Mariko Kaga
Birthday: Born in 1943-12-11 in Tokyo, Japan
Deathday: Alive
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花神
Character: Okoto
Centered around Masujiro Omura, who became a commander for the Choshu clan, and founded the modern Japanese millitary system....
東京バンドワゴン～下町大家族物語
Character: Sachi Hotta
The somewhat peculiar Hotta family runs Tokyo Bandwagon, a secondhand bookstore and cafe in the old part of Tokyo. They are a big four-generation family that is rare these days. The Hottas live by rather unusual family rules, and solve strange incidents that arise in the old town. 26-year-old Ao is the family’s second son, and a freelance tour guide. Although he is the child of his father’s mistress, he has been raised as the second son without prejudice. Ao is an irresistible playboy to females...
臨床心理士
Character: Shiho Katsuragi
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利家とまつ
Character: Tatsu
The 41st NHK Taiga Drama is Toshiie to Matsu. During the turbulent Warring States Era, one man's life and career intertwined with the three great generals of Japanese history-Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu. With political savvy and the support of his fiercely loyal wife, Maeda Toshiie rose to second in power in the shogunate and built up a fiefdom that encompassed Echizen, Noto and Kaga....
アラウンド40
Character: Haruko Yoshinaga
Ogata Satoko is a 39 years-old woman. She is happily enjoying the single life. However, things change after an alumni reunion wher she's the last single and a meet with Okamura Keitaro....
江 〜姫たちの戦国〜
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Princess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led a remarkable life in an age of turmoil and civil war. Go loses her parents in the war, marries three times, and feuds with her own sister in competing for power. Go's husband becomes the second Tokugawa Shogun and she ensures her prominence as she gives birth to a son who later becomes the third Shogun and a daughter, a wife of the Emperor. The drama describes the age of the civil war through the eyes...
やすらぎの郷
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The drama is set in an retirement home named "Yasuragi no Sato La Strada" where only those who had worked in the TV entertainment industry such as actors, writers, musicians and artists are allowed to live at. Kikumura Sakae, who used to be a popular scriptwriter, lives among the former stars and the problems they face are presented in a humorous manner....
世界サブカルチャー史 欲望の系譜
Character: Self
A captivating historical entertainment documentary delving into 20th-century subcultures from America, Europe, and Japan. These subcultures serve as more than just pockets of rebellion; they act as microcosms that mirror the spirit of their times, encouraging viewers to contemplate our world today and its future....
SMAP×SMAP
Character: Bistro Guest
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 w...
宮本武蔵
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On September 15, Keicho, a young man, Takezo, whose life was ruined by the war in Sekigahara wandered around like a wild beast. Only his lover Otsu and the pacifist monk Takuan understood Musashi, who escaped from the hands of the Ochimusha hunters and turned against everyone. Then, a crisis loomed over Takezo as he fled into the mountains. At the same time in the village of Jokyoji in Echizen, the sword prodigy Sasaki Kojiro, in his quest for strength had defeated his own master, Tomita Seigen ...
けものみち
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The drama sheds light on the dark side of Japan connected to the political and financial world by depicting the vicissitudes of women....
世にも奇妙な物語
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Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending....
君の手がささやいている
Character: Nobe Masae
This drama is an adaptation of the manga by Junko Karube about a deaf woman and her struggles with love, family and everyday life....
プラトニック
Character: Masako Yui
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やすらぎの刻〜道
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櫂
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Kiwa is Iwago’s devoted wife. A former wrestling champion, he has become a ‘zegen’: He buys young girls from poor families and sells them to geisha houses. He is quite successful but Kiwa, although she accepts his money, loathes his work. One day Iwago comes back with a young girl he’s bought from a man who wanted to sell her in China. They adopt her and Kiwa raises her, as a respectable girl, with her two sons. But Iwago wants to manage the career of a singer who becomes his mistress and the si...
失楽園
Character: Matsubara Masami
Kuki Shoichiro is relieved of his position as general manager of Gendai Shobo and transferred to the research office. One day, three months after his sudden relocation, on the night of a lecture at the Culture Center at Kinugawa's request, Hisaki meets Rinko Matsubara through his introduction. The story begins a few months later, in September, in a hotel room in Kamakura....
必殺仕事人2009
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Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins....
隼人が来る
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In the Kyoho era, Hayato, a shogun vassal commissioned as a traveling inspector by Tokugawa Yoshimune, adopts the guise of a ronin. Accompanied by the enigmatic Kihachi the kappa, he journeys discreetly through different provinces, administering justice to the malevolent forces......
南くんが恋人!?
Character: Horikiri Yuriko
Chiyomi Horikiri (Ai Iinuma) is a warm hearted high school student. She is a member of her school's basketball team. She stays bright even in a bit complicated family composition. Her boyfriend is Hiroyuki Minami (Yusei Yagi). One day, Hiroyuki Minami suddenly shrinks in size to only 15 cm. in height. He can easily fit in the palm of someone's hand. He appears in front of his girlfriend Chiyomi Horikiri....
澪つくし
Character: Rui Furukawa
In the early Showa era, the town of Choshi in Chiba Prefecture was divided by the conflicts between the worlds of "land" and "sea". Born to Kyubei Bando, the owner of a long-established soy sauce brewery, and his mistress Rui, Kaworu was taken in by her father and raised as a prim and proper lady. As she grew up, she fell in love with Sokichi, the eldest son of an established fisherman; alas, their two families were in conflict. This is a story of pure love between two people that grew beyond th...
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3,000 Kilometer Trap
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A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido...
Hana Yori Dango: Final
Character: Kaede Dōmyōji
Four years have passed since that emotional marriage proposal at Tsukushi Makino's high-school prom, and Tsukasa Dōmyōji announced his engagement to Tsukushi to the entire world. At an engagement dinner between their families, Dōmyōji's mother, who has been strongly against their relationship before, presents Tsukushi a tiara, which is estimated to be worth roughly 10 billion yen, as a token of their engagement. But that night, the tiara is stolen by somebody! Then, Dōmyōji and Tsukushi travel a...
Shōwa Gokudōshi
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Pale Flower
Character: Saeko
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling....
Sky of Penta
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A boy living in Wakayama Prefecture accidentally comes into possession of an Adélie penguin egg and successfully hatches it. However, wanting to return the penguin to its natural habitat, he embarks on a journey to Antarctica. Along the way, in Central and South America, he faces hardships, such as being robbed by impoverished local children. The story is framed as the recollections of Ryota Ichikawa, now an adult, reflecting on his boyhood....
Love Letter
Character: Male Itsuki's Mother
Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to also be called Itsuki Fujii....
Patisserie Coin De Rue
Character: Yoshikawa
A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aiming to become a high-calibre pastry chef, she is determined to overcome both her past and the challenges ahead. Pastry critic Tomura is a frequent visitor to Coin de Rue. Moved by Natsume's persistence, he slowly begins to confront his own painful past aided, of course, by mouthfuls of tasty pastries....
An Outlaw
Character: Mari
Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal....
Emperor of Kita Dark Court Legend
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The third 'King of Kita' film....
Pleasures of the Flesh
Character: Shoko
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence....
Spring Bell
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Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she immerses herself in the depraved life of the city and continues to have a loveless relationship with a doctor, Katsumori. One day, Narumi arrives in Tokyo and learns of Noriko's affair, but he cannot divorce her for the sake of their child, so he devote...
In His Chart
Character: Kyoko Azumi
There is a degree of realism when a professional in the field writes about his vocation and such is the case here. Adopted from a novel written by a doctor and set in Nagano, doctor Kuriharai is overwhelmed by the number and variety of patients he has to see due to a shortage of physicians where he practices. He aspires to work somewhere more convenient, specialize and see more of his wife, but faces a dilemma many other doctors experience....
Soup Opera
Character: Toba-chan
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke....
Silence Has No Wings
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Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points....
Space Girl Morumo 1/10
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Fuji Television film based on the manga of the same name by Hiroshi Aro....
Muddy River
Character: Shoko Matsumoto
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends....
Only on Mondays
Character: Yuka
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society....
Kagero-za
Character: Mio
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife....
Mount Hakkoda
Character: Taeko Tokushima (Captain Tokushima's wife)
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....
Mahjong Horoki
Character: Mama
A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match....
Lovers Lost
Character: Yuki
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student....
A Flame at the Pier
Character: Yuki
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar....
A Legend, or Was It?
Character: Yuri Shimizu
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove....
The Rape
Character: Owner of Patel
Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice system while balancing her home life including romantic relationships....
The Creature Called Man
Character: Kaoru Akiyama
A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man....
Twinkle
Character: Chiaki Koyama
Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student. The film is less a realistic exploration of gay life than a fairy tale of three young Japanese trying to construct an alternative to the sexual and familial roles given to them by a society turning increasingly emotionally barren....
With Beauty and Sorrow
Character: Keiko Sakami
When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family....
Hikage-Mono
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A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita...
Gate of Youth 2
Character: Oei
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu....
The Radish and the Carrot
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One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…...
Gokudo of Kamagasaki
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Eighth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his henchmen...
The Blue Mountains '88
Character: Kyoko Hayashi
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Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori
Character: Aki
Based on Shinichi Mori song...
The Unspoiled Diamond
Character: Kazuko Makimura
A college student has an affair with a married, middle-aged teacher....
Mr. Greenhorn
Character: Madonna
1966 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel....
A Scream from Nowhere
Character: Fumiko Masuda
In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy industrialist who may have been leading a double life....
The Time of Reckoning
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"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son....
Saya: Perspective in Love
Character: Kanzaki's mother
Erotic thriller about a porn photographer who has to deal with a psychopath....
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
Character: Tokuhime
The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life....
Shinjuku Boy Detectives
Character: Saeko Yumeno
In the streets of ultra-modern Shinjuku, Sosuke, a young would-be detective, all of a sudden attacked by a monster robot and falls unconscious. Determined to unravel the mystery, Sosuke joins forces with four members to fight against the robot. Will they be successful?...
Fushin no Toki
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Suspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake....
I'm Dandy
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A middle-aged salaryman tries to revitalize his career....
Snow Country
Character: Yoko
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls....
Bugs
Character: Kitamura
Aru Islands in resort development. Was a succession happening the abandoned corpses in there are holes in body. Ligia exotica appeared on an isolated island of mutants is taking the panic and horror....
Sagrada Reset Part 1
Character: Witch
In the town of Sakurada, where about half of the residents have special abilities, high schooler Kei Asai is able to remember everything. His classmate Misora Haruki has the power to reset the world by three days. If they combine their powers, they can go back in time by three days and retain their memory....
Sagrada Reset Part 2
Character: Witch
In the town of Sakurada, where about half of the residents have special abilities, high schooler Kei Asai is able to remember everything. His classmate Misora Haruki has the power to reset the world by three days. If they combine their powers, they can go back in time by three days and retain their memory....
A Paucity of Flying Dreams
Character: Yasuko Taura
A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see. He later discovers she is in her sixties. They meet several more times and, each time, she is younger....
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
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The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. When his father dies, he’s sent to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. Mizoguchi is physically unattractive and becomes, in some way, jealous of the beautiful Temple that he loves so much....
Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
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Recently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss's wife leaves Hong Kong for a fresh start, but a betrayal leads to her return....
Three Faces of Love
Character: Momoko Shindo
When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama. Only one daughter cares to carry on her father's work, but she is met with resistance from her stepmother. One sister cares nothing for the artisan tradition, while the other is an icy opportunist whose only love is for money. It is the daughter who cares the most for her father's work who wanders away in a symbolic journey of self discovery....
Wild Cop
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Based on the comic Gokiburi Deka....
Scorpion
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Japanese drama film....
King of the Highway
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Daughter of Time
Character: Ai Suwa
A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwara district. He takes her to an inn to gove birth, and stays on a few days as she recovers, but becomes fascinated with the strange people he meets there, particularly the owner, who visits a house in his courtyard every day to talk and give food to his mother. He says she is very sick and can't leave bed, but no one else has ever been inside or se...
Modori River
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The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions....
Love Letter
Character: Tayo
Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others....
Until Evening
Character: Yuko
Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel....
Paper Lantern
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A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live. This film is based on the posthumous manuscript of Shoji Kaneko, the legendary director who died of cancer after completing work on the hit "Ryuji"....
Lover's Time
Character: Akiko Nishie
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Hakuchô no uta nanka kikoenai
Character: Keiko
Young man and woman experience changes in their worldview and question the meaning of life after meeting a dying grandfather....
Oración
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Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or "prayer". When Oracion is grown, a factory owner buys the horse. Will he be the key to solving the man's problems? Based on the novel by Teru Miyamoto....
My Destiny
Character: Miya Tsutsumi
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Festival of Dreams
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Price of Life
Character: Yuri
Comedy of a phony doctor....
Curtain Call
Character: Yoshiko Oomori
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her real father, "Daddy-Long-Legs", who sends a bouquet of flowers every birthday, once she can wear a special pair of pointe shoes. The day finally arrives and Miho's small adventure begins....
The Lone Ume Tree
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An old house stands amongst newly built buildings, as if it has been left behind. Tamako, a popular fortune teller, has been living there alone with her son, Tadao, for years. Because he has intellectual disability and autism, their neighbors often complain about his unpredictable behaviors. One day, Tamako is informed that a room is available in a group home owned by a company that runs the community workshop Tadao works at. Residents there all have intellectual disability but are living togeth...
First Love
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A 1970s Toho coming-of-age film....