Meiko Kaji
Meiko Kaji , born Masako Ôta, is a Japanese actress and enka singer.
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
as Nami MatsushimaAfter being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom...
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Lady Snowblood
as Yuki KashimaYuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as Yasuko UeharaRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
as Nami MatsushimaFollowing her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding...
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Blind Woman's Curse
as Akemi TachibanaAkemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang...
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Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
as Yuki KashimaLady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to...
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Yakuza Graveyard
as KeikoA police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song
as Nami MatsushimaNami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip...
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Onihei Crime Files: The Final Zenpen - Gonenme no Kyaku
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Under the Open Sky
as Shoji AtsukoMikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving...
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Lullaby of the Earth
as Young LadyThe story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who...
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Jeans Blues: No Future
as HijirikoHijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile,...
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Retaliation
as SaekoEmerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
as Nami MatsushimaAfter being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent...
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Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss
as MeiA wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male...
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Onihei's Detective Records
as uncreditedA criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
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Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
as Suga SasaharaIn the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the...
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Blood For Blood
as uncreditedThe Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new...
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Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter
as MakoMako and her girl friends enter a dispute with rival street gangsters The Eagles, a band of...
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
as NamiMeiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment...
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Youth A Go Go!
as Yuko MurakiKenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
as MisakoThe seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of...
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Kill or get killed!
as uncreditedWhen Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.
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Yabanjin no Nekutai
as uncreditedMotozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and...
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The Homeless
as SakeiTwo inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross...
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Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71
as FurikoThe series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and...
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The Voice of Sin
as Mayumi SoneEiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years...
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The Wicked
as uncreditedA selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the...
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Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms
as Natsuko InubushiBeginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi...
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Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo
as C-koWild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she...
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Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio
as uncreditedWith the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the...
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Greatest Boss Of Japan
as uncreditedA man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to...
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Secret Zone of Tokyo
as uncreditedThe third installment of the "Night front line" series. An erotic entertainment action in which...
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Tree Without Leaves
as uncreditedHaru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on...
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The Rule for a Vagabond
as HanakoA brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this...
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A Warm Misty Night
as HiromiWhen Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his...
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Blood Shed
as OsakaeGinjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom,...
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What Did You Eat Yesterday?
as Hisae KakeiKenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his...
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
as NamiGang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to...
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Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell
as OkikuThe tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of...
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Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya
as OmasaHeizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
as Yasuko UeharaThe 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four...
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Gambler's Dilemma
as Komiyama MakiThe love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of...
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Bad Girls of Japan
as uncreditedAre bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the...
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Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel
as OmotoThe samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered...
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Aruhi watashi wa
as uncreditedThe four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of...
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Your Life
as uncreditedA moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.
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Morning Fog
as uncreditedKyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in...
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Confession of a girl: The Forbidden Fruit
as uncreditedA unique youth masterpiece depicting the awakening of male and female sexuality with a...
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Gambling Den Desire
as uncreditedIn a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo...
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Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
as uncreditedYakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino
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Adventure With Him
as uncreditedMitsuo Hayama, who is preparing for his entrance examinations, secretly plans to take a trip...
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Women's Police
as Michiko FukueAround Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep...
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Onna no Iji
as Rika2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good....
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The Fearless Brotherhood Duet of Kanto
as uncreditedThe beginning of the Showa period. A town in the Kanto region. During the autumn festival, a car...
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Samurai Justice 2: Mother & Daughter
as OmotoMaster swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action...
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Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
as NarrationThe year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun,...
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There Was a War When I Was a Child
as uncreditedAn award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.
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Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!
as uncreditedIn 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever...
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Melody of Rebellion
as AkiThe disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold....
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The Lawyer of Shimane
as Ishizuka YokoThe story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of...
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2
as Keiko AsamiGoro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his...
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Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
as OmasaDetective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however,...
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Song of Farewell
as YumiAfter her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as...
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Nezunoban
as uncreditedIn Japan, the passing of a loved one is marked by 'night watch': staying up all night with the...
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Goodbye Mr. Tears
as uncreditedAn American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother.
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I Love The Sun
as uncreditedA coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.
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Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru
as Tamaki KishiBased on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa
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Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi
as OmasaTakahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed...
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Till We Meet Again
as uncreditedCollege life starts off great for Michiko. She and her friend join the Italian Culture Research...
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Lost Virgin
as Eiko HaseStory of a nineteen-year-old office girl who loses her virginity.
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A Young Man's Stronghold
as uncreditedA 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.
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Main Line to Terror
as FumikoAkiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the...
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Double Suicide of Sonezaki
as uncreditedSuicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703,...
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Whirlwind Of Love
as uncreditedA young woman in Hokkaido gets cold feet during her marriage ceremony and runs to Tokyo with her...
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The Code of Man
as uncreditedTetsuya Watari, a modern youth idol, co-stars with Tetsuro Tamba for the first time, and a young...
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Step on the Gas!
as uncreditedYūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...
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The Cleanup
as uncreditedA real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
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The Stormy Man
as Hisako TeramotoA remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.
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Showdown in the Red Valley
as Daughter KimikoKen Watanabe, a young man from Tokyo, comes to the great plains of Rumo, Hokkaido to see his...
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
as uncreditedA flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime...
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I'll Never Cry!
as uncreditedThe rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in...
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Gambling is My Destiny
as uncreditedShadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make...
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Monument to the Girl's Corps
as uncreditedIn 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although...
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Zeno: Unlimited Love
as Gentarou's mother (voice)Zeno: Kagirinaki Ai ni is a movie about life and work of Brother Zenon Żebrowski, a Polish...
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Chushingura Silent Sword
as uncreditedKeinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he...
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The Blazing Continent
as uncreditedA youthful Nikkatsu drama about a Japanese painter who travels to Australia and falls in love.
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No Greater Love
as uncreditedIn 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of...
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Bounty Hunter Muyonosuke
as uncreditedTakahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter...
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Cold Current
as uncreditedSet against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle between the faction of the chairman of the...
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Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal
as MayaTwo Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the...
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Onihei Crime Files: The Inside Woman
as OmasaEdo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of...
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The SAKURA Code
as uncreditedCold-blooded obligations and loyalty in the gambler's world.
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Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow
as OmasaHeizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen...
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Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 8
as uncreditedPresident Ito, a major apparel maker, was poisoned in the president's office. Kenzo (Baku...
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若い川の流れ
as uncreditedThe story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department...
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The Killer
as uncreditedA former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a...
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Flickering Flames
as uncreditedIn the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone...
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In Tears
as uncreditedHiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town...
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Gokudô Petenshi
as uncreditedA group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence,...
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A Gangster's Morals
as uncreditedYakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
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I Shall Not Forget
as uncreditedHearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that...
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Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits
as OmasaAn old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in...
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Onihei Crime Files: Bungoro Amabiki
as OmasaHeizo "The Demon" deals with an arson thief gang known as "Bungoro" the fire thief who leaves a...
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Love and Desire in the Night Mist
as uncreditedA film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
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My Neighbor's Masala
as uncreditedSawaki Tatsuya is a fledgling photographer. He returns to his hometown Fukuoka to take care of...
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Onihei Hankachō
as おまさHasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates...
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SMAP×SMAP
as Bistro GuestSMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the...
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Modern Love Tokyo
as MakoThis seven-episode anthology features a cast of leading actors and depicts various forms of...
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Yu Yu Hakusho
as GenkaiAfter a selfless act costs him his life, teen delinquent Yusuke Urameshi is chosen as a Spirit...
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Wonderful Single Life
as Yoko Kirishima"Kekkon Shinai" follows the lives of single people in their 30's and 40's.
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What Did You Eat Yesterday?
as Hisae KakeiKakei Shiro is a lawyer who works at a small law firm. He is a good cook and a meticulous and...
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Seven Ms. Prisoners
as Ryo IchijoKamiwatari Kotone is a geisha in Kyoto. While she is sleeping after a night of drinking, her...
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There's Someone Watching
as Shimako MatsumotoAzusa the wife, Otaro the husband, and their only daughter Suzu. They live in a little public...
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Ōedo Sōsamō
as uncreditedSet against the backdrop of the reign of the 11th Tokugawa Shogun, Ienari Tokugawa, this drama...
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Ronin of the Wastelands
as OfumiContinuing the tradition of the Yojimbo movies, Mifune Toshiro stars as Toge Kujuro, a wandering...
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The Man of Five Rings
as uncreditedAfter 2 years of completely isolation in mountains, Musashi comes back in order to live a normal...
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Kuwayama Jubei travels to eight provinces
as uncreditedIn this drama based on an award-winning story by author Sato Masayoshi, Kitaoji Kinya stars as...
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花嫁衣裳は誰が着る
as Akie FujisakiAn orphaned girl strives to become a wedding dress maker.
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