Kyūsaku Shimada
Kyūsaku Shimada is a Japanese actor. He was originally part of the Tokyo Grand Guignol Theater group, formed by artist Norimizu Ameya. He stayed with the group until its dissolution in 1986. One of the productions the group undertook was an adaptation of the occult novel Teito Monogatari (Hiroshi Aramata) where Shimada played the lead role Yasunori Kato. He has appeared in films such as Makoto Shinozaki's 0093: Her Majesty's Masao Kusakari and Takahisa Zeze's Pandemic.
Shin Godzilla
as Katayama : Minister for Foreign Affairs ad interimWhen a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government...
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Shin Ultraman
as Taishi OkumaThe Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly...
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Tokyo!
as Prison Director (segment "Merde")Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller,...
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Memories of Matsuko
as uncreditedWhile combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces...
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One Million Yen Girl
as uncreditedA 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her...
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No Way Back
as TetsuroWhen FBI Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find...
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K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
as DesignerIn an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital...
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The Chef of South Polar
as CaptainWhen eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions,...
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Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle
as uncreditedOnce again, Musashi has encounter Ultraman Cosmos. Now Ultraman Cosmos has gained some new modes...
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Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
as SyuzoThe eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya,...
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Cutie Honey
as Police ManagerWhen Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must...
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Pure Japanese
as uncreditedAction actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic...
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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
as Lieutenant SuehiroJapan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy...
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Snake Girl
as Kyoko's FatherYumiko has been invited by her cousin to spend summer vacation in a rural village. Once they...
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What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
as Wataru NakagaichiA large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief,...
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The Woodsman and the Rain
as ShinodaA widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks...
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The Code
as uncreditedFor 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for...
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Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
as Ryosuke KonoA group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was...
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The Blood of Wolves
as Takeshi KakoSet in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor...
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
as uncreditedSuzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her...
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The Promised Land
as uncreditedA girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same...
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The Princess Blade
as ByakuraiRaised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in...
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Not Quite Dead Yet
as TanabeAfter Nanase's father drops dead due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days, she is...
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The Apology King
as OotoyaRyoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others...
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Pandemic
as Shûji TachibanaER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before....
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Forbidden Siren
as uncreditedA writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new...
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
as Yasunori KatoThe reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
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Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
as Ryosuke KonoA group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was...
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Penance
as uncreditedThe murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body...
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Sad Vacation
as SoneKenji Shiraishi is involved in the trafficking of illegal immigrants from China to Japan. One...
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The Clone Returns Home
as KagaeyamaKohei Takahara, an astronaut who dies in the line of duty, is legally resurrected as a clone:...
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Dragon Head
as MinilaTeru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially...
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Labyrinth of Dreams
as Black Kite CustomerTomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus...
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Sada
as TakiguchiThe film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover...
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Joker Game
as Colonel TakenoSet along a backdrop of a fictitious second world war at an international city in Asia. In...
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Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet
as uncreditedIt has been a year since Musashi retired from being a Team EYES member and now he is finally...
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69
as AiharaHoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious...
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Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri
as uncreditedThird installment of the Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 11 films made under the conditions: "the...
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Tomie: Revenge
as Dr. TogashiA young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the...
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Kamen Rider: The Next
as ShindouBent on the destruction of the human race, the secret underground organization Shocker secretly...
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64: Part 1
as Azusa1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is...
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The Motive
as uncreditedFour people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims...
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Teacher and Stray Cat
as uncreditedFollowing the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat...
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Patisserie Coin De Rue
as Yokoi OnaA disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work....
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Naoko
as uncreditedNaoko meets Yusuke while staying on an island for medical treatment. Yusuke's graceful athletic...
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The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
as Takeshi IkenagaDepicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
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Time Trip App
as SatsumayaIn 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in...
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The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
as Hanbee TanakaIn the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo...
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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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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
as uncreditedA freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly":...
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Tokyo: The Last War
as Yasunori KatoThe year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the...
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Murder on D Street
as Kogoro AkechiDetective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic...
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Dark Tales of Japan
as Apartment Manager (segment "Crevices")Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable...
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Tonbi
as Publishing Company Security GuardYasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira...
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Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke
as 榊間Yosuke Misaki used to be a promising prosecutor, but he suddenly quit his job. He begins a new...
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Let's Go to the Hospital
as uncreditedWhen a hard-driving copywriter (Hiroyuki Sanada) discovers his comely wife (Keiko Saito) is...
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Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
as uncreditedIn 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective...
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Freesia: Bullet Over Tears
as IwatsuruIn the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional...
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Blue Hour
as The StarTrapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns...
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Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill
as Yoji NakatsugawaAtaru, who suffers from “savant syndrome,” has the power to discover, observe, see through, and...
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London no Yamamoto Isoroku
as uncreditedIn 1934 (Showa 9), Maj. Gen. Yamamoto Isoroku was ordered to be the chief representative of the...
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Cape Nostalgia
as TakahashiEtsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste...
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Night Time Picnic
as FujimakiTakako's high school has a unique tradition. Every year, the school's 1000 students walk 80...
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Half a Confession
as uncreditedHalf a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into...
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Uneasy Encounters
as HatayamaA five-part comedy and horror anthology
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Rainbow Kids
as TokyoA wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they...
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4.50 from Paddington
as Masaru OyamaToko Amano worked as a detective, but to take care of her sick husband she quit her job. After...
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Prayer Beads
as (segment "Real")This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are...
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Route 225
as uncreditedTwo kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find...
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Kissho Tennyo
as uncreditedA story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of...
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One Summer's Day
as Masahiro OoiVeteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his...
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Soup Opera
as Editor KurakiSakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her...
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Jam Films 2
as uncreditedJam Films 2 features 4 short films by different Japanese directors.
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Nagi's Island
as Norio YamamuraAfter her parents’ divorce, ten-year-old Nagi moves with her mother to a small island in...
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Si-Sei 2 -The Fallen Spider-
as uncreditedA tattoo changes a woman. A tattoo changes a man. Tattoo is everything ... Asami, a woman who...
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Farewell for Today
as Hiroki MurayamaKouta Fujioka is a 29-year old man who has a good family, including his father who always...
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Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War
as Ishiyama
In the Pool
as uncreditedA free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary...
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Double Suicide Elegy
as uncreditedMashiro works for a law firm in Kagurazaka. It takes 2 hours for him to commute one way. Kyoko...
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Switch
as Oizumi TakataroProsecutor Komazuki Nao from the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors Office’s Minato Mirai...
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The Road Less Travelled
as Jun ShimazuKazunari Katsuki (Gaku Sano) lied to his classmate that Tokyo stinks. Because of his comment, he...
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Columbo of Shinano - Dead Person's Echo
as Arai TakashiThe first in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress...
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25
as uncreditedDetectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They...
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Tales of Terror: Final Night 1
as uncreditedThis is the first volume to include the final series of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost...
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Wandering Brain
as uncreditedA psychological suspense based on the novel of the same name by Naoki Prize-winning author...
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A Madder Red
as Narihara7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from...
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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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Laughing Lucky Cats
as GondaHitomi Takagi (Fumika Shimizu) and Akako Honda (Rena Matsui) are members of comedy duo “Akako to...
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Angel Home
as SenbaThe "Himawari So" ("Sunflower House") is a group home for mentally underdeveloped adults. Manga...
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Abacus and Sword
as uncreditedSet during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation...
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Talk to the Dead
as uncreditedHaving lost her beloved father at an early age, Yuri lives with her mother and younger brother....
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A Watcher in the Attic
as Kogoro AkechiIn 1923, in a cheap Tokyo rooming house, a languid young man named Goda was feeling bored with...
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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
as uncreditedFour strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with...
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All the Things We Never Said
as Juro YamadaAtsuhisa Yamada is an ordinary man, with a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. He is close to his...
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Orochi - Blood
as ShitsujiThe story of Orochi revolves around the life of the Monzen family. Aoi Monzen, a famous, but...
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Blossoms Bloom
as uncreditedWork life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began...
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Time Scoop Hunter
as uncreditedA reporter is sent through time and space to document the lives of Japanese people at various...
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Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
as uncreditedFilm about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with...
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Damejin
as uncreditedAn off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives...
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Maestro!
as Shuzo ShimaokaDue to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the...
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The Courier
as uncreditedAt the beginning of the 19th century, Japan was under a policy of national isolation. A group of...
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Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
as uncreditedA bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange...
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Die Silbermaske
as Governor AkiseSabine is able to transform into a silver superhero through the power of the Ring of Nibelungen....
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Welcome to Toei Slaughterhouse
as MinagawaThe film follows Saki (Momotsuki), Mei (Kudo), and Kaho (Teramoto), the members of the budding...
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Tales of Terror: Final Night 2
as uncreditedThe second volume of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on...
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Nejirin bou
as Customer at barber shopA woman as the main character, love and friendship, and one of the
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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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Love Is Five Seven Five
as MiuraA haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku...
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Heaven's Story
as LawyerA young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press...
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Shodo Kyouju
as uncreditedKamikawa Katsuji, a bank employee, is married to Yasuko, the daughter of a rich family and lives...
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The Ice Ruts
as 아키노 유타카Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only...
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Ramo Trip
as uncreditedFilm on the life of Ramo Nakajima, part adaptation of his short stories, part documentary
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THE LAST GOZE
as uncreditedA "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the...
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Happy Ending Story
as uncreditedHigh school student Mikiko travels back in time to the future using a time machine built by...
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Rakugo Story
as uncreditedHaruki Masato is a shy youth who gets swept away when he happens upon a rakugo performance. He...
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Walking With The Dog
as uncreditedDumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who's...
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With You Who Wanted to be a Star : Another Story
as Washigami TakaoSpinoff of "Hoshi ni Naritakatta Kimi to" that aired right after the original series, but with...
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The Blue Danube
as uncreditedThe soldiers no longer know why they are at war, and when it even started. Daily and dutifully...
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Bird Call
as uncreditedA timid girl high school student, Sonoko Ishii (Emi Suzuki), has two important friends at her...
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Skin #5 Video Mix M.M.M.
as Takao ShimadaA young man discovers a floppy disk hidden in the urn that houses his father's ashes. He and his...
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Munashiidake
as uncreditedA story of a married couple, Koji and Shizuko. They have purchased a piece of land to build...
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TOMA #2
as uncreditedWhen Toma decides to place his father, who suffers from dementia, in a facility, he discovers an...
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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as uncreditedDetective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...
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Solitary Gourmet
as uncreditedCentered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for...
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Tales of the Bizarre
as uncreditedInspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show...
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Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
as uncreditedDaimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor...
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House of Ninjas
as Kosaku KuzeYears after retiring from their formidable ninja lives, a dysfunctional family must return to...
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Time Limit Investigator
as KoremoShūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have...
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Suits
as Koichi Miyashita（宮下 紘一）Shogo Kai is a lawyer at one of the big 4 law firms in Japan. He is good at his job, but he is...
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GTO
as uncreditedThrough the introduction of his friend Danma Ryuji, Onizuka Eikichi, the former legendary bike...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer
as uncreditedHiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little...
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The Next Generation: Patlabor
as Professor SerisawaIn a world where giant robots are built and used for labor, a special police force of robots is...
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CRISIS: Special Security Squad
as uncreditedInami and Tamaru work at the Public Security Mobile Investigation Unit Special Investigation...
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Bloody Monday
as Shimon KamishimaA genius high school student and also a hacker uses his sophisticated hacking techniques to...
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Engine
as Daisuke's fatherJiro Kanzaki is an F3000 test driver blessed with acute sensitivity and breathtaking driving...
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Silver and Gold
as Atsushi IzawaMorita, a man who never succeeds in anything, takes his anger out in gambling. He meets an...
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Avalanche
as Masaharu KurodaSeiichi Habu is a member of the mysterious outlaw group Avalanche. The group exists at a time...
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Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
as uncreditedThe heroine Balsa is a skilled bodyguard and a masterful spear-wielder. One day she rescues...
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The Complex: Prologue
as Shinichi Yamasaki"The Complex-Prologue" is a spin-off of horror movie "The Complex". A young boy named Minoru...
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ATARU
as Yoji NakatsugawaAtaru is a TBS series is about an autistic young man with a mysterious past who helps the police...
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Penance
as Detective YabeThe murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is...
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Doomed Megalopolis
as Yasunori Katō (voice)A spiritual battle is being waged within the capital of Tokyo during the turn of the 20th...
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Sasurai Onsen Endo Kenichi
as uncreditedEndo Kenichi is rumoured to have announced his retirement from acting. Staff head somewhere to...
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Hokuto: Some Murderer's Conversion
as uncreditedWhy did an abused solitary boy become a murderer? A sad but powerful gut-wrenching drama...
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Demon Ward
as Ogami TatsuoSet within a hospital, located on the outskirts of town, mysterious phenomenons occur in...
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Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama?
as Daigoro TokuyamaOne morning, students find their homeroom teacher Tokuyama Daigoro’s body on the floor of the...
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You are my only Madonna
as Kazuma OosugiBoku dake no Madonna, sometimes shortened to BokuMado, is a drama series that aired in Japan on...
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Candy House
as Shimasaki AkiraSakurai Taro’s parents died young. His grandmother, Akiko, has been making great effort to...
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Halation Love
as Kaga TakashiMiyama Akari is a university student who manages a photography shop with her mother that was...
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Chase
as uncreditedMikami, a journalist, and Mai, a rookie assistant director of a satellite broadcasting station,...
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Our Little Love Story
as MasterA man in his forties is struggling with life and his career, until the 17-year-old daughter of...
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Tenchu: Ninja of Justice
as Jukichi ShudoA politician gives a speech in a shopping district full of shoppers. Suddenly, a man wielding a...
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A Fading Summer
as Sadatoshi OtsukiA major newspaper has informally decided to employ a female university student. However, shock...
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Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
as 齐藤Saeki Shuichi was a detective, but he quit his job. He now works at a detective agency. One day,...
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Kaiki Daisakusen: Mystery File
as uncreditedSecond modern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen tv show.
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With You, Who Wanted to be a Star
as Takao WashigamiA love story that depicts the fate of a young college student who is taking a leave of absence...
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Invisible Man
as uncreditedA photographer accidentally gets hold of a drink that enables him to become invisible, and while...
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Chase
as uncreditedMikami, a journalist, and Mai, a rookie assistant director of a satellite broadcasting station,...
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Blood on the Tracks
as Haruhiko MuraokaAn ex-detective, Kagawa, is found dead in a park in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Swearing revenge,...
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Double Tone: Two Yumi
as Isao TatsunoA story of friendship and conflict of two people named Yumi, which transcends time and space.
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Utenai Keikan
as uncreditedThe drama depicts the conflicts of elite police officers torn between career aspirations and...
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