Hideji Ōtaki
Birthday: 1925-06-06
Place of Birth: Niigata, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
City of Beasts
University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutica...
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Tampopo
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside ...
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Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
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Kabei: Our Mother
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shige...
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The Lucky General
The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulg...
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Spy Sorge
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outb...
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Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy
Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee...
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The Funeral
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events a...
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Heaven and Earth
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. T...
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Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his ...
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Hunter in the Dark
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gom...
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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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Manhunt
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted...
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Tales of a Golden Geisha
Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundre...
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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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Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal
A comedy farce depicting the noise that occurs when two unemployed circus participants discover a de...
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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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Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help the...
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Young People
"Young People" is a story about the lives of four brothers and a sister, Sato. After the death of hi...
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pi...
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Lullaby to Kill
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police det...
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Mount Hakkoda
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the wint...
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Station
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering po...
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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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Dearest
The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. ...
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Demon
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned ...
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A School Behind Bars
"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsu...
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Girl in the Glass
The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on...
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Gun Demon Without Form
A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pu...
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Tokyo Blackout
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electr...
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Judge and Jeopardy
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headles...
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The War in Space
The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds th...
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Gonza the Spearman
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appear...
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House of Evil Spirits
A suspense work starring Junko Natsu. One night, Saiko Ogata, a popular female DJ on a late-night ra...
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Teenage Wolf
In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a y...
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Kikenna onna
Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper....
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Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he...
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Dora-heita
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, us...
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Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under t...
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Tistou the Green Thumb
When eight-year-old Tistou is sent home from school after being unable to stop falling asleep at les...
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Winter's Flower
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year...
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Child of the Sun
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daug...
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Black Rain
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his ...
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Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's becau...
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Shag
Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ai...
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Blood Type: Blue
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blu...
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Lost in the Wilderness
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the ...
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The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th...
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Choji Snack Bar
Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and se...
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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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Outlaw Cop
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away wi...
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MacArthur's Children
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must c...
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The Phoenix
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also ...
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Monument to Holy Service
A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon....
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August without Emperor
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove...
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The Longest Tunnel
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunne...
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The Possessed
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa...
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The Last Swordsman
Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of th...
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The Far Road
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film t...
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Samurai Justice: The Female Bodyguard
A chance encounter on the road leads to the unusual need for a female bodyguard to protect the grand...
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A World For Two
On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, bu...
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Queen Bee
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's...
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River of Fireflies
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classma...
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Children of Hiroshima
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s...
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Tree Without Leaves
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his fi...
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Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown
Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, ...
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A Tale of Ululu's Wonderful Forest
A brother and sister leave the big city to live with their veterinarian father when their mother is ...
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Brother and Sister
Members of a country family react differently to the return of daughter Mon from a town factory.Whil...
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The International Gang of Kobe
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by U...
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last da...
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The Inugami Family
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condi...
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Internal Sleuth
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective crimin...
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Pro Golfer Oribe Kinjiro
Kinjiro Oribe, nicknamed Orikin, is a professional golfer who has not won a single tournament in his...
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Terror in the Streets
Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move ...
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Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai...
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Black Sun
Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a woun...
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Island of Hell
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946....
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The Fall of Ako Castle
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells ...
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Village of Eight Gravestones
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries befor...
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The Sorrow of Paris
Jiro Takimura, a painter, falls in love with Marie, a beautiful married woman who is studying painti...
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Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji....
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Code of Wolves
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of...
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Suddenly, Like a Storm
21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a sto...
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Solar Eclipse
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, gr...
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Casshern
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have ta...
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New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after th...
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Beyond the Shining Sea
Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a ...
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Izo
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...
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A Chain of Islands
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how...
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The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Conclusion
Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in...
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The Homeless
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths a...
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A White Ship
Shizuka (Mami Nakamura) is a young school teacher. She moves to a small village by the sea, near her...
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Proof of the Man
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of ...
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Atami Murder Case
Chief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the Metr...
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Company Buggers
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their d...
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A Taxing Woman
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Go...
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The House of Hanging
This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to d...
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Memories of Tomorrow
After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessm...
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Noh Mask Murders
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will su...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mits...
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. ...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on ...
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Lake of Illusions
A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running ...
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Departing Osaka Station at 0:00
This film is about a train departing Osaka Station at midnight to an unknown destination. The people...
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Zatoichi in Desperation
After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s...
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The Demon
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their th...
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My Voiceless Friends
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visi...
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The Village
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a m...
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Willful Murder
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service...
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City of Beasts
University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutica...
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Music Box
A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son....
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The Man Who Wipes Mirrors
Tsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living in ...
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A Wandering Gambler
Koji Himuro, a brilliant gambler, was killed by his brother and lover for discovering cheating gambl...
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Kyukei no Koya
A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shi...
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Haha Koihi no Ki
A live-action adaptation of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's masterpiece "Shōshō Shigemoto no Haha (Captain Shi...
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The Go Masters
Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese ...
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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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The Politicians
Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal m...
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Umi e, See You
Team DANKAI are set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousan...
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Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami
Genjuro’s crime was assassination, his punishment was to survive a faked execution and lose his home...
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Murder of the Inugami Clan
Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudat...
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Tales of a Golden Geisha
Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundre...
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Hometown
Tokiko Haebaru, a 76-year-old grandmother living in Nago, Okinawa. She soon embarks on a marathon ac...
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