Takeshi Masu

Takeshi Masu

Born: December 9, 1955
in Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Takeshi Masu...

Title: The Courier
Character: Takao Nishimura
Released: January 13, 2024
Type: TV
A restaurant owner moonlights as a courier who fulfils delivery requests from various clients, who each have various circumstances that lead to the necessity of requesting his services.
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Title: Victory Court Ceremony
Character: Rukawa Daijiro
Released: April 13, 2023
Type: TV
Kagura Ran is a former child actor-turned-lawyer who left the legal circle after her best friend was framed of murder. A year later, an article written by scriptwriter Kurosawa Jin about her ends up circulating online in which she becomes acknowledged as a capable lawyer who has never lost a case. She decides to resume her work as a lawyer once more, and attempts to regain her trust in the law by joining forces with Kurosawa in order to exonerate her friend from the accusation and resolve the case once and for all.
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We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams
Title: We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams
Character: Banpaku Saiga
Released: January 6, 2023
Type: Movie
A treasure appears in front of antique dealer Norio Koike (Kiichi Nakai) and potter Sasuke (Kuranosuke Sasaki). The treasure is Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s chawan (procelain tea bowl) called Houou, that has been missing.
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Title: Otosan, Watashi, Kono Hito to Kekkon Shimasu!
Character: Shintaro Yabuki
Released: October 8, 2022
Type: TV
"Dad, there is actually someone I want you to meet." Yabu Shintaro is shocked when he heard this from his daughter, Nagisa, whom he has raised with great love and care. Shintaro is an impatient, old-fashioned office worker who has been making good progress in his career, but is still confused by the recent changes in the company and society, such as reforms in work styles, attention to power harassment and sexual harassment. Although Shintaro is in agony, he decides to accept the fact that his daughter would get married someday. However, somehow, Nagisa keeps bringing back a different boyfriend each week..?
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Title: Fudanshi Bartender no Tashinami
Released: May 30, 2022
Type: TV
Soichiro Hibiki is a bartender at a bar in Shonan. He is usually cool and mysterious, but he has a secret he doesn't want people to know: he is a "secret fudanshi otaku," and he is always trying to make the customers who come to the bar for drinks into his favorite coupling, secretly fantasizing about them and worshipping their precious relationships.
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Title: Bad Girl: Glass Ceiling Crushers
Character: Kuniyasu Jun(国安 隼)
Released: April 13, 2022
Type: TV
Work-life balance, side job, online meetings… In today's world of drastically-changing work styles, an incredibly cheerful but incapable new employee is borne! Meet Marilyn Tanaka. She is assigned to a redundant department where a peculiar employee, Ms. Minegishi, becomes her senior. "Don't you want to climb the ladder?", she tempts Marilyn.
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Title: liar
Character: Masaya Ichikawa
Released: February 15, 2022
Type: TV
Narita Misao is a rookie employee at a company. She doesn’t like Ichikawa Kazuya, who works in the same department. He is brutally honest when he talks to other people. Nevertheless, an incident leads to Narita Misao developing feelings for him. Ichikawa Kazuya also beomes attracted to her. The couple soon enter into an intimate relationship, but Narita Misao learns afterwards that Ichikawa Kazuya is engaged to his girlfriend. Narita Misao is confused by the situation and wonders what he is thinking.
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Title: Kazoku no Shashin
Released: January 2, 2022
Type: TV
The protagonist, Miharu Mochizuki (27), is a young photographer. She won a prize in a competition a few years ago, which got her noticed. However, the only job she has now is shooting flyers for a supermarket. As he struggles to come to terms with the harsh reality of his life, a chance brings him back to his hometown of Toyohashi.
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The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
Title: The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
Released: April 9, 2021
Type: Movie
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.
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Title: Ichikei's Crow
Character: Jojima Reiji
Released: April 5, 2021
Type: TV
Michio Iruma is a former lawyer. He now works as a judge in the first criminal court (commonly known as "Ichikei") of the Tokyo District Court. He is an unusual judge. To avoid issuing wrong judgements, Michio Iruma seeks out the truth in cases by performing on-site inspections by himself. Due to this, lawyers and prosecutors are afraid of him.
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Title: Byplayers ~Meiwakiyaku no Mori no 100-nichikan~
Released: January 8, 2021
Type: TV
Set in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of turmoil caused by the gathering of serial dramas and movies from various TV stations at once in this remote studio. It is a drama full of battles for ratings between studios, clashes between young, mid-career, and big names, and a heartwarming story of friendship and bonding. Also, the self-deprecation and parodies are enhanced by the fact that the actors play a role of themselves.
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Title: Ojisama to Neko
Character: Kobayashi Natsuto
Released: January 7, 2021
Type: TV
Kanda Fuyuki is a world-famous pianist who has been keeping his life busy after his wife's death. One day, Fuyuki meets an unsold cat, Fukumaru, at a pet store. Fuyuki is not good with animals but decides to get Fukumaru after being attracted by it. Since then, Fuyuki's life changes as Fukumaru starts living with him.
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Beautiful Dreamer
Title: Beautiful Dreamer
Released: November 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Excitement pervades through a university preparing for the annual school festival. Meanwhile, a calm atmosphere hangs over the club room of the film studies group which does not really have an exhibition. But Sara, who dreamed there was something in the corner of the club room, finds an old cardboard box that morning.
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Love and the Grand Tug-of-war
Title: Love and the Grand Tug-of-war
Released: October 30, 2020
Type: Movie
Following the 2009 financial crash, Waseda University graduate Takeshi lost his job in Tokyo and retreated to his family home in Sendai. While he resumed his role as heir to the family construction company with a diligent attitude, his hidebound father resents that his son left and that at the age of 35 Takeshi is still single. However, wider events will force father and son to overcome their differences as the Otsunahiki, a great tug-of-war featuring thousands of participants, will pull them together in a family tradition just as Takeshi meets Jiheyun, a beautiful Korean doctor on an exchange programme... The ties of family bind people tightly as characters struggle with the push of their own ambitious urges and the pull of family commitments but the Otsunahiki ropes things together in a family drama rich with events and the culture of Sendai, that will tug and the heartstrings of viewers whilst providing to the desire to visit the beautiful and storied region.
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Title: Dear Patient
Character: Takamine Shuji [General Secretary at Sasai Memorial Hospital]
Released: July 17, 2020
Type: TV
Sasai Memorial Hospital has a good reputation for its sincere care for patients. However, holding up a strong policy of 'customer first' has put doctors into uneasy circumstance where they have to deal with 'monster patients,' unreasonable complainers. The drama depicts doctors' growth and struggle experienced in the severe situation of the present healthcare industry.
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Onmyouji Takiyasha Hime
Title: Onmyouji Takiyasha Hime
Released: March 29, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: Sherlock: Untold Stories
Character: Mansaku Oishi(大石 万作)
Released: October 7, 2019
Type: TV
Set in present day Tokyo, Shishio Homare (Dean Fujioka) works as a freelancer crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio Homare has been fascinated with how people become criminals and in original sin. He is a genius, but he also has an impulse to commit crimes. Shishio Homare works on cases which interests him among police or customer requests. Meanwhile, Junichi Wakamiya (Takanori Iwata) is a psychiatrist. He is smart and cool-headed. Due to a case, Junichi Wakamiya gets involved with Shishio Homare. At first, Junichi Wakamiya thinks Shishio Homare is ignorant and arrogant, but, as they work together, Junichi Wakamiya gets comfortable with Shishio Homare.
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Black Fox: Age of the Ninja
Title: Black Fox: Age of the Ninja
Character: Roren
Released: October 5, 2019
Type: Movie
The era when Samurai and Ninja existed in Japan. Rikka Isurugi was born and raised in a Ninja clan secluded from society. She soon meets Miya, a girl with a mysterious power, who is found lost in the mountains. As Rikka is concerned that someone is pursuing Miya, she also asks the head the of Isurugi Ninja Clan for permission to avenger her father's death. Soon Rikka faces danger with the attack of the Negoro group but…
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Tuna Girl
Title: Tuna Girl
Released: March 28, 2019
Type: Movie
A clumsy but cheerful fisheries student struggles to find her place at a research institute renowned for its tuna cultivation. The work isn't easy.
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Dream Stage
Title: Dream Stage
Character: Ryuji Tanaka
Released: February 22, 2019
Type: Movie
20-year-old Ozawa Tsubasa has been helping out in the eatery that her mother Yukiko runs in a port town in the Tohoku region. She loves songs and secretly wishes to become a singer. However, she is on the verge of giving up that dream since it is practically impossible. Seeing her mother keep on working despite the hardships as well as the deserted town, she doubts that dreams and wishes come true. But one day, Tsubasa travels back in time to Tokyo in the year 1975 in an unexpected way. She meets 20-year-old Ozora Tsubasa, a cheerful and positive girl with the same name and dream as her. The unsuspecting Tsubasa had left home and come to Tokyo under the mistaken impression that she was scouted by a television station.
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Konomichi
Title: Konomichi
Released: January 11, 2019
Type: Movie
A genius and reckless poet and a hard working musician are asked by the CEO of a children literature magazine to write a war song to send children into the battlefield.
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Title: Kokichi's Wife
Character: Shikoku Otani
Released: January 11, 2019
Type: TV
A heartwarming family drama set in the Edo period. The story revolves around Onobu, wife of a poor Hatamoto (direct retainer of the Shogun) Kokichi, and her family.
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Title: Born to be a Flower
Character: Yuichi Takai
Released: July 11, 2018
Type: TV
After an unexpected encounter, perfect Momo meets mediocre Kazama and they fall in love. Watch this romance unfold as they struggle to be together!
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Recall
Title: Recall
Character: Saburo Makita
Released: June 15, 2018
Type: Movie
A woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the freight company which owns the truck becomes the target of the public and the media’s wrath, Tokuro Akamatsu, the president of the freight company, realizes that a structural defect within the truck itself may have been to blame. A conspiracy of the wheel manufacturer's attempts to cover up a defective product is uncovered.
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Zenigata
Title: Zenigata
Character: Takeru Nikaido
Released: May 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Two brothers run a bar called Zenigata in a backstreet of a fishing port. At midnight, the bar changes to a lending place, where the brothers lend money and charge high interest. One day, they hire a former boxer
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Spring Special
Title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2018 Spring Special
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: Movie
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ミッドナイト・ジャーナル 消えた誘拐犯を追え
Title: ミッドナイト・ジャーナル 消えた誘拐犯を追え
Released: March 30, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: Final Cut
Character: Tatsuo Ogasawara(小河原 達夫)
Released: January 9, 2018
Type: TV
When Keisuke Nakamura was a high school student, his mother was accused of killing a girl and then his mother committed suicide. 12 years later, Keisuke Nakamura tries to find the girl's real killer and also take revenge upon those responsible for his mother's suicide. He targets people from the media who covered the case and he crosses paths with sisters who hold a key to what happened. Keisuke Nakamura falls in love with one of the sisters.
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Peach Girl
Title: Peach Girl
Character: Takashi Okayasu
Released: May 20, 2017
Type: Movie
While everyone thinks that Momo is a wild party girl, the reality is that she is shy and lonely. Can Momo confess her love to her classmate, Toji, or will her best friend Sae steal him away? It's a bittersweet drama of growing up and fitting in.
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The King of Minami Returns: Light and Shadow
Title: The King of Minami Returns: Light and Shadow
Released: January 14, 2017
Type: Movie
Loan shark Ginjiro meets two people from his past: Harumi, who runs a kids restaurant; and Shimamoto, a human rights lawyer who isn't what he seems.
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Title: The Courage to be Disliked
Character: Yosuke Handa
Released: January 12, 2017
Type: TV
An academic and cynical sophisticated detective drama that can teach you about Adlerian psychology. Ranko Ando is a single female detective with no boyfriend. She is an ace who has taken the lead in solving many difficult cases at the young age of 32. However, she's also a lone wolf who doesn't listen to the opinions of those around her, and always does what she believes to be right. However, Ranko is partnered with Toshio Aoyama, who has just gotten his wish of being transferred to the 1st Investigation Department. Toshio is the polar opposite of Ranko, and tends to be too concerned about what others think. This makes him harshly oppose the way she thinks. But as he works with her, he learns Adlerian psychology and develops one step at a time. This daring detective drama is a live-action adaptation of the Asian bestseller, "The Courage to Be Hated". Through the life of Ranko Ando, "The World's Most Hated Female Detective", this drama questions the necessity of "The courage to be free and happy".
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Stray Dogz 4
Title: Stray Dogz 4
Character: Kazuki Toyoda
Released: December 10, 2016
Type: Movie
When a friend from his yakuza past gets released from prison, a loan shark and his former-male-host sidekick help the ex-con get back on his feet.
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Yaeko's Hum
Title: Yaeko's Hum
Character: Seigo Ishizaki
Released: October 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Yaeko has taken care of her husband Seigo who has stomach cancer. Seigo goes through 4 surgeries, but survives. Yaeko is then diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and her condition worsens. Their family struggles to take care of Yaeko, but they also cherish their time with her. Seigo takes care of Yaeko as best as he can.
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The Sowing Traveller 3
Title: The Sowing Traveller 3
Released: October 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Acclaimed director of Summer of Chirusoku, Half a Confession and Yunagi City, Sakura Country Kiyoshi Sasabe casts Rin Takanashi and Takumi Saitoh as members of the farming industry. The Sowing Traveller 3 tells a universal story of the cherished act of growing fruit. Ayane is conflicted about coming back home because she feels it’s a setback. Filming took place in Akaiwa, Okayama prefecture, a peach growing area with lots of sun and fertile soil. Along with the harmony of daily life that the local people have with nature, an important feature of the film is its beautiful landscapes.
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Title: Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
Character: 浅野 堅一
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: TV
Kaoru Mitazono (Masahiro Matsuoka) is a talented housekeeper with an usual secret. Kaoru is actually a guy! Besides cooking, cleaning and babysitting Kaoru Mitazono has the unusual habit of discovering secrets held within the family of her employers.
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Title: Brass Dreams
Character: Samejima Teruyuki
Released: July 17, 2016
Type: TV
Hikuma Koichi was a saxophone player, but he suffers from the after-effects of an accident. Due to that, he turned his back on music. Hikuma Koichi finds hope in the high school brass band. The band consists of problem students. Koichi struggles to instruct the brass band and to give them hope.
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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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Black Lizard
Title: Black Lizard
Character: 岩瀬正一郎
Released: December 22, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Asa ga Kita
Character: Imai Tadaoki
Released: September 28, 2015
Type: TV
Towards the end of the Edo era, in the town of Kyoto, there lived a wealthy merchant by the name of Imai Tadamasa. He was blessed with 3 children, Hatsu, Asa and Kyutaro. His eldest, Hatsu, was a traditional girl who loved to play the koto and sew. Whilst his second daughter, Asa, was an impish hoyden who loved sumo wrestling. Asa was engaged to be married to the second son of a distinguished family who ran a money changer business in Osaka, Shirooka Shinjiro. Although Asa was furious when she had first heard about the betrothal, when she met up with Shinjiro for the first time, his charisma greatly attracted her and she fell in love with him in no time.
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Gunjōiro no, tōrimichi
Title: Gunjōiro no, tōrimichi
Character: Toshio Mayama
Released: July 11, 2015
Type: Movie
A man, who moved to Tokyo to become a musician, returns to his hometown for the first time in 10 years. He sees the beautiful scenery of his childhood years and the kind people who supports him.
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Title: Take Me to Love & Meal
Released: January 26, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: Great Selection Taxi
Character: Shirushi Michio
Released: October 14, 2014
Type: TV
Edawakare is the driver of Sentaxi, a marvellous vehicle which is able to take a passenger back to his or her “life’s turning point”. His cool appearance is at odds with his talkative, meddlesome, sweet-toothed character. He gives advice to passengers who are flustered after failing in their life’s choice.
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Title: Border
Character: 国田 演 - 升毅
Released: April 10, 2014
Type: TV
Ishikawa Ango is a very capable detective that lives only for his job. One day, while investigating a crime scene, he gets shot in the head by the criminal that was still lurking about. Ango gets thrown over that line that divides life and death but, though he dies, doctor's are able to reanimate him and he pulls through. Yet, the bullet remains stuck in his head as the operation to remove it is very dangerous. Shortly after, he goes back to work and soon realizes that he's now able to see and talk with the recently departed.
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Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
Title: Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
Released: January 19, 2014
Type: Movie
In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation with a young detective Ichimura and his investigations lead him to Father Tolbeck as a suspect. But the police are forced to move very discreetly as the time was right after the Second World War, when a sensitive situation that involves Western people and religion is likely to become an international issue. The investigation leads to an unexpected discloser of a shadowy business behind the church that reflects the uncertainty of the time.
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Title: 新・ミナミの帝王~銀次郎、ついに逮捕!?~
Released: January 5, 2014
Type: TV
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The King of Minami Returns: Ginjiro, Arrested!?
Title: The King of Minami Returns: Ginjiro, Arrested!?
Released: January 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Osaka loan shark Ginjiro meets Tomoe, a childhood friend of his friend Ryuichi, but the lonely Tomoe has fallen in love with a man she met online.
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Title: No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35
Character: Makio Ninagawa
Released: April 13, 2013
Type: TV
The drama will center around how a 35 year old changes the school and influences her fellow classmates’ lives while dealing with the dark reality of today’s high schools, including bullying and skipping school.
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Title: dinner
Released: January 13, 2013
Type: TV
This drama follows the staff of an Italian restaurant and their everyday struggles. “Roccabianca” is a famous and popular Italian restaurant, but their head chef and owner Tatsumi suddenly collapses and the restaurant loses its unique flavor. The number of customers rapidly declines, but the owner’s daughter and deputy manager Saori happens to find another chef named Ezaki through an online job market who learned cooking at the same place her father did. Ezaki becomes the new head chef of this restaurant and while nobody can deny that he is a gifted chef, it’s his extreme rationalism that doesn’t exactly go well with the restaurants attempt to save its traditional flavor.
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Title: Priceless
Character: Fujisawa Takeshi
Released: October 22, 2012
Type: TV
Originally a mid-level manager (Kimura Takuya) with a promising future in a big corporation and loved by his subordinates, the life of this elite employee changes dramatically one day. Having for some reason attracted the attention of the senior management, he is framed for a crime which he knows nothing of and forced out of the workplace. Even after that, he is assailed by a series of surprises and in one day, he loses his house, wealth and handphone until he is without a cent to his name. At his wits end, he comes to a park where he encounters two children. Learning from them how to survive even if he does not have money, he somehow weathers this crisis and discovers the truly important and priceless things in life. The good thing about him is that his carefree personality amazingly does not shift. It is not resentment and bitterness that become his driving force, but the love and help of the people he meets that enables him to keep go forward step by step.
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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: ATARU
Character: Yoshiaki Fukutome
Released: April 15, 2012
Type: TV
Ataru is a TBS series is about an autistic young man with a mysterious past who helps the police solve criminal cases. It stars Masahiro Nakai in the title role and has received 19.9% TV viewership ratings.
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Shichou Shisu
Title: Shichou Shisu
Released: April 3, 2012
Type: Movie
The mayor is found dead in the river in a small town known for its hot springs. It's assumed that he fell to his death, but his nephew just cannot understand why his uncle would have gone there by himself to begin with. When he cleans up his house, he finds his uncle's diary and tries to find out what exactly happened.
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Ouran High School Host Club
Title: Ouran High School Host Club
Released: March 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Ouran Academy is a prestigious school with most students coming from wealthy families. One of the few students who comes from a modest background is Haruhi Fujioka (Haruna Kawaguchi). Through unexpected circumstances, Haruhi Fujioka ends up joining the male "host club," while hiding her gender. Friendship and love grows between Haruhi Fujioka and the male "host club" members.
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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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Title: Secret
Character: Fujisaki Kazuo
Released: October 15, 2010
Type: TV
Naoko and Monami, mother and daughter, are in a bus accident. Naoko dies, but her spirit ends up inhabiting Monami's body. She then returns home to Heisuke, dad, and they try to figure out how to live their lives. Additionally, there is some suspicion surrounding the cause of the accident, which Heisuke investigates.
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Perfect Blue
Title: Perfect Blue
Released: September 18, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU–
Character: Ikegami Yuzo
Released: July 10, 2010
Type: TV
One day, Taichi, an ordinary university student, meets Mioka, a girl who is like a storm. Taichi finds himself drawn to Mioka, who lives freely as she wishes without holding back, and they eventually fall in love. However, Mioka tells Taichi of her shocking truth. She has an incurable brain disease, with no medicine or treatment that can help her.
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Title: Gakeppuchi no Eri - Kono yo de ichiban daiji na 'Kane' no hanashi
Character: Kensaku Sakamaki
Released: July 9, 2010
Type: TV
"Gakeppuchi no Eri" describes the turbulent life of Eriko (Yamada), who has been extremely poor since childhood, due to the debt left by her parents. Despite constant misfortune, she aims to achieve happiness and money by moving to Tokyo to pursue life as a manga artist. --Tokyograph
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Title: Tough Nights of Club INDIGO
Released: January 5, 2010
Type: TV
This comedy thriller takes place in an eccentric entertainment club for women in Tokyo. A woman who was hired to be the store manager solves mysterious events with the assistance of the club's good-looking guys. Akira is an ex-editor of a major fashion magazine publisher. As she gets ready for her wedding approaching around the corner, a scandal that she has no clue how she got involved in suddenly takes her job, asset and fiancé. Left with only a wedding dress and a huge amount of debt, Akira gets hired as a store manager of "Indigo", an entertainment club for women, to pay back her debt. The next day, she wakes up only to find Indigo's most popular guy lying dead next to her.
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Go Find a Psychic!
Title: Go Find a Psychic!
Released: October 20, 2009
Type: Movie
Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilities. Yone Sakurai is a program director for a psychic variety TV show called "Asunaro Psychic". She is stressed out and tired from her work, but proud of what she is doing. Yone actually believes in psychic abilities. By an audience request a new plan is set out for the program, a plan which requires the show to uncover real psychics or psychic events.
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Title: Buzzer Beat
Character: Ryusuke Yao
Released: July 13, 2009
Type: TV
Buzzer Beat is a Fuji TV Japanese television drama, which stars Yamashita Tomohisa, Keiko Kitagawa, and Aibu Saki. The series primarily focuses on two characters, Naoki Kamiya, a professional basketball player, and Riko Shirakawa, an aspiring violinist. Over the course of the series Naoki faces difficulties trying to succeed in the world of basketball, and Riko struggles to become a successful violinist. Eventually the two meet and the series chronicles their relationship and struggles, as well as those of their friends.
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Title: Kami no Shizuku
Character: Kawarage
Released: January 13, 2009
Type: TV
Kami no Shizuku is a Japanese multi-award-winning television comedy series, based on the manga series The Drops of God. Produced by Nippon Television and featuring Kazuya Kamenashi, Seiichi Tanabe, Riisa Naka, Nozomi Sasaki, and Yuki Uchida, it was first broadcast on January 13, 2009, and ran till March 10, 2009.
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Title: 4 Shimai Tantei Dan
Released: January 18, 2008
Type: TV
The story features a team of four sleuthing sisters.
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Udon
Title: Udon
Character: Masanori Otani
Released: August 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt. Awaiting him are his old friends, a caring sister, a disgruntled father ...and a bowl of noodles. Namely, "udon" noodles. The town is built around udon, sustained by udon, nationally famous for udon.
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Tokyo University Story
Title: Tokyo University Story
Character: Tetsuro Yano
Released: February 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Murakami Naoki is the most intelligent student at his high school, but he can't stop obsessing over a girl named Mizuno Haruka. He finally asks her out, and to his surprise, she accepts. After several months of a loving yet obviously doomed romance, it comes time for them to take the entrance exams for Tokyo University. What will happen to their relationship if only one of them is accepted?
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Title: One Missed Call
Released: October 14, 2005
Type: TV
Yumi, a writer of a science magazine, witnesses a mysterious death of a high school girl who received a "one missed call" from her own cell phone, two weeks in the future. The disturbing message on the cell phone turns out to be the screams of the victim.
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Title: Kaze no Haruka
Character: Kanzaki Hifumi
Released: October 3, 2005
Type: TV
At the age of nine, Haruka moves from Osaka to Yufuin with her father Yosuke and her younger sister Asuka because Yosuke hopes to open a restaurant in the town. Her mother Yuko, however, chooses to stay in Osaka and the parents soon get a divorce. Yosuke starts running a restaurant but ends up closing it down soon after. Ten years later, Haruka supports her family by working part time while going to a junior college. Worrying about Haruka, Yuko invites her to come to Osaka and offers her a job. Although she has not forgiven her mother, Haruka decides to earn money in Osaka to help Yosuke reopen the restaurant. Through various experiences in Osaka, Haruka gradually understands her mother and grows as a tour planner with her talent for pleasing people.
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Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Title: Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Character: Muroga Hyouma
Released: September 17, 2005
Type: Movie
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village. Gennosuke and Oboro's love is made even more impossible when they each got picked as the leader of the five to represent their respective villages.
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Summer Time Machine Blues
Title: Summer Time Machine Blues
Character: God
Released: September 3, 2005
Type: Movie
The members of a sci-fi club accidentally spill Coke on the remote controller of an air-conditioner during summer and suddenly a time machine appears in their sweating bath-like clubroom.
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Title: Older Sister
Character: Tsukasa Sakaguchi
Released: April 20, 2005
Type: TV
Naoko Noda, who works in a trading company, is called "anego" by her younger co-workers. What is "anego"? It means "older sister," but in this case it is given as a nickname to Naoko because she is like a big sister to her coworkers, who depend on her to give them advice about everything. This drama, depicts realistically how Naoko lives her everyday life, including her love life, the problems she faces, and her uneasiness about the future. --NTV
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Shibuya Story
Title: Shibuya Story
Released: March 5, 2005
Type: Movie
Biopic of yakuza Noboru Ando, based on his autobiography.
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Fugoh Keiji Deluxe
Title: Fugoh Keiji Deluxe
Released: January 14, 2005
Type: Movie
What do you get when you mix a granddaughter from an extremely rich family with crime, murder, and a passion for law and justice? Kanbe Miwako (Kyoko Fukada), a granddaughter of a super rich millionaire becomes a detective and starts working at a male dominant police station. Her fancy fashion, elegant manners, and upper-class attitudes constantly gets on the nerves of the old-fashioned coworkers. However, to everyone’s surprise, Miwako’s unique investigation lead by an ultra rich sense of value becomes the key to solve mysterious cases, one by one!
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Title: The Millionaire Detective
Character: Yoshikazu Tsuruoka
Released: January 13, 2005
Type: TV
What do you get when you mix a granddaughter from an extremely rich family with crime, murder, and a passion for law and justice? Kanbe Miwako, a granddaughter of a super rich millionaire becomes a detective and starts working at a male dominant police station. Her fancy fashion, elegant manners, and upper-class attitudes constantly gets on the nerves of the old-fashioned coworkers. However, to everyone’s surprise, Miwako’s unique investigation lead by an ultra rich sense of value becomes the key to solve mysterious cases, one by one!
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Nin x Nin: The Ninja Star Hattori
Title: Nin x Nin: The Ninja Star Hattori
Released: August 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Kanzo Hattori, an apprentice Ninja, leaves his home town of Iga for his final training. He must go to the city of Edo (Tokyo), and the first person he meets shall be his master, whom he must protect with his life, whilst upholding the ninja code. Also while in Edo, Hattori must find out why their rivals, the Koga Ninjas, are flourishing while the Iga Ninjas are dying out. Hattori's master is Kenichi, a 9 year old boy. Kenichi is an introvert and not very popular boy, so he never plays with the other children from school. Kenichi also has a secret crush on a young lady called Midori, yet he's too shy to speak to her. Though as he watches Hattori trying his best, he too begins to try. Meanwhile, people are being found unconscious, their bodies completely unmarked. All the victims have a tattoo (the Koga Ninja crest) and are found with a throwing knife lying close by.
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Title: Last Present
Character: Dr. Hisao Sawaguchi
Released: July 7, 2004
Type: TV
Hiraki Asuka is diagnosed with cancer with three months left. She returns to her daughter and former husband, both of whom she had abandoned before, in order to spend her last days, especially with her daughter and to regain her love. Asuka, an architect, had deserted her family, former husband Satoshi and daughter Ayumi as she could not tolerate raising children.
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Title: Kao
Character: Eiichi Honma(本間 英一)
Released: April 8, 2003
Type: TV
A drama set in a police department depicts how a woman grows and matures as a human being as she suffers from the gap between reality and ideals in an environment where women are looked down upon. Mizuho Hirano, a woman police officer whose work consists of drawing composite sketches of criminal suspects, has the unique ability to look deep into people's hearts.
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Title: Beauty or Beast
Released: January 9, 2003
Type: TV
This drama pits two protagonists against each other. On the one hand there's Makoto, a woman who believes that the TV program is a product and that viewer ratings are the proceeds, and who believes any method is fair in getting those ratings. On the other hand there's Hiromi, a flashy sort of guy who claims that life is to enjoy and boasts that the program is simply a tool in that process. He loves wine, women and gambling. Such a pair is bound to mix like oil and water, but following a fateful reunion, they come to understand each other in the midst of confrontation.
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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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Quartet
Title: Quartet
Character: Motohiro Murakami
Released: October 6, 2001
Type: Movie
"Quartet" tells the story of four young musicians as they form a string quartet and pursue fame.
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Kamen Rider Agito Special: A New Transformation
Title: Kamen Rider Agito Special: A New Transformation
Character: Professor Yoshihiko Misugi
Released: October 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Shouichi encounters his old friend and caretaker Dr. Higashi Kunieda. Dr. Kunieda, a friend of Yoshihiko Misugi, took care of him while he was hospitalized with amnesia. After catching up on a year of separation Shouichi abruptly leaves to house to fight an Unknown as Agito Burning Form. Unfortunately, after the Unknown flees Shouichi loses control of himself and attacks Dr. Kunieda, who followed Shoucihi and watched him transform. Dr. Kunieda managed to calm him down but Shouichi becomes to afraid of himself and runs away.
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Kamen Rider Agito: Project G4
Title: Kamen Rider Agito: Project G4
Character: Yoshihiko Misugi
Released: September 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Shouichi encounters a teenage girl called Sayaka, who ran away from a military facility because of an attack by the Ant Lords. Sayaka has a supernatural ability to foresee the future. Risa Fukami, of the military group GA, wants to use that power to enhance the newly-made G4 System, which was based upon designs stolen from Ozawa. Now, Agito and Gills must fight to stop the Ant Lords' attack, as G3 and G4 settle their score.
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Title: Kamen Rider Agito
Released: January 28, 2001
Type: TV
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Black Jack
Title: Black Jack
Character: Chief Inomata
Released: March 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Matsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a church where it is rumored that miracles happen. There, they find strange twins named Pinoko. With Pinoko's guidance, Matsuzaki is saved by a genius surgeon, BJ, in exchange for exorbitant fees. However, Matsuzaki is captured by the police. Meanwhile, Reiko, a female detective who pursues Matsuzaki and other organizations, tries to solve a mystery by conducting an independent investigation. It turns out Matsuzaki was found dead.
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Title: Spiral
Character: Toru Kawai
Released: July 1, 1999
Type: TV
Spiral is the sequel to the TV drama The Ring: The Final Chapter, based on the novel Spiral by Koji Suzuki. In a potent brew that is frightening audiences, this new type of horror blends traditional Japanese occult-like myths and curses with present-day elements such as viruses, genetic engineering and cloning. Six people die in an office building where a murder once took place. When the authorities investigate the scene of the odd incident, they find the fingerprints of a man who had already been executed.
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Hypnosis
Title: Hypnosis
Character: Jissoji
Released: June 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife's birthday. A middle aged detective investigating one of the cases begins to suspect a connection between the three when he discovers that each person mentioned a "green monkey" before they died. With the help of a young psychiatrist he formulates the theory that hypnosis is somehow involved. In the mean time other bizarre "suicides" are reported and the mystery intensifies. Who will be next? What is the truth? Can more deaths be prevented?
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Fallen Angels
Title: Fallen Angels
Released: March 14, 1998
Type: Movie
Midori is a university student that finds part-time work at a hostess club, near the end of Japan's "Bubble Economy," in the late 80s. She agrees to become the mistress of one of the wealthy young patrons for two million yen a month, but then the bubble bursts...
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Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror
Title: Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror
Released: October 25, 1997
Type: Movie
First "The Story of Terror" film by Junji Inagawa.
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Title: 新 木曜の怪談 Cyborg
Character: G.O.
Released: October 17, 1996
Type: TV
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That's Cunning! Shijo Saidai no Sakusen?
Title: That's Cunning! Shijo Saidai no Sakusen?
Character: Professor Yusuke Migita
Released: August 10, 1996
Type: Movie
Comedy about a group of chemistry students who organize a cheating scam during their final exams. Amuro Namie, the top pop music sensation, plays one of the students.
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July 7th, Sunny Day
Title: July 7th, Sunny Day
Released: May 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Hinata Mochizuki (Arisa Mizuki) is a superstar in the pop music scene, and Kenta Yamabe (Masato Hagiwara) is a very ordinary office worker. One day, the two meet, and then fell in love. However, due to the influence of various external factors, the relationship between the two does not go smoothly.
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Knockout
Title: Knockout
Released: November 11, 1989
Type: Movie
A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.
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Title: Yôi don
Character: ジミー・ササキ中尉
Released: October 4, 1982
Type: TV
A struggling Korean veteran comes to terms with the fact that he is actually a caterpillar. I just made this up.
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Empire of Kids
Title: Empire of Kids
Released: July 4, 1981
Type: Movie
Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi Masu). He's greeted by his friends, Chabo (Ryusuke Matsumoto) and Ken (Bang-ho Cho). They seek to forge their own path through a multitude of rival gangs in Kita and Minami, including the Hokushin Alliance, backed by the yakuza, the Hope Association, and various other minor factions, including Zainichi Korean groups. What follows is a wild, fast-paced story of violence, revenge, betrayal, and discrimination, that never loses its sense of humor.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Yoshihiko Misugi
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.