Masahiko Tsugawa
Birthday: 1940-01-02
Place of Birth: Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Masahiko Tsugawa, born Masahiko Katō was a Japanese actor and director.
Movies
Tampopo
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside ...
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Midnight March
Yokoyama Kenji, the president of an event company that organizes matchmaking parties, meets Mita Soi...
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A Baby Given by a Fox
A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. B...
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Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino...
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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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A Taxing Woman
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Go...
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Unification Of Japan 18
Akimoto's incarceration and the retirement of the Marugami Alliance chairman re-ignite tensions in K...
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Sometime, Somewhere
The story follows Mamoru Masaki, a resort developer, and Koai, a career woman at a rival company. Th...
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HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky
Members of SWORD win against Wangan Rengogun, which is led by Kohaku. The city becomes peaceful agai...
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Looking for
Natsuko's mother is hospitalized and only has six months to live. Her last wish is to see her father...
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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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Goryokaku
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supp...
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Supermarket Woman
A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty...
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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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The Last Dance
A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his la...
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Small Rats of the Edo Town
The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the ...
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The Political Game
This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. No...
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White-Collar Worker Kintaro
Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working a...
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The Making of "Tales of a Golden Geisha"
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "A-Ge-Man" a.k.a. "Tales of a G...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special
***Fushiawase wo Anata ni (We Bring You Misfortune) A woman sees a company called "Fushiawase wo An...
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Crazed Fruit
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, bo...
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Yakuza: Domination of the Realm
Rise of the Underworld Lords— The mighty Murohachi Alliance, once unifying Japan’s yakuza under Kyo...
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Yakuza: Domination of the Realm 2
The yakuza world has entered an age of war. In Owari, Nobuhide Oriki (Tokuma Nishioka) pushes for u...
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Yakuza: Domination of the Realm 4
With the death of Nobuhide Oriki (Tokuma Nishioka), a brutal succession battle erupts within the Ori...
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Yakuza: Domination of the Realm 5
The fall of Yoshimoto Imanishi spreads Nobunaga Oriki’s (Hitoshi Ozawa) reputation across Japan. In ...
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Escape from Hell
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number o...
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A Last Note
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters w...
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Good-for-Nothing
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness ...
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Bitter End of a Sweet Night
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate th...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima....
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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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Forbidden Lips
A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mo...
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Princess in an Iron Helmet
Tamako is 20 years old, lives at home with her mother (Kishimoto Kayoko) and teenaged brother, and s...
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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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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction busi...
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A Portrait of Shunkin
Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly sc...
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The Making of "A Taxing Woman"
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna" a.k.a. "A Taxi...
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The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna 2" a.k.a. "A Ta...
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The Body
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to he...
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Chûshingura 1/47
During Japan's feudal period, a noble lord was treacherously killed by a rival. His 47 samurai retai...
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Remembrance
The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao...
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Onmitsu Hicho
Pilot for a TV series. In the pilot Hiroshi Tachi is a lower ranked samurai investigating the the mu...
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The Negotiator: The Movie
¥ 260,000,000 is stolen from armored vehicle. The criminals escape into a crowded shopping mall and ...
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Twinkle
Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at whic...
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Nunnery Confidential
Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period....
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反乱のボヤージュ
Set in a (fictional) student dormitory at Tokyo Metropolitan University, which is in danger of being...
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Making of Daibyonin
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Daibyonin" a.k.a. "The Last Da...
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Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi
Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...
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The Geisha House
Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of O...
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Pretty Woman
Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Ba...
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seduc...
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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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A Taxing Woman's Return
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a...
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Aruhi watashi wa
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriag...
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The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom
Two feuding eccentric families with super powers clash when their young sons confront each other aft...
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The Executioner
Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuichi Koga, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hay...
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Blood of Revenge
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and ru...
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Cuban Lover
Japanese fishery instructor Akira is attracted to beautiful Cuban young girl Martia. Though initial...
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Strawberry Night
Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko do...
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The Green City
Hot-selling artist Sosuke Natsume suddenly declares filmmaking on the final day of his concert. Alth...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1
This is the first volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Ter...
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Desire
Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. ...
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The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi
Korean-Japanese director Gu Su Yeon makes his directorial debut with the mouthwateringly delicious T...
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Juzo Itami: The Man with 13 Faces
A documentary about the legendary Japanese filmmaker....
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The Sun's Burial
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitu...
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Night and Fog in Japan
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look ...
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Marriage of the sky and the sea
A love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaki....
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Fish on Land
A college senior (Mirai Moriyama) takes a bicycle trip for his last summer vacation. On his trip he ...
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Stop the Old Fox
After the sudden death of her adoptive father Shimada Mataemon, Nui, whose own father met an untimel...
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Hanzo, the Razor
During Tenpo period, Bakuhu announced a law regulating expenditures in order to improve the financia...
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Aokigahara
Set within the Aokigahara forest on Mount Fuji, a famous location for suicides. Follows the love and...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 2 - The Dish Mansion at Hell’s Banchô
Second film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series....
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Tomorrow's Sun
Shochiku's up-and-coming stars take the stage in a series of short skits parodying popular films of ...
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Time and Tide
An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat....
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The Tragedy of W
The lakeside at Lake Yamanaka is covered with snow. In the vacation house in such a quiet area owned...
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High and Low
At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and ...
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Doterai Man
Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Te...
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The Last Promise
"Saigo no Yakusoku" is described as a human suspense story involving the hijack of a major building....
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Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home...
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In Blazing Love
An illustration of the tragic lives of geishas at a popular geisha house, Shinonomero. Shortly after...
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Suite Dreams
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional part...
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The Boy and the Beast
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. O...
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Farewell to Spring
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as st...
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With Wife, Children, and Friends
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes ...
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Another 47 Ronins: Genroku Taiheiki
In the 14th year of the Genroku period, Asano, the head carpenter of Edo Castle, attacked Kira, the ...
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Temptation of Angel
A story of the everyday life of a couple living together, ordinary but full of warmth and love. Star...
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Nile
A Japanese journalist in Afghanistan, whose wife dies in an explosion, tries to overcome his sorrows...
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Tatara Samurai
In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his fath...
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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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Yoko the Cherry Blossom
In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka works as a teacher in the agricultural division at a youth training institu...
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Lifetime Insecurity
In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to...
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The Girl in Glass
A girl from a wealthy family falls in love with a working-class boy....
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All By His Excellency's Work
An employee at a Japanese embassy in a South American country is kidnapped but Furuhata, who is ther...
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AIBOU: The Movie
A former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan police...
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The Man in White
After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact ...
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Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016: Reflections
This omnibus film brings together three globally acclaimed directors from Asia with a common theme '...
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Nemuri Kyôshirô 2: Conspiracy in Edo Castle
Sakai Nobunari an Elder in 'Honmaru' (or the main enclosure) and Mizuno Tadakuni an Elder in 'Nishin...
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Nemuri Kyōshirō 3: The Man with No Tomorrow
In the continuing adventures of Nemuri Kyoshiro, noted film actor Tamura Masakazu stars again as the...
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Manon
A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at th...
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Haunted School 3
Third installment of the "Gakko No Kaidan" series follows the trek of several elementary school stud...
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The Freezing Point
Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kid...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor...
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Sing, Young People!
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of the...
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Sure Death 6
When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...
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Crest of Betrayal
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyal...
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Incidental Murders
The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers,...
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The Izu Dancer
Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the ...
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Drunkard's Paradise
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving beh...
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The Domain
The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamas...
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Bloodiest Flower
A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator an...
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Flakes of Snow
A troubled architect weaves his way through numerous romantic situations in a search for true love a...
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Eien no 1/2
An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. ...
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Pride
Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime min...
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Tokyo Omnibus
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who ru...
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Maiko and the Assassin
19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while t...
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Storm Party
Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop....
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Black Rose
While investigating a murder case, Kamiki Kyoko finds out the truth behind the death of her father w...
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Freezing Point
The young daughter of Keizo Tsujiguchi, a respected physician who runs his own hospital, is found mu...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler ...
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The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion
A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss....
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Kaidan
Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His bod...
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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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Battle Royale II: Requiem
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an intern...
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Ultraman Ginga Theater Special: Ultra Monster ☆ Hero Battle Royal!
Tomoya leisurely sketches the Ultra Monsters in his sketchbook but an unknown forces suddenly radiat...
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
A police detective Shoukokuji Ryuuya from the first section of Metropolitan Police Department is tas...
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Merdeka 17805
True story of a number of Imperial Japanese Army officers and soldiers who remained in Indonesia to ...
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Woman in Witness Protection
Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the b...
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Rakugo musume
When a gal named Kasumi decides to become a traditional Japanese 'Rakugo' storyteller due to her unc...
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Turning Point
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's ...
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms ...
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Oyari Haishaku
Kotoji Akame (Naoto Takenaka) is a shabby, middle aged low-ranking samurai of small stature. One day...
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Bonds
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape ...
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Until the Day Comes
Drama depicting the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011 from the perspecti...
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Dancing Sisters
It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a smal...
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Minamoto Yoshitsune
One evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo bridg...
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Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
Higuchi Ichiyo is the first female professional novelist in Japanese literature. This tanpatsu drama...
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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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Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
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Kakera: A Piece of Our Life
A college student's relationship is going nowhere until she meets a bisexual medical artist who make...
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Reason For Not Divorcing
Yoshiko Mita and Masahiko Tsugawa enthusiastically perform a couple who know each other’s affairs an...
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The Rape
Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistic...
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encount...
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A Long Walk
A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apar...
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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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Sensei
In one of the districts of Tokyo, an old school is planned to be torn down after the summer holidays...
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Investigation of a Typical Love
The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who doesn't...
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Death Note
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utop...
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Death Note: The Last Name
In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and fai...
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broke...
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Giwaku
Sahara Takako is a lawyer who specialises in civil cases. She hates to lose and will use whatever me...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings....
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Showa Saikyo Koko Den Kokushi Sanjo!!
A brash kid must enroll into a high school known for its violent student body after the police get w...
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The Tattooed Hitman
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and n...
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Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
Biopic of Date Masamune. Young Masamune upon learning of the death of Nobunaga decides that he is th...
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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 Man Who Wipes Mirrors
Tsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living in ...
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Lady Maiko
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...
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What the Snow Brings
Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jock...
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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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Yakuza: Domination of the Realm 3
The Oriki-gumi’s quest for Owari unification is fractured by a bloody succession feud between Nobuna...
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Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled y...
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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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Suzume Iro Doki
The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and ...
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Nemuri Kyōshirō 4: The Woman Who Loved Kyoshiro
Tamura Masakazu returns as Nemuri Kyoshiro for the fourth and final time. Gensai, an eccentric Ukiy...
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Showa Saikyo Koko Den Kokushi Sanjo!!2
Ogawa Kinichi is being hunted by the yakuza of Kameyama Kogyo, and is also noticed by Kanto Masashi,...
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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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Station to Heaven
From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but mediev...
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Shin Japan's Don: FINAL CHAPTER
Ninth and last film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata....
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Unification of Japan: Compilation III — Invasion Strategy
A complete digest of “Unification of Japan” from “Unification of Japan 21” to “Unification of Japan ...
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