Koichi Sato

Koichi Sato

Birthday: 1960-12-10

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Biography: Koichi Sato (佐藤 浩市 Satō Kōichi, born December 10, 1960) is a Japanese actor. He is the son of veteran Japanese actor Rentarō Mikuni.

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20-Year-Old Soul
20-Year-Old Soul

A young music lover named Asano Daiyoshi died at the young age of 20. In that fact, there is a feeli...

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The Spiral
The Spiral

A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact wi...

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three ...

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Kaibutsu
Kaibutsu

Detective Takeo Kosai is about to be demoted. He then plans to entrap Akira Dojima without his partn...

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Gonin
Gonin

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as pla...

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Sukiyaki Western Django
Sukiyaki Western Django

A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to j...

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Brass Knuckle Boys
Brass Knuckle Boys

A record company office worker named Kanna discovers a punk rock band called Shonen Meriken Sakku 'B...

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Samurai Resurrection
Samurai Resurrection

Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of overth...

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When the Last Sword Is Drawn
When the Last Sword Is Drawn

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

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Gentle Music
Gentle Music

The "wheels of mystery" begin to move when a man working at a small shipyard meets a female student ...

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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth

Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a p...

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Kamui
Kamui

A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family....

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Nemesis the Movie: Mystery of Golden Spiral
Nemesis the Movie: Mystery of Golden Spiral

Set two years after the drama series "Nemesis," Naoki Kazama works for Nemesis Detective Agency and ...

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Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess
Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess

A man arrives in the city upon news of a potential terrorist strike in Italy. He is Japanese foreign...

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The Magic Hour
The Magic Hour

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with t...

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Antarctica
Antarctica

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expeditio...

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Okiku and the World
Okiku and the World

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

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Lie Lie Lie
Lie Lie Lie

Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikaw...

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Whiteout
Whiteout

A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as h...

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We're Broke, My Lord!
We're Broke, My Lord!

A commoner inherits lordship of debt-ridden Tanjousan Bun. Officials inform him of new role and subs...

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The Box Man
The Box Man

A photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of the ...

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Face
Face

Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that ...

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The Last Ronin
The Last Ronin

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domai...

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Kids
Kids

A girl whose younger brother as well as her lover were killed is drawn with a pistol in her hand....

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Masked Hearts
Masked Hearts

26 years old Hanako is on the verge of directing her first-ever feature film, achieving her childhoo...

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Aircraft Carrier Ibuki
Aircraft Carrier Ibuki

The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of...

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Spectacle of Buds
Spectacle of Buds

A weak willed man teams up with a stripper after her stage show partner runs off with another dancer...

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UNFAIR: the answer
UNFAIR: the answer

After detective Natsumi Yukihira brings an end to the police hospital terrorist case, Natsumi is tra...

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Unforgiven
Unforgiven

An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down ban...

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The Silk Road
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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Children of the Dark
Children of the Dark

A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficking in Thailand and he unc...

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Suite Dreams
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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Marriage
Marriage

An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers....

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Imperial Osaka Dojima Deiri Bashi
Imperial Osaka Dojima Deiri Bashi

A personal novel-like piece that tries to leave a "record" of the restaurant in the past, triggered ...

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What the Snow Brings
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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Lovers Lost
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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Shadow of China
Shadow of China

A Chinese immigrant tries to make his way to the top as a businessman in Hong Kong while his former ...

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Dearest
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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Aegis
Aegis

The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to...

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Chûshingura 1/47
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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Waiting in the Dark
Waiting in the Dark

A precarious loner sneaks into a blind woman's home and begins living there without her noticing. Me...

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Mitsugetsu
Mitsugetsu

Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced ...

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Pandemic
Pandemic

ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His sy...

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The Floating Castle
The Floating Castle

In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unify...

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The Catch
The Catch

A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting...

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Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist ...

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The Human Trust
The Human Trust

A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from...

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The Last Supper Detective Tono Kazuyuki and the Seven Suspects
The Last Supper Detective Tono Kazuyuki and the Seven Suspects

On the first day of opening, a small Italian restaurant is set on fire, killing three customers, and...

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Gate of Youth
Gate of Youth

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner....

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Samurai Gangsters
Samurai Gangsters

Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his ...

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30 -thirty-
30 -thirty-

Takeshi Hashimoto, on the brink of turning 30, struggles with insomnia. He finds himself repeatedly ...

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Nobody To Watch Over Me
Nobody To Watch Over Me

A 15-year-old girl forced into police protection to escape from the journalistic hordes after her br...

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The Kiyosu Conference
The Kiyosu Conference

After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shiba...

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Once in a Blue Moon
Once in a Blue Moon

Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his w...

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Someday
Someday

The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's li...

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Família
Família

One day a young Brazilian man living in Japan crashes his car into the side of the house of a happy ...

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That's the Way!
That's the Way!

A rookie editor Hatsumi Takeda becomes an editor of Fujio Akatsuka who is known as the king of gag m...

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Another Battle
Another Battle

Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza...

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Rockers
Rockers

Guitarist Ko-chan is a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters...

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The Heartbreak Yakuza
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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Utsutsu
Utsutsu

A mysterious woman approaches a salaried man who leads a peaceful family life and tells him, "Your w...

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Sin and Evil
Sin and Evil

One day, a boy's body is found again under the same bridge. The case is eerily similar to Masaki's c...

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Time Trip App
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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Kingdom: Return of the Great General
Kingdom: Return of the Great General

Depicts a continuation of the "Battle of Mayang", an all-out war against the neighboring country Zha...

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Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...

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Starfish Hotel
Starfish Hotel

Office drone Arisu finds his own life imitating the mystery novels of his favourite writer when his ...

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Heaven's Story
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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Smile
Smile

Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skati...

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Love Hotel
Love Hotel

A tale of two broken souls. A call-girl named Yumi, “night-blooming flower,” and Tetsuro, a married ...

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Can't Protect Anyone
Can't Protect Anyone

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UNFAIR: the end
UNFAIR: the end

Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the co...

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Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny

To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield along...

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High and Low
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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Castle of Sand
Castle of Sand

What is the dark fate of a young up-and-coming artist who is on the verge of achieving glory? The st...

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One Last Bloom
One Last Bloom

Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns t...

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Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi
Shuuchakueki: Twilight express no koi

The drama is set on the Twilight Express, Japan's longest overnight train service, which runs approx...

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The Man from Shimizu
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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Hero
Hero

Prosecutor Kohei Kuryu takes charge of a case with a foreign embassy possessing the key to solve the...

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Happy Retirement
Happy Retirement

Shintaro, an Assistant Bank Division Chief at the Financial Services Agency, had been working like a...

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The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
The Short Films Everyone started out as a child

A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omn...

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A Gentle Breeze in the Village
A Gentle Breeze in the Village

When eighth-grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only...

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Terminal
Terminal

The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a...

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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transfe...

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Tokarev
Tokarev

A school bus driver's life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered....

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Botchan
Botchan

Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching j...

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CF Guretai
CF Guretai

Soutaro Nagare is an assistant at a commercial film production company. However, one day at the stud...

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Convenience Jack
Convenience Jack

A youth action drama depicting the struggles of a young man who gets involved in an extraordinary in...

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Sea of ​​Wandering
Sea of ​​Wandering

Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns...

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Battle Anthem
Battle Anthem

The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait....

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Wait and See
Wait and See

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his tr...

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A Woman in Danger
A Woman in Danger

A girl who comes to Yokohama from Tsuwano stumbles upon the solution to a mysterious series of explo...

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Over Your Dead Body
Over Your Dead Body

An actor named Kosuke plays the role of Iemon in a stage version of Yotsuya Kaiden and his new lover...

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Gonin Saga
Gonin Saga

Seiji is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Mean...

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The Pearls of the Stone Man
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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Flame of Father and Son
Flame of Father and Son

Yokomizo, a police officer in the traffic police force, is looking forward to watching his son Kazuh...

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Ritsuko: Her Love, Her Death
Ritsuko: Her Love, Her Death

Winner of the 1992 Galaxy Award Encouragement Prize and the 1992 Japan Commercial Broadcasters Assoc...

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Tomorrow in the Finder
Tomorrow in the Finder

Takeharu Samejima is a reticent photographer who runs a deserted photo studio. Taiichi Igarashi, a t...

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Jailbreak Mountains
Jailbreak Mountains

Itto, a former detective serving time for murder, learns that his sister has been murdered by someon...

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The Lonely Olympics
The Lonely Olympics

This is a story about the youth of a university student who, by chance, aims to compete in the Montr...

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Break Town Story
Break Town Story

Japanese drama film....

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64: Part 1
64: Part 1

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is call...

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64: Part 2
64: Part 2

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is call...

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Gate of Youth 2
Gate of Youth 2

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu....

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Bullying is Costly
Bullying is Costly

An office worker who releases his frustrations by maliciously bullying his good-natured boss has a b...

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Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness
Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness

Mike is a penguin soldier who returns home after being injured during combat. Estranged from his fam...

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Death Powder
Death Powder

Three conspirators steal a secret android. In their warehouse hideout, the android secretes a realit...

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KT
KT

This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politici...

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Midnight Diner 2
Midnight Diner 2

The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and...

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Company Executives
Company Executives

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away....

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Kingdom 2: Far and Away
Kingdom 2: Far and Away

It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification....

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Love Never to End
Love Never to End

He is Kikuji Murao (Etsushi Toyokawa), a former best-selling novelist who has had a decade-long dry ...

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The Abe Clan
The Abe Clan

A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of...

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Flower and Sword
Flower and Sword

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age o...

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Manon
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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The Locked Room Murders SP
The Locked Room Murders SP

Erika Toda joins a law firm headed by Serizawa-san, on the first case she meets Enomoto Kei of Tokyo...

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Oishinbo
Oishinbo

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun...

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Fireflies in the North
Fireflies in the North

Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warde...

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Crest of Betrayal
Crest of Betrayal

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyal...

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MacArthur's Children—Part II
MacArthur's Children—Part II

A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed...

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The Fable
The Fable

The Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associat...

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Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express"....

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Umineko - Inseparable
Umineko - Inseparable

The shock of her fiance's sudden dissolution of their relationship causes university student, Miki, ...

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The Vancouver Asahi
The Vancouver Asahi

In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrim...

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Fukushima 50
Fukushima 50

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power pl...

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Kamisama no Beret
Kamisama no Beret

A beginning editor, Odamachi, slips back in time to the year 1973 and meets Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka, th...

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The World of Machida-kun
The World of Machida-kun

High school boy Machida is a loner who is not particularly good at his studies or extracurricular ac...

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Sakura Guardian in the North
Sakura Guardian in the North

The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri...

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Sniper
Sniper

Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in a...

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Red Snow
Red Snow

Thirty years after aboy's disappearance, a journalist revives interest in the case, which in turn co...

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The Promised Land
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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One Who Died in Vain
One Who Died in Vain

After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home....

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A Chair on the Plains
A Chair on the Plains

Four people decide to travel to Hunza, Pakistan to find paradise. Kentaro Tooma works as head of sa...

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Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected
Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected

A highly anticipated cultural festival is less than a week away for the students of a local high sch...

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Hit Me Anyone One More Time
Hit Me Anyone One More Time

Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the ho...

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Pu
Pu

A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to f...

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As a Father of Murderer Son
As a Father of Murderer Son

Keiichi Yoshinaga, who works for a major construction company receives a sudden phone call from his ...

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My Friend "A"
My Friend "A"

Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, w...

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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection com...

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The Gun 2020
The Gun 2020

Toko grew up unloved by her mother Mizuho who continues to adore her deceased son. She lives alone i...

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Silent Tokyo
Silent Tokyo

On Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set up a...

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The Sun Stands Still
The Sun Stands Still

Kazuhiko Takano and Ryoichi Taoka are industrial spies. A conspiracy exits behind the technology whi...

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THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill

Akira is the legendary killer known as the Fable. Following the order of his boss and due to being o...

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Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction

Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazin...

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BOLT
BOLT

Scene one: March 11th, 2011. An earthquake and a tsunami strike the East coast of Japan, damaging th...

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I Never Shot Anyone
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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Infection
Infection

Infection takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire conseq...

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Double Meaning
Double Meaning

A new female detective joins the special investigations team and dives into some of their hardest ca...

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A Banana? At This Time of Night?
A Banana? At This Time of Night?

A man is immobile and incapacitated, but has professional and nonprofessional volunteers serve and h...

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Galaxy Turnpike
Galaxy Turnpike

Set in the year 2265. There is a small restaurant along the main road Galaxy Kaido, which connects E...

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Gosh!!
Gosh!!

Life seems pretty normal at the Forensics Division. Ippei's canine partner, Oliver, appears to him a...

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Suspicion
Suspicion

A car carrying a wealthy man and his second wife, Kumako (Yo Kimiko), falls into the sea, and only K...

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Takeda Shingen
Takeda Shingen

During the 16th century, Japan was involved in the Sengoku Period, an era of civil wars and the powe...

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The Landlady
The Landlady

Looks back 20 years into the past of an elderly woman who died of heatstroke and paints a picture of...

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Aki fukaki
Aki fukaki

A middle school teacher falls in love with a hostess and they end up quickly getting engaged and mov...

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After the Quake
After the Quake

Based on four of the six short stories compiled in Murakami Haruki's anthology, After the Quake expl...

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Climbing for Life
Climbing for Life

In 1975, a woman reached the summit of Mount Everest: Junko, the first woman in history to reach the...

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One Last Throw
One Last Throw

Shintaro Yokota, at 18, fulfilled his childhood dream with a dazzling pro debut. Embraced by a lovin...

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119 Emergency Call 2026 YOKOHAMA BLACKOUT
119 Emergency Call 2026 YOKOHAMA BLACKOUT

One-episode special from the Fuji TV show 119 Emergency Call....

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Lone Wolf and Cub
Lone Wolf and Cub

Ogami Itto, framed for treason and surviving a deadly attack, becomes a lone assassin with his son. ...

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Hito wa Naze Love Letter wo Kaku no ka
Hito wa Naze Love Letter wo Kaku no ka

A woman writes a letter to a young man, leading to a correspondence with his father that unveils the...

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A Human Promise
A Human Promise

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story ...

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