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化粧師 KEWAISHI (2002)
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Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival and won the award for Best Screenplay at the 14th Tokyo International Film Festival.
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ＵＦＯ仮面ヤキソバン 怒りのあげ玉ボンバー (1994)
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There was a hero who rushed to the scream of a woman. Its name is Yakisoban! He is the prince of the noodle planet Yakisoburn, 10 billion kilometers away from the earth, and came to Japan to protect the earth's diet. But he had another purpose. He was trying to find a Japanese woman who would become his wife. If he doesn't find the queen within a set period of time, he will be forced to marry Princess Sailor Morley of the planet Morrisobarn.
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ほしのふるまち (2011)
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A boy from Tokyo moves to the countryside and has trouble adapting, falls in love.
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紋の光 (2024)
Character: N/A
Yuri appreciates her son Kazuma's passion of figures, but worries about his ability to get along with the group. Yuri, who works as a writer, visits Edo Kiriko glass atelier to cover an article. Through the lessons she learns from the father and son artisans she meets during her interview, she begins to think about respecting Kazuma and developing his potential.
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TAKAMINE アメリカに桜を咲かせた男 (2011)
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Takamine is a biopic about Dr. Jokichi Takamine, the late biochemist known for successfully crystallizing and isolating adrenaline, which is also called epinephrine. Dubbed the father of modern biotechnology, Takamine also produced Takadiastase, a digestive enzyme still used as an ingredient in medicines. He was also enthusiastic about establishing friendly relations between Japan and the United States. He was responsible for a gift of 3,000 cherry trees in the U.S. capital, Washington D.C.
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濡れ事師２ (1996)
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Daisuke gets swept up in a mission that attempts to recover a highly-confidential disc, only to find that there is a terrible trap waiting for him! Before long, his gigolo skills involve him in a heroic battle of sex with his opposing female counterpart...
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ママさん記者明衣子の事件 息子が担任教師を殺した!? (1999)
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Takahashi Meiko (Mano Azusa) used to work at a large newspaper company. However, she is now an ordinary housewife. She receives a call from Sasame (Kanda Masaki), a former colleague who is now working at another company asking her for her help. She is informed that a murder has taken place when she arrives and goes to the scene of the crime. She learns that the victim was her son’s intermediate school teacher.
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カラオケ (1999)
Character: N/A
Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior high school reunion.
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サラリーマン専科 (1995)
Character: N/A
Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.
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光る女 (1987)
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A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.
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アキはハルとごはんを食べたい (2023)
Character: Landlord
A heartwarming story between roommates Aki and Haru, two college students who have different personalities and worries but share a love for food.
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寝盗られ宗介 (1992)
Character: Kamei
Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.
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大コメ騒動 (2021)
Character: N/A
In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to catch, so her husband has been far away from home to catch fish. To support herself and her children, Ito carries goods from ships like the other women in the village. Meanwhile, the residents encounter rising prices for rice. The women are unable to feed their family due to the high prices of rice. The women ask a nearby rice store to sell rice at lower prices, but it fails. The price of rice continues to rise daily. Due to an incident, Ito and the other village women step up to the plate.
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女教師日記3 秘められた性 (1997)
Character: N/A
When she takes off her teacher clothes, her womanhood breaks...
Satoko, a new teacher, is frightened by the hungry gazes of frustrated male students, and is bullied every day by delinquent students such as Hinata Masaaki. Unable to resist, she just lets things happen, and her only emotional solace is through computer communications. As she becomes addicted to lewd sex with the people she is communicating with, a shocking event befalls her...
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アキはハルとごはんを食べたい 2杯目！ (2024)
Character: Landlord
As graduation nears, Aki and Haru face jobs in different cities—until Aki realizes his feelings run deeper than friendship in this next chapter of their story.
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真夜中まで (1999)
Character: Female Fan
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. Mistakenly identified as prime suspects, they have to solve the crime but time is running out: Koji has to be back to perform in his club by midnight, as a very special guest will be attending.
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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
Character: Math Teacher
In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Sean gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing
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首 (2023)
Character: Matsu
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
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来る (2018)
Character: Setsuko Osaka
To protect his family from a mysterious being, a man joins forces with a journalist and an exorcist - but they come to learn what they are dealing with is beyond their imagination.
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老後の資金がありません！ (2021)
Character: Satsuki Kanda
Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of the retirement finances. She saves from money given to her by her husband and also earns money herself by working part-time. She stretches every yen by leading a frugal life. yet, expenses come up. These include their daughter's upcoming wedding and the funeral expenses of the husband's father. Then, and at exactly the worst time, the couple finds itself unemployed.
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LOVEHOTELに於ける情事とPLANの涯て (2019)
Character: N/A
A black comedy about a man who works out a plan to change his life. In a locked room in a love hotel, an unexpected turn occurs as the thoughts and positions of the characters intersect, each holding the other's weakness while also being held by the other.
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新・百合族２ (1994)
Character: N/A
Ayako, high school girl Satomi Yamamoto's ancient literature teacher and chaperone, will be away from home for a month for training. Satomi was happy that she could finally be alone, but now her classmate, Tomoko Kurahashi, was going to be boarding with her. Then, Kyo Osawa, an art instructor whom Satomi admires, asks the two to become models for a painting. The two head to the forest studio where Tomoko falls in love with the half-beast god statue drawn by Miyako...
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こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所 THE MOVIE 〜勝どき橋を封鎖せよ!〜 (2011)
Character: Yone Ryotsu
Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than not he ends up causing all kinds of trouble. Like on his way to work he away when he is asked to pay up by a shop owner or cheats an elementary school student. Ryotsu's co-workers Reiko Catherine Akimoto (Karina) and Keiichi Nagakawa (Mokomichi Hayami) have had about all they can take from Kankichi and his boss Ohara (Masato Ibu) is constantly berating him.
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ギニーピッグ3 戦慄! 死なない男 (1986)
Character: N/A
Hideshi, a bored salaryman with no friends, would love nothing more than to die. But when his suicide attempt doesn’t take, he settles for terrorizing a judgmental coworker with his newfound immortality.
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Crosspoint (2024)
Character: Yuriko
An illegal Filipino entertainer in Japan, Manuel, meets a bankrupt Japanese businessman, Shigeru. After knowing the whereabouts of a high-profile serial killer at large, the two men decide to capture the killer to get a big bounty.
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きらきらひかる (1992)
Character: Waitress
Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a ‘good’ Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student.
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静かな生活 (1995)
Character: Neighbor's Wife
A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
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遠い山なみの光 (2025)
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Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across borders.
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秘密 (1999)
Character: Kazuko Yoshimoto
A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transfered into their daughter's body.
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Snerting (2024)
Character: Hashimoto
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
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スーパーの女 (1996)
Character: Customer
A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.
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その日のまえに (2008)
Character: N/A
Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she has so much nostalgia and admiration. With her husband on her side she remains can-do and keeps her chin up, but can only lament the passing of time and what will happen next to everyone and everything she loves.
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