Kyūsaku Shimada
Birthday: 1955-04-24
Place of Birth: Totsuka-ku, Japan
Biography: 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.
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The Promised Land
A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road...
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Cutie Honey
When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use he...
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future past perfect Pt. 3 (U_08-1)
a quiet autumn night in tokyo. a man stops his car at a shop front with a number of vending machines...
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Double Suicide Elegy
Mashiro works for a law firm in Kagurazaka. It takes 2 hours for him to commute one way. Kyoko works...
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With You Who Wanted to be a Star : Another Story
Spinoff of "Hoshi ni Naritakatta Kimi to" that aired right after the original series, but with diffe...
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Pure Japanese
Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience d...
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Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle
Once again, Musashi has encounter Ultraman Cosmos. Now Ultraman Cosmos has gained some new modes to ...
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Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet
When he returns to Earth to attend the wedding of his friend in Saipan, Musashi meets a beautiful gi...
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THE LAST GOZE
A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the sham...
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Dragon Head
Teru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially destr...
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Pandemic
ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His sy...
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Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri
Third installment of the Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 11 films made under the conditions: "the main ...
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The Clone Returns Home
Kohei Takahara, an astronaut who dies in the line of duty, is legally resurrected as a clone: howeve...
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Kissho Tennyo
A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an In...
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TOMA #2
When Toma decides to place his father, who suffers from dementia, in a facility, he discovers an ins...
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The Princess Blade
Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her o...
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Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the y...
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London no Yamamoto Isoroku
In 1934 (Showa 9), Maj. Gen. Yamamoto Isoroku was ordered to be the chief representative of the prel...
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SAKANAQUARIUM ADAPT ONLINE
SAKANAQUARIUM ADAPT ONLINE is a live concert experience from Japanese rock band sakanaction, created...
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Silver Mask
Sabine is able to transform into a silver superhero through the power of the Ring of Nibelungen. She...
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Not Quite Dead Yet
After Nanase's father drops dead due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days, she is named t...
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th centur...
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Rainbow Kids
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they pro...
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Ramo Trip
Film on the life of Ramo Nakajima, part adaptation of his short stories, part documentary...
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Dark Tales of Japan
Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Jap...
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Snake Girl
Yumiko has been invited by her cousin to spend summer vacation in a rural village. Once they arrive,...
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First Gentleman
Hiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist (expert on birds). His wife is Rinko (Miki Nakatani). She is...
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Wandering Brain
A psychological suspense based on the novel of the same name by Naoki Prize-winning author Tsuyoshi ...
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百日紅の下にて
Almost all of the dialogue and narration is extracted from the original story, and there are no part...
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Kashi bōto jū san-gō
Although greatly abbreviated and simplified, and in a back-and-forth sequence, almost all of the dia...
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Tonbi
Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (late...
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The Code
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective...
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Skin #5 Video Mix M.M.M.
A young man discovers a floppy disk hidden in the urn that houses his father's ashes. He and his fri...
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What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the g...
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The Courier
At the beginning of the 19th century, Japan was under a policy of national isolation. A group of Dut...
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Welcome to Toei Slaughterhouse
The film follows Saki (Momotsuki), Mei (Kudo), and Kaho (Teramoto), the members of the budding idol ...
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Shodo Kyouju
Kamikawa Katsuji, a bank employee, is married to Yasuko, the daughter of a rich family and lives an ...
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Damejin
An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing n...
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Kamen Rider: THE NEXT
Bent on the destruction of the human race, the secret underground organization Shocker secretly plan...
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Switch
Prosecutor Komazuki Nao from the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors Office’s Minato Mirai branch a...
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Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill
Ataru, who suffers from “savant syndrome,” has the power to discover, observe, see through, and dedu...
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Sad Vacation
Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar ...
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Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him...
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Nagi's Island
After her parents’ divorce, ten-year-old Nagi moves with her mother to a small island in Setouchi. T...
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Tales of Terror: Final Night 2
The second volume of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the r...
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Maestro!
Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra...
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Half a Confession
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a ta...
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The Chef of South Polar
When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food b...
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One Summer's Day
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of...
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The Woodsman and the Rain
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for ...
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A Watcher in the Attic
In 1923, in a cheap Tokyo rooming house, a languid young man named Goda was feeling bored with his l...
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Tokyo!
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges f...
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Joker Game
Set along a backdrop of a fictitious second world war at an international city in Asia. In Japan, Li...
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Happiness in August
Teru, a 17-year-old high school student, goes to live at a relative's house in Okinawa after the dea...
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Naoko
Naoko meets Yusuke while staying on an island for medical treatment. Yusuke's graceful athletic figu...
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Angel Home
The "Himawari So" ("Sunflower House") is a group home for mentally underdeveloped adults. Manga arti...
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Rakugo Story
Haruki Masato is a shy youth who gets swept away when he happens upon a rakugo performance. He knock...
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Freesia: Bullet Over Tears
In the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executione...
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Time Trip App
In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo....
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Heaven's Story
A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press confe...
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Route 225
Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves ...
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The Road Less Travelled
Kazunari Katsuki (Gaku Sano) lied to his classmate that Tokyo stinks. Because of his comment, he goe...
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Penance
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of ...
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Murder on D Street
Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornogra...
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Talk to the Dead
Having lost her beloved father at an early age, Yuri lives with her mother and younger brother. Yuri...
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Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world ...
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Cape Nostalgia
Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her ...
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69
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. Th...
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Walking With The Dog
Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who's lovele...
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Happy Ending Story
High school student Mikiko travels back in time to the future using a time machine built by Monjiro,...
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K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of ...
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Memories of Matsuko
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces toget...
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Night Time Picnic
Takako's high school has a unique tradition. Every year, the school's 1000 students walk 80 kilomete...
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Tales of Terror: Final Night 1
This is the first volume to include the final series of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Sto...
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The Apology King
Ryoro Kurojima is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologiz...
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Shin Godzilla
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scra...
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Let's Go to the Hospital
When a hard-driving copywriter (Hiroyuki Sanada) discovers his comely wife (Keiko Saito) is involved...
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64: Part 1
1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is call...
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25
Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are...
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Labyrinth of Dreams
Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver s...
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Laughing Lucky Cats
Hitomi Takagi (Fumika Shimizu) and Akako Honda (Rena Matsui) are members of comedy duo “Akako to Hit...
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Tomie: Revenge
A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the gir...
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Munashiidake
A story of a married couple, Koji and Shizuko. They have purchased a piece of land to build their ne...
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Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rok...
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Love Is Five Seven Five
A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournamen...
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One Million Yen Girl
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and ...
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Patisserie Coin De Rue
A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aimin...
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4.50 from Paddington
Toko Amano worked as a detective, but to take care of her sick husband she quit her job. After her h...
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The Ice Ruts
Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person sh...
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We Are Not Alone
Businessmen competing for international building contracts in this globe-trotting comedy-adventure....
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Bird Call
A timid girl high school student, Sonoko Ishii (Emi Suzuki), has two important friends at her high s...
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The Blood of Wolves
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exi...
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Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke
Yosuke Misaki used to be a promising prosecutor, but he suddenly quit his job. He begins a new caree...
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Tokyo: The Last War
The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, th...
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Blue Hour
Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to ...
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Blossoms Bloom
Work life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began to s...
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Shin Ultraman
The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing...
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Time Scoop Hunter
A reporter is sent through time and space to document the lives of Japanese people at various times ...
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The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes...
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Before The Leaves Fall
An elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was the in...
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Sada
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and...
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The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa....
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No Way Back
When FBI Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the p...
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Farewell for Today
Kouta Fujioka is a 29-year old man who has a good family, including his father who always supports h...
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Si-Sei 2 -The Fallen Spider-
A tattoo changes a woman. A tattoo changes a man. Tattoo is everything ... Asami, a woman who breaks...
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Soup Opera
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her sudde...
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Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by...
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Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by...
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The Blue Danube
The soldiers no longer know why they are at war, and when it even started. Daily and dutifully they ...
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The Motive
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims app...
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A Madder Red
7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her...
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Abacus and Sword
Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation of t...
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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a p...
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Orochi - Blood
The story of Orochi revolves around the life of the Monzen family. Aoi Monzen, a famous, but aging, ...
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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contra...
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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a ...
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All the Things We Never Said
Atsuhisa Yamada is an ordinary man, with a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. He is close to his childh...
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Teacher and Stray Cat
Following the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat call...
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pe...
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Forbidden Siren
A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new hom...
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The Battling Angel
Police struggle to uncover Klein, a powerful criminal organization. Asuka, a young detective, is ass...
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In the Pool
A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neur...
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Columbo of Shinano - Dead Person's Echo
The first in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and m...
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Gosh!!
Life seems pretty normal at the Forensics Division. Ippei's canine partner, Oliver, appears to him a...
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Kokuho
Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing ...
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The Yin Yang Master Zero
During the Heian period, Abe no Seimei trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration wit...
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Neighbor X
The “ultimate love” that aims at “tolerance” and “symbiosis” will be sublimated and ask questions to...
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Dumbeast
How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 K...
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Kowloon Generic Romance
Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, ...
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Vengeance for Sale
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying o...
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Days in the Shade
In modern-day Kanazawa, writer Tokuda Shūsei returns to his hometown and is quietly drawn to Okine, ...
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Kingdom Hearts Re:coded
In Disney Castle, Jiminy notices strange messages appearing in the journal. Mickey, Donald and Goofy...
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殺しのはらわた
A secretive assassin collective is formed with a single purpose: to eradicate absolute evil from the...
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