Shiro Sano
Birthday: 1955-03-04
Place of Birth: Yamanashi, Japan
Biography: Shiro Sano (佐野 史郎, Sano Shirō, born 4 March 1955) is a Japanese actor.
Movies
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godz...
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Kamaitachi no Yoru
Fans of Kamaitachi no Yoru gather to shoot a film based on the game until one of the cast members is...
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Karaoke
Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior h...
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Infection
Infection takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire conseq...
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Intimate Stranger
A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missi...
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Spring and Chaos
Set in the beginning of the 20th century Japan, the film follows the bright and eccentric Kenji from...
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Violent Cop
A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in dru...
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Rampo - Bewitching Women
A short drama that depicts the world of Edogawa Rampo's popular novels filled with the bizarre and f...
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The Trap
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I wan...
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The Negotiator
After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospit...
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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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Cop Festival: New Beginning
Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films....
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20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End
In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer hol...
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20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End
In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer hol...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2006 Spring Special
***Replay A man sees his dead girlfriend through his digital camcorder. ***Inochibi (Life Force) ...
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Can You Collect It?
Two scammers who cross the world without being caught by Satsu and killed...
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King's Playing With Fire
A former detective stands up and gets revenge for his murdered wife!...
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Discontinuous Bombing Incident
What is the clue that connects the police dormitory bombing case & Keihin canal murder case with the...
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Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki
A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy while a killer prowls the city. The pr...
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Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
In 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ...
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Shangri-La
Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly co...
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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 Princess Blade
Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her o...
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Seven Days War
A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to pro...
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th centur...
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Railways
A heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties and ...
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter n...
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The Defender
Computer engineer Takashi notices that a microchip is protruding from his head. He contacts a notori...
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Oh! My Zombie Mermaid
A pro wrestler is forced to participate on a wrestling reality show to win a new home and restore hi...
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Cat's Eye
Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order t...
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Hayabusa
May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabus...
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The Sun
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close....
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Wasao
Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing th...
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My Little Monster
Problem student Haru Yoshida sits next to the cold and studious Shizuku Mizutani in class. Without a...
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Natsu no pēji
Three young country boys are beginning to drift apart as friends. In the summer, they set off to hav...
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Between the White Key and the Black Key
In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memo...
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Mr. Love Chemistry 2
Despite working as a matchmaker, Sosuke is an awkward person. He works with Shion and they bicker ov...
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Gensen-Kan Inn
An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four...
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Persona
Physician Koichiro Kiby loses interest in work and begins drinking in a local park after the death o...
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Lucky Sky Diamond
At the clinic where her boyfriend Katayama, a young genius doctor, is the director, Yoko, a young gi...
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Reunion
The Movie depicts 10 days after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. At a morgue house in Kamais...
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Dear Kaita Ablaze
This avant-garde entertainment film depicts a group of young people today who are fascinated by the ...
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Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary....
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The Legend of Zipang
Jigoku-gokuraku-maru is a samurai on the run. One bounty hunter hoping to collect the sizeable rewar...
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Oh! Father
Yukio is a typical high school student in every way except that he's an only child in a family of fi...
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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 Brutal Insanity of Love
A policewoman investigates the apparent suicide of a college coed. The prime suspects include the gi...
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Aiki
When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and ...
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Circus Boys
Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides ...
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Miroku
Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage ye...
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The Triumphant Return of General Rouge
A year after the celebrated cracking of “The Glorious Team Batista” case, the talented medical staff...
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The Code
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective...
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The Millennial Rapture
Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famo...
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Ready to Shoot
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho...
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Kewaishi
Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection a...
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The Mystery of Rampo
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and...
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Detective Office 5
In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522 embark ...
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Perfect Education 6
Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mr...
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The Anthropology of a Fight Scene
A man must overcome many obstacles as he works his way through the dangerous crime world to the leve...
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Rock'n'Roll Housewives
Mieko is a housewife with some problems. Her husband is indifferent to her and her daughter Sayako r...
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I Alone
A common horoscope brings a timid middle-aged salaryman and high school delinquent to the center of ...
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Sharaku
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publi...
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Brush of the God
His story follows a schoolgirl named Akari Tokimiya and the fantastical adventure which occurs when ...
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Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rok...
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth
A one hour made for TV special. Set in modern Japan, a journalist goes to Innsmouth to investigate p...
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Endless Waltz
Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki....
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Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world ...
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The Battling Angel
Police struggle to uncover Klein, a powerful criminal organization. Asuka, a young detective, is ass...
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Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster
A fishing boat is attacked at sea by a gigantic, hairy monster. After examining the sole survivor (K...
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Silence of the Sea
The day before his exhibition, world-renowned painter Tamura discovers that his own work contains a ...
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The Great Buddha Arrival
An all-star reboot of the lost classic 1934 film, The Giant Buddha Statue's Travel Through The Count...
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The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is...
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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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The Rocking Horsemen
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmeriz...
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It's a Summer Vacation Everyday
The Rinkaiji family, by all appearances, is a well-to-do Japanese family. The father, Nariyuki, work...
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Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker
Genius hacker and murderer Urano escaped from prison and fled to South Korea. Urano was hired by a S...
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Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the traditio...
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Happyend
In a near-future Japanese city bracing for a devastating earthquake, a group of teenage friends navi...
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Lady Battle Cop
When a four-man terrorist group known as Team Phantom begins raising havoc in downtown Tokyo, the ci...
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Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders
As a computer virus based on Pac-Man invades Japan, a group of doctors attack Genm Corp and begin a ...
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Parks
Jun is a university student. She meets high school student Haru. Haru is looking for Sachiko, the ex...
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Random Lives
Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, ...
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Tomorrow
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by ...
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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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The Dancer
Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Be...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati...
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My Way
During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It ...
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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko...
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My Little Monster
Problem student Haru Yoshida sits next to the cold and studious Shizuku Mizutani in class. Without a...
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I Will Never Forgive
A psychological drama about the consequences of a 15 year old girl's gang rape....
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Zen and Bones
The story of Henri Mitowa, a 93-year old Japanese monk, who wants to make a movie based on his own l...
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Piano in a Storeroom
Two sisters living on a peach farm in Koori town, Fukushima Prefecture,are opposites. Haruka Miyamot...
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Police Precinct Soul
A young woman is discovered strangled to death at the boat pier in Tokyo. There are no signs of dist...
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Sosuke Loses His Lover
Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of...
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Housekeeper the Peeper
Nobuko Sawaguchi is a surly, unattractive housekeeper in her mid-thirties. However, in actuality, sh...
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Phantom Limb
Masato sustains serious injuries in a car accident. He regains consciousness but loses all memories ...
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To Sleep So as to Dream
An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down h...
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TVO
Satsuki, a high school student living in the countryside, travels to Tokyo to find out the truth abo...
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Miyoko
Based on the life of pioneering manga artist Shinichi Abe, "Miyoko asagaya kibun" starts from the 19...
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Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger The Movie: Time Slip! Dinosaur Panic!!
This is the 2019 summer movie for Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger. It is twin-billed with the summer movi...
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Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007
A violent fire one evening kills a husband and wife couple and burns their Kazusaya rice shop to ash...
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Kinki
A teacher is sexually involved with an underage student. She visits her father's home and discovers ...
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Swimming with Tears
In the sparsely populated rural areas of Japan, the female population is far smaller than the male. ...
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Time Limit
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank ro...
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The Room
A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him throu...
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Pokémon 4Ever
In order to escape a greedy Pokémon hunter, Celebi must use the last of its energy to travel through...
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Shimanto River
A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He come...
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Life Improvement Club
Arata Furuta plays a disgruntled saleryman fed up with being stepped on at home and at work, decides...
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The Taste of Fish
It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshe...
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Yuriko's Picture Book
Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as ...
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Bikuu: The Movie
Bikuu is a Dark Slasher that receives an order from the Senate to take out a rogue priest that has f...
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Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie
At the end of the TV series of the same name, it is revealed that the husband works for the Public S...
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Fukushima 50
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power pl...
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We Are Little Zombies
Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This i...
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Mother’s Bomb-struck Piano
"Okasan no Hibaku Piano" features a protagonist modeled after Mitsunori Yagawa, 67, a piano tuner wh...
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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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Arthouse Ultraman
In the 21st century, multiple mysterious phenomenon began to occur as monsters who were initially th...
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BOLT
Scene one: March 11th, 2011. An earthquake and a tsunami strike the East coast of Japan, damaging th...
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Godzilla's Leading Ladies
An NHK documentary about the talented actresses who have portrayed the beautiful, intelligent and re...
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Les Garçons-Bonbons 2: l'Oiseau du paradis
Kitazawa Haku had watched a movie and dreamed he was in a parallel universe. Meanwhile, Ryū, the old...
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The Intermission
A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the e...
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Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie
The legendary Space Sheriff Gavan is hired to capture the Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. However, Gavan hi...
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Snow Woman
One snowy night, in a mountain hut, Minokichi, a hunter, sees a snow woman killing his mentor Mosaku...
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The Yagyu Conspiracy
The classic tale retold. This is one of Japan’s most popular stories in a brand new version starrin...
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The Great Yokai War
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great w...
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An Artist of the Floating World
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art sol...
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Enishi: The Bride of Izumo
Maki Iizuka (Nozomi Sasaki) works as an editor for a wedding magazine in Tokyo. She is set to marry ...
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If Blessed
Poet Okachimachi Kaito makes his directing debut. Featuring lead actress Ono Machiko, who starred in...
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Black Lizard
Set in the future where it is commonplace for high tech crimes to get through cyber defense, Iwase S...
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The Glorious Team Batista
Toho university hospital has established an outstanding coronary surgery team under the leadership o...
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Red Foliage
Horror director Toshiharu Ikeda adapts a story by Baku Akae about a high-school student who falls in...
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Vanished
Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make ...
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Haruka, Nostalgia
Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. H...
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Nezura 1964
A biopic based on the production of Daiei's Giant Horde Beast Nezura, the scrapped precursor to Game...
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The Passed Scene
At the end of October, Sueko Yamane, a widow living alone, is strangled to death in her home in the ...
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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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Takada Wataru Teki
Folk singer Wataru Takada has been performing for over 35 years. This feature-length documentary fol...
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Two Seasons, Two Strangers
In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet by the sea. Their vacant gazes reflect each other as they exchange...
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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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My Beloved Ultraseven
Ichikawa Shinichi, who actually participated as a scriptwriter in the tokusatsu series Ultra Seven, ...
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AOSHO! Voices in Bloom
The protagonist, Shippei Iida, moves with his mother to the remote island of Origoshima. He transfer...
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Good News
When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatch...
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An Autumn Afternoon
A 2003 version of the 1962 original. Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Grad...
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