Joe Odagiri
Jō Odagiri (小田切 譲 Odagiri Jō, born February 16, 1976), better known by his stage name Joe Odagiri (オダギリ ジョー Odagiri Jō), is a Japanese actor and musician. South China Morning Post described him as "a rebel, something made evident by his grungy, gothic style" Odagiri Joe was born in Tsuyama, Okayama prefecture, a small town in central Japan renowned for its beautiful cherry blossoms in the spring. Though he was accepted by Kochi University, he turned it down for an opportunity to study in the United States. He had originally intended to study movie directing at California State University in Fresno, but mistakes in the application process landed him in acting classes. It may have been a blessing in disguise, for two years after studying in Fresno and later starring in a few stage performances in Japan, Odagiri would find himself catapulted to fame in his role in the Kamen Rider series, playing the central character of Kamen Rider Kuuga, Yusuke Godai. He became the predecessor of the "Ikemen Hero" craze (literally, "good-looking actors playing hero roles in popular TV series"). Since then, Odagiri has appeared in many movies and dramas. He won the Best New Actor Award at the 2003 Japan Academy Awards for his role as the uniquely bisexual nemesis in the film "Azumi", and in the following year, was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Award for his electrifying performance in internationally acclaimed director Kitano Takeshi's 2004 film, "Blood and Bones". Odagiri's creative acting skills and strong presence in films have secured him a place in stardom. He is slated to appear in numerous more films in 2005, including "Maison de Himiko", where he portrays a homosexual man in a relationship with the protagonist (played by Shibasaki Kou's father).
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
as Kouga Gen-no-sukeEven though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an...
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Modest Heroes
as Invisible Man (voice)Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to...
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The World of Kanako
as Detective AikawaWhen Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her...
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My Way
as Tatsuo HasegawaDuring the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found....
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Human, Space, Time and Human
as Eve's BoyfriendA group of very different people set sail on an old warship. The passengers include a senator...
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We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Kohei KajiTwo people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful...
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Azumi
as Bijomaru MogamiIn war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the...
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Air Doll
as SonodaA life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she...
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Her Love Boils Bathwater
as Kazuhiro KonoA strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal....
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I Wish
as Kenji KinamiTwelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents'...
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Blood and Bones
as Takeshi ParkIn 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan....
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The Great Passage
as Masashi NishiokaMajime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team...
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Midnight Diner
as KogureA restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a...
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Retribution
as Dr. TakagiA detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage,...
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Platonic Sex
as Toshimi IwasakiWhen Aoi is gang-raped by her classmates and kicked out of her home by her own parents she sees...
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Midnight Diner 2
as KogureThe Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim,...
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Adrift in Tokyo
as Fumiya TakemuraA thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip...
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Suite Dreams
as UkonNew Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional...
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Mr. Go
as Owner of Baseball Team Junichi ItoA 15-year-old circus ringmaster Wei-wei is left all alone with gorilla Ling-ling after...
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What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
as Ryo 'Blues' AoshimaA large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief,...
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Bright Future
as Yûji NimuraTwo friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life....
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Real
as SawanoKoichi and Atsumi are lovers who have known each other all their lives. A year ago, however, a...
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Dream
as JinIn the aftermath of a car crash, a man discovers his dreams are tied to a stranger's sleepwalking.
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Black Kiss
as Joker JonoAsuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small...
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Pacchigi!
as SakazakiRomeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent...
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Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as Masaya NakagawaAdapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age...
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Yoko
as Akimasa KudoA road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of...
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Sway
as Takeru HayakawaA psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to...
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
as Suzume's HusbandSuzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her...
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Mushi-Shi: The Movie
as GinkoMushi are beings in touch with the essence of life, far more basic and pure than normal living...
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90 Years Old-So What?
as uncreditedSato Aiko, who has won many literary awards, retired from her life as a writer and had no...
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Saturday Fiction
as Furuya SaburoIconic actress Jean Yu returns to Japanese-occupied China to star in a play directed by her...
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Poongsan
as North Korean solider 1Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North...
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S: The Last Policeman: Recovery of Our Future
as Keigo MasakiThe NPS (National Police Safety Rescue), whose purpose is to catch extreme criminals alive,...
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Over the Fence
as Yoshio ShiraiwaA recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational...
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House of Himiko
as HaruhikoSaori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned...
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Pumpkin and Mayonnaise
as HagioA struggling, unemployed musician living with his girlfriend looks to improve his life after he...
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Sad Vacation
as GotoKenji Shiraishi is involved in the trafficking of illegal immigrants from China to Japan. One...
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Gassoh
as Tokunoshin MoriIn the year 1868, three young men join the elite Shogitai division of the Shogunate. The...
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Kamen Rider Kuuga: Special Edition
as Yusuke Godai / Kamen Rider KuugaA group of archaeologists open a tomb that awakens horrible monsters, while journeyman Yusuke...
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Scrap Heaven
as Tetsu KatsuraiThe lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a...
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All Because of Me
as uncreditedYuta lives in an orphanage while waiting for her mother to pick her up. One day, Yuta, who...
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In the Pool
as Tetsuya TaguchiA free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary...
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Room Laundering
as Goro IkazuziYakumo Miko's father died when she was 5 years old. The next year, Miko mother went missing....
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Princess Raccoon
as AmechiyoAmechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog...
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Present for You
as uncreditedShigeru Kajiwara (Joe Odagiri) works part-time at a company that sells mysterious health food....
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Foujita
as FoujitaA biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and...
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Then Summer Came
as Tamio KanzakiA humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new...
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The Pavillion Salamandre
as Houichi TobishimaFour beautiful sisters are entrusted with taking care of Kinjiro, a giant salamander and...
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The Moon
as uncreditedYoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having...
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The White Girl
as SakamotoA noir fairytale revolving around three outsiders: a mysterious artist on the run from the real...
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Kamen Rider Kuuga Super Secret Video: Kuuga vs. the Strong Monster Go-Jiino-Da
as Yusuke Godai / Kamen Rider KuugaYusuke Godai awakens from a nap at the Pore Pore Tea Cafe and finds a scrapbook with newspaper...
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Hazard
as ShinShin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a...
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The Warrior and the Wolf
as Lu ShenkangSet during China's the Warring States Period (476-221 BC), benevolent warrior Chenkang Lu (Joe...
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Ernesto
as Freddy Maemura HurtadoFreddy Maemura Hurtado, a second-generation Japanese-Bolivian, heads to Cuba to study medicine....
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A Madder Red
as Yoichi Tanaka7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from...
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Airport 2013
as uncreditedWhen there's a transfer flight delay, a put-upon ground staff worker at a small town airport has...
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The Human Trust
as Eiji KugenumaA professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted...
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Out of This World
as Shozo IkeshimaFive young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American...
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Prayer Beads
as (segment "Echoes")This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are...
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Kamen Rider Kuuga: Good Job
as Yusuke GodaiKamen Rider Kuuga final TV special. Jokingly labelled as the "50th episode" of the series.
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A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic
as uncreditedSaki's father is an alcoholic and her mother is a follower of a new religion. She sees her...
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Namonaihi: A Day with No Name
as uncreditedA human drama about the strange fate of the three brothers, played by Masatoshi Nagase, Joe...
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Plastic City
as KirinYuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the...
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The Asian Angel
as Toru AokiAoki is a failing novelist, and Sol is a failing pop singer. Encountering each other in South...
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Kamen Rider Kuuga: New Year's Dream
as Yusuke Godai / Kamen Rider KuugaOn January 2nd, Yusuke Godai prepares the Pole Pole cafe for opening, reflecting on the events...
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Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
as HimselfInitially, Ambivalent Future was intended as a film about the production of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's...
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SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
as uncreditedDocumentary on the life of actor Yusaku Matsuda. This is a documentary film produced on the...
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The Solitary Gourmet
as uncreditedUpon receiving a message from an old friend’s daughter, Goro arrives in Paris and learns of the...
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Big River
as TeppeiSoon after he lands in America, Ali, a Muslim man from Pakistan, begins his search for his...
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Invisible
as Invisible man (voice)An invisible salaryman tries to become a hero.
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Into a Dream
as YujiLow-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown,...
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A School Behind Bars
as Junpei Ishikawa"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano...
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Harbour
as ShinA short film that merges footage from Hazard [2005] with music video aesthetics to create a...
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Shigure's Choice
as uncreditedShigure makes a living as a transporter with his young buddy, Haruki. One day, Haruki disappears...
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Kamen Rider
as Yusuke Godai / Kamen Rider KuugaTakeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams...
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Wednesday Downtown
as Panel memberEverybody has theories that they personally cling blindly to regardless of proof or scientific...
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Time Limit Investigator
as 霧山修一朗Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have...
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Yae's Sakura
as Joseph Hardy NeesimaYae no Sakura is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the 52nd NHK taiga drama. The story...
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Shinsengumi!
as Saitō HajimeShinsengumi! is a Taiga drama television series produced by Japanese broadcaster NHK. It was a...
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Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
as KogureIn an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef...
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Atom's Last Shot
as Akihiko OkitsuNayuta is a young genius video game developer who works independently. His anonymity had gained...
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My Dear Exes
as uncreditedOmameda Towako recently become the president of the construction company "Shirokuma Housing"....
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Atami's Police Investigators
as Kenzo HoshizakiThe story begins with the disappearance of a school bus and four high school girls. Still...
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S -The Last Policeman
as Keigo MasakiThe NPS (Nationai Police Safetyrescue) was formed to combat extreme crimes like terrorism, which...
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Transparent
as Satomi KenichiA young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be...
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We Are Rockets!
as Taro UrushidoWakaba is a 2nd grade high school student in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. When Wakaba was little,...
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Kao
as Kousuke Nishijima（西島 耕輔）A drama set in a police department depicts how a woman grows and matures as a human being as she...
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Villiany Ganbo
as Tamotsu IjyuinWhen Kanzaki Kaoru was young, her mother operated an Okonomiyaki restaurant. However, in just a...
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Sleepeeer Hit!
as Kei IokibeKokoro Kurosawa used to be a contender for the Olympic Judo Team, but she had to give up on her...
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Fukigen na Gene
as uncreditedYoshiko Aoi is a budding researcher in ethology, the study of animal behavior. "Men=male" are...
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The Thorns of Alice
as Yusuke NishimonMizuno Asumi is a doctor at the University Hospital. Her only objective in life is to avenge the...
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To Give a Dream
as Murano13 years ago, the Abe family moved to a town in the suburbs, surrounded by nature. The Abe...
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Candy House
as Sakurai TaroSakurai Taro’s parents died young. His grandmother, Akiko, has been making great effort to...
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Eerie: Invisible Face
as Seiji HirokawaSeiji Hirokawa works as a university professor. One day, his sick wife dies. Several days later,...
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Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
as Oliver(オリバー)Police dog handler Ippei Aoba has a problem. It's called Oliver. To others, Oliver is a genius...
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Sell My Hand
as Okuwa KitaroOokuwa Kitaro is a jack-of-all-trades who travels nationwide across the country working...
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Keisei Saimin no Otoko
as Takahashi KorekiyoA 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment...
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River's Edge Investigative Agency Okawabata
as MurakiMuraki works for a small detective office situated in downtown Tokyo. He takes frequent naps in...
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Creator's File: GOLD
as uncreditedComedian Ryuji Akiyama satirizes top "creators" in Japan with a deadpan, unerring eye for humor,...
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Family Song
as Seigi HayakawaKazoku no Uta is a 2012 Japanese television series. It features actor Joe Odagiri as a father of...
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Zaion: I Wish You Were Here
as Yuuji "Yuugi" Tamiya (voice)In the future, a meteor crashes into Earth and brings with it a virulent form of life. This...
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Room Laundering
as Ikazuchi GorouMiko Yakumo (Elaiza Ikeda) continues her work "room laundering." She struggles to solve the...
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Kamen Rider Kuuga
as Yusuke Godai / Kamen Rider KuugaWhen a group of archaeologists uncover the tomb of a legendary warrior, they unearth Kuuga’s...
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My Sister
as Mei EgamiEgami Mei is a genius surgeon, but is somehow still lacking. On the other hand, his younger...
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FRONTIERS
as NarratorThe documentary series features pioneers who are opening up frontiers in various fields such as...
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