Akira Emoto
Old good "Emo-chan" of modern Japanese cinema. Emo's father was a close friend of legendary episode player Taji Tonoyama in elementary school days. His mother's grandfather ran a shamisen store in Ginza, Tokyo. Both parents like movies and theaters. After graduating from Machinery Department of Tokyo Industrial High School, Emoto got a job at a trading company. However, he became an actor and became a student of the acting classes of the theater company "Marui", which is headed by Nobuo Kaneko, and met Yusaku Matsuda who was in the same class. In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Dr. Akagi. He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Dotonbori River and Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.28 |
| Birthday | 1948-11-03 |
| Place of Birth | Chūō, Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | 에모토 아키라, Акира Эмото, 柄本 明, آکیرا اموتو, |
2003
Zatoichi
7.2/875
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Umami
5.6/31
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Hard Days
6.6/60
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The Great Department Store Robbery
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The Eel
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A Crowd of Three
4.9/4
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Noise
5.8/10
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The Life of Budori Gusuko
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Turn
6.8/9
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The Great Yokai War
6.3/70
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Living Rights
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2013
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark
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Rain Fall
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The City of Lost Souls
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ICHI
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Villain
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1999
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
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Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
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Sakurada Gate Incident
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Worst by Chance
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Betrayal tomorrow
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One Day in January
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2010
Golden Slumber
7.178/44
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Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
6.8/214
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Dr. Akagi
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Maborosi
7.4/174
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2008
The Chasing World
5.8/19
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Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
6.5/33
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Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
6.6/16
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The Silk Road
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I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
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Starfish Hotel
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In His Chart
4.6/8
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Manhattan Kiss
0/0
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2009
April Bride
6.8/4
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2012
Ace Attorney
6.1/96
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2011
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
6/20
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Goal of the Sky
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2010
Haru's Journey
6.5/11
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2005
For the coming day
0/0
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2013
Unforgiven
7/74
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The Setting Sun
6/1
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2004
The Motive
6.4/8
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1994
The Friends
7.2/4
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September 1923
6.5/8
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2011
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
6.5/36
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1982
Lovers Lost
7.1/7
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2022
Wandering
6.5/23
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2010
Cast Me If You Can
7.5/2
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2019
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
7.2/4
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2010
The Lightning Tree
6.4/5
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2014
A Woman from Ashio
9/1
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2013
Yellow Elephant
6/10
Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while Ayumu works as a not so popular novelist. One day,...
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2021
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
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2023
Touken Ranbu 2
5/3
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2022
海の見える理髪店
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2013
The War and a Woman
4.2/5
Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman works in bar and is a former prostitute. Many ye...
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2023
The Innocent Game
4/2
Kiyoyoshi Kuga attends law school, aiming to work in the legal field as a lawyer. His childhood friend Mirei Orimoto also attends the same law school....
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1993
Private Lessons II
2.5/2
Ken, an insecure young man from Japan, meets Sophie, an interesting and sensual woman who teaches him the secrets of love and life.
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Private Lessons II
2008
The Taste of Fish
7/4
It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Ma...
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The Taste of Fish
2007
The Shadow Spirit
5.3/3
A series of murders of beautiful girls occur in Tokyo not long after the end of the war. Also the daughter of a retired actress, Yuzuki Yoko, has gone...
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The Shadow Spirit
2003
Owl
7/5
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to st...
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2002
KT
5.5/2
This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung.
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2008
The Most Beautiful Night In The World
6.1/8
Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as...
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1999
Will to Live
6.3/6
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for...
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2014
Wood Job!
7.338/74
After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his decisi...
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2014
0.5 mm
7.3/37
Sawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to stretch her morals to keep her job. As a result, she fi...
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2009
John Rabe
7.1/120
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
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1979
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
6.9/4
Softcore porn collaboration between Nikkatsu director Shinya Yamamoto and gag manga artist Fujio Akatsuka, utilizing both creators' comedy techniques...
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Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
2011
Life Back Then
4.8/6
Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments....
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2014
Oh! Father
5.5/2
Yukio is a typical high school student in every way except that he's an only child in a family of five. This is because he has four fathers, each with...
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2010
Postcard
5.4/10
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war...
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Postcard
2003
Farewell, Kuro
6.8/4
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the...
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Farewell, Kuro
2004
The Lakeside Murder Case
6.4/7
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam...
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The Lakeside Murder Case
2002
Barber's Sorrow
0/0
A S&M comedy about a masochist barber.
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Barber's Sorrow
2023
Shylock's Children
7.2/4
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1991
The Last Frankenstein
6/3
Professor Sarusawa and his psychic daughter Mai live together after the suicide of the Professor's wife years earlier - which was caused by a suicide...
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The Last Frankenstein
2000
The Whispered City
0/0
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater...
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The Whispered City
2006
The Happiness
0/0
the story of a vagrant (Ishibashi) who arrives in a town in Hokkaido. With only a threadbare suit, an old pair of sneakers and a bag containing all hi...
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The Happiness
2008
All Around Us
7.438/16
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...
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All Around Us
2011
Ninja Kids!!!
5.8/20
The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group...
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Ninja Kids!!!
2013
Present for You
0/0
Shigeru Kajiwara (Joe Odagiri) works part-time at a company that sells mysterious health food. One day, the other employees run off with the company's...
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Present for You
2006
Memories of Matsuko
7.7/161
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life in...
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Memories of Matsuko
2023
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
6.9/12
Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage to their late father; the other—a struggling arch...
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2010
After the Flowers
7.3/10
Ito, daughter of a clan official, encounters Magoshiro Eguchi. Magoshiro is a low ranking samurai sparks an attraction with Ito. Ito challenges Magosh...
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After the Flowers
2004
River of First Love
6.7/6
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak consti...
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River of First Love
2007
The Go Master
6.3/11
The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a revolutionary strategic thinker, as well as the t...
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The Go Master
2007
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
6.9/14
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1997
Abduction
0/0
The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large bags...
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1989
Beijing Watermelon
6.3/4
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change w...
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Beijing Watermelon
2006
It's Only Talk
6.5/12
Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic d...
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2007
Life Can Be So Wonderful
7/2
Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.
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2014
Cold
0/0
Genius scientist Kikuo Himura (Yosuke Kubozuka) succeeds in developing a miracle cure for the cold virus. There are now people who are after Kikuo Him...
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1996
The Rainbow Seeker
0/0
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films...
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2004
Moon and Cherry
6/16
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Moon and Cherry
2006
Japan Sinks
5.5/31
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with othe...
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2008
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
0/0
Teru (Yuya Endo) has been brought up in a hill town and spent his childhood conquering the slopes on his bicycle. Being a cycling fanatic, who resents...
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Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
2/1
A comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer.
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2014
Time Trip App
6/13
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Humanoid Monster, Bem
6.2/8
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2009
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
8/3
Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo keeper, young Yoshida (Yasuhi Nakamura), who has mor...
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I Can Hear the Duck Singing
0/0
A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains
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2010
A Lone Scalpel
6.4/5
Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something t...
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Roar of the Crowd
0/0
Based on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari Tobe.
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2005
Scrap Heaven
7.2/6
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Heaven's Story
5.8/4
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Fancy Dance
6.8/13
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Journey to the Shore
6.5/65
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Vampire in Love
7/23
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Egoist
7.6/13
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0/0
A down-and-out actor living in Tokyo is hired as a token American guy for a Japanese rental-family company, leading him on an unexpected journey of se...
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Ripples
6.3/16
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A House on a Hill
0/0
Rieko Sugita, a young and beautiful hairdresser who happens to visit a bedding shop owned by Yoshitaro (Emoto) and the latter becomes so besotted with...
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Sleeping Forest
6.7/13
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The Man from Shimizu
0/0
On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a gamb...
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Round About Midnight
6.8/8
While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers...
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Love Letter
0/0
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.
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Do Unto Others
7.8/12
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GARO -Gold Storm- Sho
7.4/5
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Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
6/21
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Capone Cries a Lot
5.7/8
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No Place to Go
6/6
Michiko used to work as a live-in part-timer at an izakaya, but suddenly lost her job and her house at the same time due to COVID-19 pandemic. There a...
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Nagisa
7.2/4
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Muromachi Burai
9.6/5
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2004
Drugstore Girl
5.2/9
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
6.9/49
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
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2016
The Mohican Comes Home
6.1/11
Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but failed. Several years later, Eikichi goes home to...
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The Mohican Comes Home
2015
The Big Bee
5.9/13
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media a...
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The Big Bee
2006
The Summer of Stickleback
0/0
Set in Kyoto, 1990. Mizuho Oshima is a high school girl who hates her alcoholic mom, adores her father, and has a crush on school swim team member Sho...
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The Summer of Stickleback
2016
Shin Godzilla
7.2/1346
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of vol...
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Shin Godzilla
1990
Maria's Stomach
0/0
A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight it.
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Maria's Stomach
1985
The Second Is a Christian
5/1
The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster, Haruhi...
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The Second Is a Christian
1993
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang
6.667/3
From the 1980s to the 1990s, New Taiwanese Cinema gained international attention for adopting a completely different approach to that of the commercia...
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2024
Migawari Mission
6.5/2
Kozukenosuke Kira is slashed with a sword by Ako Daimyo, who holds deep contempt towards Kozukenosuke Kira. Ako Daimyo then kills himself. Both of the...
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Migawari Mission
2003
Doppelganger
7/43
Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the verge o...
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Doppelganger
2016
Black Widow Business
8.5/2
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marri...
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Black Widow Business
1989
Battle Heater
7.2/5
Furuchi and Hama are two unsuccessful repair agents and electronic engineers. One day Furichi finds a so-called Kotatsu heater. Soon after this Furich...
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Battle Heater
1982
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
8/2
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living Nati...
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1989
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
8/2
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
2003
Hana
0/0
Yoichiro Nozaki, a high-achieving office worker, collapses from an aneurysm. The doctor advises immediate surgery, but the outcome is uncertain. Even...
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Hana
1988
The Yen Family
5.9/8
Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together t...
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The Yen Family
2015
The Pearls of the Stone Man
8.3/7
Atsushi and Ryoko are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move to Biei in Hokkaido, Japan. Atsushi isn't sure what to...
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The Pearls of the Stone Man
2010
Elevator to the Gallows
6.5/11
A phone conversation occurs between a man and a woman. They both state their love for each other and that they will do this so they can be together. T...
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Elevator to the Gallows
2016
Shippu Rondo
6.7/3
An illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. The university lab can't even call the police because the secret nature of the weap...
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Shippu Rondo
2011
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
8.5/1
Although Nobuyoshi and Saki just got married and moved into a new apartment, their relationship still lacks spark. Things start to change as they meet...
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A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
1989
Harimao
8/1
A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Peninsula during the Pacific War
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Harimao
1991
Dance till Tomorrow
0/0
Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.
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Dance till Tomorrow
2024
Maru
0/0
Sawada graduated from an art university but cannot rely on it to make a living and is working as an assistant to a famous contemporary artist. He lost...
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Maru
2001
Kaza-hana
5.733/15
A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.
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Kaza-hana
2013
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
0/0
In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an emergency lan...
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Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2017
Lu Over the Wall
7.1/136
In a small fishing village, a gloomy middle school student named Kai meets a mermaid named Lu.
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Lu Over the Wall
1984
Location
0/0
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book...
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Location
2001
Waterboys
6.6/56
In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition, i...
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Waterboys
2017
Mukoku
6.2/4
Kengo was gifted in Kendo (Japanese martial art) but he quits after a tragic incident. He works as a security guard and spends his days drinking. One...
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Mukoku
2016
A Living Promise
0/0
Yuma Nakahara is the CEO of an IT company and he is a workaholic. He is focused only on expanding his company. He receives a phone call from his forme...
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A Living Promise
1988
Revolver
6.7/3
When a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who decides to use it on a yakuza who beat him recently. Now...
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Revolver
2017
Random Lives
0/0
Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved in a fight and a murder, a bu...
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Random Lives
1982
Suspicion
6.7/7
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes...
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Suspicion
1983
Double Bed
5.5/4
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has...
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Double Bed
2018
Color Me True
7.6/32
Kenji is a young aspiring movie director. He falls in love with Princess Miyuki, who came from a black‐and‐white movie.
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Color Me True
2008
Teacher and Three Children
6/1
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.
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Teacher and Three Children
2004
The Hunter and the Hunted
0/0
Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take care of his 8 year old daughter Misaki (Kanno), b...
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The Hunter and the Hunted
2016
A Grain of Wheat
0/0
“A Grain of Wheat” is a story of two bakeries in Yokohama. A French baker, Eriko, makes a sudden visit to Honda who is the owner of a historical baker...
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A Grain of Wheat
1989
Mottomo Abunai Deka
8/3
Taka and Yuji find evidence in a 15-year-old case, but the statute of limitations expires in four days and they're hunting illicit gun manufacturers.
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Mottomo Abunai Deka
1996
Free and Easy 8
7.5/2
When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.
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Free and Easy 8
2000
Another Heaven
6.1/32
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain i...
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Another Heaven
2018
Evil and The Mask
7.2/4
Kuki Fumihiro is a son from a wealthy zaibatsu (conglomerate) family. His father raises him to become pure evil. Kuki kills his father to protect his...
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Evil and The Mask
2011
Shikei Kijun
0/0
Do criteria exist for the death penalty? Yusuke Mito, a law faculty lecturer who did not become a lawyer even though he passed the bar exam, the famou...
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Shikei Kijun
2018
Shoplifters
7.9/2091
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osa...
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Shoplifters
2017
Neko Ninja
3/1
Kagerota is a young ninja who embarks on his first mission: stealing the goldfish from a wealthy samurai. He succeeds, but then a mysterious fat cat s...
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Neko Ninja
1987
The Heartbreak Yakuza
5.4/5
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.
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The Heartbreak Yakuza
2010
Hutch the Honeybee
6.5/2
Hutch the Honey Bee and friends set on an adventure to find Hutch's missing Queen Bee Mother, whom he lost during a surprise attack by a group of Horn...
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Hutch the Honeybee
2018
Recall
6.8/6
A woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the freight company which owns the truck becomes the target of...
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Recall
2005
Love Is Five Seven Five
7.5/2
A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.
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Love Is Five Seven Five
1987
Bedtime Eyes
3.3/3
Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black Ame...
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Bedtime Eyes
2002
11’09”01—September 11
6.377/115
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer d...
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2019
Iwane: Sword of Serenity
7.7/7
Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in the tragic death of two of his best friends from c...
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Iwane: Sword of Serenity
1991
Goodbye Mama
0/0
A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in he...
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Goodbye Mama
1987
A Tale of Young Elopement
0/0
A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.
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A Tale of Young Elopement
2016
Sniper
0/0
Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in an undercover operation that...
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Sniper
2016
Survival Family
7.293/128
A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escap...
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Survival Family
2009
Yona Yona Penguin
5.3/10
Rintaro directs a tale of three children who visit a land of wonder. This is the first "3D anime" that Madhouse has produced. Oh, and there are pengui...
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Yona Yona Penguin
1979
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
0/0
A meek salaryman who gets no respect at home and is belittled at work gets inspiration from Superman and somehow becomes a strangely suited, hugely en...
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Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
2019
Castle of Sand
8.7/3
A bruised and battered corpse in Shibuya, Tokyo has the attention of the local cops. A veteran detective is assigned to the case. The last utterance o...
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Castle of Sand
2012
A Sower of Seeds
0/0
Kinjiro, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, is a good-natured fellow who goes around the country helping farm famil...
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A Sower of Seeds
2018
Oz Land
7.2/6
Kurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is connected to the business network. The new work is out in t...
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Oz Land
2019
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
6.8/6
Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barel...
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They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
The Promised Land
6.2/8
A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identif...
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The Promised Land
2004
Winning Pass
0/0
This is a story about a high school student who had it all going for him. He was great at basketball, he had a love like no other, until a day where h...
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Winning Pass
1997
Body and Soul
1/1
Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who walked of...
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Body and Soul
2007
Three for the Road
4/2
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2012
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
6.6/11
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 C...
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Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2019
Show Me the Way to the Station
6.7/3
A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by Ijuin Shizu.
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Show Me the Way to the Station
1990
Universal Laws
0/0
A young man working as a first-class fashion designer decides to give up his business and return to his hometown after the sudden death of his father.
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Universal Laws
1997
The Key
4.4/5
Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been...
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The Key
1980
Disciples of Hippocrates
6.4/5
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-r...
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Disciples of Hippocrates
1999
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
0/0
Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
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The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
1996
Shall We Dance?
7.297/155
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her,...
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Shall We Dance?
1979
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
0/0
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1984
Make-Up
0/0
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2020
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2.5/2
A young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying “Granny, it’s me,” he lies to them that he is their grandson. An old lady, who ru...
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Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
1985
Congratulatory Speech
0/0
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2021
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
6.6/16
Set in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and fought against the Meiji R...
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Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
1983
Legend of the Cat Monster
0/0
A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which lea...
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Legend of the Cat Monster
2009
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
0/0
Taishi lives with his father Kazushi. His mother left home when Taishi was very young and he barely has any memories of her. He believes that his moth...
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Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
2020
Living in the Sky
7.3/6
In the time after Naomi’s parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular actor Morinori Tokito who lives in the same apartment bu...
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Living in the Sky
2019
Godot of the Emotos
0/0
The acting family, the Emotos, are the subject of this documentary following Emoto Akira and his sons.
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Godot of the Emotos
2020
Underdog: Part One
6.9/5
Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira fell off the path to greatness but still tries to...
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Underdog: Part One
2008
Happy Flight
6.3/32
A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew...
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Happy Flight
2020
Stardust Over The Town
6/4
Story of the struggling chorus group "Yamada Osamu and the Hello Nights", who gain an unexpected new member in the young Ai, who pursues her dream of...
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Stardust Over The Town
2004
Zebraman
6.3/84
A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.
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Zebraman
2003
Teacher's suitcase
7/1
Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at le...
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Teacher's suitcase
2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
6.3/12
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed, Ke...
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The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2017
Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
10/1
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2019
It Feels So Good
6.5/34
When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifical...
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It Feels So Good
2017
The Dog Bridegroom
0/0
Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and in her personal life. One day, she suddenly hears...
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The Dog Bridegroom
2005
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
6/4
One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.
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Tetsujin 28: The Movie
2021
The End of the Tiny World
7.8/6
Kida and Makoto grew up together because they have it in common that they don't have parents. And a transfer student, Yotchi, also gets along with the...
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The End of the Tiny World
2020
I Never Shot Anyone
7/1
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ich...
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I Never Shot Anyone
2020
Wonderful Paradise
6.7/3
In consequence of his professional mistakes and declining career, Shuji and his family, the Sasaya’s, are forced to leave the wealthy suburb of Tokyo....
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Wonderful Paradise
1991
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
7/1
In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed police of the shogunate in Kyoto. Very fe...
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
2022
A Man
7.07/64
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
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A Man
2007
Prodigy
7.1/7
Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point wh...
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Prodigy
2025
The Boy and the Dog
0/0
New Takahisa Zeze movie, adaptation of the book "Shonen to Inu." To be released in Spring 2025.
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The Boy and the Dog
2021
空蝉の森
0/0
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空蝉の森
2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
6.3/12
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed, Ke...
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2003
Samurai Resurrection
5/10
Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of overthrowing the shogunate for killing his companions. T...
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Samurai Resurrection
1983
Amagi Pass
6.7/15
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterio...
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