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極道忠臣蔵 (2012)
Character: N/A
The Kyowakai, aiming for nationwide domination from Kansai.
The Kurosaki-gumi, led by Asakawa (Kazuyoshi Ozawa), contributed greatly to their expansion into Kanto, but he became the target of relentless harassment from Wakagashira Kito.
Unable to endure it any longer, Asakawa slashed Kito and was expelled, only to be assassinated soon after by an unknown hand.
It is then that Sejima (Hakuryu), the Kurosaki-gumi’s Wakagashira, returns after serving his prison sentence.
With the quiet flames of vengeance burning within him, he sets out on a path of retribution.
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汚い奴 (1995)
Character: N/A
Based on the manga by Satosumi Takaguchi, adapted by Midori Kogane and Hidehiro Ito, and directed by Rokuro Mochizuki, this anti-hero story follows a fallen boxer turned extortionist. Takasu Goro, once forced out of boxing by a fixed match, now runs a front as a private detective while blackmailing targets ranging from students to yakuza bosses. Feared for his ruthless methods, he’s known as “the dirty one”. His intellectually disabled sister Keiko befriends a man named Osho at her favorite riverside spot. When a yakuza executive is killed, Goro tries to extort the boss for 100 million yen—triggering Keiko’s kidnapping.
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修羅場の侠たち 伝説・河内十人斬り (2005)
Character: N/A
After serving a term in prison because of shooting the leader of the rival group, Goro finds out that his fellow Yakuza Shiroyama, left the group and living as a normal people.
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甘美王〜麗しのエンジェル・キッス〜 (2022)
Character: N/A
"Takehiko Kanroji, notorious for a man of power harassment, an executive officer of the publishing company "Yudansha" has been transferred from Nagoya to the Tokyo head office. His mission is starting a magazine. However, the theme is ""sweets"" that Kanroji hates most. Even so, he tries to tackle the given work with all his heart, but his subordinates fed up with his overbearing attitude.
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KISS ME (1996)
Character: N/A
A hard-boiled touch love story that depicts the momentary love between a hitman and a woman who had a dangerous escape together.
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仁義のはらわた (2016)
Character: N/A
The Kanto Mutsumo-kai, one of Japan's foremost gangster organisations, is under the dictatorship of Sugo, the third president of the Ryujin clan, and Saito, its president. Toraji (Ozawa Kazuyoshi), who rebelled against this dictatorship but was unsuccessfully insulated and expelled, is picked up by his uncle Ryuzo and joins the Takematsu Rengokai. Toraji recruits a group of local delinquents headed by Hiroshi Maeda (Yasukaze Motomiya) into his ranks and begins a guerrilla war against the Kanto Rikukai-affiliated Yoshinin-kai. The two expand their power, but Toraji begins to dabble in stimulants and gradually goes berserk. An assassination plot is hatched against Toraji, and Hiroshi tries to stop it.
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仁義のはらわた２ (2016)
Character: N/A
Newly appointed 7th-generation head of the Takematsu Union’s Kurumaya faction, Atsumi Toraji (Kazuyoshi Ozawa), recklessly squanders drug money on partying and harms Noboru, the underling of his sworn brother Hiroshi (Yasukaze Motomiya), ignoring the pleas of Hiroshi and Sakura (Yuma Asami). Despite growing resentment among Hiroshi’s men, Hiroshi can’t abandon Toraji, his elder brother-in-arms. But when Toraji causes an incident, the third-generation head of the Tago family, Dazai (Ryuji Harada), severs ties with Kurumaya. Hiroshi rushes to apologize but is turned away. Enraged by Hiroshi’s actions, Toraji expels him and his men. Now alone, Toraji begins to put a mysterious plan into motion...
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極道天下布武 (2017)
Character: N/A
Rise of the Underworld Lords—
The mighty Murohachi Alliance, once unifying Japan’s yakuza under Kyoto, collapses, and a fierce struggle for supremacy erupts nationwide.
In Owari, Nobuhide Oriki (Tokuma Nishioka) leads the Oriki-gumi on a campaign for unification. His eldest son and underboss, Nobunaga Oriki (Hitoshi Ozawa), believes in conquest through brute force, seizing territory by any means.
Meanwhile, Shingen Takebe (Shun Sugata) of Kai wages war in Shinshu, clashing with Kenshin Uemura (Ryuji Harada) of Echigo. In Aki, Motonari Mōriya (Shinichi Chiba) expands his Mōriya family’s reach across the Chugoku region.
And in Suruga, Yoshimoto Imanishi (Naoya Makoto) and his Imanishi-gumi, vowing to crush the Murohachi Alliance, launch an invasion into Owari. Acting under orders, Ieyasu Tokusawa (Yasukaze Motomiya) collides with the Oriki-gumi—plunging the underworld into an age of war.
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極道天下布武 第四幕 (2017)
Character: N/A
With the death of Nobuhide Oriki (Tokuma Nishioka), a brutal succession battle erupts within the Oriki-gumi. By vote, Nobunaga (Hitoshi Ozawa) becomes second-generation boss, forcing his brother Nobuyuki into rebellion. In the bloody aftermath, Nobunaga kills both Nobuyuki and his relative Nobuyasu Iwasaki (Hitomi Matsuda). Tragedy deepens as his right-hand man Masahide Hirako (Jiro Okazaki) takes his own life, and his father-in-law Michizo Saimon (Shinzo Hotta) is assassinated in a coup.
Now as boss, Nobunaga sets the underworld in motion once more: Ujiyasu Nanjo (Sansho Fukami) rises in Kanto, Motonari Mōriya (Shinichi Chiba) expands in Aki, and in Nagano the fated clash of Kenshin Uemura (Ryuji Harada) and Shingen Takebe (Shun Sugata) begins.
But the greatest threat comes from Yoshimoto Imanishi (Naoya Makoto), leading the invasion of Owari. The “war of the elephant and the ant” is about to reach its endgame.
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修羅の覇道 (2011)
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The first 'Conqueror of Shura' film.
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修羅の覇道２ (2011)
Character: N/A
The second 'Conqueror of Shura' film.
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実録 東組抗争史 閻魔の微笑 (2004)
Character: N/A
An action drama that depicts the history of the fierce gang conflicts of the Higashi-gumi—renowned nationwide as an ultra–combat-oriented syndicate—brought to life with a star-studded cast including Hakuryu and Hideo Nakano. In the brutal battleground of Osaka, the Higashi-gumi managed to remain independent and avoid submission to any larger syndicate. Their survival was owed entirely to the overwhelming charisma of the boss and his younger brother. Set in Nishinari—known as the “Mecca of Osaka’s yakuza”—this true-crime yakuza epic portrays the rise of the ultra-combat-oriented Higashi-gumi, a syndicate that maintained its independence without ever bowing to any major organization. With overwhelming charisma, the Higashi-gumi boss, Higashi Kiyoshi, and his younger brother Isamu carve out their own dominant presence in Osaka through their extreme, unapologetic brutality.
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わが心の銀河鉄道 宮沢賢治物語 (1996)
Character: Seiroku Miyazawa
“Night Train to the Stars” is a biography of the fascinating life of Kenji Miyazawa, one of Japan's most beloved fantasy novelists. Miyazawa is an idealist pledging with his friend Kanai to work for the improved life of farmers. Troubled by his family’s interest in money making and social status, he leaves home after graduating high school to join a Buddhist sect in Tokyo. After falling out with a friend, and receiving news about his sister re-emerging pneumonia, he decides to return home where starts his own experimental school, teaching new farming methods to young local farmers while also instructing them in music and arts. It was only after his death, through the help of his brother Seiroku, that his writings became widely read.
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角川ホラービデオ館 危険な香りの女たち編 (2003)
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"GHOST HOUSE" Cast: Jinpachi Nezu ("Castle of the Owls", "Red Shadow"), Natsuo Ishido, Masako Izumi Synopsis: A young girl is forbidden by her parents to marry and decides to elope. "WHISPERS" Cast: Ryuji Harada ("Ka-chan", "Firefly"), Eisuke Tsunoda, Kimi Mizuhashi SynopsisTakuya (Ryuji Harada), a broadcast journalist, is asked by a program director to investigate a strange tree that is located in the area where he was brought up. "WORLD OF INIFINITY" Cast: Ikkei Watanabe ("Muscle Heat", "Gamera 3"), Yumi Aso ("Bond", "Last Scene") Synopsis: For 20 years, Takei (Ikkei Watanabe) devoted his life to his company and family. Using his weak heart as an excuse, he avoided involvement in social activities.
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ワル外伝 (1998)
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An action film based on the original story and screenplay by Hisao Maki of "WARU". Yoji Himuro is an unparalleled sword user and is known as a badass. As a child, he received intensive training from his father, the owner of a kendo dojo, which resulted in him sustaining 15 wounds. Yoji, who is always looking for stimulation, seeks the smell of blood again today...
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いいひとりの日 (2025)
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On TOKYO MX’s 30th anniversary night, a live information show runs a stunt where a couple stamps a divorce form on air, until the producer’s own wife appears, sending the broadcast into chaos in this one-hour real-time comedy.
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新・首領（ドン）の一族 (2012)
Character: N/A
After the shocking death of former Seiun-kai chairman, "Oni" Shima Shu (Hiroki Matsukata), Yuuki Mishima (Yuta Sone) takes on the role of Seiun-kai chairman, aiming to expand his clan constructively. Meanwhile, his cousin Atsushi (Junichi Kawamoto), impulsive and violent, continues to keep Kanto on the verge of conflict, though Yuuki manages to avoid war. Amidst all this, the Kansai-based Tatsumi-gumi's lieutenant, Yamanaka (Ryuji Harada), secretly plots to expand into Tokyo. With clashing intentions, internal divisions, and an external threat encroaching, the true mastermind who controls it all smiles in the shadows... Thus concludes this epic yakuza saga!
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新選組 (2000)
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Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.
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跋扈妖怪伝 牙吉 第二部 (2004)
Character: Kibakichi
The saga of Kibakichi the samurai werewolf continues as his travels find him helping a blind girl and her small village seek revenge on a murdering madman. But, unknown to Kibakichi, he is being spied on by a strange group of people—and someone from his past, who is out for revenge!
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跋扈妖怪伝 牙吉 (2004)
Character: Kibakichi
A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who feed on human flesh.
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バイプレイヤーズ もしも100人の名脇役が映画を作ったら (2021)
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In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.
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キカイダー REBOOT (2014)
Character: Hanpei Hattori
In the near future, the brilliant Dr. Komyoji is enlisted to lead the ARK Project—a scientific endeavor dedicated to forging a brighter tomorrow through robotics. However, the doctor’s mysterious death puts those plans to an abrupt hold... Not long after, the grieving Komyoji children wander into the crosshairs of a black ops squad on the hunt for their father’s research. But from within the cross fire emerges Jiro—a bleeding-edge android programmed to protect the siblings! Now on the run, the Komyojis soon discover their father’s once hopeful ambitions have taken a DARK turn...
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抗争の挽歌 (2013)
Character: N/A
Roku Takewaki (Ryuji Harada) of the Rikiishikai launches an attack on the head of the Ebina Union! However, the attack fails, leading to Roku’s imprisonment and Rikiishikai falling under the control of the Ebina Union. Upon his release, Roku is expelled from the organization by Rikiishikai’s Wakagashira, Gondo (Hideo Nakano), and is forced to survive by working as a shady debt collector. One day, Roku learns that Gondo was secretly behind the failed attack. Armed with twin pistols, he storms into Rikiishikai alone…!
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一月の声に歓びを刻め (2024)
Character: N/A
Hokkaido, Japan: An old woman -- formerly a man -- lives by a lake in the northern reaches of Japan, gazing at Nakajima Island in its center where her daughter's body was found long ago. She hasn't been able to visit for almost 50 years. Tokyo: A middle-aged man lives on an island where criminals were once exiled in the past, earning a sparse living as a cattle herder. He is descended from such exiled criminals. He raised his only daughter by himself after losing his wife in an accident. One day, the daughter comes home from the mainland, seemingly pregnant but unwilling to explain.
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武蔵－むさし－ (2019)
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Musashi returns Japan's legendary swordsman and philosopher to the screen once again. In an original period drama based on the historical facts of the life and travels of the famous Miyamoto Musashi we find an apprentice, an instructor and the account of a famous battle in Japan of the Middle Ages where many questions will be answered.
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極道の妻たち 危険な賭け (1996)
Character: N/A
The wife of a recently deceased yakuza boss is caught in a conflict between the candidates for his succession and must protect her beloved daughter. 9th installment of the 16-film franchise.
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クロスファイア (2000)
Character: Yasuaki Makihara
Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will. Junko is secretly in love with Kazuki, a young man who works with her. His sister is killed and a boy named Masaki suspected but the police don't arrest him. Junko tells Kazuki about her powers and takes revenge.
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日本一短い「母」への手紙 (1995)
Character: N/A
A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
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ホタル (2001)
Character: Tetsuo
Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of working as a fisherman in Kumamoto, a provincial seaside city in southern Kyushu, Yamaoka remains reluctant to discuss his wartime experiences with anyone, much less an intrusive reporter looking for a feature story. Then a series of events shake Yamaoka to the core, forcing him to re-evaluate his past.
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破門組２ (2015)
Character: N/A
Now leading the Hamon-gumi (the exiled syndicate), Kyoichi Sakura (Ryuji Harada) receives a request from Ichihara-kai’s chairman to eliminate a violent gang terrorizing Kisarazu. However, it turns out the gang’s leader is the son of the Sanno-kai Kenzaki-gumi boss, head of a massive organization. To make matters worse, a Chinese mafia group allied with the Kenzaki-gumi retaliates by targeting the Four Kings of the Hamon-gumi. The once tightly united group now faces the threat of collapse...
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忠臣蔵 音無しの剣 (2008)
Character: N/A
Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a nobleman. There’s just one woman in this world that he loves, Shiho (Emi Wakui) but when he meets her again, she is already someone else’s wife. Her husband is a key person in the Chushingura incident. Love reignites between Keinosuke and Shiho but they get caught up in the spiral of fate of the Chushingura incident...
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破門組 (2015)
Character: N/A
Kyoichi Sakura (Ryuji Harada), the underboss of the Ichihara-kai, is known as the brains of the organization, trusted absolutely by Chairman Ichihara. One day, the boss of the rival Sanno-kai Todo-gumi is shot by a member of the Ichihara-kai. To take responsibility, Kyoichi is expelled from the syndicate. However, it was all part of a trap set by an internal spy. Soon after, loyal followers and other yakuza who had been exiled gather around him, and together they form a new group known as the Hamon-gumi — the exiled syndicate.
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交渉人 THE MOVIE タイムリミット高度10,000mの頭脳戦 (2010)
Character: Minoru Hasegawa
¥ 260,000,000 is stolen from armored vehicle. The criminals escape into a crowded shopping mall and take over 50 hostages. Reiko Usagi (Ryoko Yonekura) and the SIT members are called in to break the stand-off. When Reiko goes into the shopping mall to negotiate, an explosion suddenly occurs. The hostages panic and run, while the criminals are able to blend into crowd of people and escape. A few weeks later, Reiko is at the Haneda Airport to go on a vacation. She then spots Yusuke Kimoto (Kento Hayashi), a man who was one of the hostages at the shopping mall. Reiko remembers Yusuke's bizarre behavior and her instinct starts kicking in. She decides to follow the man and boards the airplane that Yusuke is taking. Shortly after take-off her instincts prove correct. The airplane is hijacked ...
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イゾー (2004)
Character: N/A
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
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河童 (1994)
Character: Toda
As famous photographer, Yuta Suzumori's (Tatsuya Fuji) health is worsening he tells a childhood story of when he saw a kappa in his hometown village of Kitagawa.
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仕掛人 藤枝梅安 (2006)
Character: N/A
An adaptation of the Shotaro Ikenami novels, set in the historical Edo period, and centered on Fujieda Bayan, a medicine man and doctor by day, but ruthless killer for hire by night. His tools of the trade are the same in either job: acupuncture needles that leave no trace.
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相棒 -劇場版- 絶体絶命! 42.195km 東京ビッグシティマラソン (2008)
Character: Kohei Jinkawa
A former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan police Special Mission Task Force, Sugishita Ukyo (Yutaka Mizutani) and Kameyama Kaoru (Yasufumi Terawaki), are guarding a female Diet member, Katayama Hinako (Yoshino Kimura). The pair identifies explosives and saves her life. From the clues left at the scene, Sugishita builds up his case and finds a connection between the murder of the TV presenter and the attempted murder of the Diet member. During a painstaking investigation, the savage murder case of a young overseas volunteer five years earlier emerges in the background, and the pair prevents indiscriminate murder at the Tokyo Big City Marathon event by suppressing the perpetrator.
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アンダーフェイス (2014)
Character: N/A
There was once a boy who pointed a gun at his own father—the head of a yakuza group. Shuji (Ryuji Harada) now runs a bar in Minami, Osaka. Having resented being born into a yakuza family, he had long cut ties with that world. But when a fierce conflict erupts between his father's organization, the Tajima-gumi, and a rival group led by Tokuda (Hitoshi Ozawa), who betrayed them, Shuji gets caught in the middle. As the feud intensifies, it even affects Shuji’s close friends and younger sister. Though he despised the yakuza, the blood of the underworld still runs through his veins—and it's that very blood that begins to drag him into the heart of the battle...
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時雨の記 (1998)
Character: Koji Mibu
Kounosuke Mibu and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other that they would build a retreat in Shiguretei, but Ushio was hospitalized after a stroke a few days later, and when his wife, Takako, rushed to the hospital, she discovered their love affair, which in reality had not gone beyond kissing. Now, 20 years later, against the advice of her ikebana mentor, Tae rushes to meet Ushio at Shiguretei, only to see him clutching his chest in pain. Eventually, the design and plans for the dream retreat are seen by Tae, but she has to visit Kyoto alone... or maybe she's heading for somewhere else.
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ナースのお仕事 ザ・ムービー (2002)
Character: N/A
Flighty young nurse Izumi Asakura longs to have her honeymoon in a far off tropical paradise but her doctor husband feels that he cannot afford to take time off from developing his career. To Izumi's dismay, Wakabakai General Hospital is fast becoming a far less pleasant place to work, thanks to the appointment of a militaristic chief nurse who demands steadfast adherence to protocol. Things get much worse, however, via the arrival of Saruwatari, a hypochondriac desperate to be re-admitted so that he can enjoy the attentions of nurse Shoko Ozaki. When the chief nurse has him ejected by security, Saruwatari comes back armed and takes everyone on the floor hostage. Shoko happened to be on her lunch break at the time and has trouble getting back into the building when the police swarm around it en masse. The authorities are not sure just how to deal with the situation, though, since the "victims" seem to be taking things far less seriously than they are.
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かあちゃん (2001)
Character: Yukichi
Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering comment even amid national tough times (the region is in famine) What Okatsu tells no one is that she saves so that a friend can start his own business once he's released from prison.
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11文字の殺人 (2011)
Character: Saburo Kanai
A series of suspicious deaths, starting with that of her boyfriend Kawazu Masayuki, prompts mystery novelist Yuki Rikako to investigate. She discovers that all the victims were once passengers on the same cruise ship a year ago and involved in an accident that left one man dead. Rikako must find out what really happened during that outing before more casualties result.
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