Etsushi Toyokawa

Etsushi Toyokawa

Born: March 18, 1962
Etsushi Toyokawa (Japanese: 豊川 悦司 Hepburn: Toyokawa Etsushi, born March 18, 1962) is a Japanese actor.

Movies for Etsushi Toyokawa...

Revolver LILY
Title: Revolver LILY
Released: August 11, 2023
Type: Movie
In 1924 Yuri killed 57 people as a spy before going underground as the madam of a small brothel. There, she encounters an orphan whose family was murdered and holds the key to finding a large sum of money reported missing by the Imperial Japanese Army. But with an army of soldiers after them, they must fight to survive.
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Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
Title: Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
Character: Baian Fujieda
Released: April 7, 2023
Type: Movie
The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist who saves lives, and the other as a criminal who buries evil that cannot be kept alive for the sake of others. Popular writer Shotaro Ikenami's historical novel series of the same title, on which the film "BAIAN The Assassin, M.D." is based, is a blockbuster bestseller with a total of over 6 million copies in print and has been made into a timeless entertainment film many times in Japan. Many famous actors have played the role of Baian, including Ken Watanabe. The year 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of Shotaro Ikenami's birth. In the anniversary year of 2023, a new "BAIAN The Assassin, M.D." is born.
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Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part1
Title: Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part1
Character: Baian Fujieda
Released: February 3, 2023
Type: Movie
Baian Fujieda, an assassin for hire, got an unusual job from his usual fixer to end up with an unexpected twist of destiny from the past.
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And so I'm at a Loss
Title: And so I'm at a Loss
Released: January 13, 2023
Type: Movie
Yuichi Sugawara is a freelancer, who spends his days meaninglessly. He lives with his long-term girlfriend Satomi Suzuki. One day, they start to argue over a trivial matter which causes Yuichi to leave their home. He wanders around and meets with his friends, sister, and mother. When he starts to feel uncomfortable around them, he leaves them behind. He then crosses paths with his father, Koji, for the first time in ten years. Koji also ran away from his family, including Yuichi, at that time. Koji then invites Yuichi to come over to his house. Hen accepts and turns off his smartphone to cut off all the relationships he has.
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2 Women
Title: 2 Women
Character: Atsuro Shiraki
Released: November 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Modeled on Setouchi Jakucho, Inoue Mitsuharu, and his wife, 2 women depicts the special relationship between a man and two women, based on the novel by Inoue Areno, the eldest daughter of Inoue.
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Kingdom 2: Far and Away
Title: Kingdom 2: Far and Away
Character: Biao Gong
Released: July 15, 2022
Type: Movie
It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.
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My Brother, The Android And Me
Title: My Brother, The Android And Me
Released: January 7, 2022
Type: Movie
A lonely researcher doubting his own existence builds an android which looks exactly like himself.
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Title: No Activity
Character: Tokita Shingo
Released: December 17, 2021
Type: TV
Tokita Shingo is a detective who gives up on a successful detective career. He teams up with up with rookie detective Shiina Asobu. They work on an undercover investigation into a drug case and soon find themselves in an unexpected situation.
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Every Trick In The Book
Title: Every Trick In The Book
Character: Kenjiro Kurata
Released: August 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his life targeted by underworld kingpin Kurata. Is his story fact or fiction? His editor, Nahomi Torikai, decides to verify whether his latest work is mere fiction based on real-life experiences. She looks into a family that vanished, a post office worker who went missing, a shady load of cash, the whereabouts of the doves, and the fateful encounter from that night... A series of shocking facts are revealed from Tsuda’s stories. Why did the counterfeit money end up in Tsuda’s hands? What is the “ending” that Tsuda wished to portray?
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One Summer Story
Title: One Summer Story
Character: Minami's biological father
Released: August 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Between competitive swim team practice and cramming for classes the anime Buffalo Kotek is Minami’s only respit from her hectic life. So it feels a lot like kismet when she discovers that her classmate Shohei, and aspiring manga artist, shares her obsession—and that his brother is an amateur detective. It seems as though Minami’s finally formed the perfect team to help her unravel a big mystery of her own, following a recent trail of clues that just might lead to her long lost father. The timing couldn’t be better when an out-of-town swim competition presents itself as the perfect alibi, and she sneaks off to the Japanese coast to discover a whole new side of herself in this bold and charming story of anime, friendship, family, and the life aquatic.
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Ito
Title: Ito
Character: Koichi Soma
Released: June 25, 2021
Type: Movie
A shy country girl chooses a part-time job at a maid cafe where she serves customers while dressed up as a maid.
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Earwig and the Witch
Title: Earwig and the Witch
Character: The Mandrake (voice)
Released: February 3, 2021
Type: Movie
A headstrong orphan discovers a world of spells and potions while living with a selfish witch.
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Title: Date My Daughter!
Character: Ichinose Fuuga
Released: January 13, 2021
Type: TV
Aoi Minase is in her 40's. She works as a popular writer of romance novels. She is also a single mother, who raised her daughter alone. Her daughter is now 20-years-old. Due to Aoi Minase's success as a romance novelist, Aoi lives with her daughter in an upscale high-rise apartment building. Aoi is worried about her daughter. Her daughter doesn't have a boyfriend. Aoi Minase believes this is because her daughter is an otaku, who enjoys manga and cosplay. Her daughter does want to fall in love.
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Title: Toubousha
Released: December 5, 2020
Type: TV
A remake of the American show "The Fugitive."
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I Never Shot Anyone
Title: I Never Shot Anyone
Character: Takeshi Shu
Released: July 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face - a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is... he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.
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Last Letter
Title: Last Letter
Character: Ato
Released: January 17, 2020
Type: Movie
It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's friends of the death while the daughter cannot bring herself to symbolically accept the demise of her mother. In the midst of all this an old flame messages the sister to say he is still in love with her, but is he messaging the living sister or the dead one?
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Midway
Title: Midway
Character: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Released: November 6, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.
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Paradise Next
Title: Paradise Next
Character: Shima
Released: June 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Wisecracking Makino shows up from Japan and meets Shima, a yakuza living quietly in Taipei. Makino says he knows about the incident that prompted Shima to come to Taiwan. Shima finds out that someone wants Makino dead, and they both head for Hualien, a city in eastern Taiwan.
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Samurai Marathon
Title: Samurai Marathon
Character: Suketora Ioki
Released: February 22, 2019
Type: Movie
When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race.
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Punk Samurai Slash Down
Title: Punk Samurai Slash Down
Character: Tatewaki Naito
Released: June 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by the Kurokaze Han, but they learn that Junoshin Kake lied. Junoshin Kake is given the death sentence and he must think of an escape plan.
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Nomitori Samurai
Title: Nomitori Samurai
Character: Seibee
Released: May 18, 2018
Type: Movie
Hironoshin is a samurai of the Echigo-Nagaoka clan. One day, Hironoshin attends a party at a mansion in Edo where his lord, Tadakiyo is invited to recite poems. Hironoshin is asked to give his opinion and foolishly comments that the piece was plagiarized. Infuriated, Tadakiyo orders Hironoshin to live his life without honor as a ‘cat flea picker', which is in fact a pseudonym for a male prostitute. The honest and straight-shooting Hironoshin convinces himself that he has no other options, and resigns himself to live as a sex worker. Hironoshin becomes an apprentice to a flea-picker boss who encourages him, convinced that Hironoshin is exacting revenge in the guise of a prostitute.
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Laplace's Witch
Title: Laplace's Witch
Character: Saisei Amakasu
Released: May 4, 2018
Type: Movie
An environmental analyst is asked by the police to determine if two deaths by hydrogen sulfide poisoning are an accident - or a murder. But when he meets a young woman at both sites, a scientific mystery begins.
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March Goes out Like a Lamb
Title: March Goes out Like a Lamb
Character: Masachika Koda
Released: April 22, 2017
Type: Movie
The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an upcoming tournament, the father who left the three sisters appears and disturbs the peace.
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The Blue Hearts
Title: The Blue Hearts
Character: (segment “1001 Violins”)
Released: April 8, 2017
Type: Movie
Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song.
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March Comes in Like a Lion
Title: March Comes in Like a Lion
Character: Sachika Koda
Released: March 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo, because his parents and younger sister died in an traffic accident when he was little. One day, Rei Kiriyama meets three sisters who are his neighbors. The three sisters are Akari Kawamoto, Hinata Kawamoto and Momo Kawamoto. This is his first meeting with someone outside of the shogi world in many years. Having meals with the Kawamoto family brings warm feelings to Rei Kiriyama. As Rei Kiriyama continues his shogi career, his interactions with his neighbors allows him to grow as a shogi player and as a person.
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Black Widow Business
Title: Black Widow Business
Character: Toru Kashiwagi
Released: August 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, Kozo Nakase suddenly collapses and dies. Kozo Nakase leaves everything to Sayako. The rest of his family are left out of his will including his daughter Tomomi. Tomomi hires a private investigator, Honda, to find out more about Sayoko.
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Title: Arechi no Koi
Released: January 9, 2016
Type: TV
In 1947, a year heavily tinged by the scars of war, Kitazawa Taro, Mitamura Kiichi, Arikawa Nobuo and other fellow poets who would play a central role in post-war Japan’s modern poetry movement gathered for the launch of the poetry magazine ‘Arechi’. 28 years later in 1975, a 53-year-old Kitazawa works at a newspaper’s proofreading department as he continues scrape by composing poetry. Although he is not prolific as a poet, he cherishes ordinary happiness every day surrounded by his wife Haruko and their daughter Yuko and son Sho. But a big turning point comes for Kitazawa one day. He develops frequent contact with Akiko, the wife of his good friend Mitamura. Falling in love with her, he abandons his job and leaves his wife Haruko and two children behind. As he starts to live with Akiko who has also left home, he recovers an unprecedented passion and “words”. Each of them start to live the life of the “wasteland”. --JDramas Weblog
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Joe, Tomorrow
Title: Joe, Tomorrow
Character: Narration (voice)
Released: October 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Junji Sakamoto's documentary follows legendary boxing champ Joichiro over 20 years, from the ages 25 to 44. In a series of meetings, like the 7 Up series, Sakamoto conducts intimate interviews with Tatsuyoshi. Narrated by actor Etsushi Toyokawa.
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Her Granddaughter
Title: Her Granddaughter
Character: Jun Kaieda
Released: February 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Tsugumi Dozono works at a large electronics company in Tokyo. She likes to spend long vacations at her grandmother’s house in the countryside. When her grandmother dies, Tsugumi Dozono decides to live in the house full-time, and to work from there as well. However, one day she encounters a middle-aged man in the house, who tells Tsugumi that her grandmother gave him a key to the annex house when he was her student. The two share the property, although Tsugumi still does not know the exact relationship that her grandmother had with this man.
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Climbing to Spring
Title: Climbing to Spring
Character: Goro Tada
Released: June 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season of climbers. When Toru grows up, he leaves his hometown and enters the working world as a stock trader. One day, Toru receives word that his father has passed away. He returns to Mount Tate once again, and becomes conscious of a new calling. But, does Toru have what it takes to follow in his father footsteps?
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Judge!
Title: Judge!
Character: Ichiro Otaki
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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The Human Trust
Title: The Human Trust
Character: CIA agent Endo
Released: October 19, 2013
Type: Movie
A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from the Bank of Japan and supposedly stashed away by a group of men after WWII in various locations around the globe. Eventually an assassin is put on their trail.
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Platinum Data
Title: Platinum Data
Character: Reiji Asama
Released: March 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Set in the year 2017, the Japanese government attempts to secretly control the DNA of its people. Ryuhei Kagura is a top scientist in the field of DNA analysis. He works at the DNA analysis institution run by the National Police Agency. When the inventor of the DNA analysis system is murdered, Ryuhei Kagura's own DNA is found at the murder scene. Ryuhei Kagura becomes the prime suspect and then he becomes a fugitive. Veteran detective Reiji Asama goes in pursuit.
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Title: Beautiful Rain
Character: Kinoshita Keisuke
Released: July 1, 2012
Type: TV
A young daughter (Mana Ashida) supports her father (Etsushi Toyokawa) who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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Postcard
Title: Postcard
Character: Keita Matsuyama
Released: October 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led.
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Sword of Desperation
Title: Sword of Desperation
Character: Kanemi Sanzaemon
Released: July 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his clan after only one year of imprisonment. Following his return, Kanemi is faced with the death of his wife, Mutsue. Thereafter, Kanemi lives with and cares for his wife's niece, Satoo, who has secret affections for Kanemi and expresses them by helping change his bleak outlook on life. Meanwhile, Kanemi's develops his unique "bird-catching" sword technique which he will soon put to test in battle for the first time against the fearsome swordsman, Hayatonosho Obiya.
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A Good Husband
Title: A Good Husband
Character: Shunsuke Kitami
Released: October 14, 2009
Type: Movie
The heart wrenching love story between a married couple. The jobless husband cheats on his wife and has no love for her. The wife wants to go on a trip to get pregnant.
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20th Century Boys 3: Redemption
Title: 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption
Character: Otcho
Released: August 19, 2009
Type: Movie
The final showdown, and the final reveal. who is Friend? How can he be stopped?
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20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope
Title: 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope
Character: Otcho
Released: January 30, 2009
Type: Movie
Set 15 years after "Twentieth Century Boys," Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an attempt to stop Friend's increasing influence over the world and continued plans to eliminate humanity, as detailed in the New Book of Prophecy.
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Teacher and Three Children
Title: Teacher and Three Children
Character: Yoshihito Yamazaki
Released: September 27, 2008
Type: Movie
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.
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20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End
Title: 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End
Character: Otcho
Released: August 19, 2008
Type: Movie
In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighbourhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Who is Friend?
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10 Promises to My Dog
Title: 10 Promises to My Dog
Character: Yuichi Saito
Released: March 15, 2008
Type: Movie
One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She immediately falls in love with the puppy and names it "Socks" after the paws which looked like they had white socks on. Akari was together with Socks day and night. However, as Akari grows up, her feelings and interest moves away from Socks. Year by year, their distance grows, which also leads to her physical distance as she moves to a far off city, and must leave Socks behind to a childhood friend.One day Akari remembers the 10 promises that she had made with Socks and her deceased mother...
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Tsubaki Sanjuro
Title: Tsubaki Sanjuro
Character: Hanbei Muroto
Released: December 1, 2007
Type: Movie
"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, faster, subtler sword, talking and perception. He uses them to settle the trouble and uses them good!
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The Kiss
Title: The Kiss
Character: Akimi Sakaguchi
Released: November 22, 2007
Type: Movie
One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul. Despite the worries of the killer's lawyer, she approaches the killer and the two start corresponding.
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The Investigation Game
Title: The Investigation Game
Character: Fumihiko Makishima
Released: October 27, 2007
Type: Movie
Police superintendent Makishima suffered a demotion transfer after he failed to capture the suspect in a kidnapping case of a boy, who was subsequently killed, and made a blunder in the press conference. Six years later, Makishima is improving his performance at Ashigara station, when he is summoned by the prefectural police headquarters and asked to take on the investigation of a serial child murder case which has reached a deadlock. Makishima, still bearing an emotional scar from the previous case, accepts the request, and pushes through an unprecedented investigation, where Makishima appears on TV as the person responsible for the investigation and appeals to the killer directly in order to bring him into the open. Despite being caught in disputes within the police force and facing criticism from rival TV stations, Makishima talks to the camera as the whole nation watches on. "This is for the killer. Go to sleep trembling in fear tonight."
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South Bound
Title: South Bound
Character: Ichiro Uehara
Released: October 6, 2007
Type: Movie
Uehara Jiro, in the sixth year at elementary school, is from a family of five; his parents who are both ex-extremists, his elder sister and a younger sister. Children look coldly at their father, Ichiro (Toyokawa Etsushi), who does not work but is quick at lashing out for anything illogical. One day, Jiro snaps at a junior high school student in the neighborhood who ridiculed his parents and causes a violent incident. Being tired of all the fuss made by the school and the response from the child welfare, the Uehara family moves to the island of Iriomotejima, father's hometown. However, the island is in the midst of a row over a development plan to build resort facilities, and the family is sucked into the mayhem. Ichiro and his wife Sakura are arrested, but they break loose. They are forced to live a life as fugitives, and are unable to live with their children. The children, however, understand that their parents do not want to succumb to the establishment and support them.
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Awakening
Title: Awakening
Character: Noda
Released: January 27, 2007
Type: Movie
After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that her husband had lived a double life. Struggling between her anger and the chance to begin a new chapter for herself, she finds her life moving into unchartered waters as she faces her 60th birthday.
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Love Never to End
Title: Love Never to End
Character: Kikuji Murao
Released: January 13, 2007
Type: Movie
He is Kikuji Murao (Etsushi Toyokawa), a former best-selling novelist who has had a decade-long dry spell that has reduced him to university teaching and magazine hackery. After divorcing his wife (Reiko Takashima) and leaving behind his teenage daughter (Shihori Kanjiya), he meets Fuyuka Irie (Shinobu Terajima), a housewife and mother of three who is a longtime fan.
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Hula Girls
Title: Hula Girls
Character: Yojiro Tanikawa
Released: September 9, 2006
Type: Movie
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
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Japan Sinks
Title: Japan Sinks
Character: Tadogoro Yusuke
Released: July 15, 2006
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with other countries to take refugees, while scientists struggle to save Japan itself.
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It's Only Talk
Title: It's Only Talk
Character: Shoichi
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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Title: Scum of Lawyers
Character: Motohito Kuzu
Released: April 13, 2006
Type: TV
Bengoshi no Kuzu is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hideo Iura about Takeda Masami, a new lawyer and fellow lawyer Kuzu Motohito, who Takeda is teamed up with, and how they deal with different court cases. It was serialized in Big Comic Original. Bengoshi no Kuzu received the Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general category in 2007. The manga was adapted into a 12-episode TV drama, which was broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System between April 13, 2006 and June 29, 2006.
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Dead Run
Title: Dead Run
Character: Father Yuichi
Released: December 17, 2005
Type: Movie
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
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Until the Lights Come Back
Title: Until the Lights Come Back
Character: Shinichi Kido
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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Loft
Title: Loft
Character: Makoto Yoshioka
Released: October 7, 2005
Type: Movie
A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly discovered mummy and a ghostly presence in her house.
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Female Teacher: Under a Wet Piano
Title: Female Teacher: Under a Wet Piano
Released: September 27, 2005
Type: Movie
Two escaped convicts arrive at the summer villa of the chairman of a large company.
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The Great Yokai War
Title: The Great Yokai War
Character: Katō Yasunori
Released: August 6, 2005
Type: Movie
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the yōkai from oppression. The yōkai originate in Japanese folklore and range from the cute and silly to the disturbing.
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Beat Kids
Title: Beat Kids
Released: June 4, 2005
Type: Movie
A new student ,Eiji is forced into playing the drums for the school band by his classmate, Nanao. From the first moment he holds a drumstick in his hands, the rhythm inside Eiji is awakened and he soon becomes captive to its sonic boom. The obsessive and demanding Nanao is soon swayed by Eiji's bright character and natural kindness. Under Nanao's leadership, the band starts making waves in local competitions. Despite their success, can they survive the pressures of school, relationships, and their dreams? In Beat Kids, Director Toshi Shioya weaves a passionate rock and roll coming of age story about a teenager who uses music to turn growing pains into something extraordinary.
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The Man Behind the Scissors
Title: The Man Behind the Scissors
Character: Yasunaga
Released: March 19, 2005
Type: Movie
The Man Behind the Scissors centers around two serial killers: mastermind Yasunaga and helper Chinatsu. The two risk being found out when the police question them as witnesses to a gruesome murder they themselves may have committed. A quirky and perplexing police thriller centered around two murderers who thrive on slicing up schoolgirls. Calculated serial psycho Yasunaga (Tokokawa) and Chinatsu (Aso), his sweet female sidekick, find themselves being questioned as witnesses to a murder when their next potential victim turns up dead...with their M.O.
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Bluestockings
Title: Bluestockings
Character: Yuichiro
Released: January 23, 2005
Type: Movie
Set during Japan's Taisho Era (1912-1926), "Bluestockings" tells the tale story of a love triangle between wealthy businessman Yuichiro (Etsushi Toyokawa), his wife Akiko (Kyoko Hasegawa), and Kiyoko (Yoshino Kimura).
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Year One in the North
Title: Year One in the North
Character: Ashirika
Released: January 14, 2005
Type: Movie
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, over 500 of them settled in their new land under the leadership of Hideaki, husband of Shino. However, as crops fail he is to go to Sapporo to learn new techniques of farming, leaving his wife and daughter for 5 years. All this time, the new community is constantly watched by the government which choose to again uproot them from their new homes.
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Tange Sazen : The Jar Worth One Million Ryo
Title: Tange Sazen : The Jar Worth One Million Ryo
Released: July 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Tange Sazen: Hyakuman Ryo no Tsubo is a remake of a classic 1935 film of the same name by Yamanaka Sadao. Tange Sazen, the one-armd, one-eyed ex-samurai swordsman is the creation of Hayashi Fubo and was one of the most popular characters of the era. This remake is helmed by freshman director Tsuda Toshio, starring Toyokawa Etsushi as Sazen and Wakui Emi as Ofuji, his quick-witted wife. This marks the 34th film in the series of Tange Sazen, and involves an Urn that is worth a million Ryo!.
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The Lakeside Murder Case
Title: The Lakeside Murder Case
Character: Masaru Tsukumi
Released: January 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that she has killed his mistress.
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Title: Et Alors
Released: October 9, 2003
Type: TV
Based on book by Watanabe Junichi (渡辺淳一). Takafumi Kurusu, who is a qualified doctor, has succeeded his late father and is the director of a nursing home in central Tokyo...
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Title: Ushinawareta Yakusoku
Character: Koji Shinohara
Released: September 16, 2003
Type: TV
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Moon Child
Title: Moon Child
Character: Luka
Released: April 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's footsteps as a vampire with the gift of eternal life and the curse of blood thirst. Over time, their tight friendship becomes corrupted because of their rivalry and love for the same woman.
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The Ripples
Title: The Ripples
Character: Tamamizu Tatsuo
Released: November 23, 2002
Type: Movie
Inako Natsui is a quiet, modern girl working in a laboratory and living a closed and somewhat monotonous life in a small town. From time to time she goes to nearby to visit her lonely mother Wakayama who has been a widow for the past seventeen years. The girl's relatives, particularly Aunt Sadako and Uncle Shuhei, the local mayor's deputy, plan to introduce her to a suitable young man, but Inako has no real desire to get married. She is more interested in the hot mineral springs from where she takes her laboratory specimens. This all changes when she meets Mr Tamamiza, a young divorced man who's been left with a little boy. Her relatives are decidedly against the match. The girl falls in love with the man without realizing that she will encounter a painful conflict between her family and providence, as unexpectedly as the spring which gushes out from the geological fold, driven to the surface by mysterious subterranean forces.
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Inochi
Title: Inochi
Character: Yutaka Higashi
Released: September 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Yu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka, decides to help raise him.
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Dog Star
Title: Dog Star
Character: Shiro
Released: April 27, 2002
Type: Movie
A seeing-eye dog (Shiro) is granted one wish by his former owner. He chooses to become a human for a short time so he can find the girl who trained him as a puppy. While attempting to get to know her (as he runs along behind her and sniffs for her around town) he eventually falls in love with her.
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Title: Love Story
Released: April 15, 2001
Type: TV
Sudo Misaki, an editor with misgivings about her professional and private life, is assigned to Nagase Koh, a popular romance novelist who has been in a two-year slump. Despite his profession, Nagase has never experienced true romance and becomes quite uncomfortable at the prospect. However, these two find themselves curiously drawn to each other and begin writing their own love story.
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Title: 17年目のパパへ
Released: January 4, 2001
Type: TV
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Another Battle
Title: Another Battle
Character: Kadoya Kaneo
Released: November 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss dies, a struggle for his position takes place between Kaneo's boss Awano and the young Nakahira. Nakahira's men try to extort money from Masatatsu, bringing him in between a yakuza battle.
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Face
Title: Face
Character: Hiroyuki Nakagami
Released: August 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that sends her tumbling into fugitive life.
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Sennen-Tabito
Title: Sennen-Tabito
Released: November 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. He meets a girl with a broken leg. She is the daughter of his dearest woman who died many years ago. The relationship between them becomes closer. They rescue a man who tries to commit suicide. When the pianist is nearing his end, that man finds love in the girl's heart...
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Title: Dangerous Relationship
Character: Shinji Uozomi
Released: October 14, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: 同窓会へようこそ~遅すぎた夏の帰郷~
Released: August 16, 1999
Type: TV
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The Goofball
Title: The Goofball
Released: June 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Hisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a housewife who constantly shoplifts at the supermarket he regularly goes. He somehow agrees to help her to look for her run-away son, Masaru. Unfortunate to Hisashi, Masaru starts following his around instead of returning home, after he was found by Hisashi. Then they end up stealing a gun from a police officer! In their course of running away, the similar two who cannot adapt to society very well start to develop a mutual friendship…
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Title: Blue Bird
Character: Shibata Yoshimori
Released: October 10, 1997
Type: TV
A tale of tragic love between Yoshimori, a station employee at a quiet, rural station, and Kahori, the wife of the heir to a family fortune. When Kahori's husband uncovers their affair, the star-crossed lovers try to flee with Kahori's daughter. Their search for safety and happiness takes them across the nation, from Hokkaido to Kagoshima. Filmed on location, this is an unforgettable story of romance told against the backdrop of some of the most beautiful scenery in Japan. --TBS
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Lie Lie Lie
Title: Lie Lie Lie
Character: Makoto Aikawa
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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An Angel with Many Scars
Title: An Angel with Many Scars
Released: April 19, 1997
Type: Movie
An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to him, decide to go to northern Japan in search of the boy’s mother, and the detective’s buddy Hisashi joins them later.
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Misty
Title: Misty
Character: Tajomaru
Released: December 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Witnesses of a murder. Remake of Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon.
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The 8-Tomb Village
Title: The 8-Tomb Village
Character: Kousuke Kindaichi
Released: October 26, 1996
Type: Movie
A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.
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The Man with Two Hearts
Title: The Man with Two Hearts
Released: May 11, 1996
Type: Movie
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Title: Say You Love Me
Character: Koji Sakaki
Released: July 7, 1995
Type: TV
This delicate love story transcends the spoken word as it depicts the lives of an aspiring young actress and a painter who lost his sense of hearing during childhood. As their relationship develops, the audience learns the true power of sign language and experiences the couple’s growth first-hand through the progression of their visual communication.
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Phantom of the Toilet
Title: Phantom of the Toilet
Character: Yuji Sakamoto
Released: July 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Set in an elementary school and centered on a boy named Takuya and a new transfer student named Saeko. Takuya's classmates think that Saeko has been possessed by Hanako, the ghost that lives in the bathroom. The rumor is especially encouraged by a girl who has a crush on Takuya and is jealous since Takuya likes Saeko.
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No Way Back
Title: No Way Back
Character: Yuji Kobayashi
Released: May 12, 1995
Type: Movie
When FBI Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the person responsible. Mafiaso Frank Serlano believes Zack is responsible for his only sons death in the same operation and kidnaps Zacks son to hold as bait. The action gets wild when airline stewardess Mary is taken hostage to add what seems an another insurmountable problem for Zack. There appears to be no way out.
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Love Letter
Title: Love Letter
Character: Shigeru Akiba
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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Night Head
Title: Night Head
Character: Naoto Kirihara
Released: November 3, 1994
Type: Movie
The movie version of the TV series that gained cult popularity. One day, the Kirihara brothers who have supernatural powers meet a supernatural power girl named Sakie Tengen, and fight against an organization that has noticed her ability.
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Ghost Pub
Title: Ghost Pub
Character: Sugimoto Nobuya
Released: October 29, 1994
Type: Movie
One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is just being dramatic, he promises and tells her to go to sleep. When he wakes the next morning, however, Shizuko is dead. Sotaro keeps his promise, until one day he meets Satoko. The two quickly fall in love, and agree to get married. Their first night together, however, is interrupted by Shizuko, who is angry over her husband's broken promise. Sotaro and Satoko must find some way of appeasing the spirit before she drives them from their home.
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Undo
Title: Undo
Character: Yukio
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: Tomoo
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: Movie
A police psychologist suspects her former lover of serial murders on the Tokyo subway.
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Title: The End of the World
Character: Kamiya Seiji
Released: January 10, 1994
Type: TV
Maria is in need of money. Because her day-time job doesn't pay enough, she works at night at a cabaret. She needs the money so that she can pay for her sister, Nana's eyes operation. When both Maria and Nana were younger, Maria burned down the home, causing her sister's blindness and killing their father (mother survived.) Shiro is a famous concert pianist. However, he isn't happy with his marriage or his life in general. Maria and Shiro are united through a traffic accident, causing Shiro to be hospitalized. Faking amnesia and his identity, he stays at Maria's place and eventually starts to work at the cabaret as a piano player. As you will find out later on, life was not meant for Maria and Shiro to find one another.
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Lunatic Love
Title: Lunatic Love
Released: January 6, 1994
Type: Movie
A man tries to figure out who his ex-girlfriend is dating.
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Free and Easy 6
Title: Free and Easy 6
Released: December 25, 1993
Type: Movie
Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity.
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Youth Peony Lantern
Title: Youth Peony Lantern
Released: August 21, 1993
Type: Movie
Based on "Kaidan Botan Dango" by Sanyutei Encho, a rakugo storyteller who was active from the late Edo period to the Meiji era, Kara Juro was in charge of the script. A feature-length historical drama depicting a fierce and painful love story between ghosts and humans. Impressive artistic and fantastic painting with depth as if you were watching the stage. In all, this work is a beautiful, love horror fantasy.
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Title: The Fire Still Burns
Character: Kiyohara no Iehira
Released: June 4, 1993
Type: TV
This drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the late Heian era. They established their domain in Touhoku area (North-east area of Japan), independent from the rule of Minamoto clan.
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Dialogue
Title: Dialogue
Released: December 25, 1992
Type: Movie
A man hires a Private Investigator in order to find proof that his wife has been cheating on him. Soon, we learn that the man’s plan is to set the wife up, divorce her and remarry again in America with the daughter of his boss.
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Twinkle
Title: Twinkle
Character: Mutsuki Kishida
Released: October 24, 1992
Type: Movie
Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student. The film is less a realistic exploration of gay life than a fairy tale of three young Japanese trying to construct an alternative to the sexual and familial roles given to them by a society turning increasingly emotionally barren.
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Title: NIGHT HEAD
Released: October 9, 1992
Type: TV
It is said that the mysterious "power" of human beings is hidden in 70 percent of the brain called Night Head. Two brothers have been incarcerated in a secure scientific facility for the past fifteen years due to their paranormal abilities.
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Kachô Shima Kôsaku
Title: Kachô Shima Kôsaku
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane
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Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
Title: Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
Released: April 23, 1992
Type: Movie
A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!
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The Gentle 12
Title: The Gentle 12
Character: Juror #11
Released: December 14, 1991
Type: Movie
The film opens as a jury is about to acquit a defendant -- a bar hostess who pushed her ex-husband path of an oncoming truck, supposedly in self-defense. Just as everyone seems to be in agreement over the woman's innocence, one juror voices second thoughts.
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Title: Shabondama
Released: October 10, 1991
Type: TV
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Black Princess 2 Flame Target
Title: Black Princess 2 Flame Target
Released: March 8, 1991
Type: Movie
A female detective realises that the construction company corruption case was not guilty... there was an evil mastermind behind it!
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Boiling Point
Title: Boiling Point
Character: Okinawa-Rengou Kumichou
Released: September 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
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Title: Tokyo Swindlers
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A series of unprecedented crimes committed by a cunning group of land scammers who use real estate sales as bait to steal large sums of money.