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Yuumi Kawai

Birthday: Born in 2000-12-19 in Tokyo, Japan

Deathday: Alive

Yuumi Kawai is a model signed to the talent agency Dongyu and was born in Tokyo. Her debut as an actress took place in the TV drama "INHAND" in 2019, and the first movie she starred in was "A Beloved Wife" in 2020. She is an active model with multiple CMs and appears on MVs.

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家族だから愛したんじゃなくて、愛したのが家族だった

Character: Nami Kishimoto

Follow the daily lives of the Kishimoto family....

フリムンシスターズ

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夢中さ、きみに。

Character: Arakawa

Miyoshi Hayashi is one quirky high-school student who enjoys doing fun things that don't always quite make sense. Despite being hard to pin down, his mysterious charm never fails to draw others to him. In order to finance his activities, he sometimes helps out at his parents' restaurant, allowing him to continue living by his motto, "It's comfortable to have enough free time to waste."...

惑星サザーランドへようこそ

Character: Mugi

Three aliens on an expedition to Sutherland, the most beautiful place on Earth, crash-land in Tateyama, Chiba. They meet Reimi, part-time manager of a local villa, and come into contact with human life....

ネメシス

Character: Natsumoto Rena

Kazama Naoki is a crack detective at the private investigation firm Nemesis in Yokohama. He has a brilliant mind like Sherlock Holmes and solves every difficult case. But the true detective is actually his talented assistant Mikami Anna. The two of them, who make quite an odd duo, are searching for Anna’s father Hajime. He is a scientist and went missing all of a sudden. Together with Kurita Kazuaki, the owner of Nemesis who is Hajime’s good friend, Anna and Kazama seek clues to his disappearanc...

椅子

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An omnibus drama depicting the stories of 8 women and 8 unique chairs....

さまよう刃

Character: Nagamine Ema

Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against the responsible youths. His pursuit for justice becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse game with both the perpetrators and the police....

17才の帝国

Character: Saiga Suguri

In the year 202X, Japan feels a deep sense of stagnation and has been branded by the world as a country on the decline. Wanting to break free of this endless situation, Prime Minister Washida sets up an experimental project Utopi-AI. Commonly known as the UA concept, leaders are selected from all over the country by AI and made to govern cities that have degenerated. It has been said that the reason why young people cannot take charge of politics is their lack of experience. AI has a massive amo...

不適切にもほどがある!

Character: Ogawa Junko

Ichiro is a PE teacher in 1986 feared by his students for a "tough love" approach, harsh tongue and frequently “inappropriate” behavior. He’s also a dad trying to raise a rebellious daughter after having lost his wife to illness. When he gets transported in time to 2024, he encounters modern sensibilities that teach him about empathy but also gives people of today a reason to rethink their own political correctness in this time traversing comedy about change....

RoOT / ルート

Character: Rena

The hardened veteran detective Rena and bright-eyed rookie Sato take on a menial investigation. The job goes well until a thug named Dobu steals their evidence. Disheartened, they take a job looking into the life of a taxi driver named Odokawa in hopes of redeeming themselves. They wind up in the middle of a missing girl case, with gangsters, aspiring students, and surprises around every corner....

生徒が人生をやり直せる学校

Character: Midorikawa Himeki

A high school with poor academic performance has various problematic students who cannot receive proper education due to abuse or poverty. The hot-blooded teachers here take the role of gathering these students and help them to get back on their feet....

ワンナイト・モーニング

Character: Hatamoto Tamako

Relationships take on many forms. Some can be fleeting, delicate things that only last a moment, while others are sure and steady and can last a lifetime. More often than not, relationships fall somewhere in between, but whatever the relationship, each one is as unique as the people in them. Take the eight different couples in this story, for example. While each of them ends up sharing a night, how that night looks and what comes the morning after is entirely different. For the man reunited wit...

女子グルメバーガー部

Character: Rena

A gourmet comedy featuring 12 girls who are fascinated by gourmet burgers. Two girls appear every episode and develop in omnibus format. In addition, all the stores that appear are real stores, and we pay particular attention to the lighting and the sound of baking patties, and depict the gourmet burgers at each store with a sizzling feeling...

オリバーな犬、(Gosh!!) このヤロウ

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Police dog handler Ippei Aoba has a problem. It's called Oliver. To others, Oliver is a genius police dog that comes from a long line of geniuses, but, to Ippei, he appears—literally—as a lazy, foul-mouthed, middle-aged man in a dog costume....

Like a Dragon: Yakuza

Character: Yumi Sawamura

Set in the fictional town of Kamurocho, the story unfolds across two intersecting timelines—1995 and 2005. In 1995, four friends eager to escape their restrictive lives in an orphanage dive into the yakuza-controlled underworld of 1995 Kamurocho. Meanwhile, in 2005, their friendship is deteriorated, as tensions between the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance are at a boiling point....


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Unfeigned Happy Ending

Character: Yu

Eimi, who came to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school, invites her sister Yu, who lives in her hometown of Shiga, to move to Tokyo with her. She is reluctant at first, but suddenly accepts and soon after goes missing. One day Eimi meets Hiyori, whose sister is also missing. Everything changes when the police contact her to inform her that they have found the body of a young woman in Lake Biwa, but the body is that of Hiyori's sister, not Yu. Together Eimi and Hiyori search for the mur...

Modern or Anarchy

Character: Hana

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Plan 75

Character: Haruko Narimiya

In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death....

To Be Killed by a High School Girl

Character: Aoi Kosugi

Higashiyama Haruto is a 34-year-old Japanese history teacher who combines good looks with an honest and friendly personality. When he has been assigned to Nitaka High School, a school for advanced students, Haruto immediately attracts the attention of his female students. But he has a secret that he cannot tell anyone; he wants to be killed by a beautiful high school girl. Obsessed with such a bizarre desire, Haruto approaches four beautiful girls of different types, Maho, Aoi, Kyoko, and Aik...

A Hundred Flowers

Character: Misaki Tanabe

Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them. One in particular, when he believed she had disappeared, haunts him terribly....

Winter Rose

Character: Tomoka Misaki

Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted delinquents, and begging money from his friends. His parents, who run a shipping business transporting earth and sand for reclamation by boat, manage to get by, despite the dwindling number of jobs and lack of successors over time. Jun showed no interest in his parents' business, and the father and son hardly ever spoke to each other. One day, one of Jun's friends is attacked by someone and an unexpe...

A Man

Character: Akane

Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke....

Sayonara, Girls.

Character: Yamashiro Manami

2 days until the “Last Graduation Ceremony” of high school, the building was to be demolished. Each student accepted their “farewell to youth” and moved forward with regret and hope in mind. One student visits the library to meet her secret admirer who is also her teacher, one calls her boyfriend with a strained relationship due to the distance of their colleges, one is trying to expose a secret that she hid for the last 3 years, and the last student, Manami, has to give a speech during the ...

The Lines That Define Me

Character: Kawagishi

Sousuke Aoyama is a college student who suffers painfully from the loss of his parents in a traffic accident. He meets Kozan Shinoda, a suibokuga (India-ink painting) artist, at an exhibition. Kozan becomes interested in Sousuke and surprisingly accepts him as his disciple. However, Kozan's niece is dismissive of Sousuke and declares to compete with Sousuke for the "Kozan Award." Although Sousuke seemed uninterested in painting at first, he gradually becomes drawn to it by each stroke he draws.....

Just Remembering

Character: Izumi

A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love story inspired by a Jim Jarmusch masterpiece, set in times of the COVID-19 pandemic....

April, Come She Will

Character: Jun Sakamoto

Shun Fujishiro is a psychiatrist and works at a university hospital in Tokyo. He is engaged to Yayoi Sakamoto. One day in April, when he is about to marry Yayoi Sakamoto, he receives a letter from his first love Haru Iyoda. They dated 10 years ago. Suddenly, his fiancé Yayoi Sakamoto disappears....

Underdog: Part One

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Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira fell off the path to greatness but still tries to crawl his way to the top. Omura Ryuta is a youngster who grew up in foster care. Miyagi Shun, a TV celebrity with famous parents, takes a shot at boxing as part of a TV show. Three underdogs with very different back stories put their pride on the line as they exchange blows....

A Girl Named Ann

Character: Ann kagawa

A drug-addicted girl from an abusive family finds hope through kind people but her grim reality strikes back just as she sees a glimmer of light....

Kami no Ko wa Tsubuyaku

Character: Haruka Kinoshita

One family changes as they join a religious group. Kinoshita Haruka is forced to engage in her religious activities by her mother, Aiko, who is an avid believer and forbids her from making friends or participating in events at her school. Her father Shinji distances himself from religion and tells his daughters, Haruka and her younger sister, Inori, the importance of "believing in yourself." When Shinji suddenly falls ill, their "belief" begins to waver....

Drive In California

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In Her Room

Character: Youko

Susume is a young dentist who can’t communicate well with people since childhood. One day, he meets and falls in love with a woman named Miyako. She invites him into her lush, forest-like apartment, and he, though awkwardly, gradually becomes closer to her....

Look Back

Character: Fujino (voice)

Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant recluse whose beautiful artwork sparks a competitive fervor in Fujino. What starts as jealousy transforms when Fujino realizes their shared passion for drawing....

Desert of Namibia

Character: Kana

Desert of Namibia follows a bipolar young woman who burns the candle at both ends. A portrait of an unidealized Tokyo gen-Z, that surprises with its incredible energy and irreverence....

Hakkenden

Character: Hamaji

Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story is about eight warriors who, each carrying a jewel, gather together as if guided by fate and embark on a harsh journey to fight the curse of the Satomi family. Hokusai is drawn into the story that Bakin is telling, and visits Bakin on various occasions to hear the rest of the story, and a strange relationship between the two begins. The serializa...

A Balance

Character: Moe Kobata

Documentary director Yuko portrays a school violence incident from three years ago that resulted in suicides, while she was teaching classes at her father’s cram school. As her documentary project progresses, Yuko discovers a hidden truth and becomes deeply involved in the lives of the families pained by that secret truth....

It's a Summer Film!

Character: Kickboard

Barefoot and her friends decide to make a samurai movie, gather a unique cast and staff for the production, and try to screen it at their school festival....

Sasaki in My Mind

Character: Naemura

The story of a would-be actor, his larger-than-life classmate and their friends. Unfolding their past and present, Sasaki in My Mind looks head-on at adolescent sparkle and the pathos of bygone days....

A Beloved Wife

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A comedic portrait of an unhappy marriage between an unemployed screenwriter and his wife who's supported him for 10 years, based on the writer/director's own autobiography....

Rolling Marbles

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Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of Shibuya, Ai dreaming of a model, Mizuho working for the editorial department of a magazine, and musician Erika live together. This story is about the modest cohabitation of the three....

Love Nonetheless

Character: Misaki

Koji runs a second-hand bookstore. He likes female drummer Ichihana, but, suddenly, female high school student Misaki appears in front of him and keeps confesses her feelings for him....

AREA

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A short film by Tsubasa Seki....

She Taught Me Serendipity

Character: Hana Sakurada

The romance between a lonely college student and who seems to be the girl of his dreams is burdened by the sudden arrival of cruel fate....

Teki Cometh

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Gisuke is a retired college professor. His wife has passed away, and he is now living alone in an old Japanese-style house. One day, an unsettling message appears on his computer saying that the enemy is coming....


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