Nenji Kobayashi
Birthday: 1941-02-07
Place of Birth: Katsuragi, Wakayama, Japan
Biography: Toshiji Kobayashi (小林 稔侍, Kobayashi Toshiji, born on February 7, 1941), known by his stage name, Nenji Kobayashi (alternative reading of 稔侍), is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 23rd Japan Academy Prize for Poppoya.
Movies
The Bear Storm
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...
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47 Ronin
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...
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Love and Honor
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in ...
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The Twilight Samurai
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
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The Ballad of Narayama
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a...
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Crazy Thunder Road
When Ken, the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo, falls in love with a barmaid, he qui...
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Captain Ultra: The Movie
In the latter half of the 21st century, Captain Ultra and the crew of his ship the Mighty Spiegel op...
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Railroad Man
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his...
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Night Guy
Tokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime. Gorgeous neon lights and dressed-u...
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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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Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own....
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Virus
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a p...
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The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's ...
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Japan's Don
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with...
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Tracked
When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whethe...
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Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure...
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang aft...
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Flower Season
Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as th...
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Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre....
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirok...
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Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits
An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Pr...
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The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor
Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a...
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Demon
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned ...
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Nerves for Victory
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading ...
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Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's...
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The Yoshida School
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting...
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Gate of Youth 2
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu....
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It All Began When I Met You
Six love stories following the love lives of ten different people....
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Turkish March: Castle of Dreams
In the notorious soapland district of Ogoto—Alice, a seasoned sex worker scarred by abuse and betray...
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Tsubaki Sanjuro
"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, fas...
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Café Lumière
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a w...
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Zeccho shimai ochiru
Mika, who used to be a call girl, is being pursued by a man that brokers prostitution. Her mother Yo...
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Lullaby of Death
Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seek...
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Essential Information for a College Girl
The erotic adventures and troubles of several female college students....
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Momoe's Lips: Love Beast
This year's Record Award was decided to go to popular singer Natsu Akemi. Yoshioka, the president of...
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MARKS
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When ...
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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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Tokyo Family
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and ...
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life...
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About Her Brother
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud...
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Moment of Demon
Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a ne...
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The Firefly
Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decad...
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Winter's Flower
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year...
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Eijanaika
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan ...
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The Drifting Classroom
An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreb...
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実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還
Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungl...
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The Little House
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discover...
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The Ando Gang Documentary Film
This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest a...
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Nuclear Gypsies
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area w...
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Home Sweet Home
"Home Sweet Home" deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening d...
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Choji Snack Bar
Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and se...
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A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old...
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Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoi...
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Water Moon
As the monk Ryuun, whose past and origin make him prone to internal and external fits, leaves the te...
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The Longest Tunnel
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunne...
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The Revolt
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold in...
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Nuns That Bite
A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds ...
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Miss Lonely
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously app...
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The Armed Organization
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat...
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The Private Police
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kami...
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Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Nobuko works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On ...
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Amateur Singing Contest
Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur s...
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Free and Easy 9
Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposi...
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Love Lost in Tears
Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro....
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Early Spring Story
A Japanese high school student passionate with photography discovers love while confronting the past...
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A Homance
A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yak...
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A Brief Message from the Heart
A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man....
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What a Wonderful Family! 2
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Fa...
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Doberman Cop
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly mur...
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Hokuriku Proxy War
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in tru...
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Impossibility Defense
At a certain park, there is a mysterious man, who has red eyes and a black suit, that people can go ...
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Suspicion
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local...
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Curse of the Dog God
A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and aft...
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Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder
A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of vi...
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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for deser...
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Street Mobster
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza faction...
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Yakuza Graveyard
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia...
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Yakuza Skirmishes
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively wit...
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Quarreling with Yakuza
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most power...
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Shin Jidan Koshonin Ura File
"Elite" members of an insurance company are gathered together to form a unit to investigate an accid...
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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s rele...
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What a Wonderful Family!
A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what ...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under press...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the y...
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Shogun's Samurai
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers ...
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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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Asabuki Riyako, Female Attorney: The Little Accomplice
Attorney Asabuki Riyako goes to Ginza with her husband Kunio, where she almost has her handbag taken...
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Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us
Exciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond....
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Secret Information
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent...
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Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 30
A man is murdered after stealing documents from the Olympic Department of the Ministry of Education,...
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The Classroom of Terror
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school ...
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Hoshi Meguri no Machi
An old widower who lives with his two daughter runs a tofu store,one day a distant relative comes to...
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dre...
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determ...
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The Story of a Man Among Men
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with th...
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Asabuki Riyako, Female Lawyer: The Young Eyewitness
Attorney Asabuki Riyako goes to wine store in Ginza and meets a friend from college, Matsuura Ayano....
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The Gambler's Counterattack
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has...
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Clock Store's Girl
The story is about the emotional and spiritual exchange between an elderly watchmaker and a cheerful...
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The Seburi Story
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy abou...
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Farewell to the Land
Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two ...
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A Kamikaze Cop
An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two riv...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discov...
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His Motorbike, Her Island
Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree ...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a...
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Desperate Pursuit
In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sni...
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she...
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A Desirable Marriage
A human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter ove...
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The Hidden Blade
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home...
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Hanayome
Chiyo, a 59 year old mother of 4, had lost her husband seven years ago. She will soon lose her home ...
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Game of Chance
Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Decidin...
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th...
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The Island Closest to Heaven
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that...
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Festival Champ
Hiroki Matsukata is a fish market worker and a fanatical Japanese festival rascal. He also falls in ...
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Military Comfort Woman
Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army du...
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Code Between Brothers: All New
When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead...
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Dr. Hikojiro
One day, Hikojiro receives an emergency call from inn proprietress Shino Ogawa to examine Tadahiko M...
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Glorious Fights
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He f...
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Jugyo Sankan no Onna
One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While takin...
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Kyotaro Nishimura Special: Murder on the ‘Traveling Go’ around Japan.
Hiroshi Hamano, a professor at a medical university, is found dead. Going by the results of the auto...
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New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after gettin...
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Station
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering po...
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Uzumasa Limelight
Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...
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Message from Space
The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders ...
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Labyrinth of Cinema
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time ...
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The Stupid Teacher
Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his b...
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Love Beast: Attack!
A high school girl gets molested by her mother’s current lover. He is a sleazy detective working on ...
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Umi e, See You
Team DANKAI are set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousan...
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated s...
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Pretty Devil Yoko
Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Toky...
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Yanagase Blues
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase....
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a...
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Stay or go?
Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One ...
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
Katsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film serie...
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The Motive
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims app...
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A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technic...
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The detective whose path was crossed by a snake
Starring Ken Takakura, this TV special depicts a detective (Akira Hayasaka) who lives in a harsh lif...
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It's a Flickering Life
The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dr...
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Megumi no Sekai
A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is h...
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Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack...
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Paper Lantern
A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer w...
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The Navy
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining th...
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Chūshingura Urabanashi: Nakazō Kyōran
Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kab...
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Oda Nobunaga
The show follows the early years of Japanese warlord hero Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century. As a you...
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Thugs of Shinjuku
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting i...
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Patience Has An End
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucr...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a...
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A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison...
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Toire no kamisama
Kana Uemura's song "Toilet no Kamisama" turned into a 2-hour drama special on TBS. The song, which i...
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Tokyo Taxi
One day, taxi driver Koji Usami is tasked with driving 85-year-old Sumire Takano from Shibamata, Tok...
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Insurance Investigator Shigarami Taro's Case Files ~Sanuki Murder Case~
Taro Shiraga (played by Ninomi Kobayashi), nicknamed “Shigarami Taro”, works in the insurance compan...
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The Bullet Train
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows...
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Abunai Deka Forever The Movie
Taka and Yuji are searching for a mercenary for the international terrorist organization "The Networ...
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The Wicked
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he...
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Castle of Sand
This drama adaptation follows the original work's historical setting and is told from Yoshimura's pe...
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Tokyo Bordello
A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest...
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Shin Jidan Koshonin Ura File 3
The Marutoku unit reopens a controversial past accident while probing a fresh insurance claim. As li...
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