2018
Type: Movie
Sakai is a city near Osaka by the bay famous for its swords in the old days and kitchen knives today. Norio is an antique dealer in the city. Sasuke is a potter in the city. Seventeenth century tea master Sen No Rikyu appears before them one day.
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Title: Temporary Hostess Ayaka
Released: October 15, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: My High School Business
Character: Yuji Oikawa
Released: October 14, 2017
Type: TV
Rosuke Narumi works at a trading company and he is pretty good at his job. He dates Satoko Matsubara. The trading company has a business relationship with a private high school experiencing some difficulties. One day, Rosuke Narumi is appointed as the principle of the private high school. Rosuke Narumi soon discovers how different the work environment is from his previous job. So the school can run in the black, Rosuke Narumi implements cost cutting measures. School staff members including Chihiro Mashiba oppose his plan.
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Love and Lies
Title: Love and Lies
Character: Takuto Takachiho
Released: October 14, 2017
Type: Movie
The Japanese government carries out a program to increase the birth rate in the country. Their program analyzes gene information from its residents and selects a marriage partner for them. Aoi Nisaka is a high school student. She is in a love triangle with childhood friend Yuto Shiba and Sosuke Takachiho. Sosuke Takachiho is appointed by the government to become her husband.
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HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky
Title: HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky
Character: Tatsuo Fujimori
Released: August 19, 2017
Type: Movie
Members of SWORD win against Wangan Rengogun, which is led by Kohaku. The city becomes peaceful again. Nevertheless, the most brutal gangs, Doubt and Prison Gang, appear. They try to dominate the area controlled by SWORD.
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Title: Akira and Akira
Released: July 9, 2017
Type: TV
The story begins in April 1986 and is set during the days of the bubble economy. Kaidou Akira comes from a wealthy background and is the heir of a large company Tokai Yuusen. On the other hand, his genius classmate from the University of Tokyo, Yamazaki Akira had a tough life due to the bankruptcy of his father's company and having to run away from creditors but overcomes the odds to graduatefrom the top-notch school. The two are employed at the same bank and get caught in a battle lasting over 10 years which causes upheavals in their lives.
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Tayutau
Title: Tayutau
Released: April 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Kataoka Junko (Jun), whose emotional identity have been at odds with her biological identity, shares a room with her friend since high school, Kinoshita Akari, who doesn’t know the father of the fetus growing in her stomach. After being dumped by an older companion, Jun now worries she will leave her.
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Title: Thrill!
Character: Sokichi Kuroiwa
Released: February 22, 2017
Type: TV
Wicked lawyer Shirai Shinnosuke, who goes for profitable cases only, gets a case asking him to retrieve a famous painting stolen by the criminal of a robbery and murder case. While negotiating with the criminal without the police's knowledge, he gets the painting back but ends up being framed as the criminal instead. In order to clear his name, Shirai works with police officer Sotogawa (Koike Keisuke) and Nakano Hitomi the general affairs department of Metropolitan Police Department to overcome the crisis.
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Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
Title: Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS
Released: February 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Sequel to 'Solitary Scream'.
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Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Title: Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Character: Hatsumi
Released: January 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara (Kuranosuke Sasaki). One day, film producer Koshimizu brings a movie investment proposal to yakuza leader Shimada. Shimada decide to invest in the film and he assigns Yasuhiko Kuwabara to oversee his investment in the film. Film producer Koshimizu though runs away with their investment money. Keisuke and Yasuhiko struggle to get Shimada’s money back from Koshimizu.
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Solitary Scream
Title: Solitary Scream
Released: January 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Heinous. Two wolves haunted by the past. Can you hear the gunshot?-Is it his voice?- Starring: Ichizo Matsuda ("The Emblem of the Yakuza", "The Rule of the Yakuza") x A non-stop action with a gorgeous cast What kind of life will a yakuza who has lost his memory live?
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Civil Violence 2
Title: Civil Violence 2
Released: December 28, 2016
Type: Movie
The second 'Civil Violence' film.
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Title: Retake
Character: Shuzo Kunisaki
Released: December 3, 2016
Type: TV
Protagonist Shinji Aratani is a man who lost everything around him—successful career, family, and friends—due to a twist of fate. His current job title is Chief of Registry Supervision Division of Ministry of Justice. Colleagues in other divisions look down on the Division saying nobody cares about their job and it's unneeded. But what they don't know is that the Division's true duty is to accomplish the top-secret mission from Parliamentary Secretary of Justice to "isolate time travelers in a special residential district and keep them under a close watch." In the near future, it's expected that time machine will be invented and there will be time travelers, each with their own purpose, coming back from the future to the present time. Registry Supervision Division was newly established in order to not let these time travelers change or affect the present and also to prevent big confusion from happening when the existence of time travelers gets revealed.
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Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
Title: Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
Released: December 3, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Cain and Abel
Character: Dan Mamoru
Released: October 17, 2016
Type: TV
Takada Yu is an employee of a development firm. His father has favored his high-achieving older brother and been indifferent to Yu since young. So Yu craves for his father’s love and wants his recognition somehow. Then one day, Yu encounters a woman. Although it was the worst possible meeting, he gradually starts to have romantic feelings for her through work and an unexpected development. But ironically enough, she turns out to be the girlfriend of his older brother. Yu begins to realize what he truly treasures and matures as a person as he struggles with this complicated romance and with his older brother and father.
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Kaokiri
Title: Kaokiri
Released: August 28, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Otoko Meshi
Character: 出版社面接官
Released: July 16, 2016
Type: TV
University student Wakamizu Ryota (Emoto Tokio), who is the middle of job hunting, gets caught up in a sudden gang dispute. Ryota’s life is saved by Yanagiba Ryuichi (Namase Katsuhisa), the boss of Yanagiba-gumi, and Ryota for some reason ends up harbouring Yanagiba in his own home. Ignoring Ryota who wants him to leave immediately, Yanagiba uses the leftover food in the fridge and starts to prepare a meal without asking. However, the meal is surprisingly delicious despite the leftovers that did not seem possible to combine. This is the beginning of a bizarre communal life connected by meals for a gangster and a university student.
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Title: Night Hero NAOTO
Character: 田之上裕三
Released: April 15, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Love Song
Released: April 11, 2016
Type: TV
Kohei Kamishiro (Masaharu Fukuyama) worked as a musician in his past. He only had one hit song and his recording contract was eventually canceled. He became devastated and left the field of music. Twenty years later, Kohei Kamishiro keeps his distance from music, but his passion for music hasn't faded away. He leads a boring life. Due to his past experience, he finds it difficult to have a relationship with women. One day, a woman appears in front of him. She has a complex and because of this leads a solitary life. The woman though has an amazing singing voice. By meeting her, Kohei begins to think he wants to make music again.
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かげろう絵図
Title: かげろう絵図
Released: April 8, 2016
Type: Movie
After the sudden death of her adoptive father Shimada Mataemon, Nui, whose own father met an untimely death when he was about to expose the corruption of the shogunate becomes determined to expose the collusion between Kannouji, and the unforgivable relationships between the ladies in waiting of the inner palace and the monks. Nui is undertaking this undercover investigation without regard for the danger she is putting herself in, for the sake of Shinnosuke whom she secretly loves
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Lowlife Love
Title: Lowlife Love
Character: Sato
Released: April 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Tetsuo is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against his 'artistic integrity'.
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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
Title: The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
Character: Kojima
Released: March 12, 2016
Type: Movie
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How did this woman know the novel is serialized in the newspaper? And why does she want to start reading it in the middle of the story? Which article was she actually interested in? Sugimoto cannot help making his own investigations about Yoshiko, but the more he searches, the more astonishing facts come to light...
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Civil Violence
Title: Civil Violence
Released: January 30, 2016
Type: Movie
The first 'Civil Violence' film.
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One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia
Title: One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia
Character: Kansho (voice)
Released: December 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Kōmei devises a plan where Zoro and Sanji take part in an eating contest, and the two eat a strange "good-for-nothing-only" mushroom that turns them into good-for-nothing men. The two are then locked in a jail cell. When the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates chase after their imprisoned crew, they land on the island of Nebulandia, which features a mysterious fog made from sea water, and it has the same effects as seastone. The Straw Hat Pirates' arrival on Nebulandia is also a part of Kōmei's plan.
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Kiyamachi Daruma
Title: Kiyamachi Daruma
Character: Akimi Kaneuchi
Released: October 3, 2015
Type: Movie
Shigeo Katsuura once led the yakuza that dominated the town of Kiya. Due to an accident, he lost both his arms and legs. 5 years later, to make a living, he goes to debtors' homes and collects money from the debtors.
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Kazoku gokko
Title: Kazoku gokko
Character: (segment "Satou-ka no tsuya")
Released: August 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Different people and five different families are acting out various scenarios, scripts and what-ifs. First there is the four Suzuki family members, who are not, sitting around a table in isolation. Then there is the unveiling of a will and what happens when it is read out, there are the sisters who are at it against each other, then there is the funeral that does not go according to plan and more.
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Title: Smoke and Mist: Gold Rush
Character: Minowa
Released: July 18, 2015
Type: TV
Kumagai is an art teacher at a private female high school. Sakai, the school's chairman of the board, runs the school like the school is his own property and pays Kumagi a low salary. Then, Music Teacher Naoko and P.E. Teacher Oyamada asks Kumagi to join them in a scheme to blackmail Sakai. Unexpectedly, Sakai and his girlfriend Akemi go missing. The duo are assumed to be kidnapped by Minowa and Nakao who are education consultants. Meanwhile, Kumagai and Naoko unwittingly become involved in a scheme to steal large amount of gold bars that were hidden by Sakai.
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NEET of the Living Dead
Title: NEET of the Living Dead
Released: June 13, 2015
Type: Movie
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原宿デニール
Title: 原宿デニール
Released: May 16, 2015
Type: Movie
There are many things happening in Harajuku. A policewoman is the local metre maid. She is consistently thinking about her relationship with her seniors. A man is Korean and works at a stockings' shop. He is an expert in the thickness and girth of the women's stockings. The two meet coincidentally one day. A teenager is walking around hoping to be scouted. The film focuses on the different people of different ages, genders and backgrounds in the area. One day the stories begin to merge into one,
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Title: Fight! Bookstore Girl
Character: Nojima Takanori
Released: April 14, 2015
Type: TV
Pegasus Bookstore is going through hard times due to competition from internet bookstores. Kitamura Aki and Nishioka Riko are employees at Pegasus Bookstore. Aki is 23 years old. She has a strong will and freewheeling personality. She places her job and dreams above marriage. Riko is a 40-year-old single woman. She is the vice-manager at the bookstore. She has pride in her work. The two women have completely different personalities.
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Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
Title: Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
Character: Kusuyama (school teacher)
Released: April 11, 2015
Type: Movie
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
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Munesue keiji no kuroi matsuri
Title: Munesue keiji no kuroi matsuri
Released: March 14, 2015
Type: Movie
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Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
Title: Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
Character: Teacher Kusuyama
Released: March 7, 2015
Type: Movie
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
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Murder on D Street
Title: Murder on D Street
Released: February 14, 2015
Type: Movie
A soba restaurant owner dies mysteriously on D. Street. The police rule it as a suicide, but detective Akechi Kogoro and his wife Fumiyo think otherwise and launch their own investigation. As they delve deeper, they discover relationships twisted by perverted desire and hideous affection and hatred.
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Title: JINXED
Character: Takao Koshimizu
Released: January 9, 2015
Type: TV
Set in Osaka, high-spirited yakuza Kuwabara and buttoned-down construction consultant Ninomiya form an odd couple as they rail against the city’s “bad elements” drawn to money like sharks to the scent of blood. Laced with the characteristic witty banter of the Osaka dialect here is a gritty, hard-boiled drama that explodes with violent thrills and impact that defies all expectations.
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Itsukano, Genkantachi to
Title: Itsukano, Genkantachi to
Character: Tsuyoshi Otsuka
Released: October 18, 2014
Type: Movie
A high school student has decided to go to Tokyo once she graduates. One day, her older sister Sumire comes back home with her daughter, who will eventually ran away from home for love
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Title: Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon
Character: Toru Takigawa
Released: July 17, 2014
Type: TV
Life is simple for Sasamoto Sawa, a young housewife, but when the adulteress Takigawa Rikako moves into her neighborhood, so too does a new world of sophistication and sex. After Takigawa is nearly caught in the act, Sasamoto covers for her during the ensuing aftermath, unwittingly involving herself with a handsome teacher named Kitano Yuichi — and discovering her own desires for extramarital passions.
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Title: Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out
Character: Tsutomu Ogino(荻野 努)
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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Greatful Dead
Title: Greatful Dead
Character: Kiyonao Shiomi
Released: December 31, 2013
Type: Movie
Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal.
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Tenshin
Title: Tenshin
Character: Shimomura Kanzan
Released: November 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Tenshin Okakura left the great achievement to the Japanese modern art. This is a story of Tenshin's life and conflict and teacher-student love between Tenshin, who rediscovered art of Japan and tried to produce new beauty in Meiji period, and his young pupils, Taikan Yokoyama, Shunsou Hishida, Kanzan Shimomura, Buzan Kimura.
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Nonmetal Night
Title: Nonmetal Night
Released: June 15, 2013
Type: Movie
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Nobody's Perfect
Title: Nobody's Perfect
Released: March 23, 2013
Type: Movie
"Daijobu 3 Kumi" depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without arms and legs, and the 28 students in his 5th grade class, told from the vantage point of school board member Yusaku Shiraishi
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The Little Girl in Me
Title: The Little Girl in Me
Released: December 1, 2012
Type: Movie
After Kensuke graduated from college, he began to work at a company. He didn't get along with his co-workers and six months later quit his job. Since that time he has stayed in his home for 5 years. One day, Kensuke learns about men who enjoy dressing up as women through the internet. At first he feels uncomfortable about them, but he becomes interested in those men. He begins to exchange emails with cross-dresser Karen who has a charismatic personality.
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Eden
Title: Eden
Released: November 17, 2012
Type: Movie
When Miro's transsexual friend Noripee dies, Miro and his friends from the gay bar 'Eden' are once again reminded of the discrimination they are constantly facing from society. They decide to convince Noripee's parents, who disowned her, to bury Noripee's body.
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Title: Keigo Higashino Mysteries
Character: Yukio Sano
Released: July 5, 2012
Type: TV
11 mysteries, 11 actors. Japan's favorite mystery author, the world of Higashino Keigo comes to life on screen through an assortment of short stories.
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Hiromi-Kun! The Road to National Bancho
Title: Hiromi-Kun! The Road to National Bancho
Released: May 30, 2012
Type: Movie
16 year old Hiromi Shiratori starts his quest to become the greatest Bancho in Japan
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Title: Innocent
Released: March 24, 2012
Type: TV
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Aa... kakugi
Title: Aa... kakugi
Released: March 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Trying to pass a strange bill to clear up the suspicion put on himself
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Fujimi Orchestra: Cold Front Conductor
Title: Fujimi Orchestra: Cold Front Conductor
Character: Kazuo Ichiyama
Released: March 3, 2012
Type: Movie
A boys love story about two musicians who are part of an orchestra. Considered as a musical genius, Tonoin Kei became the new conductor of Fujimi much to the disappointment of Morimura Yuuki who is the acknowledged leader of the group. Yuuki who was smitten by one of the female musicians is unaware that the new conductor is actually in love with him. As they both struggled with their new roles, one misunderstanding led to another until a serious confrontation ensues involving the two young men.
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TSY: Time Slip Yankee
Title: TSY: Time Slip Yankee
Character: Araki
Released: January 29, 2012
Type: Movie
Two high-school yankees (comic duo «Peace») accidentally travels in high-school days of their parents
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The Parasite Doctor Suzune: Evolution
Title: The Parasite Doctor Suzune: Evolution
Released: December 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Set within a city where parasites rage, the parasites settled into their human hosts and increases their power and sexual desires. Dr. Suzune is a parasite expert who works daily to kill the parasites. A sinister demon organization exists behind the parasites. Dr. Suzune also realizes that her father, who went missing when she was a young child, is somehow connected with the group. Violence and madness awaits for her ...
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The Parasite Doctor Suzune: Genesis
Title: The Parasite Doctor Suzune: Genesis
Released: November 26, 2011
Type: Movie
The city is infested with mysterious parasites that bore into their human hosts to increase their host's power and sexual desires. A beautiful girl, Suzune Arizono is a vet with a specialty in parasites, and who fights daily to end the plague. Before long, she learns that an evil organization, the Kito Zaibatsu, is behind the explosive growth of this ferocious parasite. She also learns that her long-missing father, Dr. Arizono, is also involved. In order to crush the Kito Zaibatsu's ambition and to see her father again, Suzune takes on the fight without regard to the danger involved.
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Sukiyaki
Title: Sukiyaki
Released: September 23, 2011
Type: Movie
Kenta Kurihara (Tasuku Nagaoka) is sent to prison for battery. In his cell he is referred to as the "newcomer." Meanwhile, Kenta is bummed out with simple meal offerred in prison. The four other prisoners in his jail cell have no problems eating his food. On lunar new year's day the prison offers the traditional Osechi-Ryori dish. The inmates in the cell gather to play a game that has become an annual ritual. They compete for items from each other's dishes by boating about the most delicious things they have ever eaten. Shunsuke Aida (Motoki Ochiai) begins their game by talking about a dish which his mother made ...
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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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Moonlight Mask
Title: Moonlight Mask
Character: Utamaro Tsubakiya
Released: March 26, 2011
Type: Movie
The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who was this man? Before the war, he had a bright future ahead of him as the proficient and popular rakugoka (comedic story-teller), Usagi Morinoya. However, because of an injury sustained during the war, his face is covered in bandages, and he suffers from total amnesia. As if trying to recover his memory, the man only keeps mumbling in a hollow voice his trademark rakugo, "Sokotsunagaya".
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Postcard
Title: Postcard
Released: October 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led.
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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: Chase: National Taxation Inspector
Character: Shohei Tadokoro
Released: April 17, 2010
Type: TV
Following the death of his wife from a plane crash, tax inspector Haruma is convinced that the tragedy was a premeditated crime. A number of clues connect him to a tax evader Murakumo, who is about to perform an evasion scheme of US$ 7 billion.
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Any And Every Which Way
Title: Any And Every Which Way
Released: February 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Sexy Momoko turns tricks in her taxi to boost business, until she's finally discovered by her employer. Running from the authorities, Momoko abandons her cab to begin life as a fugitive, accompanied by her most recent customer.
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The King of Jail Breakers
Title: The King of Jail Breakers
Character: Iizuka
Released: January 17, 2010
Type: Movie
Masayuki Suzuki (Itsuji Itao) is known as "Datsugoku Oh" (King of Escape) because of his incredible ability to escape from any prison. Even though his ability to escape from prison was unmatched he would normally get caught within a few hours from his escape. He is then sent to Prison Island ... can he escape ?
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The Hovering Blade
Title: The Hovering Blade
Released: October 10, 2009
Type: Movie
A widower's teenage daughter is murdered. A mysterious phone call tells him who the killers are and he plots revenge.
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Detective Ushio VS Case Reporter Saeko at the Terminal Station
Title: Detective Ushio VS Case Reporter Saeko at the Terminal Station
Character: Gunji Tsumada
Released: December 20, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: Team Batista no Eikō
Character: Tamotsu Kishikawa
Released: October 14, 2008
Type: TV
There exists a legendary team of surgical experts in Tojo University Hospital that specializes in the Batista procedure - one of the most difficult cardiac surgeries with the survival rate only at 60%. Ever since its formation, this team has shocked the country by having 27 consecutive post-operative successes, virtually unheard of in the medical community. They basked in the glory until three of the most recent procedures resulted in consecutive deaths on the operating table. Taguchi, a psychosomatic medicine specialist, has been entrusted with the investigation but is in over his head because of his soft nature and having to deal with skills beyond his realm of expertise. Then arrives Shiratori, a cocky Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare investigator. He not only labels Taguchi naive, but speaks with confidence that this is a murder, and the murderer is within this team of elites. As the mystery unfolds, so does the complicated affiliation between each of the seven team members.
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Flavor of Happiness
Title: Flavor of Happiness
Character: Yoshio Nomura
Released: October 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an in-store branch. The owner of the restaurant, Wang Qingkuo from Shanghai, who does all the cooking by himself, gives Takako the brush-off. One day, however, Wang collapses due to overwork, and is left with partial paralysis. Hearing the rumor of the restaurant’s closure, Takako resigns from the department store and becomes an apprentice to Wang.
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Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Infernal Castle
Title: Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Infernal Castle
Character: Akira Kido
Released: August 9, 2008
Type: Movie
When a powerful new foe known as the Legendorga arises in 2008, Wataru investigates the mystery behind the crisis, which brings him in contact with a man Nago once knew, Shiramine Takato, whose 3WA also possess their own Rider System. When Shiramine explains how everything began in 1986, Wataru uses Castle Doran’s Time Door to travel back in time, leading him to meet his father face-to-face at last. But has Wataru managed to change the future, or will the Legendorga still rise and enslave humanity?
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Nagai Nagai Satsujin
Title: Nagai Nagai Satsujin
Character: Male commentator
Released: May 31, 2008
Type: Movie
A man’s body is found in the suburbs of Tokyo. The dead man was hit by a car and his head beaten by the reckless driver after the accident. The dead man had a wife named Noriko. She likes fancy things and she has a lover named Tsukada. It's also learned that the dead man was insured for 300 million yen. The media and the public look at Noriko and her boyfriend Tsukada with suspicion, but they have perfect alibis. Then, Detective Hibiki, who is in charge of the case, and Private Detective Kono become involved in a series of mysterious murder cases.
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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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Lost & Found at Tokyo Station
Title: Lost & Found at Tokyo Station
Released: May 5, 2007
Type: Movie
A woman is murdered on a train and the station employees help to solve the mystery.
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Kitokito!
Title: Kitokito!
Released: March 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Coming of age story about a boy and his mother.
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Humoresque
Title: Humoresque
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: Movie
Amy and Sonny are two girls with contrasting personalities. Their "secret hideout" is an antique shop. One day, Amy falls in love at first sight with an older man named 'J'
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Baian Fujieda the Assassin
Title: Baian Fujieda the Assassin
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the Shotaro Ikenami novels, set in the historical Edo period, and centered on Fujieda Bayan, a medicine man and doctor by day, but ruthless killer for hire by night. His tools of the trade are the same in either job: acupuncture needles that leave no trace.
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M
Title: M
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Mixed up by desire, love and hatred, a disturbed young man begins tailing and eventually tries to save his neighbor, a housewife who has turned to prostitution despite her comfortable lifestyle.
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Yo-Yo Girl Cop
Title: Yo-Yo Girl Cop
Released: September 30, 2006
Type: Movie
Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the terrorists but finds an even more sinister plan is about to unfold.
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Diary of a Beloved Wife: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Title: Diary of a Beloved Wife: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Character: Takahashi
Released: September 23, 2006
Type: Movie
Chiho has prohibited her husband, Takahashi, from smoking while she is trying to become pregnant. Takahashi hasn’t told his wife he was laid off, and has a paid sexual encounter with a high-school student, attracted by the pungent odor of her cigarettes, Peace Regulars. That evening, Chiho became outraged by the foul odor of the Peace Regulars saying it reminded her of an elderly relative having shoved the same brand of cigarettes into her genitals in the distant past. In fact that memory was not Chihos, but that of her twin sister, Kaho.
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red letters
Title: red letters
Released: September 23, 2006
Type: Movie
A mysterious thriller developed by secret love-hate play around women captured in ruins.
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Watcher in the Attic
Title: Watcher in the Attic
Released: July 4, 2006
Type: Movie
A 2006 film.
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Memories of Matsuko
Title: Memories of Matsuko
Character: Resident
Released: May 27, 2006
Type: Movie
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Title: A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Character: Hayashi
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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Divide
Title: Divide
Released: May 13, 2006
Type: Movie
Saki's life is thrown into chaos when her mother drops dead. She then finds herself joining an evil crowd, the high school pimp and his rogues who become her social life. Her friends no longer recognize her, and all she lives for is to find the sister she was separated from at a very young age. The vicious sex and violence will all be worth it, if only she can find the sibling she never knew.
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Moyuru Toki: The Excellent Company
Title: Moyuru Toki: The Excellent Company
Released: February 11, 2006
Type: Movie
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A Hardest Night!!
Title: A Hardest Night!!
Character: Kyoshi
Released: October 22, 2005
Type: Movie
A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The film is interspersed with numerous funerals and wakes, songs, dances, and often disgustingly crude jokes.
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Title: GARO
Character: Makai Priest Latus
Released: October 7, 2005
Type: TV
"Where there is light, shadows lurk and fear reigns. But by the blade of Knights, Mankind was given hope." The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that manifest themselves through darkness to devour Humanity. On the frontlines are the Makai Knights, given the task of watching over a district and eliminating any Horrors that manifest there. GARO follows the tales of the Knights bearing the title of ‘Golden Knight Garo’, and their duty to vanquish the Horrors and protect Humanity from the darkness.
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Title: GARO
Character: Superior
Released: October 7, 2005
Type: TV
"Where there is light, shadows lurk and fear reigns. But by the blade of Knights, Mankind was given hope." The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that manifest themselves through darkness to devour Humanity. On the frontlines are the Makai Knights, given the task of watching over a district and eliminating any Horrors that manifest there. GARO follows the tales of the Knights bearing the title of ‘Golden Knight Garo’, and their duty to vanquish the Horrors and protect Humanity from the darkness.
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Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Title: Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Character: Kisaragi Saemon
Released: September 17, 2005
Type: Movie
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village. Gennosuke and Oboro's love is made even more impossible when they each got picked as the leader of the five to represent their respective villages.
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In the Pool
Title: In the Pool
Released: May 21, 2005
Type: Movie
A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.
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Inagawa Junji no Anata no tonari no kowai hanashi: Haru no Kai
Title: Inagawa Junji no Anata no tonari no kowai hanashi: Haru no Kai
Released: April 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The second in a series of hair-raising omnibus horror stories from Japan's most famous horror storyteller, Junji Inagawa. Satoko, who works at a printing office, hears eerie footsteps and whispering voices in a warehouse on the second floor where the elevator does not stop...
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Pacchigi!
Title: Pacchigi!
Released: January 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic class-mates on two Korean girls. He makes a narrow escape, but soon after, he and his best bud Yoshio are sent by their home-room teacher to invite the Korean students to a friendly soccer game as a way of restoring the peace.
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Déracine
Title: Déracine
Released: November 27, 2004
Type: Movie
A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless pals, he makes his living by selling his paintings on the street. His paintings, dynamically exploding on pieces of cardboard, catch the eyes of Kyoko, an art dealer. He can feel alive only if he keeps painting, but unable to find something to fill his void inside, he tries to drown himself in alcohol. Drawn to Jouji, Kyoko commissions him to paint for her. The two travel to a secluded mountain-side, and there Jouji becomes inspired both by the natural surroundings and Kyoko herself.
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Title: Sasori
Released: June 19, 2004
Type: TV
On her 18th birthday, Nami witnesses the brutal murder of her parents by a man with a burn on his hand. She is then falsely accused of the crime and sent to jail. Sworn to vengeance, Nami battles corrupt officials and cruel inmates to escape prison, only to search through the underbelly of Japanese society to find the man with a burn on his hand, ‘stinging’ anyone in her way.
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Wild Flowers
Title: Wild Flowers
Released: April 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Real pro wrestlers Mizuho Ishikawa, Cutie Suzuki and Emi Tojyo star alongside newcomer Miki Suzuki as the women tag teams, and they are managed reluctantly by Yoshinori Okada, forced to take over as manager of his mom's struggling female wrestling team.
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Making-of17才
Title: Making-of17才
Released: January 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes footage of Houka Kinoshita's film 17才 (Age 17).
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Title: 竜馬がゆく
Released: January 2, 2004
Type: TV
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Karaoke Terror
Title: Karaoke Terror
Released: November 8, 2003
Type: Movie
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!
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FREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES
Title: FREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES
Released: November 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Anthology of five low-budget short films: "Nao and I", "MILD7", "LOVERS", "Strawberry Fields", "Label"
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Get Up!
Title: Get Up!
Released: October 5, 2003
Type: Movie
A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his underlings planned to kidnap James Brown to convince him to perform privately for their boss.
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IKKA
Title: IKKA
Released: September 13, 2003
Type: Movie
The family of 20-year-old Ohta is celebrating his birthday in a restaurant. What was supposed to be a happy familiar reunion turns into a big mess.
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Age 17
Title: Age 17
Character: Man 1
Released: June 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Seventeen-year-old Ako works part-time in a cabaret club late at night. Because of this, she falls asleep in school every day. In the new semester, she becomes enamored with her classmate Ryou, who is repeating a year despite her good grades.
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Jingi 35: Ambition Compensation
Title: Jingi 35: Ambition Compensation
Released: June 20, 2003
Type: Movie
Burn all your heart fire. Two samurai in the wilderness. A small group belonging to the Ichienkai, the Kagawa group. Shuichi Kagawa, the son of the group leader, is released after a long sentence. He officially inherited the traces of the Kagawa group. Yoshiro is surprised to meet Shuichi, who has been in prison for a long time as a thought criminal. He was a junior who fought the student activism with Yoshiro. Around that time, there was information that Hitman, a well-known person in Kansai, had infiltrated the neighborhood. Jin instructs Kumosuke to look around. However?!
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Cop Festival: New Beginning
Title: Cop Festival: New Beginning
Released: May 24, 2003
Type: Movie
Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.
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Gozamareji
Title: Gozamareji
Released: April 26, 2003
Type: Movie
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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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Gold Dust Butterfly - Flap Your Wings and Open the Door
Title: Gold Dust Butterfly - Flap Your Wings and Open the Door
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Manhattan Aoshima and World Hashimoto are invited to the villa of fortune teller Gold Kotegawa along Gold's maid, Maki. One morning, Gold is found dead. There are three suspects. Money, honor, body, and jealousy.... The story is told through recollections, as each person's thoughts and relationships are intertwined. Who killed Gold?
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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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Igyō no koi
Title: Igyō no koi
Released: August 24, 2002
Type: Movie
A sensual coming-of-age drama direct — It depicts a precarious relationship between a homosexual woman and a man who was picked up by her and ends up living with her
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Shangri-La
Title: Shangri-La
Character: Umekawa
Released: August 3, 2002
Type: Movie
Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.
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Title: Onmyouji☆Abenoseimei ~Outo Ayakashi Kitan~
Released: July 2, 2002
Type: TV
Depicts a confrontation between sourcerer Abenoseimei and some out to destroy the capital.
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Shinobi: The Law of Shinobi
Title: Shinobi: The Law of Shinobi
Released: May 31, 2002
Type: Movie
In the world of the Ninja, fighting skills play a small role in one's rank in the Shinobi order. Kageru is the best in his class, but his birth predestines him to the lower class. His friend Aoi is dealt the same fate; together they'll have to question themselves.
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Doing Time
Title: Doing Time
Character: Ouchi
Released: May 14, 2002
Type: Movie
A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.
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Pakodate-jin
Title: Pakodate-jin
Released: February 19, 2002
Type: Movie
One morning Hikaru Hino, a high school student living in Hakodate, wakes up to find she has grown a tail. She quickly cancels her first date with classmate Hayato, complicating their relationship. Hikaru's sister makes a fake tail to cheer her up and takes her out around town together, but a reporter captures their photo which leads to a huge commotion in Hakodate. As the tale commotion reaches a fever pitch, another person with a tail, Mr. Yoshida, shows up. As a result, the commotion grows into a full-blown incident that involves the whole of Hakodate.
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Concent
Title: Concent
Character: Takayuki Asakura
Released: February 2, 2002
Type: Movie
In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are sketchy at best, yet no one has any answers. When she starts having hallucinations involving his ghost, however, she seeks some psychological help, eventually uncovering some things that she may have wished she'd left covered.
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Ichi the Killer
Title: Ichi the Killer
Character: Sailor's Lover
Released: December 22, 2001
Type: Movie
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
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The King of Minami 18
Title: The King of Minami 18
Released: November 9, 2001
Type: Movie
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Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
Title: Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master
Character: Kanmu-Ten'nou
Released: October 6, 2001
Type: Movie
During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on the Onmyoji to keep the supernatural forces in line. But as political events become highly charged, friction within the order leads to betrayal. Now, Seimei (Mansai Nomura), a talented member of the clan, must face down his master, Doson (Hiroyuki Sanada), in the hopes of restoring peace to the kingdom.
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Otoko Michi 6 The End
Title: Otoko Michi 6 The End
Released: July 13, 2001
Type: Movie
Only one person challenges the final battle against the corrupt state power.
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Harmful Insect
Title: Harmful Insect
Character: Truck Driver
Released: March 16, 2001
Type: Movie
13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit suicide by slashing her wrist. Her teacher, whom she relies on heavily, leaves for northern Japan to take another job. Other students start to gossip about Sachiko and her former teacher. Sachiko then drops out of school and attempts to find herself.
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Swing Man
Title: Swing Man
Character: Hozumi Kida
Released: October 28, 2000
Type: Movie
A man is assaulted by someone with a bat and attempts to figure out why.
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The Face Burglar
Title: The Face Burglar
Released: August 4, 2000
Type: Movie
I want to be this girl! Momoko Kamei has the mysterious ability to mimic any woman's face while imitating what she wears and the way she speaks. Not knowing such a secret, Takafumi, who was fed up with Momoko's relentless stalking, said, "Go out with me!"
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Senrigan
Title: Senrigan
Released: June 10, 2000
Type: Movie
The head of a psychological research institute and a lieutenant in the Japanese Air Force are both investigating a mysterious cult known only as ‘Midori no Saru’ (The Green Monkey). Members of this group have committed a string of violent suicide-attacks on military bases and public areas. Part of the mystery seems to involve a young child and an enormous Buddha statue outside Tokyo, but how could all these pieces possibly fit together?
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Thug Business Worker Sub
Title: Thug Business Worker Sub
Released: June 9, 2000
Type: Movie
The truth of a sniper becomes clear in the turmoil of a drug robbery that shakes the underworld.
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Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
Title: Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
Released: May 12, 2000
Type: Movie
The third and final V-Cinema sequel.
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Requiem of Darkness
Title: Requiem of Darkness
Released: March 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Set in an old movie theater, this group drama depicts the battle between dying yakuza and salaried workers who have forgotten their dreams.
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Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 4
Title: Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 4
Released: February 11, 2000
Type: Movie
The second of three V-Cinema sequels.
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Don't Look Back
Title: Don't Look Back
Released: October 23, 1999
Type: Movie
The joys and sorrows of the little schoolboy, Akira, in a modern Japan. A story about friendship and loyalty.
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Wait and See
Title: Wait and See
Character: Drunk Man
Released: December 19, 1998
Type: Movie
A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.
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Shomuni
Title: Shomuni
Released: November 28, 1998
Type: Movie
Based on the comic by Hiroyuki Yasuda
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Getting Even With Bad Boys
Title: Getting Even With Bad Boys
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: Movie
A gang of tough youths, who have little interest in finding work, while away their days with quarrels and girls in their Kishiwada neighborhood. Based on the novel by Toshikazu Nakaba, who also wrote "The Easy Life". Starring the popular comic trio, "Neptune."
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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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Bonds
Title: Bonds
Character: Shinji Miyake
Released: June 6, 1998
Type: Movie
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.
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Demon Fighter Kocho 2: School of Evil Spirits
Title: Demon Fighter Kocho 2: School of Evil Spirits
Released: October 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Second live action Demon Fighter Kocho movie
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Woman in Witness Protection
Title: Woman in Witness Protection
Character: Eiji
Released: September 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness vulnerable to the killers, the police assign two officers to safeguard her until the trial. In the interim, the lives of Biwako and everyone around her are changed in unexpected ways.
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Demon Fighter Kocho
Title: Demon Fighter Kocho
Released: April 25, 1997
Type: Movie
First live action adaptation of Demon Fighter Kocho
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Restructuring Daimon History's Strongest Civil Servant
Title: Restructuring Daimon History's Strongest Civil Servant
Released: July 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Even the group was forced to quit due to excessive ferocity. Satoshi Narumi became a temporary employee at the ward office for his beloved wife. Every day she works hard at miscellaneous tasks such as making tea and making copies, even though she is teased by her disgusting boss. Even if I can't stand it sometimes, I always think of my wife's smile,I spent my days in peace, but... Between violence and counter work, chivalry and beloved wife, The masculinity of Restructuring Daimon - Satoshi Narumi explodes!
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Naughty Guide to Tokyo Nightlife
Title: Naughty Guide to Tokyo Nightlife
Character: Sakurai
Released: May 3, 1996
Type: Movie
For those willing to descend deep enough into Tokyo's seedy underworld, many illicit and illegal pleasures are available, for a price. The NAUGHTY GUIDE TO TOKYO NIGHTLIFE follows a number of women who are part of this world and who offer to act out any man's erotic fantasy, for a price, of course.
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Boys, Be Ambitious
Title: Boys, Be Ambitious
Released: March 9, 1996
Type: Movie
Chunba and Kotetsu, grows up in the working class neighborhood of Kishiwada in Osaka in the mid-seventies. Their life in school is a never-ending series of fights and reprisals against rival gangs landing them in trouble with organised crime and in the juvenile court.
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Doll from Hell
Title: Doll from Hell
Released: February 2, 1996
Type: Movie
A doll maker and his daughter Erika live in a remote mountain villa. When some thugs break in and murder Erika and disfigure the old doll maker, he sets about getting his revenge. He creates a life-size doll and has it possessed by Erika's spirit. The doll then tracks down Erika's killers one-by-one...
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High-Heeled Punishers
Title: High-Heeled Punishers
Released: February 3, 1995
Type: Movie
A woman is being sexually assaulted by a pair of thugs, when out of the fog appear the High Heeled Cats – a trio of avenging angels, masked and dressed in black. These beautiful vigilantes make a living running a coffee shop by day, and kicking misogynist criminals in the balls by night. Their boss is an elderly lady offering a payback service to women who have been mistreated by men. The cops can’t be seen to allow this kind of behavior, but they are increasingly frustrated with the lack of clues that might lead to the identity of the trio – despite the fact that the two detectives on the case visit the coffee shop daily, to flirt with and grope the waitresses, and drink the occasional cup of coffee. The high heeled honeys eventually bite off more than they can chew when they get on the bad side of a ruthless gangster, who sets a creepy assassin on their trail.
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Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Title: Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Character: Moguera Pilot
Released: December 10, 1994
Type: Movie
A mysterious extraterrestrial being resembling Godzilla rapidly approaches Earth. The monster, dubbed SpaceGodzilla, lands to challenge the King of the Monsters.
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Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
Title: Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
Released: June 13, 1994
Type: Movie
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Sonatine
Title: Sonatine
Character: Kitajima Gang Member
Released: April 10, 1993
Type: Movie
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.
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風、スローダウン
Title: 風、スローダウン
Released: November 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Youth movie set in Osaka about the trial and tribulations of growing up. Centered around three close friends, a bike racer, a yakuza thug and a spoiled rich boy - who meet a girl from Tokyo. Based on director Shinsuke Shimada's own book "Kaze, to Suzuka".
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Akira Kido
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.