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おいしい殺し方 (2006)
Character: N/A
Yuka, who has repeatedly been dumped by men because of her poor cooking skills, reluctantly begins attending a cooking class taught by the popular culinary expert Haruki Todaiji. However, shortly afterward, Todaiji mysteriously jumps to his death from his apartment building, in what is reported as a suicide.
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infinity 波の上の甲虫 (2001)
Character: N/A
Takahashi travels to Boracay in the Philippines to write a novel. After a while, the real world and the world of the novel begin to intersect
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Cosmetic Wars (2017)
Character: Yurie Minegishi
Misawa Akane is a corporate spy out working undercover for competitive and industrial purposes. She manages to successfully infiltrate the ranks of a successful cosmetics' company, go through training, make friends and apply the products in order to gain access to proprietary intellectual property. Her work is not without danger, however, and takes discipline. What is more, her conscience gnaws at her.
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ジェリー・フィッシュ (2013)
Character: N/A
Based on 16-year-old writer Sarie Hinakura’s award winning story Jellyfish is centered around two adolescent girls disconnected from their immediate environment of school and mates. They first get together while staring into a jellyfish tank at a local aquarium. The relationship that ensues eventually faces tension from the divergent personalities of the two protagonists, one of whom explores a heterosexual relationship with a fellow student. Jealousy and the wrath of a lover spurned are inevitable spillovers.
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夏休みの地図 (2013)
Character: N/A
Elementary student Tanabe Kento is struggling to draw a map of his town for his summer vacation homework. One day, a fracas occurs involving a mysterious man, junkman. After that, Kento discovers a Hiroshima that he'd never known, and decides to draw a map of his very own.
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海のオーロラ (2000)
Character: Chun-lu Wang (voice)
Deep-sea archeologist Hiroshi Ibuki is the member of the digging team working at the bottom of the sea hoping to uncover the origins of Earth's existence but instead uncovers a mysterious colony of bacteria which gives off light similar to the Aurora Borealis. The ancient bacteria, once revived, attempt to make the world habitable for themselves - a process that would bring Earth back to its early primal form, killing all current life in the process.
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弟切草 (2001)
Character: Nami Kikushima / Naomi Kaizawa
Nami has been creating artwork for a new video game based on images she's been seeing in her dreams. With one of the game producers, she travels out to an abandoned house that seems to match her visions. As they explore the old mansion, Nami begins to have more visions of a forgotten childhood, until at last she comes across a photo of twin infants, labelled "Nami" and "Naomi". As Nami and the producer go from room to room, an unseen person seems to be watching them from a hidden room.
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世にも奇妙な物語 映画の特集編 (2000)
Character: Karu (segment "Samurai Cellular")
A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group. These include tales of a group stranded in the mountains and haunted by guilt over a death they inadvertantly caused, an emotionally broken chessmaster pressed into playing a real-life game for an eccentric millionaire, a wandering medieval samurai who finds a modern-day cell phone on the ground and a person on the other end asking questions about the past, and a young couple who agree to try a computer simulation of what their future as husband and wife would be like.
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犬神家の一族 (2006)
Character: Sayoko Inugami
Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, the granddaughter of a person to whom Sahei feels heavily indebted. The will states that all his assets are inherited by Tamayo alone, on the condition that she marries one of the sons of the daughters. Furudate's assistant learns the content of the will, and seeks advice from Kindaichi Kosuke, a private detective, as he senses the air of unease. Shortly afterwards, murders start to occur one after another in the clan.
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きさらぎ駅 Re: (2025)
Character: Kakunaka Hitomi
Asuka Miyazaki miraculously returned from the mysterious, otherworldly “Kisaragi Station” three years ago. Yet, she still looks as if she’s from twenty years in the past, drawing suspicion and isolation. When she meets a determined documentary director, she resolves to save Haruna Tsutsumi—who once risked her life for her—and others still trapped there. Boarding the train again, Asuka reunites with Haruna, unchanged from three years before, and steps back into Kisaragi Station.
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とれ！ (2026)
Character: 佐藤雅美
As graduation approaches, two high school friends turn fake ghost videos into a viral social media sensation. But when they venture into a supposedly haunted building in search of their biggest hit yet, they capture something real—and unleash a terrifying supernatural force.
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キリエのうた (2023)
Character: Kusumi Hirosawa
Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However, her singing voice shakes the hearts of those who listen to her. It is a hymn of compassion played by Luca and the people.
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少年たちは花火を横から見たかった (1999)
Character: Self
A documentary looking back on the making of Shunji Iwai's TV play Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom?.
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罪とか罰とか (2009)
Character: Marie
Riko Narumi plays an unpopular idol who in an attempt to boost her faltering career becomes police chief for a day. During the day a robbery occurs at a convenience store and instead of letting a real police chief deal with the robbery she decides to take the matter into her own hands.
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Shutter (2008)
Character: Megumi Tanaka
A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
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呪怨 (2002)
Character: Rika Nishina
When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.
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犬鳴村 (2020)
Character: Yuko
After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as ‘Howling Village’ to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family’s dark history.
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サムライせんせい (2018)
Character: Tomi Takechi
Hanpeita Takeichi, a samurai, finds that he has travelled through time to modern-day Japan. He's taken in by an old man who runs a cram school, and begins to work as a teacher there.
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RED SHADOW 赤影 (2001)
Character: Koto-Hime
The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and defeat the enemy to build a world of peace. Akakage, Aokage, and Asuka are rookie ninjas under the tutelage of Shirokage. Their life is a series of perilous missions that entail intrigue, deception and intimidation.
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NIGHT HEAD 劇場版 (1994)
Character: Tomomi Tenmoto
The movie version of the TV series that gained cult popularity. One day, the Kirihara brothers who have supernatural powers meet a supernatural power girl named Sakie Tengen, and fight against an organization that has noticed her ability.
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打ち上げ花火、下から見るか？横から見るか？ (1993)
Character: Nazuna Oikawa
One summer day, a group of sixth-grade boys have an argument about whether fireworks are round or flat when viewed from different angles and embark on a journey for the answer during the annual firework festival. Meanwhile, one of their classmates, Nazuna, is troubled by her parents' separation and decides to choose one of the boys to run away with.
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