Takashi Sasano
Birthday: 1948-06-22
Place of Birth: Ichinomiya, Hyogo, Japan
Biography: Born 1948 in Hyogo, Japan, Takashi Sasano (笹野高史) is a Japanese actor.
Movies
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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Hakutaka Shirataka Amane no Investigation File
A corpse of a clown is found in a park. Detective Shirataka Amane of Musashino Higashi Police Statio...
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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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Quiet Don 6
Shizuya, who appeared on the first anniversary of Ken Sakamoto's death, the fourth Kishu-gumi. He ag...
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Quiet Don 9
Shouldn't gangsters love stubborn people? To protect true love, the Shinsen-gumi gather at night in ...
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Quiet Don 10
"I can't live for the Shinsen-gumi." Shizuya wanders between the yakuza and his love for Akino. What...
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Quiet Don 12
Kishu-gumi and the Hong Kong mafia will die in a trap set up?! Can Shizuya save this desperate situa...
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Kabei: Our Mother
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shige...
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Bright Future
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They...
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Adrift in Tokyo
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip acros...
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HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky
Members of SWORD win against Wangan Rengogun, which is led by Kohaku. The city becomes peaceful agai...
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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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Departures
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown ...
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Instant Swamp
A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching ...
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Immersion
Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting be...
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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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Sento: The Bathhouse
A schoolboy has a crush on his pretty class-mate Keiko on the inland island of Awaji. He figures her...
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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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Accidental Kidnapper
Yuukai Rhapsody follows a man who is stuck in a rut, no personal life and no cash lead him to the dr...
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Walking My Life
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovere...
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Creepy
After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspect...
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No One's Ark
Daisuke and his girlfriend have failed at selling a smelly health drink named Akajiru in Tokyo, amas...
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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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I Haven't Dreamed of Flying for a While
A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see...
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Mahjong Horoki
A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges a...
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan....
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A Class to Remember
A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for ad...
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A Hardest Night!!
A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The...
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Greatful Dead
Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a...
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What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the g...
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The Silent Service
Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and...
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Damejin
An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing n...
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Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
A chronicle of the life of Yasui Santetsu, a 17th century master of go who turned his attention to a...
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Super Hero Wars GP: Kamen Rider #3
The evil organization Shocker alters history by sending their newest creation, Kamen Rider 3, to def...
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Jigen Daisuke
Feeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the world’s best gunsmith. He finally finds out t...
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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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Samurai Gangsters
Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his ...
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Quiet Don 11
Shizuya thought that he had won the deadly battle with Kaifu, the fifth generation of Kishu-gumi, an...
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A Tender Place
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her...
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More Painful than Rain
Ayami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and is be...
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Cape Nostalgia
Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her ...
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Train Brain Express
Real estate company employee Komachi and steelworks heir Kodama are both train aficionados. Their ho...
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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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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fat...
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Hitsudan Hostess
The story is based on the bestselling autobiography of 25-year-old Rie Saito, who became a number-on...
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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a ...
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The Negotiator: The Movie
¥ 260,000,000 is stolen from armored vehicle. The criminals escape into a crowded shopping mall and ...
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Yudo: The Way of the Bath
Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage...
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Riding the Metro
Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964....
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Zen
In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen ...
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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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A Bolt from the Blue
Haruo has a dream to become the best magician, but, so far, he is only a marginal magician. Haruo al...
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We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams
A treasure appears in front of antique dealer Norio Koike (Kiichi Nakai) and potter Sasuke (Kuranosu...
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Beijing Watermelon
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and...
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Surely Someday
Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spe...
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The Rainbow Seeker
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushi...
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Free and Easy 15
Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces ...
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his ...
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Keiho
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be ...
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Midwinter Camellia
Yasuo Furuhata directs this romantic yakuza flick based on a book by popular romance novelist Tomiko...
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At River's Edge
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with...
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Kim's War
After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest ho...
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READY! LADY
Ryoko, a free-spirited 23-year-old woman, quits her job after being caught having an affair with a c...
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Slapstick Brothers
Tobio Kurosawa (Ryuta Sato), who has been part of a manzai (stand up comedy) duo for ten years, find...
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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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Mugonkan
A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum...
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Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government...
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The Demon Comes in Spring
Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeas...
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Kuroi Gashu: Kusa
Ichiro Numata (Hiroaki Murakami) is the chief editor of a publishing company. He suddenly falls unco...
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Thermae Romae
The story follows a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One da...
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Round About Midnight
While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into ...
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Free and Easy 17
Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting marri...
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Love Letter
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married ...
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Life in Overtime
After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a maj...
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Princess Toyotomi
National Audit Bureau member Hajime Matsudaira (Shinichi Tsutsumi), Tadako Torii (Haruka Ayase) & As...
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Shuriken Sentai Ninninger The Movie: The Dinosaur Lord's Splendid Ninja Scroll!
The Last Ninja Yoshitaka Igasaki sends his disciples the Ninningers on a special mission over summer...
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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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Thermae Romae II
In ancient Rome, bathhouse architect Lucius (Hiroshi Abe) becomes famous with designing the original...
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Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home...
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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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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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The Investigation Game
Police superintendent Makishima suffered a demotion transfer after he failed to capture the suspect ...
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Half a Confession
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a ta...
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Shuriken Sentai Ninninger vs. ToQger the Movie: Ninjas in Wonderland
The Ninningers come across a new enemy, Dark Doctor Mavro, a remnant of the Shadow Line, who created...
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125 Years Memory
Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this...
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Cut
Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his...
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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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Chinyuki
Genzo is a monk on his way to Tianzhu (early East Asian name for India). Along the way, he happens t...
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Yoko the Cherry Blossom
In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka works as a teacher in the agricultural division at a youth training institu...
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Ekeb of Dekye
Takahiko Tokito is a doctor at a big medical corporation. He has decided to run away with his lover,...
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The Discarnates
A recently divorced writer is reunited with the ghosts of his parents who died when he was a boy. Ho...
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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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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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Free and Easy 2
Hama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful woma...
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25
Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are...
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Free and Easy 6
Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-sa...
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Tug of War!
The mayor of Oita wants to improve the image of his city, so he instructs Chiaki - a young woman wor...
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Cutie Honey: Tears
At the end of the 21st century, the world is plagued by a mysterious virus and unusual weather. Geni...
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Something Like, Something Like It
Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytel...
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Ryuji
Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy mone...
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Before We Vanish
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a...
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Golden Orchestra
When Chizuru joins as a teacher at Umega High School, she hears an amateur orchestra perform. Remini...
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God's Puzzle
A set of twins -- one a hard-working student and the other a drifter -- team up with a dropout to un...
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Oishinbo
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun...
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Free and Easy 4
Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew ...
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Free and Easy 5
Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his ...
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Free and Easy 10
Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surro...
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The Rainbow Seeker 2
Sequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan. There, h...
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What a Wonderful Family! 3
At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one aftern...
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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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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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Sure Death 4
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by ...
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The Geisha House
Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of O...
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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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Recall
A woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the freight ...
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Murder on the Orient Express
The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express"....
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One Million Yen Girl
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and ...
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Masquerade Hotel
Three murder cases take place in Tokyo. Numbers are left at the murder scenes, possibly hinting at w...
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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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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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Souten no Yume Shoin to Shinsaku Shin-seiki eno Chosen
This film is the memoirs of Takasugi Shinsaku about the life of his great teacher Yoshida Shoin. Yos...
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Juukou B-Fighter: The Movie
The movie version of Juukou B-Fighter premiered in Japan on April 15, 1995 at the Toei Super Hero Fa...
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Shinjuku Swan II
Tatsuhiko Shiratori works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. ...
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Older Brother, Younger Sister
The Akazas are a blue-collar family living in a working-class neighborhood of Tokyo. Older brother I...
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With All Our Might
Tamiko (Ayumi Ito) lives happily with her husband Hideaki (Sho Aoyagi) and step-daughter Kotoyo (Haz...
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Casting Blossoms to the Sky
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city ...
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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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The Housekeeper
Nobuko is a plain, unattractive woman with disheveled hair, and is hired as a housekeeper in the Ina...
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Kasha
Shunsuke Honma is a detective from the #1 investigation team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Depart...
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The Games Teachers Play
The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class....
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The 47 Rōnin in Debt
Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Ha...
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A Far Promise
There was a tragedy that began at the end of the '69 war. The sad story about the lives of the orpha...
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Miracle Apples
Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown ...
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68-Year-Old New Employee
Hitsujido Honpo, an established Japanese-style sweets company known for its traditional flavours and...
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Free and Easy 18
Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up durin...
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Free and Easy
Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo o...
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Free and Easy 8
When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love wi...
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Tora-san, My Uncle
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced...
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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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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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Wife of a Spy
It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife...
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Haruka's Pottery
Koyama Haruka was an office worker who lived an unremarkable life, but one day she comes across a la...
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), run...
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that...
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Tora-san Goes North
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune)...
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly tu...
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is a...
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vie...
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Quiet Don
Part one of a twelve part direct to video film series. Based on the comic by Tatsuo Nitta....
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Happy Flight
A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, d...
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Shuriken Sentai Ninninger vs. Kamen Rider Drive: Spring Break Combined Special
Five flashy Roidmudes seem to be causing a “thick air” event, and when Shinnosuke goes to investigat...
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They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowi...
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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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Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 9
Kyosuke Kozu (Masaomi Kondo), a university professor and a famous detective, is a big magic lover. H...
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Double Trouble
Chief Iizuka, who works at the Cultural Center, misunderstands two chorus groups with similar names ...
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Mameshiba Cubbish Puppy
Jiro (Jiro Sato) is a 32-year-old man who doesn't have a job. He lives at his parents' house and doe...
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Last Scene
Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited...
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The Devil Wears Ju-Ni Hitoe Kimono
Rai, a frustrated student and part-time labourer, is wandering home after setting up a museum exhibi...
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The King of Minami: Formula for Deception
#37 in the series, following "Yakuza Finance."...
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10 Promises to My Dog
One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act ...
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Riverside Mukolitta
A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, ...
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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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4 Mysterious Stories
A four-piece omnibus-style special drama produced by the production staff of "The Really Scary Story...
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Corpo a Corpo
In the heart of Osaka's old neighborhoods lies a run-down apartment building known as "Copo." Its th...
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Making of "Departures"
A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)...
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A Class to Remember II
The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School....
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Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami
Genjuro’s crime was assassination, his punishment was to survive a faked execution and lose his home...
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The Silent Service: The Great Sea Battle of the Arctic Ocean
Yamato submerges in the cold, deep northern seas with Mozart's music echoing. The nuclear-powered su...
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Baban Baban Ban Vampire
Ranmaru is a 450-year-old vampire who works in a bathhouse. As a vampire he is particularly picky ...
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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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Free and Easy 7
Hama-chan and Su-san meet a charming woman on a fishing trip, but forget to ask her name. Days later...
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Thermae Romae
The story follows a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One da...
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星ひとつの夜
Janitor Hiroharu Nonoyama (Ken Watanabe) discovers a coat filled with cash while working. The coat b...
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Tora-san to the Rescue
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to ...
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