Kimiko Yo
Birthday: 1956-05-12
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Biography: Kimiko Yo was born in Yokohama, a city just south of Tokyo to a Japanese mother and Taiwanese father on the 12th of May 1956. Her cousin was actress Bunjaku Han. She became active in front of the camera in 1987 and has been a feature of Japanese television and cinema ever since. She had begun acting on the theatre stage in 1976. Audiences may mostly know her for her supporting role in Shin Gojira, as a sympathetic colleague in the 2008 films Departures, which won an Oscar, and kind wife and waitress in Ramen Girl, but she has almost 200 credits to her name. These include an abnormal neighbour in The Drugstore girl and serene presence in Café Lumière where she was directed by a Taiwanese director in Japan. Dear Doctor (2009) propelled her name forward in Japan and was an award winner. She has several Japan Academy prizes to her name. Like most celebrities she pushes products and has done commercials for telephone companies, shampoos and cosmetics manufacturers. Yo is married to a man who at the time was a NHK employee in 2006 and is managed by the Alpha Agency.
Movies
Show Me the Way to the Station
A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an awa...
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巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsu...
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Noise
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing popul...
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Farewell, Kuro
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high s...
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Can you collect it? Complete
Jiro becomes a happy instructor but a shocking suspicion was raised by Owada who took the place of h...
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Villain
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time correspond...
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Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
Detective Suwon was involved on the war on drugs in Yokohama because of his mischief....
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Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
Junko Mihara is full of mysterious charm and is involved in ambitious work....
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Hiruko the Goblin
A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they ...
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Worst by Chance
Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts ar...
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Departures
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown ...
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Gonin 2
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama bu...
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Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
A V-Cinema effort from the mid-90s starring Show Aikawa and Misa Aika. Misa Aika plays Miyuki, a hig...
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The Ramen Girl
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction...
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The Exam
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grad...
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Virgin Snow
Min, a Korean boy, moves to Japan with his father who is a potter. One day at a local shrine, he mee...
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Another Battle
Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza...
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Music of Remembrance -Gb-
A boy who suffers from impaired hearing and a young girl pianist try to solve the mysterious connect...
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Rebirth
After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was havi...
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Rinco's Restaurant
After a bad breakup, a young woman returns to her hometown and opens a menuless restaurant. A young ...
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First Gentleman
Hiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist (expert on birds). His wife is Rinko (Miki Nakatani). She is...
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For Love's Sake
Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then ...
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Star Watching Dog
An abandoned car is discovered near a camping ground and inside it is the body of an identified midd...
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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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BON-UTA, A Song from Home
Taiko drummer, Hisakatsu Yokoyama, and fellow evacuees of Futaba, Fukushima fight to keep their belo...
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Bread of Happiness
A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and esta...
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Sumomo mo momo
A youth romance that fantastically depicts the unstable emotions of high school girls who refuse to ...
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Dog Star
A seeing-eye dog (Shiro) is granted one wish by his former owner. He chooses to become a human for a...
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Winter Rose
Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted del...
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Orchids Under the Moon
Jinpachi Nezu who lost both his wife and daughter during a feud against the yakuza 10 years ago whil...
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My SO Has Got Depression
Mikio is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is di...
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My Little Sweet Pea
It isn't easy to find a dream to chase when you're young, but Mugiko has one: she can't wait to beco...
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A Tale of Samurai Cooking
In this love story set in the Edo period, 27-year-old Oharu is a genius in the kitchen. Oharu attrac...
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Dear Doctor
Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make a...
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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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To Every You I've Loved Before
While struggling to make friends after his parents’ divorce, Koyomi Takasaki meets Kazune Takigawa, ...
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To Me, the One Who Loved You
Koyomi Hidaka and Shiori Sato meet at his father’s research center and begin to fall in love, but so...
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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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Café Lumière
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a w...
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Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
Toshiyuki and his wife, Chiyoko, run a store named “Fukunoya” in Fukuoka. They become friends with a...
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Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, j...
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Nobody's Perfect
"Daijobu 3 Kumi" depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without ...
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Everything Will Be Owlright!
Tamura Yujiro and Hiyori have been married for four years. They look like a happily married couple, ...
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An Angel with Many Scars
An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to h...
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Midnight Diner
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series o...
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover a...
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The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark....
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Parasyte: Part 1
Humanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the 'Mincemeat ...
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Parasyte: Part 2
Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with hi...
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Hotel Hibiscus
Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her internatioanl famil...
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Hysteric
In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tom...
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Invisible War
Kitahara Shuji, an ordinary business man turns into a spy for his town's war against a neighboring t...
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Tokyo Tower
Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to ...
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Where The Legend Lives
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the anc...
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Tokyo Rhapsody
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku"...
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The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
After his fiancée is killed in the crossfire of a yakuza turf war, a man on the edge remorselessly h...
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52-Hertz Whales
After a life of abuse, Kiko moves to a quiet seaside town. There, she meets a young boy who, like he...
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悪女について
Erika Sawajiri plays Kimiko, the main character of the story who has died. Although the title implie...
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Going against the Grain in Fukushima
Tenei village is located in Fukushima prefecture's beautiful surrounds. It is 70 kilometers away fro...
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A Night in Nude
Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be ...
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Alone in the Night
An undercover narcotics officer is killed, and after his funeral some yakuza break into his apartmen...
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Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
Born into a wealthy family, 17-year-old Masato (Emoto Tasuku) has never been deprived of material co...
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A Story of Yonosuke
The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yono...
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Fireflies: River of Light
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a ru...
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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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Shin Godzilla
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scra...
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Maria's Stomach
A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight...
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Suicide Club
When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the begi...
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Black Widow Business
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and ev...
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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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Moonlight Serenade
After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother af...
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We Shall Overcome Someday
Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent typ...
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The Blue Hearts
Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short f...
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Air Doll
A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes...
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Perfect Revolution
Kuma is an author, a sex obsessive and a wheelchair user. Beautiful and volatile Ryoko is unlike any...
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Timeless Melody
Kawamoto works and lives in a dilapidated pool hall which also serves as a rehearsal space for him a...
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Love Bites Back
Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a ...
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Via Okinawa
During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and...
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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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Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika ...
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20th Century Nostalgia
A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time, taki...
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Haunted School
A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is r...
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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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The Housekeeper
Nobuko is a plain, unattractive woman with disheveled hair, and is hired as a housekeeper in the Ina...
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The Ice Ruts
Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person sh...
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Enokida Trading Co.
Enokida Trading Post is a second-hand shop run by Yojiro Enokida , whose personal mantra is, "Anythi...
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A Lone Scalpel
Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operati...
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The Murder of Kuroido
March 1952, the only doctor in the village Shiba had found a dead body of Sanako. The cause of death...
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Amagi Pass
A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of the...
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AI Amok
In 2030, AI is everywhere including the medical field, finance and security. Artificial intelligence...
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Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
Chacha, the woman of the blood of Nobunaga, who loved with Hideyoshi, and feared Tokugawa....
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Yumeji
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter...
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Dirty Hearts
In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For...
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Oh My God
Hana is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother's ashes to her grandm...
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Immoral Affairs
Immoral Affairs (Fukigen na kajitsu) is a Japanese film made in 1997 and directed by Katsuo Naruse.I...
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Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
Higuchi Ichiyo is the first female professional novelist in Japanese literature. This tanpatsu drama...
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Shield of Straw
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter ...
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Asako in Ruby Shoes
Asako in Ruby Shoes succeeds in providing yet another challenge to views of a homogeneous South Kore...
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Free and Easy 11
Hama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but Su-sa...
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Yamato
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the pre...
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Red
A married woman with a lovely daughter lives a carefree life, until she meets her ex-lover at a frie...
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Hotel Royal
Set at the Hotel Royal, situated in the marshland of Hokkaido, Japan, and follows the guests, the fa...
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Giwaku
Sahara Takako is a lawyer who specialises in civil cases. She hates to lose and will use whatever me...
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Ace Attorney
Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses on r...
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Any Crybabies Around?
A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can't just show up, apologize, and hope that ma...
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Father of the Bride
The story is set against the beautiful scenery of Yamakoshi, Niigata, which is also known for bullfi...
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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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Soup Opera
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her sudde...
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Step
Single father Kenichi has raised his daughter Miki alone for the past ten years, from when she atten...
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Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by...
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Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by...
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Baian the Assassin
Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, his nighttime persona i...
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The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral
A mother and her daughter move from the urban sprawl of Tokyo to the remote island of Ishigaki in th...
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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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Sleep in the Shadows
Fuyuki is an established artist who runs several bars in Yokohama. One day, injured Shinji runs into...
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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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A Stitch of Life
Ichie is the owner of a dressmaking shop. Her grandmother started the shop and now Ichie runs the bu...
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The Yakuza Principal
Junji, the protagonist of FM89.3MHz, must become the principal of a nursery school in Kabukicho afte...
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Galileo XX
A spin-off from popular Japanese TV series "Galileo". Episode XX tells the story of female detective...
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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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寝台特急出羽号 赤い爪痕の女
On the night train home from a memorial service, a detective meets a woman who has killed her sick f...
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Hiruko the Goblin
A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they ...
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Chicken Is Barefoot
A disabled child of separated parents gets caught up in police espionage due to his uncanny ability ...
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Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
In 1988, Hokkaido's Hokusei Yoichi High School became the first high school in Japan to accept stude...
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Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
The two most famous Japanese mystery characters have come together to solve a crime. A year ago, a m...
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The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
It is the year 1988. Yamabuki is an eight-year-old little boy growing up in a traditional family whe...
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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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