Birthday: 1948-05-11
Place of Birth: Aomori, Aomori, Japan
Biography: Actor and singer
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even...
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Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their ...
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A foreign student from Taiwan, Mr. Bell, attends language school in Japan and meets Miss Sato there....
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The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses ...
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Two scammers who cross the world without being caught by Satsu and killed...
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This exciting work is full of dangerous behind the scenes stories from the sex industry....
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Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that h...
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Baijaku Nakamura takes the lead in a film where he has to dodge pursuit from a hostile gang whilst a...
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Graduating at the top of her class, elite detective candidate Jun Shibata is transferred to the sect...
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One day, an angel materializes before Kato's eyes. While the angel seems like an average girl with a...
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A girl whose younger brother as well as her lover were killed is drawn with a pistol in her hand....
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An elderly dog goes to a time machine, which he plans to use to drive to the future so he can meet w...
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Miki, a nursing care robot, is popular among some medical staff and patients for her dainty and effi...
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Middle-aged Fumi lives a quiet seaside life, she spends her days working at a small local factory, s...
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A young couple played by Takizawa Hideaki and Fukada Kyoko get's married because the girl is pregnan...
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Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and ...
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An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, pla...
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Nasu Kano, known as Nu, has a developmental disability. As soon as she was born, her mother abandone...
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A seeing-eye dog (Shiro) is granted one wish by his former owner. He chooses to become a human for a...
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A young couple lives together in a small apartment and struggles to keep their relationship together...
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A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic spec...
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In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more tha...
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At age 16, a tomboy princess, Princess Anmitsu, has no love interest in her life and worries her par...
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Hot-selling artist Sosuke Natsume suddenly declares filmmaking on the final day of his concert. Alth...
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Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All ...
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In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school...
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Professional killer Ken is trying to break away from the yakuza. Taking up work at a local motorcycl...
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Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and ...
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A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be...
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Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by...
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In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only buildin...
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Failing to succeed both as a pianist and a piano teacher, Ritsuki accepts a job at a cleaning servic...
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During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transfe...
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The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan ...
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Erika Sawajiri plays Kimiko, the main character of the story who has died. Although the title implie...
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A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently when the administration refuse...
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A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost r...
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The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a...
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Ryuga and Makai Priest Rian attempt to cleanse the Golden Armor when they are confronted by living w...
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Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area w...
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Heat After Dark is director Ryuhei Kitamura's first theatrical release. This 50 minute film is predo...
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This documentary follows the path of musician Kazuhiko Kato, who has created many masterpieces that ...
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Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and ev...
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Three conspirators steal a secret android. In their warehouse hideout, the android secretes a realit...
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First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of th...
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A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his mov...
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The misadventures of Junko, a schoolgirl who unwittingly sets off a catastrophic chain of events aft...
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Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensi...
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Ryuga Dogai returns to investigate a new mystery - the theft of Makai Knights armour. Among the vict...
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A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and b...
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Based on the writings of a true life, vision-impaired lawyer comes a story about a blind man who man...
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Asato is a young man who returns to a slummy neighbourhood (referred to as 'The Street') to be near ...
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In 1923 a Japanese comes to Munich and immediately falls in love with a street artist with a red hat...
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A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meet...
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A young woman is discovered strangled to death at the boat pier in Tokyo. There are no signs of dist...
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Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree ...
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A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who...
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Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza ...
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After saving a young Lord from an assassination attempt the Lowly Ronin finds that he is now a wante...
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Accused of being a spy for a rival clan by Nanbu Clan samurai who then attack him, the 'Lowly Ronin'...
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A serial rapist's violent daily routine is disrupted when a disaffected young woman who shares his p...
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Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objec...
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Maverick pediatric surgeon Mikoto Saijo agrees to work under his mentor, but only if he's allowed to...
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The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. ...
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Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power pl...
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A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that...
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"Kotonoha" is a heartwarming friendship story between a high school girl who is not good at socializ...
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Known for his striking visuals and outlandish subject matter, maverick director Sogo Ishii is consid...
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Yanagi Shuji is terrible at being a monk, as he just wants to have fun all the time. His father is t...
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In the year 20XX, anarchy reigns over Tokyo after a devastating earthquake destroyed the city. Isola...
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Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns...
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When they find out their community is plagued by debt, three high schoolers in an old country town s...
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Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but f...
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The story is about a family of three sisters and one brother with a dog living and running a Japanes...
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