Birthday: 1911-10-18
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his sur...
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Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, ...
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The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government ag...
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A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino....
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A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the bes...
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The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspec...
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Detectives of the First Investigation Division are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, w...
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A young girl named Michiko is kidnapped and later found dead in a bag. But the kidnapper strikes aga...
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The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneduc...
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A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most no...
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Based on an autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, set close to the end of World War II...
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Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo...
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When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whethe...
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A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko...
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Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the wint...
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In the former landfill, where construction is currently underway, the corpse of a middle-aged man wi...
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A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of ...
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A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the ...
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Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a...
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Tadateru Matsudaira, the sixth son of Ieyasu Tokugawa, was exiled for not taking part in the attack ...
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Patrol car 108 is on the prowl in Tokyo when it comes across a suspicious small truck. When the poli...
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A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body...
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A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that th...
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Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to j...
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A man confessed to killing a woman in a labyrinth 2 years ago. The detectives must now conduct a "ba...
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A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to...
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A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the s...
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A 16-year-old high school student Midori Matsumoto was found dead on the banks of the Tama River. Th...
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Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last tim...
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The corpse of a debt collector, Sakai, is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo. Kinoshita, a shoe shiner...
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A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of advent...
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A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns....
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Two people disappeared, engineers of the companies Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime...
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After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union....
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When Koichi Hamanaka returns after his mysterious disappearance years earlier, journalist Asakura wh...
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Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū...
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A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2...
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During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...
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A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, kno...
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A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasak...
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Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business....
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To fulfill a friend’s dying wish, a young sailor Kenji takes on the task of delivering an heirloom t...
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Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a min...
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Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. The...
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Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying...
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This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese stu...
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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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Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his t...
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Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At ...
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Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. ...
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The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their mi...
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One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boo...
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Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mi...
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Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judo...
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Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group...
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Kamiki (Sonny Chiba) is a career criminal who is given the chance to break out of prison for the 33r...
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Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face...
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In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record ...
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When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in ...
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Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashi...
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Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping...
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A sly prep school thug uses his girlfriend to lure Hiroshi and Toru to a fight, but the scheme escal...
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An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love....
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An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chie...
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A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families....
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Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a ...
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Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time....
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In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the Sa...
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Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppress...
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The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the ...
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Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period....
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Su-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about Hama-chan ...
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Ichiro (Chiba) is a scrappy little sport in a big car and funny hat always looking for some fun and ...
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Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro s...
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In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries befor...
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Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of...
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After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they ar...
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The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his...
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Contrast between two outlooks on life: one of a poor factory worker and the other the heir to millio...
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A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-fu...
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The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a min...
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The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's ...
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A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, t...
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A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the w...
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In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the...
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Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....
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Princess Kazu, the daughter of Shogun Ienari, is sent to marry Matsudaira Nobunao, master of Peacock...
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Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, ...
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Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a ...
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In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greates...
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When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save...
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Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate misch...
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Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his ...
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A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private ...
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Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of...
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An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his ...
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As the Shogun lays dying, seventeen Iga clan ninja are sent to infiltrate the impenetrable fortress ...
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Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking...
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Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman or...
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Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office....
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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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About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvatio...
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Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, T...
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Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But S...
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A taxi robbery and murder occurred in Fukagawa late at night. Detectives Nagata and Miyagawa of the ...
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Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a bur...
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Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...
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A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were ...
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Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although ...
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This movie depicts a familiar samurai Tange Sazen story realistically. Tange loses one of his eyes a...
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In a bustling shopping district, a humble tailor accompanies his daughter for an afternoon out — unt...
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Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigne...
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Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a s...
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The body of a woman was found in a manhole. Is it an affair? The victim is a clerk at a mannequin ma...
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Four taxi drivers are found dead in four days. Suddenly, a taxi, trying to avoid hitting a patrol ca...
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Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor...
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Tomizo, a master storehouse-breaker who has been released from prison in Denmacho after serving five...
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Oniwaban is an organization that is composed of two ninja groups… Iga and Koga. This is a story of a...
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A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendan...
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The son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company. How...
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A film adaptation of Masatsugu Nobuhiko's novel of the same name, directed by Tasaka Tomotaka and st...
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The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways ...
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The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The ...
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Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war off...
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One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tun...
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Teacher Shizuko and her literature club students are caught up in a murder case while on vacation in...
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Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His...
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Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screen...
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This is a film adaptation of a popular NHK drama that depicts a strong-willed woman, Hana, who lives...
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Shinza is known for his stubborn personality and continues to hold a low-ranking position as a magis...
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Tetsuo, the captain of the rugby team, who was preparing for the university entrance exams, starts w...
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A robbery and murder occurred at a gas station facing the national highway at 1:00am. Detectives Nag...
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After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Depa...
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Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigne...
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On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his d...
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Ammo scavengers make a living gathering the unexploded bombs and shell casings from the U.S. militar...
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Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very ba...
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