Leo Morimoto

Leo Morimoto

Born: February 13, 1943
in Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Leo Morimoto...

Title: Modern Love Tokyo
Released: October 21, 2022
Type: TV
This seven-episode anthology features a cast of leading actors and depicts various forms of "love," such as love almost forgotten, love between sons and mothers, and love that transcends borders.
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Title: Alibi Breaker
Character: Tokio Mitani
Released: February 1, 2020
Type: TV
In a local shopping street in Nano prefecture, far from the metropole, young Tokino Mitani runs a clocksmith that she inherited from her grandfather all by herself. Her main job is to repair watches and clocks, but she is about to start a side business, a service to break alibis for a fee of 5000 yen per case with a guarantee that the fee is billed only when the alibi is broken. . One day, Tokino meets Yoshiyuki Saji, a detective who is newly assigned to the prefectural police department. Saji cannot break a very solid alibi at a case he is working on and secretly asks Tokino to break it. The case is very challenging, but will Tokino lead him to solve the case!?
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My Teacher
Title: My Teacher
Character: Shoichi Hashiba
Released: October 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Hibiki Shimada, a normal 17-year-old high-school student, still does not know how to fall in love—although surrounded by love "experts"—until one day she realizes she's fallen in love with her hot and nice 26-year-old teacher, Itō. She then takes a path to make her teacher understand how she feels for him.
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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata
Title: Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata
Character: Detective Nishimoto
Released: September 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Inspector Totsugawa of the First Investigation Division goes to Tsuruoka in Yamagata to attend the wedding of the son of Inspector Mukai, his former colleague who now works for the Yamagata Prefectural Police. While sightseeing at Mt. Haguro after the ceremony, he notices a young woman drawing him in her sketchbook. She introduces herself as Yuka Shiraishi and says she came to draw the Dewa Sanzan. Signing the drawing of Totsugawa next to the five-story pagoda with her initial, a 'Y' in the corner, she gives it to him as a present. The next morning, the corpse of a young woman who has been stabbed is discovered in a forest in Tsuruoka. When Totsugawa, on his way back, hears that a sketchbook signed with a 'Y' was found at the scene, he follows Mukai there. However, the body is not Yuka, the woman Totsugawa had met, and while no items pointing to her identity are found, the sketchbook is the same one Yuka had the day before.
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Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery 67: Murder in Hakone - Leaves & Mountains
Title: Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery 67: Murder in Hakone - Leaves & Mountains
Character: Detective Nishimoto
Released: April 8, 2017
Type: Movie
Detective Kamei of the First Investigation Division receives a request from lawyer Shinichi Nakamura, the son of his deceased close friend, to re-investigate a car accident. Akiko, the wife of Yasuo Furuki, a painter from Hakone, died in the accident 5 months earlier by crashing into a guardrail. Nakamura's client, Akiko's younger sister Yuki Izeki, suspects that she was actually murdered by Furuki for insurance money. Overwhelmed by these thoughts, Yuki had sent an email reading "I'll never forgive that man. I'm going to kill him and avenge my big sister," announcing a murder to Nakamura. In the middle of their conversation, Nakamura receives a call from Hakone PD confirming that Yuki had turned herself in that morning...
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Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
Title: Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
Character: Soichiro Tanaka
Released: February 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Sakura, who just graduated from a university, begins to work at a library in Katsuragi, Nara Prefecture. She is flustered with her new job and unfamiliar environment. One day, an elderly woman named Reiko visits the library and shows Sakura an old photo of a man and a woman. Sakura takes her to the place where the photo was taken. Reiko sometimes brings other photos and Sakura takes her to the place where the photos were taken. While doing this, Sakura learns about the history and culture of Katsuragi. She also talks with the residents and grows as a person.
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Title: The Copycat Criminal
Released: September 21, 2016
Type: TV
Journalist Maebata Shigeko, young Tsukada Shinichi and elderly Arima Yoshio all suffer from and become involved in a serial kidnap and murder case. Shinichi first discovers a cut arm and handbag from the murder case. Elderly Yoshio's granddaughter is a murder victim. Based on the novel "Mohouhan" by Miyuki Miyabe.
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Black Widow Business
Title: Black Widow Business
Character: Taiji Tsumura
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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Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 66: Kushiro-Obihiro Murder Route
Title: Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 66: Kushiro-Obihiro Murder Route
Character: Detective Nishimoto
Released: July 2, 2016
Type: Movie
The strangled dead body of Hiroshi Hatano, accounting section chief at the longstanding apparel company Edaka International, is discovered in his apartment in Tokyo. At the scene, Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei find out that a mysterious email stating "I'll be riding the Super Ozora 5 tomorrow" was sent to the victim's cell phone the night before. The sender, Manami Furuya, an employee of Edaka International's Planning Section, has strangely terminated her cell phone service and hasn't shown up to work that very morning. Immediately afterwards, Totsugawa is astonished to receive a report from the Hokkaido police stating that the body of a man, stabbed to death, has been found on the Super Ozora 5 limited express. The man is Yuuki Nakamura, a bar employee from Tokyo, who seems to have flown from Haneda Airport to Sapporo and then boarded the Super Ozora 5, which connects Sapporo and Kushiro. Totsugawa has the feeling that this can't be a coincidence...
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Title: Samurai Sensei
Character: 佐伯真人
Released: October 23, 2015
Type: TV
Takechi Hanpeita, a samurai from Bakumatsu period time-travels 150 years to modern day Japan.
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Munesue keiji no kuroi matsuri
Title: Munesue keiji no kuroi matsuri
Released: March 14, 2015
Type: Movie
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Revenge Court
Title: Revenge Court
Character: Shunichi Naka
Released: February 7, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Water Polo Yankees
Character: Shigenobu Arakawa
Released: July 12, 2014
Type: TV
Naoya Inaba (Yuto Nakajima) grew up abroad. From his childhood experience, he thought “yankees” were the strongest heroes (in Japan "yankee" refers to delinquent youths). He was also influenced by the Japanese yankee manga he read from abroad. Because of his own experiences and reading manga, he is full of chivalrous spirit. Naoya arrives in Japan to spend one year at a high school in Japan. He is transferred to a technical high school which is about to be closed down. Naoya admires the school because a yankee, who he admired as a child, went there, but he soon realizes that there are no real yankee like hero figures. There are only students who spends there days meaninglessly. Naoya is disappointed, but he happens to play water polo.
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Memories of Mom
Title: Memories of Mom
Character: Shiro Omori
Released: July 5, 2014
Type: Movie
After years of trying, Kyoko and her husband Takehiro are finally pregnant. But their joy at the prospect of becoming parents ends suddenly when they learn Kyoko has stage four cancer. They now must face agonizing decisions that force them to choose between the life of Kyoko or the health of their baby. Adapted from a true story.
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Title: Kaiki Daisakusen: Mystery File
Released: October 5, 2013
Type: TV
Second modern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen tv show.
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About Her Brother
Title: About Her Brother
Character: Doctor Endo
Released: January 30, 2010
Type: Movie
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.
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Genkai in a Black Company
Title: Genkai in a Black Company
Character: Sakushi Kuroi
Released: November 21, 2009
Type: Movie
After the death of this mother, Masao Oneta (Teppei Koike) decides to leave the comfort of his room after years of self isolation and get a job. He lands a position at a small IT firm but doesn't yet realise this company is one of many 'black companies', known for overworking their employees.
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Kanikôsen
Title: Kanikôsen
Released: July 4, 2009
Type: Movie
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
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Romantic Prelude
Title: Romantic Prelude
Character: Tea Shop Manager Hori
Released: May 16, 2009
Type: Movie
An aspiring floral designer and the photographer next door become drawn to each other through the everyday sounds they hear through their shared walls.
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はじめましてトーマスシリーズ いつもなかよしふたごのきかんしゃ
Title: はじめましてトーマスシリーズ いつもなかよしふたごのきかんしゃ
Released: March 18, 2009
Type: Movie
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Operation Love Special
Title: Operation Love Special
Character: Takanori Yoshida
Released: March 25, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: Tokyo Air Raid
Character: Noda
Released: March 17, 2008
Type: TV
When Sakuragi Haruko's father's factory is bombed, Oba Hiroto stops Haruko when she tries to rescue her father from the fire. They meet again a few years later when Haruko is working as a nurse and Hiroto is brought in as a patient with a heart condition. The second couple is a Korean man, Boku Hitoshi, and another nurse, Yamada Kazue
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Ochanoma Transformation
Title: Ochanoma Transformation
Released: October 27, 2007
Type: Movie
A short film with live-action special effects made as a parody of the American live-action movie version 'Transformers'.
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Title: Operation Love
Character: Takanori Yoshida
Released: April 16, 2007
Type: TV
A missed confession of love haunts a young man on his best girl friend's wedding day. Sudden appearance of a mysterious Angel enables him to go back in time to regain the love of his life. Will he succeed? A romantic comedy of young Ken who missed a chance to confess his love in the past and ended up attending the wedding of his childhood love. Deep with regret as he helplessly watches the wedding party proceed, suddenly time stops and an Angel appears asking him whether he would like to just start over. Astounded as he is, Ken asks to do so, thereby embarking on a journey that will supposedly change everything. All does not go well however, as fate seems to be a resilient force that refuses to change...
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Gakkou no Kaidan
Title: Gakkou no Kaidan
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Bartender
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 15, 2006
Type: TV
A genius bartender uses his talents to ease the worries and soothe the souls of troubled customers.
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LoveDeath
Title: LoveDeath
Released: February 24, 2006
Type: Movie
A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A violent man holding pure love, Sai and a stunningly beautiful playgirl, Sheila. While Sheila flees with a large sum of money, she is chased by a cool but violent gang, crazy killers and an out of control cop. No one can stop Sai and Sheila's love runaway.
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Forbidden Siren
Title: Forbidden Siren
Character: Shinichi Amamoto
Released: February 11, 2006
Type: Movie
A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and give them a breakdown of the local rules; most important: do not go outside when the island's siren starts wailing.
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Hold Up Down
Title: Hold Up Down
Released: October 28, 2005
Type: Movie
A bank robbery goes completely to pot, a pair of shoplifters get both an old man and a cop behind them. It is the beginning of this zany comedy, including the guys from boy band V6.
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Title: GARO
Character: Yuki Kamisugawa
Released: October 7, 2005
Type: TV
"Where there is light, shadows lurk and fear reigns. But by the blade of Knights, Mankind was given hope." The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that manifest themselves through darkness to devour Humanity. On the frontlines are the Makai Knights, given the task of watching over a district and eliminating any Horrors that manifest there. GARO follows the tales of the Knights bearing the title of ‘Golden Knight Garo’, and their duty to vanquish the Horrors and protect Humanity from the darkness.
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Title: Matrilineal Family
Character: Yoshizo Yajima
Released: July 7, 2005
Type: TV
A generations old family business is sent into turmoil when the sudden death of the head of the family opens the door to a fierce struggle between his three powerful and privileged daughters and the young mistress of modest means pregnant with his child.
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In the Pool
Title: In the Pool
Character: Professor Samata
Released: May 21, 2005
Type: Movie
A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.
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Mail
Title: Mail
Released: July 14, 2004
Type: Movie
A detective and his assistant help send restless spirits into the spiritual world.
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Title: 川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
Released: December 21, 2003
Type: TV
NHK's 50th-anniversary memorial drama serial. This drama consisting of several short stories starring some of the well-known actors and actress of Japan today. A ball floats from the river's source to the sea, unlocking the portrayal of six love stories across the four seasons of the year.
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Title: You are my only Madonna
Character: Shoutaro Kuramoto
Released: July 7, 2003
Type: TV
Boku dake no Madonna, sometimes shortened to BokuMado, is a drama series that aired in Japan on Fuji TV in 2003. In English it is often called You are my only Madonna / ...and I Love Her.
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Title: Sky High
Released: January 17, 2003
Type: TV
Sky High is a live-action, supernatural Japanese television drama series, starring actress and model, Yumiko Shaku. It aired in Japan, first run, from 2003 to 2004, and was popular enough to spawn the 2003 feature film of the same name. Both are based on the Japanese manga, Skyhigh. Shaku stars as Izuko, the Guardian of the Gate to the afterlife. The basic premise of the television series is somewhat similar in concept to the American series, Ghost Whisperer, in which the protagonist must use her powers to guide the dead on their journey to the afterlife by helping them determine the meaning or circumstance of their death. However, in Izuko's case, no matter how hard she tries, her guidance does not always result in a happy ending.
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天国のダイスケへ〜箱根駅伝が結んだ絆〜
Title: 天国のダイスケへ〜箱根駅伝が結んだ絆〜
Released: January 2, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
Character: Kogoro Ishimine
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: TV
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
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Bonobono: Secret of the Kumomo Tree
Title: Bonobono: Secret of the Kumomo Tree
Character: Sunadorineko-san
Released: August 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Bonobono: Kumomo no Ki no Koto was the second theatrical Bonobono movie, released by Amuse Pictures in theaters in Japan on August 10, 2002. It was done completely in 3D.
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Title: Love is Still Necessary
Character: Ueda Takuro
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: TV
Rage, a pimp who only loves money and himself, is sent to jail for 6 months. While he is in the jail, Rage’s partner, Reiji, dies in a traffic accident. Released from prison, Rage finds himself having lost everything but a debt of 6 million dollars. One day, Rage is visited by a lawyer that mistakes him for Reiji. According to the lawyer, Reiji’s father died and left him a large inheritance. Reiji’s only other living relative is his blind sister. Rage smells money and hatches a plan to pretend to be Reiji and steal his money.
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Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery - Soya Honsen Murder Incident
Title: Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery - Soya Honsen Murder Incident
Character: Detective Nishimoto
Released: March 10, 2001
Type: Movie
While returning from a business trip to Hokkaido, Detective Kamei of the MPD greets a middle-aged traveler in the waiting room of Minami-Wakkanai Station but is ignored by him. On the limited express to Asahikawa, the same man happens to entrust Kamei with a floppy disk before dying. The floppy contains his investigative notes on a murder that happened two years ago...
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Title: 安岡課長の殺人会議〜リストラまで30日〜
Released: September 10, 1999
Type: TV
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The Woman Who Disappeared From Her Red Car
Title: The Woman Who Disappeared From Her Red Car
Character: Detective Nishimoto
Released: August 29, 1998
Type: Movie
Katsura Aya (Shiratori Yasuyo), a young and popular actress, is kidnapped. Igarashi (Honda Hirotaro), the president of the production company, calls Totsukawa (Mihashi Tatsuya) and Kamei (Aikawa Kinya) of the police. Totsukawa and Kamei learn that the kidnapper's name is Aoi Hebi (Blue Snake) and that Aoi Hebi is asking for one million yen for ransom.
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Title: Shomuni
Character: Koji Inoue
Released: April 15, 1998
Type: TV
Shomuni, that's the common name given to General Affairs Section 2 of a trading company. Here are six women who have ended up in this department known as "the dump" for office ladies. But Chinatsu Tsuboi (Makiko Esumi) declares that the value of woman is equal to the number of men. With her as the central focus they create a totally new type of office lady drama that does away with those heartless men still caught up in worn-out social ideas and the class system within the company.
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Love & Pop
Title: Love & Pop
Character: Hiromi's Father
Released: January 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
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Title: Narita Divorce
Character: Onishi Kazuhiro
Released: October 15, 1997
Type: TV
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Kids Return
Title: Kids Return
Character: Homeroom Teacher
Released: July 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
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Title: Long Vacation
Character: Sasaki
Released: April 15, 1996
Type: TV
Minami who is dumped by her ex-boyfriend, Asakura, on their wedding day. She later meets Sena, Asakura's ex-roommate and a pianist, and lives with him as she has no other place to stay. What will happen to her during this long vacation?
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Title: Historical Puppet Spectacle: The Tale of the Heike
Released: December 10, 1993
Type: TV
A stop-motion animated TV series based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, featuring puppet art by Kihachirō Kawamoto. This is a historical picture scroll depicting various human characters, breathtaking battles and political struggles from the rise to fall of the Heike clan.
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Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
Title: Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
Released: August 21, 1993
Type: Movie
A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend.
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Title: Jaja uma narashi
Character: Investor
Released: July 5, 1993
Type: TV
Ryuichiro's bride, company president Mayumi Kitahara dies, leaving him to take care of her daughter Natsumi. Natsumi moves into Ryuichiro's flat, but he sets to work to be the father she never had.
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Mr. Moonlight
Title: Mr. Moonlight
Released: September 21, 1991
Type: Movie
Time Traveling Samurai
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Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
Title: Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
Character: The Man in the Kiyasuyado
Released: July 10, 1991
Type: Movie
During World War II, the Japanese military established a secret underground laboratory in Tokyo. Three Olympic-level athletes were selected to undergo a process that would turn them into Jinra-go, superhuman armored soldiers. By March 1945, one of the soldiers had been completely transformed into the half man/half machine ultimate soldier called Mikadroid. But American B-29s firebomb the city and, while the two super soldiers manage to escape, Mikadroid and the lab are apparently destroyed. 45 years pass, Tokyo is rebuilt, and old secrets are forgotten. The site is now home to a complex that includes the Discoclub Layla. The disco’s patrons dance late into the night, unaware that a faulty basement generator has reactivated Mikadroid and the cyborg now prowls the basement levels, killing anyone in its path...
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Kim's War
Title: Kim's War
Released: April 5, 1991
Type: Movie
After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the press inside and explains why he was driven to his crime.
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I Want To Grow Up: Too Many Rules
Title: I Want To Grow Up: Too Many Rules
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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A Sandcastle Model Family Home
Title: A Sandcastle Model Family Home
Released: September 15, 1989
Type: Movie
An opportune salaryman moves his family into a model mansion for 12 months; unfortunately, they must allow prospective buyers to trek through their home during business hours.
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Dogra Magra
Title: Dogra Magra
Character: Journalist
Released: October 15, 1988
Type: Movie
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
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Mystery of the Coral Seas
Title: Mystery of the Coral Seas
Character: Yosuke Hasuda
Released: April 23, 1988
Type: Movie
A trading company employee's girlfriend loses her memory while on a trip. In place of the friend who was supposed to have accompanied her the whole time is a mysterious man.
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This Story of Love
Title: This Story of Love
Released: September 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Life and love stories of stunt men and women.
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Royal Space Force - The Wings Of Honneamise
Title: Royal Space Force - The Wings Of Honneamise
Character: Shirotsugh Lhadatt (voice)
Released: March 14, 1987
Type: Movie
On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage war, a small group seeks to propel mankind into space in their world’s first spaceflight program. For astronaut candidate Shirotsugh Lhadatt, it’s a personal odyssey as he grows from an aimless young man into a leader willing to put everything on the line in order to move the human race forward and away from the brink of Armageddon.
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Murder on Raicho 9
Title: Murder on Raicho 9
Character: Detective Nishimoto
Released: February 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Haneda, the president of a company dealing in gold, is shot to death on the Raicho 9 limited express from Osaka to Kanazawa. Detective Kamei begins an investigation in cooperation with the Fukui Prefectural Police. In the Green Car, Detective Nishimoto had noticed a beautiful woman talking to the victim just before he was killed. Looking into her background, she turns out to be Yumiko Miura, living in Setagaya in Tokyo. An eyewitness who claims that she is the murderer also appears, and she is taken into custody. Before long, the victim's unexpected relationships will be revealed one after another...
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Whisper of the Spirits
Title: Whisper of the Spirits
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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Black Board
Title: Black Board
Character: Police
Released: September 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns out to have been murdered by two of his schoolmates, who he had been bullying.
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The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Title: The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Character: Man of Shopping Bag
Released: June 15, 1985
Type: Movie
A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams of a music career, the duo rockets to stardom.
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Title: 水曜ドラマスペシャル
Released: October 17, 1984
Type: TV
“Monday Drama Special” (Getsuyou Drama Special) is a long-running drama that aired on TBS every Monday from 21:00 to 22:54 (JST) from October 2, 1989 to March 19 , 2001 . program.
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Title: ミステリー「万引き夫人のとんでもない誤解」
Released: September 1, 1984
Type: TV
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Doctor Mambo & Kaitou Jibako: Uchuu yori Ai wo Komete
Title: Doctor Mambo & Kaitou Jibako: Uchuu yori Ai wo Komete
Character: 怪盗ジバコ
Released: September 10, 1983
Type: Movie
The dashing Dr. Mambo and his unlikely sidekick, Jibako the thief, help Princess Laura, former ruler of Eden, to regain her birthright from the usurping president Capo.
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Distant Thunder
Title: Distant Thunder
Character: Tetsuo Wada
Released: October 23, 1981
Type: Movie
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
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Title: The Trading Company
Character: Junichi Kimura
Released: December 5, 1980
Type: TV
An economic drama depicting the struggle and collapse of a Japanese general trading company. The US branch president of a trading company challenges Japan's internal power struggle and the North American oil market.
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Disciples of Hippocrates
Title: Disciples of Hippocrates
Released: November 21, 1980
Type: Movie
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he's really cut out to be a doctor.
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The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
Title: The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
Released: November 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
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Another Side
Title: Another Side
Released: October 1, 1980
Type: Movie
This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side" of life as they face romantic conflicts and the suicide of a fellow student.
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Heaven Sent
Title: Heaven Sent
Released: December 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a six-year-old child at their door, claiming that Shinsaku—or four other men—is the child's father! Sayoko and Shinsaku set out on a journey to find the real father.
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No More Easy Life
Title: No More Easy Life
Character: Tsuneo
Released: December 25, 1979
Type: Movie
Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork. She finds herself torn between a former boyfriend who's the tough, insensitive-but-sexy, type, and a new acquaintance who's more sensitive to her feelings, but who still acts childishly selfish at times. Will she choose one of them, or decide to go her own way?
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The Strangling
Title: The Strangling
Released: June 2, 1979
Type: Movie
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.
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Youth - Part II
Title: Youth - Part II
Released: February 10, 1979
Type: Movie
Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and beat him easily. Isamu's maths teacher, a race cycling freak, says he knows the solution to Isamu's problem. But will Isamu listen to him?
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New - No Longer Human
Title: New - No Longer Human
Released: September 2, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title) and goes down the stairs to self-destruction step by step.
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Tokyo kara kita onna no ko
Title: Tokyo kara kita onna no ko
Released: May 27, 1978
Type: Movie
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Orange Road Express
Title: Orange Road Express
Released: April 29, 1978
Type: Movie
A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter an eccentric elderly couple who are on the run from the law.
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Aspiration
Title: Aspiration
Released: March 19, 1977
Type: Movie
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Tsuma to onna no aida
Title: Tsuma to onna no aida
Character: Mitani
Released: January 17, 1976
Type: Movie
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Preparation for the Festival
Title: Preparation for the Festival
Released: November 8, 1975
Type: Movie
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
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Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru
Title: Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru
Character: Criminal
Released: November 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa
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My Way
Title: My Way
Character: Dr. Gondo
Released: September 7, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
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Bitterness of Youth
Title: Bitterness of Youth
Character: Seijiro Ono
Released: June 29, 1974
Type: Movie
A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.
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Second Chance
Title: Second Chance
Released: September 15, 1973
Type: Movie
A man survives a double suicide attempt, while his girlfriend does not.
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Title: Suki! Suki!! Majo sensei
Released: October 3, 1971
Type: TV
Hikaru Tsuki is a new 5th grade teacher at Tozai Elementary School. Secretly, she is also the alien princess of Planet Alpha and a peacekeeper for the Space Alliance assigned to Earth.