Takashi Naito
Birthday: Born in 1955-05-27 in Osaka, Japan
Deathday: Alive
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大奥〜誕生［有功・家光篇］
Character: Sawamura Denemon
During the reign of the shogun, Iemitsu, an epidemic causes the population of men to greatly drop, leading to an ooku where the role of men and women are reversed. Thus, “the women become the shogun, served by 3000 handsome men”...
よろずや平四郎活人剣
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Heishirou takes care of various situations upon request with both the sword and talking....
ふたり 私たちが選んだ道
Character: Ken Kamiya
A story about a wife who supported her husband after his body was paralyzed in an accident right after they got married....
智子と知子
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世直し順庵！人情剣
Character: Yoshimatsu
Junan, a former instructor of swordplay for the Shogun family, went to Nagasaki and studied medicine. After coming back to Edo, he becomes a highly skilled doctor that he is now also a medical examiner for the magistrate's office. But no one knows of his the other side: he goes out and punishes the evil using his secret weapon… “needle of death.”...
プリマダム
Character: Suseuke Hatakeyama
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科捜研の女
Character: Kaoru Domon
Mariko is a forensic scientist working at the Kyoto PD Crime Lab. Her credo is “science never lies” and she delves into the truth of the case with her colleagues with their specialized skills and knowledge in forensic medicine, physics, chemistry etc. Mariko’s steadfast belief in science makes her stand against conventional institutional ethics of the police department, diehard detectives averse to scientific investigation and sometimes even with her own colleagues, but she stays faithful to her...
女王の教室
Character: Heizaburo Namiki
The Queen's Classroom is a live-action Japanese television drama about Maya Akutsu, a new teacher at Hanzaki Elementary School who strives for perfection and punishes her students in unorthodox manners. A 12 year old student, Kazumi Kanda, has been able to withstand her strange punishments so far but the other 23 students begin to fold under the pressure. A South Korean remake of the same title starring Go Hyun-jung in the lead role, was produced in 2013....
イタズラなKiss
Character: 相原重雄
Late for a meeting, Kotoko was running along the corridor in school and bumped into Naoki, their lips meeting. Naoki showed his disgust, but Kotoko started to idolise him, who was good at everything from studies to sports. When Kotoko's house burned down, her father's good friend Machiko invited them to move in with her family. It was then that Kotoko realised Naoki was the elder son of Machiko, who took up the role of a fairy-godmother to bring the two together...despite the fact that Naoki was...
赤い疑惑
Character: Sagara
Sachiko is the 17-year old daughter of radiotherapist Professor Oshima. After exposure to radiation in the hospital, she develops leukemia. As if that was not enough trouble for one lifetime, Sachiko discovers that Oshima is not her real father, and that her boyfriend is really her half brother....
真昼の月
Character: Hirose Goro
When a woman is viciously raped, the traumatic event robs her of her self-confidence and ability to love as she had loved before. With special attention to her story of personal triumph over adversity, this touching drama recounts the tale of two lovers attempting to regain the happiness and level of affection that was theirs before her attack. --TBS...
Inosento rabu
Character: Yoshimichi
An arson took it all away from Akiyama Kanon seven years ago. Her parents died in that fire, her brother was arrested as the prime suspect and her carefree life disappeared from that instant. She was shunned by the town as the sister of a murderer, yet she believes in her brother's innocence and often pays him visits with words of encouragement. As life gets harder when nobody is willing to give her a job, Kanon decides to try her luck in the city and there she meets the man of her destiny......
ねこタクシー
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警視庁強行犯係・樋口顕
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人生は上々だ
Character: Kohei Tada（多田 公平）
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金田一少年の事件簿
Character: Isamu Kenmochi
A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather....
夜王 〜YAOH〜
Character: Teruhiko Yajima
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科捜研の女
Character: Kaname Muto
Mariko is a forensic scientist working at the Kyoto PD Crime Lab. Her credo is “science never lies” and she delves into the truth of the case with her colleagues with their specialized skills and knowledge in forensic medicine, physics, chemistry etc. Mariko’s steadfast belief in science makes her stand against conventional institutional ethics of the police department, diehard detectives averse to scientific investigation and sometimes even with her own colleagues, but she stays faithful to her...
サラリーマン金太郎
Character: Takashi Enjoji
Kintaro Yajima comes to Tokyo and is hired by Yamato Construction Company when he saves the life of the company's CEO. A former leader of a motorcycle gang, Kintaro is known for his highly principled and forthright way of dealing with matters and is never afraid to tell his superiors exactly what he thinks. This has a tendency of irritating some; but when corruption from within the company begins to surface, he may be the only one who can stand up to it....
相棒
Character: Sota Hagiwara
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 ...
R-17
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赤い月
Character: Morita Yutaro
Fifty-five years after World War II, Morita Misaki travels to China with hopes of uncovering the truth behind the murder of a young Russian woman she witnessed as a child. Her journey allows her to revisit her childhood memories and retrace her family's struggles in a foreign land. In the midst of WWII, the Morita family moves to Manchuria to start a Japanese sake factory. Though their hopes for a new life seem quickly realized with the success of their business, the family's fortunes take a tur...
QUIZ
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A woman's young son is kidnapped and the only clue to his disappearance is a note starting with the words "This is a quiz." What follows is a fast-paced and stylish whodunnit which leads chief investigator Kaoru Kiriko of the Special Investigation Team down a trail of increasingly perplexing riddles that all the while seem to mock the efforts of the police. Street-smart Kaoru may be the kidnapper's intellectual match, but as she gets closer to her mark, she finds herself becoming the hunted rath...
君といた未来のために 〜I'll be back〜
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A college senior who suddenly dies returns to life four years earlier, and, with full memory of his future, attempts to correct past mistakes and realize that previously unaccomplished goals, only to die and be reborn again and again. Though the circumstances are different each time, he encounters people who form a common connecting thread....
BATON
Character: Tomboy (voice)
On Planet Abel, humans and robots co-exist. One day a mysterious stowaway on a transport vessel tries to invade the planet, but is discovered by Apollo, a robot that looks like a human; and Mikaru, a human that looks like a robot. The stowaway had in his possession a memory chip containing the latest in camouflage software, the mysterious "Cipher" OS. Apollo takes the Cipher chip simply for fun, but has no idea what he's getting himself into. He suddenly starts acting strange, but Mikaru has no ...
ラビリンス
Character: Katsuhiko Sonobe
A genius doctor named Yuichiro Nozaki comes to a hospital to know the reason of his sister's death. The doctor is wondering if someone of the hospital killed her. Finally, Yuichiro finds doctor Katsuhiko Sonobe is a suspect of the murder, but notices Katsuhiko's wife loves Yuichiro....
ワイルド・ヒーローズ
Character: Tatsuhiko Akagi
Segawa Kiichi, a former delinquent, happens to encounter a lonely 10-year-old girl who looks like she is going to be killed by the Yakuza. He saves her by reflex and later realizes that she lost her memory. She doesn't know why the Yakuza are after her and Kiichi is attacked time and again because of that. With his own life in sudden danger, he calls on six friends from his high school days as a delinquent. These enthusiastic, single-minded men band together to protect her to the end....
不機嫌な果実
Character: Nomura
Mayako, a married woman, finds her life of comfort and casual affairs thrown into disarray when she unexpectedly falls in love with a younger man. Here is a modern fable of the moral dilemmas facing today's women, in a time where the expectations of love, marriage, and divorce from earlier generations no longer seem true....
家なき子
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"Don't pity me, just give me money." A smart little girl, Suzu, for the sake of her beloved sick mother, has no choice but to attempt all ways to fork up the money required for the operation. It includes stealing, cheating and almost anything that could yield cash. However, deep within her is a sadness unseen by many. --Snowflakes (source: dramawiki) It received the 1st Television Drama Academy Awards (1994-06-22)for Best Drama and Best Theme Song and also received a Special Award. It was the hi...
警視庁考察一課
Character: Naito Masashi
The First Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, which is based in the Dai-Tokyo Police Station , is headed by Keiichiro Funakoshi, the Chief of the First Investigation Division . This is a department that specializes in considerations that lead to solutions. Along with Ryu Fujii , a new detective who was newly assigned for some reason , they lead to the solution of many difficult cases one after another while colliding with each other's strengths....
新・十津川警部シリーズ
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竜馬がゆく
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夜桜お染
Character: Shinjuro Ishimuro
Osome is an ex-actress who lost her parents in a fire when she was 6-years old. She then is separated from her older brother, who goes missing. While she tries to investigate the fire that killed her parents, an officer, Yoshikawa reveals that her father used to be a shogunate spy. Osome decides to become a spy herself under Yoshikawa, to find the man who killed her parents and to seek out her lost brother....
サイコドクター
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壬生義士伝 新選組でいちばん強かった男
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Based on the novel by Jirō Asada, the TV movie depicts the lives of the Shinsengumi warriors during the turmoil of the late Edo period....
警視庁・捜査一課長
Character: Jun'ichi Ōiwa
The First Investigative Division is the star unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Jun'ichi Ōiwa, the head of the division, leads around 400 elite detectives. He has an extremely heavy responsibility: attends initial investigations at the scenes of all brutal crimes that occur within the metropolis, decides on the course of action of the investigations at the same time as he directs many investigation task forces and gets into investigations himself at the critical phase. However, Ōi...
鬼火 警視庁強行犯係・樋口顕
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Police investigate the death of someone who appeared to had fallen from a building....
ホテルウーマン
Character: Eiichi Nagasawa
This drama portrays a heroine, a single career woman mother coming home from New York, who fights her way through intense corporate battles at a first-class hotel, ignited by love and ambition. This drama shows the struggle of the heroine, who seeks to establish her career at the second-biggest hotel in the industry, her conflict with the female president of the top hotel in the industry, her strength as she survives as a single mother, her romance, and the suspense surrounding the mysterious su...
機捜235×強行犯係 樋口顕
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Movie Credits
Spirited Away
Character: Akio Ogino (voice)
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family....
Cat Taxi
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A Legend of Turmoil
Character: Tsuneo Yamanaka
A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza family. When his boss gets shot, he decides to go after the plotters....
Baton
Character: Tomboy (voice)
Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel, human-like robot Apollo (Ichihara Hayato, Rookies) and robot-like human Mikaru (Ueto Aya, Azumi) come upon a stowaway robot with a mysterious "Cipher" chip. Not knowing Cipher's powers, Apollo takes the chip for fun, throwing both him and Mikaru headfirst into a mind-boggling mystery that affects the past, present, and future....
Tales from Earthsea
Character: Hazia Dealer (voice)
Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn't enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause. During his journey, he meets Prince Arren, a young distraught teenage boy. While Arren may look like a shy young teen, he has a severe dark side, which grants him strength, hatred, ruthlessn...
Ashura
Character: Nobuyuki Kuninari
Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not right, as mysterious marks appear on her body as time progresses. At the same time, it is announced that Ashura, the queen of all demons, will be resurrected and bring destruction to the universe....
Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories
Character: Policeman Saheiji
Bunsei era, at a time when Edo culture is at its peak, and barely 50 years before the arrival of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Sabu is a cheerful, honest young man who left his hometown with the dream of becoming a policeman. He is an informant to the policeman Saheiji of Asakusa in Edo and stays with him and his daughter Midori. One day, Sabu encounters the cool master swordsman Ichi, who makes a living giving massages, and they become partners in an unexpected way. Although Sabu is still an ...
After Life
Character: Takuro Sugie
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity....
Maborosi
Character: Tamio
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world....
Revival Blues
Character: Ken
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Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death
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Bored Hatamoto film...
From Up on Poppy Hill
Character: Yoshio Onodera (voice)
Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart....
"Renjou" Keishichou Kyoukouhan-gakari Higuchi Akira
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Kosuge, the president of a factory, is killed by someone while returning home. A bag charm is found at the scene. When Akira Higuchi and his colleagues from the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division investigate his home, they find a bankbook with the letters A, Y, M, and S written in English. It turns out that the charms left behind were custom-made by Seiji Iwai. However, Seiji had committed suicide five years ago in a robbery-suicide case. Seiji's mother, Mizuki, is an old ac...
The Woman of S.R.I.: The Movie
Character: Kaoru Domon
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The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September
Character: Ryo
Ryo once rode with a biker gang; ever since his friend Tetsuji died riding in September, he's retired from biking, trying to forget the past....
Heart, Beating in the Dark
Character: Ringo
A boy and girl struggle to understand their place in 1980s Japan, retiring to copulate and probe each other for answers....
The Enchantment
Character: Shinbori
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......
全身刑事
Character: Yutaro Naze
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Marathon
Character: Nobuaki Miyata
Remake of the 2005 South Korean movie "Marathon", this special is about an autistic boy guided by his mother and his coach in training for a marathon....
ホテルマン東堂克生の事件ファイル～八ヶ岳リゾート殺人事件～
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Two years ago, Katsuo Todo (Takashi Naito) was appointed as the general manager of the Plato Royal Hotel Yatsugatake from the Plato Tokyo hotel. He works hard every day with his staff to provide the best time and space for our customers. Concierge Shuji Kitayama (Hishine Saku Toshihide) struggles to find a benefactor for guests Pascal Henry (Frederick Benoliel) and his wife Shizuko (Ishino Yoko). The sweets made by young pastry chef Yoshiyuki Sudo (Shunsuke Tanaka) are popular with guests, and p...
Seven Days War 2
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Dohten
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Jubei is a Japanese merchant who learns tricks from Western merchants to get ahead in the game....
Sailor Uniform: Lily Lovers 2
Character: Masaaki Yano
Two high school lesbians have their relationship tested when they take summer jobs at a resort town and meet various men....
Moa sekushi kemono no yoni mo ichido
Character: Ken
A couple of delinquents doing small time con jobs steal the car of a local councilman. Inside the car they find a stuffed panda. Suddenly the two find themselves targeted by the yakuza. It seems they will do anything to retrieve the panda. But why?...
Beautiful Sisters: Seduced
Character: Kiyoshi
A part time student, who works at a book store, is offered a room at his boss’s house to use for his studies. But he takes advantage of the offer to sexually assault the boss’s two daughters....
The Most Suitable Profession for Women
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Cheer Cheer Cheer!
Character: Genzo Yanagihara
Momoko (Yui Aragaki) is a quiet and lonely high school girl who's only passion is to cheer traditional cheer squad, but all she could gather were good for nothing guys, who could not find places in school. They start the cheer squad with a disaster, but when they finally find the true meaning of "cheering" someone, their passion becomes power and gives strength to those that are cheered....
Whore Hospital 4: No-Pants Nursing
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Rumors were circulating that obscene medical examinations were being conducted at Murata Memorial Hospital. Seishi, who works for the Ministry of Health and Welfare, infiltrates the hospital to find out what's going on. There, his girlfriend Rin worked as a nurse. Okada, an inpatient, said that if he had a certain card given to the nurses, they would remove the accumulated material, and that the longer he stayed in the hospital, the more special treatment he would receive. That night, Seishi sne...
Hissatsu shigotonin 2010
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暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
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Kirikomi
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ホリデイ～江戸の休日～
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Firefly
Character: Yokoyama
A young outlaw racing through the streets of Yokohama. Will the love that slipped through his fingers like sand come back to him once again?...
Love Beast: Flower of Vice
Character: Tadashi Shibasaki
A woman and her business partner run a neighborhood bar. He hopes they can be married someday. One evening, a yakuza swaggers into the bar and asks the woman how much would it take to have sex with her. She jokingly replies “A million”. With that the yakuza pulls out a huge wad of bills, kidnaps her and viciously trains her to be a high class call girl. She soon begins to enjoy the training and starts to attract big clients and big money. But secretly she waits for her chance to take revenge on ...
Undercover Geisha
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Osome is a geisha and spy in the Tokugawa period. When she was very young she lost her family to a terrible fire and continues to search for her surviving brother. Along her journey she discovers much of her family history and gains new friends....
Muhan
Character: Oda
Gritty softcore thriller about a female assassin brutally victimized in her past, her target, and her sadistic yakuza handler....
Samurai Justice: A Duel at Takadanobara
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Edo is rocked by the news that a duel to the death is to be held at Takadanobaba, the famed site of a bloody revenge fought by Nakayama Yasubei, who late married into the Ako clan where he was one of the 47 ronin who took vengeance against the vile Lord Kira. This hallowed spot is to host a match between two of the finest swordsmen in Edo. Each is backed by a high ranking direct vassal of the shogun, who had bet their family heirlooms on the outcome. The loser was to commit seppuku and have his ...
Laundry
Character: Sally
A young man named Teru, mentally altered by a childhood injury, runs a laundry and falls for Mizue, a lonely young woman with internal scars....
The Homeless Student 2
Character: Michinori Tamura
Sequel to the 2008 film....
Heart, Beating in the Dark
Character: Ringo
This new version of Nagasaki's Yami utsu shinzô (1982) is neither a remake nor a sequel. It is both those things, and at the same time it is also a documentary, a portrait of the consequences of passing time, and an occasionally very funny reflection on what the hell the point is of all this filmmaking business anyway. Shigeru Muroi and Takashi Naito, back then young hopefuls willing to take chances, now among the most established and recognisable actors in Japan, return to play the roles they a...
MOROCCO 2: The Return of the Yokohama Follies
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Tatsu's life seemed to be smooth sailing, as he was blessed by his friends, married Fujieda, and made peace with the yakuza. However, the days when the yakuza were free to run amok were coming to an end. Tatsu was sent to prison for a dispute over a bottle of hiropon, and during his two years in prison, his former gang mates became Inayama-gumi disciples.... I can't stand under the wind of others! Tatsu mutters in anger......
The Gentlemen’s Alliance
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Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another....
The Book Peddler
Character: Takeo Akamatsu
Suzume Akamatsu works at a library in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. She delivers books by riding a bicycle. Through her work, Suzume grows as a person....
The Boy Who Saw the Wind
Character: Branik (voice)
Amon is a boy who can control the wind. Branik, ruler of the Empire of the Golden Snake, wants Amon's power to complete the ultimate weapon and sends his troops to capture the boy. Amon, using his talents, manages to runs away with Maria, one of the People of the Sea. Together, they try to stop the Empire of the Golden Snake from destroying and conquering everything....
Some Kinda Love
Character: Murakami
The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a beauty obsessed by UFOs....
Yojo no jidai
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London Calling
Character: Narration
While attending a screening of his film at the London Film Festival, a Japanese man tries to track down a woman from his past after receiving a mysterious phone call....
The New Morning of Billy the Kid
Character: Musashi Miyamoto
All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley. The action starts as Billy the Kid, in full living color, walks out of the photo and gets a job as a waiter. Along with him on the working staff are a samurai straight out of the history books, a G.I. from World War II, and several other anachronistic characters. The plot (as such) revolves around keeping away the brutal mobsters and thugs who dominat...
Nobunaga's Coffin
Character: Priest Seinyo
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A Chaos of Flowers
Character: Kyutaro Wada
Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, the real-life poet Akiko Yosano, and her experiences among the literati of early 20th century Japan. Because of her independent, anti-war and often erotic poetry, she was a lightning rod for revolutionaries and other extremists, many of whom were destined to glamorous, yet ultimately pointless, death...
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
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The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars....
Murder in the Kairotei
Character: Inspector Yazaki
A woman (Takako Tokiwa) risks her life to exact revenge for her murdered lover....
Rock Requiem
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Four young high school students who dream of being in a rock band must deal with the unexpected deaths of their friends while making concert decisions....
Stranger
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After serving time for bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a quiet life as a taxi driver working night shifts... but her peace is shattered by a relentless stalker in a Land Cruiser....
The Seburi Story
Character: Kazuo
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's a...
Woman with Wet Fingers
Character: Yûji / Kimiyo's Boyfriend
Real-Life stripper Madoka Mika plays the fictional ROSE RED, a former striptease queen who is now doing roadshow engagements while trying to raise her child and balance her love affairs....
Kaze no Shounen: Ozaki Yutaka Towa no Densetsu
Character: Kenichi Ozaki
The short life of singer-songwriter Ozaki Yutaka, who died suddenly in 1992 at the age of 26, will be dramatized for the first time on the TV Tokyo production, "Kaze no shounen ~ Ozaki Yutaka eien no densetsu"....
The Summer Yuki Gave Up Rock Music
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A female vocalist breaks with her manager and sets to work with an old man of his band. The involvement of the gay, Super8 addicted friend of the manager leads to increasingly high waves of frustration, treachery, humiliation and cruelty....
The Files of Young Kindaichi: Murder on the Magic Express
Character: Tsuyoshi Kenmochi
When the head of the touring magician's group "Magical Fantasy" is murdered on a train while on his way to Hokkaido, young Kindaichi, who also just happens to be on board, is fast on the case to find the culprit. But just as quickly as the case unfolds, the body disappears only to be rediscovered again, along with other new bodies....
Passion
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A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister....
March Comes In Like a Lion
Character: Man with a Hat
The film begins with some Polaroids of a young boy and a young girl. A female voice over tells us who these people are. They are brother and sister, she is seven and he is eight. She goes on to say that when she was seven and he was eight, she told her brother that she would marry him....
Rapewoman: Dirty Sunday
Character: Ibuki
A single woman starts receiving obscene phone calls at home. Feeling fearful she stays at the apartment of her best friend but somehow the pervert starts calling her there too. Feeling hopeless she gives in and agrees to meet at a restaurant. But when the woman and her friend arrive they discover it is managed by the man they both had relationships with. This was why they were let go from their previous jobs. They both decide it’s time for a little payback....
Another Side
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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....
Okinawan Boys
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After That
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Film director Shunichi Nagasaki reflects on a near-fatal motorcycle accident that occurred while shooting his commercial feature debut The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September....
Yakuza Warfare
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Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival factions in the yakuza-stained region of Kyushu....
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Character: Lieutenant Iwata
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash....
Disciples of Hippocrates
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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....
The Man with Two Hearts
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The Drive
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Kono Takeshi has given up work as an electrician to run a gift-shop business with his partner/mistress Rieko, who's a couple of years older than him. When the company faces bankruptcy Kono wants to quit, but Rieko strings him along with the promise of a large cash investment, the proceeds of a real-estate deal. Her actual plan to raise the money is to kidnap a young woman and demand a ransom for her release. The trouble is, it never occurs to her to keep the victim alive before trying to extort ...
Love Beast: Attack!
Character: Kiri
A high school girl gets molested by her mother’s current lover. He is a sleazy detective working on the yakuza drug trade. The girl runs away from home but returns five years later with a newspaper article describing her mother’s apparent suicide. Within the corruption of a decaying shipping port she is determined to find the truth behind her mother’s death and what happened to her younger sister who had stayed behind....
One in a hundred thousand
Character: Koichiro Iwase
Tamura Masakazu plays Shohei Yamauchi, a freelance reporter obsessed with finding out the truth about a traffic accident in which his beloved daughter died. Judging by the photo of the accident, which appeared in the news described by photojournalists as "one coincidence in a hundred thousand", and the survivor's testimony that "I saw a red fireball" immediately before the accident, the circumstances of the accident are questionable. The film is based on a late masterpiece by Seicho Matsumoto....
The Days of Morisaki Bookstore
Character: Satoru
After learning her boyfriend and colleague was already in a relationship and about to marry another colleague, Takako quits her job and falls into a slump. Her uncle, Satoru, offers her a job and room in his used bookstore in Jinbocho. Despite her initial lack of interest, Takako is slowly drawn into the world of books through contact with the customers who frequent the store....
Young Lady Detectives: Heart Beat!
Character: Tayama
Two female university students open a detective agency and use their feminine charms to find a missing girl for a client. But they soon get in over their heads as the trail leads them to the seedy underworld of massage parlors and criminal gangs....
Kizu
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Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of yakuza film that stylishly depicts the short but vibrant life of legendary urban yakuza Takashi Hanagata....
Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma
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Burning Dog
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A gang of thieves plot to rob a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threaten to put the plan in jeopardy....
The Guard from Underground
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A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage....
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"....
Samurai Pirates
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Long ago, Japan was home to several navies. The Murakami Navy, said to be the strongest of them all, once defeated even Nobunaga, and refused to join Hideyoshi, choosing to pursue their love of freedom and the sea. The man who led these samurai of the sea was the great pirate lord Takeyoshi Murakami. And now Kaede Murakami, a descendant of Takeyoshi, is an elementary schooler living on an island. On her 12th birthday, Kaede discovers a flute in her family's storehouse that has been passed down t...
Forgetful Hamlet
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疑念 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕
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Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami
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Genjuro’s crime was assassination, his punishment was to survive a faked execution and lose his home, lose his identity, and emerge as Maboroshi Shinigami, the Phantom Assassin. When his wife is kidnapped and tortured to reveal his whereabouts and dragged to the executioner for crucifixion by corrupt clan officials, Genjuro faces an army of swords to save her. Evil men aim to frame Genjuro for another murder. For their scheme they need only one thing, Genjuro’s dead body. Genjuro will have to cu...
事件屋稼業
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Hissatsu Shigotonin 2010
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