Sō Yamanaka
Birthday: Born in 1972-01-30 in Ibaraki, Japan
Deathday: Alive
So Yamanaka (山中聡) is a Japanese actor. He plays Yousuke Sakurada in Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters. He previously played Kamen Rider Kirameki in Kamen Rider Hibiki & The Seven Senki and Shouichi Ashikawa in Kamen Rider Decade.
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星になりたかった君と
Character: Yoji Washigami
A love story that depicts the fate of a young college student who is taking a leave of absence from college aiming to become an astronomer and a woman suffering from heart disease who meet at the Star Festival....
全ラ飯
Character: Teshigawara
Ichijou Souta is an office worker in a financial office, hardworking, capable and good looking. However, he has a hobby that most people don't know about - he likes to eat completely naked! For him, enjoying food in the buff is a good way to relieve his stress. One day, he receives a letter from his grandmother and goes back to his hometown, but he didn't expect that his secret would be accidentally discovered by Mahiro Miki, a local boy who runs a fruit and vegetable store! Is it game over for ...
世にも奇妙な物語特別編
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特命戦隊ゴーバスターズ
Character: Yousuke Sakurada
New CE 2012. the mysterious organization Vagras aims to threaten the city by stealing the Enetron which is a new power source supporting people’s life. It's up to the Go-Busters to protect the city alongside their partners, the Buddyroids....
仮面ライダー
Character: Shoichi Ashikawa
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters....
救命病棟24時
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Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things from the patient’s side. Although once retired from his profession, he one day discovers someone in need of help, who he treats and rushes to the Kohoku Medical University Emergency Center. This incident encourages him to once again work as an ER doctor. Confrontation erupts between female doctor Tamaki, and Shindo, now a just-arrived ER doctor. ...
GTO
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Through the introduction of his friend Danma Ryuji, Onizuka Eikichi, the former legendary bike gang member, visits Meishu Academy to tend to the trees in the garden as a part-time gardener. Learning that Yoshikawa Noboru, a student in teacher Fuyutsuki Azusa’s class is being bullied by Uehara Kyoko and other classmates, Onizuka befriends and saves Yoshikawa. Seeing Onizuka’s unprecedented but visceral, powerful response to problem solving, the school’s president and principal, Sakurai Yoshiko, o...
MALICE
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Kozono Yohei, secretary general of Shoto University, was found stabbed to death in his home. Hoshino Naoto, a detective at Fujimi Police Station, rushes to the scene and sees the scene of the murder in the living room. Tanimura Kaho, a lecturer at Shoto University's Department of International Studies, is trying to get ahead in life at any cost, and has been having an affair with Kozono, who holds the right to personnel affairs, for half a year. Kozono is murdered, and Kaho is arrested as a murd...
人形佐七捕物帳
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椅子
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An omnibus drama depicting the stories of 8 women and 8 unique chairs....
イアリー 見えない顔
Character: Shuji Nomura
Seiji Hirokawa works as a university professor. One day, his sick wife dies. Several days later, the intercom bell rings at his home and he sees a strange woman's face on the intercom screen. The woman asks "Is your wife at home?" Seiji Hirokawa opens the front door, but nobody is there. The president of the university where Seiji Hirokawa works suddenly dies. An election to select his replacement takes place. The election even involves the students and Seiji Hirokawa also participates. The pro...
DOCTORS 最強の名医
Character: Kazumi Aoi
Donoue General Hospital runs into a budget deficit, even though the doctors drive expensive imported cars and live an outlandish lifestyle. Office manager Momoi finds surgeon Kosuke Sagara through a medical website. Kosuke Sagara arrives at the hospital and tells the director of the general hospital to decide on his pay after watching his work. Kosuke Sagara informs the hospital that he had previously quit his job at a university hospital and taken a year sabbatical....
遺留捜査
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Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. ...
相棒
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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 ...
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
Character: Kinji Miyatake
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ディア・シスター
Character: Naotaka Uesugi
Growing up, sisters Misaki and Hazuki couldn't have been more different. Misaki's charming personality and popularity stood in sharp contrast to the older, more responsible yet timid Hazuki. After high school, the two lose touch once Misaki leaves their home, only to be reunited many years later, when Misaki returns, harboring a secret....
お天気お姉さん
Character: Kazama Seiichi
Haruko Abe (Emi Takei) received her meteorologist license at the age of 11. She is a genius weatherwoman. Haruko now works as a meteorologist on a morning information program. Due to her incredibly blunt personality, a lot of people at her workplace dislikes her. Meanwhile, Haruko tries to solve cases with Detective Gota Aoki (Tadayoshi Okura), using her extensive knowledge of the weather....
走馬灯株式会社
Character: Yanai Kenji
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トレース～科捜研の男～
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Mano Reiji, a man who experienced a gruesome incident, is a forensic researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Investigative Science Research Institute. Under the belief that "appraisal will result in the truth" and with his vast knowledge, Mano approaches cases from a view point that differs from others. On the other hand, Sawaguchi Nonna (Araki Yuko) is a rookie forensic researcher that begins working with the no nonsense Mano. They are forced to work together on a murder case....
9ボーダー
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A woman’s teens, 20s and 30s - each decade brings its own level of expectations and anxieties. These watershed life moments tend to highlight issues of employment, love, marriage, childbirth, and parenting, with the added pressure of perceived time limits. Three so-called “9-border” sisters - aged 19, 29, and 39 - gather under one roof after their father's sudden disappearance struggle with love, life, and time issues in this melodrama about finding happiness and moving forward in life....
おいハンサム!!
Character: Kusuyama
58-year-old Gentaro Ito lives with his wife Chizuru in a house in Tokyo. Each of their three daughters should have left home and lived well. However, their eldest daughter, 28-year-old Yuka, is single and doing well at work but has a propensity for affairs. Their 25-year-old second daughter, Rika, wedded a highly educated man and lives in Osaka but the couple are on the brink of divorce. Their youngest daughter, 22-year-old Mika, is also single, and the moment she gets to start living on her own...
ハッピー・オブ・ジ・エンド
Character: Matsuki
A love story about Keito, a mysterious, beautiful young man living on the fringes of society, and Chihiro, a man who lost everything after being rejected by his family....
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Mad Cats
Character: Mune Kurosawa
Taka, a shiftless young man, sets off on a quest to find his brother Mune. Teaming up with a quirky new friend and an edgy, mysterious young girl along the way, Taka finds himself taking on a pack of vicious monster cats determined to execute unscrupulous pet shop owners....
With You Who Wanted to be a Star : Another Story
Character: Washigami Yoji
Spinoff of "Hoshi ni Naritakatta Kimi to" that aired right after the original series, but with different developments and endings to the story....
My Brother, the Alien
Character: Mochizuki
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Cop Festival: New Beginning
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Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films....
A1012K
Character: Major
A robot with human intelligence escapes from a military testing unit and wreaks havoc in a shopping mall...
A Stranger of Mine
Character: Yusuke Kanda
In one long Friday evening, Takeshi Miyata, a straight-arrow businessman, will encounter a number of people (some only fleetingly) who have intertwining fates....
Goth
Character: Akimoto
Itsuki and Yoru share a passion for the dark and death, making them the perfect choice to track down a serial killer who is roaming the streets....
The Exam
Character: Athelete A
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes jobless when his company folds. To regain his confidence Togashi decides to join the marathon that is taking place on the very day of his daughter's examination and the all important interview....
They're Back! Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters vs. Doubutsu Sentai Go-Busters
Character: Yousuke Sakurada
This V-Cinema release takes place between Missions 44 & 45. While preparing to celebrate New Year's, the Go-Busters are all killed by a monster named Azazel. Finding himself (and J) before God in Heaven, Nick uses his status as the one millionth person to die in 2012 to grant his wish that Messiah never existed. He awakens to find a changed world, where the Busters are now known as the Dobutsu Sentai Go-Busters....
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010
Character: Shouichi / Kamen RIder Agito
Serving as the true ending to Kamen Rider Decade and revealing the origins of Kamen Rider W, this movie is split into three parts. In "Kamen Rider Decade: Final Chapter", Tsukasa Kadoya fully embraces his title as the Destroyer of Worlds. In "Kamen Rider W: Begins Night", Shotaro and Philip recount the night on when it all began. Elements of both parts converge in the movie's final part, "Movie War 2010" as our heroes fight the forces of Super Shocker....
Hush!
Character: Yuji
Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious and closeted—but nothing compares to the chaos that arrives when Asako, a troubled woman with a history of psychiatric problems, abortions, and casual sex, asks Katsuhiro to conceive a child with her....
Doing Time
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A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality....
Himeanole
Character: Yuka's Neighbor
An ordinary man plays matchmaker to his friend only to realize the girl being pursued is being stalked....
Pandemic
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ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other variety of virus? As the situation worsens and more cases begin arriving, a medical officer from the World Health Organization named Eiko Kobayashi is dispatched to the area. At the rate the virus is spreading, the entire city’s transportation system and i...
Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: Volume 3, Part 2
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A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals....
Karaoke Terror
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One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!...
My Life Changed When I Went to a Sex Parlor
Character: Toru Sumiyoshi
Live action film adaptation of a romance that was turned into a book after making a splash on the Internet bulletin board “2 Channel.” Humorously depicts a 29-year-old virgin who meets a prostitute, and struggles with love. Directed by Iizuka Ken of Arakawa Under the Bridge....
A Forest with No Name
Character: No. 23
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....
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Character: Crazy 88 #5
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance....
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Character: Crazy 88
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill....
Awakening
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After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that her husband had lived a double life. Struggling between her anger and the chance to begin a new chapter for herself, she finds her life moving into unchartered waters as she faces her 60th birthday....
Gips
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22-year old secretary Kazuko first bumps into Tamaki on the way back from work. Tamaki is crawling along the sidewalk on crutches at a snail's pace, and stumbles into the young audiotypist after apparently having trouble with an ill-fitting shoe over her cast. After helping her back to her feet, Kazuko follows Tamaki back to her apartment, the two of them barely exchanging words. Once in Tamaki's room, Kazuko is dispatched on an errand to fetch some beer... Their game begins.....
Ping Pong Bath Station
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An unhappy housewife regains her passion for life by taking over a failing bath house....
Doing Time
Character: Kato
A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality....
大川と小川の時短捜査
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The president of an IT company is found dead. The cause of death is believed to be an overdose of medication for a chronic illness, but the possibility of murder emerges since potassium and other substances were found in the body. Ogawa, unfamiliar with the investigation, asks for help from Okawa, a former detective who now works for the police department. The "large-and-small duo", who are uneven in appearance and personality, take on the challenge of getting to the bottom of a difficult case....
Asami Mitsuhiko: Genji Monogatari Satsujin Jiken
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Suzuki Sensei
Character: Teacher Okada
Teacher Akira Suzuki breaks away from long-held customs and norms at his school. He tries hard to have the ideal classroom by using his own "Suzuki method". The new semester begins. His homeroom 2-A class is about to have a student council election and preparations for a school festival. A man then takes a female student hostage......
Three Stories of Love
Character: Satoshi
A depressed widower, a bored housewife, and a gay lawyer all intersect in this triptych of love lost....
Kamen Rider Hibiki The Movie: Hibiki & The Seven War Oni
Character: Kirameki
When a powerful new Makamou attacks and defeats Hibiki, Asumu dives into Takeshi’s history and discovers a book that details the ancient Oni and a boy sharing his name. As he reads on, he learns of the tensions between humans and Oni as they struggle to stop the Orochi Makamou, but will he discover the key to defeating the new Orochi in the present?...
Hero
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After six years away, D.A. Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) returns to his former Josai branch of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, just in time for a brewing storm. Kohei's first case starts out simple enough. The suspect, a blonde-haired security guard, had already confessed to manslaughter, but he suddenly retracts his confession and takes things to court with big-shot defense attorney Gamo (Matsumoto Koshiro). It turns out that the security guard is a key alibi witness in a high-prof...
Red Moon
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Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery "Morita Brewery". Eventually, they succeeded in this business and lived happily while raising three children. However, in August 1945, the situation changed completely due to the Soviet invasion of Manchuria....
Rainbow Song
Character: Director Tanabe
Tomoya Kishida is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his close friend, Aoi Sato. This sparks his recollection of the events in life they shared from meeting at a record store, shooting a short film as part of their university film club, to saying their last goodbyes. Though in love with each other, neither had the courage to confess their feelings before it was too late....
Grave of the Fireflies
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Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin, Kyoko. Kobe is bombed and Kyoko is killed. Hisako is forced to take care of Kyoko's two children in addition to her own, but there is not enough food for everyone....
Stake Out
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The fourth chapter in the Love Cinema series, is a story of a cloistered and obsessive character who is confining and closed. When many suicides occur in an apartment building the police are by to question a female resident....
Crime Mystery by Kosaku Asahina: Tragedy of Hanasaki Village
Character: Hiroshi Hanayagi
Mystery writer Kosaku Asahina scores yet another scoop in a case that occurred in the streets. He even personally conducts investigations and frequently makes these cases the basis for his own novels. It maybe because his late father was a scholar that he is cool, but brims with curiosity and action. One day, Kosaku is facing the computer in his living room and writing a new novel. The novel is based on the baffling case of a female who fell to her death in Setagaya in the past. Kosaku had perso...
Rain of Light
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This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed themselves up in a mountainous cabin in the dead of winter. By the time the police finally caught up with them, it was discovered that they had murderously turned upon themselves in a bizarre extension of their radical philosophy. This event virtually marked the end of the Student Revolution....
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
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The Phantom of August
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Mamoru works as an illustrator in Tokyo. He and his girlfriend decide to visit his hometown of Onomichi. It is a bitter-sweet homecoming, for Mamoru has not been home in eight years. Upon his return, he experiences flashbacks of his ex-girlfriend, who died eight years ago. Feeling a sense of vulnerability, he visits the temple that he used to frequent in the past. There he sees a vision of Megumi, his ex-girlfriend......
Toki no kaori: Remember me
Character: Katori
Remake of the Korean film Ditto about a college student in the past who falls in love with a boy from the future....
Tales of the Bizarre: 2009 Spring Special
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Character: Crazy 88 #5
An assassin is shot and almost killed by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is a complete edit of the two-part martial arts action films Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2. The film was originally scheduled to be released as one part. However, due to the film's over 4 hour running time, it was split into two parts....
The Town of Headcounts
Character: Paul
Pursued by loan sharks, Aoyama is rescued by a mysterious man in orange overalls, and spirited away to “The Town,” where other dropouts hide out from debtors, abusive partners or the police. It’s a perpetual holiday resort where every need is catered to but hidden in it is a sinister conspiracy....
Virgin Fantasy
Character: Police Officer
Nomoto Miho, a Japanese adult movie actor, plays a married girl. One day, the husband discovered a hair on the toilet and that was not his. Continuously the following days the hair, the nose hairs, ... all of a man. Thanks to the police for the recovery, finally caught the horned man for a long time....
Funny Bunny
Character: Hirohiko Araki
Kenmochi works as a novelist. He is able to recognize people who are suicidal. Kenmochi and his friend Urushihara meet these people and let them find hope in their lives....
Haru, Bânîzu de
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Tsutsui, an office worker, marries Hitomi, who has a son from a previous marriage. However, one day, he realizes that something is missing in the life he chose....
Columbo of Shinano - Dead Person's Echo
Character: Nomoto Toshio
The first in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and mannerisms of famous American TV detective Columbo, based on a series of novels by popular mystery author Yasuo Uchida. One day, Detective Takemura Iwao, also known as Shinano's Columbo, becomes the first person to discover a dismembered murder case. At first glance, the case appears to be a simple murder caused by a financial dispute between an uncle and nephew, but Takemura, who is suspicious of...
Okaimono
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In a quiet farming village in northeastern Japan, there lives an elderly couple. One day, a notice arrives in the mail about an antique camera sale in Tokyo. This triggers the old man's memory of the time when he used to love cameras and he decides he wants to go to Tokyo. Going on this shopping trip is like embarking on an adventure for them and is is full of surprises and unexpected happenings, but through this adventure, the old couple's lives slowly get revealed. Before heading home, the cou...
Samurai Gangsters
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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 n...