Akaji Maro

Born: 1943-02-23

Akaji Maro (麿 赤児 Maro Akaji, born February 23, 1943) is a Japanese actor, Butoka, and theater director. He was born in Sakurai, Nara and is the founder of Dairakudakan. One of his sons is the film director Tatsushi Ōmori; another is the actor Nao Ōmori.


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as Boss Ozawah
Released: 2003-10-10

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination...

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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

as Boss Ozawah
Released: 2011-03-27

An assassin is shot and almost killed by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their...

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Kill Bill: Vol. 2

as Boss Ozawah
Released: 2004-04-16

The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins...

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Gemini

as Kakubê
Released: 1999-09-15

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a...

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Ox-Head Village

as Kanon's Grandfather
Released: 2022-02-18

Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish....

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Kikujiro

as Crazy Man
Released: 1999-06-05

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is...

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Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 1

as Tenkai
Released: 1998-08-21

Yuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined to exact revenge...

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Suicide Club

as Detective Murata
Released: 2001-10-29

When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the...

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Pornostar

as Yakuza Boss
Released: 1998-10-10

A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped...

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Sekigahara

as Ishin Shimazu
Released: 2017-08-26

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in...

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Why Don't You Play in Hell?

as uncredited
Released: 2013-09-14

In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza...

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9 Souls

as Owner of Candy Shop
Released: 2003-07-19

After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track...

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The Trap

as Lt. Nakayama
Released: 1996-05-25

When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I...

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Dangan Runner

as uncredited
Released: 1996-11-09

A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to...

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The Emperor in August

as Admiral Hisanori Fujita
Released: 2015-08-08

In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration....

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Birdsong

as Akira
Released: 2019-05-31

Tokyo. Asuka, a young cleaning lady working the night shift, is ready to pay a high price to...

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Shaolin Girl

as Rin's Master
Released: 2008-04-26

A Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial...

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Jam Films

as uncredited
Released: 2002-12-28

Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.

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Yumeji

as Criminal
Released: 1991-05-31

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an...

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Tonbi

as Kaiun
Released: 2022-04-08

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira...

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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

as Actor
Released: 1969-02-15

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at...

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SPEC: Heaven

as Akira Nitanai
Released: 2012-04-07

Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a...

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Kagero-za

as Homeless
Released: 1981-08-21

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

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Mitsugetsu

as Brokerage Firm President
Released: 1984-01-28

Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been...

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Persona

as Daimon
Released: 2000-08-05

Into the bully-infested home room class struts a fearless, ceramic-masked student. Squarely...

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Fly me to the Saitama

as Sojyuro Saionji
Released: 2019-02-22

People from Saitama Prefecture are persecuted and, because of this, they hide the fact that they...

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TAP: Perfect Education

as uncredited
Released: 2013-11-09

In Okinawa, a down-and-out middle-aged yakuza underling named Shidara kidnaps and confines a...

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Boxer Joe

as uncredited
Released: 1995-05-27

A docudrama about the boxer Jôichirô Tatsuyoshi. The documentary part follows Tatsuyohi for 18...

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We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams

as uncredited
Released: 2023-01-06

A treasure appears in front of antique dealer Norio Koike (Kiichi Nakai) and potter Sasuke...

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Cat's Eye

as Umehara
Released: 1997-08-30

Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in...

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Zigeunerweisen

as uncredited
Released: 1980-04-01

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go...

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Damejin

as uncredited
Released: 2006-07-01

An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives...

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Postman Blues

as Boss of Minato Gang
Released: 1997-08-16

Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about...

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Kakekomi

as Seisetsu
Released: 2015-05-16

Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by...

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GARO Special: Beast of the Demon Night

as Makai Priest Amon
Released: 2006-12-15

In the aftermath events of GARO: Chapter of the Black Wolf, Saejima Kouga sets out to the...

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The City of Lost Souls

as Okijima Gang Member
Released: 2000-09-15

Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be...

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Awakening

as uncredited
Released: 2007-01-27

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy...

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The Stairway to the Distant Past

as Lt. Nakayama
Released: 1995-03-18

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to...

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Monday

as Homeless Man / Demon
Released: 2000-04-29

A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally...

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Pacchigi! Love & Peace

as uncredited
Released: 2007-10-10

In 1974, during the height of the recession, a Japanese Korean family relocates to Tokyo to...

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Ghost Master

as Tetsuhiko Todoroki
Released: 2019-12-06

Akira Kurosawa is a nerdy movie buff who works on low budget romantic comedies while dreaming of...

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Hell Girl

as Wanyudo
Released: 2019-11-15

Tormented and bullied people can access a special website, run by a Hell Girl who will enable...

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The Whispering of the Gods

as Shopkeeper
Released: 2005-12-17

Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods...

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Drive

as Lord Kobari
Released: 2002-08-24

Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his...

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En moi

as Man on Duty
Released: 2016-05-20

A movie director goes to the Paris Opera to shoot his new film. Lacking inspiration, he looks...

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Yakuza Weapon

as Kenzo Iwaki
Released: 2011-02-27

After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated...

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That's Cunning! Shijo Saidai no Sakusen?

as uncredited
Released: 1996-08-10

Comedy about a group of chemistry students who organize a cheating scam during their final...

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This Is Shinogi

as uncredited
Released: 1994-02-04

An office worker who happens to end up helping a yakuza

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Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

as uncredited
Released: 2009-02-07

Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new...

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Samurai Resurrection

as Ieyasu Tokugawa
Released: 2003-04-26

Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of...

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The Dropout

as uncredited
Released: 1982-10-02

Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was...

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All Under the Moon

as Senba
Released: 1993-11-06

A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers...

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Evil Spirits in the Darkness

as Hirose Kinzō
Released: 1971-06-07

The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo...

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Tada's Do-It-All House

as Oka
Released: 2011-04-23

In Mahoro, the fictional suburb of Tokyo, Tada works as a general problem solver for hire. One...

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Hanezu

as Yo-Chan
Released: 2012-02-01

Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old...

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Knockout

as Daisuke Kamoi
Released: 1989-11-11

A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.

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The Motive

as A-san
Released: 2004-12-18

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims...

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Kazura

as uncredited
Released: 2010-01-30

Bald Moriyama wants a new image and buys a wig. It works: suddenly he has a career and a...

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KT

as Susumu Kawahara
Released: 2002-05-03

This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean...

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A Last Note

as uncredited
Released: 1995-06-03

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has...

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Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands

as uncredited
Released: 1967-10-03

A wealthy real estate investor is forced to watch the rape of his girlfriend and then is sent a...

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The Haunted Lantern

as uncredited
Released: 1998-04-28

Wife in former life plagues husband as ghost in the present

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Shin-Karajishi Kabushiki-Kaisha

as uncredited
Released: 1999-02-20

Remake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business.

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Utsushimi

as Self
Released: 2000-12-18

This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against...

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Into a Dream

as Sato's Father
Released: 2005-06-11

Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown,...

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Lupin's Daughter: The Movie

as Iwao Mikumo
Released: 2021-10-15

Am I really the daughter of a thieves family? Hana Mikumo, daughter of the "L family", a family...

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Piledriver

as uncredited
Released: 2007-01-13

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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro

as uncredited
Released: 1977-09-17

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with...

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Check

as Hakugin
Released: 1991-11-25

Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes...

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Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe

as Kanji, Nobuko's father
Released: 1995-01-28

The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their...

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Postcard

as Monk
Released: 2010-10-27

Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a...

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The Notorious Concubines

as uncredited
Released: 1968-09-27

Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak....

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Circus Boys

as Tattoo Master
Released: 1989-11-23

Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta...

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Be a Man!! Samurai School

as Heihachi Edajima
Released: 2008-01-26

Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made....

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Hanako of the Toilet

as Monk
Released: 1998-06-04

When a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously...

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Born to Be Baby

as uncredited
Released: 1997-01-01

A detective, a mysterious beauty Ekin and other characters appear in the film. It creates a...

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The Pistol That Sprouted Hair

as Taka
Released: 1968-05-01

Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping...

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Will to Live

as uncredited
Released: 1999-01-15

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the...

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Moonlight Serenade

as Circus performer
Released: 1997-03-15

After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his...

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Shangri-La

as Ookura Nagashima
Released: 2002-08-03

Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who...

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Love Will Tear Us Apart

as Ryûjin Maro
Released: 2023-08-19

Wakaba saves her classmate Koki who was being bullied. From then on, people who are involved...

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The Room

as The Hitman
Released: 1992-04-22

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him...

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Doomsday Detective

as uncredited
Released: 2022-12-16

Shinjiro, who runs a humble detective agency using a coffee shop in a certain town as his...

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Sukiyaki

as uncredited
Released: 2011-09-23

Kenta Kurihara (Tasuku Nagaoka) is sent to prison for battery. In his cell he is referred to as...

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Akame 48 Waterfalls

as uncredited
Released: 2003-10-25

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange...

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Unlucky Monkey

as Hobo
Released: 1998-07-18

A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out...

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The Night the Angel Turned Away

as Aota
Released: 1999-07-10

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Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition

as uncredited
Released: 2015-04-11

Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the series. In this work, we collaborate with five popular...

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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

as Himself
Released: 1990-01-01

"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in...

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The Outer Way

as uncredited
Released: 1998-06-05

The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in...

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Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project

as On (segment "Kuu")
Released: 2018-06-22

Six Stories based on Six Songs.

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Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts

as Himself
Released: 2023-10-12

An exploration of the spirit world as portrayed in the height of the J-horror era of the late ‘90s.

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Under the Turquoise Sky

as Saburo
Released: 2021-02-26

Takeshi grew up spoiled in an affluent family. One day his businessman grandfather Saburo sends...

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Kaiju Guy!

as uncredited
Released: 2025-01-24

Yamada, a good-for-nothing local civil servant who just loves monster movies, is suddenly given...

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Crazy Love

as uncredited
Released: 1968-09-22

Correlated with Susan Sontag's theorization of kitsch as well as employing the queer lingo of...

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Lie Lie Lie

as Den
Released: 1997-10-04

Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day,...

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Disconcerto

as Oka
Released: 2014-10-18

Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem...

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The Most Terrible Time in My Life

as Lt. Nakayama
Released: 1994-03-05

Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese...

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The Projects

as Gondo
Released: 2016-06-04

Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat,...

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An Angel with Many Scars

as uncredited
Released: 1997-04-19

An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts...

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Ready to Shoot

as Sakurada
Released: 1990-11-17

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in...

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Neko Ninja

as Katsuragi
Released: 2017-05-20

Kagerota is a young ninja who embarks on his first mission: stealing the goldfish from a wealthy...

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Toy Reanimator

as Mr Iwai
Released: 2002-01-01

Set in a toy store specialized in antique toys, a boy works in the toy store and is obsessed...

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The Nearest Place to the Sky

as uncredited
Released: 1994-10-15

Kitagawa, a top salesman with an impressive record, is hiding a dark secret—he borrowed the 9...

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Katsu Fūtarō! !

as uncredited
Released: 2019-11-01

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Dark Harbour

as uncredited
Released: 2009-07-11

Manzo is a fisherman in a small seaside community who lives and works alone, but longs for a...

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Shinran: Path to Purity

as uncredited
Released: 1987-06-02

In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one...

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Madness in Bloom

as uncredited
Released: 2002-10-19

Yamaguchi, Ichikawa and Kosuge dress in white military-style uniforms to "clean" the streets of...

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Uneasy Encounters

as Man of dry river bed
Released: 1994-04-23

A five-part comedy and horror anthology

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SHANAŌ: Les Garçons-Bonbons 3

as Narration (voice)
Released: 2019-11-22

The third movie in Léona Hirota's 'Candy Boys' series.

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A Light in the Distance

as uncredited
Released: 2015-04-01

Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might...

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Ginji - The Slasher

as Ōmuta
Released: 2003-03-29

In prison for 50 years after massacring his corrupt workmates with a samurai sword in 1945,...

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Guard Dog

as uncredited
Released: 1997-11-07

A tough and violent battle ensues between Hikaru Gotokuji, who's been assigned as the bodyguard...

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Wild Flowers

as uncredited
Released: 2004-04-17

Real pro wrestlers Mizuho Ishikawa, Cutie Suzuki and Emi Tojyo star alongside newcomer Miki...

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Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly

as uncredited
Released: 2009-11-21

Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a...

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Dreams on Fire

as Grandfather
Released: 2021-03-06

Fleeing to Tokyo with the hopes that she can fulfil her dream of becoming a dancer, Yume is met...

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The Naked Summer

as uncredited
Released: 2008-01-19

The Naked Summer is a film that documents young artists' effort and growth while training and...

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Known As! Pissken

as uncredited
Released: 1996-05-10

The thug is now back in Shaba as a legendary hitman!

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Zipang Punk Goemon Rock III

as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Released: 2014-03-29

Goemon Ishikawa steals a golden statue from Yukari Kukai with female thief Neko no Me Ogin, but...

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Crazy Camel

as uncredited
Released: 2012-01-01

‘Many people have a preconception about butoh — that it is performed by dancers whose bodies are...

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Swing Man

as Oda
Released: 2000-10-28

A man is assaulted by someone with a bat and attempts to figure out why.

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Nagaremono Yokohama Yakuza War

as uncredited
Released: 2000-03-10

The life and death of the men who are bound by violence.

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GARO

as Amon
First aired: 2005-10-07

The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that...

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The Files of the Young Kindaichi

as Goryu Tachibana
First aired: 1995-07-15

A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective,...

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CSI: Crime Scene Talks

as uncredited
First aired: 2011-04-13

Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police...

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The Naked Director

as uncredited
First aired: 2019-08-08

Follows the rise of Tooru Muranishi, one of Japan's most notorious directors of adult video. ...

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Yasuragi no Toki: Michi

as uncredited
First aired: 2019-04-08

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Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

as uncredited
First aired: 2016-03-19

The heroine Balsa is a skilled bodyguard and a masterful spear-wielder. One day she rescues...

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Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama

as 老人
First aired: 2022-04-05

Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during...

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Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama

as uncredited
First aired: 2022-04-05

Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during...

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Daughter of Lupin

as Iwao Mikumo
First aired: 2019-07-11

Hana comes from a family that has been thieves for generations. Hana refuses to become a thief...

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Keeping-Words Sisters Chouchoutrian

as Otori-sama
First aired: 1993-01-10

The fourteenth entry in the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series.

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稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ

as Hōan Tatara
First aired: 2004-04-03

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Affectionate Time

as Amano Rokusuke
First aired: 2005-01-13

This is the story about one small coffee shop located in the northern island of...

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Hayabusa Fire Brigade

as Tasuku Enishi
First aired: 2023-07-13

Mima Taro is a writer who has hit a slump. Tired of city life, he moves into the house he...

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Tada's Do-It-All House

as uncredited
First aired: 2013-01-11

In the fictional town of Mahoro on the outskirts of Tokyo is Tada Benriken, a small business...

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Keisei Saimin no Otoko

as Fujita Denzaburo
First aired: 2015-08-22

A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment...

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dele

as uncredited
First aired: 2018-07-27

Freelance programmer Sakagami is paralyzed in the lower half of his body and confined to a...

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Goldfish Club

as Mizuki Yozo
First aired: 2011-07-23

Irie plays Hiiragi Haru, a third-year high school student with no real interest in women or...

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Osoroshi

as uncredited
First aired: 2014-08-30

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Kamogawa Shokudo

as uncredited
First aired: 2016-01-10

Customers relying on a single line advertisement “Search for food with memories”, finally arrive...

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Way Too Kawaii!

as Shinjiro Tatsumi
First aired: 2018-10-18

A newly transferred employee discovers the hard work and passion of the professionals that fuels...

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The Password is Courage

as uncredited
First aired: 2000-07-06

The story takes place in a small rural village surrounded by beautiful nature. However, it is...

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Papa ga Mo Ichido Koi wo Shita

as uncredited
First aired: 2020-02-01

Yamashita Tomo is just an average junior high school girl...but her father is a "NEET" (Not in...

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永久就職試験

as 모리오카 아버지
First aired: 2015-10-15

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