Kyoka Suzuki

Kyoka Suzuki

Born: May 31, 1968
in Izumi

Movies for Kyoka Suzuki...

Title: Burn the House Down
Character: Makiko Mitarai
Released: July 13, 2023
Type: TV
After her mother took the blame for a tragic fire 13 years ago, Anzu plots revenge by working as a housekeeper under a pseudonym for her icy stepmother.
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Title: Lion Snacks
Character: Madonna
Released: June 27, 2021
Type: TV
The "Lion's House" is the name of a hospice located on a beautiful island. The people who live there are people with a short life expectancy. Shizuku, a 29-year-old who was told how long she had to live at a young age, comes to live there. She feels a little regretful over not being able to improve her relationship with her family before coming. At the "Lion's House", snack time is a time where the residents are allowed to request a snack from their memories but Shizuku is unable to choose. The days of laughter and tears begin alongside the other residents. What does Shizuku find and leave behind in the last days of her life?
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Title: Welcome Home, Mone
Character: Nagaura Ayako
Released: May 17, 2021
Type: TV
Born in September of 1995, Momone Nagaura lived with her parents, grandfather, and sister in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture. After failing her college entrance exams, she went to live in Tome City with an acquaintance of her grandfather's. Momone's life changes when she meets a popular weather forecaster from Tokyo, who teaches her how weather forecasts can predict the future. She decides to study to become a weather forecaster.
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Garden of Camellias
Title: Garden of Camellias
Character: Toko
Released: April 9, 2021
Type: Movie
The story centers on Kinuko who lives together with her granddaughter Nagisa in the house she once shared with her late husband and where she raised her children. On a spring morning, on the important 49th day after her husband’s passing, the goldfish he had been taking care of suddenly dies. Kinuko wraps its body in camellia flowers and buries it in the garden. She spends her day thinking of the past, cherishing her memories and trivial events. The financial burden of taking care of the house and the garden is becoming too heavy for her and she now faces the logical decision of selling the place…
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Promise of death
Title: Promise of death
Character: Honami Uesugi
Released: March 6, 2021
Type: Movie
Detective Suguro is enjoying a stay at a luxurious hotel in Wakayama. Also staying at the hotel is an unusual family led by rich widow Mrs. Hondo. She acts like a tyrant around her children, who are afraid of her and are at her beck and call. Unfortunately, a tragedy strikes the Hondo Family while on a hike to a local shrine. Mrs. Hondo, who was supposed to be taking a rest on the way, is found dead. Kawahara Daisaku, the chief of the local police station, asks Suguro to help with the investigation of Mrs. Hondo’s death.
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Title: Kyouen NG
Character: Ohzono Hitomi
Released: October 26, 2020
Type: TV
"No co-starring" between popular actor Toyama Eiji and actress Ohzono Hitomi is an open secret in the industry. The couple used to date but they broke up after an event. Since then, they have never co-star in the same work. However, this will be the first time in 25 years that the duo will co-star in a large-scale drama as lead roles. Moreover, the other actors who are also participating in the drama also mentioned "no co-starring" among each other. Will the two be able to work in harmony after many years of resentment? Will the drama be able to complete successfully?
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Title: Gyoretsu no Megami: Ramen Saiyuki
Character: Tatsumi Serizawa
Released: April 20, 2020
Type: TV
Tatsumi Serizawa (Kyoka Suzuki) is a ramen master and a leader in the ramen industry. At Tatsumi Serizawa’s restaurant, her employee Aya Natsukawa (Maryjun Takahashi) notices a customer Yutori Shiomi (Yuina Kuroshima) not eating her ramen. The ramen is a new menu item. Yutori Shiomi states that her ramen doe not taste good. Aya Natsukawa becomes upset at her. Later, Yutori Shiomi appears at a job interview for Tatsumi Serizawa’s company. At the job interview, she tells Tatsumi Serizawa that she can make this ramen delicious.
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Title: Grand Maison Tokyo
Character: Rinko Hayami(早見 倫子)
Released: October 20, 2019
Type: TV
Natsuki Obana (Takuya Kimura) is a charismatic Japanese chef running a 2-star restaurant in Paris. Despite an extreme pride and confidence, he can’t seem to earn the 3 stars he covets. Feeling the pressure of a career slipping away, Obana’s troubles are compounded when his restaurant is caught in a scandal that forces its closure and the departure of his staff. Amid his despair, a glimmer of hope arrives when he encounters a female chef with whom he is encouraged to start anew. Assembling a staff of talented chefs, he launches his restaurant but is constantly clashing with personnel. Can a middle-aged man once knocked down recover the verve of youth necessary to achieve a lifelong dream?
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Title: モンローが死んだ日
Released: January 6, 2019
Type: TV
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Eating Women
Title: Eating Women
Character: Mifuyu
Released: September 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Follows the daily lives of 8 women with different backgrounds through what they eat and whom they date.
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Title: Women Document Detectives
Character: Narumi Risa
Released: April 19, 2018
Type: TV
Detective Tomo Yashiro is ordered to transfer to the Sixth Special Investigations Unit. it is in charge of deciphering documents of unsolved cases she begins work in her new post along with a senior detective Risa Narum who is called the expert of document deciphering for her unusual ability to predict the personality and thoughts of a writer from writings
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Kohaku
Title: Kohaku
Character: Hirai Sachiko
Released: September 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Yoneda Katsumi (Nishida Toshiyuki) is a police sergeant who exudes little presence.One day, Yoneda happens to come across an article on a cafe called Kohaku in a booklet at his regular cafe. Then he abruptly takes leave and heads to Kohaku which is located in Uozu, Toyama Prefecture by bullet train. For some reason, he has documents on an unsolved arson cum murder case which took place in Kichijoji 25 years ago.The owner of Kohaku is Arai Toshio (Terao Akira) who has seemingly sad eyes. They spend time together with his only regular customer, Hirai Sachiko (Suzuki Kyoka), a married woman who works at the port’s fisheries cooperative. Their interactions gradually start to deepen even as they sense the darkness in each other. What is the fate that awaits them?
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Proof of the Man
Title: Proof of the Man
Character: Kyoko Yasugi
Released: April 2, 2017
Type: Movie
In Tokyo, 1974, a young African American is found dead in a lift. A knife is stuck deep into his chest and a streak of tear is running down his cheek. A policeman, Munesue starts to investigate the case. On the same day, there is a grand reception party held on the top floor by Kyoko, a popular beautician adored by everyone as an ideal wife and mother. The investigation reveals the victim was raised in a ghetto in NY, was able to speak a little Japanese, and his dying words was “su to u ha.” Startling connection between him and Kyoko is to be revealed…
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Title: 家族の基礎~大道寺家の人々~
Released: September 21, 2016
Type: TV
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Something Like, Something Like It
Title: Something Like, Something Like It
Character: Mikosembei Store owner
Released: January 16, 2016
Type: Movie
Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his search for Shintoto.
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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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3 Beautiful Lies
Title: 3 Beautiful Lies
Character: 紀美子
Released: January 4, 2016
Type: Movie
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Mother's Trees
Title: Mother's Trees
Released: June 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Mitsu Tamura (Kyoka Suzuki) is the mother of 7 sons. Her sons are sent to the battlefield and 6 of her sons die on the battlefield. To mend her broken heart, she talks to 7 paulownia trees which she planted whenever one of her sons left for the battlefield.
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Title: Toward the Wilderness
Character: Morimura Tomomi
Released: January 11, 2015
Type: TV
Morimura Tomomi is a housewife scorned by her husband and two sons, and yet she continues to protect the family. On her 46th birthday, she leaves home in disgust and embarks on a 1,200 km journey. It is Tomomi’s first time driving onto the highway and she speeds along to the west. On the road, she encounters a series of traumatising episodes. She detects her husband’s affair, is faced with a truck driver who mistakes her for a prostitute housewife, and finally her car gets stolen. While Tomomi is at a loss, a good-looking young man and an elderly person give her a ride, and she arrives in Nagasaki. As she meets various people in this town which was once transformed into a wasteland because of the atomic bomb, she becomes aware of a “wilderness” within her and starts to explore the path to rebirth
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Until the Day Comes
Title: Until the Day Comes
Released: November 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Drama depicting the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011 from the perspective of a female doctor. Takako Kawashima works as head anesthesiologist at the Sendai Medical Center. She balances her married life with help from her husband Teiichi, who runs a private clinic, but their lives are upturned by the disaster.
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Title: Heisei Saru Kani Kassenzu
Character: Yuko Sono
Released: November 15, 2014
Type: TV
Bartender Junpei Hamamoto witnesses a hit-and-run incident, and knows the person arrested for that incident is not the person he saw driving. He believes the person responsible is world famous cellist Keiji Minato and his older brother has taken the rap for him. Junpei and his friend Tomoki decide to blackmail Keiji, but they are blocked by his manager Yuko.
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Judge!
Title: Judge!
Character: Haruka Kizawa
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 Kiyosu Conference
Title: The Kiyosu Conference
Character: Oichi
Released: November 9, 2013
Type: Movie
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political decision. The meeting was known as the Kiyosu Kaigi.
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Title: Midnight Ferris Wheel
Released: January 18, 2013
Type: TV
A drama about three families who live in an upscale neighborhood. On the surface, it appears they have attained wealth and happiness, but trouble brews behind closed doors.
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Title: Keigo Higashino Mysteries
Character: Nakao Akiyo
Released: July 5, 2012
Type: TV
11 mysteries, 11 actors. Japan's favorite mystery author, the world of Higashino Keigo comes to life on screen through an assortment of short stories.
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Title: Legal High
Released: April 17, 2012
Type: TV
A lawyer with a big personality works with an straightlaced recent law graduate on various law cases in Japan.
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Title: Perfect Son
Character: Suzuki Umi
Released: January 14, 2012
Type: TV
Perfect Son is comedy-drama television series co-starring Ryosuke Yamada and Kyōka Suzuki, which aired on NTV from 21:00-21:54 on Saturday nights from 14 January 2012 to 17 March 2012. The screenplay was written by Shinji Nojima.
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Short Cut
Title: Short Cut
Released: November 3, 2011
Type: Movie
After 10 years of marriage, a couple finds itself walking on a small path in the mountains. Allowing them to discover one another.
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Second Virginity
Title: Second Virginity
Character: Rui Nakamura
Released: September 23, 2011
Type: Movie
45-year-old Rui Nakamura is a highly successful publisher. During the course of work, she encounters a 28-year-old married man named Kou Suzuki who aggressively pursues her. Unexpectedly, Rui Nakamura starts to fall in love with the younger married man Set 5 years after the ending of the NHK drama series “Second Virgin,” Rui Nakamura is transferred to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia while still taking care of Marie Suzuki.
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A Liar and a Broken Girl
Title: A Liar and a Broken Girl
Character: Dr. Sakashita
Released: October 25, 2010
Type: Movie
In a small rural town, a brother and sister goes missing and there's also a serial killer case involving woman as the victims. Mayu Misono (Aya Omasa) is a sophomore high school student in the town. She is called "Ma-chang". When Mayu Misono was young, she was also kidnapped and locked up. Since that time she has been traumatized and has become indifferent to everything around her. One day, in front Mayu's mansion, her childhood friend Mii-kun (Shota Sometani), who was kidnapped with Mayu, suddenly appears. Ma-chang hugs Mii-kun. Up until now, she has waited for Mii-kun. Mayu has lived in the mansion alone, until a week ago, when she kidnapped two elementary school aged kids and has kept them locked in her mansion. To hide Mayu's crime, the four of them will live together in the mansion. The truth of what happened 10 years ago becomes slowly revealed. The reason Mi-kun tries to protect Mayu, even puts his life at risk, all connects to an unexpected real criminal.
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Title: Second Virgin
Character: Rui Nakamura
Released: October 12, 2010
Type: TV
Second Virgin is a Japanese television drama series that aired on NHK in 2010. Nakamura Rui is a divorced but highly successful producer in publishing. She meets Suzuki Kou, an ambitious buisiness man 17 years her junior, and finds herself getting aggressively persued by him. Eventually they begin a steaming affair. Meanwhile, a young couple moves into the house next to Nakamura's and the wife begins to confide in her about the frustrations of their conjugal life.
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Flowers
Title: Flowers
Character: Kana
Released: June 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.
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Sideways
Title: Sideways
Character: Mayuko Tanka
Released: October 31, 2009
Type: Movie
A struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country. Remake of the 2004 film 'Sideways'.
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The Unbroken
Title: The Unbroken
Character: Ritsuko Onchi
Released: October 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head office after ten years, and continues to struggle. When a National Air Line plane is involved in the worst air disaster in Japanese history, he is assigned to console and provide restitution to the families of the victims.
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Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
Title: Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
Character: Okita Kotomi
Released: August 22, 2009
Type: Movie
Taishi lives with his father Kazushi. His mother left home when Taishi was very young and he barely has any memories of her. He believes that his mother left home to study in Paris. His favorite moments come once a week when he receives a letter from his mother. But one day, during Taishi's summer vacation, he learns that his mother isn't in Paris but in Shodoshima, Japan. Taishi then decides to take his pet dog with him and bicycle from his hometown of Yokohama all the way to Shodoshima. On his 500 kilometers trip to Shodoshima, Taishi meets various peoples and touches their hearts, while leaving behind small miracles. What Taishi doesn't know about his mother is that she suffers from memory loss and that's why she lives apart from her family. Taishi's father Kazushi soon learns that his son has left for Shodoshima and he sets out to find his son.
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Gravity's Clowns
Title: Gravity's Clowns
Character: Rieko Okuno
Released: May 23, 2009
Type: Movie
On the outset, the Okunos seem like a normal happy family with father Tadashi and his two bright sons, genetics researcher Izumi and artsy Haru. When a series of arson attacks strike the neighborhood, clues left at the crime scenes seem to be somehow related to the Okunos. Izumi and Haru try to get to the bottom of mystery, slowly unveiling a tragic family secret that has come back to haunt them.
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Title: SCANDAL
Character: Takayanagi Takako
Released: October 19, 2008
Type: TV
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Samurai Gangsters
Title: Samurai Gangsters
Character: Ocho
Released: September 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his minions: right-hand man and military master Ohmasa (Kishibe Ittoku); stinky priest Daigoro (Takashi Sasano); well-known stranger Ishimatsu Mori (Yoichi Nukumizu); beautiful Masagoro Oiwake (Kazuki Kitamura); and others. As Jirocho's fame spreads, he gains more enemies. Among them are Katsuzo Kurokoma (Koichi Sato), who is one of the most powerful in Koshu, and the villain who is also Ishimatsu's nemesis, Masaru Mima (Riki Takeuchi). A traitor also emerges from the family, Yoshikazu Ebisu (Yoshikazu Ebisu). Meanwhile, Jirocho's wife falls ill and other terrible situations occur. Jirocho falls into a pinch of absolute despair. What on earth will he do? What is the fate of his minions? The Jirocho family will face a fierce battle...
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The Magic Hour
Title: The Magic Hour
Character: Sayoko
Released: June 7, 2008
Type: Movie
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
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High and Low
Title: High and Low
Character: 権藤伶子
Released: September 8, 2007
Type: Movie
At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo has raised for a critical business deal. Gondo is prepared to pay the ransom - that is, until he learns that the kidnappers have mistakenly abducted not Gondo's son, but the child of Gondo's chauffeur. Now Gondo must decide whether the other man's child is equally worth saving.
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Argentine Hag
Title: Argentine Hag
Character: Yuri
Released: March 24, 2007
Type: Movie
After the death of her dearest mother, her serious-minded father goes missing, leaving their only daughter Mitsuko. Six months later, it turns out that he is at Yuri's house, who is rumored to be an eccentric and is commonly known as Argentine hag.
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Title: The Family
Character: Aiko Takasu
Released: January 14, 2007
Type: TV
"The Family", the program commemorating the 55th anniversary of the launch of the TBS TV station, is a social drama depicting the inside story between bureaucrats, politicians and big businesses over a bank merger revolving around the family discord between Daisuke Manpyou, the owner and president of Hanshin Bank, and his eldest son, Teppei.
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Crickets
Title: Crickets
Character: Kaoru
Released: November 23, 2006
Type: Movie
Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a peaceful life in a house on the coast. There she takes care of an old deaf, dumb and blind man as if he were an insect, a child or a pet. He can’t do anything for himself, so she feeds him and accompanies him on his walks. This strong mutual dependency offers Kaoru an escape from society and allows her to free herself from restrictions imposed by common sense.
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Udon
Title: Udon
Character: Mari Fujimoto
Released: August 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt. Awaiting him are his old friends, a caring sister, a disgruntled father ...and a bowl of noodles. Namely, "udon" noodles. The town is built around udon, sustained by udon, nationally famous for udon.
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Starlit High Noon
Title: Starlit High Noon
Character: Yukiko
Released: June 24, 2006
Type: Movie
Lian Son is a Taiwanese assassin hiding in Okinawa. Yukiko works at a lunch box shop, but she has a painful past. Saya works at a public swimming pool, but is bored with her life. The solitary lives of these three people slowly intersect with each other under the bright sunshine of Okinawa.
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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Title: A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Character: Yukiko
Released: May 13, 2006
Type: Movie
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome's good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double crossing.
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The Day I Bought a Star
Title: The Day I Bought a Star
Character: Ninya (Voice)
Released: January 3, 2006
Type: Movie
The short film is about a boy who lives and works on a farm. One day when going to sell vegetables at a market, his cart breaks down. Two strangers, a frog and a mole, offer him a strange seed in exchange for the vegetables. The boy accepts and finds that the seed grows into a miniature planet. It continues growing as he tends to it, forming an atmosphere, weather systems and life. After being taken back to the city, he meets the stranger who sold the seed to him, and they release the planet into a galaxy of similar planets, where it will grow for years until becoming a real planet.
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Yamato
Title: Yamato
Released: December 17, 2005
Type: Movie
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato. The film was never released in the United States, where reviewers who have seen it have compared the military epic to "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan."
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Samurai Commando Mission 1549
Title: Samurai Commando Mission 1549
Character: Rei Kanzaki
Released: June 11, 2005
Type: Movie
An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.
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Zoo
Title: Zoo
Character: Mama
Released: March 19, 2005
Type: Movie
Five different directors adapt the works of Japanese author Otsuichi in this collection of unconventional live-action and animated shorts. A woman is murdered under odd circumstances in the title film, "Zoo"; twin sisters are treated differently in "Kazari and Yoko"; two siblings find themselves trapped in "Seven Rooms"; a survivor learns about life and death in "When the Sun Shines"; and parents lose the ability to see each other in "So Far."
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Title: Kokoro no Kudakeru Oto~Unmei no Onna
Released: February 10, 2005
Type: TV
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Blood and Bones
Title: Blood and Bones
Character: Yong-hee Lee
Released: November 6, 2004
Type: Movie
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
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Making of Zebraman
Title: Making of Zebraman
Released: August 15, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary on the making of “Zebraman” directed by Takashi Miike.
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Zebraman
Title: Zebraman
Character: Kana Asano
Released: January 30, 2004
Type: Movie
A failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as the superhero "Zebraman". Although the TV series was canceled after only 6 episodes, this cannot stop him from acting out his escapist fantasy in a self made zebra-suit. He gets more then he could ever wish for when his black-and-white dressed alter-ego seems to be the only thing to stand between absolute (green) evil and a happy ending.
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Musume no kekkon
Title: Musume no kekkon
Released: December 14, 2003
Type: Movie
TV remake of Ozu's 'Late Spring'
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Rockers
Title: Rockers
Released: September 27, 2003
Type: Movie
Guitarist Ko-chan is a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their make-up skills. Bassist Gaku-chan keeps a bucket in the wings for whenever his nerves get the better of him, and drummer Momo-chan is doomed to forever carrying the botched childhood attempts at self-tattooing. It's not until this foursome is forced to look for an additional guitar player after Jin's dad burns his Stratocaster, that attitude and musical ability enter into the equation. Leather-clad, shade-wearing Tani (Tamaki), inseparable from his black Les Paul, is introduced as the king of R'n'R cool and Jinnai keeps him firmly seated on his throne throughout the film, retroactively proclaiming the guitarist, rather than himself, as the band's true hero.
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Title: Say Hello to Black Jack
Released: April 11, 2003
Type: TV
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A Forest with No Name
Title: A Forest with No Name
Character: Doctor
Released: March 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the forest.
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Title: 熱烈的中華飯店
Released: January 8, 2003
Type: TV
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Mokuyo Kumikyoku
Title: Mokuyo Kumikyoku
Released: October 12, 2002
Type: Movie
A closed-room mystery where five women gathered in memory of a mysteriously dead female writer to unravel the mystery behind her death. Based on the novel of the same name by Riku Onda, directed by Tetsuo Shinohara. Four years ago, an actress/novelist died of overdose. Since then, five women who were her friends gather around once every year to recollect her memories. However this year, they receive flowers with a strange message which insinuates that her death could have been a murder.
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Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
Title: Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
Released: September 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for one year before his death.
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Ghiblies: Episode 2
Title: Ghiblies: Episode 2
Character: Yukari-san (Voice)
Released: July 19, 2002
Type: Movie
Ghiblies (pronounced with a hard "g" as in "gallop") is a short film aired during a TV special about Ghibli. It's about a fictional animation studio named "Ghibli" and the people who work there. This rare Ghibli Comedy is a look into who the people making the films are. Plotlines run from office jokes to Nonaka's first love, bringing together a short feature of random events.
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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: The Life of Bangaku
Released: March 5, 2002
Type: TV
Bandaku Ajikawa (Koji Yakusho) is a ronin who lost his parents when he was young and is lonely for the rest of his life. His swordsmanship is top-notch, he hates lying and has an honest personality... Produced by Eizou Kyoto, this drama is to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Director Kon Ichikawa.
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Vengeance for Sale
Title: Vengeance for Sale
Character: Osen
Released: February 16, 2002
Type: Movie
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Sukeroku the Helper, a ‘cool and rambling yakuza’ that has made a business out of helping victims carry out their revenge. When he returns to his hometown to pay a visit to his mother’s grave he meets a deadly ronin who carries a secret which eventually leads him into a vendetta of his own.
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Title: Unmarried Family
Character: Chikako
Released: July 5, 2001
Type: TV
Sanada plays a salariman who just lost his job. Yonekura, his wife, is a dancer who gave up her career when they got married. In the middle of family crisis, Yonekura leaves to pursue her dream. Sanada is stuck with their only son. Suzuki, his old flame -turn jet set career woman- is forced to take care of them. Will the romance spark again, now that Sanada already has family, and Suzuki has a younger man, Makoto, beside her?
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Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
Title: Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
Character: Yoko Komatsu
Released: March 17, 2001
Type: Movie
A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden. Such people are known as "satorare" and their well-being come under special government protection.
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The Whispered City
Title: The Whispered City
Character: Maya
Released: July 7, 2000
Type: Movie
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
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Title: The Password is "Courage"
Released: July 6, 2000
Type: TV
Tomashi village is a small village, well known for its abundance of nature and beautiful surroundings. When a development company called Funamushi plans to build an industrial waste treatment facility in the area, the villagers are unhappy with the effects it will have on the environment, and seek an injunction. The village chief goes to Tokyo and finds a young lawyer to represent them in court, the one lawyer in the city who has actually lived in the village. The man, however, knows of the company's crafty lawyer, Tanomo Aboshi... Tarō Akihito, a once highly renowned actor who happens to play a lawyer in a TV drama, is mistaken for a real lawyer by the villagers in a freak coincidence. He finally works up his courage to begin the fight, and they convince him to represent them.
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Title: African Nights
Released: April 15, 1999
Type: TV
A story of young women living in the same local community. Yaeko (Suzuki Kyoka) moves to a condo named "Mezon Africa," and notices her neighbors are all a bit strange. Matsuyuki Yasuko acts selfish neighbor girl Yuka, and Tomosaka Rie acts anarchist college-student Midori. Meanwhile, Yaeko knows her neighbor Mizuho (Muroi Shigeru) killed her husband 14 years ago.
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Keiho
Title: Keiho
Character: Kafuka Ogawa
Released: February 17, 1999
Type: Movie
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.
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Bullet Ballet
Title: Bullet Ballet
Character: Kiriko
Released: December 1, 1998
Type: Movie
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
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Title: Shining Brightly
Character: Yuriko Sugi
Released: January 13, 1998
Type: TV
The job of a medical jurisprudence involves a lot of complicated crimes such as murder and accidents. Hikaru (Fukatsu Eri) is a graduate of a medical university, also focused her discipline on neurology. One night during a student reunion, a dead body was found in the kitchen. Hikaru, who is a little regretting that she choose her focus in neurology was moved by another doctor's words, Dead bodies will not tell us what happened, that is why we have to piece together its last words.(Dramawiki)
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Title: Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
Character: Miyako Suzuki
Released: November 8, 1997
Type: Movie
A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various parts of the play to their liking.
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Title: Gift
Character: Miki(美樹)
Released: April 16, 1997
Type: TV
Gift is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from April 16, 1997 to June 25, 1997 every Wednesday. It features music by Bryan Ferry and Howard Jones. It raised several issues in Japanese society, due to its casual use of a butterfly knife and its resulting violence.
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New Ghost Pub
Title: New Ghost Pub
Character: 里子
Released: September 28, 1996
Type: Movie
Attending the funeral of one of his friends, Satoru sees a woman who looks exactly like his deceased wife Shizuko. The film mixes reality with death and parting, when the ghost of the deceased wife chases her husband.
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Title: Only You Aisarete
Released: January 8, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Koibito Yo
Character: Shoko Ono
Released: October 19, 1995
Type: TV
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The detective whose path was crossed by a snake
Title: The detective whose path was crossed by a snake
Released: July 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Starring Ken Takakura, this TV special depicts a detective (Akira Hayasaka) who lives in a harsh life with pride and conviction. Minoru Akiba, Chief of the Investigation Division 1 of the Metropolitan Police Department, is a veteran detective who has passed through the shrine in numerous incidents. His wife was killed by a criminal he caught 13 years ago as revenge. There is a report that his former subordinate, Constable Murasawa, was stabbed to death under Akiba... Suzuki Kyoka plays his daughter.
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Title: 王様のレストラン
Character: Sanjo Masako
Released: April 19, 1995
Type: TV
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Broken Heart
Title: Broken Heart
Character: Michiko
Released: January 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Eight love stories start and end in an amusement park.
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119
Title: 119
Character: Momoko Hibino
Released: November 5, 1994
Type: Movie
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is interrupted by the appearance of a beautiful female college student, Momoko, who comes to visit her aunt. After catching a glimpse of Momoko, both Tatsuya and Nobuyuki can't stop thinking about her. Since then, the small town is not so quiet anymore…
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Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
Title: Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
Released: November 20, 1993
Type: Movie
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Title: The Fire Still Burns
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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Title: Twins Teacher
Character: Tamura Yukari
Released: April 12, 1993
Type: TV
The story of two twins who try to cut themselves off as much as possible throughout their lives. A giggle of fate, however, causes both of them to become teachers, at the same school. Soon it turns out that their approach to the same issues is very different and introduces considerable chaos to students' lives and the entire facility.
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Patio
Title: Patio
Released: November 14, 1992
Type: Movie
As an engaged couple, Shinichi Kida and Mari Egawa spend a romantic night on a premarital trip to the southern island, but Shinichi suddenly disappears the next morning. Mari searches for her classmates Yu Sawamoto and Shinichi who happened to meet again, but a large amount of insurance money was paid to Shinichi...
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Patio: Part 2
Title: Patio: Part 2
Character: Ayumi Nagai
Released: October 23, 1992
Type: Movie
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Patio: Part 1
Title: Patio: Part 1
Character: Ayumi Nagai
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: Movie
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Future Memories: Last Christmas
Title: Future Memories: Last Christmas
Released: August 29, 1992
Type: Movie
A romantic tale from the team of Fujio F. Fujiko and director Yoshimitsu Morita. The two heroines are played by Shizuka Kudo and Misa Shimizu, and it co-stars Motoya Izumi, David Ito, Toshiaki Karasawa, Isao Hashizume, Kyoka Suzuki, et al. The soundtrack is packed with hit songs incouding Wham's "Last Christmas", Earth, Wind & Fire's "Let's Groove", Kome Kome Club's "Roman Hikou," Saki Kubota's "Ihoujin" among others.
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Title: Kimi no na wa
Character: 氏家(→浜口→後宮)真知子
Released: April 2, 1991
Type: TV
A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.
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Bakayarô! 3: Henna yatsura
Title: Bakayarô! 3: Henna yatsura
Released: October 20, 1990
Type: Movie
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Title: Hot Dog (JP)
Released: April 19, 1990
Type: TV
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Godzilla vs. Biollante
Title: Godzilla vs. Biollante
Character: Super X2 Operator
Released: December 16, 1989
Type: Movie
After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who's experiments result in a new mutation.
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24 Hour Playboy
Title: 24 Hour Playboy
Character: Keiko Sakagi
Released: July 8, 1989
Type: Movie
Nagashima is a playboy who refuses to be tied down by marriage. Suffering from insomnia recently, he is eager to find a glamorous girl who can make him fall asleep. He leaves his tiresome girlfriend Mari, and soon finds himself trapped in dangerous triple liaisons involving two nightclub hostesses and a dewy-eyed girl. When all three of them start pestering him about marriage, Nagashima makes up his mind to flee…