Ryōichi Takayanagi
Birthday: Born in 1964-01-31 in
Deathday: Alive
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セーラー服と機関銃
Character: Shuhei
The drama depicts an ordinary high school student growing up by becoming a yakuza head....
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Character: Kazuo Fukamachi
Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has the power to travel through time....
Kenya Boy
Character: Wataru Murakami (voice)
An 11-year-old boy who goes to Africa with his father in 1941. Because he is Japanese, the father is detained by the British. The boy joins up with a beautiful native girl, and the adventure begins....
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Character: Ohta Masaharu
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystal, led by Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba!) to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight undea...
School in the Crosshairs
Character: Koji Seki
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that will put Yuka's powers to the ultimate test!...
His Motorbike, Her Island
Character: Keiichi Ogawa
Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree local Miyo and teaches her how to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy, Ko begins to fear she's destined to crash....
The Island Closest to Heaven
Character: Taro Watanabe
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about....
School in the Crosshairs
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Cabaret
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A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his...