Tomorowo Taguchi

Tomorowo Taguchi

Born: November 30, 1957
in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan
Tomorowo Taguchi (born November 30, 1957) is a Japanese actor. After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he made a screen debut in Zokubutsu Zukan (based on the book by Yasutaka Tsutsui) in 1982. He was also a prominent cult musician in the Tokyo underground scene with his band Bachikaburi in the 1980s and early 1990s.

He is probably most well known to the West as the lead actor in Tetsuo and Tetsuo II directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. He also makes regular appearances in Takashi Miike's films. He became known to the Japanese public as a narrator for the TV documentary series Project X - Challengers which aired between 2000 and 2005 by NHK. Taguchi directed Iden & Tity in 2003 and his second film, Shikisoku Generation, is scheduled for release in 2009.

Movies for Tomorowo Taguchi...

Title: 新プロジェクトX〜挑戦者たち〜
Released: April 6, 2024
Type: TV
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Dare to Stop Us 2
Title: Dare to Stop Us 2
Released: March 15, 2024
Type: Movie
Sequel to "Dare to Stop Us"
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Title: House of Ninjas
Character: Jin Hamashima
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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City of Desire No. 4 Outrageous and Dirty Social Network Money
Title: City of Desire No. 4 Outrageous and Dirty Social Network Money
Released: November 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Samejima receives advice from a young man who has been the victim of a rip-off bar. When he tracks down the perpetrator, the bar manager, he is told that he himself is in debt hell and has been forced to work "part-time in the dark". The existence of 'social network dirty money' is revealed in the pursuit of the truth. The Minami underworld emerges in the background.
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リムジン
Title: リムジン
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: Movie
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City of Desire No.3 - The Lizard of Minami
Title: City of Desire No.3 - The Lizard of Minami
Released: August 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Under the dark fixer Gondo, there was the martial artist Okita and another one-armed man with brains. His name was Kamiya Shuji, known as the 'Lizard of Minami'. Then, Samejima and his team get an important clue to uncover Gondo's crimes. Samejima then confronts Kamiya.
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City of Desire No.2 - The Dark Fixer
Title: City of Desire No.2 - The Dark Fixer
Released: June 14, 2023
Type: Movie
The man is trying to get close to Gondo, the leader of the Kansai region, to avenge his old friend Shiraishi, who was killed by Gondo, and himself, who was framed by Gondo. However, Osaka Police Inspector Okura warns the man that he is dangerous. Meanwhile, a woman is defrauded and comes to the Sugiyama Law Office for help.
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City of Desire No.1 - The Road to Retribution
Title: City of Desire No.1 - The Road to Retribution
Released: June 7, 2023
Type: Movie
The flavour of the popular King of Minami series , starring Riki Takeuchi, is back after 15 years. A new story of a man who judges evil not with violence but with the law in order to achieve retribution. Six months after serving a nine-year prison sentence for murder, a man appears in Minami, Osaka . He is joined by like-minded lawyers Sugiyama and private detective Shimizu, who cut their way into a fraudulent medical trial at a university hospital. Eventually, the dark side of the hospital's management comes to light...
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Title: Sanctuary
Released: May 4, 2023
Type: TV
A tough, desperate kid becomes a sumo wrestler, captivating fans with his cocky attitude — and upsetting an industry steeped in tradition.
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Spirited Away: Live on Stage
Title: Spirited Away: Live on Stage
Character: Kamaji
Released: April 23, 2023
Type: Movie
A young girl named Chihiro finds herself trapped in a mysterious world inhabited by spirits and when her parents are turned into pigs, she must rescue them. The movie version of the stage production was filmed during the play’s 2022 run at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo.
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Love Life
Title: Love Life
Character: Makoto Osawa
Released: September 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Taeko and her husband, Jiro, are living a peaceful existence with her young son Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy's long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with the pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping this deaf and homeless man.
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You've Got A Friend
Title: You've Got A Friend
Released: February 4, 2022
Type: Movie
Yoshio is a man who works for the city's water department and live with his mother. He regularly visits to the SM Queen Miho, but he still cannot forget the legendary SM Queen Yukiko.
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The Door into Summer
Title: The Door into Summer
Character: Professor Toi
Released: June 25, 2021
Type: Movie
A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.
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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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名建築で昼食を スペシャル 横浜編
Title: 名建築で昼食を スペシャル 横浜編
Released: January 23, 2021
Type: Movie
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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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Midnight Swan
Title: Midnight Swan
Character: Mama Yoko
Released: September 25, 2020
Type: Movie
Nagisa is transgender. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle school student Ichika, who is a distant relative. Ichika has been neglected by her mother Saori. From living in solitude by herself, to now living with Ichika, Nagisa develops maternal instincts for the first time.
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Title: Meikenchiku de Chushoku wo
Released: August 16, 2020
Type: TV
Uekusa Chiaki, an architectural modeler whose father is a famous architect, has a habit of traveling around and visiting nostalgic and cute buildings. He updates his SNS often and is quite popular. On the other hand, Haruno Fuji's boyfriend has recently split up with her. Feeling down, she begins exchanging messages on SNS with Chiaki. The two agree to meet up to have lunch at a famous Tokyo building.
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Title: Meikenchiku de Chushoku wo
Character: Uekusa Chiaki
Released: August 16, 2020
Type: TV
Uekusa Chiaki, an architectural modeler whose father is a famous architect, has a habit of traveling around and visiting nostalgic and cute buildings. He updates his SNS often and is quite popular. On the other hand, Haruno Fuji's boyfriend has recently split up with her. Feeling down, she begins exchanging messages on SNS with Chiaki. The two agree to meet up to have lunch at a famous Tokyo building.
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#HandballStrive
Title: #HandballStrive
Character: Masashi
Released: July 24, 2020
Type: Movie
The school’s handball club is about to close down. Can social media bring it back to life? Masao Kiyota is a high school student living in Japan’s southern Kumamoto Prefecture. Lacking passion for anything in life, he spends his days like so many youth on his smartphone along with his childhood friend, Okamoto. One day, they upload a photo taken three years previously when they were both part of their school’s handball team. To their surprise, the post goes a little viral. Encouraged, they add the hashtag: “#Handball Full Power” and are swarmed with “likes” from around the country. Amidst the sudden social media attention, Masao and Okamoto set to resuscitating a nearly defunct men’s handball team.
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Fukushima 50
Title: Fukushima 50
Character: Kazuhiko Fukuhara
Released: March 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
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Fancy
Title: Fancy
Released: February 7, 2020
Type: Movie
Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a female fan with the name of Moonlit Night's Star (Sakurako Konishi). She sends letters to Penguin. One day, the female fan appears in front of Akira Takasu and Penguin. These three somehow get involved in a battle between the yakuza.
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Title: Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist
Released: January 9, 2020
Type: TV
Onda Kokoro is an oncologist called Dr Onkoro for short by the people around her and teased that she was born for this path. She got married to Takumi, whom she had known since she was a student, and they had a son. Life was going smoothly for her. But three months ago, her husband fell in an accident and remained unconsciousness even though he underwent emergency surgery. Although Kokoro puts on a brave face at work, she still has not been able to accept reality. One day, she meets Kajiyama Kaoru, a competent gastroenterologist who has transferred to work at the hospital. Kaoru understands the need for oncology as a surgeon and gives emotional support with her sunny personality as a colleague. She becomes a dear friend whom Kokoro feels is sudden a ray of light in her personal and professional life…
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The Witness
Title: The Witness
Character: Yuichi Kimura
Released: September 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Natsume Hamanaka was a police rookie with a promising future until she was in a car crash that killed her brother and took her eyesight. Three years later, she gets around with her seeing-eye dog Pal, but she’s unable to get over her regret and devastation.
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Parallel World Love Story
Title: Parallel World Love Story
Character: Sudo
Released: May 31, 2019
Type: Movie
"A world" - After graduating from a university, close friends Takashi Tsurug and Tomohiko Miwa begin work at a company which does brain research. One day, Tomohiko introduces Mayuko Tsuno as his girlfriend. Takashi is stunned. When he was a university student, Takashi saw Mayuko Tsuno every day on the train opposite from the one he rode. He became attracted to her back then. "B world" - When Takashi Tsurug wakes up, his girlfriend Mayuko Tsuno makes breakfast as usual at his apartment. His friend Tomohiko Miwa introduced him to Mayuko and they have lived happily as a couple. Everything seems to be going smoothly, but Takashi begins to have doubts. Tomohiko, who worked with him at the same company, disappears and he can't discern if his memory is real or imaginary.
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Hydra
Title: Hydra
Character: Teru Nakaya
Released: May 24, 2019
Type: Movie
An assassin for a secret organization keeping Japan safe from underworld threats finds himself targeted by evil forces aiming to unleash an unstoppable criminal syndicate upon Japan.
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Title: In Hand
Character: Hiroshi Yamazaki
Released: April 12, 2019
Type: TV
Tetsu Himokura is a parasitologist. He enjoys researching the lives of parasites at his home laboratory and he barely leaves his home. He also has assistant Haruma Takaie to help him. Tetsu Himokura's right hand is a robotic prosthetic hand. He is very smart, but blunt to others.
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Title: Happy Go Lucky
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: TV
The story follows the extremely busy office worker Takuya and his childhood friend Manzu .One day, they meet a girl named Mae whose father owns an A.I. Development Company. They accidentally help her when she is chased down by some people. They escape together and a wild ride with a free girl, A.I. and some mysterious villians starts! The drama title "Hapygora!" Is an abbreviation for "Happy Go Lucky" and expresses the theme itself of this work "always positive and fun" even in the emergency of helping a lady who is chased by someone.
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Title: In This Corner of the World
Character: Entaro Hojo
Released: July 15, 2018
Type: TV
18-year-old Urano Suzu marries Hojo Shusaku and moves from Eba City to Kure City in Hiroshima Prefecture in the middle of the Pacific War. As Japan slides into a war it cannot get out of, the townspeople go on with their “ordinary” lives. Supplies are short, and family and friends get sent to the battlefield. Suzu and the Hojo family battle such anxieties as they try to live positively.
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Room Laundering
Title: Room Laundering
Character: Saizen
Released: July 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Yakumo Miko's father died when she was 5 years old. The next year, Miko mother went missing. Miko then moved in with her grandmother, but, at the age of 18, Miko's grandmother passes away. She shuts herself away from others. One day, her uncle from her mother's side, Ikazuzi Goro appears. He sets up a place for Miko to live and also a place for her to do part-time work. Her part-time job is "room laundering." After starting her job, Miko sees ghosts. She struggles to solve the worries of the ghosts who are staying in rooms. Ikazuzi Goro tells Miko that her mother was able to see ghosts which affected her. Miko asks him to find her mother.
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Life in Overtime
Title: Life in Overtime
Character: Toshihiko Aoyama
Released: June 9, 2018
Type: Movie
After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a subsidiary company, where he finds himself at a loos as he reaches retirement age.
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The Blood of Wolves
Title: The Blood of Wolves
Character: Hideo Doi
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.
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My Little Monster
Title: My Little Monster
Character: Shizuku's Father
Released: April 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Problem student Haru Yoshida sits next to the cold and studious Shizuku Mizutani in class. Without any other friends to turn to, both of them start to get to know each other and grow closer. Haru eventually develop feelings for Shizuku and confesses his feelings to her. Will Haru and Shizuku get their happily ever after?
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Odd Final
Title: Odd Final
Released: April 25, 2018
Type: Movie
2018 original video.
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Violence Voyager
Title: Violence Voyager
Character: Koike
Released: April 18, 2018
Type: Movie
Following an end-of-term school ceremony, the American boy Bobby decides to go with his friend Akkun into the mountains outside their village, to a place perfect for a secret base. On the way they stop into a mysterious amusement park. They have fun there, but are attacked and cannot leave. Falling in with some other children who are also lost there, they fend off a number of attacks, and gradually learn the truth behind the facility.
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Half End
Title: Half End
Released: February 25, 2018
Type: Movie
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The Many Faces of Ito: The Movie
Title: The Many Faces of Ito: The Movie
Released: January 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Seijiro Ito possesses good looks, but also has an overinflated ego. He gets involved with five different women. Rio Yazaki is one of the women involved with Seijiro Ito. She wants to revive her career as a screenwriter, by using other people's unhappiness.
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Title: The Game of Business Card
Character: Katayama Shoji
Released: December 2, 2017
Type: TV
Behind the glitzy entertainment industry lies a dark and sinister world: harsh working conditions of production sites, domineering hotshots, and the tragic fate of unpopular talents. This a suspenseful thriller about a man who works at a frontline of the entertainment industry who is entangled in a mysterious game of life and death.
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The Last Shot in the Bar
Title: The Last Shot in the Bar
Character: Matsuo
Released: December 1, 2017
Type: Movie
In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner of a modeling agency.
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Neko Atsume House
Title: Neko Atsume House
Character: Asakusa
Released: April 8, 2017
Type: Movie
In Neko Atsume no Ie, Atsushi Ito stars as Masaru Sakamoto, a novelist who moves to the countryside to try to combat a bad case of writer's block. While struggling to begin his next novel, Masaru spots a stray cat, which he decides to befriend. Masaru leaves food out for the pretty kitty, and before long his new home is covered in cats.
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Policeman and Me
Title: Policeman and Me
Character: Shuichi Yamamoto
Released: March 25, 2017
Type: Movie
Kako, a 16-year-old high school girl, goes to a mixer pretending to be 22. While there, she meets Kouta who at first has a very intimidating aura. But once he saves her from an awkward situation, she wants to know more about him as does he. That is until he finds out she isn't 22. The next day Kako runs into him again, but this time he's working as a police officer. Kako still wants to get closer to Kouta, but he isn't interested or is he?
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Title: The Supporting Actors
Character: Himself
Released: January 14, 2017
Type: TV
Kenichi Endo, Ren Osugi, Tomorowo Taguchi, Susumu Terajima, Yutaka Matsushige and Ken Mitsuishi all receive offers to take part in a big budget drama series with a famous lead actor and world famous director. To study their roles and relationships, the director asks the six supporting actors to live together for 3 months at a share house. The actors begin their temporary living arrangement. An incident from 10 years ago though causes the actors to hold resentment.
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Title: 吉祥寺だけが住みたい街ですか?
Character: Mikuriya Saburo
Released: October 15, 2016
Type: TV
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Too Young To Die!
Title: Too Young To Die!
Character: Hato
Released: June 25, 2016
Type: Movie
After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.
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Ame Onna
Title: Ame Onna
Character: Rika's father
Released: June 4, 2016
Type: Movie
A young woman tormented by reoccurring nightmares of a black-clad woman committing suicide on the train tracks during a very rainy day. The dreams take on an even more sinister aspect when Rika returns to her hometown on the anniversary of her mother's death.
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Title: Hibana: Spark
Released: June 2, 2016
Type: TV
Tokunaga, a comedian who is down on his luck, has a shock encounter with Kamiya, an older comedian when he visits a fireworks event in Atami on a job. Tokunaga is deeply touched by Kamiya and asks if he can become his apprentice. Kamiya is a genius type of comedian who is full of human kindness. He accepts Tokunaga’s proposition on the condition that he will write his biography.
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Artist of Fasting
Title: Artist of Fasting
Character: Narration (voice)
Released: February 27, 2016
Type: Movie
A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause...
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A Drop of the Grapevine
Title: A Drop of the Grapevine
Released: October 11, 2014
Type: Movie
After a symphonic music career in Europe cut short by hearing loss, Ao (Oizumi Yo) returns home to run his family's farm in Hokkaido alongside younger brother Roku (Sometani Shota). Roku carries on the family legacy of wheat farming, but Ao becomes obsessed with starting a winery specializing in Pinot Noir. The brothers' troubled relationship is upset further when one day mysterious yet charming Erika (Ando Yuko) pitches camp in a neighboring field. A Drop of the Grapevine is the second of director Mishima Yukiko's Hokkaido Trilogy, an intended triptych that features the natural bounty and scenic landscapes of Japan's northern island.
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The Vancouver Asahi
Title: The Vancouver Asahi
Character: Tadaaki Matsuda
Released: September 29, 2014
Type: Movie
In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of their Caucasian counterparts. But one thing made their lives worth living: baseball. They may be the underdogs, but the Vancouver Asahi baseball team have a sense of fair play and smart tactics that set them apart from the brute force of their opponents. Under the guidance of new team captain Reggie Kasahara, can they be able to rise above all the negativity to win the tournament? This film is based on the true story of Vancouver Asahi, the Japanese-Canadian baseball team that was inducted into The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.
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Kabukicho Love Hotel
Title: Kabukicho Love Hotel
Character: Masashi Kubota
Released: September 7, 2014
Type: Movie
This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.
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Monsterz
Title: Monsterz
Character: Mr. Kumoi
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
A somber paranormal thriller that offers an original, exciting variation of the tale of two men with supernatural abilities, locked in a duel to the death. A battle between a man who can control people with a stare, and the only man he cannot control. When their fate cross, the survival battle begins. The two men with inevitable fate, who will survive?
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Rose Color's Buko
Title: Rose Color's Buko
Character: Gangster
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Sachiko is an university student. Her nickname is Buko, because she has been negative about everything since she was young. Sachiko believes someday she will meet a man like in a romance manga. Her university life is boring and she spends her time reading romance manga in her room. One day, on Twitter, she meets a man who uses the user ID of Sparrow. He likes reading manga and looks like Johnny Depp. Sachiko makes a date to meet the man. She tries to change herself, but it's not so easy due to various unexpected incidents.
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Title: The Long Goodbye
Character: Haneoka
Released: April 19, 2014
Type: TV
Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and commits suicide. Tamotsu’s friend Banji Masuzawa works as a private detective, and has doubts about Tamotsu’s death, but the case is covered up by powerful media mogul Heizo Harada.
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Title: Botanical Life of Varendar
Character: Verandar
Released: April 2, 2014
Type: TV
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RoomMate
Title: RoomMate
Released: November 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Harumi Hagiwara lands in the hospital after being involved in an accident. She hits it off with her nurse, Reiko Nishimura, and the two decide to move in together after she's discharged. However, Harumi begins to witness a series of mysterious events soon after noticing Reiko's strange behavior. Additionally, she fears for her own safety when Reiko starts referring to herself as 'Mari' as if she's become an entirely different person. Before long, the situation develops into a case of murder.
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Disregarded People
Title: Disregarded People
Character: President Maruyoshi
Released: October 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Young man, Yusuke Mamiana, fed up with his life meats a unattractive ugly girl, Kyoko, at his hometown. Out of his impulsive desire, he had a relationship by nearly raping her. They started to live together and gradually feel 'Family' attachment in each other. As time passes, Yusuke starts to think more about 'Happiness' of his family and himself.
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Detective in the Bar 2
Title: Detective in the Bar 2
Character: Matsuo
Released: May 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A friend of the detective has been is murdered. During the investigation, he comes across a source which tells him that his friend was murdered for involvement with the dark side of the political world. On top of that, a woman approaches the detective with a request.
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Maruyama, the Middle Schooler
Title: Maruyama, the Middle Schooler
Character: Saito
Released: April 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Katsuya Maruyama is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimoi, a single father who moves into the same apartment complex. Tatsuo Shimoi is a bit of an enigma: he doesn't get along with the housewives in the apartment complex and doesn't appear to work. Through his encounter with the mysterious single father, Katsuya grows as a person.
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AIBOU: X-DAY
Title: AIBOU: X-DAY
Released: March 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Detective Kenichi Itami from the The National Police Agency and Akira Iwatsuki from the cyber investigation team investigate a complex murder case. The victim was under investigation by the cyber investigation team. As Detective Kenichi Itami and Akira Iwatsuki delve deeper into the case, pressure from around makes their investigation even more difficult. Secretly, a national financial doomsday scenario is carried out under the plan of "X Day".
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Nobody's Perfect
Title: Nobody's Perfect
Released: March 23, 2013
Type: Movie
"Daijobu 3 Kumi" depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without arms and legs, and the 28 students in his 5th grade class, told from the vantage point of school board member Yusaku Shiraishi
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1+1=11
Title: 1+1=11
Released: December 14, 2012
Type: Movie
An ensemble drama in which the lives of 25 people intersect, inspired by Yamanaka Sadao's classic film {Humanity and Paper Balloons}. Various men and women, living in Japan today. Presents slices of everyday life for people in various situations, where things that are always the undergo change.
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The Samurai That Night
Title: The Samurai That Night
Character: Nobuo Hoshi
Released: November 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Five years after a hit-and-run accident kills his wife, a distraught metalworker comes face to face with the man behind the steering wheel.
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Fly with the Gold
Title: Fly with the Gold
Character: Yamagishi
Released: November 3, 2012
Type: Movie
Kota hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa, a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold bar sits in the basement of the HQ of Sumita Bank. Helping Kota and Kitagawa are bank security employee Noda, a North Korean spy pretending to be a college student, Kitagawa's younger brother Haruki and a former elevator engineer. These 6 men are about to carry the boldest of schemes to bypass the bank's high-tech defense system.
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A Road Stained Crimson
Title: A Road Stained Crimson
Released: October 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Professional killer Ken (Hirofumi Arai) is trying to break away from the yakuza. Taking up work at a local motorcycle shop, he forges a new life under the motherly eye of Yoko (Jun Fubuki), an older woman who owns the shop. However, Ken's dark past isn't letting him go that easily. Akira (Jun Murakami), Ken's ruthless mentor and himself an assassin, has been coming around and pressuring Ken to return to the family. Together with orphaned teenager Tsuyoshi (Niinobu Ryomei), Ken decides to take to the road and settle matters in the only way he knows - by the trigger of his gun. Featuring music by Snake on the Beach, a solo project of legendary singer and guitarist Yusuke Chiba, A Road Stained Crimson takes viewers down the high-octane expressway of bikes, guns and rock 'n' roll.
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The Drudgery Train
Title: The Drudgery Train
Character: Secondhand Bookstore Manager
Released: July 14, 2012
Type: Movie
In this offbeat coming-of-age tale, a charming, rebellious high school dropout named Kanta befriends the kind, provincial Shoji. The two bring out the best in each other, each gaining confidence from their friendship - especially regarding pursuit of the opposite sex. The working class Kanta becomes a sort of unruly anti-hero, maintaining his pride, defiance, and self-assurance even as his prospects seem increasingly grim.
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Title: QP
Character: Hiko
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: TV
The main character of the manga was Ishida Kotori, also known as "QP", the most powerful gangster in his area. The drama will shift its focus onto Azuma Ryo, Kotori's close friend, who has some hidden ambitions.
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A Man with Style
Title: A Man with Style
Character: Sanada
Released: June 18, 2011
Type: Movie
Miyata lost his wife early on and single-handedly raised their two children. One day he notices a change in his physical condition, and decides that it must be stomach cancer.
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The Egoists
Title: The Egoists
Character: Shinji Ninomiya
Released: June 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.
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Chivalrous Sinking
Title: Chivalrous Sinking
Released: April 25, 2011
Type: Movie
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Gantz: Perfect Answer
Title: Gantz: Perfect Answer
Character: Yoshikazu Suzuki
Released: April 23, 2011
Type: Movie
Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.
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Another Gantz
Title: Another Gantz
Character: Yoshikazu Suzuki
Released: April 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Before finding out the Perfect Answer, discover Another Gantz. Aired on Nippon Television network before the theatrical release of Gantz: The Perfect Answer, this film is an alternate perspective version of the first Gantz film from the same writing-directing team of the two-part theatrical film. In addition to condensed scenes from the Gantz film, Another Gantz features a new subplot that follows an investigative journalist not included in the theatrical film. Delving deep into the mystery, Another Gantz offers another piece towards solving the complex puzzle that is the world of Gantz.
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River
Title: River
Character: Maid cafe owner
Released: March 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Hikari's boyfriend is one of those killed in the Akihabara massacre incident. Suffering from the shock of her loss and unable to accept this reality, she cuts herself off from the outside world. She eventually manages to muster enough courage to visit Akihabara, the scene of the incident. There, she encounters many people who are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the incident and are still suffering from the aftereffects.
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YOYOCHU in the Land of the Rising Sex
Title: YOYOCHU in the Land of the Rising Sex
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 22, 2011
Type: Movie
"Yoyochu" is the nick name for Tadashi Yoyogi. He is the father of Japanese adult video. Before becoming a pornographer, he was a flower arranger and a member of the mob. Here, we follow Tadashi Yoyogi as he seeks the truth behind love-making. ~ Baseline StudioSystems
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Gantz
Title: Gantz
Character: Yoshikazu Suzuki
Released: November 29, 2010
Type: Movie
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
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Household X
Title: Household X
Character: Kenichi Hashimoto
Released: July 29, 2010
Type: Movie
The story takes place in a new residential area in the outskirts of Tokyo. A family photograph adorns the living room of the Hashimoto family. It is a heartwarming shot of the three family members from when they first moved here, finally having bought their own home that they had wanted for so long. Wife Michiko hangs the laundry everyday. Husband Ken-ichi leaves for work without a word. Son Hiroaki has a part-time job, returns home early and disappears into his room. The Hashimoto Family no longer eats meal together at the dining table or spends time together in the living room. Michiko yearns for a different relationship with her family and is gradually overcome by loneliness. While feeling pressured from the trifling matters that occur within the residential community, Michiko tries to fill the emptiness that she hides in her heart.
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Piecing Me Back Together
Title: Piecing Me Back Together
Character: Keisuke Ogi
Released: June 19, 2010
Type: Movie
A young woman named Izumi suffers the loss of her boyfriend Junichi, who died from a fatal motorcycle accident. The shock from her boyfriend's sudden death causes Izumi to lose her memory from the time of the accident. A lawyer named Makiko then helps Izumi to remember the final moments of her boyfriend's life.
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Shinigami no Yaiba
Title: Shinigami no Yaiba
Released: January 25, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: Midnight Diner
Character: Lyricist
Released: October 9, 2009
Type: TV
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.
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April Bride
Title: April Bride
Character: Okuno
Released: May 9, 2009
Type: Movie
On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but keeps the information from her boyfriend. When he finds out, he decides to plan a wedding even though she only has one month to live. Based on the true story of Chie Nagashima, a women afflicted with breast cancer and her husband Taro Akasu.
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Gehara: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster
Title: Gehara: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster
Character: Shinto Priest
Released: February 24, 2009
Type: Movie
A fishing boat is attacked at sea by a gigantic, hairy monster. After examining the sole survivor (Kanji Tsuda), scientific adviser Dr Murakami (Shiro Sano) suspects the culprit is a “Keukegen spectre”, a shaggy supernatural beast from Japanese folklore. The announcement leads reporter Hideo Akihara (Ken Osawa) to a forest shrine dedicated to the Keukegen Geharha, where he finds several worshipers and learns that an ancient seal containing the monster has been broken.
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Brass Knuckle Boys
Title: Brass Knuckle Boys
Character: Jimmy
Released: February 14, 2009
Type: Movie
A record company office worker named Kanna discovers a punk rock band called Shonen Meriken Sakku 'Brass Knuckle Boys' through the internet and subsequently decides to represent them on behalf of her company. What Kanna did not know was that the Brass Knuckle Boys consists of all middle aged men.
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Ain't No Tomorrows
Title: Ain't No Tomorrows
Character: Yoshida
Released: November 22, 2008
Type: Movie
17 year-old Hiruma is desperate to get laid and takes out his sexual urges on Anpai, a fat boy who has "boobs." His classmate Tomono, a sickly loner, is in a serious relationship with their married teacher.
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Otokotachi no uta
Title: Otokotachi no uta
Released: September 6, 2008
Type: Movie
Collection of short films: Spaghetti Napolitan (Atsushi Kaneshige) 3:15 PM (Hiroyuki Nakano) Iron (Hiroyuki Nakano) Lighthouse (Hiroyuki Nakano) Fuji & Donuts (Yasuhisa Serizawa)
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Climber's High
Title: Climber's High
Character: Enji Kishi
Released: July 5, 2008
Type: Movie
On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accident, Yuuki, in charge of this crash report at a local newspaper, faces a string of decision-making moments. What are news and a reporter? How should a man do his work and survive in a corporate hierarchy? What do family and friends mean to him? An intriguing story, which keeps the audience on the edge of tension and reality.
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The Most Beautiful Night In The World
Title: The Most Beautiful Night In The World
Character: Kazuya Mizuno
Released: May 24, 2008
Type: Movie
Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as it seems on the surface. Not with characters around like Shimeko, a girl genius with a childlike lack of propriety, and her ace fisherman/folk-singer dad. Or the overbearing and unpleasant local Shinto priest, a former Christian cultist. Or Endo, Kazuya's new colleague, a bitter drunk after his son's suicide. Or Kin, a former terrorist, now a hermit on his boat engaging in secret "research." Or perhaps most importantly Teruko, the hypnotically beautiful bar owner, the focus of all manner of innuendo and intrigue. Something mysterious, even mystical, is going on Kaname, and hapless Kazuya is about to be thrown into the middle of it.
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The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Title: The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Character: Yuji Miyoshi
Released: November 3, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's undying love for the cinema and each other.
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Kamen Rider: The Next
Title: Kamen Rider: The Next
Character: Scissors Jaguar
Released: August 27, 2007
Type: Movie
Bent on the destruction of the human race, the secret underground organization Shocker secretly planned to plunge the world into chaos. But they didn’t count on the revolt of both of their experimentally “reconstructed” human beings, the Kamen Riders. Two years after their first battle with Shocker, a 3rd Rider arises to confront them, known only as “Version 3.” The arrival of the third Kamen Rider will hurl the heroes into their most terrible battle yet and the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
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Switching – Goodbye Me
Title: Switching – Goodbye Me
Character: Kazumi's Father
Released: June 23, 2007
Type: Movie
After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend Kazumi.
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The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Title: The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Character: a stuff of Toraoh
Released: May 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Korean-Japanese director Gu Su Yeon makes his directorial debut with the mouthwateringly delicious The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi. As the title clearly states, pride of place goes to juicy, bite-sized meat, and viewers will get a delightful eyeful of food, food, and more food in this fabulously fulfilling gourmet comedy. Reveling in Japan's love for food-themed shows, the film revolves around a culinary battle of David and Goliath proportions, cheekily parodying Japanese cooking shows with Iron Chef-like editing, excited running commentary, and comedic how-to segments. The Yakiniku Movie also shines a light on the food culture of Japan's resident Korean population, proving that tasty food transcends all boundaries.
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How to Become Myself
Title: How to Become Myself
Character: Koji Ueshima
Released: April 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Juri, an elementary school girl, loses sight of her true self while acting out a false self to play along with her friends. Kanako, a classmate who used to be the popular girl but has been bullied lately, tells Juri that the girl she is now is not her true self, and Juri sympathizes.
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Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Title: Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Released: April 14, 2007
Type: Movie
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Title: Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Character: Barber Owner
Released: March 3, 2007
Type: Movie
Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yakuza past. Unfortunately, Kiryū's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball-bat-wielding psycho Gorō Majima, who has a grudge to settle with Kiryū.
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Cain's Descendant
Title: Cain's Descendant
Released: February 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Munakata has an unrelenting guilt from killing his mother when he was 15 years old. After being imprisoned for 10 years, he is released and heads to Yako, a small industrial town, to work as a machinist. Living in a tiny apartment, he is tasked with secretly creating a gun out of an old TV remote control and unknowingly destroys the fragile balance of the town.
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Prisoner/Terrorist
Title: Prisoner/Terrorist
Character: M
Released: February 2, 2007
Type: Movie
During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leaving him captured. Exposed to maltreatment in prison, he slowly loses his grip on reality as he is forced to confront his ideological convictions.
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Title: Haken no Hinkaku
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 10, 2007
Type: TV
Oomae Haruko is an A+ Temp worker who never cracks a smile or minces words, and leaves work on the dot. But her cynical nature indicates she has something painful to hide. Satonaka Kensuke has just been promoted to head S&F's new Marketing Division. Saddled with a rag-tag group of subordinates, he is struggling to lift his division off the ground. When Oomae is placed in Kensuke's department, she finds herself doing more work than she's ever done before. This is a timely drama that examines the different attitudes toward temp workers and regular employees, and the ways to overcome frictions in interpersonal relationships. This follows an October report on labor conditions by the Labor Ministry, which showed that, after regulations were relaxed, the proportion of regular employees to Temps had doubled compared to that of eight years ago.
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Sea of Madness
Title: Sea of Madness
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A horror film directed by Hiroshi Takahashi. After winning an overwhelming number of seats in the National Diet, the Prime Minister of Japan, Shintarō Makabe, is about to undertake a constitutional revision to remove Japan's Article 9 (forbidding the building of a military). However, this leads to conflict with his wife. Meanwhile, the President of the United States has been cursed. (Description translated from Amazon.co.jp)
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Prisoners
Title: Prisoners
Character: Self
Released: December 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Making-of documentary for Masao Adachi's "Prisoner/Terrorist"
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SOUL TRAIN ソウルトレイン
Title: SOUL TRAIN ソウルトレイン
Released: December 22, 2006
Type: Movie
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Love Letter So-renka
Title: Love Letter So-renka
Character: Yui's father
Released: November 25, 2006
Type: Movie
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Gamera the Brave
Title: Gamera the Brave
Character: Councilor Yoshimitsu Hitotsugi
Released: November 11, 2006
Type: Movie
A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle that grows into a new version of Gamera. But will it become powerful enough in time to defeat the rampaging monster Zedus?
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M
Title: M
Character: Pimp
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Mixed up by desire, love and hatred, a disturbed young man begins tailing and eventually tries to save his neighbor, a housewife who has turned to prostitution despite her comfortable lifestyle.
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Sway
Title: Sway
Character: Judge
Released: July 8, 2006
Type: Movie
A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.
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God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand
Title: God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand
Released: June 22, 2006
Type: Movie
What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand the inescapable terror.
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It's Only Talk
Title: It's Only Talk
Character: K
Released: June 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic depression. The movie begins with Yuko moving to Kamata Town.
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Black Night
Title: Black Night
Character: Dr. Kawai (segment "Dark Hole")
Released: April 13, 2006
Type: Movie
Hong Kong director Patrick Leung, Japanese director Takahiko Akiyama, and Thai director Thanit Jitnikul pool their resources to terrify audiences with a three-part horror omnibus that proves terror takes many unique forms.
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Haru, Bânîzu de
Title: Haru, Bânîzu de
Released: February 19, 2006
Type: Movie
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Strange Circus
Title: Strange Circus
Character: Taeko's Editor-in-Chief
Released: December 24, 2005
Type: Movie
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
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Wolf Girl
Title: Wolf Girl
Released: December 3, 2005
Type: Movie
When a new, smart and sweet Tokyo girl, Rumiko, starts at a rural elementary school, Akira finds himself smitten, like every other male pupil. Newcomer's popularity is contrasted with the less-tolerant treatment of scruffy Hideko, who, thanks to the arrival of a carnival freak-show in town, is nicknamed the Wolf Girl. Teachers and parents snootily consider the carny off-limits, but Akira is determined to find out whether Hideko really is a wolf girl.
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Until the Lights Come Back
Title: Until the Lights Come Back
Character: Ryotaro Saeki
Released: November 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.
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Spring Snow
Title: Spring Snow
Released: October 9, 2005
Type: Movie
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngsters amongst the aristocracy and rich of early twentieth century Japan.
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Who's Camus Anyway?
Title: Who's Camus Anyway?
Character: Oyama
Released: October 3, 2005
Type: Movie
A group of eccentric students decide to make a movie. But, when their star suddenly quits, this witty ensemble cast begins to live the film, including murder, deception and true love.
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Young Thugs: Murray Tiger
Title: Young Thugs: Murray Tiger
Released: September 28, 2005
Type: Movie
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make
Title: Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Death Make
Released: July 5, 2005
Type: Movie
Five people visit an abandoned building where five girls disappeared ten years ago when they tried to summon ghosts. These five people who visit the building has met on a website for people with supernatural powers. With their abilities realize these people that they should leave the building as quickly as possible, the problem is that all doors are suddenly gone.
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A Blue Automobile
Title: A Blue Automobile
Character: Record Store Boss
Released: November 20, 2004
Type: Movie
Richio, a young DJ, is as emotionally non-existent as no other man on the planet. He uses his tough exterior to avoid attachments to people and society.
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Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World
Title: Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World
Character: Miho's father
Released: May 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Despite the fact that Kyoko's a girl herself, approaching women on the streets and asking them to pose nude for her proves to be quite a chore. At first she accosts every pretty girl that walks by, until Miho catches her eye. Feeling that she has that certain something special, Kyoko insists that Miho pose for her. Her own life floating rudderless after the separation of her parents, Miho accepts, half entertaining the idea to get back at her father, who has gone on to form a new family and who hasn't been in touch with her in years. The two girls walk around town, Kyoko snapping pictures and listening to Miho's stories. Gradually the two young women begin to sense a mutual attraction. When the time comes to get down to the nitty gritty of the nude shots, the girls' defences come down along with their clothes.
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Title: 大人計画「ドライブイン カリフォルニア」
Released: May 1, 2004
Type: TV
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Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Youkai Hel
Title: Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Youkai Hel
Released: March 25, 2004
Type: Movie
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Kamachi
Title: Kamachi
Character: Sensei Komori
Released: March 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Biopic of poet and painter Kamachi Yamada.
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L'amant
Title: L'amant
Character: A
Released: February 5, 2004
Type: Movie
When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom she calls A. B and C) keep shifting in ways that redefine power and sex.
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Mask de 41
Title: Mask de 41
Character: Tadao Kuramochi
Released: January 26, 2004
Type: Movie
Tadao Kuramochi, an ordinary salaryman, decides one day to reach for his dreams and start his own wrestling federation. Tadao must succeed to save his family on the verge of collapsing.
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Vibrator
Title: Vibrator
Character: Cop
Released: December 6, 2003
Type: Movie
Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks excessively. On Valentine's Day, she meets truck driver Takatoshi. She joins him on a journey in his bumpy and shaky truck - which vibrates in tune with her uneasy soul.
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Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Banchou Soccer
Title: Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Banchou Soccer
Released: August 23, 2003
Type: Movie
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A Snake of June
Title: A Snake of June
Character: Editor-in-Chief
Released: June 13, 2003
Type: Movie
A woman is being stalked by a stranger. His stalking turns to blackmail when he sends her copies of photos of her in an embarrassing position. Now he controls her and she has to do anything he says. Anything.
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Cop Festival: New Beginning
Title: Cop Festival: New Beginning
Released: May 24, 2003
Type: Movie
Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.
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Owl
Title: Owl
Released: February 7, 2003
Type: Movie
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to stray to their cabin with sex, and kill them. All goes well until a local cop shows up and, then, an old relation.
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Aiki
Title: Aiki
Released: November 29, 2002
Type: Movie
When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and depression. No boxing ring or martial arts club will take him on -- that is, until an aiki jujitsu master helps the young man develop techniques uniquely tailored to a wheelchair. What starts off as a sad film revs up into an exciting and fun series of epiphanies in which the young man realizes his situation isn't as hopeless as it seems.
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Barber's Sorrow
Title: Barber's Sorrow
Released: November 9, 2002
Type: Movie
A S&M comedy about a masochist barber.
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11'09''01 September 11
Title: 11'09''01 September 11
Character: Yukichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
Released: September 4, 2002
Type: Movie
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Drive
Title: Drive
Released: August 24, 2002
Type: Movie
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h speed limit even under the extreme situation.
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MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
Title: MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
Released: July 6, 2002
Type: Movie
A reworking of MPD Psycho by the author of the original manga Eiji Otsuka edited from the TV show and newly-filmed scenes.
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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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Doing Time
Title: Doing Time
Character: Tanabe
Released: May 14, 2002
Type: Movie
A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.
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Bastoni: The Stick Handlers
Title: Bastoni: The Stick Handlers
Released: March 16, 2002
Type: Movie
Kazuhiko Nakamura directs this sexually charged wacky comedy set in the world of the Japanese adult video industry. The story follows a young woman's (Amiko Kanetani) foolish attempts to win back a lost love (Shunsuke Matsuoka) by taking the one recourse she believes might actually do the trick: becoming a porn star.
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Young Thugs: EPISODE FINAL Stand By Me
Title: Young Thugs: EPISODE FINAL Stand By Me
Released: February 22, 2002
Type: Movie
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Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE II From Russia With Love
Title: Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE II From Russia With Love
Released: January 21, 2002
Type: Movie
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My Blood Bone
Title: My Blood Bone
Released: June 16, 2001
Type: Movie
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Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE I
Title: Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend EPISODE I
Released: March 30, 2001
Type: Movie
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man-hole
Title: man-hole
Released: March 3, 2001
Type: Movie
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Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Title: Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Released: December 2, 2000
Type: Movie
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.
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Chinpira
Title: Chinpira
Released: November 11, 2000
Type: Movie
Osamu rescues a girl who was being chased by two punks and is soon mixed up with the Yakuza
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Tokyo Trash Baby
Title: Tokyo Trash Baby
Released: October 7, 2000
Type: Movie
Miyuki doesn't need to stalk the man she's crazy about, because he lives one floor down. He's Yoshinori, a not very successful long-haired musician. Miyuki, a coffee-shop waitress, nods when they pass on the stairs, but hasn't yet dared to strike up a conversation. Instead she slips out every night and helps herself to his trash.
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Oshikiri
Title: Oshikiri
Released: September 2, 2000
Type: Movie
Oshikiri is a loner who has bad memories of his childhood and his grandfather, a brilliant scientist. He returns to his grandfather's mansion to try to remember what really happened to him. He finds a portal to a parallel universe, which his grandfather had originally discovered. From this portal comes his doppelganger dressed in a cloak and gas mask, who kills his fellow students with an ancient axe.
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Jorogumo
Title: Jorogumo
Released: July 21, 2000
Type: Movie
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Senrigan
Title: Senrigan
Released: June 10, 2000
Type: Movie
The head of a psychological research institute and a lieutenant in the Japanese Air Force are both investigating a mysterious cult known only as ‘Midori no Saru’ (The Green Monkey). Members of this group have committed a string of violent suicide-attacks on military bases and public areas. Part of the mystery seems to involve a young child and an enormous Buddha statue outside Tokyo, but how could all these pieces possibly fit together?
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Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
Title: Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
Released: May 12, 2000
Type: Movie
The third and final V-Cinema sequel.
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Monday
Title: Monday
Character: Mitsuhiko Shima
Released: April 29, 2000
Type: Movie
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before.
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Title: PROJECT X 〜Challengers〜
Character: 語り
Released: March 28, 2000
Type: TV
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Kamome
Title: Kamome
Character: Akitoshi Fukuma
Released: March 4, 2000
Type: Movie
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Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer
Title: Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer
Released: March 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Graduating at the top of her class, elite detective candidate Jun Shibata is transferred to the section that handles cases deemed "unsolvable" by the department. Her partner, though a well-respected and experienced detective, has grown complacent after unsuccesfully pursuing these cases that many consider an exercise in futility. With her upper class breeding, her colleagues don't expect much from her either, but she suprises them all with her motivation and astounding powers of deduction. Well-constructed mysteries and colorful characters abound in this stylish and edgy police drama.
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Taboo
Title: Taboo
Character: Samurai Tojiro Yuzawa
Released: December 18, 1999
Type: Movie
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
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Dead or Alive
Title: Dead or Alive
Character: Afro Thug
Released: November 27, 1999
Type: Movie
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.
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White-Collar Worker Kintaro
Title: White-Collar Worker Kintaro
Character: Shibamata
Released: November 13, 1999
Type: Movie
Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox tactics cause trouble with his colleagues. He is transferred to a tiny countryside branch, where he butts heads with his lazy superior until the two men discover a plot by the competition to put the construction company out of bussiness. With the help of his old biker friends, Kintaro prepares to confront the masterminds behind the scheme.
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Gemini
Title: Gemini
Character: Middle-aged Patient
Released: September 15, 1999
Type: Movie
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
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The Line
Title: The Line
Released: August 21, 1999
Type: Movie
Fuyuko, a magazine reporter, receives information of a "Curse Dial". If you enter your name and phone number into the "Cursed Message Dial," and when you get an answer, tell the name of the person you want to kill within 10 seconds, and that person will die.
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The Night the Angel Turned Away
Title: The Night the Angel Turned Away
Character: Tawada
Released: July 10, 1999
Type: Movie
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Ley Lines
Title: Ley Lines
Character: Chan
Released: May 22, 1999
Type: Movie
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Title: Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Character: Doctor
Released: March 6, 1999
Type: Movie
With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.
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Tadon and Chikuwa
Title: Tadon and Chikuwa
Released: December 5, 1998
Type: Movie
A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck.
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Bullet Ballet
Title: Bullet Ballet
Character: Policeman
Released: December 1, 1998
Type: Movie
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
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Scorpion: Double Venom
Title: Scorpion: Double Venom
Released: October 31, 1998
Type: Movie
Nami Matsushima, a former doctor, is put in prison for murdering one of the men who raped and killed her sister. Now, faced with violent and lecherous prison gangs, an aggressively amorous warden, and with a friend on death row, Nami must steel herself for a ten year stay in one of Japan's toughest women's prisons.
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Three Businessmen
Title: Three Businessmen
Character: Noodle Shop Waiter
Released: October 14, 1998
Type: Movie
An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
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Tomie
Title: Tomie
Character: Detective Harada
Released: October 6, 1998
Type: Movie
Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?
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A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo
Title: A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo
Released: September 26, 1998
Type: Movie
A large, dinosaur-like monster has risen from Tokyo Bay and attacked the city. As the government collapses into chaos, the people of a rural town in Fukui Prefecture, from whose perspective we see the entire movie, watch as the events unfold on TV. Some decide to run for their lives, some take it as a sign of the apocalypse, some go completely crazy, but most of the townspeople wait and watch, and wonder where the monster will head next.
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Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 2
Title: Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 2
Character: Kôshichirô Urushido (as Tomoroo Taguchi)
Released: September 23, 1998
Type: Movie
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Kiriko no fûkei
Title: Kiriko no fûkei
Character: Kimura
Released: July 25, 1998
Type: Movie
During Muraishi's time in prison for fraud, he recalls his past and learns a power to penetrate and cure others. Upon release, he goes to Hakodate, where he can find his ex-wife, Kiriko. Though he cures a lot of people on the way and believes that he is the only one to make Kiriko happy, he is being depressed by discovering a guy together with her.
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Unlucky Monkey
Title: Unlucky Monkey
Character: Miyata
Released: July 18, 1998
Type: Movie
A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?
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Andromedia
Title: Andromedia
Character: Goda
Released: July 11, 1998
Type: Movie
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous brother-in-law, wanting to get his hands on the technology for profit, sends his client to steal it and Mai’s father is killed in the process. Learning of her capture, Mai’s old friends race to free AI from her captors so that she won’t fall into the corporate clutches that threaten to erase her soul.
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Sleepless Town
Title: Sleepless Town
Character: Kenji Tozawa
Released: June 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two of gangland boss, Yuan. Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi.
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Dr. Akagi
Title: Dr. Akagi
Character: Nosaka
Released: May 17, 1998
Type: Movie
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
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Sada
Title: Sada
Character: Kin
Released: April 11, 1998
Type: Movie
Based on real-life events, this erotic thriller tells the sad and sadistic tale of a Japanese geisha whose behavior spiraled out of control.
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Ohaka ga nai!
Title: Ohaka ga nai!
Character: Takagi Noboru
Released: February 7, 1998
Type: Movie
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Full Metal Yakuza
Title: Full Metal Yakuza
Character: Genpaku Hiraga
Released: December 5, 1997
Type: Movie
After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a robot-human hybrid with a serious thirst for vengeance and the tools to carry it out.
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Tokyo Fair Weather
Title: Tokyo Fair Weather
Released: October 18, 1997
Type: Movie
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
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Lie Lie Lie
Title: Lie Lie Lie
Character: Party Guest
Released: October 4, 1997
Type: Movie
Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa, a high school classmate he hasn’t seen in over ten years, shows up on his doorstep bearing a bag of clams. Though he claims to be the director of a fast-growing trading company, Aikawa crashes on Hatano’s couch for days on end. When the sleeping pills he was offered produce a strange side effect, Hatano is slowly dragged into Aikawa’s con-artist lifestyle. Soon afterward, they cross paths with the representative of a big-name publishing company and Aikawa’s ultimate scam begins to unfold.
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Watashitachi ga suki datta koto
Title: Watashitachi ga suki datta koto
Released: September 6, 1997
Type: Movie
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Postman Blues
Title: Postman Blues
Character: Profiler
Released: August 16, 1997
Type: Movie
Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting his little finger off.
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Prostitution Gang
Title: Prostitution Gang
Released: August 13, 1997
Type: Movie
With a title like that... you just have to watch it.
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Rainy Dog
Title: Rainy Dog
Character: The Pursuer
Released: June 28, 1997
Type: Movie
A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
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The Towers of Musahino Line
Title: The Towers of Musahino Line
Released: June 28, 1997
Type: Movie
Miharu Tamaki is about to move to Nagasaki due to his parents' divorce. As his final summer vacation in Tokyo draws to a close, he is drawn to an inscription on a high voltage tower reading "Musashino Line Tower 75". With his friend, he resolves to find Tower 1.
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Ishoku Manga-shi 33-nen no Kiseki ~ Garo no Jidai o Yomu
Title: Ishoku Manga-shi 33-nen no Kiseki ~ Garo no Jidai o Yomu
Character: Self
Released: June 18, 1997
Type: Movie
A documentary exploring the history and influence of the alternative manga magazine, Garo, with various artist and director interviews.
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Time Leap
Title: Time Leap
Released: June 7, 1997
Type: Movie
Time travel film
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The Eel
Title: The Eel
Character: Eiji Dojima
Released: May 12, 1997
Type: Movie
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.
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The Defender
Title: The Defender
Character: Edge
Released: February 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Computer engineer Takashi notices that a microchip is protruding fro his head. He contacts a notorious hacker for help. Meanwhile, Takashi's world is turning upside down. He's robbed at knifepoint & then chased through the crowded Tokyo streets by a giant. Or maybe not. Perhaps the microchip is only making him think these things are happening. Soon he realizes there's a connection between all the bizarre traumas and a girl named Masami. Seemingly, all his troubles started when she visited his repair shop and asked him to fix her cd rom-unit. Eventually Takashi finds himself psychically linked to the girl. As it turns out, they are secret government-made humanoids, programmed to live undetected within society an then - when the need should arise - they are activated as professional fighters; The action of the movie itself plays like the Defender arcade game.
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Kawaki no machi
Title: Kawaki no machi
Released: January 18, 1997
Type: Movie
A hard-boiled story about a young man who wakes up to the ferocity within himself, swaying between violence and love as he walks a devastating path.
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Ignatius
Title: Ignatius
Released: December 14, 1996
Type: Movie
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Dangan Runner
Title: Dangan Runner
Character: Yasuda
Released: November 9, 1996
Type: Movie
A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience store. The store's clerk, a washed-up rock star, chases the thief and literally runs into a Yakuza to whom he owes money. Thus begins an all-night, three-way pursuit through the streets of Tokyo.
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Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku
Title: Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku
Character: Kikura
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Former hitman Ginya Yabuki (Riki Takeuchi) left the mafia and split somewhat contentiously with his longtime former partner. Years later, that same ex-partner has emerged as the head of a very dangerous crime syndicate and Yabuki is forced to confront his former partner, which may start an all-out war within the Tokyo Mafia.
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Reborn from Hell II: Jubei's Revenge
Title: Reborn from Hell II: Jubei's Revenge
Character: Shôsetsu Yui
Released: October 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Legendary samurai Jubei Yagyu must face off against a necromancer and his army of the undead in order to rescue Ohiro the young ninja girl from the clutches of Inshun Hozoin, the evil man slated to become lord of darkness on the eve of Armageddon. No living man is a match for Jubei's sword, but what skill can this mythic swordsman employ to defeat an army of the undead?
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Swallowtail Butterfly
Title: Swallowtail Butterfly
Character: Honda
Released: September 14, 1996
Type: Movie
An industrial section of Japan got the name of “Yentown” as many immigrants come to make money and hope to go home rich. A small group of people in Yentown try to work together to survive—Ageha, a young girl with no family; Glico, a sex worker; Fei Hong, a poor immigrant from Shanghai; Arrow, an ex-boxer from the US; and Ren, a mysterious guy who seems to know too much about guns. Fortune shines upon them when they find a cassette that will get them rich, but along with money, trouble will always follow.
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All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter
Title: All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter
Character: Kawasaki
Released: August 9, 1996
Type: Movie
A bellboy stalks a woman who frequents the hotel where he works.
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Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
Title: Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
Character: Ishida
Released: July 12, 1996
Type: Movie
A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. When the military fails to control the situation, Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary. However the battle may result in Gamera losing his bond with both Asagi and humanity.
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Love Hotel Night 2
Title: Love Hotel Night 2
Released: July 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Sequel to the Pinku TV Movie 'Love Hotel Night'
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Midori
Title: Midori
Released: June 29, 1996
Type: Movie
Midori is a coming-of-age drama set amongst the heady high school world of peer rivalry and sexual awakening, featuring an emotionally-detached high-school girl who, her parents dead, lives with her brother and his overprotective wife. After being sent out of class due to a dizzy spell, she becomes acquainted with Shun, a boy in the class below, in the school sanatorium. As the two begin feigning illness together on a regular basis, their uncomfortable flirtations soon blossom into a full sexual relationship.
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A Fragile Heart
Title: A Fragile Heart
Released: May 24, 1996
Type: Movie
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Reborn from Hell: Samurai Armageddon
Title: Reborn from Hell: Samurai Armageddon
Character: Shôsetsu Yui
Released: April 25, 1996
Type: Movie
An evil sorcerer summons seven legendary Samurai warriors to aid him in his conquest of the world. One valiant warrior stands against them.
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Sadistic Song
Title: Sadistic Song
Released: March 23, 1996
Type: Movie
"Sadistic Song" - A group of urban punks terrorize a city.
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Ladies Max
Title: Ladies Max
Released: March 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Popular pop group MAX (Mina, Lina, Nana, Reina) star in a wild teen drama based on the manga "Ladies" written by Masahide Motohashi.
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Tokyo Fist
Title: Tokyo Fist
Character: Tattoo Artist
Released: October 21, 1995
Type: Movie
A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Kojima might be having an affair with his fiancée Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.
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Goodbye for Tomorrow
Title: Goodbye for Tomorrow
Character: Tetsu Sasayama
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: Movie
People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening.
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Shinjuku Triad Society
Title: Shinjuku Triad Society
Character: Wang
Released: August 26, 1995
Type: Movie
Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.
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Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?
Title: Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?
Character: Yusuke's Father
Released: August 12, 1995
Type: Movie
One summer day, a group of sixth-grade boys have an argument about whether fireworks are round or flat when viewed from different angles and embark on a journey for the answer during the annual firework festival. Meanwhile, one of their classmates, Nazuna, is troubled by her parents' separation and decides to choose one of the boys to run away with.
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Ring
Title: Ring
Character: Jotaro Nagao
Released: August 11, 1995
Type: Movie
In different parts of Tokyo, four young and seemingly healthy people suddenly die of heart failure at exactly the same moment. Reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa decides to investigate the deaths, and discovers that the four had stayed at a rural inn together just a week earlier. At the inn, he comes across a strange video that ends with a message saying that anyone who watches it will die exactly seven days later. Now the clock is ticking for Asakawa. Can he break the curse in time?
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Super-Coming
Title: Super-Coming
Released: July 15, 1995
Type: Movie
Hiroaki Tada has created an irreverent religious parody, sprinkled with fantastic and horrific overtones. He's added some very chic black humour and delivered the whole project as a musical.
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Angel's Share
Title: Angel's Share
Released: June 10, 1995
Type: Movie
A strange duo, Minko and Hiroto, who believe themselves to be angels, throw out fashion massage leaflets called “Angel Dispatch” from the roof of a building on Christmas Day in order to save unfortunate people. The flyers were blown by the wind and fell into the city.
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Nozokiya
Title: Nozokiya
Released: May 13, 1995
Type: Movie
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The Young Blood Typhoon
Title: The Young Blood Typhoon
Released: May 13, 1995
Type: Movie
On the way home from a small assault incident at a love hotel in Tokyo, Shuntaro Katagiri playfully entered the love hotel with his friend Iwanaka. When I fell asleep, I screamed and screamed from the room. Katagiri, who was full of blood, jumped out of the room after hearing the noise. A running girl, a bloody man, and a muscle man, a yakuza, a mysterious woman. The corridor of the hotel turned into a shambles for a moment, but Katagiri, a karate master, he slammed the place and he broke it. A strange space-This was his first encounter with the girl
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Kamikaze Taxi
Title: Kamikaze Taxi
Character: Chaplin
Released: April 29, 1995
Type: Movie
A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a taste for torture. He sets out on a 'kamikaze' mission to kill his bosses and the politician; along the way, he acquires the aid of a taxi driver who has recently returned to Japan after living in South America for several decades and is struggling to cope with poverty and the prejudices of native-born Japanese.
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Love Letter
Title: Love Letter
Character: Female Itsuki's Father
Released: March 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to also be called Itsuki Fujii.
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Love Worker Sharaba Ya Ranko
Title: Love Worker Sharaba Ya Ranko
Released: March 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Sharaba makes money moves making sure girlfriends break up with their boyfriends by getting them to cheat so that the Ladies got an excuse
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Forever with You
Title: Forever with You
Released: February 24, 1995
Type: Movie
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Pu
Title: Pu
Released: December 31, 1994
Type: Movie
A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray.
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A New Love in Tokyo
Title: A New Love in Tokyo
Character: Man with a Knife
Released: December 17, 1994
Type: Movie
A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an amateur theatre company along with the receptionist from Ayumi's escort service, while Ayumi is living with her student-boyfriend as he struggles to finally get accepted to college.
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Level
Title: Level
Released: November 26, 1994
Type: Movie
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N45゜
Title: N45゜
Character: Detective
Released: October 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Omnibus film, set in a fictional town at 45゜N latitude: Wonder Rubbish; Pao-san to no fukushu; Jonetsu no koya; Kaze wa, dotchi ni fuite iru
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Undo
Title: Undo
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: October 7, 1994
Type: Movie
Moemi is not overly pleased when Yukio brings home a couple of turtles to keep her company. Although Yukio works at home as a writer, Moemi feels neglected and desired a dog or a cat, but neither is allowed in their apartment.
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Angel Dust
Title: Angel Dust
Character: Endo
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: Movie
A police psychologist suspects her former lover of serial murders on the Tokyo subway.
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At the Mercy of the Darkness
Title: At the Mercy of the Darkness
Released: May 25, 1994
Type: Movie
A collection of works written and directed by Shungicu Uchida that deal with a wide range of horror.
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Evil Dream
Title: Evil Dream
Released: April 28, 1994
Type: Movie
The bus driver Nakatsuka Yukihiko saw in his dream the sexual fantasies involving one of his regular female passengers - Noriko Otomo. On the other hand, she sees the same dreams.
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Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground
Title: Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground
Character: Detective Kono
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A female photographer seduces men to kill them for her pleasure.
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Puru Puru Angelic Holiday
Title: Puru Puru Angelic Holiday
Released: December 29, 1993
Type: Movie
A fantasy comedy in which Fumie Hosokawa and Ai Iijima play angels. The angel Elle arrives on earth completely naked. She had escaped from heaven to fall in love with a human man on earth. Pure and unpredictable, she attempts her first adventures on Earth one after another, taking care of her pure white feathers that rot if she stays on Earth for more than seven days. However, when God notices Elle's escape, he gives Hirolin, another angel, a "space transfer device" and tries to bring her back to heaven.
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A Night in Nude
Title: A Night in Nude
Character: Kenzo
Released: December 18, 1993
Type: Movie
Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and see the sights. What Jiro doesn't know is that this woman isn't who she says she is. She's on the run from her Yakuza boyfriend, and Jiro is going to be unwittingly entwined in the situation.
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Wandering Brain
Title: Wandering Brain
Released: December 4, 1993
Type: Movie
A psychological suspense based on the novel of the same name by Naoki Prize-winning author Tsuyoshi Osaka. Psychiatrist Aiko Minamikawa was asked to conduct a psychiatric evaluation on a man named Oiwake who assaulted a woman. At that time, a series of murders targeting women who cut off her eyelids after killing them occurred.
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Tokyo Blood
Title: Tokyo Blood
Released: October 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Tokyo Blood is an omnibus film of 4 short stories featuring various characters entrapped in Tokyo landscapes.
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Kiriko, A Woman Who Loved the Gangsters
Title: Kiriko, A Woman Who Loved the Gangsters
Released: September 25, 1993
Type: Movie
A drama depicting the heroine who loved another yakuza man while being the wife of the group leader, in the battle of the internal conflict of the yakuza organization.
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Maohgai
Title: Maohgai
Released: August 6, 1993
Type: Movie
Kishi is a 37-year-old personnel officer and fairly happy with work, wife and child. But he turns out to be susceptible to a more exciting life. Through his old schoolfriend Daimon he meets the attractive Yoshie and spends a sensational night of love with her. Kishi doesn't want to leave it at one night. On their second meeting, Daimon is also present and this night turns into a sado-masochistic ritual. A suppressed memory emerges in Kishi: once he raped an elderly woman with Daimon. Kishi again crossed a frontier this night and the relationship with his colleague Yuko also breaks boundaries. He slowly realises that his emotional life is taking a direction that he had never dreamed possible; Kishi moves into a new and dark world.
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The Tomb & the Divorce
Title: The Tomb & the Divorce
Character: Tokio
Released: July 31, 1993
Type: Movie
Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male friend at her leather-working class, Yoshinori has a fit. This is on top of the myriad of odd clients that he must appease.
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Kuma-chan
Title: Kuma-chan
Released: April 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Kuma-chan, an alien who looks just like a stuffed bear, helps a middle-aged sculptor fall in love with a young actress from a theater company.
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Fried Dragon Fish
Title: Fried Dragon Fish
Character: Delta Works Japan Sales Manager
Released: March 22, 1993
Type: Movie
A dragon fish is stolen by Tetsu Tobiyama and biologist Thomas Earwing seeks its return. Poo is led to Natsuro after she worms her way into a top secret file at Delta headquarters for information.
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Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers
Title: Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers
Released: January 29, 1993
Type: Movie
Original Video
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All Night Long
Title: All Night Long
Character: Airline Manager
Released: November 14, 1992
Type: Movie
Three teenagers witness the brutal murder of a high school girl by an insane salaryman. The teenagers find themselves united by this event and become friends. Later the teenagers hold a party to take their mind off things. Their party is crashed by a local gang of thugs and one teenager finds his newly found girlfriend being raped. The teenagers deal with the thugs by using extreme violence.
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Kirai ja nai yo 2
Title: Kirai ja nai yo 2
Released: November 6, 1992
Type: Movie
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
Title: Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
Character: Taniguchi Tomoo
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: Movie
A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.
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New Joyful Embarrassing Story 2
Title: New Joyful Embarrassing Story 2
Released: August 7, 1992
Type: Movie
The romance between young girl and salaryman continues!
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New Joyful Embarrassing Story
Title: New Joyful Embarrassing Story
Released: May 1, 1992
Type: Movie
The romance between a young girl and a much older salaryman.
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New Pink Curtain
Title: New Pink Curtain
Released: December 13, 1991
Type: Movie
A work that asks, "Is sex necessary for love or sexual desire / carnal desire?" The "pink curtain" depicts the sexes of three pairs of men and women (two of which are brothers and sisters who are related by blood). Later, the sequel "Pink Curtain 2" was serialized, and this time I was planning to draw on my father and daughter who just divorced, but when Naoko Yamada, the brother of Naoko who appeared in the first work in the first half of the story reappears, he becomes the center of the story. The theme was "sex crime."
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One-Room Story
Title: One-Room Story
Released: September 14, 1991
Type: Movie
Anthology film featuring three stories, each written and directed by a different actress and based on a comic by Hitomi Saki.
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I Hate You... Not
Title: I Hate You... Not
Released: March 2, 1991
Type: Movie
Draws an ambiguous youth pattern of young men and women living in a corner of the city. The script / director is Eiichi Uchida, a scenario writer for "Eien no 1/2", and this is his debut as a director. Gen Takahashi is in charge of shooting. (8 mm)
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Her 3 - Kanojyo No Sanjyou
Title: Her 3 - Kanojyo No Sanjyou
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
This is a modern love story that depicts love between men and women in a slightly risqué, frightening, and funny way. The story is told in an omnibus format in three episodes, with the cooperation of leading women's comic artist Miruku Morizono, and is full of sexy shots of Kaori Oguri and other beautiful women from the past. Don't miss this masterpiece of V-cinema, featuring a dazzling performance by Tomorowo Taguchi!
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Love of Sawako
Title: Love of Sawako
Character: Ichiro Tanaka
Released: October 17, 1990
Type: Movie
Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. Sawako pretends to be the daughter of an upscale hotel owner and has an affair with Yukio.
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Primary Colour High School Girl Pink Picture Book
Title: Primary Colour High School Girl Pink Picture Book
Released: April 10, 1990
Type: Movie
1990 Original Video
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Heartbreak Angels
Title: Heartbreak Angels
Released: January 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Based on the Manga by Masahiko Kikuni. This movie is a comedy based on romance consisting of a compilation of 13 live-action segments along with 18 animated. Love and courage give rise to guess, fear and impatience laugh at dwellings, and the anger of poverty invites melancholy and laughter. Heartbreak Angels is a video that contains all of human emotions.
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Arietta
Title: Arietta
Character: Red Saturn Club Manager
Released: July 29, 1989
Type: Movie
A young widow becomes an SM call girl to pay off the debts accumulated by her yakuza husband. She's a depressed woman, merely going through the motions of existence, subjected to every cruel whim concocted by her clients. She's dedicated to the misery - even finding comfort in it - stumbling through life like a zombie.
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Title: Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Character: Salaryman
Released: July 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
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Pretty Body: Frankenstein's Love
Title: Pretty Body: Frankenstein's Love
Released: September 30, 1988
Type: Movie
Izumi has moved to an apartment near the shore. Dr. Takasaki's and his assistant Kyouko also lives near by. They became friends to each others. One day, Izumi enters Takasaki's laboratory during his absence, and she meets a monster, then, falls in love with him. (jhmd.jp)
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Guinea Pig Part 5: Android of Notre Dame
Title: Guinea Pig Part 5: Android of Notre Dame
Released: March 20, 1988
Type: Movie
A dwarf scientist has his dreams frustrated when his sister becomes seriously ill. Determined to find a way to preserve the essence of his sister after the death, the scientist begins to use humans as guinea pigs in a bizarre experiment.
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Robinson's Garden
Title: Robinson's Garden
Character: Man wrestling with restaurant table
Released: February 20, 1987
Type: Movie
Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the civilization she had already left.
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The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo
Title: The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo
Character: Hijikata
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A teenager discovers an electric pylon growing out of his back and is soon forced to battle cyborg vampires over the future of humanity.
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The Phantom of Regular Size
Title: The Phantom of Regular Size
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A short film where Shinya Tsukamoto experimented with effects and ideas, which eventually resulted in the feature film Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
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More and More Love
Title: More and More Love
Released: March 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The story of a popular singer who finds love, the journalist who exposes him, the hysterical reactions of his Christian parents, his fear that he has caught AIDS and his supportive gay friends. The film is a strong indictment of the negative effect Christianity has had on Japanese society.
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Zokubutsu zukan
Title: Zokubutsu zukan
Released: November 8, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Amadum
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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Sanctuary
Title: Sanctuary
Character: Tokitsu
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie