Yoko Nogiwa

Yoko Nogiwa

Born: January 24, 1936
Died: June 13, 2017
in Tsubata, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Yoko Nogiwa...

Title: Yasuragi no Toki: Michi
Released: April 8, 2019
Type: TV
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スペシャルドラマ 必殺仕事人
Title: スペシャルドラマ 必殺仕事人
Released: January 7, 2018
Type: Movie
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When Will You Return?
Title: When Will You Return?
Character: Tomoko Ashimura (Present Days)
Released: June 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Tomoko Ashimura types on a computer her memory of her late husband Goro, but Tomoko Ashimura succumbs to a disease. On behalf of Tomoko Ashimura, her grandchild Osamu collects Tomoko’s memoirs. He learns about the love between his grandparents for the past 50 years and the difficult life they faced during and after the Pacific War.
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Title: Yasuragi no Sato A Peaceful Place
Released: April 1, 2017
Type: TV
The drama is set in an retirement home named "Yasuragi no Sato La Strada" where only those who had worked in the TV entertainment industry such as actors, writers, musicians and artists are allowed to live at. Kikumura Sakae, who used to be a popular scriptwriter, lives among the former stars and the problems they face are presented in a humorous manner.
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Black Rose
Title: Black Rose
Character: Shigemi Inui
Released: March 19, 2017
Type: Movie
While investigating a murder case, Kamiki Kyoko finds out the truth behind the death of her father who was a police officer which leads her to the dark secrets within the police force. In order to solve the case and take revenge for her father, Kamiki and her supervisor Orihara must battle the odds against the strong forces trying to cover up the truth.
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必殺仕事人2016
Title: 必殺仕事人2016
Released: September 25, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: コントレール~罪と恋~
Character: 青木 英恵(あおき はなえ)
Released: April 15, 2016
Type: TV
Aya lost her husband in a random murder case. Since then, she raises her son alone and also runs a curry restaurant. She feels she can't be happy again. At that time, Aya meets Ryoji. Ryoji used to be a promising lawyer, but he got involved in the random murder case. He fought against the murderer and killed Aya's husband by accident. Due to the traumatic incident, Ryoji is unable to speak and now drives a truck for a living. Aya and Roji know they can't be together, but they fall deeply in love.
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必殺仕事人2015
Title: 必殺仕事人2015
Released: November 19, 2015
Type: Movie
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Snow Jack
Title: Snow Jack
Character: Tomoe Hiyoshi
Released: August 2, 2014
Type: Movie
A blackmail arrives at Appi ski resort. “We demand 30,000,000 yen as consolation money for the destruction of the environment. If you do not respond to the demand, a time bomb set on the ski slope will be detonated.” If the bomb goes off, it will not only hurt the skiers but trigger an avalanche and cause a major catastrophe. The general manager of the ski pistes, Kurata (Ken Watanabe) pleads for an immediate shutdown of the ski site and reporting to the police, but the president of the ski resort gives priority to business interests and decides to negotiate with the blackmailer. And a negotiation process for a despicable ransom case with a massive hostage of all the skiers at the resort begins.
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必殺仕事人2014
Title: 必殺仕事人2014
Released: July 27, 2014
Type: Movie
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Title: 獣医さん、事件ですよ
Character: Hanae Shiba
Released: July 3, 2014
Type: TV
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Trick Shinsaku Special 3
Title: Trick Shinsaku Special 3
Released: January 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Within a mountain village, the Suijin family has controlled the village for a long time. The three sisters from the Sujin family begin to quarrel over the family inheritance. There, consecutive murders then take place in the village. The murders can only by explained by paranormal phenomenon. Naoko (Yukie Nakama) and Jiro (Hiroshi Abe) attempt to uncover the truth.
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Trick the Movie: Last Stage
Title: Trick the Movie: Last Stage
Character: Satomi Yamada
Released: January 11, 2014
Type: Movie
Trade company employee Shinichi recommends to Naoko and Jiro to go to a beautiful place abroad. There, Naoko and Jiro meets tribal shaman and sees through her tricks. The shaman has refused to leave her place.
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トリック 母之泉篇 腸完全版
Title: トリック 母之泉篇 腸完全版
Released: December 20, 2013
Type: Movie
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必殺仕事人2013
Title: 必殺仕事人2013
Released: February 17, 2013
Type: Movie
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The Housekeeper
Title: The Housekeeper
Character: Shigeko Inamura
Released: December 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Nobuko is a plain, unattractive woman with disheveled hair, and is hired as a housekeeper in the Inamura residence in Tokyo. The Inamuras are a family of six. The father, Tatsuya, is the head of a university hospital's department of internal medicine. He lives with his wife Haruko, their three sons, and Tatsuya's mother, Shigeko. Although the Inamuras appear to be a happy family, Nobuko soon uncovers the truth.
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Hissatsu Shigotonin 2012
Title: Hissatsu Shigotonin 2012
Character: Watanabe Ko
Released: February 19, 2012
Type: Movie
This show is based on the jidaigeki TV series “Hissatsu Shigotonin,” which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. Shigotonin is a group of hired assassins to bring justice to those who were able to escape the long arm of the law. Noriyuki Higashiyama and Masahiro Matsuoka return from the 2009 special. Emi Wakui and Koki Tanaka are new in this TV movie.
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Title: DOCTORS: The Ultimate Surgeon
Character: Tamaki Dogami
Released: October 27, 2011
Type: TV
Donoue General Hospital runs into a budget deficit, even though the doctors drive expensive imported cars and live an outlandish lifestyle. Office manager Momoi finds surgeon Kosuke Sagara through a medical website. Kosuke Sagara arrives at the hospital and tells the director of the general hospital to decide on his pay after watching his work. Kosuke Sagara informs the hospital that he had previously quit his job at a university hospital and taken a year sabbatical.
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Title: Mother-in-Law VS. Daughter-in-Law
Character: Shino Kagura
Released: November 1, 2010
Type: TV
A home drama about the clash between a former career woman and the madam of a distinguished Japanese inn.
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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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Trick Shinsaku Special 2
Title: Trick Shinsaku Special 2
Character: Satomi Yamada
Released: May 15, 2010
Type: Movie
Ueda, Naoko, Yabe Kenzo and his partner Akiba are back in a new Trick special. Ueda Jiro is summoned to investigate serial killings that are likely to happen again during a festival to take place in a small village in Okayama. The victims are persons who took an oath under a local tradition but were dumped by their partners afterwards. The festival is marked by the return to the village of a strange woman by the name of Higashizaki Ayano, who had left 20 years ago after the death of her husband and son. The Saionji family, which is the most influential in the city, dislikes the fact
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Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale
Title: Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale
Character: Satomi Yamada
Released: May 8, 2010
Type: Movie
Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama), a female magician, and Jiro Ueda (Hiroshi Abe), a genius physicist, are back again to solve the mystery of supernatural happenings. In a village where people are cured, a battle royale is held to find the successor for shamen Kamahaeri. Naoko attempts to gain big money by participating in the battle royale, while Jiro is invited to the village to stop this custom. Naoko and Ueda then challenges this amazing trick ..
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Title: My Husband is a Cartoonist
Character: Toshi Iida
Released: March 29, 2010
Type: TV
The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, the wife of Gegege no Kitaro mangaka Mizuki Shigeru. The story revolves around the life of the married couple, told from the perspective of Mura. --Tokyograph
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The Triumphant Return of General Rouge
Title: The Triumphant Return of General Rouge
Character: Nurse Fujiwara
Released: March 7, 2009
Type: Movie
A year after the celebrated cracking of “The Glorious Team Batista” case, the talented medical staff at Tojo University Hospital once again finds itself embroiled in a web of intrigue and scandal.The scandal occurs this time in the ER when a mysterious letter arrives for Dr. Kimiko Taguichi. The letter reads: “Chief Surgeon Hayami of the Emergency Center has a collusive relationship with a medical supplies maker. And the head nurse is in on it with him.” An unimaginable truth then awaits.
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Title: Mission To Kill
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.
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Hissatsu shigotonin 2009
Title: Hissatsu shigotonin 2009
Character: Watanabe Ko
Released: January 4, 2009
Type: Movie
This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.
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Postman
Title: Postman
Character: Sonoko Kinoshita
Released: March 22, 2008
Type: Movie
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The Glorious Team Batista
Title: The Glorious Team Batista
Character: Nurse Fujiwara
Released: February 9, 2008
Type: Movie
Toho university hospital has established an outstanding coronary surgery team under the leadership of a up and coming, star, U.S. trained surgeon that specializes in the highly risky "Batista" procedure to shrink the size of enlarged hearts. Normally this procedure has only a 60% success rate, but "Team Batista" has achieved a run of 26 straight successes....when suddenly 3 patients in a row die on the operating table. Very disturbed, the lead surgeon requests an independent investigation. The hospital turns to Dr. Taguchi who is a specialist in psychosomatic disorders who is shocked to at the assignment because she knows nothing in particular about surgery. Assured, however, that this very lack of insider specialized knowledge is in fact the "objectivity" required, she diligently begins to investigate in her own polite, but persistent manner.
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Rokumeikan
Title: Rokumeikan
Character: Narration (voice)
Released: January 5, 2008
Type: Movie
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Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007
Title: Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007
Character: Watanabe Ko
Released: July 7, 2007
Type: Movie
A violent fire one evening kills a husband and wife couple and burns their Kazusaya rice shop to ashes. Their daughter Sachi manages to make it out alive, but she claims the fire was set by henchmen from the rival Harimaya shop who abducted her sister. After policeman Watanabe Shogoro hears her story, he begins investigating the case, but desperate to avenge her parents' deaths, Sachi later enlists the aid of a mysterious woman who offers to kill Harimaya for a price. Watanabe soon discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
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Title: Wives Make the World Go Round
Character: Morifuku Chiyoko / Tachibana Miyuki
Released: July 5, 2007
Type: TV
Tachibana Makoto, a manager of an omusubi cafe. One day, she meets Sanshiro, a secretary at a paper shredder company, and half a year later, they already decide to get married. But when Makoto meets Sanshiro's family, a battle begins between her and her mother-in-law. The daughter-in-law, who is a "workaholic" career woman and wife, and her mother-in-law, who is a "model full-time housewife," begin to fight against each other on their values and pride!
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Trick: The Movie 2
Title: Trick: The Movie 2
Character: Satomi Yamada
Released: June 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Ueda employes Yamada to go a mysterious island in search of a girl (played by Maki Horikita) that disappeared 10 years ago. They discover the island is run by Kobako Sachiko, who can appear and disappear via boxes, among other strange powers.
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Title: Seven Female Lawyers
Character: Misako Sugimura
Released: April 13, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: 弁護士二重丸承子 赤い不在証明(アリバイ)
Released: November 14, 2005
Type: TV
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Trick Shinsaku Special
Title: Trick Shinsaku Special
Released: November 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Ueda joins other professors to debunk a spirtualist, Midorikawa Shouko, who claims she knows when people will die. The professors die one by one. Introduction of Yabe's Otaku assistant, Akiba.
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Title: Haru and Natsu
Character: Natsu Yamabe
Released: October 2, 2005
Type: TV
As Haru emigrates from Japan with her family to the coffee plantations in Brazil, Natsu is left behind in the care of spiteful relatives. Losing all contact, each must make her own way in an unforgiving world. Hardships abound in the struggle to survive in war-torn Japan and in the face of anti-Japanese sentiment in Brazil, financial ruin, familial pressure, abandonment and lost love. However they also experience the precious joy of survival and success. Now, after 70 years, Haru comes back to Japan to find her estranged sister.
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Title: Dragon Sakura
Character: Yuriko Tatsuno
Released: July 8, 2005
Type: TV
A struggling lawyer, Kenji Sakuragi, takes a position at private school Tatsuyama Gakuen to pay off his debts. Kenji decides to try to turn this hopeless school into one of the elite institutions in Japan to help rejuvenate his career. His barometer of success will be to get five of his students admitted to the prestigious Tokyo University the following year. But rather than cramming them with lots of general information, his down-to-earth class concentrates on unknown techniques for passing the entrance examination and how to live a good life in these turbulent times. His refreshing outlook and strategy may just be what is needed to turn around the future prospects of himself and his students and teach the rest of us a thing or two as well!
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Title: Let's Meet in a Dream
Character: 生田華子
Released: April 14, 2005
Type: TV
Hatsumi Kitahara (Akiko Yada) is a 26-year-old dental hygienist living with her father Kyotaro (Kyozo Nagatsuka) and grandmother Hanako (Yoko Nogiwa). Her ideas of happiness is to have an ordinary life, get a job then get married then live life happily ever after. She has been living carefree by herself since she was in college. But six months ago, due to her mother¹s death she has started to live with her father again. Every day is now filled with small conflicts. Hatsumi works at a dental office operated by Ryohei Noma (Manabu Oshio). Her co-workers are all female, further attesting the fact that she has no luck with men. Then one day all of a sudden Ryohei proposes to her. Furthermore Keiichiro Fujita, an IT millionaire, asks her out to dinner. Then she meets her ex boyfriend a second time, which wants to be with her again. Now all of a sudden her surroundings are in a flurry. The father daughter living is now swept up in a wave of upheaval. Hatsumi willy-nilly must now face her "marriage" and "family". The battle for her life and dreams now begins.
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Title: Till the Battery Runs Out
Released: April 22, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Atarashii Kaze
Released: April 15, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: 温泉(秘)大作戦
Released: February 21, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Princess Hiro
Character: Hisako Saga
Released: November 1, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Ooku
Released: June 3, 2003
Type: TV
The mini-series revolves around the harem of a shogun in the Edo Period in Japan. The women jostle and compete with one another and with their lord and on occasion even wield more power than their master.
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Title: Always Smiling
Character: Misako Yuzuhara
Released: April 13, 2003
Type: TV
Yumi, a 23-year-old office worker, is fired from her job out of the blue. A few days later, coming from a friend's wedding and having no time to change out of her kimono, she is rushing to an interview for a job at a publishing company. Yumi stumbles into the room, looking for somewhere to change out of her kimono, and finds popular comic book writer Reijiro Sakurai is having an editorial meeting with some staff. He is planning to lock himself away at a hot spring for the next three months to concentrate on his next project. Sakurai comments that if Yumi were to join him he wouldn't mind being away for so long..., and so their adventure begins.
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Title: Officer Ichiro
Released: January 15, 2003
Type: TV
A big case hits Tamagawa Police Station - persons unknown murdered a family of four. The time of death was estimated to be between 10:30 p.m. on January 3 and 12:30 a.m. on January 4, 2003. A special investigative team is quickly established with talented officers from headquarters and other stations. Several detectives from the Tamagawa Station join the team, including a young uninspiring Ichiro. However, soon after entering the team's office, Ichiro is pulled off the case. It is ostensibly because he is investigating a case against the orders of his superiors...
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Trick: The Movie
Title: Trick: The Movie
Character: Satomi Yamada
Released: November 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing as a god. When a series of bizarre incidents occur, Naoko is cornered with a genius physicist (Hiroshi Abe) and Detective Yabe (Katsuhisa Namase). Do deities actually exist, or are they charlatans?
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Meirosou no sangeki
Title: Meirosou no sangeki
Character: Ito
Released: September 30, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Handoku!!!
Released: October 10, 2001
Type: TV
As a former gang member, Hazama Ichiban witnessed the worst side of the emergency medical system and vowed to become a doctor to change it. With the aggressive passion he learned on the streets, Ichiban has worked his way to becoming a no-nonsense emergency medicine resident. But it is this same passion that he must learn to control when confronted with a situation beyond his help.
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Shin Kyoto Meikyu Annai SP
Title: Shin Kyoto Meikyu Annai SP
Released: October 4, 2001
Type: Movie
Twenty-five years after Tajima, an unfairly treated office worker, filed a lawsuit for the company's collusion, he won the Supreme Court in reverse. Sugiura, who learned this from TV news, celebrates by himself. Twenty-five years ago, Sugiura, who was still a national newspaper reporter, had the history of interviewing Tajima and his wife Midori first and writing an article.
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Title: Honmamon
Character: Senkeini Sakurai
Released: October 1, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Neverland
Released: July 6, 2001
Type: TV
Seiran Gakuen is an exclusive private boys' high school. It's the start of the summer break and Yoshikuni has decided to spend this year's summer at the school's Shoraikan dormitory, as have Mitsuhiro, Kanji and Iwatsuki. All four boys have their own reasons for not going home. Yoshikuni's girlfriend is Hiroko, but with his own reasons, he tells her he doesn't want to see her for a while. Hiroko isn't satisfied with this but Yoshikuni keeps on avoiding her. On their first day, Yoshikuni and Mitsuhiro set out to buy food for dinner. They bumped into Osamu, a day student. Hiroko and her friend Aki turns up. Aki asks Yoshikuni why he dumped Hiroko for no apparent reason. Hiroko can't take it any more and bursts into tears. Takagi who lives in the dormitory next door sees this. Some days later, Mitsuhiro's step-mother Keiko visits the Shoraikan dormitory. He is cold-hearted towards her, like a different person. (Source: DramaWiki)
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All About Our House
Title: All About Our House
Character: Setsuko Iijima
Released: June 9, 2001
Type: Movie
Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortunately, Yanagisawa isn’t licensed to build homes, so they call in the wife’s father, a retired carpenter, to help out. When Yanagisawa’s contemporary ideas clash with the old carpenter’s traditional Japanese methods, the project becomes a huge mess.
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Surgeon Makoto Saeki's Homicide Chart
Title: Surgeon Makoto Saeki's Homicide Chart
Character: Tomiko Hirai
Released: March 3, 2001
Type: Movie
Saeki, a doctor at a small local clinic, receives a visit from Sayaka, the younger sister of his late friend, who informs him about her wedding. However, a few days later, Sayaka is found suspiciously dead inside her own apartment with a white ribbon wrapped around her neck!
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Title: Salaryman Kintaro
Released: February 18, 2001
Type: TV
Kintarō Yajima used to be the leader of a feared and respected biker gang, but out of respect for his late wife he chooses to straighten himself out and work as a salaryman so that he can support his son.
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Drowning Fish
Title: Drowning Fish
Released: February 3, 2001
Type: Movie
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate "Oboreru Sakana". The "big guns" are a misfit duo of ethically questionable characters who must infiltrate a gay nightclub and "fit in" while they search for clues. What ensues is both hilarious and action-packed. Oboreru Sakana is a rather ambitious and often hilarious contemporary crime thriller. Its narrative swings from the grisly to the humorous and pulls in as many pop culture elements as it can manage.
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Title: Wakaresaseya
Released: January 8, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: 17年目のパパへ
Released: January 4, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Trick
Character: Satomi Yamada
Released: July 7, 2000
Type: TV
Although 23 year old Yamada Naoko is a "super" magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her landlady for the rent being late. After being fired once again, her boss shows her an ad of a physics professor, a non-believer of all things magical, offering money to anyone who can prove to him that magic is real. Desperately needing the money, Naoko accepts the challenge, which is how she comes to meet Professor Ueda. Falling prey to her simple magic tricks, Ueda is impressed, and enlists Naoko to help him uncover the tricks behind a local cult. Their hilarious antics, along with those of police officer Yabe, leads them onto further mysteries, all with tricks needing to be solved in sort of an "X-Files" meets "Scooby-Doo"...
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Title: 臨床心理士
Character: Yaeko Nakamura
Released: May 2, 2000
Type: TV
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White-Collar Worker Kintaro
Title: White-Collar Worker Kintaro
Character: Kayo Nakamura
Released: November 13, 1999
Type: Movie
Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox tactics cause trouble with his colleagues. He is transferred to a tiny countryside branch, where he butts heads with his lazy superior until the two men discover a plot by the competition to put the construction company out of bussiness. With the help of his old biker friends, Kintaro prepares to confront the masterminds behind the scheme.
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Title: Doctor
Released: July 4, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: THE DOCTOR
Released: July 4, 1999
Type: TV
Set in a large hospital, this moving human drama depicts the conflicts and struggles of two young doctors as they face their patients with conviction and passion.
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Title: Kyōto Meikyū Annai
Released: January 14, 1999
Type: TV
A masterpiece of human mystery in which newspaper reporter Sugiura, played by Isao Hashizume, takes a sharp look at the inner workings of events and people!
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Title: Salaryman Kintaro
Character: Kayo Nakamura
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: TV
Kintaro Yajima comes to Tokyo and is hired by Yamato Construction Company when he saves the life of the company's CEO. A former leader of a motorcycle gang, Kintaro is known for his highly principled and forthright way of dealing with matters and is never afraid to tell his superiors exactly what he thinks. This has a tendency of irritating some; but when corruption from within the company begins to surface, he may be the only one who can stand up to it.
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Title: Frozen Summer
Character: Shinagawa Haruko
Released: July 6, 1998
Type: TV
The Oikawa children are still coming to terms with the death of their mother and the addition of a stepmother. The head of the family takes out his frustration on the children, inflicting mental and physical wounds, while the children’s lives outside the home reflect their abuse as they get into everything from street violence to teenage companion services. A sharp lawyer and new stepmother to the children attempts to forge a stable family, but as she does so the mystery behind her predecessor’s death slowly becomes chillingly clear to her.
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Title: Subarashiki Kazoku Ryokou
Released: July 1, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Sweet Season
Released: January 15, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Glass Mask
Character: Tsukikage Chigusa
Released: July 7, 1997
Type: TV
The Glass Mask drama is based on a very popular manga of the same name by Suzue Miuchi, about a young girl named Maya whose dream is to be an actress. A legendary former stage actress, Tsukikage Chigusa, watches Maya as she reenacts drama episodes she's seen on TV. She approaches Maya and has her join her acting company, Tsukikage Theater. Tsukikage holds the production rights to a legendary masterpiece called "The Crimson Goddess," in which she had played the title role until a terrible accident burnt her face beyond surgical repair. She's been searching all of these years for someone to play the role which only the most talented actress could play, and maybe she's found that someone in Maya... --synopsis by awrittensin
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Title: Risou no Kekkon
Character: Otaki Tomomi
Released: January 17, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Kare
Released: January 7, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: Dear Woman
Character: Ishimaru Emiko
Released: October 13, 1996
Type: TV
Tamon is a young white-collar worker who has spent his entire young career as an athlete, and is accustomed to an all male environment. After retiring from sports, he enters a firm, only to be assigned to the personnel department. Upon arriving, he finds that he is to be trained by the strong-willed Kyoko, and that he is to work on a project to help raise the status of women and awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace, putting him in completely new territory. While gradually coming to terms with his job, he finds himself slowly falling for Kyoko, and being the only one aware of her well guarded secret.
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Title: Hitonatsu no Puropozu
Released: July 5, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Leave It to the Nurses
Released: July 2, 1996
Type: TV
The drama follows Asakura who is training to be a nurse and believes that nursing is the only profession for her, even after repeated failures.
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Supermarket Woman
Title: Supermarket Woman
Character: Visitor
Released: June 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Failing supermarket manager Goro hires the energetic Hanako, his old classmate, to help him compete with a new, rival business in town. Soon, Hanako's ideas and energy completely revitalize the store – but not without ruffling some feathers and sparking some romance along the way.
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Title: SMAP×SMAP
Character: Bistro Guest
Released: April 15, 1996
Type: TV
SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%. Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games.  These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges with their gourmet cooking.  Last is a musical performance by SMAP which may include celebrity guests, as well.
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Title: Kimi to Deatte kara
Released: April 12, 1996
Type: TV
The drama is about a cold-hearted corporate warrior who is involved in a car accident, and how he and the woman who loves him so earnestly struggle with the aftermath of the accident and regain the love in their twisted hearts.
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Title: Hideyoshi
Character: Mitsuhide's Mother
Released: January 7, 1996
Type: TV
A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extraordinary combination of intelligence, bravery and military skill, Hideyoshi rose to near-absolute power and greatly expanded upon Nobunaga's unification of Japan's warlords. This series also focused on Hideyoshi's personal life, particularly his relationships with his mother and his wife, and the pair's rivalry for influence over him.
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Title: One Summer's Love Letter
Released: July 6, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: June Bride
Released: April 14, 1995
Type: TV
A comical depiction of office ladies who have been restructured and struggle to work. Starring Naomi Zaizen, Hiroshi Fuse, Saya Takagi, Hiroshi Abe and Yoko Nogiwa.
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Title: Shizuka Naru Don
Released: October 21, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: My Destiny
Character: Suzuki Mariko
Released: October 11, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: 長男の嫁
Released: April 14, 1994
Type: TV
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Shoot!
Title: Shoot!
Released: March 12, 1994
Type: Movie
The Golden Trio of junior high school soccer players, Toshi, Kenji and Kazu, enroll at the new Kakegawa High School merely because they want to play with Kubo, the legendary player who learned his superb soccer techniques in Germany and who helped the Kakegawa team, which then consisted of freshmen only, win eight place in the all-Japan....
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Title: Sweet Home
Released: January 9, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi
Released: November 17, 1993
Type: TV
A jidaieki drama where a hard-nosed doshin, Shinpachiro Kariya, takes on difficult cases with exquisite teamwork under the supervision of a young magistrate.
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The Anthropology of a Fight Scene
Title: The Anthropology of a Fight Scene
Released: November 13, 1993
Type: Movie
A man must overcome many obstacles as he works his way through the dangerous crime world to the level of yakuza.
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Title: 誰にも言えない
Released: July 9, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: The Secret
Character: Yamada Aiko
Released: July 9, 1993
Type: TV
Chikako Kaku and Shiro Sano of "I've Always Liked You" (1992) co-star again in a shocking film that depicts the extreme love-hate between a man and a woman with a strong touch of suspense on the theme of marriage. Mario's eccentricities played by Sano attracted even more attention, with the highest viewership of 33.7%. The main character, Kanako (Chikako Kaku), marries her beloved and starts a happy life. Next to it, his former lover, Mario, who abandoned himself, moves in and says that he wants to try again ... The strange love and relationships that begin here, and the "terrifying reverse tama man" Mario extends the devil's hand not only to Kanako but also to her husband. However, Mario was also unaware of his wife's gaze that burned with jealousy of him ... The secret hidden in a love marriage that "cannot be told to anyone" is gradually revealed. The theme song was written by Yumi Matsutoya for the first time in 17 years and became a big hit "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
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Title: ダブル・キッチン
Released: April 16, 1993
Type: TV
A heartwarming situation comedy about a newlywed couple sharing a house with the husband's parents in a suburb of Tokyo. Ordinary situations become hilarious cross-generational battlegrounds, as the wife and her mother-in-law pursue vastly different images of the ideal family. --TBS
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Distant Justice
Title: Distant Justice
Character: Hiroko
Released: December 1, 1992
Type: Movie
After his daughter is kidnapped and his wife murdered by drug dealers, a man finds that the gang is protected by corrupt politicians, and sets out to wipe out the gang and expose the politicians.
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The Drive
Title: The Drive
Released: May 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Kono Takeshi has given up work as an electrician to run a gift-shop business with his partner/mistress Rieko, who's a couple of years older than him. When the company faces bankruptcy Kono wants to quit, but Rieko strings him along with the promise of a large cash investment, the proceeds of a real-estate deal. Her actual plan to raise the money is to kidnap a young woman and demand a ransom for her release. The trouble is, it never occurs to her to keep the victim alive before trying to extort the cash. And when things start to go wrong, Rieko responds by murdering another girl and attempting another ransom scam..
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Balloon
Title: Balloon
Released: May 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.
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Company Executives
Title: Company Executives
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: Movie
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
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The Political Game
Title: The Political Game
Released: May 3, 1989
Type: Movie
This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. Noritaka Sakamoto was in charge of photography, and Kentaro Haneda was in charge of music direction. It depicts how an honest candidate aiming for a clean election campaign gradually collapses in the face of various realities. Kiyokawa, the mayor of Higurashi City, died at his lover's house. Yoshihiko announces that he will conduct a clean election campaign, but his sponsors and backers are reluctant.
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Until Spring Comes
Title: Until Spring Comes
Released: April 6, 1989
Type: Movie
Living with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate love of a middle-aged man who forcefully enters her heart, but she eventually opens up to him, as depicted in the beautiful images of Kamakura from fall to winter and then to early spring.
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Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
Title: Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
Released: January 14, 1989
Type: Movie
Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who dies in an accident and experiences the afterlife as a spirit. The leading role is Tamba Tetsuro's biological son, Tamba Yoshitaka.
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The Blue Mountains '88
Title: The Blue Mountains '88
Character: Fusako Terazawa
Released: October 15, 1988
Type: Movie
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Title: Dakishimetai!
Released: July 7, 1988
Type: TV
Asako Ikeuchi and Natsuko Hayakawa have been close friends for more than 25 years. Natsuko's husband Keisuke had affairs, so she asks Asako to let her stay at her house. Keisuke was once Asako's boyfriend. They will soon be 30 years old. There are other nice guys around Asako. It's a drama about their love and friendship.
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There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
Title: There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
Released: December 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young officer named Shinobu Ijuin. Because of his family’s noble status, Benio must first undergo rigorous training to learn how to be a proper bride and wife before she can marry. However, because of her vivacious personality, this proves to me more challenging than anyone imagined.
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Be Free!
Title: Be Free!
Character: Yoshiko Hasegawa
Released: August 9, 1986
Type: Movie
Adventures of a young high school teacher and his oddball students.
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Eve in a Summer Dress
Title: Eve in a Summer Dress
Released: July 7, 1984
Type: Movie
Young lovers Makiko and Hidekazu break up because of misunderstanding. Makiko flies to New Zealand and soon recovers. When she is about to marry a man who really loves her, Hidekazu suddenly appears in her life again... Between a man who loves her and a man she loves, how would Makiko's choice be?
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Kabamaru the Ninja Boy
Title: Kabamaru the Ninja Boy
Released: August 6, 1983
Type: Movie
Kabamaru is a young boy raised and trained by his grandfather as a ninja. After the sudden death of his grandfather, he starts living with Mai, his grandfather’s mistress, who is a school director. He is asked to help out on struggles against other schools, as he is master of the ninja mystical arts. As time passes he will make lots of friends as well as enemies, and fall in love with Mai.
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Ooku Hankachou
Title: Ooku Hankachou
Released: May 13, 1983
Type: Movie
Can't find an English synopsis. Ooku Special that aired May 13th, 1983 on Fuji TV.
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Onna no naka no akuma
Title: Onna no naka no akuma
Released: July 17, 1982
Type: Movie
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Shogun's Ninja
Title: Shogun's Ninja
Character: Chiyo
Released: November 15, 1980
Type: Movie
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the treasured gold. Spanning decades, the quest for the missing daggers takes Shiranui through war and ancient tradition.
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Port Arthur
Title: Port Arthur
Character: Shizuko Nogi
Released: August 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
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Murder in the Doll House
Title: Murder in the Doll House
Character: Maiko Udai
Released: April 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Yūsaku Matsuda plays the part of a private detective in this modern day "who dunnit" mystery, full of suspense, thrills and chills.
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Title: The Super Girl
Character: Yuko Hirose
Released: April 2, 1979
Type: TV
A sexy action series about the activities of seven female detectives working in the detective agency 'Super Girl Seven', led by Yuko Hirose, who quit her job as a police officer.
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September Sky
Title: September Sky
Released: December 2, 1978
Type: Movie
Kobayashi Isamu, a first-year high school student, lives in a family of four with his father, an artist, his mother, an insurance agent, and his sister, an office worker. To make ends meet, he works as a milkman. At school, he is a member of the kendo club and spends his days working out with his seniors. Over time, he has various encounters with a series of girls.
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A Scream from Nowhere
Title: A Scream from Nowhere
Character: Kyôko Uekusa
Released: June 18, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy industrialist who may have been leading a double life.
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Professional Killers
Title: Professional Killers
Character: Yoshi
Released: June 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...
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Detective Story: A Brother's Rule
Title: Detective Story: A Brother's Rule
Released: March 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Iwabuchi of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division cooperates with Kubo of the Foreign Affairs Division in re-investigating the case of a foreign drug addict's death at the request of Kubo.
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Good-bye Moscow
Title: Good-bye Moscow
Character: Sakai, Yuko
Released: March 27, 1968
Type: Movie
Ex-jazz pianist turned promoter finds he is successful, but empty. When an entrepreneur sends him to Moscow with a jazz combo, he falls in with the dissident youth of the city, and again finds life empty.
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The Code of Man
Title: The Code of Man
Released: February 13, 1968
Type: Movie
Tetsuya Watari, a modern youth idol, co-stars with Tetsuro Tamba for the first time, and a young man who survives freely is an action giant who swings down the iron arm of justice and anger toward evil
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Secret Assignment
Title: Secret Assignment
Character: Asai
Released: June 17, 1967
Type: Movie
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.
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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Title: The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Released: February 3, 1966
Type: Movie
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
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Title: コードナンバー108 7人のリブ
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV