Akira Emoto
Birthday: 1948-11-03
Place of Birth: Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Old good "Emo-chan" of modern Japanese cinema. Emo's father was a close friend of legendary episode player Taji Tonoyama in elementary school days. His mother's grandfather ran a shamisen store in Ginza, Tokyo. Both parents like movies and theaters. After graduating from Machinery Department of Tokyo Industrial High School, Emoto got a job at a trading company. However, he became an actor and became a student of the acting classes of the theater company "Marui", which is headed by Nobuo Kaneko, and met Yusaku Matsuda who was in the same class. In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Dr. Akagi. He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Dotonbori River and Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san.
Movies
Zatoichi
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
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Umami
Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flav...
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Hard Days
After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he...
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The Eel
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbers...
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A Crowd of Three
A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a ch...
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Noise
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing popul...
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The Life of Budori Gusuko
The fairy tale follows a young man named Gusukō in the Tōhoku forests of northeastern Japan in the 1...
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Turn
Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck...
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The Great Yokai War
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great w...
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Living Rights
The fifth work of the "Kita-Shirakawa school movie" in which a student of Kyoto University of Art an...
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Rain Fall
A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins....
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The City of Lost Souls
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported f...
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ICHI
Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...
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Villain
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time correspond...
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Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
Two best friends—Tatsuo, a retiring Yakuza member, and Kiyoshi, a cop—travel to the funeral of a wom...
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Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
A documentary featuring actor Akira Emoto, film scholar Chika Kinoshita, Somai biographer Tatsuya Ki...
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Sakurada Gate Incident
Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of ...
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The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is...
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Worst by Chance
Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts ar...
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Betrayal Tomorrow
A violent detective who can handle assault and blackmail in a straight forward manner....
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One Day in January
Every year on the fourth of January, Shobei's soba restaurant serves "Sanada Soba"; soba noodles top...
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Golden Slumber
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Pr...
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Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
A mysterious extraterrestrial being resembling Godzilla rapidly approaches Earth. The monster, dubbe...
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Dr. Akagi
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war...
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Maborosi
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searchi...
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The Chasing World
A teenager is transported to a parallel world where everyone who shares his family name is being hun...
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Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government...
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Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is a...
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The Silk Road
In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi X...
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I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinj...
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Starfish Hotel
Office drone Arisu finds his own life imitating the mystery novels of his favourite writer when his ...
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In His Chart
There is a degree of realism when a professional in the field writes about his vocation and such is ...
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Manhattan Kiss
An adult love story written and directed by Yasushi Akimoto of "Goodbye Mama" and shot on location i...
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April Bride
On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride...
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Ace Attorney
Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses on r...
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Karate-Robo Zaborgar
An evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominment business leaders to harvest their DNA a...
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Goal of the Sky
A single mother who returned to her hometown at the lowest point of her life, and a doctor who is en...
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Haru's Journey
Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a t...
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For the coming day
Miyo Hanayama works as a home care nurse, supporting the home care of patients who are close to dea...
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Unforgiven
An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down ban...
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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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The Friends
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interes...
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September 1923
Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake....
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Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to att...
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Lovers Lost
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mis...
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Wandering
In a park on a rainy evening, a 19-year-old university student, Fumi, offers an umbrella to a soakin...
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Cast Me If You Can
An actor, who always plays supporting roles and lives in the shadow of his famous playwright father,...
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BON-UTA, A Song from Home
Taiko drummer, Hisakatsu Yokoyama, and fellow evacuees of Futaba, Fukushima fight to keep their belo...
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The Lightning Tree
Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree ...
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A Woman from Ashio
A story about a woman from Yanaka Village, Tochigi Prefecture, which was abolished by the government...
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Yellow Elephant
Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while ...
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Touken Ranbu 2
In the year 995, due to a secret talk between Michinaga Fujiwara (Akira Emoto) and Seimei Abe (Terun...
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Barber Shop with a View of the Sea
Set in a barbershop in a small town by the sea, this is a story about a quiet but passionate one-hou...
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The War and a Woman
Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woma...
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The Innocent Game
Kiyoyoshi Kuga attends law school, aiming to work in the legal field as a lawyer. His childhood frie...
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Private Lessons II
Ken, an insecure young man from Japan, meets Sophie, an interesting and sensual woman who teaches hi...
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The Taste of Fish
It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshe...
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The Shadow Spirit
A series of murders of beautiful girls occur in Tokyo not long after the end of the war. Also the da...
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Owl
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to ...
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KT
This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politici...
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The Most Beautiful Night In The World
Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring lit...
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Will to Live
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution...
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Wood Job!
After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trai...
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0.5 mm
Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with h...
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John Rabe
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...
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Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
Softcore porn collaboration between Nikkatsu director Shinya Yamamoto and gag manga artist Fujio Aka...
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Life Back Then
Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the targ...
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Oh! Father
Yukio is a typical high school student in every way except that he's an only child in a family of fi...
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Postcard
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrad...
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Farewell, Kuro
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high s...
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The Lakeside Murder Case
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare inten...
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The Last Frankenstein
Professor Sarusawa and his psychic daughter Mai live together after the suicide of the Professor's w...
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The Whispered City
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a b...
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The Happiness
The story of a vagrant who arrives in a town in Hokkaido. With only a threadbare suit, an old pair o...
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All Around Us
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values wit...
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Ninja Kids!!!
The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. Durin...
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Present for You
Shigeru Kajiwara (Joe Odagiri) works part-time at a company that sells mysterious health food. One d...
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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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Yudo: The Way of the Bath
Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage...
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After the Flowers
Ito, daughter of a clan official, encounters Magoshiro Eguchi. Magoshiro is a low ranking samurai sp...
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River of First Love
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded...
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The Go Master
The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a...
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Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age dra...
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Abduction
The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wize...
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Beijing Watermelon
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and...
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It's Only Talk
Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She ...
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Life Can Be So Wonderful
Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan....
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Cold
Genius scientist Kikuo Himura (Yosuke Kubozuka) succeeds in developing a miracle cure for the cold v...
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The Rainbow Seeker
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushi...
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Moon and Cherry
When an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and mous...
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Japan Sinks
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As fur...
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The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
Teru (Yuya Endo) has been brought up in a hill town and spent his childhood conquering the slopes on...
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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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Humanoid Monster, Bem
Bem, Bela and Belo arrive at a new town plagued by a series of mysterious, unsolved cases which, as ...
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Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo ke...
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I Can Hear the Duck Singing
A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains...
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A Lone Scalpel
Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operati...
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Roar of the Crowd
Based on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari Tob...
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Scrap Heaven
The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus...
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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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Fancy Dance
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initiall...
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Journey to the Shore
Mizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and...
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Vampire in Love
Kiira seems like an ordinary young girl, who likes to talk with her friends and to dress up. Her ult...
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Egoist
A lonely magazine editor finds romance with his personal trainer until a confession changes everythi...
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Rental Family
An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Ja...
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Ripples
Yoriko Sudo believes in a new religious group Midoriinochikai, that worships water. She lives peacef...
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A House on a Hill
Rieko Sugita, a young and beautiful hairdresser who happens to visit a bedding shop owned by Yoshita...
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Sleeping Forest
A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ...
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The Man from Shimizu
On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamb...
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Round About Midnight
While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into ...
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Love Letter
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married ...
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Do Unto Others
A community is shocked when the bodies of an elderly man and the manager of a home-visit nursing cen...
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GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
Ryuga and Makai Priest Rian attempt to cleanse the Golden Armor when they are confronted by living w...
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Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst flee...
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Capone Cries a Lot
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achievin...
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No Place to Go
Michiko used to work as a live-in part-timer at an izakaya, but suddenly lost her job and her house ...
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Nagisa
Set in the late 60s in a small seaside town, this coming of age drama centres on a young girl named ...
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Samurai Fury
Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outla...
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Drugstore Girl
Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, sh...
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes unde...
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The Mohican Comes Home
Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but ...
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The Big Bee
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The...
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The Summer of Stickleback
Set in Kyoto, 1990. Mizuho Oshima is a high school girl who hates her alcoholic mom, adores her fath...
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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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Maria's Stomach
A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight...
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The Second Is a Christian
The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different me...
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When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
From the 1980s to the 1990s, New Taiwanese Cinema gained international attention for adopting a comp...
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Don't Lose Your Head!
In 1701, an insult led to a sword slash between the heads of the Ako clan and the Kira clan in Shogu...
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Doppelganger
Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing hi...
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Black Widow Business
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and ev...
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Battle Heater
Furuchi and Hama are two unsuccessful repair agents and electronic engineers. One day Furichi finds ...
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully compre...
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vie...
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Hana
Yoichiro Nozaki, a high-achieving office worker, collapses from an aneurysm. The doctor advises imme...
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The Yen Family
Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the da...
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The Pearls of the Stone Man
Atsushi and Ryoko are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move to Bi...
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Ekeb of Dekye
Takahiko Tokito is a doctor at a big medical corporation. He has decided to run away with his lover,...
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Shippu Rondo
An illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. The university lab can't even cal...
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A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
Although Nobuyoshi and Saki just got married and moved into a new apartment, their relationship stil...
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Harimao
A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Penins...
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Dance till Tomorrow
Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series....
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Maru
Sawada graduated from an art university but cannot rely on it to make a living and is working as an ...
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Kaza-hana
A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey....
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Fly, Dakota, Fly!
In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. Dur...
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Lu Over the Wall
In a small fishing village, a gloomy middle school student named Kai meets a mermaid named Lu....
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Location
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adapt...
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Waterboys
In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to tak...
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Mukoku
Kengo was gifted in Kendo (Japanese martial art) but he quits after a tragic incident. He works as a...
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A Living Promise
Yuma Nakahara is the CEO of an IT company and he is a workaholic. He is focused only on expanding hi...
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Revolver
When a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who decide...
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Random Lives
Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, ...
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Suspicion
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local...
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Double Bed
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend...
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Color Me True
Kenji is a young aspiring movie director. He falls in love with Princess Miyuki, who came from a bla...
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Teacher and Three Children
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on...
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The Hunter and the Hunted
Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take...
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A Grain of Wheat
“A Grain of Wheat” is a story of two bakeries in Yokohama. A French baker, Eriko, makes a sudden vis...
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Mottomo Abunai Deka
Taka and Yuji find evidence in a 15-year-old case, but the statute of limitations expires in four da...
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Free and Easy 8
When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love wi...
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Another Heaven
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the ...
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Evil and The Mask
Kuki Fumihiro is a son from a wealthy zaibatsu (conglomerate) family. His father raises him to becom...
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Shikei Kijun
Do criteria exist for the death penalty? Yusuke Mito, a law faculty lecturer who did not become a la...
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Shoplifters
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives thr...
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Neko Ninja
Kagerota is a young ninja who embarks on his first mission: stealing the goldfish from a wealthy sam...
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The Heartbreak Yakuza
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engul...
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Hutch the Honeybee
Hutch the Honey Bee and friends set on an adventure to find Hutch's missing Queen Bee Mother, whom h...
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Recall
A woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the freight ...
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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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Bedtime Eyes
Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between ...
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September 11
An anthology of short films inspired by the events of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks....
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Iwane: Sword of Serenity
Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in ...
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Goodbye Mama
A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disru...
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A Tale of Young Elopement
A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with...
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Sniper
Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in a...
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Survival Family
A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo i...
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Yona Yona Penguin
Rintaro directs a tale of three children who visit a land of wonder. This is the first "3D anime" th...
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Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
A meek salaryman who gets no respect at home and is belittled at work gets inspiration from Superman...
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Castle of Sand
A bruised and battered corpse in Shibuya, Tokyo has the attention of the local cops. A veteran detec...
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A Sower of Seeds
Kinjiro, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, is a good-natured fel...
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Oz Land
Kurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is connected...
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They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowi...
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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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Winning Pass
This is a story about a high school student who had it all going for him. He was great at basketball...
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Body and Soul
A group of four friends and lovers in their forties recall their past intimacies while trying to bui...
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Casting Blossoms to the Sky
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city ...
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Show Me the Way to the Station
A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an awa...
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Universal Laws
A young man working as a first-class fashion designer decides to give up his business and return to ...
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The Key
Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man...
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Disciples of Hippocrates
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, e...
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The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa....
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Shall We Dance?
A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly sta...
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Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
A young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying “Granny, it’s me,” he lies to t...
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Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
Set in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander...
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Legend of the Cat Monster
A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter i...
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Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
Taishi lives with his father Kazushi. His mother left home when Taishi was very young and he barely ...
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Living in the Sky
In the time after Naomi's parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular actor ...
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Godot of the Emotos
The acting family, the Emotos, are the subject of this documentary following Emoto Akira and his son...
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Underdog: Part One
Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira ...
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Happy Flight
A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, d...
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Stardust Over The Town
Story of the struggling chorus group "Yamada Osamu and the Hello Nights", who gain an unexpected new...
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Zebraman
A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old ...
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Teacher's suitcase
Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former hig...
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The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt...
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It Feels So Good
When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting m...
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The Dog Bridegroom
Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and ...
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The End of the Tiny World
Kida and Makoto grew up together because they have it in common that they don't have parents. And a ...
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I Never Shot Anyone
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, ...
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Wonderful Paradise
In consequence of his professional mistakes and declining career, Shuji and his family, the Sasaya’s...
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to t...
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A Man
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a b...
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Prodigy
Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before...
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The Boy and the Dog
6 months after the earthquake disaster in Sendai City, Nakagaki Kazumasa is a young man who has lost...
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The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt...
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Samurai Resurrection
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