Ittoku Kishibe
Ittoku Kishibe (岸部一徳) is a Japanese actor, bassist, and lyricist. He originally entered showbusiness as the bassist for the Japanese rock bands The Tigers, PYG, and Inoue Takayuki Band, but later switched to acting. The veteran of over 115 films, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in 1991 for "The Sting of Death," and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award in 1994. He has an agency, UN et NEUF, and he is the president of Kenji Sawada's private office "Kokoro Co., Ltd."
13 Assassins
as Yatokube SanshuA bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed...
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Zatoichi
as Boss Inosuke GinzoBlind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice...
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Outrage Coda
as MorishimaFive years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza...
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Recall
as Takeshi KanoA woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the...
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Violent Cop
as NitoA detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in...
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Aegis
as Kazuma SetoThe Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing...
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Lady Maiko
as Okichi KitanoCountry bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially...
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Disconcerto
as 早坂Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem...
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The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
as Toshio FukushimaYoshiyama Kazuko is a third-year junior high school student. One day while cleaning the lab, she...
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Tada's Do-It-All House
as HayasakaIn Mahoro, the fictional suburb of Tokyo, Tada works as a general problem solver for hire. One...
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The Makioka Sisters
as ItakuraThis sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto...
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Survive Style 5+
as Tatsuya KobayashiFive bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined,...
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Hula Girls
as Norio YoshimotoYoung women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building...
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Botchan
as TanukiBotchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a...
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Séance
as College ProfessorA psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing...
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The Whispered City
as PolicemanDirector Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa,...
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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
as TanukiIn dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle...
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Happy Flight
as Shoji TakahashiA variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew,...
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Sword of Desperation
as Deputy Chief Retainer TsudaA talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi...
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as MatsunagaHoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious...
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Adrift in Tokyo
as Ittoku KishibeA thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip...
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Vital
as Dr. KashiwabuchiA young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook...
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The Oil-Hell Murder
as uncreditedThe indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a...
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Backwater
as DetectiveToma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend....
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The 8-Tomb Village
as Youzou Tajimi / Hisaya / ShouzaemonA band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4...
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His Motorbike, Her Island
as News ReporterAfter a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie
as Haruhiko MadarameHiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal...
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The Funeral
as AkiraWhen Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random...
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Hero
as Kaoru KayamaAfter six years away, D.A. Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) returns to his former Josai branch of the...
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Chizuko's Younger Sister
as FatherThe Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a...
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Double Bed
as Toshiyuki KatoKato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a...
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Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
as Taira no TadanoriBenkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to...
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Vengeance for Sale
as Oribe SakakibaraIn a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in...
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Haruka, Nostalgia
as OzakiAyase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up...
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The Human Trust
as Kazuyoshi HonjoA professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted...
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We Are Not Alone
as uncreditedBusinessmen competing for international building contracts in this globe-trotting comedy-adventure.
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Kubi
as Sen no RikyuLord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against...
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Confessions of a Teenage Mother
as YazakiAfter having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move...
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Round About Midnight
as NanbuKoji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He...
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Murder of the Inugami Clan
as Toranosuke InugamiInugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with...
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Song of Goodbye
as DoctorIt is the second work of the Oita trilogy of Obayashi . Following " Nigori Snow ", Ise Masazo...
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A Boy Called H
as uncreditedTold from the viewpoint of the father Morio, "A Boy Called H" follows a young boy named Hajime...
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Rainbow Kids
as Daisaku Yanagawa, 2nd sonA wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they...
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I Never Shot Anyone
as Kazuyuki IshidaRenji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two...
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Goodbye to Our Kindergarten
as homeless manOne day, five kindergarten children suddenly disappear from a kindergarten in Tokyo, sending...
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Get Up!
as uncreditedA James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter...
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Sakura Guardian in the North
as Kazuo YamaokaThe film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by...
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Samurai Kids
as Fumihiro KusubayashiA special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient...
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Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
as Kimio Hatsukaichi, Matsu's loverThe members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their...
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Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
as Seinosuke YanagiharaAsahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new...
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Play it, Boogie-Woogie
as uncreditedA runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in...
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Deaths in Tokimeki
as SwimmerDeaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting...
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Miss Lonely
as Tetsu YoshidaLonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously...
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Black Jack
as Shuzo MoroukaMatsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a...
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The Rocking Horsemen
as TerauchiIt is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is...
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Keiho
as Inspector NagoshiThe psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may...
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Loved Gun
as Tei MaruyamaA story about a hitman named Hayamada who carries a distinctive red gun. As the film progresses...
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AIBOU: The Movie
as Kohken OnodaA former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan...
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Kanashiki Tenshi
as Keisuke OkishimaThe body of a 59-year-old male is found on the banks of a river. The stepson, Kazuo, confesses...
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MARKS
as Ikuo KiharaAssistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member....
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The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
as uncreditedA dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An...
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Ichigo domei
as uncreditedThe story of a love triangle between two high school best friends and their cancer-stricken...
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The Motive
as CaretakerFour people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims...
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Another Battle
as uncreditedFormer childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a...
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Sleeping Man
as ChiefEver since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors...
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AIBOU: The Movie II
as OnodaThe kidnapping of some chiefs of police by a rogue ex-policeman is just the beginning for a much...
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Hibi
as uncreditedHibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up....
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Samurai Gangsters
as OhmasaJirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with...
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Box: The Hakamada Case
as Professor YokoshiBased on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years...
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First Gentleman
as uncreditedHiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist (expert on birds). His wife is Rinko (Miki Nakatani)....
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Billiken
as uncreditedThe main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called...
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Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen
as YotsuyaIn this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with...
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Noh Mask Murders
as uncreditedThe patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who...
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The Sting of Death
as ToshioMiho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their...
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Osaka Love & Soul
as uncreditedOsaka Love & Soul (TV film) Drama 2010, 75 min
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Sure Death 5
as Goto SannosukeFifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a...
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Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special
as uncreditedKojiro Himuro is a champion figure skater taking part in an upcoming world competition. Yet, he...
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The Milkwoman
as uncreditedMinako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering...
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The Mystery of Rampo
as uncreditedEdogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing...
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Futari no onna
as MaedaAfter Emiko, a bookstore owner, is driven to suicide by loan sharks, her orphaned son Eisuke...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
as uncreditedThe super unconventional lawyer is back! Our new friends are comic book girls! And the biggest...
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Foujita
as SeirokuA biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and...
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A Hardest Night!!
as uncreditedA celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”....
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Yume-Chiyo
as uncreditedYumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do...
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The Buried Forest
as Mr. MaruThree high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local...
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The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
as uncreditedDepicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
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East Meets West
as John ManjiroA disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a...
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The Projects
as Seiji YamashitaWhether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat,...
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Tales of the Bizarre 20th Anniversary Fall Special: Popular Author Competition
as uncredited
Someday
as uncreditedThe annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However,...
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Sure Death! 3
as uncreditedThird movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of...
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The Man Who Wipes Mirrors
as uncreditedTsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living...
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Goodbye for Tomorrow
as Tsuyoshi SasayamaPeople from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3...
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I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
as Yoshiharu IshiiOn the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the...
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Gray Sunset
as Yoshikazu IshimotoGrandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when...
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
as uncreditedIn a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like...
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Walking My Life
as Koichi FujiyamaA 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he...
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A Lavish Invitation
as Osamu AkatsukaThe Tigers, a rock band, escape their parents and teachers trying to forcibly cut their long...
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Osaka Hamlet
as Takanori KuboA film about family life in Osaka. Following the death of their father, three boys struggle to...
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Circumstances
as Gotou YoshitakaYouko and Harumi have been friends since youth as their life circumstances were similar. Youko...
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GS Wonderland
as Jukichi Matsuda"GS Wonderland" is about the 1960's Group Sounds bands - A Japanese pop movement inspired by the...
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Nettai rakuen kurabu
as uncreditedStraight-laced, honest Japanese travel agent Misuzu gets a job as a tour guide so that she can...
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Happy Go Lucky
as AtsuoTakashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back...
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Face
as Eiichi HanadaAwkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage...
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Murder on D Street
as uncreditedDetective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic...
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Pretty Woman
as Ryutaro MorishitaElderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company....
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Many Happy Returns
as GoKazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers...
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Sky Cannot Be This Blue
as SaitoKantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been...
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Tap：The Last Show
as uncreditedShinjiro Watari, a former tap dancer, plays the lead as a dancer who is forced into retirement...
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Beautiful Sunday
as uncreditedA droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions...
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Turning Point
as Sakakibara, The PoliticianA middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the...
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It Is a Long Walk
as uncreditedScreen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern...
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People of Twilight
as uncreditedA woman runs a “mistress service” and interviews young women for “dates” with men. Various...
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Yoru no Agura: Ane to Ototo to Watashi
as chichiAkiko quit being a piano teacher and has been spending her days aimlessly without setting any...
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Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune
as TotaniKomaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring...
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Chameleon
as uncreditedKeiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the...
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The Tigers - Hi! London
as SallyThe Tigers are much too busy to have a holiday; but one day a mysterious man appears in their...
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Tokyo: Level One
as Director of Finance Bureau OhnoPanic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.
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Lying to Mom
as Yukio SuzukiSuzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his...
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It's All Right, My Friend
as Man in WhiteAn alien with super powers fallen from the sky is befriended by some people who help him stop an...
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Lady Joker
as Seiichi ShiraiMen and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death...
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The Pig's Retribution
as uncreditedA virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's...
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Arashi Tatsunari
as Kiyoshi FujiwaraCan a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history,...
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I Hate Tokyo
as uncreditedNatsumi (Kie Kitano) moves to Tokyo to enter a fine arts university. In Tokyo, Natsumi meets...
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Leaving the Scene
as Kozaburo YanagiShuichi is engaged to Sanae and they will marry soon. One day, Shuichi is driving a car and his...
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Argentine Hag
as Junzo ShiraiAfter the death of her dearest mother, her serious-minded father goes missing, leaving their...
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I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
as Director MimaA heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew...
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My House
as uncreditedA young Japanese boy's life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of...
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Dying at a Hospital
as Dr. YamaokaFilmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances...
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The Tigers: The World is Waiting For Us
as SallyAn alien spaceship crashes on Earth due to the powerful musical energy emanating from Group...
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The Ripples
as Dr. ObanaInako Natsui is a quiet, modern girl working in a laboratory and living a closed and somewhat...
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Maison Ikkoku
as YotsuyaBased on a hit manga by Takahashi Rumiko, this is a romantic comedy about the relationship of...
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Living Rights
as uncreditedThe fifth work of the "Kita-Shirakawa school movie" in which a student of Kyoto University of...
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Before The Leaves Fall
as uncreditedAn elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was...
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Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape
as uncreditedKarin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her...
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The Bleep Brothers
as TokuzoTatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief,...
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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as OnodaDetective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...
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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as Koken OnodaDetective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...
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Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
as Akira KanbaraDaimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor...
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Hero
as Kaoru KayamaKohei Kuryu is a former juvenile delinquent who drops out of junior high and goes on to earn a...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer
as Haruhiko Madarame（斑目 春彦）Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little...
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The Private Detective Mike
as uncreditedMike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the...
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Dandan
as uncreditedThe twin girls Tajima Megumi and Ichijo Nozomi was separated at birth after their parents had...
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Kokoru wa Itsumo Ramune Iro
as 横川エンタツThe 33rd NHK Asadora. Starring Eisaku Shindou as a man who loves manzai (a traditional style of...
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Imo Tako Nankin
as 花岡常太郎The series takes place in 1962 Osaka. Hanaoka Machiko, 37, is single and works at a hardware...
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The Waste Land
as Tatsuya SatoiIki Tadashi is a military leader named who was captured by the Soviets during World War II....
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Gift
as Satoru Ebisuoka（戎岡 悟）Gift is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from April 16, 1997 to June 25,...
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Tada's Do-It-All House
as uncreditedIn the fictional town of Mahoro on the outskirts of Tokyo is Tada Benriken, a small business...
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Iryu: Team Medical Dragon
as Noguchi KenoRyutaro Asada was the chief surgeon of Team Medical Dragon, a globally active emergency medical...
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Ruri's Island
as Kishibe IttokuRuri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless...
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Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File
as Tadashi MatoyaModern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen / Operation Mystery tv show. A special unit called SRI...
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War of Traps
as Kenichi TsurumakiParliamentary secretary Toru Washizu (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) has devoted 20 years of his life to...
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Who Do You Think You Are?
as Kazuhiko MurakoshiWhile working in the leisurely atmosphere at a food company's factory, Futaro is asked to return...
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The Copycat Criminal
as uncreditedJournalist Maebata Shigeko, young Tsukada Shinichi and elderly Arima Yoshio all suffer from and...
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Muyoan Retirement Training
as uncreditedThe main character, Hanbei Hinata, who plays Mizutani, is a direct hatamoto guardian who guards...
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Princess of the Frog
as Kiyotada IsakaMio Kurasaka was a bright musical star on Broadway, but setbacks forced her to return to her...
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Saintly Woman
as Maehara MitsuoWhen I was 17-years-old, Maria was a college student and worked as a private tutor. Her student...
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Kawa no Hotori de
as ChameToshi-chan and BB live in a hut with a blue sheet on the banks of the Tama River. Having lived...
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Made in Japan
as Yuzurihara SaburoWith the strong yen, global financial crisis and competition from developing nations, the...
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Ordinary Miracles
as Tomoya NakajoOne day, a middle-aged man, Fujimoto Makoto, is standing on a train platform, about to jump in...
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Doctor-Y ~Gekai Kaji Hideki~
as uncreditedA "Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon" spinoff starring Masanobu Katsumura as surgeon Hideki Kaji,...
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Heaven? ~My Restaurant, My Life~
as Shigeomi YamagataKanako is about to open a French restaurant, for the sole purpose of making herself happy with...
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God Does Not Play Dice
as Ohya KenzoEverything seems normal until the Oriental Air 402 plane is swallowed into some kind of energy...
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Natsumeke no Shokutaku
as uncreditedA Meiji era home drama about the great writer Soseki Natsume and his wife Kyōko. A story of love...
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Dangerous case file of female lawyer Yuriko Mizushima
as uncrediteda 3-part TV drama series featuring Reiko Takashima
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Goodbye Newspaper
as uncreditedA huge Japan newspaper company decides to sell itself due to failing sales. An eager buyer for...
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doktor/kranke
as uncreditedSayaka, a girl with supernatural powers and multiple personality disorder, lives with...
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