Birthday: 1935-08-09
Place of Birth: Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between tw...
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Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...
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A neighbor dies when potted flowers fall from a balcony of an apartment complex. A man whose father ...
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Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...
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An action in which a former CIA female operative captures a revenge drama that unfolds against a hug...
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When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish na...
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Yuki Ozawa is approaching her 50's and she has now began working on her first serialized manga. The ...
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A drama of two aging women who live a solitary life collecting discarded items from a nearby town. O...
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30 year old Yoko Sasaki (Arisa Mizuki) works diligently at a publishing company. She then receives t...
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The first special of the Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi drama series....
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Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown ...
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In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much...
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TBS Wednesday Drama Special about a young assistant in love with an older man who works as a photogr...
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Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and on...
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Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the ...
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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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A Japanese teenager embarks on a quest to find the Canadian lover of her grandmother....
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Twenty-three-year-old Ken has difficulty coping with the death of his father. His mother send him to...
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A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's ...
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A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pi...
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After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure...
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A drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic creation ...
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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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The true life story of Leonie Gilmour, whose life crossed continents, wars and cultures, embodied wi...
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A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch ...
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The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao...
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Gabai Granny is based on the bestseller Saga No Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga), which is pen...
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After she drives drunk and hits an old woman, a famous novelist is threatened with a law suit by the...
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The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak ...
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A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth ...
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A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pu...
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A love story woven by a loveless mistrust girl, Kaede Tamaki who works for a small video production ...
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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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Lonely after the death of her husband, whom she nursed for years, Tae decides to find a new life par...
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A newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at his ...
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Saki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser....
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Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage...
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Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964....
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Hiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. He encounters Kazumi, a youn...
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Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces ...
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While Kazuo Tanaka eagerly practices his greetings for the big wedding the next day, his first as a ...
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An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and ...
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Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a numb...
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Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new lif...
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Divorced salaryman Yoji has just buried his mother in Tokyo. With few meaningful relationships left,...
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Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant ...
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A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and...
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A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the crimina...
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Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named ...
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A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her li...
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About a family shouldering an unexpected responsibility when Alzheimer's disease strikes their grand...
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Soutaro Nagare is an assistant at a commercial film production company. However, one day at the stud...
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A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to ...
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Horror TV-Special broadcast at the 27th September, 1991....
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The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to ...
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TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. P...
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While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the univer...
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Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discover...
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Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she st...
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Suzume Akamatsu works at a library in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. She delivers books by riding a bicy...
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Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the he...
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Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Fa...
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Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-gir...
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Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician ...
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Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease....
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In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They...
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Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first l...
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The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano u...
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A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves....
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Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical cr...
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The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate....
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At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one aftern...
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A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what ...
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A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed...
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High school student Naoki Tomura grew up in a remote area in Hokkaido. He meets piano tuner Soichiro...
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The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jea...
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An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. ...
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Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to ...
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The mysterious relationship between a breast-sick sister who lives in a warehouse and the younger br...
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Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat...
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Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in hi...
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About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and h...
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Kunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets Geisha M...
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Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of...
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A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death....
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Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a ...
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After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home....
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A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon...
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An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by To...
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A female career banker shatters the glass ceiling of a mega bank by disclosing its shady business to...
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Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who ...
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Immoral Affairs (Fukigen na kajitsu) is a Japanese film made in 1997 and directed by Katsuo Naruse.I...
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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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Looks back 20 years into the past of an elderly woman who died of heatstroke and paints a picture of...
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Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given th...
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A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career....
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Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, sh...
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Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of h...
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The third work of the popular series depicting the famous detective Kyosuke Kozu. Blind musician Ry...
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Movie theater Asahiza has existed for almost a 100 years in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture. Unlike...
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A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War...
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A frustrated young woman returns from Tokyo to her hometown in Toyama where she meets an old woman w...
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The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than ...
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A photographer is lost in a storm and washes up on an isolated island, where he meets a vampire woma...
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A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)...
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Saho Takahashi, capable but a disillusioned nurse, has lost all motivation for her job working at Su...
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Shozo, a personnel manager nearing retirement, had three daughters around their age. The eldest daug...
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Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken ...
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Matsuki, a former war photojournalist, returns home and starts a modest life with his wife, Komiko. ...
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The night in Ginza was shimmering with neon lights. A grand celebration was being held for the seven...
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Why did she die? The Supreme Court first sentenced her to death, but then commuted her sentence to l...
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A forbidden love between a young teacher and her student. As a fragile boy’s heart and body are swep...
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The Girls' Division of Okinawa Normal School and the First Okinawa Prefectural High School for Girls...
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