Yoshiyoshi Arakawa

Yoshiyoshi Arakawa

Born: January 18, 1974
in Ogi, Saga Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Yoshiyoshi Arakawa...

Cloud
Title: Cloud
Character: Takimoto
Released: September 27, 2024
Type: Movie
A suspense thriller depicting the "collective madness" that is born from a spreading chain of hatred.
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At the Bench: Episode 2 ‘Sushi Doesn’t Go Round’
Title: At the Bench: Episode 2 ‘Sushi Doesn’t Go Round’
Released: April 27, 2024
Type: Movie
The second episode of the anthology film which is centered around a particular bench.
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Title: Double Cheat: Itsuwari no Keikan
Character: Yashiba Toru
Released: April 26, 2024
Type: TV
A crime entertainment drama produced by TV Tokyo and WOWOW, which deals with various scams that have increased in recent years with the spread of the Internet.
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Kubi
Title: Kubi
Character: Shimizu Muneharu
Released: November 23, 2023
Type: Movie
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
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Title: A Town Without Seasons
Character: Kawaguchi Hatsutaro
Released: August 9, 2023
Type: TV
It follows a group of people who are still living in temporary housing 12 years after a natural disaster called "Nani" destroyed their town.
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Title: The Best Teacher: 1 Year Later, I Was Attacked by a Student
Character: Gashuin Manabu
Released: July 15, 2023
Type: TV
Kujo Rina is a chemistry teacher and the homeroom teacher for the 3rd grade D class at Horai High School. She doesn't have a bond with her students. On the school's graduation day, Kujo Rina is pushed from the 4th floor and falls down. She is able to glimpse a school uniform sleeve on the person that pushed her. At that time, she wonders why she was pushed and that she does not want to die.
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One Second Ahead, One Second Behind
Title: One Second Ahead, One Second Behind
Character: Ken Mikurube
Released: July 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Set in Kyoto, Japan, a love story takes place between Hajime and Reika. Hajime is a handsome young man, who is usually a second quicker than everyone else and straightforward. He works at the post office. Reika is a young woman, who is usually a step slower than everyone else. After Valentine's Day, Hajime wakes up and is unable to remember what happened that day.
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Woman’s Lib Vol. 15 ”Mo Gaman Dekinai”
Title: Woman’s Lib Vol. 15 ”Mo Gaman Dekinai”
Released: April 14, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: Why Didn't I Tell You a Million Times?
Character: Ikezawa Eisuke
Released: January 13, 2023
Type: TV
When childhood friends Yui and Naoki are by chance reunited as adults, they begin to feel they were destined for each other. However, just as Naoki prepares to propose to Yui, he becomes embroiled in a mysterious incident and dies. Now Naoki's soul wanders the world unable to express his true feelings for Yui. Yuzuru, a detective and the only person who can see Naoki, goes in pursuit of the truth behind Naoki’s death. At Naoki tries to use Yuzuru to talk to Yui, but will he be able to convey his message of love?
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Title: Uzukawamura Incident
Character: Yoshimi Tadahiko
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: Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama
Released: April 5, 2022
Type: TV
Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during his lifetime, some of which are included in textbooks and continue to be read today. His stories often feature mystery, science fiction, or fantasy elements. A sometimes "humorous" and sometimes "cynic" look at society and mankind. Always short, but always surprising and unpredictable. Is it a poisonous allegory or a wake-up call? See some of his greatest gems come to life in this 2022 live-action adaptation
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Title: Tall Order
Character: Tsuyoshi Miyauchi(宮内 剛)
Released: January 12, 2022
Type: TV
Hinako is the executive assistant to the CEO of Relation Gate, a startup company growing at breakneck speed. Apt to listen to his gut feelings, her boss bombards her day in and day out with tall orders he concocts on a whim. Life is far from chill for Hinako, who hasn't had a boyfriend in six years. She barely even has time to sit and think carefully about her future. Each long workday ends with the same toxic thought, "I find no meaning doing this!" as she clutches a beer and lets out a huge sigh.
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Title: 3年B組皆川先生~2.5時幻目~
Released: June 26, 2021
Type: TV
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白昼夢
Title: 白昼夢
Released: March 20, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: Story of My Family!!!
Character: Ryoichi Suehiro
Released: January 22, 2021
Type: TV
An aging pro wrestler returns to fight for his inheritance when his father — a respected Noh actor — threatens to leave his fortune to his caregiver.
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Title: 劇場の灯を消すな!本多劇場編
Released: September 26, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: 劇場の灯を消すな!Bunkamuraシアターコクーン編
Released: July 5, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Ju-On: Origins
Character: Yasuo Odajima
Released: July 3, 2020
Type: TV
A paranormal researcher searches obsessively for a cursed home where something terrible happened to a mother and her child long ago.
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Title: Touban Bengoshi
Released: June 22, 2020
Type: TV
The stabbed corpse of IT company president Kinji Shiroyama (Yuichi Haba) is found in the Gulf warehouse at Hinode Pier. Unemployed Satoru Oki (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa) who ran away from the scene of the incident is arrested as the murderer. Fujiko Kajiwara (Yuki Matsushita), who was asked to be a duty lawyer meets him, but Ooki denies the charges makes repeats vague statements and refuses to tell the truth.
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Title: Today's Nekomura
Character: Fish shop owner
Released: April 8, 2020
Type: TV
A cat who dreams of reuniting with its owner & works as a housekeeper to save money.
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大人計画ウーマンリブvol.14「もうがまんできない」
Title: 大人計画ウーマンリブvol.14「もうがまんできない」
Released: April 2, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: Kirei 〜 The Woman Who Met Up With God 〜
Released: December 18, 2019
Type: TV
There is “another Japan,” which is divided into three countries and has been in ethnic conflict for 100 years. In the middle of the conflict, a young girl (Ikuta Erika) was kidnapped and confined by a group calling itself “National Liberation Army.” However, the girl has escaped from them to the outside world for the first time in 10 years. She befriends a girl whose father runs a business recycling artificial soldiers made from soybeans. They meet the group of boys including Harikona (Ryunosuke Kamiki) who has the ability to make flowers bloom. Keeping watch over Kegare is her adult self, Misa. This empathetic play transcends time and space. As past, present, and future get jumbled up, Kegare finally confronts an unpleasant memory that she should have forgotten. (Source: @floren646730)
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The 47 Rōnin in Debt
Title: The 47 Rōnin in Debt
Character: Yasubei Horibe
Released: November 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Having no time to mourn his death, samurai Kuranosuke Oishi decides to take revenge on Kira, planning an attack with the help of accountant Chosuke Yato… but they don't have enough in their budget.
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A Murder Is Announced
Title: A Murder Is Announced
Character: Tatara Banpei
Released: April 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Japanese adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced.
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Hard-Core
Title: Hard-Core
Character: Ushiyama
Released: November 23, 2018
Type: Movie
The life story of a treasure hunter who lives in the countryside of Gunma in Japan. He is pure and kind, but has no communication skills and has a mind of his own. His sole friend is his co-worker. This man has never had sex. The friends find a robot one day. The robot wants to stay with the men. A bond is formed. The men resolve to change their lives.
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Title: Legal V
Character: Yuichi Baba
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: TV
Takanashi Shoko is a former lawyer. She was disbarred from the law profession due to an incident. Later, she persuades a university professor, who is accredited as a lawyer, to open a law firm. Takanashi Shoko hires a lawyer and assistants to work at the law firm. The team goes after legal victory. They go up against a large firm in a civil suit. While working on the suit, the team experiences difficult situations.
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Title: Survival Wedding
Character: Master
Released: July 14, 2018
Type: TV
Dumped by a cheating fiancé and unemployed, 29-year-old Sayaka takes a job offer on the condition that she gets married in six months!
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Title: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Character: Banpei Tatara
Released: March 25, 2018
Type: Movie
A police detective Shoukokuji Ryuuya from the first section of Metropolitan Police Department is tasked to investigate the murder case of a woman which takes place at a grand party held by a big-time actress but faces the hurdle of finding the true culprit among the large pool of suspects.
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Title: My High School Business
Character: Tatsuki Gohara
Released: October 14, 2017
Type: TV
Rosuke Narumi works at a trading company and he is pretty good at his job. He dates Satoko Matsubara. The trading company has a business relationship with a private high school experiencing some difficulties. One day, Rosuke Narumi is appointed as the principle of the private high school. Rosuke Narumi soon discovers how different the work environment is from his previous job. So the school can run in the black, Rosuke Narumi implements cost cutting measures. School staff members including Chihiro Mashiba oppose his plan.
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The Anthem of the Heart
Title: The Anthem of the Heart
Character: Kazuki Joshima
Released: July 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Jun is a girl whose words have been sealed away so that she cannot hurt anyone with them. But, one day, she is nominated to become an executive member of the "community outreach council." On top of that, Jun is also appointed to play the main lead in their musical...
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Title: And Then There Were None
Character: Banpei Tatara
Released: March 25, 2017
Type: TV
10 men and women are called to Natural Island Hotel on the isolated island Heitaijima off Yachijojima by the owner Nanao Shin. They take the dinner that has been prepared while filled with a mix of expectation and anxiety about what is going to happen and why they have been invited to this island. Then they suddenly start to hear a mysterious voice reveal their past crimes. As the 10 of them go through past incidents in their mind, one of the invited guests is murdered before their eyes. That seems to be the catalyst for the murder of another guest and then yet another. Several days after the invited guests came to Heitaijima, police head over to the island following the report of murders. They discover 10 murdered bodies on this big “locked room”. Who is the murderer and why did these 10 people have to be gathered and killed? ~ Based on the novel "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, published in 1943.
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Title: Chef: Three Star School Lunch
Character: Minoru Komatsu
Released: October 13, 2016
Type: TV
Hoshino Mitsuko is the talented three-star chef of famous French restaurant, La Cuisine de La reine, in Ginza, Tokyo. She has drawn attention not just from Japan but also the world for the new recipes she continuously conceives with her delicate palate and unrivalled creativity. Gourmands around the world visit the restaurant for her cuisine and there is a three-year wait for reservations. One day, trouble occurs between Mitsuko and the restaurant owner Shinoda Shogo and she is fired. She has difficulty finding a new restaurant due to Shinoda’s interference and her over-inflated pride, and ends up creating school lunches for a popular variety programme by a hotshot producer. It was believed to be something easy for Mitsuko, but she meets many obstacles and keeps failing. Moreover, this is aired on TV and made known to the world. Even so, Mitsuko does not give up and starts to create school lunches in order to hear children say her food is delicious and also regain her lost stars.
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Too Young To Die!
Title: Too Young To Die!
Character: Hotoke
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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Title: Sleepeeer Hit!
Character: Heita Mibu
Released: April 12, 2016
Type: TV
Kokoro Kurosawa used to be a contender for the Olympic Judo Team, but she had to give up on her dream due to an injury. In the end, she ends up working at weekly manga magazine "Vibes." The publishing industry is going through a turbulent time due to ebooks. Members of the editorial department struggle to come up with ways to sell more manga books. She learns about editing from her senior editors and becomes fascinated with the edition world, interacting with manga writers, and discovering new manga artists. But what surprises her the most is that in a competitive world such as manga publishing, not all dreams come true, and even when they do, they come with a price...
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Wife of a Kamikaze
Title: Wife of a Kamikaze
Character: Koguma Isamu
Released: August 16, 2015
Type: Movie
In June 1945 Yamauchi Fusako goes alone to Manchuria where her husband, Setsuo, a second lieutenant of the Kwantung Army, is based. At that time, 200,000 Japanese had settled in Manchuria, a Japanese occupied territory, as settler communities. Fujita Hideo’s family worked hard to clear the wilderness, but the Soviets are lying in wait for an invasion of Manchuria from the North. Fusako is safely reunited with her husband at the headquarters of the Kwantung Army’s Fifth Training Squadron in Manchuria’s Dahushan. Setsuo also takes good care of his beloved wife, but his position is an instructor to the young soldiers who will eventually carry out suicide attacks. He wonders if he should have summoned her and speaks of these mixed feelings to his commanding officer, Michiba Kazuo, a first lieutenant. Michiba is concerned about Setsuo’s attempts to cherish his wife before the coming showdown on homeland. Fusako learns about life in Manchuria from Michiba’s wife, Etsu.
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Prophecy
Title: Prophecy
Character: Metabo / Shinichi Terahara
Released: June 6, 2015
Type: Movie
The cyber crime investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department finds a video on website "YOURTUBE." In the video, a man covered by a newspaper, warns that a fire will be set at a food processing company. More crime notices are soon found involving violent crimes. Geitsu is the main guy behind the group "Shinbunshi," which has posted the videos. He used to work as a temporary employee at an IT company, but was unfairly dismissed. He then begins doing manual labor work and meets the other members of "Shinbushi."
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Title: Angels and Demons: The Cold Case Unit
Character: Tadaomi Ano
Released: April 10, 2015
Type: TV
Makita Hikari is a police officer. She has a pure personality and doesn't question people’s motives. Due to her personality, she is constantly deceived by suspects and finds herself relegated to a trivial job in the cold case resource room. One day, a mysterious man, Chajima Ryunosuke appears. Through Chajima, Hikari begins works in the newly formed Cold Case Anonymous Investigation Unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The department tackles unsolved cases by offering leniency to suspects for information on the main culprits. Ryunosuke Chajima is himself a devious attorney. Why he takes part in the Cold Case Anonymous Investigation Unit is unknown.
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A Farewell to Jinu
Title: A Farewell to Jinu
Character: Aoki
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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Title: Oh, Love Hotel
Released: November 23, 2014
Type: TV
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Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Flats
Title: Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Flats
Character: Shimacchi (Takuro Shimaki)
Released: March 23, 2014
Type: Movie
Fuku-chan is generous, light-hearted and a little chubby. When a woman from his past returns, his old fear of women is finally put to the test
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Judge!
Title: Judge!
Character: Carlos
Released: January 11, 2014
Type: Movie
A major advertising festival is held each year to determine the best television commercial in the world. A rookie ad man at a big advertising company named Otan is selected as a judge on the festival jury. Meanwhile, a coworker also named Ota (although the Japanese characters are slightly different) poses as his wife so that he can attend an open party which is held nightly. Knowing that he’ll get fired if his company doesn’t win the Grand Prix, he’s forced to resort to a variety of desperate tactics.
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Title: Clinic on the Sea
Character: Akira Hiuchi
Released: October 14, 2013
Type: TV
Sezaki Kota is a young doctor who runs a boat clinic, Kaishinmaru, that plies the Seto Inland Sea islands. Kota is a very capable doctor, but he has one big flaw... he falls for women easily. He romances each island's madonna when they come to him seeking treatment. However, his efforts at romancing them seem to fail each time, and thus with tears streaming, he sets off for the next island; Ever in search of a true love.
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The Apology King
Title: The Apology King
Character: Gosaku Wada
Released: September 28, 2013
Type: Movie
Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simple arbitration to a national crisis.
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Title: Amachan
Character: Masayoshi Yoshida
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: Masayoshi Yoshida
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: Resident: Story of 5 Interns
Character: Maeda Ippei
Released: October 18, 2012
Type: TV
Patients are brought in one after the other. Being put in an environment where there is a race against time to save lives, all they can do is stand there doing nothing. Though they still have a lot to grow as a doctor and as individuals, will they be able to overcome adversity and one day be able to proudly identify themselves as being a doctor?
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Key of Life
Title: Key of Life
Character: Junichi Kudo
Released: September 16, 2012
Type: Movie
A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin.
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Ikkyu-san
Title: Ikkyu-san
Character: New fake Ikkyu
Released: June 30, 2012
Type: Movie
The mischievous adventures of the historical Zen monk Ikkyu as a child.
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Title: 大人計画「ウェルカム・ニッポン」
Released: March 28, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: The Full Throttle Girl
Character: Hayashi Samao
Released: July 11, 2011
Type: TV
Devoted to becoming an international lawyer, Ayukawa Wakaba is full of ambition. Her hard work pays off when she lands a job at an international law firm, but to her disappointment, the first prestigious assignment that is given to her is to babysit the boss' 5 year old daughter, Hinata. Wakaba loathes kids and nursing, but unwillingly takes on the job as she is fixated on wealth and success. One day when she goes to a preschool to pick up Hinata, she meets a man named Yamada Sota. Sota is a man without higher education, wealth, or a future goal, someone that Wakaba absolutely cannot stand, the complete opposite of her ideals. Once again, contrary to her will, she ends up looking after Hinata and a few other kids along with Sota. Despite being exhausted from all the first-time experiences in child care, Wakaba begins to realize what is truly important to her.
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Title: 大人計画ウーマンリブvol.12「サッドソング・フォー・アグリードーター」
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: TV
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A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
Title: A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
Character: Iijima
Released: May 14, 2011
Type: Movie
Although Nobuyoshi and Saki just got married and moved into a new apartment, their relationship still lacks spark. Things start to change as they meet a weird fortune-teller who also happens to operate tours to hell. Without further ado the young couple books a honeymoon trip which takes them to the most bizarre, colorful and fun vision of hell you could ever dream of.
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Title: Bartender
Character: Sugiyama Kaoru
Released: February 4, 2011
Type: TV
Upon return from Paris, Sasakura Ryu spends some time wandering amiss, but after some time he decides to start anew by becoming a bartender. On a daily basis as a bartender, he helps solve the various problems burdening his customers, including work and love and family troubles, one cocktail at a time. Furthermore, what will happen to the romantic relationship between Ryu, who seeks the best cocktail, and Kurushima Miwa, who ispertinent to his growth as a person. Also in the drama you'll see the fateful showdown between Kuzuhara Ryuichi, referred to as Mr. Perfect, and Master Kase Goro. -- TV Asahi
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Happy Together –All About My Dog–
Title: Happy Together –All About My Dog–
Character: Voice of Koro
Released: January 22, 2011
Type: Movie
A series of short stories explore the connection of love between dogs and people.
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Quirky Guys and Gals
Title: Quirky Guys and Gals
Character: Masuteo
Released: January 15, 2011
Type: Movie
The movie consists of 4 stories each telling how people survive on life-death choice. The story titles are: Cheering Girls, Boy? meets girl., Claim Night! and The House Full Of 'Abandoned' Businessmen.
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Title: 大人計画「母を逃がす」
Released: December 1, 2010
Type: TV
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Title: Detective Lovesick
Character: Masaru Saeki
Released: July 9, 2010
Type: TV
He was the pride of his police department as the number one armed robbery buster... until he had his heart broken by the sudden flight of a fiancee from his life. Now "Detective Lovesick" finds his crime-fighting mojo and his chance at rising through the police hierarchy slipping away. Spending his days in a desperate search for the love of his life, Detective Lovesick is a man in love with himself and idolizes his drinking buddy, who is a romance psychologist. He loses himself to love easily, even at work, falling for every femme fatale he investigates and after a lot of hair pulling, ending each case with a marriage proposal. "Marry me or be under arrest." But will any woman accept such a proposal? Suspense, comedy and romance all converge in a libido-rich police drama unlike any you've ever seen.
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Liar Game: The Final Stage
Title: Liar Game: The Final Stage
Character: Jiro Nishida
Released: March 6, 2010
Type: Movie
In Liar game: Final Stage, Players are encouraged to trust each other to win the tournament. However, a mysterious player named X is secretly plotting to sabotage everyone of their chances to win the LGT.
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Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto
Title: Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto
Character: Makoto Sugawara
Released: April 18, 2009
Type: Movie
The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of "Horumo" - a combat match where each person manipulates 100 spirits (referred to as "oni") to fight the opponent. Akira Abe, a freshman at Kyoto University student falls for his classmate Kyoko, and soon ends up at a mysterious club called “Kyoto University Azure Dragon” which turns out to be one of the Horumo teams, playing the mysterious (and somewhat absurd) game which started over 1,000 years ago in the Heian period.The heat rises as you see the 2,000 CGI created spirits wage fierce battles against the backdrop of breathtaking beautiful city of Kyoto. Let the battle begin!
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Title: Mission To Kill
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
Title: I Want to Be a Shellfish
Character: Private Takita
Released: September 22, 2008
Type: Movie
1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an officer on the battle-field orders him to kill a captive U.S. soldier. Although Toyomatsu lacks the spirit to kill the man, and only wounds him in the arm, the victorious U.S. soldiers will not accept this, and Toyomatsu is arrested and tried as a war-criminal. And he receives the cruelest sentence possible...
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Tokyo!
Title: Tokyo!
Character: Pizza Delivery Girl's Neighbor (segment "Shaking Tokyo")
Released: August 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
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The Taste of Fish
Title: The Taste of Fish
Character: Takuya
Released: June 7, 2008
Type: Movie
It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market is where you're most likely to find them. It's the home of Japan's biggest daily fish auction, and it's a place of fierce competition between fish merchants that have been in the business for generations. Based on a comic series, The Taste of Fish follows businessman Shuntaro, who has a successful career in a trading company and is in a steady relationship with girlfriend Asuka. One day, Shuntaro has to help out at the fish wholesaler store run by Asuka's father, and he immediately falls in love with the world of Tsukiji Fish Market. Soon, Shuntaro quits his job and devotes all of his time to running the business while learning about the market's fascinating set of long-standing traditions. However, he must first also learn to distinguish the tastes of different fishes before he can survive in the competitive world of Tsukiji.
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Fine, Totally Fine
Title: Fine, Totally Fine
Character: Teruo Toyama
Released: January 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Two listless friends and a clumsy girl try to make sense of their lives, and perhaps find love along the way.
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Title: Ganjisu-gawa de batafurai
Character: Takano Akinori
Released: October 5, 2007
Type: TV
Teruko, a third year university student, comes across as a forthright and sunny girl but is in truth a rather timid person. She's also the sort who easily gets carried away and does things impetuously only to regret her actions later. Influenced by her older brother who has taken to wandering the world, Teruko too hopes to make her own journey one day but she lacks the courage, content to live the life of a normal university student ... However, she's also plagued with the insecurity of having done nothing she can be proud of in her lifetime, and mustering all her courage embarks on a solo trip to India ... While in India, she meets a fellow backpacker, Shingo. Teruko first regards Shingo as a frivolous person but as his encouraging words clear her hesitation and touches her, she falls in love with him.
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Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Title: Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Character: Enomoto
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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Title: LIAR GAME
Character: Yuichi Nishida
Released: April 14, 2007
Type: TV
Nao Kanzaki, a student, was blackmailed into joining a "Liar Game" and ended up losing 100 million yen. In order to repay the debt, she enlists the help of Shin'ichi Akiyama, a genius swindler who was only recently released from jail for bankrupting one of Japan's largest scam companies.
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Title: Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Character: Gun Seller
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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Title: 大人計画ウーマンリブvol.10「ウーマンリブ先生」
Released: November 11, 2006
Type: TV
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Akihabara@DEEP
Title: Akihabara@DEEP
Character: Taiko
Released: September 2, 2006
Type: Movie
Set in Tokyo's otaku mecca Akihabara, "Akihabara@DEEP" tells the story of five otaku who drop out of society and end up founding their own successful IT venture called Crook. But Nakagomi, president of an influential electronics company called Digital Capital, will do anything to get his hands on Crook.
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Memories of Matsuko
Title: Memories of Matsuko
Character: Kenji Shimazu
Released: May 27, 2006
Type: Movie
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
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Title: 大人計画「まとまったお金の唄」
Released: May 14, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: Miracle Zoo ~ The Asahiyama Zoo Story ~
Released: May 13, 2006
Type: TV
Asahiyama Zoo, in Hokkaido, is facing a financial crisis and the zoo director and keepers try everything to save the zoo from closing down.
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Manji
Title: Manji
Character: Eijiro
Released: March 25, 2006
Type: Movie
One day, Sonoko, a married woman having a husband, meets young, beautiful Mitsuko. Puzzled Sonoko is charmed by the beauty of Mitsuko, and two people fall into relations between women at the start.
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Title: Tiger and Dragon
Character: Yukio Awashima
Released: April 15, 2005
Type: TV
A young yakuza thug apprentices with an indebted comic "rakugo" performer, whose not-so-fashionable son runs a clothes shop in the Harajuku backstreets.
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Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
Title: Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
Character: Spirit of the Dead
Released: April 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.
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All About My Dog
Title: All About My Dog
Character: Koro (voice)
Released: March 19, 2005
Type: Movie
A series of short stories all about dogs.
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Survive Style 5+
Title: Survive Style 5+
Character: Killer's Translator
Released: September 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.
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Title: Aijou Ippon
Character: Saieunji Teruo
Released: July 10, 2004
Type: TV
Tomoe, 17, is an average high-school girl, interested in clothes and guys, but her family life is not so average. Losing her mother at a young age, she lives alone with her father, Shouhei and does all the cooking, laundry, housekeeping, like a mother would do. They have a hard time making ends meet, because Shouhei's only income is from working as a judo teacher to the neighborhood kids. Tomoe can't wait to go to the university to get away from her father, and judo which she hates. But because of her father's unfortunate arrest, she is forced to take over at the dojo. With help from the captain of her high school's judo team, Tomoe begins to teaching the few kids who still come to learn judo, and even start practicing the judo that she gave up as a child. This heartwarming family drama will entertain kids and adults alike.
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Kamikaze Girls
Title: Kamikaze Girls
Character: Grocery Store Manager
Released: May 29, 2004
Type: Movie
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...
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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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Drugstore Girl
Title: Drugstore Girl
Character: Shinji
Released: February 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east or west, she don't care") and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo's remote suburbs. There, she gets a part-time job at a newly opened drugstore. What do ya know.. The local shopping district's middle-aged men all fall for the young girl's charms, and they start practicing lacrosse once they have found out that that's her favourite sport.
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Title: Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Released: December 13, 2003
Type: Movie
Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josee.
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JAPANESE NAKED TRIBE
Title: JAPANESE NAKED TRIBE
Released: November 22, 2003
Type: Movie
The story takes place when the Shin-Okubo district of Tokyo was still known as Okubomura, where the yakuza are running a real estate business called Misato Kogyo. Starting with the mule AF, who carries 'cargo' inside his own butt hole, the gang members, each of whom has their own complex personality, greatly admire the gang leader Joaquin. But after he is hospitalized after his car accident scam goes wrong, they plan to rebuild the organization together with the new gang leader, a dope friend.
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Robot Contest
Title: Robot Contest
Character: Gohara
Released: September 13, 2003
Type: Movie
Satomi is not putting much effort into her school work. She is told by her instructor that she is short of the minimum number of credits to advance. One option is for her to participate in the Robot Club, which is participating in a robot contest that is a single-elimination challenge. Satomi and the club begin working to rise to the top.
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Title: 大人計画ウーマンリブvol.7「熊沢パンキース03」
Released: July 30, 2003
Type: TV
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A Larva to Love
Title: A Larva to Love
Character: Fumio Nishio
Released: July 20, 2003
Type: Movie
Bizarre love triangle about a girl, Yuki who transforms into a tentacled creature that feasts on human blood. She manipulates the guilt-ridden Fumio to do her bidding, only for a strange romance to blossom between them.
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Ping Pong
Title: Ping Pong
Character: Ota
Released: July 20, 2002
Type: Movie
As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids.
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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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Title: 大人計画「春子ブックセンター」
Released: May 15, 2002
Type: TV
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The Choice of Hercules
Title: The Choice of Hercules
Released: May 11, 2002
Type: Movie
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
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The Labor Cop
Title: The Labor Cop
Released: April 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Due to the effect of the prolonged great depression, finally even the police have to introduce a part-time job system for its employees. Although his main job is a steeplejack, one man is also employed as a day-laborer detective. He spends his days waiting for an incident to occur so he will be called in to investigate. On the other hand, Yasu is not only a graduate of The University of Tokyo with a successful IT business, he is also member of the Nagasaka yakuza clan. Moreover, he is a favorite of the clan leader.
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special
Title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special
Released: March 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Mushi Game (Ignore the Game) - starring Uchiyama Rina 2. Okashina Machi (Funny Town) - starring Yanagiba Toshiro 3. Tokage no Shippo (Lizard's Tail) - starring Kashiwabara Takashi 4. Yogisha no Otoko (Man's Night Train) - starring Osugi Ren 5. Manhole - starring Kagawa Teruyuki
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Title: 大人計画ウーマンリブvol.6「キラークイーン666」
Released: October 19, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: School Teachers
Character: Saburo
Released: October 7, 2001
Type: TV
Sentaro Sakuragi (Tsuyoshi Domoto) moves to Tokyo from Osaka. He works now as an substitute elementary school teacher, in place of another teacher on maternity leave. Sentaro hopes to turn his class into the best class in all of Japan. Meanwhile, Sentaro lives in a ramen shop owned by Choichiro Asakura (Chosuke Ikariya). Choichiro is a conservative person but kind. One day Choichiro's second daughter Motoko (Yuko Takeuchi) rides the subway and notices a rude female high school student. The girl sits near a pregnant and doesn't offer to give her seat to her. Motoko then asks the female student to her seat to the pregnant woman...
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エロスの果て
Title: エロスの果て
Released: March 14, 2001
Type: Movie
A boy genius named "Kadokawa" invents the ultimate anesthetic for SM play. Kadokawa's madness is turned into reality by his childhood friends Oyamada and Saigo. "A near-future science fiction work that will burn out the "endless everyday life.
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Title: 大人計画「エロスの果て」
Released: March 14, 2001
Type: TV
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Gore from Outer Space
Title: Gore from Outer Space
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A mother is accused of murdering her daughter but when she tells her tale, things don't seem to make sense. Her husband says they have no daughter, there's a psychic that can trace phone calls, a blonde who sings the US anthem, a house with no bathroom, some Lynchian dream sequences, aliens, breeding experiments, very quirky FBI agents, and some other random events.
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Another Heaven
Title: Another Heaven
Character: Survivor
Released: April 29, 2000
Type: Movie
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?
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Title: 大人計画ウーマンリブvol.4「ウーマンリブ発射!」
Released: October 27, 1999
Type: TV
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3年B組皆川先生~2.5時幻目~
Title: 3年B組皆川先生~2.5時幻目~
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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愛が世界を救います
Title: 愛が世界を救います
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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あぶない刑事にヨロシク
Title: あぶない刑事にヨロシク
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie