Kumiko Akiyoshi

Kumiko Akiyoshi

Born: July 29, 1954
in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Kumiko Akiyoshi...

Family
Title: Family
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: Movie
Based on the comic by Tsuchida Seiki, inspired by the artist's own life experience, this film portrays the loss and regeneration of the life of four men.
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Title: Fixer
Released: April 24, 2023
Type: TV
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Title: Off the Record
Character: Makabe Anna
Released: January 8, 2020
Type: TV
Keito is a reporter for a weekly magazine. The magazine covers everything from corruption by politicians to entertainers' scandals. She watches out for the next big scoop. Keito is also rich and enjoys her work, as well as her love life. One day, Keito's mother suddenly dies. Anna was a single mother who raised Keito alone. She worked as a movie critic. Right before her death, Anna mentioned something about Keito's father. The name she mentioned is that of a Hollywood star.
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Smiles Leading To Happiness
Title: Smiles Leading To Happiness
Released: February 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Daichi (Mahiro Takasugi) is a young dental technician. He is called a prince due to his excellent skills at work and his handsome appearance. One day, he meets again his childhood friend Manatsu (Seia Yasuda). Manatsu has just began work as a dental hygienist at a clinic in th suburb. Meanwhile, Daichi receives recognition for his work by dental clinic director (Yuichi Kimura) and dentist (Yuuki Tsujimoto), but his father (Tetsuhiro Ikeda), who runs a dental technician's office, thinks Daichi’s skills are not good enough. Daichi then receives a complaint from a patient. Manatsu tries to comfort him, but they end up having an argument.
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Karanukan
Title: Karanukan
Released: April 23, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Itooshikute
Released: January 12, 2016
Type: TV
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Cold
Title: Cold
Character: Yuriko Himura
Released: September 27, 2014
Type: Movie
Genius scientist Kikuo Himura (Yosuke Kubozuka) succeeds in developing a miracle cure for the cold virus. There are now people who are after Kikuo Himura's cold vaccine. Doctor Ichinose (Akira Emoto) is jealous of Kikuo Himura and tries to get the formula which is only in Kikuo Himura's head. Dougen (Chris Peppler) is a high-ranking member of a secret organization. Him and his subordinate try to get the vaccine source by any means necessary. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman, Sakurako (Manami Konishi) approaches Kikuo Himura.
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The Intermission
Title: The Intermission
Released: February 23, 2013
Type: Movie
A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fans with its retro appearance and unique lineup. Unique guests visiting the theater draw a human pattern during breaks.
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Furyō shōnen 3, 000-ri no sō-ban (atama)
Title: Furyō shōnen 3, 000-ri no sō-ban (atama)
Released: March 11, 2012
Type: Movie
The movie is based on an autobiographical book titled “Tokyo Furyou Shounen Densetsu.” The book was written by Endo Natsuki, who was once affiliated with the biker team and band COOLS that was formed in the 1970s by Tachi Hiroshi (61) and Iwaki Koichi (60). The story for the film takes place at a technical high school in the 1970s, where it is said that half of the school’s 3,000 students are juvenile delinquents. Saito plays a student named Sendo, who is aiming to be number one out of all of them. Naturally, the movie will incorporate a lot of action scenes as he brawls his way to the top.
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地球征服アパート物語
Title: 地球征服アパート物語
Released: March 18, 2011
Type: Movie
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Kindachi Kosuke: The Devil Comes and Blows the Whistle
Title: Kindachi Kosuke: The Devil Comes and Blows the Whistle
Released: January 5, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Nodame Cantabile
Character: Momodaira Minako
Released: October 16, 2006
Type: TV
Megumi Noda, or "Nodame" is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. An extremely talented pianist who wants to be a preschool teacher, she prefers playing by ear rather than reading the music score. She is messy and disorganized. Shinichi Chiaki is Momogaoka's top student. Born into a musical family, he is talented in piano and violin and has secret ambitions to become a conductor. An arrogant multi-lingual perfectionist who once lived abroad in the music capitals of the world as a young boy, he is trapped in Japan because of his childhood phobia of airplanes and the ocean. They meet by accident and sparks fly!
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Title: Train Man
Character: Yuki Aoyama
Released: July 7, 2005
Type: TV
With the help of an online community, a nerdy and socially awkward man gathers the courage to start dating an attractive lady he met on a train.
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Translucent Tree
Title: Translucent Tree
Character: Chigiri Yamazaki
Released: October 30, 2004
Type: Movie
Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
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Title: 稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Akiko Tsubaki
Released: April 3, 2004
Type: TV
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The Blue Light
Title: The Blue Light
Character: Yuuko Kushimori
Released: March 15, 2003
Type: Movie
Shuichi Kushimori is a 17 year old high school student who lives happily with his mother and stepsister. One day, without warning, his estranged stepfather returns home from a long absence. He quickly falls into a circle of drinking and starts abusing his ex-wife and daughter. When he begins making sexual advances towards Shuichi’s stepsister, Shuichi is compelled to take matters into his own hands.
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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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Seventeen
Title: Seventeen
Released: May 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Based on the actual experience of Michi Inoue, an active female high school student at the time, a movie of the best-selling essay “17 years old” depicting the honest feelings of a high school girl.
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Title: Moshichi
Released: June 29, 2001
Type: TV
A mysterious humanistic period drama, setting in the Edo Period. As Okappiki, unofficial collaborators who played a marginal role in police functions, Moshichi (Takahashi Hideki) solves a number of mysterious incidents that occur in downtown Edo.
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Desert Moon
Title: Desert Moon
Character: Keechie's Client
Released: June 19, 2001
Type: Movie
A successful businessman and his alcoholic wife attempt to piece together their unhappy lives and shattered marriage. Little do Nagai and Akira know that their precarious relationship will soon be transformed by a stranger, the enigmatic Keechie.
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Title: My Husband
Character: Kaede Takeyama(武山 かえで)
Released: April 12, 2001
Type: TV
A sexy renegade male chauvinist rock singer by day, a bossed around, lousy dressed and demurring husband by night. Yuichi, the handsome, sexy, and a great rock singer, is known by his fans as 'The Wolf', a fearlessly independent musician who just couldn't care less about what others think of him. In reality, however, Yuichi is a lousy dresser, wears thick glasses and is totally devoted to his hidden girlfriend. Trouble ensues when he decides to marry in secret as he must fight to keep up his image while balancing his private life which grows ever complex as he is introduced to his overbearing family in law....
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Love Ghost
Title: Love Ghost
Character: Kazuko Shibayama
Released: March 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about an anonymous fortune-teller have anything to do with the tragedies plaguing her high school?
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The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Title: The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Character: Ryu
Released: November 7, 1999
Type: Movie
Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
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Title: Miracle of Love
Character: Tsukamoto Ayako
Released: April 15, 1999
Type: TV
After finding out about her surprise pregnancy, Janesuda was labeled as her lover, Atiruj's life-destroyer. Despite the taunts from the people around her lover, she tried to be patient and persevere to make her relationship work. However, love isn't always sweet. When she discovered that love was beginning to disappear for Atiruj, Janesuda decided to leave everything behind with a hurt heart. Atiruj continues to live his life mercilessly and with a cold heart.
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Title: Sanada Yukimura: The Man Shogun Ieyasu Feared Most
Character: Chacha
Released: January 2, 1998
Type: TV
An entertaining historical drama depicting Sanada Yukimura, a hero who has gone through the era from the incident at Honnōji Temple to the summer siege of Osaka Castle, as "a man of men".
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Title: SMAP×SMAP
Character: Bistro Guest
Released: April 15, 1996
Type: TV
SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%. Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games.  These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges with their gourmet cooking.  Last is a musical performance by SMAP which may include celebrity guests, as well.
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Deep River
Title: Deep River
Character: Mitsuko
Released: April 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.
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Lesson
Title: Lesson
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The days of love between a free-spirited heroine who continues to seek freedom and a young man who is attracted to her charm. Starring Kumiko Akiyoshi.
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Crimson Lotus
Title: Crimson Lotus
Released: February 13, 1993
Type: Movie
Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give up her relationship with her lover Yoko.
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Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
Title: Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
Released: January 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Biopic of Date Masamune. Young Masamune upon learning of the death of Nobunaga decides that he is the man to fill those sainted clogs. The fastest way to do this is to subjugate the neighboring warlords. This is an action that results in the death of his father and younger brother and not the least brings him to the attention of Hideyoshi and not in a good way either but intervention by the regents nephew Hidetsugu and Maeda Toshiie save his neck although he is forced to move to a smaller fief and send his wife to Kyoto as hostage. Although curbed of his lofty ambitions his friendship with Hidetsugu again lands him in hot water when Ishida Mitsunari arranges the downfall of the unfortunate Hidetsugu, Toshiie and Ieyasu save his neck and the flamboyant young warlord is sent to Korea where he wins great honors. Upon his return Hideyoshi is dead and Masamune allies himself with Tokugawa Ieyasu thus assuring the survival of the Date family. An amazing story from beginning to the end!
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Saito Dosan: Rage of Power
Title: Saito Dosan: Rage of Power
Character: Miyoshino
Released: January 3, 1991
Type: Movie
During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country under their banners by becoming the supreme leader. One of the first to vie for power in this way was Saito Dosan, the 'Viper'. His son-in-law, Oda Nobunaga, did in fact unite the nation after subduing all of his enemies, yet falling at last to the treachery of one of his most trusted generals. This story is a pre-cursor to those later events as the brilliant military strategist Saito Dosan rises to power and notoriety as a great lord in his own right. Directed by Kudo Eiichi and with a tremendous supporting cast that includes Nakamura Toru as Oda Nobunaga and Chiba Shinichi as Akechi Mitsutsugu, battle scenes of awesome power and a unique view of Japanese history, this is a marvelous production highlighted by the action scenes done by the Japan Action Club (JAC).
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Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
Title: Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
Released: April 20, 1990
Type: Movie
Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda clans. Leading up to them was the incredible life of Uesugi Kenshin, who rose from a son out of favor with his...
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The Enchantment
Title: The Enchantment
Character: Miyako Shinohara
Released: October 29, 1989
Type: Movie
A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...
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Title: Dragonfly
Character: Namiko Miyazawa
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: TV
Eiji Ogawa, a young leader of the Hattagumi yakuza, left the prison after two years sentence. However, it was only Tsunekichi Mito, the younger brother, who came to meet him.
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The Discarnates
Title: The Discarnates
Character: Fusako Harada
Released: September 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve.
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
Title: Tora-san Plays Daddy
Character: Takako
Released: December 26, 1987
Type: Movie
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”.
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Night Train
Title: Night Train
Character: Satoko Okazaki
Released: January 17, 1987
Type: Movie
A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.
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Taikoki
Title: Taikoki
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period.
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Flakes of Snow
Title: Flakes of Snow
Released: September 14, 1985
Type: Movie
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The Horizon
Title: The Horizon
Character: Sakura
Released: February 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises 4 children. After Pearl Harbor is attacked, they are interned with other Japanese immigrants in a camp, losing both their land and their assets.
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Aitsu to lullaby
Title: Aitsu to lullaby
Released: December 24, 1983
Type: Movie
Japanese movie.
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Title: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Sanae Kitō / Katsuko Kitō
Released: February 19, 1983
Type: TV
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Weekend Shuffle
Title: Weekend Shuffle
Released: October 23, 1982
Type: Movie
First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.
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To Trap a Kidnapper
Title: To Trap a Kidnapper
Released: September 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.
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The Shootout
Title: The Shootout
Character: Tomoko Araki
Released: September 15, 1982
Type: Movie
A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly desperate as events spin out of control, culminating in an audacious hijack at sea...
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Cute Devil
Title: Cute Devil
Character: Ryoko Akimoto
Released: August 10, 1982
Type: Movie
While Ryoko is in Vienna studying music, her boyfriend dies in a traffic accident. Ryoko believes that she has psychic powers which killed him, and when she returns to Japan she is sent to a mental hospital. While recovering, her brother-in-law, Kouji, decides to look after her, and she goes to his house to act as a governess for Kouji's sister Keiko's daughter, Alice – who Ryoko becomes increasingly sure had something to do with her sister Fuyuko’s death.
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Farewell to the Land
Title: Farewell to the Land
Character: Junko
Released: April 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who lives in Tokyo, Yukio has become an amphetamine-addicted loner at odds with his family, friends and colleagues.
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Kamikaze, the Adventurer
Title: Kamikaze, the Adventurer
Character: Kei Kaneshiro
Released: November 7, 1981
Type: Movie
An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as “special fees” from parents wanting to assure their offspring’s’ acceptance into the hallowed institution. He forms an unbeatable alliance with an ex-employee and crime bosses to retrieve the ill-gotten money from the “wrong” hands.
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Something Like It
Title: Something Like It
Character: Elizabeth
Released: September 12, 1981
Type: Movie
Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he gets to date the beautiful sex worker he meets that day, and a younger high school rakugo aficionado is also vying for his attention. But for clumsy, heart-on-his-sleeve Shintoto, life doesn’t stay rosy for long.
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Title: Yumechiyo Nikki
Released: February 15, 1981
Type: TV
This is a human drama that captures the lives of Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam who has been told that she does not have long to live due to radiation exposure in her body, and people of good will who have dreams but can only live clumsily.
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Toward the Terra
Title: Toward the Terra
Character: Physis (voice)
Released: April 26, 1980
Type: Movie
A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.
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Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal
Title: Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal
Character: Nanako
Released: December 29, 1977
Type: Movie
A comedy farce depicting the noise that occurs when two unemployed circus participants discover a debt bond in a basket with parrots, which they received instead of pension money. At that time, Hiromi Go and Kirin Kiki, who were gaining popularity, play the main roles, demonstrating an exquisite combination.
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Sugata Sanshiro
Title: Sugata Sanshiro
Character: Otomi Murai
Released: October 29, 1977
Type: Movie
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.
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Title: Older brother
Character: Keiko
Released: October 7, 1977
Type: TV
The series tells about the life of construction foreman Eiji and his sister. Both have a love interest: she has a boyfriend, and he has a young girl. The sister is thinking about marriage, and the brother has too strict principles to recklessly rush into the abyss of passion.
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Mount Hakkoda
Title: Mount Hakkoda
Character: Sawa Takiguchi (Guide)
Released: June 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
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Suddenly, Like a Storm
Title: Suddenly, Like a Storm
Character: Yuki Kobayashi
Released: April 29, 1977
Type: Movie
21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the junkyard. But unfortunately, things go wrong and after a collision with another car, the seriously injured Hideo is taken to the hospital. Here he meets the nurse Yuki Kobayashi. Yuki is the opposite of Hideo. During the day she works as a nurse and in the evening she studies hard. However, Hideo's behavior leaves an unforgettable impression on Yuki and the two soon develop an intimate friendship ...
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Brother and Sister
Title: Brother and Sister
Released: October 23, 1976
Type: Movie
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Permanent Blue
Title: Permanent Blue
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: Movie
In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to his family's inn to nurse her, but he soon discovers than she is an extremist on the run from the police.
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The War of the 16 Year Olds
Title: The War of the 16 Year Olds
Released: August 19, 1976
Type: Movie
A young drifter and a precocious sixteen years old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past.
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The Corporation
Title: The Corporation
Released: August 14, 1976
Type: Movie
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Light and Shade of Youth
Title: Light and Shade of Youth
Character: Kyoko Toda
Released: March 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Hiroshi Nanjo is an active and tactful youth devoting more of his energies to his part time job than to studying for a college entrance exam. On the other hand, Bunpei Noro is an awkward fellow who once failed in a college entrance exam and is now studying hard for a second try. ‘Light and Shade of Youth’ depicts the friendship between these two young men of opposite characters, interlacing a cute waitress along the way.
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The Perennial Weed
Title: The Perennial Weed
Character: Noriko
Released: June 7, 1975
Type: Movie
A detective wonders that his sister is a murder suspect.
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Statue in Fire
Title: Statue in Fire
Released: December 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).
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Virgin Blues
Title: Virgin Blues
Character: Mami Hatake
Released: November 22, 1974
Type: Movie
A young woman fails her university entrance exam and starts shoplifting.
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Aoba shigereru
Title: Aoba shigereru
Released: September 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue.
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Younger Sister
Title: Younger Sister
Released: August 14, 1974
Type: Movie
Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live together. Eiko's brother has disappeared in the meantime.
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Red Paper Lantern
Title: Red Paper Lantern
Released: March 23, 1974
Type: Movie
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.