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東京アディオス (2019)
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The semi-autobiographical story of a underground comedian in Tokyo, with a cast that features acts performing in the underground circuit today.
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ドメスティック (2011)
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A suspense film based on the original manga by Shuichi Sakabe starring popular gravure idol Shoko Hamada and sexy idol Aino Kishi. Haruka and Nozomi, childhood friends who meet again by accident. Nozomi, who believes that Haruka is to blame for her unhappy half life, sets a gruesome trap
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ノーパン痴漢電車 見えちゃった!! (2000)
Character: High school teacher
Tadashi dropped out of high school and was living an aimless life while working at a record shop. He has a sex friend named Akemi. Tadashi, whose hobby is molestation, approached a girl today in search of prey. She introduced herself as Kyoko, who was in the same class as him in high school. She then told him about a friend who had an affair with a married man and got pregnant, and was worried about her. A few days later, Tadashi was told that Kyoko had died when he was in his second year of high school...
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れいこいるか (2020)
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the life of a husband and wife who lost their only daughter in the Great Hanshin Earthquake. Director Imaoka Shinji depicts among the streets of Kobe the restoration of the couple's relationship after the death of their daughter causes the deterioration of their relationship and subsequent divorce.
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人妻銀行員 不倫密会 (1998)
Character: Ken Tanaka
Tomoko couldn't sleep all night. She bought a house and can't pay the mortgage. Tomoko is a banker, and she mainly goes out on the road, but her performance is not good. She nand her husband discuss money, but as usual, she says she'll do something about it...
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天国か、ここ？ (2023)
Character: Nobuo Kawashima
An alcoholic and his wife explore a beach site in a strange afterlife. Here they meet a number of odd characters who remind them of their past.
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アブノーマル体験 第六の性感 (2001)
Character: Endo
Yuki is a sought-after hooker, who also has a special ability: she can see ghosts! Yuki is very distraught by the ghost images, and it starts affecting her performance at work. One of the ghosts makes an attempt to communicate with her and ask her for help. Yuki tries to find out what he's attempting to say and assist him, with the hopes that this will allow her to stop being troubled by what she sees.
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稲川淳二のあなたの隣の恐い話 ～冬の怪～ (2005)
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Junji Inagawa, Japan's most famous horror storyteller, presents this hair-raising omnibus horror film. Saori, who has started living alone for the first time in her life, comes home one day feeling tipsy and falls asleep at the kotatsu... Includes the first episode "Yuki-chan" starring Mayumi Ono and three other episodes.
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冷血の罠 (1998)
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Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.
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団地 (2016)
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Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a housing project in the suburbs of Osaka. However Hinako (Naomi Fujiyama) and Seiji (Ittoku Kishibe) couldn't care less. Having moved in just six months ago after the closure of their herbal medicine shop, the old couple is reluctantly putting their life back together. But when Seiji disappears, the apartment rumor mill churns: divorce, murder, dismemberment? As the story spins out of control, and a mysterious man with a parasol puts in a tall order of natural remedies, the truth turns out to be even more fantastic than gossip. Ranging from incisive comedy of errors to absurdist adventure to moving late life romance, "The Projects" is one of the biggest surprises of the year.
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カリスマ (1999)
Character: Worker
A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.
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アンチポルノ (2017)
Character: N/A
Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constantly questions the rationale of sex and the notion of liberty in modern Japanese society.
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愛なき森で叫べ (2019)
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A con man and a would-be filmmaking crew force themselves into the lives of two grief-scarred young women. But nothing is as it seems.
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アンラッキー・モンキー (1998)
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A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?
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ヒミズ (2011)
Character: Kenkichi
Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to survive while relying on one another for emotional and physical support.
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ヒモのひろし (SEXマシン 卑猥な季節) (2005)
Character: Komatsuzaki
Sex Machine tells of the affable but simple Hiroshi, who during one sweltering summer in a small, parochial town, moves in with his girlfriend, Haruka. Their lovemaking is as athletic as it is bizarre but a dark storm comes looming when Haruka's ex boyfriend comes knocking at the door.
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ナックルガール (2023)
Character: Superintendent
Following the story of Ran, who confronts a mysterious organization by participating in a no-rules deathmatch after discovering her missing younger sister Yuzuki is involved in a crime. With danger at every corner, Ran must trade in her boxing gloves for brass knuckles. Will she save her sister?
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心平、 (2024)
Character: Haruo Tanaka
An older brother who can't fit into society, a father who has given up on his future, and a younger sister who is tied to the house. This is the story of the small steps these three people take. The Great East Japan Earthquake suddenly changed the peaceful daily life of the people of Fukushima. Many people lost their homes and jobs due to not only the earthquake and tsunami, but also the nuclear accident, and left Fukushima. This is the story of a family living in the aftermath three years later, in Fukushima, where deep scars remain.
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東京ゾンビ (2005)
Character: N/A
Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestation in Tokyo.
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くりいむレモン 亜美の日記 (2007)
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On her 18th birthday, Ami Nonomura wants to meet her father and brother who live far away. While searching for her brother's house, she is attacked by a thief, but is helped by Hiroshi Tazaki. They fall in love but discover that they are siblings.
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HANA-BI (1997)
Character: Male Bank Customer #3 (uncredited)
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
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ホゾを咬む (2023)
Character: N/A
A couple falls in love again through strange encounters and awkward situations during a hot summer. Hajime sees his wife in the street wearing strange clothes. When asked, she says it wasn’t her. Hajime then installs cameras to monitor his wife and that’s just the start of his paranoia. His interactions with people become more twisted, leading him to question reality. Whimsical, odd and surreal, with great black-and-white cinematography.
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Sidonie au Japon (2024)
Character: Groom hôtel Kyoto
Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer, is mourning her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, the city of shrines and temples. As they travel together through the Japanese spring blossoms, she slowly opens up to him. But the ghost of her husband follows Sidonie: she will have to finally let go of the past to let herself love again.
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ミュージアム 序章 (2016)
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Hitoshi Kudo is a journalist who covers various murder cases. One day, his daughter is kidnapped by the frog man. In order to safely rescue her, Kudo is cornered by one unreasonable instruction after another.
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復讐 THE REVENGE 運命の訪問者 (1997)
Character: Hitman
Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families.
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ざわざわ下北沢 (2000)
Character: Policeman
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
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ブラックキス (2004)
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Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss."
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愛のむきだし (2008)
Character: Man at the Hentai Confession Room
The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with Catholic guilt.
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