Morooka Moro

Morooka Moro

Born: February 20, 1959
in Yachimata, Chiba, Japan

Movies for Morooka Moro...

Title: House of Ninjas
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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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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Perfect Days
Title: Perfect Days
Character: Bar Regular
Released: November 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
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The Moon
Title: The Moon
Released: October 13, 2023
Type: Movie
Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.
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Wandering Memories
Title: Wandering Memories
Released: July 17, 2023
Type: Movie
Shiori, who has been searching for her missing son, meets an information pawnbroker who is able to exchange the information you want for an equivalent memory. Despite her father’s concern, Shiori entrusts her own precious memory to the pawnbroker....
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Title: Legal Enforcement With Dogs
Character: Sukagawa Satoru
Released: July 4, 2023
Type: TV
Yoshino Hikari is a young woman with a bright and friendly personality. She quits her job working at a credit association in her hometown in order to move to Tokyo and work at a pet salon. Unfortunately, the salon she works for goes bankrupt and she loses her job, but somehow she manages to impress Bailiff Obara Itsuki who is the one carrying out the work. Obara Itsuki is not comfortable being around dogs, but the animals all seem to like Hikari. Obara sees this “gift” as an opportunity, and as a result, Hikari forms an uneven partnership with Obara and begins a new career path as a bailiff assistant.
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Title: Mama Is a Bartender: Let's Dance Tonight
Character: Harada Toshiyuki
Released: January 19, 2023
Type: TV
Hoshino Akari is a single mother who, after losing her husband, struggles to maintain the balance between her dual role of raising her two children while carrying out her duties as a bartender. In her job serving cocktails to troubled customers at BAR 1511, she listens empathetically and solves their troubles with her kind words of advice.
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A Man
Title: A Man
Character: Kaori's Father
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
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The Divine Protector - Master Salt Begins
Title: The Divine Protector - Master Salt Begins
Character: Kitamura
Released: October 21, 2022
Type: Movie
At 7:07 PM, the occult club members are holding a ritual ceremony to summon “Master Salt” in Kamono Girls’ Highschool in Tokyo, to help one of the members, Nanako, who has been struck by mysterious incidents. They draw a pentagon and a circle with purified salt and burn a sealed envelope with a written wish. Out of nowhere, the divine protector, Master Salt appears with a blast of wind. She sees through the identity of the spirit that cursed Nanako and repels the curse. After that event, Nanako and her friends ask Master Salt to repel the curses that bring misery to people. They discover that this world is full of people who curse others. What will Master Salt and the girls encounter in the battle against a powerful enemy?
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The Divine Protector: Master Salt Begins
Title: The Divine Protector: Master Salt Begins
Released: October 7, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: HOTEL -NEXT DOOR-
Character: Muramoto Saburo
Released: September 10, 2022
Type: TV
Set in the present era of intensified hotel competition and depicts the decline and crisis of Hotel Platon.
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I Want to Walk in the Sun Someday
Title: I Want to Walk in the Sun Someday
Released: September 2, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: Octo: Emotional Investigator Shinno Akari
Released: July 7, 2022
Type: TV
Shinno Akari is a detective with a special ability. She is able to see the eight human emotions in color. Due to a case, she teams up with Detective Kazehaya Ryo. They work together to reveal the truth behind heinous crimes.
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Title: Police in a Pod
Released: July 7, 2021
Type: TV
20-year-old rookie police officer Kawai Mai works hard at a police box and feels both physically and mentally drained. She has never felt appreciated even though she supposedly works for the sake of the area’s residents. In addition, she does not find working at a police box rewarding. Mai is about to hand in her resignation when she meets 30-year-old Fuji Seiko, the former ace detective of the Criminal Investigations Division. Seiko is said to have been forced to transfer to the police box for harassing a subordinate at work but … … This encounter between Mai and Seiko will significantly change their lives as they are suddenly paired up. This odd pair struggle to help and support each other in cases, routine duties and romance?! And Seiko’s true reason for coming to the police box is revealed.
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Beautiful Lure: A Modern Tale of Painted Skin
Title: Beautiful Lure: A Modern Tale of Painted Skin
Released: May 14, 2021
Type: Movie
With both beauty and wit, Maiko looks for a man who suits her. One night, she finds Taro, a candidate for the prime minister. Everything goes well as she plans, but he finds out she's actually a "youma" who destroys the country. What's their destiny?
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Title: Rider Time: Kamen Rider Decade VS Zi-O
Character: Old Man
Released: February 9, 2021
Type: TV
Yusuke Onodera wakes up with several familiar-looking strangers in a mysterious house on an isolated island with no memory of how they all got there. A creepy figure on the television indicates they must play the games he demands... and the penalties for losing are deadly!
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Title: Unsung Cinderella, Midori, The Hospital Pharmacist
Character: Kensuke Kamoi
Released: July 16, 2020
Type: TV
Aoi Midori is a pharmacist and in the 8-year span of her career, she has worked according to her strong belief that "One must know the patient well in order to prescribe the correct medication as medicine is the bond that connects the patient's today to his/her daily life henceforth". Due to that, Aoi usually takes a long time in her consultations with the patients, and this causes her to be complained by her colleagues for being too inefficient in her work. Aoi shrugs off the complaints as her goal is to help the patients regain the daily life that they once took for granted.
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Title: Gourmet Detective Goro Akechi
Character: 執事・小松崎
Released: April 12, 2020
Type: TV
Detective Goro Akechi has a passion for fine dining. Good-looking but incredibly quirky, he solves food-related crimes by using, well, food. He treats Ichigo Kobayashi like his assistant and drags her into all sorts of cases, even though she's perfectly happy just running her food truck.
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Title: Gourmet Detective Goro Akechi
Character: Komatsuzaki / Butler
Released: April 12, 2020
Type: TV
Detective Goro Akechi has a passion for fine dining. Good-looking but incredibly quirky, he solves food-related crimes by using, well, food. He treats Ichigo Kobayashi like his assistant and drags her into all sorts of cases, even though she's perfectly happy just running her food truck.
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Title: The Road to Red Restaurant List
Character: Sato Hideki [Hidemi's husband] (Ep. 12)
Released: January 25, 2020
Type: TV
Suda Tamio is an ordinary salaryman. He experiences various stress throughout his daily life. His only pleasure is to set out on trips to find "Zetsumeshi." Zetsumeshi refers to endangered meals, that may no longer exist in the future. While his wife Kanae and child go attend concerts by their favourite idol groups, he leaves home on Friday after work and returns home Saturday night.
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The Manga Master
Title: The Manga Master
Character: Yukichi Fukuzawa
Released: November 30, 2019
Type: Movie
Biopic about the life of Kitazawa Rakuten, who laid the foundation for the Japanese manga industry.
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Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze
Title: Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze
Character: Yasuda Tsuyoshi
Released: October 25, 2019
Type: Movie
An omnibus featuring four stories about the four seasons.
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The Promised Land
Title: The Promised Land
Released: October 18, 2019
Type: Movie
A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.
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When a Tree Falls
Title: When a Tree Falls
Released: September 21, 2019
Type: Movie
A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son’s death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunders by multiple people.
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Title: This is Not a Business Expense!
Character: Souichiro Niijima
Released: July 26, 2019
Type: TV
Sanako Moriwaka (Mikako Tabe) is single and works in the accounting department of a soap company. For her job, she checks receipts and bills. Each slip that she reviews, mentions only the dollar amount and a brief reason for the expense. When Sanako Moriwaka reviews the slips, she can often discern suspicious facts surrounding the expense or even troubles in the lives of the employee.
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The Fable
Title: The Fable
Character: Restaurant Master
Released: June 21, 2019
Type: Movie
The Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a "normal life" in Osaka.
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Title: Everyone’s Demoted!!
Released: April 21, 2019
Type: TV
Hiroshi Kataoka works at a bank. He receives a promotion to manager of the Kamata branch. He is also informed that the Kamata branch will be shut down and he does not have to work hard. After the branch's shutdown, he will work again at the bank's headquarters. Hiroshi Kataoka is embarrassed by the situation. He sees the branch employees work hard and they do not know the branch will close. Hiroshi Kataoka is conflicted between his job and his employees.
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Title: The New King
Released: January 8, 2019
Type: TV
Koshiro runs a temp agency experiencing financial distress. Koshiro dreams of becoming a successful businessman. Akiba who was once a successful businessman, is now working on developing apps in Koshiro’s office. Isao runs a successful investment company and dominates people with his wealth. Akiba and Isao team up to buy a Tokyo broadcasting station.
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Lenses on Her Heart
Title: Lenses on Her Heart
Released: September 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile. He gradually falls for Akane, who soothes him with her positive outlook and cheerful disposition, but Akane has a boyfriend who has a limited amount of time left to live.
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Riding Uphill
Title: Riding Uphill
Released: May 26, 2018
Type: Movie
A former pro-baseball player finds his passion again in Keirin, a professional bicycle racing sport.
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Title: Miss Devil
Character: Yoji Kunimoto
Released: April 14, 2018
Type: TV
Human resources consultant Tsubaki Mako has been dubbed the "devil of human resources" for her iron-fisted ways. She struts her way into a well-established firm and tackles sexual harassment, power harassment, bitter rivalries between factions, and monstrous employees, all of which are issues that can strike any company, with her extreme methods. Mako is like a devil who solves problems with her bold tactics.
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Title: Signal
Released: April 10, 2018
Type: TV
Two detectives communicate through a walkie-talkie to solve a cold case. One detective exists in the present day, and the other detective exists 15 years in the past.
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Title: Mob Psycho 100
Released: January 12, 2018
Type: TV
An inconspicuous middle school psychic confronts an organization plotting to use other psychics to rule the world. Based on the hit manga.
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Ah, Wilderness: Part 2
Title: Ah, Wilderness: Part 2
Character: Takeo Niki
Released: October 21, 2017
Type: Movie
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
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Ah, Wilderness: Part 1
Title: Ah, Wilderness: Part 1
Character: Takeo Niki
Released: October 7, 2017
Type: Movie
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
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Lemmings no Natsu
Title: Lemmings no Natsu
Released: October 1, 2017
Type: Movie
The urban legend that "Scissors-san", who cuts elementary school students with scissors, appears in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, has become a hot topic. Around the same time, fellow junior high school students, Chiba Akira and Minamiki Shuhei of the good friend group "Lemmings", have a plan to regain the days lost by the events that occurred in the summer of the second grade of elementary school six years ago.
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Title: ヒトヤノトゲ~獄の棘~
Released: March 19, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Swim!
Character: Isomura Kunio
Released: January 22, 2017
Type: TV
Higashigaoka High School’s male swimming club presently has only three second-year members – leader Sakaki Shuhei, Shinozuka Daiki and Koganei Haruyoshi. They welcome the new school year with the aim of getting members.
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Title: Zero: Dragon Blood
Released: January 7, 2017
Type: TV
Rei Suzumura continues to hunt Horrors in a certain city. One day, he meets a young woman in love with photography, Alice Hiromi. After witnessing Makai Knight ZERO in action, she develops an interest in Rei. Meanwhile, a carriage crosses a far away bridge. The carriage contains a coffin in which a man lies. That man is none other than the Dragon Knight, who used the power of Dragons to hunt Horrors.
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Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Title: Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Released: October 22, 2016
Type: Movie
A classmate from Ushijima's middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jobless and without a home. Adrift and unable to borrow money from Ushijima, Takemoto heads for Seiai Home where he can stay while doing work.
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Shin Godzilla
Title: Shin Godzilla
Character: National Police Agency Criminal Investigation Bureau Director-General
Released: July 29, 2016
Type: Movie
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
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Title: 99.9 Criminal Lawyer
Released: April 17, 2016
Type: TV
Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little obsessive. For one thing, he’s only interested in criminal cases, and he will never give up in his pursuit of the truth even if offers only a 0.1% chance of being discovered. Japan’s 99.9% criminal case conviction rate leads the world, attesting to a “highly reliable” judicial system. In other words, once a crime suspect is indicted, prosecutor arguments tend to be accepted hook, line and sinker. In the face of those 99.9% odds, there’s no money in being a defense lawyer specializing in criminal cases, but for Miyama, that’s where the interest and kernels of truth lie. From unexpected places, the mold-breaking Miyama stakes his reputation on a prayer of a chance as he clashes with hotshot lawyers who’ll go to any lengths to win in this gloriously fun, legal mystery.
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Samurai Cat: Tamanojo Goes to Edo
Title: Samurai Cat: Tamanojo Goes to Edo
Released: February 19, 2016
Type: Movie
A prequel to the story of the legendary samurai and one cat. In Edo era, there was a legendary samurai named Kyutaro Madarame who are feared as a "Madara the Devil". He was somehow hired for killing a cat named Tamanojo. Just before Kyutaro slashes on Tamanojo, he realizes that Tamanojo looking into his eyes and said "meow". But why?
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The First Train Runs in Hiroshima
Title: The First Train Runs in Hiroshima
Character: Kojiro Takamura
Released: August 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Only 3 days after A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a streetcar started running through the town burned to the ground. The drivers were teenage girls working for the train company in place of men. The drama is based on a true story of people who strived for the restoration.
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Title: Keiji 7-nin
Character: Nobuhiko Kosaka
Released: July 15, 2015
Type: TV
Amagi Yu is a slightly eccentric detective who has been assigned to the Twelfth Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigative Division from the Lost and Found Centre. The Twelfth Section is called the “graveyard of detectives” and ridiculed as the “banishment room where hardened detectives who cannot be fired are sent”. Its assembled detectives Samura Kosuke, Yamashita Takumi, Nagasawa Keita, Mizutani Tamaki and Katagiri Masatoshi are elite and yet oddballs. Amagi appears fixated with time which seems to have no relation with a case. Raising questions about the timelines of the perpetrator and victim derived from the estimated time of death, time of crime, time of alibi and time limit, he searches for the meaning of “blank time” which arises from this. He obsesses over the weight of every minute and second of time because of some incident.
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A Farewell to Jinu
Title: A Farewell to Jinu
Character: Miyontsuan
Released: April 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not to use money at all. Takeharu decides to move to a small village in the Tohoku region. There, he encounters residents who are not so easy.
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Maestro!
Title: Maestro!
Character: Minoru Suzuki
Released: January 31, 2015
Type: Movie
Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou appears in front of them.
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Title: Ouroboros
Character: Oshitari Koji
Released: January 16, 2015
Type: TV
"Ouroboros" is an ancient symbol that depicts a snake eating its own tail - meaning infinity. Based on a popular comic, a clumsy detective and a cool gang stand up to true evil. Ikuo and Tatsuya grew up in a children's orphanage together. When their favorite teacher, Yuiko, is murdered, a policeman wearing a gold watch covers up the incident. Ikuo and Tatsuya promise each other to avenge their teacher someday. Twenty years later, Ikuo is a detective in Shinjuku second police station investigating various cases with elite detective - Mizuki, while smart and handsome Tatsuya has become one of the top members of a gang group.
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海の斜光
Title: 海の斜光
Released: November 17, 2014
Type: Movie
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Title: Testimony of N
Character: Naruse Shuhei
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: TV
University student Sugishita Nozomi, Naruse Shinji, Ando Nozomi and Nishizaki Masato end up coming upon the scene of the murder of the Noguchi couple, because of a plan they had devised. Nishizaki is arrested at the scene and is given a 10-year prison term because of his voluntary confession. 10 years later, Takano Shigeru, a former police officer who has misgivings about the verdict of this case, starts to pursue the truth. He is convinced that it all began as a result of an incident caused by Nozomi and Naruse on an island in the Seto Inland Sea in the summer 15 years. “They committed a crime at that time. It was for the sake of each N.”
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Cape Nostalgia
Title: Cape Nostalgia
Character: fire department chief
Released: August 29, 2014
Type: Movie
Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are beginning to blow.
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My Man
Title: My Man
Character: Taoka
Released: June 14, 2014
Type: Movie
As a young child, Hana loses her family to a devastating tsunami that wipes out her town. At a shelter, distant relative Jungo sees her wandering and adopts her as his daughter.
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Title: TEAM -警視庁特別犯罪捜査本部
Released: April 16, 2014
Type: TV
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Bad Child
Title: Bad Child
Released: April 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Masashi, a 15 years old school boy and so-called 'overprotected child', lives with his parents in the suburbs of Tokyo. Poised to graduate from middle school as per his parents' hope and expectations, Masashi experiences an incident during spring break that changes his life forever.
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Title: Miss Pilot
Released: October 15, 2013
Type: TV
Haru Tezuka's parents run a bar in Kamata, Tokyo. She is honest and bright, but she can't lie which sometimes causes her to get in trouble. Haru finds it difficult to get a job. Haru then notices an application guideline from airline company ANA (All Nippon Airways). Haru, who never thought of working in the airline industry, decides to take a test for the airline company. She first attends a company presentation by ANA. There, she sees elite persons who have dreamed of becoming pilots for lengthy periods of time and airplane enthusiasts. She becomes overwhelmed by them. Haru is indecisive about whether she wants to go through with it, but she manages to barely pass her test. Now, Haru wants to become a pilot, but what awaits for her is harsh training.
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Title: Hanzawa Naoki
Character: 角田
Released: July 7, 2013
Type: TV
Hanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day, Hanzawa makes a loan contract for 500 million yen with Nishi Osaka Steel Company. Hanzawa didn't want to approve the loan, but he had to due to the branch manager's order. Nishi Osaka Steel Company seems financially stable, but the company actually hides massive amounts of debt through fraudulent accounts. The company is caught. Three months later, Nishi Osaka Steel Company goes bankrupt. The bank's branch manager is Asano. He is an ambitious man and tries to shift the blame to Hanzawa. Hanzawa then attends an inquiry about the loan failure at the bank's headquarters in Tokyo. Hanzawa denies fault and promises to retrieve the 500 million yen loan. He did this because it's the only way for Hanzawa to survive as a banker.
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Title: Double Tone: Two Yumi
Character: Joichiro Hayashi
Released: June 29, 2013
Type: TV
A story of friendship and conflict of two people named Yumi, which transcends time and space.
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Title: Kumokiri Nizaemon
Released: April 10, 2013
Type: TV
During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, and all across the Kansai region, stealing large sums of money with skillful techniques. They only target the very wealthy and never kill or injure people. They appear with the clouds and disappear like the mist. On the night that the beautiful Ochiyo is to become the bride of a dry goods dealer, a large amount of money hidden inside the shop is stolen. The gang disappears without injuring anyone. It was a two-year plan to marry Ochiyo off so that she could bring them in. The leader of this gang is Kumokiri Nizaemon, the greatest bandit of all time. He keeps a rein on his highly-skilled and notorious followers Nanabake no Ochiyo, Kinezumi no Kichigoro, Subashiri no Kumagoro, Ingakozo Rokunosuke and others.
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There is Light
Title: There is Light
Released: March 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Saori, a new face of a call girl service for the disabled, meet diverse people like a client with progressive muscular dystrophy, a college student with spinal injury, and a stalker pretending to be the disabled… Encountering with disabled people who live in various circumstances gives Saori, living in despair, a sense of fulfillment and reason for living.
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Title: Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
Released: October 18, 2012
Type: TV
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.
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Title: Solitary Gourmet
Character: シヤソウェイ主人
Released: January 4, 2012
Type: TV
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
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Title: Jiu: Special Investigation Team
Character: Kawamata
Released: July 29, 2011
Type: TV
The show is based on the "Jiu" suspense novel series by Honda Tetsuya. Motoko (Kuroki) is a fierce, physically capable investigator with a strong battle instinct, while Misaki (Tabe) is more intellectual, kind-hearted, and naive. The two of them are both working to track down Jiu, the ringleader responsible for a series of brutal crimes.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Talks
Released: April 13, 2011
Type: TV
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.
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Tomorrow's Joe Live Action Movie
Title: Tomorrow's Joe Live Action Movie
Character: Restaurant's Male Owner
Released: February 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Set in the 1960's, Joe Yabuki lives in a run-down low income ara. There, alcholic ex-boxer Danpei Tange notices Joe Yabuki's talents as a boxer. But then, Joe gets into trouble and is sentenced into the youth detention center. In the youth detention center, Joe gets into a brawl and then is knocked out by Toru Rikiishi who is a champion caliber professional boxer.
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Teto
Title: Teto
Released: November 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Teto is a secret agent trainee. Hatoko is a high school student who lives on venting her anger in a combined combative sport gym. On the day Hatoko saw Teto, she runs into cat's suicides. While she experiences a fighting awakening, Teto's superior orders Teto a final examination of infiltrating into a theatrical company, which is composed by orphanage members. Every night, they repeat rehearsing a folktale "Foxed Eyes Torakichi", that modeled legendary outlaw. In a muxture of stage play and costume drama, Teto and the leader build up weird similar figures.
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Title: Guilty: The Woman Who Made a Pact with the Devil
Character: Miwa Shuhei
Released: October 12, 2010
Type: TV
A pet groomer at a salon in Shirogane, Nogami Meiko has a lot of celebrity dog-lovers as customers. She cheerfully serves customers with care, and her skills are tried and tested. The salon's owner, Kotomi, has a strong faith in her, and she is admired by her colleagues. Meiko leads a quiet and fulfilling life... however, there is another side to her. She has a plan for revenge that she must accomplish. In truth, when she was 19, she was imprisoned for murder but there was also another side to this case. And just as she's about to execute her plan, she meets a man named Mashima Takuro. She acts mysteriously around him and for some reason, he makes her feel better. Is he the only miscalculation to her? Or a reckoning?
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Title: Ryōmaden
Released: January 3, 2010
Type: TV
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
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Title: Osamu Dazai Short Story Collection
Character: Dionis
Released: October 12, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: OLにっぽん
Released: October 8, 2008
Type: TV
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One Million Yen Girl
Title: One Million Yen Girl
Character: Detective
Released: July 19, 2008
Type: Movie
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
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Smile
Title: Smile
Character: Shizuka Yamaguchi's father
Released: December 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skating instructor. But by a twist of fate, he finds himself coaching a local ice hockey team of hapless youths and leading them to a championship
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Glory to the Filmmaker!
Title: Glory to the Filmmaker!
Character: Thug
Released: June 2, 2007
Type: Movie
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
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One Fine Day
Title: One Fine Day
Released: May 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Kitano's contribution to "Chacun son cinema"
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Title: Time Limit Investigator
Character: Toshihiko Oomiya
Released: January 13, 2006
Type: TV
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby. So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.
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Under the Same Moon
Title: Under the Same Moon
Released: November 19, 2005
Type: Movie
When Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a heart disease. In hopes to cure Emi's condition, Tetsuya decided to become a doctor. Following through on his dreams, Tetsuya is now a doctor and is about to marry Emi. One day though, Tetsuya hears about Don (Edison Chen). Tetsuya remembers the times he spent with Emi and Don as a child and also feels insecure about Don.
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Title: Jyouou
Released: October 7, 2005
Type: TV
Fujisaki Aya is a young college student whose family is 150 million yen in debt after her father's corporation went bankrupt. To earn the money, she enters the Hostess Grand Prix.
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Fly, Daddy, Fly
Title: Fly, Daddy, Fly
Released: July 9, 2005
Type: Movie
Suzuki’s world is shattered when his teenage daughter is brutally attacked. The assailant, Ishihara, son of a politician, brazenly mocks Suzuki as he throws him cover-up money. Angry, Suzuki finds he has no answer to Ishihara and in venting his anger, loses his daughter’s trust too. A sleep-deprived, crazed Suzuki goes to Ishihara’s school wielding a knife. He does not find Ishihara, but instead forms an alliance with an odd group of school misfits called the Zombies. The group’s elusive leader, Pak Sun Shin, decides to train Suzuki, who quits his job and embarks on a punishing programme to win back freedom for his daughter.
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Year One in the North
Title: Year One in the North
Released: January 14, 2005
Type: Movie
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, over 500 of them settled in their new land under the leadership of Hideaki, husband of Shino. However, as crops fail he is to go to Sapporo to learn new techniques of farming, leaving his wife and daughter for 5 years. All this time, the new community is constantly watched by the government which choose to again uproot them from their new homes.
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Title: The Great Horror Family
Character: Osamu Imawano
Released: October 3, 2004
Type: TV
The Great Horror Family is a 2004 Japanese horror comedy television series directed by Kenji Murakami, Takashi Shimizu, Keisuke Toyoshima and Yūdai Yamaguchi, which aired on TV Tokyo affiliated stations.
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Infection
Title: Infection
Character: Dr. Kishida
Released: October 2, 2004
Type: Movie
Infection takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient. In a hospital death is just a breath away.
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Dark Tales of Japan
Title: Dark Tales of Japan
Character: Toshinori Ooki (segment "Sacrifice")
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.
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女はバス停で服を着替えた
Title: 女はバス停で服を着替えた
Released: March 15, 2003
Type: Movie
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Teacher's suitcase
Title: Teacher's suitcase
Character: Bar owner Sato
Released: March 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.
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Frog River
Title: Frog River
Released: December 4, 2002
Type: Movie
Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.
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Dolls
Title: Dolls
Character: Hitman in the Park
Released: October 12, 2002
Type: Movie
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
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Title: AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: TV
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
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Title: The Private Detective Mike
Released: July 1, 2002
Type: TV
Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for his kid sister Akane. Mike's so down on his luck he'll take any case, from finding a lost pet to spying on cheating spouses. But every now and then, along comes a client with dubious and dangerous case… and that's when Mike shows his stuff.
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Copycat Killer
Title: Copycat Killer
Character: Shinozaki
Released: June 8, 2002
Type: Movie
Masahiro Nakai (SMAP) stars in this hit film based on the best-selling novel by Miyuki Miyabe. Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita, the film also stars Tsutomu Yamazaki and Yoshino Kimura. The title “Mohouhan” means “copycat”, and it tells the story of a criminal who abducts and kills women, and those who try to catch him. Nakai is cast as a cold-blooded, intelligent and evil guy who uses the media to announce and show his murders live to the public.
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Title: Tokyo Nukemichi Girl
Released: February 1, 2002
Type: TV
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金融腐蝕列島 再生
Title: 金融腐蝕列島 再生
Released: January 13, 2002
Type: Movie
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Ichi the Killer
Title: Ichi the Killer
Character: Coffee Shop Manager
Released: December 22, 2001
Type: Movie
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
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Title: R-17
Released: April 12, 2001
Type: TV
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巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
Title: 巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
Released: August 5, 2000
Type: Movie
An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsubei discovers the body of a man whose face has been crushed and his fingerprints erased. Tetsubei describes the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the body, including his own theory, and is angered by Lieutenant Yukari. That night, Tetsubei visits the shop of Kanako, whom he has a secret crush on. There, Mizutani, Kanako's husband, who has been missing for seven years, appears.
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Tomie: Replay
Title: Tomie: Replay
Character: Sayuri's Father
Released: February 11, 2000
Type: Movie
Infected with Tomie's blood, a surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance.
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Sleeping Bride
Title: Sleeping Bride
Character: Yumi's father
Released: January 29, 2000
Type: Movie
Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a patient there. A nurse remarks that the girl is 'Sleeping Beauty', and Yuuichi believes that a kiss from a prince will wake her, just like the story. Yuuichi returns to see Yumi every day, says 'Wake up, I'm the prince' and kisses her. Ten years later he restarts his daily ritual to see Yumi, one day she wakes up.
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Title: Beautiful Life
Character: Tsuchiya
Released: January 16, 2000
Type: TV
Kyoko, a young woman with an unhindered spirit despite being physically bound to a wheelchair due to illness, and Shuji, a stylish and popular fashion magazine hairstylist, are brought together in a fateful traffic incident. Despite their confrontational meeting, they soon find themselves falling in love, with Shuji drawn to her courage and enthusiasm and Kyoko attracted to his ability to look beyond her physical limitations and into her heart. However, Kyoko's protective older brother and her worsening condition begin to test the bounds of their love for each other and threaten to end their beautiful life together.
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Begging for Love
Title: Begging for Love
Character: Takehito Nakajima
Released: September 25, 1998
Type: Movie
During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.
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Voyeurs, Inc. - Enjo Kosai
Title: Voyeurs, Inc. - Enjo Kosai
Released: September 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Based on the popular comic series by Hideo Yamamoto serialized in Weekly Young Sunday. Stars Asumi Miwa (Love & Pop). The film depicts a "peeping tom" who uncovers people's darker sides by following them and eavesdropping on their conversations.
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Tokyo Eyes
Title: Tokyo Eyes
Character: Video Shop Clerk
Released: September 9, 1998
Type: Movie
The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.
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Open House
Title: Open House
Character: Photographer
Released: June 20, 1998
Type: Movie
A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.
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Love & Pop
Title: Love & Pop
Character: Yazaki
Released: January 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
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Health Master Dan
Title: Health Master Dan
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the manga by the same title by Noboru Takahashi. Dan is a masseuse that has the ability to pinpoint anyone's health issues. In this erotic / semi-erotic film Dan uses his special 'techniques' that help cure his patients' ailments.
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Voyeurs, Inc. - Wiretapping
Title: Voyeurs, Inc. - Wiretapping
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
An erotic mystery based on Hideo Yamamoto's comic of the same title, directed by Takeshi Yokoi Yokoi. A mysterious man eavesdrops on an affair between a teacher and a student at a prep school and harasses him. The teacher asks a member of "Voyeurs, Inc." to investigate.
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Title: Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Character: Bucky
Released: November 8, 1997
Type: Movie
A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various parts of the play to their liking.
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Hard Boiled
Title: Hard Boiled
Released: September 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Riki Takeuchi stars in a yakuza film.
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Beni
Title: Beni
Released: November 30, 1996
Type: Movie
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Kids Return
Title: Kids Return
Character: Hayashi
Released: July 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
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Mad Dog
Title: Mad Dog
Released: July 15, 1994
Type: Movie
A beast awakens within ordinary office worker Hirose when his wife is abducted by yakuza. Full of wild charm and full-scale martial arts action!
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Holy Girl Mask Margarita
Title: Holy Girl Mask Margarita
Character: Gunmo
Released: March 27, 1992
Type: Movie
A sexy action comedy about the battle between a high school girl who transforms into a love warrior Margarita when she drinks a holy cocktail. An omnibus c consisting of three episodes. Watch Margarita fight off perverts, crazed dentists, and and a horned villain / Beelzebub.
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Shout: Angels Crying
Title: Shout: Angels Crying
Released: January 24, 1992
Type: Movie
A series of bizarre murders targeting only female rock vocalists. Another popular vocalist has begun to be targeted ... The mental horror that slowly attacks ... Psycho, suspense, and horror are here!
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Kekko Kamen
Title: Kekko Kamen
Character: Biology Teacher
Released: March 22, 1991
Type: Movie
Kekko Kamen, the fearless heroine who wears red boots, a red mask, and nothing else, she has an uncanny way of destroying her opponents by stunning them with her private parts and proceeding to kick their butts.
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Nanpa Rumba I want to Fuck
Title: Nanpa Rumba I want to Fuck
Released: November 22, 1990
Type: Movie
1990 Original Video Omnibus of three RomCom Vignettes
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Sachio Sawada
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Tatsuhiro Wakabayashi
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
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Memory Door
Title: Memory Door
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Kazuya (27), an office worker, is what is called a "good listener" who listens to his parents. One day, however, he happens to stop by a café and falls in love at first sight with Reiko (47), who works there, but Reiko is divorced, has a child, and suffers from dementia. Kazuya's selfish feelings lead to encounters and experiences with various people, and he realizes true love.