Yosuke Eguchi

Yosuke Eguchi

Born: December 31, 1967
in Tokyo, Japan
Yosuke Eguchi is a Japanese poet, actor and singer, who is well-known for his role in the 2009 Japanese film "Goemon". Since 1986, he has appeared in a number of television series and movies. He is married to the actress and pop star Chisato Moritaka, with whom he has a son and a daughter.

Movies for Yosuke Eguchi...

Teasing Master Takagi-san
Title: Teasing Master Takagi-san
Character: Mr. Tanabe
Released: May 31, 2024
Type: Movie
An original story set 10 years after the original manga's middle school setting.
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Title: Teasing Master Takagi-san
Character: Mr. Tanabe
Released: April 2, 2024
Type: TV
Takagi loves playing good-natured pranks on her classmate Nishikata. But try as he might, he can never prank her back — she's just too clever!
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Gold Boy‎
Title: Gold Boy‎
Released: March 8, 2024
Type: Movie
It was supposed to be a perfect crime... until it was witnessed. Based on a Chinese drama series with two billion total views, the film depicts a psychological battle between a murderer and three kids.
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Title: House of Ninjas
Character: Soichi Tawara
Released: February 15, 2024
Type: TV
Years after retiring from their formidable ninja lives, a dysfunctional family must return to shadowy missions to counteract a string of looming threats.
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Title: The Silent Service
Character: Unabara Wataru
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: Mars: Zero's Revolution
Character: Kunimi Amon
Released: January 23, 2024
Type: TV
Zero Mishima is a mysterious 19-year-old transfer student who incites dropout high school students to "destroy this world with me." Although he is a mysterious person, he is adept at controlling people's hearts, and has the charisma to slip into the gaps in people's hearts and manipulate them with his skillful words. Instigated and guided by Zero, high school students eventually form a video group called Mars, and attempt to destroy the society created by adults then rebuild it...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special
Title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special
Released: November 11, 2023
Type: Movie
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Kyrie
Title: Kyrie
Character: Kazuhiko Shiomi
Released: October 13, 2023
Type: Movie
Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However, her singing voice shakes the hearts of those who listen to her. It is a hymn of compassion played by Luca and the people.
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Title: ONE DAY~It’s Wonderful Christmas Ado~
Character: Mitsutani Mansaku
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
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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Nijiiro no Chalk -- Chiteki Shogaisha to Ayunda Machikojo no Kiseki
Title: Nijiiro no Chalk -- Chiteki Shogaisha to Ayunda Machikojo no Kiseki
Released: August 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Oomori Hiroto, the chalk company president’s son, returns home after studying overseas a short while and is unsure what to do now he is back in Japan. He joins his father’s company which is struggling financially and clashes with his father over his policy of hiring the disabled. Over time, he gradually understands the “joy of working” from the sincere attitudes of the disabled employees towards their work. Attracting attention in terms of management and welfare as “the most important company in Japan,” they continue to evolve as a company creating products that take considerations into the global environment.
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Nemesis the Movie: Mystery of Golden Spiral
Title: Nemesis the Movie: Mystery of Golden Spiral
Character: Kurita Kazuaki
Released: March 31, 2023
Type: Movie
Set two years after the drama series "Nemesis," Naoki Kazama works for Nemesis Detective Agency and is regarded as a brilliant detective. He is able to solve the most difficult of cases, but he has a secret. He is actually a lousy detective and relies on the genius skills of his assistant Anna Mikami to solve cases. Their partnership continues.
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The Lines that Define Me
Title: The Lines that Define Me
Released: October 21, 2022
Type: Movie
Sousuke Aoyama is a college student who suffers painfully from the loss of his parents in a traffic accident. He meets Kozan Shinoda, a suibokuga (India-ink painting) artist, at an exhibition. Kozan becomes interested in Sousuke and surprisingly accepts him as his disciple. However, Kozan's niece is dismissive of Sousuke and declares to compete with Sousuke for the "Kozan Award." Although Sousuke seemed uninterested in painting at first, he gradually becomes drawn to it by each stroke he draws...
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7 Secretaries: The Movie
Title: 7 Secretaries: The Movie
Character: Keitaro Ban
Released: October 7, 2022
Type: Movie
The seven secretaries who consist of the "Shadow Army" enjoy peaceful days. They receive a new request from Koichi Ogata, who runs a ramen restaurant in Nagano prefecture. He is furious at land development that is carried out by Alps Raicho Group. The Alps Raicho Group and their Alps Raicho Resort are run by the Tsukumo family. That family exerts tremendous influence around the region. The Tsukumo family seem like a well mannered family, but, in reality, they are a vicious family who will do anything for their own interests.
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Seven Secretaries Special
Title: Seven Secretaries Special
Character: Keitaro Ban
Released: October 2, 2022
Type: Movie
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Akira and Akira
Title: Akira and Akira
Character: Koji Fudo
Released: August 26, 2022
Type: Movie
Akira Yamazaki and Akira Kaido are new employees at Industrial Central Bank. They are both outstanding at their jobs and fierce rivals, but they come from totally different backgrounds. When Akira Yamazaki was a child, his father's factory went bankrupt and his family ran away in the middle of the night. Because of that experience, Akira Yamazaki wants to work as a banker to save people. On the other hand, Akira Kaido was born into a family that runs a large company. He works with a calm demeanor. Due to a case, Akira Yamazaki receives a demotion. Akira Kaido continues to be successful at work, but his family's company is on the verge of bankruptcy due to their family-oriented management style. The employees there and their families are all in a crisis situation. With this desperate situation unfolding, the reversal of fate of these two men begin.
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The Confidence Man JP - Episode of the Hero -
Title: The Confidence Man JP - Episode of the Hero -
Character: Eisuke Akahoshi
Released: January 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Dako, Boku-chan and Richard commit their next con on Malta Island.
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Title: Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Character: Hajime Saito
Released: June 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who carries a huge burden in her heart, his life will change forever.
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
Title: Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
Character: Hajime Saito
Released: April 23, 2021
Type: Movie
In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge.
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Title: Nemesis
Character: Kurita Kazuaki
Released: April 11, 2021
Type: TV
Kazama Naoki is a crack detective at the private investigation firm Nemesis in Yokohama. He has a brilliant mind like Sherlock Holmes and solves every difficult case. But the true detective is actually his talented assistant Mikami Anna. The two of them, who make quite an odd duo, are searching for Anna’s father Hajime. He is a scientist and went missing all of a sudden. Together with Kurita Kazuaki, the owner of Nemesis who is Hajime’s good friend, Anna and Kazama seek clues to his disappearance. As they take on one puzzling trick-ridden case after another, they seem to find a hint related to her father each time that brings about a new riddle. Then they learn that the key to solving the mystery of his disappearance is a 20-year-old incident that has been buried in darkness. What Anna does not yet realize is that both Kazama and Kurita are connected to this incident.
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Title: Seven Secretaries
Character: Keitaro Ban
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: TV
7 ladies working as secretary for the dignitaries, who are the top of bank, Metropolitan Government and National Police Agency, are trying to help the weak in the society by moving the dignitaries stealthily. They have a lot of confidential information and network, so they work in the shadow to help people who are suffering from unfair treatment. Concept of this drama: Leaderless time, Swelling unemployment, there is no promising future, so we have to move our leaders as much as we can do.
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Title: Request to the Angel
Character: Shugo Shimada
Released: September 19, 2020
Type: TV
One day, unmotivated private detective Shimada receives a request from an old woman. She asks him to make the last wish of her acquaintance come true, promising that she spends any amount of money on it. Shimada questions why the client chose him for this task but working on it gradually enables him to deal with his tough memory. Later it turns out that the old woman's last wish is also hidden behind the request.
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The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess –
Title: The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess –
Character: Eisuke Akahoshi
Released: July 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Set in Langkawi, Malaysia, professional scammers Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) target the Fuu Family for their next heist. Raymond Fuu, who was the head of the Fuu Family, passed away and he left behind 10 trillion yen. Dako, Boku-chan and Richard scheme to gain the inordinate inheritance. --asianwiki
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I Never Shot Anyone
Title: I Never Shot Anyone
Character: Shuhei Moriyama
Released: July 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face - a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is... he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.
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Eien no Nispa
Title: Eien no Nispa
Character: Okubo Toshimichi
Released: June 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Takeshiro Matsuura was a Japanese explorer who was the first person to document the inner reaches of what is now known as Hokkaido. He explored the area extensively during the mid 19th century and created a map of the island that included parts which had been ignored by earlier cartographers. He visited Ainu communities and compiled records of the large numbers of the population who had been conscripted for forced labor far from their homes. Matsuura suggested the name Hokkaido for the area
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The Confidence Man JP - The Movie -
Title: The Confidence Man JP - The Movie -
Character: Eisuke Akahoshi
Released: May 17, 2019
Type: Movie
In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.
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Title: Strawberry Night Saga
Character: Kensaku Katsumata
Released: April 11, 2019
Type: TV
Reiko Himekawa is just 27-years-old, but she has already received a promotion to become an assistant police inspector. She leads the 10th murder investigation team at the First Investigation Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko Himekawa is an excellent detective and deals with many difficult cases. She works with Tamotsu Ishikura, Kohei Yuda and Shinji Otsuka on her team. The team then gets Kazuo Kikuta as a new member. Kazuo Kikuta is a detective who does not talk much, but looks to do the right thing.
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Bleach
Title: Bleach
Character: Isshin Kurosaki
Released: July 20, 2018
Type: Movie
High school student Ichigo Kurosaki lives an ordinary life, besides being able to see ghosts and the blurry memories of his mother's death under strange circumstances when he was a kid. His peaceful world suddenly breaks as he meets Rukia Kuchiki, a God of Death.
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The Blood of Wolves
Title: The Blood of Wolves
Character: Moritaka Ichinose
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.
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Title: ヘッドハンター
Character: 黒澤和樹
Released: April 16, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: The Confidence Man JP
Released: April 9, 2018
Type: TV
Dako is a con woman. She stays at a suite in a luxury hotel and schemes to take money from vicious wealthy people like yakuza bosses and evil businessmen. She works with Boku-chan and Richard. Boku-chan is a sincere and timid young con man. Richard is a veteran con man. Dako is able to master knowledge from various professions in a short period of time and disguises herself as someone working in that field. Along with Boku-chan and Richard, they carry their plans using fantastic teamwork.
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Title: The Confidence Man JP
Character: Eisuke Akahoshi
Released: April 9, 2018
Type: TV
Dako is a con woman. She stays at a suite in a luxury hotel and schemes to take money from vicious wealthy people like yakuza bosses and evil businessmen. She works with Boku-chan and Richard. Boku-chan is a sincere and timid young con man. Richard is a veteran con man. Dako is able to master knowledge from various professions in a short period of time and disguises herself as someone working in that field. Along with Boku-chan and Richard, they carry their plans using fantastic teamwork.
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Title: BG: Personal Bodyguard
Character: Yoshiaki Ochiai(落合 義明)
Released: January 18, 2018
Type: TV
Akira Shimazaki (Takuya Kimura) lives with his middle school student son. He used to work as a bodyguard, but, due to an incident, he now works as a security guard at a construction site. The private security company where he works establishes a new bodyguard division. Hiding his past as a bodyguard, Akira Shimazaki begins work as a novice bodyguard.
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Title: 小さな橋で
Released: November 18, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Throwing Stones : Cops Against the Government
Character: Hikaru Saigen
Released: November 5, 2017
Type: TV
One billion yen vanishes from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Two police inspectors work to discover the culprit, but politics may obstruct justice.
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Title: Black Leather Notebook
Character: Tomio Yasujima
Released: July 20, 2017
Type: TV
The story of how a bank clerk becomes a Ginza nightclub owner.
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Title: Black Leather Notebook
Character: Tomio Yasujima
Released: July 20, 2017
Type: TV
Haraguchi Motoko works as a temp at a bank. To pay off debt that she inherited from her parents, she also works as a hostess at a club in Ginza. Motoko Haraguchi is finally able to repay the debt. At this time, there's chatter that the temp employees will be laid off at the bank. Motoko Haraguchi decides to carry out a scheme she has prepared secretly. She transfers money from accounts opened illegally to her bank account. Altogether, Motoko Haraguchi embezzles 180 million yen. Using her “Kurokawa no Techo” (Black Leather Notebook) which has a list of the illegally opened accounts, she fights against bank branch managers and opens a club in Ginza.
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Ancien and the Magic Tablet
Title: Ancien and the Magic Tablet
Character: Momotarō (voice) / Peach (voice)
Released: July 12, 2017
Type: Movie
This is the story that always appears in the dreams of Kokone, who eventually becomes a high school student. What is the secret hidden in the fairy tale that Kokoneheard as a young boy? And then, what is this secret entrusted to his father Momotaro's mind? This movie depicts the adventures of the main character, high school student Morikawa Kokone, who appears in the dreams of another main character, Yasue, another nap princess.
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Napping Princess
Title: Napping Princess
Character: Momotaro Morikawa / Piichi (Peach) (voice)
Released: March 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Japan, 2020, a few days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. Although she should be studying for her final exams, Kokone, a schoolgirl who lives in a small town with her widowed father, a mysterious and talented mechanic, falls asleep often, anywhere, anytime, entering, over and over, a dream-world where a squad of fantastic motorized contraptions fights against magic, a world close to reality where she will find out the keys of her true past.
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Title: Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~
Released: October 22, 2016
Type: TV
Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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Title: Hello, I Love You
Character: Shinji Umeda
Released: July 14, 2016
Type: TV
Umeda Mina is a pianist whose father is a famous conductor. She has set her sights on winning an international piano competition. However, she has faced countless setbacks and this is her last chance at the age of 35. Mina has been married to her husband Shinji for 10 years, but they do not have children for some reason. One day, a filthy boy with an impassive face breaks into their garden. It turns out that he has been abused and he is put in a home. But several days later, he appears in their garden again. Believing that it is fate that brought him to their house twice, Shinji secretly starts to look up on child adoption … …
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A Living Promise
Title: A Living Promise
Character: Tetsuya Watanabe
Released: January 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Yuma Nakahara is the CEO of an IT company and he is a workaholic. He is focused only on expanding his company. He receives a phone call from his former co-worker and friend Kouhei, but Kouhei doesn't say anything. Yuma gets the sense that something is wrong and heads to Kouhei's hometown of Shinminato, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. In Shinminato, Yuma meets other people and becomes involved in the Shinminato Hikiyama Festival. His outlook on life begins to change.
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Title: Lady Girls
Character: Fumio Takayama
Released: October 15, 2015
Type: TV
Lady Girls is a poignant romantic comedy portrays the lives of three single, 40-year-old women as they search for happiness and love while longing to stay always-a-girl-at-heart regardless their age.
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Title: しんがり~山一證券最後の聖戦~
Released: September 20, 2015
Type: TV
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The Big Bee
Title: The Big Bee
Character: Yuhara
Released: September 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter will be dropped. 8 hours is given as the deadline. Making the situation even more dire, a young child is in the helicopter.
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Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
Title: Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends
Character: Hajime Saito
Released: September 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
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Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Title: Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Character: Hajime Saito
Released: August 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.
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Title: Roosevelt Game
Released: April 27, 2014
Type: TV
Based on the same-titled novel by Ikeido Jun (the writer of Hanzawa Naoki series), the drama unfolds against a backdrop of economic recession. Hosokawa Mitsuru is the current president of the core-precision tools manufacturing company, Aoshima. He was personally recruited from another company by the company's founder, Aoshima Takeshi. Needless to say, this move was not well-favored by the existing management who themselves were vying for the job. Not long after Mitsuru joined the company, the global financial crisis caused the economy to slump, and Aoshima was certainly not exempted from the ill-effects of the slump, which was accentuated by fierce competition within the industry. Realising that he needs to stem the company's cashflow crisis, Mitsuru proposes to sell the company's baseball club. However, his proposal is opposed by all the other top management, especially Sasai Kotaro, a long-serving employee who feels that he should have been promoted to President instead of Mitsuru. Mikami Fumio, who is the baseball club's manager, also tries to foil Mitsuru's plans of selling the club. Amidst all the enmity of the long-serving management, and also sabotage from a rival company, Mitsuru has to find a way to save the company from its downfall...
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Title: All About My Destiny
Released: March 23, 2014
Type: TV
In 1993, the economy is in the doldrums. Fuyuki Aki works in a big electronics manufacturer as the first female in its main career track. But unlike the male employees, she is not even allowed to test her ability and feels frustrated by her current situation. Meanwhile, Aki learns that her colleague and ex-boyfriend Sato Yasushi is marrying Otsubo Arisa, a junior who works in an administrative position, and she feels unsettled. Aki is favoured by Yasushi’s mother Sachiko, but she tells her that they broke up two years ago. She feels a void for not being able to spread her own wings in the male-dominated world, along with an anger at the male species. So she could not accept the feelings of the straightforward Yasushi. On the morning of the wedding ceremony, Aki receives a letter from Sachiko...
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Title: Strategist KANBE
Character: Nobunaga Oda
Released: January 5, 2014
Type: TV
July 1590, Odawara. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army had surrounded the Odawara Castle for over 3 months, hoping to conquer this last obstacle to his dream of the country's unification. Standing at the gate of the castle, a lone man facing the menacing guards shouted out: "Do not throw your lives away. Treasure living!". Not long after, the castle gates opened and the reigning lord surrendered. The name of that man is Kuroda Kanbee. An excellent military strategist, he worked hand-in-hand with Hideyoshi to unify the country.
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The Brain Man
Title: The Brain Man
Character: Cop
Released: February 9, 2013
Type: Movie
A seemingly random series of bombings in a provincial city. The latest target is a public bus route. Detective Chaya chased terrorists and arrested a mysterious man with keen intelligence and physical power. The psychologist in charge of evaluating him is Dr. Mariko. After the psychiatric examination, she puts toward a hypothesis – “Is it possible he was born without emotions?”
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Title: dinner
Character: Ezaki Motomu
Released: January 13, 2013
Type: TV
This drama follows the staff of an Italian restaurant and their everyday struggles. “Roccabianca” is a famous and popular Italian restaurant, but their head chef and owner Tatsumi suddenly collapses and the restaurant loses its unique flavor. The number of customers rapidly declines, but the owner’s daughter and deputy manager Saori happens to find another chef named Ezaki through an online job market who learned cooking at the same place her father did. Ezaki becomes the new head chef of this restaurant and while nobody can deny that he is a gifted chef, it’s his extreme rationalism that doesn’t exactly go well with the restaurants attempt to save its traditional flavor.
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再会
Title: 再会
Released: December 8, 2012
Type: Movie
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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
Title: Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
Character: Hajime Saito
Released: August 25, 2012
Type: Movie
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.
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Title: Breathless Summer
Character: Ryuichiro Kiyama
Released: July 10, 2012
Type: TV
A 19-year-old girl burdened by a cruel destiny, a 41-year-old man living in atonement, and a forbidden love that cannot be accepted by the people around them. Breathless Summer is as much a social drama as it is a love story. Takei plays said girl who learns that her mother never recorded her birth in their family register. While falling into despair after finding out the secret about her birth yet wholeheartedly trying to live to regain "herself", she happens to run into a former journalist who is suffering from a deep scar in his heart himself. Although they could be father and daughter, they start to develop much stronger feelings for each other, a love forbidden by society.
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Title: Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Character: Hitoshi Fujinaka
Released: February 11, 2012
Type: Movie
In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an asteroid. Seven long years later, Hayabusa achieved its goal and was the first of any kind of craft launched from Earth to safely return samples of this kind to home base. The story was one of such great national pride for Japan, and in the wake of the tsunami and resulting tragedies in Japan it’s strong nationalistic message became the subject of no less than three rival films. Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s high-profile effort, simply titled Hayabusa (2011) starred the incomparable Toshiyuki Nishida. Most recently, Welcome Home, Hayabusa (2012) was released to Japanese audiences. Slipping in between those two was Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home, concentrating on the people on the ground who helped return the probe safely.
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Patisserie Coin De Rue
Title: Patisserie Coin De Rue
Character: Tomura
Released: February 11, 2011
Type: Movie
A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aiming to become a high-calibre pastry chef, she is determined to overcome both her past and the challenges ahead. Pastry critic Tomura is a frequent visitor to Coin de Rue. Moved by Natsume's persistence, he slowly begins to confront his own painful past aided, of course, by mouthfuls of tasty pastries.
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Title: Kyukei no Koya
Released: November 26, 2010
Type: TV
Set in 1945, near the end of WW II, Kenichiro Nogami is reported to have died in a Swiss hospital. In fact, Kenichiro Nogami is working behind the scenes to save Japan from destruction. For this cause, Kenichiro Nogami has left behind his wife and nation to work in hiding. Meanwhile, a murder takes place and detectives Jiro Suzuki & Shoichi Soeda investigate. Clues lead to Kenichiro Nogami ...
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Tales of the Bizarre 20th Anniversary Fall Special: Popular Author Competition
Title: Tales of the Bizarre 20th Anniversary Fall Special: Popular Author Competition
Released: October 4, 2010
Type: Movie
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Permanent Nobara
Title: Permanent Nobara
Character: Kashima
Released: May 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Naoko returns home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako runs the only beauty parlor in town. The local women go there to pass the time lamenting their bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima.
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Title: Chase: National Taxation Inspector
Character: Sosuke Haruma
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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Goemon
Title: Goemon
Character: Goemon Ishikawa
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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Title: The Policeman's Lineage
Released: February 7, 2009
Type: TV
A detective fiction drama based on a novel by Joh Sasaki. Produced as a two-part series by TV Asahi for its 50-year anniversary in 2009.
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Title: Triangle
Character: Goda Ryoji
Released: January 6, 2009
Type: TV
The series starts with the murder of a 10-year-old girl in 1984. 15 years later, after the case goes unsolved and passes the statute of limitations, a doctor named Goda Ryoji suddenly quits from his hospital and eventually becomes a detective. In 2008, he meets Sachi, a traveling artist in Paris, and shortly after Goda's return to Japan, he becomes involved in the expired murder case when another detective receives an anonymous phone call.
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Children of the Dark
Title: Children of the Dark
Character: Hiroyuki Nanbu
Released: August 2, 2008
Type: Movie
A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficking in Thailand and he uncovers a sinister network. In the darkest corners of Thailand, child prostitution and organ sales flourish. In order to save a child's life, another life must be taken. An outraged Japanese journalist and a passionate young Japanese NGO member attempt to save "children of the dark" from being consumed by arrogance and greed. However, the harsh realities of life intervene... Adapting Yan Sogil's book, which unflinchingly portrays the tragic realities unfolding today, filmmaker Junji Sakamoto directs a talented multinational cast to bring these stark events to life.
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Shaolin Girl
Title: Shaolin Girl
Character: Kenji Iwai
Released: April 26, 2008
Type: Movie
A Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial arts school.
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Unfair: the movie
Title: Unfair: the movie
Character: Jin Saiki
Released: March 17, 2007
Type: Movie
When a devoted detective probes the suspicious death of her father, she uncovers massive corruption and finds herself in grave danger.
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Invisible War
Title: Invisible War
Character: Shuji Kitahara
Released: February 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Kitahara Shuji, an ordinary business man turns into a spy for his town's war against a neighboring town in a Dystopian society.
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Unfair: Code Breaking
Title: Unfair: Code Breaking
Released: October 3, 2006
Type: Movie
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Silk
Title: Silk
Character: Hashimoto
Released: September 28, 2006
Type: Movie
A scientist uses his invention - the "Menger Sponge" - to capture the energy of a dead child's spirit in an old building. In trying to determine why the energy of the ghost does not dissipate, the team discovers the identity and the dramatic story of the boy.
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Samurai Commando Mission 1549
Title: Samurai Commando Mission 1549
Character: Yusuke Kashima
Released: June 11, 2005
Type: Movie
An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.
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Synesthesia
Title: Synesthesia
Released: March 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Shin is a professional voyeur who provides live camera feeds of everything from the street corner to the public toilet. He is also afflicted freakish phenomenon known as synesthesia - a glitch in his wiring puts his five senses in a blender and spits out something close to insanity. A high-profile murder propels him into a psychological odyssey in pursuit of Picasso - a serial killer, snuff peddler and fellow synesthete - who leaves deadly hidden messages in his victims' blood that only Shin can decipher. Lulling his victims into a trance with a spellbinding video game, Picasso leads Shin down a mysterious, hypnotic trail of death.
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Title: Toubousha
Released: July 18, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Shinsengumi!
Character: Sakamoto Ryōma
Released: January 11, 2004
Type: TV
Shinsengumi! is a Taiga drama television series produced by Japanese broadcaster NHK. It was a popular drama about the Shinsengumi, a Japanese special police force from the Bakumatsu period.
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Title: The Great White Tower
Character: 里见修二
Released: October 9, 2003
Type: TV
A striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Zaizen Goro, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary physician Satomi Shuji, who selflessly continues a quest to save human lives. The Great White Tower is the title of a representative novel by Toyoko Yamazaki that depicts the hidden side of the medical world and the dignity of human life, thus shocking and moving many readers, marking a milestone in medical dramas. A dense human drama develops starting with the first half, which depicts the tragicomic circumstances arising from human ambition in the selection of professors, and proceeding to the second half, which inquires into the dignity of human life through a medical court case involving a malpractice suit.
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Fall Special
Title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Fall Special
Released: September 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. *Kagi (The Key) - starring Eguchi Yosuke. 2. Perfect Couple - starring Yada Akiko. 3. Toosugita Otoko (The Man Who Was Too Far Away) - starring Nakamura Shido. 4. Meiro (The Maze)- starring Tanihara Shosuke. 5. Kage ga Omonaru Toki (When Shadows Accumulate) - starring Yashima Norito. * Adapted from a novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka.
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Title: Tokyo Love Cinema
Character: Masaki Takasugi
Released: April 14, 2003
Type: TV
Masaki Takasugi worked at a department store before starting COCOMO, a small film distribution company. Now the owner of his own company, Masaki travels around the world in search of outstanding films that are yet to be discovered. Not so long ago, one film that Masaki purchased and distributed became a mega hit, but that was where his luck ran out. Now, his company is suffering from financial difficulties, and will probably go under in less than a year. For Masaki, nothing is more important than work. So when it comes to the question of marriage, his answer is, "it can wait."
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Madness in Bloom
Title: Madness in Bloom
Released: October 19, 2002
Type: Movie
Yamaguchi, Ichikawa and Kosuge dress in white military-style uniforms to "clean" the streets of Shibuya from bad elements. After rightist gang boss, Aota takes an interest in the three, the boys gradually become influenced by him, but start to go their different ways.
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Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
Title: Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
Released: September 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for one year before his death.
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Title: Lunch Queen
Character: Nabeshima Yujiro
Released: July 1, 2002
Type: TV
Lunch no Joō is a Japanese drama series aired in Japan on Fuji TV in 2002. It stars Yuko Takeuchi, Yōsuke Eguchi, Satoshi Tsumabuki, and Shinichi Tsutsumi. Natsumi loves lunchtime and food. Nothing excites her more than to walk down the street thinking about where she'll eat lunch. One day, a man Kennichiro interrupts Natsumi as she's about to eat her favorite rice omelet and drags her outside and begs her to come home with him so that he can introduce her to his family. He explains to her that his father is sick and after leaving on bad terms, the only way he'll be allowed back home is to return with a fianceé. Natsumi is left with quite the predicament.
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Emergency Room 24 Hours Special 2002
Title: Emergency Room 24 Hours Special 2002
Character: Kazuo Shindo
Released: December 31, 2001
Type: Movie
After surviving from an incident of Cruise ship hijacking, both doctor Tamaki and the boy injured in the incident, Ryota Inamoto, suffered from different degrees of PTSD. Meanwhile, Doctor Chiharu Kanbayashi's wife is about to give birth to their first children. Would these doctors and patients succeed in overcoming their problems and welcome a happy new year?
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Title: As Tears Go By
Character: Katsuo Ohnishi
Released: October 1, 2000
Type: TV
Eguchi Yosuke plays the character of Onishi Katsuo, a 35-year-old carpenter and former college football player who sees life almost in the same balance as a football game (guts and glory along with team spirit). One day he learns that his friend (a college football teammate) was killed when his house burned down. His friend's wife is in a coma and his four kids are now homeless, Eguchi has the children live with him (in his one room apartment) above his bosses home.
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Title: Please Give Me Love
Character: Nagasawa
Released: July 5, 2000
Type: TV
Miho Kanno stars as a nursery school teacher who is trying her best to overcome her traumatic past despite the bullying of other teachers and parents who keep insinuating she is incapable of doing the job because she was not raised properly herself.
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Another Heaven
Title: Another Heaven
Character: Manabu Hayase
Released: April 29, 2000
Type: Movie
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?
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Shooting Star
Title: Shooting Star
Character: Kawasaki
Released: January 30, 1999
Type: Movie
Kikujiro schemes to steal Shooting Star, a renowned race horse, and enter him into top prize horse race, but things don't go to plan.
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Title: Emergency Room 24 Hours
Character: Issei Shindo(進藤 一生)
Released: January 5, 1999
Type: TV
Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things from the patient’s side. Although once retired from his profession, he one day discovers someone in need of help, who he treats and rushes to the Kohoku Medical University Emergency Center. This incident encourages him to once again work as an ER doctor. Confrontation erupts between female doctor Tamaki, and Shindo, now a just-arrived ER doctor. While this human drama depicts the relationships among doctors and nurses, it appeals emotionally to viewers on the subject of life.
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April Story
Title: April Story
Character: Oda Nobunaga
Released: March 14, 1998
Type: Movie
In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the first place.
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Ikiteita Nobunaga
Title: Ikiteita Nobunaga
Character: Oda Nobunaga
Released: March 14, 1998
Type: Movie
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円都 YEN TOWN
Title: 円都 YEN TOWN
Released: October 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Making-of documentary for Swallowtail Butterfly
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Swallowtail Butterfly
Title: Swallowtail Butterfly
Character: Ryou Ryanki
Released: September 14, 1996
Type: Movie
An industrial section of Japan got the name of “Yentown” as many immigrants come to make money and hope to go home rich. A small group of people in Yentown try to work together to survive—Ageha, a young girl with no family; Glico, a sex worker; Fei Hong, a poor immigrant from Shanghai; Arrow, an ex-boxer from the US; and Ren, a mysterious guy who seems to know too much about guns. Fortune shines upon them when they find a cassette that will get them rich, but along with money, trouble will always follow.
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ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius
Title: ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius
Character: Haoka
Released: August 31, 1996
Type: Movie
A scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist is ostracized from the scientific community in Japan. He settles down in Australia steadfast on his hypothesis. When a Japanese student visits him in Australia with strange questions about mermaids, how the young man survived in the ocean, and why he doesn't remember anything.
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Yûri
Title: Yûri
Released: July 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Masayuki meets Nanami, who is on a journey with a refrigerator named Ullie. Nanami's Iranian friend Amir is helping her haul the refrigerator which contains Nanami's dead boyfriend. Masayuki joins the journey.
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Title: Bokura ni Ai wo!
Character: Harumi Ide
Released: April 17, 1995
Type: TV
Harumi is now an ex-salary man who is in need of a job. Living in a lodging house along with his cousin and socially-challenged tenants, he is forced to take over the cooking and cleaning when his grandmother is suddenly hospitalized because of a heart attack. One day, ANA Airways purchases a dormitory that sits right behind the lodge. And suddenly, dozens of gorgeous 1990s-fashioned OL-looking flight attendants move in. It is a fantasy come true for these men. Although Harumi can't stand heights and flying, ironically he falls in love with one of the flight attendants. But, he has some competition - including his ex co-worker, a business man in Paris, and even a 10-year old cooking genius. Can Harumi gain enough courage on his own to win her love? Or, does he need the aid of bottled milk to give him the energy?
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Hero Interview
Title: Hero Interview
Character: Catcher Mizushima
Released: September 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Kasumi Sawaki (Honami Suzuki) works for a top-ranked newspaper publishing company as a capable economic reporter. Speaking six languages fluently, she vigorously performs research and interviews. Her fiance, Ishii (Shingo Tsurumi) is an elite in the same company. Although her work and love seem to go very well, she is suddenly relegated to the minor Sports Department which is full of strange colleagues.
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Title: Furuhata Ninzaburo
Released: April 13, 1994
Type: TV
Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in 2006. It was written by Japanese playwright Kōki Mitani and is often referred to as the Japanese version of Columbo. The series is a police detective drama starring actor Masakazu Tamura as Furuhata Ninzaburo and Masahiko Nishimura as his stereotypically bumbling sidekick, Shintaro Imaizumi. The program aired weekly and featured a guest villain each time, usually a famous talent in Japan. Pop-stars like SMAP, television hosts like Sanma Akashiya and even sports figures like Ichiro Suzuki have been featured on this program. It was one of the most popular television dramas in the history of Japanese television, having spawned several seasons and TV specials.
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Title: Under One Roof
Released: April 12, 1993
Type: TV
Hitotsu Yane no Shita is a Japanese television series. It had a first season in 1993 and a second season, titled Hitotsu Yane no Shita 2, in 1997. It was very popular in Japan, with its highest rating being a remarkable 34 percent and it was also exported to other regions in East Asia. It features Yosuke Eguchi, Noriko Sakai and Masaharu Fukuyama as its leading characters.
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Shichi-nin no otaku: Cult seven
Title: Shichi-nin no otaku: Cult seven
Character: Takashi Tagawa
Released: December 18, 1992
Type: Movie
Several otaku band together to save the baby of a Filipina mother.
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Title: In the Name of Love
Released: January 9, 1992
Type: TV
Seven good buddies left school and stepped into society. Each then finds life out there not as carefree as it used to be. Their courage, optimism and confidence are also worn off slowly by the cunning reality. After a series of hurdles, they get a deeper understanding of their friendship and treasure it even more. --DramaWiki
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Title: The 101st Proposal
Character: Hoshino Junpei
Released: June 30, 1991
Type: TV
101st Marriage Proposal is a "Beauty and the Beast" story starring Takeda Tetsuya (Virgin Road, 3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi Sensei) as a down-on-his-luck man who has gone through 99 omiai (arranged dates with the intention of marriage if the date goes well). Not particularly smart, nor handsome, nor rich, he is a man who cannot lie and of course, has a heart of pure gold. On the 100th omiai, he meets Kaoru (Asano Atsuko), an extremely beautiful and talented cellist who can't forget her dead fiancee.
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神様のピンチヒッター
Title: 神様のピンチヒッター
Released: May 23, 1991
Type: Movie
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Discontinuous Bombing Incident
Title: Discontinuous Bombing Incident
Character: Assistant Inspector Takura
Released: May 13, 1991
Type: Movie
What is the clue that connects the police dormitory bombing case & Keihin canal murder case with the corporate bombing case 17 years ago? Detective Tamori chases a mystery!
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Title: 木曜ドラマ "結婚しようより"
Character: 殿山圭太郎
Released: April 14, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: Tokyo Love Story
Character: Kenichi Mikami
Released: January 7, 1991
Type: TV
Tokyo Love Story is a manga by Fumi Saimon. Tokyo Love Story was adapted as a Japanese television drama in 1991. It aired on Fuji Television in 11 episodes between January and March 1991. Actors include Yuji Oda, Honami Suzuki, and Narimi Arimori. The drama's theme song, Love Story wa Totsuzen ni by Kazumasa Oda is Japan's 8th best-selling single in history.
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Title: Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Released: October 4, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Tokai no Mori
Released: July 6, 1990
Type: TV
Fresh out of judicial training school, Shinsuke Yabashi becomes a rookie lawyer at the Funamoto Law Firm. When he takes on the role of lead counsel for a case involving a female teacher accused of having an affair with a student's father and killing her husband, Shinsuke boldly asserts her innocence amidst a courtroom where everyone assumes her guilt.
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Bomber Bikers of Shonan
Title: Bomber Bikers of Shonan
Character: Yosuke Eguchi
Released: April 25, 1987
Type: Movie
Based on the popular comic, “Shonan Bakusozoku” illustrates the lives of high school bike fanatics.
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Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!
Title: Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!
Character: Marathon Boy
Released: August 23, 1986
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a hardcore Onyanko Club fanatic who decides he wants to kill the girls to prevent the young, cute idols from getting old and married - in a sense, to preserve their youth for eternity.