Ryuhei Matsuda

Ryuhei Matsuda

Born: May 9, 1983
in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Ryuhei Matsuda...

Transcending Dimensions
Title: Transcending Dimensions
Released: December 31, 2024
Type: Movie
A new chapter for Toshiaki Toyoda. Expected Summer of 2024.
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Who Were We?
Title: Who Were We?
Released: October 25, 2023
Type: Movie
A woman who has no memory of her past falls in love with a man who also has no memory. Who were they before they met?
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Say Hello to Kenshiro
Title: Say Hello to Kenshiro
Character: Koichi Numakura
Released: October 11, 2023
Type: Movie
After his mother is taken by the yakuza, Koichi Numakura swears to take revenge and learns the assassination art from his favorite manga, Fist of the North Star.
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Title: Give My Regards to Kenshirō
Character: Numakura Koichi
Released: September 22, 2023
Type: TV
The series follows Koichi Numakura, a young man seeking revenge against the yakuza, who took his mother from him. Inspired by the protagonist of Fist of the North Star, he dedicates himself to learning the fictional martial art of Hokuto Shinken. Along the way he learns that, while he can't actually kill people, he does have all the qualifications to become a top-tier masseur.
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Title: 0.5 Man
Character: Tachibana Masaharu
Released: May 28, 2023
Type: TV
Masaharu "Masaji" Tachibana was a brilliant programmer who got burnt out and suddenly stopped showing up to work. He now lives at home with his parents and spends his time sleeping and playing video games. He only ventures out of his room to visit the local convenience store for more energy drinks and snacks, until one day he learns that his parents have decided to build a "2.5 family" house with his sister and her family joining them. Masaji is forced to acclimate and with the change of environment begins to venture out of his room and his own head.
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Ichigeki
Title: Ichigeki
Character: Shimada Konosuke
Released: January 3, 2023
Type: Movie
The drama depicts the exploits of the “Ichigeki Hishikkitai”, a special combat unit formed by farmers to deal with the "Imperial Robbers" and the "Imperial Thieves" of the Satsuma Clan who were causing a stir in Edo at the end of the Edo period.
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Title: Uzukawamura Incident
Character: Iwamori Akira
Released: August 28, 2022
Type: TV
Akira Iwamori works as a doctor. He is looking for his wife, who went missing. He takes his daughter to visit his wife's hometown village of Uzukawa. While in Uzukawa, the village suddenly becomes isolated due to a landslide caused by heavy rain. The villagers becomes filled with anxiety and a murder takes place. The tense village people become violent. Akira is soon drawn into a power struggle in Uzukawa. He learns new information about his wife's whereabouts.
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Title: チェインストーリー 大豆田とわ子を知らない三人の男たち
Character: 田中八作 / Tanaka Hassaku
Released: April 13, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: My Dear Exes
Character: Hassaku Tanaka
Released: April 13, 2021
Type: TV
Omameda Towako recently become the president of the construction company "Shirokuma Housing". She has experienced three divorces and is currently living with her 15-year-old daughter, Uta. Although Towako has been divorced thrice, she remains bright and lives her life strongly. However, her life is constantly disrupted by her three troublemaker ex-husbands.
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ZOKKI
Title: ZOKKI
Character: Fujimura
Released: April 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate the characters' daily (and in one eerie case, nightly) encounters.
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Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
Title: Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
Character: Shibata Katsuie
Released: March 26, 2021
Type: Movie
Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally led his army to invade Owari Province territory, now in Aichi Prefecture Nagoya City area, was the leader Nobunaga of this surprising burst of death. After the war, the Imagawa clan who originally dominated the Tokaido region fell away, and the victorious Oda Nobunaga quickly expanded his power in Central Japan and the Kinki region, laying the foundation for his future control of the central government of Japan.
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The Day of Destruction
Title: The Day of Destruction
Character: Mr. Shinno
Released: July 24, 2020
Type: Movie
Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread through the small town, and people experience an unexplainable mental illness. A young Shugendo practitioner goes missing only to resurface transformed, intent on exorcising the world from the monsters haunting it.
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Beneath the Shadow
Title: Beneath the Shadow
Character: Hiasa Norihiro
Released: February 14, 2020
Type: Movie
Konno moved to Iwate for his job. There, he meets his colleague Hiasa at work. They form a close bond while drinking together, fishing together and doing other activities. One day, Hiasa quits his job without saying anything to Konno. Shortly after, they meet again, but they cannot have that close feeling as they had before. They do not meet again. Time passes and Konno learns that Hiasa went missing. While looking for Hiasa, Konno learns a secret about Hiasa.
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A Stranger in Shanghai
Title: A Stranger in Shanghai
Character: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Released: December 28, 2019
Type: Movie
China is tumultuous in 1921 when the famed Japanese author of "Rashōmon", Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, visits Shanghai as a correspondent. Here he encounters revolutionaries, courtesans and much more…
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Title: 歪んだ波紋
Released: November 3, 2019
Type: TV
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Wolf's Calling
Title: Wolf's Calling
Character: Samurai
Released: September 20, 2019
Type: Movie
A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samurai (a stellar cast of actors joined by the 20-person Edo punk band Seppuku Pistols, who also provide the soundtrack) gathering within the moss-grown location of Kasosan Shrine in Tochigi Prefecture.
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Title: Weakest Beast
Character: Kosei Nemoto
Released: October 10, 2018
Type: TV
Seemingly perfect from the outside, Shinkai Akira was exhausted from worrying too much about how to be perfect. Nemoto Kousei is amicable and popular with women, but he trusts no one and views everything with a cold heart. The two of them, who became unable to live instinctively like animals, meet by chance at a craft beer bar after work and gradually become close enough to fight and tell each other how they really feel. Due to their encounter, even while getting hurt, they begin to try to be themselves and start taking a step forward.
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The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Title: The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Character: Shoji Segawa
Released: September 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi Tournament. At the age of 26, his dream of becoming a professional shogi player collapses due to an age restriction. After he quits playing shogi, he becomes desperate. With the support of his peers, including Yuya Suzuki, and his love of shogi, Shoji Segawa begins to play shogi again. A miracle happens to him.
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Title: Smoking
Character: Sakakibara Masayuki
Released: April 20, 2018
Type: TV
Seeking a greater justice, a band of homeless assassins flays their human targets and delivers the tattooed skins as proof of a contract fulfilled.
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Isle of Dogs
Title: Isle of Dogs
Character: Junior Scientist 4 / Bartender (voice)
Released: March 23, 2018
Type: Movie
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
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The Scythian Lamb
Title: The Scythian Lamb
Character: Ichirō Miyakoshi
Released: February 3, 2018
Type: Movie
Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by the government, with the intention of re-socialising them. Aside from the few who know about the project, the general townsfolk has no idea of the former convicts' identities. Tsukisue is the pleasant and efficient municipal official put in charge of the programme. As he slowly learns about their past, a body is discovered.
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The Last Shot in the Bar
Title: The Last Shot in the Bar
Character: Takada
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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Before We Vanish
Title: Before We Vanish
Character: Shinji Kase
Released: September 16, 2017
Type: Movie
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place. Shinji Kase tells his wife that he came to Earth to invade.
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Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Title: Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Character: Zenjiro Ikeda
Released: April 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika Hokusai and his second wife Koto. Although Oei became the wife of a town painter for a time, her love of the paintbrush more than her husband spelt disaster and she comes back home to Hokusai from the family she had married into. This is how Oei starts to help her father out in his painting of the “insurmountable high wall”. Meanwhile, Oei can only talk to the painter Ikeda Zenjiro, who is her father’s student, about her pain and worries. Zenjiro has taken Edo by storm as Keisai Eisen, the master of ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women. He visits regularly because he admires Hokusai and secretly likes Oei although their relationship is like childhood friends. Oei respects her father whose paintings fascinated her and continues to work as a painter who supports him behind the scenes. When Hokusai’s masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji was completed, she was also by his side.
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The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Title: The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Character: Tomoyuki
Released: February 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind in one eye and ekes out a living as a construction worker. Young and grown-up at the same time, they both lead a lonely existence, but somehow their paths keep miraculously crossing under the Tokyo sky.
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Title: Quartet
Character: Tsukasa Beppu
Released: January 17, 2017
Type: TV
Maki Maki, Sebuki Suzume, Beppu Tsukasa and Iemori Yutaka happen to meet and form a quartet. They even begin to live together in Karuizawa during the winter, but there is a big hidden secret.
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My Uncle
Title: My Uncle
Character: Uncle
Released: November 3, 2016
Type: Movie
Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.
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Title: Natsuko Kira
Character: Keisuke Takagi
Released: July 21, 2016
Type: TV
Natsuko is going back to the advertising agency she worked for before taking maternity leave and is shocked to learn that she is not the creative director any more but instead, she is put in charge of the Sales Development. Unmotivated, Natsuko finds she has her work cut out for her, and she has trouble balancing her job responsibilities with her home life, so she hires Miyuki, a babysitter. Unfortunately, Miyuki’s presence eventually works to tear her marriage apart.
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The Magnificent Nine
Title: The Magnificent Nine
Character: Moku Kayaba
Released: May 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future of their town. They then set up a plan to save the town. The plan is to lend large amounts of money to han (historical term for the estate of a warrior) and distribute the interest annually to the residents, but if they're caught they will lose their lives.
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The Mohican Comes Home
Title: The Mohican Comes Home
Character: Eikichi Tamura
Released: April 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but failed. Several years later, Eikichi goes home to tell his father, Osamu, that his girlfriend is pregnant. His father curses him out, but he is also excited to have a grandchild. Osamu has a party to celebrate the news, but, at the party, he collapses and goes to the hospital. Eikichi struggles to make his father happy.
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A Farewell to Jinu
Title: A Farewell to Jinu
Character: Takeharu Takami
Released: April 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not to use money at all. Takeharu decides to move to a small village in the Tohoku region. There, he encounters residents who are not so easy.
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Disconcerto
Title: Disconcerto
Character: 行天春彦
Released: October 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school classmate Haruhiko Gyoten. A big crisis then occurs for them.
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The Raid 2
Title: The Raid 2
Character: Keiichi
Released: March 27, 2014
Type: Movie
After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.
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My Little Sweet Pea
Title: My Little Sweet Pea
Character: Norio Koiwa
Released: December 21, 2013
Type: Movie
It isn't easy to find a dream to chase when you're young, but Mugiko has one: she can't wait to become an anime voice actress. Saving up for classes while she works part time in a manga store, she lives with her older, gambler brother after her father's death. When the mother she never knew turns up out of nowhere and moves in, it only causes irritation for the aspiring otaku. But when her mother just as quickly disappears, it leaves Mugiko (or "Sweet Pea") searching for answers, bringing her back to her mother's hometown to discover what happened to her mother's own dream.
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Detective in the Bar 2
Title: Detective in the Bar 2
Character: Takada
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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The Great Passage
Title: The Great Passage
Character: Mitsuya Majime
Released: April 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, The Great Passage. In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is overwhelmed with problems.
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Title: Amachan
Character: Takuma Mizuguchi
Released: April 1, 2013
Type: TV
Amachan is the 88th 2013 NHK asadora written by Kankuro Kudo (Tiger and Dragon, Unobore Deka). It's about Amano Aki (Nounen Rena), a 16 year old girl from Tokyo who goes to her mother's former home in Sodegahama, a fishing village in Kitasanriku, Iwate prefecture for the summer break. She falls in love with the sea and its people, and decides to stay on to become an Ama (women divers who fetch clams and sea urchins for tourists) just like her grandmother, Natsu (Miyamoto Nobuko). Her decision is welcomed wholeheartedly by Natsu and the other locals. However, her mother Haruko (Koizumi Kyoko) does not like the idea at first. She has a strained relationship with Natsu, and her extreme dislike of the sea, diving and the countryside is one of the reasons why she left her hometown 24 years ago. Eventually, she decides to stay in Sodegahama with Aki, considering that she is contemplating on getting a divorce anyway and does not want to go back to her husband in Tokyo. She also notices that it might be good for Aki for she seems livelier and happier in Kitasanriku than in Tokyo. The road towards becoming a full-fledged Ama-san is tough for Aki as she encounters tests and hurdles. One day, a video of her as an Ama gets uploaded in the city's tourism website, transforming an ordinary high school girl into an overnight Internet sensation. Suddenly she is called upon to use this opportunity to attract tourists to a city suffering from depopulation.
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Amachan
Title: Amachan
Character: Takuma Mizuguchi
Released: April 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.
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Title: Tada's Do-It-All House
Character: Gyoten Haruhiko
Released: January 11, 2013
Type: TV
In the fictional town of Mahoro on the outskirts of Tokyo is Tada Benriken, a small business which does odd jobs. Its owner is the solemn and level-headed Tada Keisuke, and his unexpected guest, the easygoing but vague Gyoten Haruhiko, a former junior high school classmate who showed up one day and started to sponge on him. The two of them get on like oil and water, and yet are somehow inseparable. They receive queer, dubious incoming odd job requests which they accept, and what comes into view are the friendship between them as well as the backgrounds of their clients.
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A Chorus of Angels
Title: A Chorus of Angels
Character: Isamu
Released: November 3, 2012
Type: Movie
Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is later forced to leave after an accident occurs. 20 years later, Haru learns that one of her former students has committed a crime, and eventually returns to the island once more.
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I'm Flash!
Title: I'm Flash!
Character: Bodyguard
Released: August 31, 2012
Type: Movie
Rui is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain attention from the mass media. After becoming involved in a car accident, Rui goes to a remote island with ex-gangster now bodyguard. On the island, Rui reveals more about his religious group, while a set of ominous events are about to occur.
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Phone Call to the Bar
Title: Phone Call to the Bar
Character: Takada
Released: September 10, 2011
Type: Movie
In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his favourite bar. There he receives a phone call from a woman who identifies herself as Kyoko Kondo. The woman asks the detective to complete a simple task. The detective, having an excellent sense for danger, thinks the work is easy and accepts the case. The next day he begins the investigation.
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Tada's Do-It-All House
Title: Tada's Do-It-All House
Character: Haruhiko Gyoten
Released: April 23, 2011
Type: Movie
In Mahoro, the fictional suburb of Tokyo, Tada works as a general problem solver for hire. One day, former classmate Gyoten appears unannounced. Both men are over 30 years old and divorced. With no explanation, Gyoten suddenly asks to spend the night at Tada's home. Eventually, Tada accepts Gyoten as his assistant and together they become involved in various cases concerning an assortment of people from different walks of life.
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Boys on the Run
Title: Boys on the Run
Character: Aoyama
Released: January 30, 2010
Type: Movie
A socially awkward salesman for a toy-capsule company tries to change his nerdy ways when a slick rival moves in on the beautiful co-worker he loves.
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Tsurugi-dake satsuei no ki hyōkō 3000 mētoru, gekitō no 873-nichi
Title: Tsurugi-dake satsuei no ki hyōkō 3000 mētoru, gekitō no 873-nichi
Released: November 14, 2009
Type: Movie
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SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
Title: SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
Released: November 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Documentary on the life of actor Yusaku Matsuda. This is a documentary film produced on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the birth of actor Yusaku Matsuda and the 20th anniversary of his death . It is composed of newly shot interviews as well as real voice interviews and treasured videos that were not officially revealed until now.
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Kanikôsen
Title: Kanikôsen
Character: Shinjo
Released: July 4, 2009
Type: Movie
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Title: The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Character: Ikuta
Released: June 20, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
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The Vulture
Title: The Vulture
Character: Osamu Nishino
Released: June 6, 2009
Type: Movie
A Japanese company is being targeted by a Chinese financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms - in other words, a vulture. A Japanese financier/former vulture Masahiko Washizu is recruited to fight the threat.
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Nobody To Watch Over Me
Title: Nobody To Watch Over Me
Character: Shogo Mishima
Released: January 24, 2009
Type: Movie
A 15-year-old girl forced into police protection to escape from the journalistic hordes after her brother is arrested for murder.
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Can't Protect Anyone
Title: Can't Protect Anyone
Released: January 24, 2009
Type: Movie
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Nightmare Detective 2
Title: Nightmare Detective 2
Character: Kyoichi Kagenuma
Released: December 20, 2008
Type: Movie
A story of the unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave victims psychologically devastated.
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Title: Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
Character: Yashiro Heita
Released: January 8, 2008
Type: TV
Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on November 11th; his roll call number at school was #11; and 11 years ago, he and his wife, Mizuho, went through a divorce. Debt-laden and feeling unneeded to the world, he sells off all his belongings and plans for his death date. However, on the 1st day, he meets Yashiro Heita as well as numerous other characters who will cause him to experience the most eventful 11 days of his life.
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Life Can Be So Wonderful
Title: Life Can Be So Wonderful
Character: Shuichi
Released: September 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.
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Tokyo Serendipity
Title: Tokyo Serendipity
Character: Takashi Ohno
Released: August 18, 2007
Type: Movie
Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after, the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.
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The Suicide Song
Title: The Suicide Song
Character: Riku Nagase
Released: August 18, 2007
Type: Movie
Original story by Yasushi AKIMOTO, writer of the mega hit movie One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari) series. As the project was in development with an idea of an "infectious song (Densen-Uta)", one of the staff called out..."There was a real Densen-Uta!" He discovers on the internet of a song back in 1933, Hungary, which caused mysterious deaths of many people. In "Densen-Uta", high school girls get mixed up in the Japanese version of this infectious song, and with the help of third rate gossip magazine reporter, tries to solve the mystery and horror behind the song. They come to know just how real, an urban legend can become.
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The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Title: The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
Character: Kawasaki
Released: June 23, 2007
Type: Movie
A university student finds himself wrapped up in the bizarre world of his next door neighbor, learning about his history and relationship with a girl who changed his life.
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The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Title: The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Character: Tatsuji
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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Title: ハゲタカ
Character: Osamu Nishino
Released: February 17, 2007
Type: TV
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Nightmare Detective
Title: Nightmare Detective
Character: Kyoichi Kagenuma
Released: January 13, 2007
Type: Movie
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying turn. Keiko Kirishima is a cool, seemingly emotionless police detective, brilliant but off-putting. She's faced with two mutilated corpses who appear to have killed themselves, but she's not sure. A cell-phone number links the deaths. She calls on Akumu Tantei, a poor and suicidal young man who has the ability to enter people's dreams. He's reluctant to help. His past haunts him. A subconscious duel of terror and blood awaits the three.
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Chosyu Five
Title: Chosyu Five
Character: Yozo Yamao
Released: October 22, 2006
Type: Movie
Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and studied in Britain in 1863 while Japan was still under sakoku (鎖国 "locked country").
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Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Title: Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Character: Jun Ariyoshi
Released: February 11, 2006
Type: Movie
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.
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Nana
Title: Nana
Character: Ren Honjou
Released: September 3, 2005
Type: Movie
Two girls named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo. Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O. hopes to make it big in the music business. Despite their differences, the pair hit it off and become roommates.
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Demon Pond
Title: Demon Pond
Released: May 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The modern-day story of a man searching for a friend who has mysteriously disappeared, with a magical tale involving strange creatures, a heartbroken princess, and a pact that can't be broken. Conflicts between faith and skepticism, and between social obligation and personal desire drive the narrative toward a dramatic conclusion where the worlds of the real and the surreal inevitabl
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Rampo Noir
Title: Rampo Noir
Character: Tarô Hirai (segment "Caterpillar")
Released: May 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Mars Canal - Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover. Mirror Hell - When a series of women are discovered with their faces burnt and skulls charred, a young detective investigates, discovering that a unique hand mirror is always found at the scene. Caterpillar - A war hero returns home with no limbs and only his eyesight remaining. His beautiful wife, tired of taking care of him, turns to torturing her crippled husband for amusement. Crawling Bugs - A sexy actress is returning home from a successful night on stage, until her limo driver decides that she should be coming home with him.
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Synesthesia
Title: Synesthesia
Character: Kaoru Homura
Released: March 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Shin is a professional voyeur who provides live camera feeds of everything from the street corner to the public toilet. He is also afflicted freakish phenomenon known as synesthesia - a glitch in his wiring puts his five senses in a blender and spits out something close to insanity. A high-profile murder propels him into a psychological odyssey in pursuit of Picasso - a serial killer, snuff peddler and fellow synesthete - who leaves deadly hidden messages in his victims' blood that only Shin can decipher. Lulling his victims into a trance with a spellbinding video game, Picasso leads Shin down a mysterious, hypnotic trail of death.
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Otakus in Love
Title: Otakus in Love
Character: Mon Aoki
Released: October 20, 2004
Type: Movie
Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.
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Izo
Title: Izo
Character: His Highness
Released: September 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
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Cutie Honey
Title: Cutie Honey
Character: NSA Client
Released: May 29, 2004
Type: Movie
When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.
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Karaoke Terror
Title: Karaoke Terror
Character: Ishihara
Released: November 8, 2003
Type: Movie
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!
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Happiness in August
Title: Happiness in August
Released: August 2, 2003
Type: Movie
Teru, a 17-year-old high school student, goes to live at a relative's house in Okinawa after the death of his mother. He becomes aware of a mysterious and powerful force within their family. Then, one day, he encounters a mysterious man with the soul of a tree?! The story of a mystical journey, against the backdrop of spirit-filled Okinawa Island.
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9 Souls
Title: 9 Souls
Character: Michiru Kaneko
Released: July 19, 2003
Type: Movie
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.
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Age 17
Title: Age 17
Character: Book boy
Released: June 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Seventeen-year-old Ako works part-time in a cabaret club late at night. Because of this, she falls asleep in school every day. In the new semester, she becomes enamored with her classmate Ryou, who is repeating a year despite her good grades.
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Collage of Our Lives
Title: Collage of Our Lives
Character: Masato Segawa
Released: May 16, 2003
Type: Movie
A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo exhibition in the United States. Having heard rumors that she has died, he follows his curiosity to New York City.
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Blue Spring
Title: Blue Spring
Character: Kujo
Released: September 9, 2001
Type: Movie
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.
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Run Ichiro Run
Title: Run Ichiro Run
Character: Ryu Mochizuki
Released: April 28, 2001
Type: Movie
Various individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired by the baseball player Ichiro. A heartwarming movie about the people who root for the baseball player Ichiro, and their struggles to make their own dreams come true.
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Love Ghost
Title: Love Ghost
Character: Shibayama Ryuuhei
Released: March 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about an anonymous fortune-teller have anything to do with the tragedies plaguing her high school?
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The 300 million yen robbery
Title: The 300 million yen robbery
Released: December 30, 2000
Type: Movie
The 300 million yen robbery (San Oku En Jiken), also known as the 300 million yen affair or incident,was the single largest heist in Japanese history at the time. It occurred on the morning of December 10, 1968, in Tokyo,Japan. Half a century later, the case remains unsolved. 7 years later,just before just before the statute of limitations, Sawatari, a journalist, found out about the mind behind the crime is Matsuda, a businessman currently living in America. He traveled to America and asked Matsuda for the truth. Matsuda told him a story of how he, a former police officer, became friends with Joe, a bad boy, and Rock, who is shy and sensitive. Matsuda's sister committed suicide after being raped, and Matsuda lost his job after he made a scene in the financial institute his sister used to work. Matsuda, Joe, and Rock decided to do something big in revenge, so they decided on robbing a cash carrier.
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Taboo
Title: Taboo
Character: Sozaburo Kano
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.